Stargazer

The consequences of Prop 8 were immaterial, because the principle needed to be stood for. Now that the matter is settled constitutional law, the matter is closed. For the moment, anyway. If SCOTUS reversed itself it wouldn't be the first time.

Apparently!

Apparently, you didn't watch the video. Sorry I can't summarize the video for you right at the moment.

I thought this was a really excellent defense of "Mormonism" in the sense of debunking the occasional rather ridiculous claim that Islam is closer to Christianity than "Mormonism" is.

As someone or other once said, if you can't explain it in layman's terms, you don't understand it. And there I am, as well.

The article says: "...the researchers apply the principles of thermodynamics, particularly the concept of entropy, to explain why matter attracts other matter." There's already been talk of gravity as a entropic phenomenon. See PBS Spacetime video: What If Gravity is NOT A Fundamental Force? | Entropic Gravity I really like the idea of gravity being a phenomenon of entropy. It allows us to stop looking for dark matter and energy -- which may not exist at all!

Haven't yet checked out the article, but I was pretty sure it had already been long sorted out that gravity was not a force... but a function of space-time.

Of course. And the question concerning which is the fantasy may have a different answer than you think. Or, to be fully fair, than either of us think. But I have come to learn that when Paul speaks of a "more sure word of prophecy" he was referring to something accessible to everyone of faith, and that that faith is truly "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Heb 11:1) Except that Joseph Smith renders "substance" as "assurance" in the JST. And I have come to that point of assurance. Fair enough.

Well said! Imagine that, I agree with you!

Just for grins... Numbers 11:29 And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

Yes it is. And perhaps some of those different paths lead to different kinds of disasters in the end? Time will tell, I suppose. Why waste one's time on something one will just end up disparaging?

To you, as a non-LDS Christian, who are the foolish virgins? They were invited to the wedding feast, and obviously showed up, so they must have some sort of belief or commitment, even if it clearly wasn't enough. So, according to you, who are they? Are they going to heaven or hell?

Röyksopp again.

One of my favorite alternative music groups, Röyksopp, a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø formed in 1998.

Since our bishop was unwise enough to have me called to be his second counselor, and this was my month to assign talks, I assigned myself to be the concluding speaker yesterday (Easter Sunday). When it came to my attention that I needed a speaker for that day, I absolutely jumped at the chance to speak. I love testifying of Jesus Christ, and I could not forbear. There may be some others in the ward who could have done a better job, and the sister I asked to speak first did an excellent job, but I decided to be selfish and do the closing talk myself. It turned out OK, so all is well in Zion. I am so very excited to testify that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Eternal God.

Nice! I may read this sometime. As it turns out, however, my own outlook on this topic evolved (LOL) from Young Earth Creationism in my youth to full agreement with a 13.5 billion year old universe, 4.5 billion year old solar system, and evolution. God still created it all, and just because Archbishop James Ussher calculated that the day of creation was the creation "...happened at the start of the evening preceding the 23rd day of October in the year..." 4004 BC, doesn't mean I have to accept that as gospel. I'm not an absolute literalist.