If it's put to a vote, then the members decide what's true. In which case they would only get lucky if they stumble upon the truth.
But the LDS church is one of revelation. The truth comes from God, and is revealed through the prophets. Personal revelation given to one member doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the church.
This of course assumes there is a God, and that He knows all the truth and is willing to give it out at the moment.
If you are asking if the tangible body of God is something that the Church teaches, the answer is yes.
Faith is belief in something without proof or requiring proof. What else is there to understand?
I'm not satisfied with that definition of faith. Faith is also defined as a trust in something that you already know, even when it's hard. For example, I know that tarantulas won't poison me, but I have no faith in it.
Faith seems to be a very difficult thing to define.
Except that in the example you cite, it is not a government entity that is refusing service. I think the government/non-government distinction makes all the difference.
I have been to the ones over here. I can tell you that from what I've seen, and from the people who live there, US slums are not as bad as what they've got in, say, Mexico. Hence the mass migration.
Therein lies my problems with your post. It's a tradeoff. Most choices we make turn out to be tradeoffs, so why should this bee any different? Of course, the stakes are about as high as it is possible to get.
I think, then that my problem with your post is that everything, pretty much, turns out to be a trade-off.
If enough people wanted it and were as serious about it as you, GM would either give you an electric car or go out of business. From what little I've read about the electric car, it could have been close. Obviously we've let ourselves get so addicted we can't live without it. They have us over a barrel, but it's our fault.
Don't the people who live in communist countries say they like the security, knowing that they don't have to stress out competing for the basics of life? I think that was pretty significant.
I can hardly believe you're serious.
It sounds like you're saying communism produces a society that is better than what we enjoy in the USA. Specifically, it sounds as though people in communist countries are better fed than people in the USA. In fact, it sounds like you are saying that people are not hungry in communist countries. I find it hard to believe that you are seriously saying that. Please correct me if I have jumped to conclusions or misunderstood you.
What are you saying? Say it. What levels of force would you have officers employ in a situation like this? Remember what the officers in the video tried.
Watch the tape. Kerry tried to respond. The kid never slowed his barrage of questions. But, as you say, that's not the point of this whole thing.
There may have been a threat to someone's safety there. Any time you have flailing limbs close to someone's face, there is a threat to someone's safety.
Well, that's the interesting question. When a group of people come together, who actually "owns" the assembly? Is it the event organizer? What does it mean to "own" an assembly of people? Control, perhaps? If I organize an event can I, in the middle of the event, decide that everyone must remove their clothes and should everyone be required to obey me?
I figure if I rent the building, invite the speakers, publicize the event, hire someone to set up the chairs, and call on who's next, I ought to own the assembly.
So how bad is it really if you just let the guy talk? Maybe twenty years from now he looks back and realizes he was impolite and feels embarrassed. Maybe someone else had some deeply insightful comment that didn't get heard. But would society crumble at its very foundations if this guy is allowed to speak? Probably not.
No more than society would crumble if a dink gets tasered for resisting police officers. In fact, I think society might indeed crumble if people were allowed to wantonly resist police officers in the performance of their duties.
The one thing I would say is that if I was John Kerry I would be very angry with how the police handled the situation because this mess is going to cost John Kerry a lot of support among the liberals that form John Kerry's base. There's going to be a lot of liberals that cut John Kerry a much smaller check when it comes time to donate because of this.
Actually, John Kerry was ticked about that. I tried to find a link for you, but I don't remember where I read it, sorry.
I once helped 3 other adults move an 11-year-old boy who was acting like that. It was crazy. It really took all for of us, and we had to have others as escorts to open doors, clear the path, etc. The child was really a danger to himself and needed to be restrained and taken somewhere safe. I came close to losing a pair of glasses and a tooth (I had one of his legs).
Shoot, even picking up my 3-year-old isn't easy when he doesn't want to be picked up. I have to chase him, corner him, grab him (I don't want to hurt him, and that takes more time/care), and carry him in such a way that his flailing limbs don't smack me.
Trampled his free speech rights? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't give a wet slap about what he was saying, they just wanted him to say it somewhere else.
These tools all come with their own problems. The bullet comes with death/maiming. This comes with different ethical dilemmas. There's certainly a trade-off here.
You make me feel bad. I think I might break $42k this year! This is after becoming somewhat good at what I do, showing good results, a pay raise, winning a team-of-the-year award, becoming qualified in 2 new specializations, and earning a Masters degree!
100k has never meant you were wealthy. If you spend less than you make, you can get wealthy on $30,000/year. Probably less.
Poor farmers living close to the equator are planting jatropha on millions of acres spurred on by big oil companies like British Petroleum that are investing in jatropha cultivation."
How dare they exploit the poor farmers like this?
Plus, this takes important jobs away from corn farmers in the USA.
If you just want a neat writing activity involving writing and any subject at all (I've seen it done in geography and science, and I used it myself in an art/social studies lesson), you might want to try a GRASPS activity. Here is a page that describes how to think up a GRASPS activity. I learned it from a guy who uses these activities as performance assessments in 8th grade Geography. I'm going to try to incorporate one into a math activity this year. If you need suggestions, or if that link isn't very helpful, let me know.
evil is a relative term, it varies according to culture. Some people for example believe it is evil for a woman to express a desire for independence. This is nonsensical for other people, but usually accepted as fact by religious groups.
It depends on what you mean. Evil is decidedly not relative. Slavery was always evil, especially the way it was practiced in the US. It just took the world a long time to discover that it was evil.
Where I think that you are correct is that cultures have different understandings of what constitutes evil. Some cultures recognize it, others don't. People disagree about what is evil all the time. But to insist that there is no such thing as evil, independent of what you or I believe constitutes evil, is a terrible thing. Such insistence may not be evil, but it certainly assists evil.
There IS a moral high ground, and we should all try to occupy it. We absolutely must judge other cultures and societies (not to mention our own!) on how well they adhere to good and reject evil. Otherwise, if I want to belong to a culture in which, say, murder is acceptable, all I need to do is find one or start one. Then murder would not be evil.
Judging from the rest of your post, I doubt you were really saying that there was no such thing as evil. I also agree with what you seemed to be saying: just because a religion says it is good doesn't make it good.
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Is there any way for me to use the OnStar in my wife's van for anything else? There's gotta be a hack for this stuff.
The occupation of Germany ended in 1955 (at least for West Germany).
But the LDS church is one of revelation. The truth comes from God, and is revealed through the prophets. Personal revelation given to one member doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of the church.
This of course assumes there is a God, and that He knows all the truth and is willing to give it out at the moment.
If you are asking if the tangible body of God is something that the Church teaches, the answer is yes.
I'm not satisfied with that definition of faith. Faith is also defined as a trust in something that you already know, even when it's hard. For example, I know that tarantulas won't poison me, but I have no faith in it.
Faith seems to be a very difficult thing to define.
Except that in the example you cite, it is not a government entity that is refusing service. I think the government/non-government distinction makes all the difference.
I think, then that my problem with your post is that everything, pretty much, turns out to be a trade-off.
If enough people wanted it and were as serious about it as you, GM would either give you an electric car or go out of business. From what little I've read about the electric car, it could have been close. Obviously we've let ourselves get so addicted we can't live without it. They have us over a barrel, but it's our fault.
There's something wrong with that, but I'm not sure what it is.
I can hardly believe you're serious.
It sounds like you're saying communism produces a society that is better than what we enjoy in the USA. Specifically, it sounds as though people in communist countries are better fed than people in the USA. In fact, it sounds like you are saying that people are not hungry in communist countries. I find it hard to believe that you are seriously saying that. Please correct me if I have jumped to conclusions or misunderstood you.
What are you saying? Say it. What levels of force would you have officers employ in a situation like this? Remember what the officers in the video tried.
There may have been a threat to someone's safety there. Any time you have flailing limbs close to someone's face, there is a threat to someone's safety.
Shoot, even picking up my 3-year-old isn't easy when he doesn't want to be picked up. I have to chase him, corner him, grab him (I don't want to hurt him, and that takes more time/care), and carry him in such a way that his flailing limbs don't smack me.
Trampled his free speech rights? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they didn't give a wet slap about what he was saying, they just wanted him to say it somewhere else.
These tools all come with their own problems. The bullet comes with death/maiming. This comes with different ethical dilemmas. There's certainly a trade-off here.
I'm intrigued! You and I could develop such an ink, and make tons o' cash!
I would really like for you to look it up for me. Really.
You make me feel bad. I think I might break $42k this year! This is after becoming somewhat good at what I do, showing good results, a pay raise, winning a team-of-the-year award, becoming qualified in 2 new specializations, and earning a Masters degree!
100k has never meant you were wealthy. If you spend less than you make, you can get wealthy on $30,000/year. Probably less.
Plus, this takes important jobs away from corn farmers in the USA.
If you just want a neat writing activity involving writing and any subject at all (I've seen it done in geography and science, and I used it myself in an art/social studies lesson), you might want to try a GRASPS activity. Here is a page that describes how to think up a GRASPS activity. I learned it from a guy who uses these activities as performance assessments in 8th grade Geography. I'm going to try to incorporate one into a math activity this year. If you need suggestions, or if that link isn't very helpful, let me know.
Where I think that you are correct is that cultures have different understandings of what constitutes evil. Some cultures recognize it, others don't. People disagree about what is evil all the time. But to insist that there is no such thing as evil, independent of what you or I believe constitutes evil, is a terrible thing. Such insistence may not be evil, but it certainly assists evil.
There IS a moral high ground, and we should all try to occupy it. We absolutely must judge other cultures and societies (not to mention our own!) on how well they adhere to good and reject evil. Otherwise, if I want to belong to a culture in which, say, murder is acceptable, all I need to do is find one or start one. Then murder would not be evil.
Judging from the rest of your post, I doubt you were really saying that there was no such thing as evil. I also agree with what you seemed to be saying: just because a religion says it is good doesn't make it good.