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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The same question could apply to emotions. How do you put it on a scale and measure it’s weight? As a sufferer of mental illness myself, the same question applies there: how do you put mental illness on a scale?

    Yet, well before the advent of CT scans and other medical wonders, people didn’t doubt the existence of emotion or mental problems.

    They may not have known the cause, but they understood them based on their experience and the effect on behavior.

    Emotions can’t be seen, but you can see the effect they have on a person. In the same way, no, you can’t put Spirit on a scale, but you can see it’s effect in people’s lives and feel it through experience


  • There certainly is a replication process, as found in the Book of Moroni (a section within the Book of Mormon), chapter 10, verses 4 & 5

    "4.And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

    5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

    As for knowing it was my Spirit feeling an impression, it’s much the same as people knew what emotions were long before we could see activity in the brain; through experience we can recognize and understand it even though it does not as yet appear on a scan.

    To paraphrase a church scholar Hugh Nibley, it’s not that science and https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gospel-library/id598329798 contractadict, but that incomplete religion and incomplete science do. Complete religion and complete science work fine together.

    For properties, we go to Doctrine and Covenants (another standard work in our church), section 93, verse 29

    “29 Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be”

    In other words, the building blocks are intelligences. Now, when those intelligences come together, they can be formed into a Spirit.

    Moving to section 131, verses 7 and 8

    "7 There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes;

    8 We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all matter"

    To reframe my experience then, the Holy Ghost, a member of the Godhead along with Jesus Christ and The Father (who are separate beings), spoke to my Spirit in a way I can sense and understand internally but, much like emotions before brain scanning, I cannot show.

    Certainly happy to answer more questions (though I will be on the road today).

    There is an app that contains all our standard works and will make finding these and other references easier. I believe there is also a section for Gospel Topics

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gospel-library/id598329798

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.lds.ldssa&hl=en_US&gl=US


  • Excellent points, and I’ll just add my own 2 cents.

    I wouldn’t stress. I went to Weber State in Ogden, Utah, and its really more of a commuter school. Plenty of people living off campus and working full-time. I didn’t do a lot of parties or anything, but I had some good friends.

    If you are happy, don’t worry about it. If you know a few people and that’s all you need, you’re good. Besides, there is plenty more of life where you can have a funner time.

    I didn’t really start what I would call the ‘best part’ of my life till I met my wife at 27. I’m 34 and honestly enjoying it more than I did my 20’s




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    Funny enough, my parents used Spanish as a 'secret language’s when they needed to talk about something sensitive in front of us kids (or just something they didn’t want us to understand). Was the motivation for most of us to take Spanish at some point






  • I have a somewhat similar issue, but not because of rooting.

    I want to use F-Droid for some of their apps, and be able to just download apk’s.

    The problem is that my work uses ‘Microsoft Intune’ for email access and such. Turns out, if I try to install anything from F-Droid, I get a message like ‘Your Admin has blocked access’.

    As you can imagine, this made my blood boil, but I actually use my work email and Teams (even though its not mandated to have it on your phone). The work around is to delete my work profile, install the apps, and then recreate, but that doesn’t account for updates.

    Frustrating