The Mormons have “agency” (aka moral freedom) and the development of human intelligence as one of the key parts to the plan to have every one of God’s kids (you and me) return to god after this life/test.
Moral freedom is not free if there are no other options to choose from. Hence the moral agents (you and me) are enticed by evil which is allowed to roam free for a time.
I memorized the following: “Port wine is red, and none is left in the morning”
Therefore Port - Left and Red and the other “Starboard” is Right and Green.
I’m an athorist. I don’t believe in Thor God of thunder. No comment on the definition you were talking about. :P (Psst, I do believe in a diety, but I can’t talk about it here!)
My understanding is that the trinity from the nicene creed is a political document (not truthful nor religious) and it was designed to be universal(a translation of catholic) so that natives in each land (Christians and pagans) could have lip service that “we believe what you do” by the political catholic clergy who were the only ones allowed to interpret scriptures (or you had a Heretic death penalty) until the political power was secured, and after power was secured, a creed and rosary was enough to keep free thinking in line.
Well, something that the Mormons have is they tried out communism. They called it the law of consecration. They had some fun times with trying to handle being productive and redistribution and poligamous. They ultimately concluded that they weren’t ready for it yet so they went back to default capitalism with tithing and poor/fast offerings.
Tl;dr: Mormons believe in a kind of communism in heaven, and they go hungry for 2 meals (24 hrs) to remember to give generously to the poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_consecration?wprov=sfla1
Holy clothing must not be damaged unless you plan to do the ritual of discarding (shred abd burn). As a windbreaker has at least 4 holes when worn correctly, it is indeed holy.
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That’s ice damming. Basically it can be prevented with proper ventilation of roof cladding/shingle nail board. Normally eaves, baffles, and turtle/ridge vents will be enough to prevent icicles more than. 6 in long.
I want a tale of deliverance from pharaoh across the red Sea that feels like playing skyrim (crazy magic going on! And civil war progression)
Ground up plastic FTW: miralax
Once I got a quote from one of the doorstep fliers. The guy defrauded me between 54% and 30% of the original contract price because he waited until he got half up front before saying he would do a job with crappy materials that would only last a year or so unless i paid 54% more. I should have cancelled the check and said get off my property.
According to US case law. The power to tax is the power to destroy, so the state government cannot tax federal government.
There are several arguments for taxing church and I can’t help but think that soon we will be just having a closer relationship between church and state if the pastors start pandering for the current government.
Lead culinary water pipes (or lead soldier) is a problem, but lead shower pans (that affect the sewer water) are the preference in many USA cities.
Having retirement shares as the same shares as the company that one is working at seems to be a huge concentration of risk. If you go out of business, then people lose both current active income and future passive income. I hope that your staff diversify away that risk.
The concept of retirement for working class people is new (aristocrats retired all throughout time)
Before invention of retirement, the working class had the mentality that you work until you are dead with 99% of the working class in brown collar work. During the industrial revolution where most people transitioned from brown collar to blue collar work, retirement became much more common with social mobility.
During the great depression, USA legislators picked a number “65” to be the “age of retirement” with the reasoning that it would get more young people back to work. The average age of mortality at that time was ~67 years old. They did not index that age with the average age of mortality, so as life expectancy increased, there is now a period in people’s life to be “retired”.
Problems with how this developed:
With that perspective, I don’t know if corporations are entitled here, or the people are just doing what their ancestors did for 1,000s of years and are owning it in a positive way.
I cant wait for all circular saw blades to be diamond.
don’t forget the creativity like “deleted from the census” or “bought the farm” or “bit the dust”, etc. There is a poetry to avoiding a filter.
in number 3, did you mean “herbicides”
The thing is, I understand that some farmers were doing that, but some others were simply trying to grow soybeans, and they didn’t use herbicides, but Monsanto successfully sued them into never saving “soybean” seed ever again.
Different take: seed genome is like a MP3. Piracy (illegal copying) is enforced based on IP. Seeds doing it “naturally on a farm” just means that you have grounds to sue the farmer for not stopping illegal copying.
Step 1: protect the IP protected seed genomes
Step 2: sue the crap out of people growing those types of plants who arent paying you. Edit: these are all soy beans including “public seed”
Step 3: increase the price now that you have a monopoly on that kind of seeds
Source: Monsanto and soy beans
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I hope you are having a great day! I probably overanswered below, but I think the context is helpful and not fully a “debate”. I can remove this if you think I am trying to be “debating” or “combative”.
I think this post is talking about the epicurian paradox: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurean_paradox
I did not say that the only purpose is to “test us”, I was stating that “development of human intelligence” was one of the key reasons for the plan to have evil available in this life. When I looked at that picture, I felt like it left out the possibility of “development of children of god” as a possible reason in that flow chart.
The other feedback loops of
These seem like they might be true as sound bytes, but I think they are wrong about the scope of the plan: To have God’s kids become Gods.
Mormons believe that God had innumerable children before the universe existed. The children had only spirit bodies and God was the only one with a spirit and physical body. God wanted them to become more like him. He presented a plan that would include a time of “probation” (aka life on earth) where we would (1) have no memory of before (2) have choice between good and evil just like God has and (3) do the steps to gain a physical body. This life has all of these. (NOTE: most people who profess to be christian try to say that these beliefs mean that mormons are not christian. When i read Romans 8:17, I see that this is exactly what was taught by Jesus Christ and his followers.)
Mormons also believe that the evil came from one of God’s children (Lucifer) offering a different plan where (1) there would be no choice and (2) all of God’s children would be choosing “Good” and (3) all would be gaining a physical body. Lucifer and those he convinced were cast out of heaven and act as “Satan and his angels”, and they never got physical bodies.
In conclusion: if God is trying to make his children joint heirs with christ (aka Gods) then including in the scope of the plan a choice of evil seems like something that he couldn’t take out of the plan without losing the point of the whole thing.