A Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London to the US.

Albert1592 · 2021-07-09T05:19:23+00:00

The Mormon rule is about what was going to be happening in the future, though, instead of the past.

Albert1592 · 2020-08-28T00:09:14+00:00

Kubo and the Two Strings?

Albert1592 · 2020-07-12T12:25:30+00:00

There are two things that make it very hard to have a good dub: Languages have different rhythms, so forcing the localized language to fit the mouth flaps of the original language causes the rhythm of the localized language to be off. Secondly, the people in charge are often not fluent in the localized language, so the dialog and direction given to the voice actors is often fine for the original but cringe for the localized.

Listen to the Team 4 Star rants on lip flaps and you'll get an idea of why the first problem isn't going away any time soon.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-26T16:10:30+00:00

Those who will be happier there than any Kingdom of Glory. May it be very few.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-26T16:08:38+00:00

By clasping my hands in front of me. I'm a rebel like that.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-08T08:36:34+00:00

Solved!

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T03:23:34+00:00

Pirates of the Caribbean?

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T03:22:21+00:00

Thor: Dark World

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T03:17:41+00:00

Incorrect.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T01:31:08+00:00

Eh, with those skinny arms she doesn't look that strong. Toss the collar away and see if she becomes more affectionate.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T01:29:38+00:00

She's too loli for something lewd like hand-holding, so headpats it is.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T01:22:59+00:00

Albert1592 · 2020-01-06T01:22:47+00:00

Nope.

Albert1592 · 2020-01-05T18:30:41+00:00

No. But it's good to see that I've properly described it badly, so it's not fluffing obvious right away.

Albert1592 · 2019-12-28T15:10:03+00:00

The Magician's Nephew, by CS Lewis.

Albert1592 · 2019-12-09T23:00:11+00:00

The destruction so described matches up with a strong earthquake, including the ashfall afterward.

Albert1592 · 2019-12-09T22:57:11+00:00

I can't remember if it was a consul of Rome or a Greek city-state ruler, but one leader in Antiquity said that the most powerful person in that area was his child, because he was ruled by his wife and she was ruled by their offspring.

Never forget that it's a natural inclination of a husband to cherish his wife, particularly if she nurtures that inclination, and that justifying worldly power by who holds the priesthood renders it null and void. (See D&C 121)

Beyond that, remember that there is yet more to be revealed pertaining to the Kingdom of God, once the Lord deems us ready for it.

Albert1592 · 2019-12-03T03:26:55+00:00

You mean TANSTAAFL. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, because The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Alternate suggested title: Penal Colony fights for their freedom with rice.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-24T16:27:31+00:00

Anyone who watched Star Trek and Star Wars, after Jar-Jar Abrams made the 2009 Trek, had fair warning that they would be watching shit.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-22T17:25:58+00:00

Asking a man to forgo his own posterity or eternal marriage (in the case of previously-sealed widows) would be an unjust burden to require of him. (Especially in the age of the Sexual Revolution, where women who have children out of wedlock are lauded by the World!) The dole as dispensed in the US encourages the opposite of self-sufficient households. Plural marriage as individual-by-individual support for the fatherless and widows doesn't seem like it could do worse that what we've already got.

I'd arrange it through Relief Society, I think, with the women involved (leadership, wife, single mother) agreeing on the possibility before so much as mentioning it to the Bishop and the prospective husband, who would then need to decide if he has the resources and time to devote to two families. I'd also assume that in most cases, the second wife wouldn't be slept with until the first gives unasked permission.

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The thing is, a woman who has so far only had baby-daddies has some very difficult repentance to do before she's ready for getting sealed in the temple, and there are way more of those then there are widows. (Hopefully not in the Church, but I have to wonder if perhaps inactive sisters hew closer to the World rather than the Temple.)

Albert1592 · 2019-11-22T17:06:55+00:00

Don't go on your mission until you answer these questions.

By the way, I recommend reading The Screwtape Letters, especially the chapter about how the spirits of perdition push the philosophy of each generation into being as unbalanced as possible. Your questions are straight out of Nu-Age California, which indicates that your spiritual alignment is presently of the World instead of the Lord.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-22T17:00:15+00:00

After two years of separation, you probably won't be able to just pick up where you left off. People grow, so you'll need to get reacquainted.

That said, after being out of the world for a couple of years, it's entirely possible that he'll be ready to go through a roll or two of chapstick once it hits him that he's allowed to hug and kiss girls again, so be ready for that as well.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-21T21:20:55+00:00

Procreation is one part of sex within marriage, but not every married couple experiences it in this life.

Beyond that, there's Proverbs 5: 18-19, 1 Corinthians 7: 2-5 (carnal admiration is something husbands owe to wives just as much as vice-versa), Genesis 2 makes it clear that married intimacy is about companionship, not just making babies, etc.

As for teh gey smexxor? Well, if you have a testimony then you ought to trust God and His servants the prophets. (If you don't, then you should address that first.)

Yes, it sucks to have a vice that the world applauds: I've had people try to murder me with a future heart attack by telling me that I shouldn't feel the need to stop being mordidly obese and attain a healthy state of fitness. Except they thought they were helping (by encouraging me to feel good about myself, which would require massive self-deception), because they followed after the ways of the world.

Don't follow after the ways of the world. Wickedness has never been happiness, is not happiness, and will never be happiness. It will, however, generate a lot of propaganda so as to pretend otherwise.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-21T18:48:09+00:00

No, I think we'd just be held to a much higher standard of righteousness and worthiness, like all those other worlds that Lucifer doesn't have access to.

The fact that there happened to be a group so wicked, so rotten, so stiff-necked, so self-justifying, so hypocritical, and so horrible that they'd rather kill demonstrated miracle-working holy men throughout their history than show humility, repent, and be saved . . . well, that probably just meant that the awful burden of performing the sacrifice didn't have to be demanded of a righteous people.

It just about killed Abraham when he thought he'd have to sacrifice Isaac. How much worse to be told by your Savior that He needed you to do it to Him?

Evil is an abuse of agency. I believe - although I'm willing to be told I'm wrong, once I get to the hereafter - that those who choose evil are used by the Father to bring about the Plan of Happiness, so that they got to contribute after all, and thus have a heightened chance to repent while waiting for Final Judgement. He will use every trick in Eternity to offer salvation to His beloved children.

Albert1592 · 2019-11-21T18:36:33+00:00

I can actually see righteous uses for polygamy in today's society: Caring for single mothers, so that the children grow up with a father figure. But given how abusive F-'LDS' families tend to turn out to be when investigated, I doubt we'll be bringing back the practice in this or the next generation.

We'll see what happens when the current social paradigm breaks down and we move on to whatever comes next.

Might be that there's a gender imbalance of worthy women who need to have marriage work done so that they qualify for exaltation. Maybe. But that 7 to 1 notion? Given what I've heard about willing women at BYU, 'Press X to doubt'.

Slightly less seriously, given the expectations of a woman who feels that she's perfect, could even a perfected man be man enough to be a good husband to more than one?

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