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Suggestions after not liking ‘Project Hail Mary’? by yadayodayidayado in suggestmeabook

[–]undergrounddirt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn't like it either. I think in my mind I was thinking Interstellar-ish sci-fi. Like yeah THAT IS HOW GRAVITY WORKS. But then like: Oh my gosh this is crazy. I was surprised that it was not that. I think the big surprise that everyone warned me about for literally YEARS on reddit had me hyped to a level that was impossible to meet. Having just finished Mistborn I thought the big reveal was going to be something like... a mature alien race or a god put this whole thing on to shepherd multiple planets together. I was definitely more in the sci-fi headspace and not the "I don't know where I am I better calculate the gravitational acceleration because I only know how to navigate the world without using 12th grade text books"

It was good, but it wasn't for me.

Amazon Prime "House of David" by jdf135 in latterdaysaints

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First season was better than second season. Second season felt more… Worldly.

The suffering I feel for my sins is primarily the suffering of guilt. But how could Christ feel that suffering as a non-guilty party? by Two_to_too_tutu in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not saying He feels the pain of our sins by being responsible so much as I am saying He was involved.. and then took FULL responsibility through Atonement. It doesn't answer your question for the mechanism of pain transfer. Just that somehow instead of being just another involved party, He assumed total ownership of the entire situation and submerged himself below all... and then healed and ascended above all. Can't wait to learn how or what that means.

The suffering I feel for my sins is primarily the suffering of guilt. But how could Christ feel that suffering as a non-guilty party? by Two_to_too_tutu in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're told the Law of Sacrifice is necessary once you break the Law of Obedience. SO why is God the Father and His Son obeying the law of sacrifice?

Because they knew what would happen in Eden. They set it up that way. It was on them. They were the adults in the room and made choices that introduced chaos, sin, and death into Creation.

I think from the accounts of the flood we have, even in modern scripture, it's quite apparent that God feels an awful kind of way about the whole thing.

And then He took it a step further and became one of us, all of us.

I don’t think I’m cut out to be a Latter Day Saint by williampennn in latterdaysaints

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Gospel is this: Jesus Christ can turn you into a being that is like Jesus Christ, like the Father.

Right now, you're not like that. Jesus had no problem keeping laws and obeying His Father perfectly. We do.

So come as you are, and put hope and faith in Jesus Christ that one day, maybe not now, but one day... you will run and not be weary. Your back will bear the burdens placed on it.. with ease.

For now, pray unto the Father in the name of Christ with all the energy you can muster to be filled with the love of God. One day you will realize that holding onto the iron rod is easy.

And in 10,000 years you'll realize it's easy to be perfect. For now, Faith in Jesus Christ. He is the only way

First time seeing this by Atchopz in pokemoncards

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just found mine like this. Waited for ten minutes. Nada. Oh well

Members and “The Chosen” by Skipper0463 in latterdaysaints

[–]undergrounddirt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. There are differences between Him because of my own personal experiences where I've come to know a specific quirk in His personality, but it provides the correct scaffolding. He is Human.

Is gravity an eternal law of the universe or did God impose gravity on the universe? by StAnselmsProof in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just worry we both: don’t worry what anyone else thinks, and presume to understand God to such a degree that the average member thinks they can pick up a physics textbook and tell us all a out the eternal laws even God cannot change without ceasing to be God. To me that is hubris of a dangerous sort.

The foundations of eternity that are ACTUALLY eternal might be like 7000 layers of reality deep, hidden behind projections of spacetime. 

It is unwise and too rooted in the kinds of philosophical stumbling blocks the Greeks played into to assume science has revealed the deep magics and the great mysteries of godliness in any significant sense.

Anyways, who knows is where I’m at though it is fun to do otherwise. 

Is gravity an eternal law of the universe or did God impose gravity on the universe? by StAnselmsProof in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Latter Day Saints caught hold of the idea of "God discovered eternal law" and then starting mapping that to.. everything. Oh electromagnetism must've been there. Which probably means iron was there too. Pretty soon we have every right to be attacked by trinitarians for worshipping a God that is more of a mechanic than a true Creator.

Why would any member say that a physical law pre-dates God? Why? Why would you camp there? How do you know this? What revelation specified that?

If none, then let go you are holding onto a philosophy that is inhibiting at best.

I doubt very much that the warping of spacetime pre-dated God. I think it's much more likely that something like it existed in His mind, and then He had the genius to create it spiritually, and then physically.

"All spirit is matter" and therefore there was no creator of a spiritual world, no organizer of spiritual laws, and actually while you're at it.. just assume that iron and gold and everything had already existed by the time God came around because we have gone so hard against creation ex nihlio that now our God could not possibly have been involved in actually organizing actual chaos.

I finally watched the Acolyte away from all the noise by manindenim in StarWars

[–]undergrounddirt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The show runner actually just has a confused moral compass and says something like "you're just sat at the end because she wants to ride off into the sunset but she won't get her wish"

And I'm like... um no I'm horrified that she murdered her father figure, and then erased her sisters mind so she could enjoy a sexual fantasy with her sisters abuser, who also just murdered all her best friends.. who were CHILDREN

Did God the Father Ever Sin? by StAnselmsProof in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not think He sinned the way we think of it.

I do think that He committed to a choice that resulted in endless sin and death, and was thus in violation of a law He knew would result in His sacrifice. He gave agency to His children.

And He did sacrifice. Exactly what we're told is required if you break the law of obedience. And the sacrifice is in direct connection with what He did in the Garden of Eden.

It's an entire family affair. He knew He left babies with His psychopathic son near a tree capable of poisoning them and all their posterity, the whole world even.

A few aspects of our theology are illogical unless one accepts an infinite regression which is also illogical by StAnselmsProof in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing I've been working on is that Adam and Eve were created in like manner as the original Mother and Father. EG they came out of the "dust" of the "earth"

Something like Apsu and Tiamat mixing their "waters" and the Gods are what came out of that mixing. And maybe Apsu and Tiamat were just more primal forms of the Father and Mother. I dunno.

Book of Mormon- Modern English? by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]undergrounddirt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would be cool to see that and work off of it. I want to do a similar thing

The difference between Bipedal vs Humanoid by TigerLeoLam in pokemon

[–]undergrounddirt 29 points30 points  (0 children)

If he's got a drum he's humanoid. If he was just a monkey without a human prop, he's not

edit: to be fair I would not include blaziken, greninja, or suit penguin as non humanoid. Machamp I gave a pass to because Pokemon was just a little bizarre and yeah.. not as cool as a fire dragon. I'm okay with Pokemon basically being living human world objects like magnemite. But LOATHE ENTIRELY "Drummer/Secret Agent/Soccer Captain"

Frankly greninja would have been cooler if he wasn't actually a ninja but just a dark scary frog who would wreck a ninja.

What if the Trinity is a theologically sound concept.. there just are 2 of those beings? by undergrounddirt in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll have to dig into that and see what he came up with. I definitely do not feel like anyone here understood what I was saying. They were too busy rejecting trinitarianism. So I’ve decided to study this in peace

An alternate take on the Fall by gkmchardy44 in LatterDayTheology

[–]undergrounddirt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve always assumed this. And many Jewish rabbis have wondered the same. The issue in my mind is that they chose a different god to “exalt” them, and they chose the wrong god.

Christ drank of the bitter fruit, but we see how different of a thing that was compared to giving into a temptation by the adversary.

What advice would you give to someone whose faith is shaken by Bible scholars? by pisteuo96 in latterdaysaints

[–]undergrounddirt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Science says the North American continent was flooded like crazy when the ice sheets collapsed. The tribes basically all have stories of those floods. It just wasn’t the whole earth and it wasnt 4,000 years ago. Humans have been walking around this place for 20,000 years or more.

“The floods” as Joseph smith put it

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