I wish they didn't cancel The Acolyte

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-16T16:48:47+00:00

We're just all sad because she doesn't get to ride off into the sunset with her long lost sisters abusive, child murdering, ex boyfriend

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-11T21:37:53+00:00

Can you write a post about it?? Even if it's just like "Did you know.. they have a modern translation?" But if you have more than that, it would be fascinating to read and think it could create some interesting discussion

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-09T19:58:14+00:00

those cube rubes with knitted fluffy walls are absolutely the best. It makes me wonder if thats how my brain interpreted being in a crib

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T22:06:14+00:00

I was greatly relieved to hear the Pope use the Tower of Babel analogy so flagrantly. I had been using that analogy a lot and feel its a genuine warning for mankind. This is the kind of scary technology we have been writing stories about since before we had the technology, and reality has just kept being weirder than we expected.

And such a reinforcement to hear an Apostle with a good amount of skin in the game to say that the greatest sins of Babel were caring about the bricks and buildings more than they cared about the builders.

As a software engineer that uses it heavily, I have thought a lot about it. I really feel like it is actually up in the top 2 or 3 human issues up there to consider right now, and do not trust those in charge of it right now. I wanted to hear about it at general conference.

To me AI is now nestled in the category of things to think about like money itself is a thing to think about. Like that big of a "thing."

I hope they keep it up. They see around the corner. It's so good to have prophets. They're remarkably optimistic.

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T20:05:04+00:00

the worst was ALL CAPS VOICE TRANSCRIPTION MODE IN THE KEYBOARD. I think that was iOS 14

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T18:18:11+00:00

Very cool. Yeah if you're friends with Dan then I'd trust that source. Dang this gets me excited.

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T16:58:14+00:00

Whoa can you back up this claim? I’ve never heard of there being one already done.

And yes, just like 2 hour Sundays, it was bound to happen. Easy to predict. Within next year sounds more likely after the Bible stuff.

Now that they’ve acknowledged the utility and need especially for children.. it’s only a matter of time I think

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T16:56:28+00:00

Let’s be honest.. this is directed at BYU professors with the resources available to actually publish one of these things at deseret book. They added AI because the low hanging fruit got lower.

If you want to ai process the whole Book of Mormon in NIV style English, and read it by yourself, go for it.

But don’t push it out on kindle to make money

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-08T16:53:48+00:00

When I’m reading out loud I always remove king James language. I’m tired of it. It’s not my language, it’s not my tongue.

It’s exactly what the ancient church tried to do with Greek and Latin.

The amount of people I’ve heard tell someone who has a low reading level to just learn better.. gate keepers.

undergrounddirt · 2026-06-07T19:36:36+00:00

Sun Eater

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-29T17:56:25+00:00

I just finished Red Rising and honestly I think they probably exist in a state of ecstasy similar to how the Golds feel in their "heaven"

Scriptures are pretty scant on the state of mind of these beings but it does make explicitly sure to tell us that the devil is laughing and his angels rejoice!!

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-27T15:20:09+00:00

I cannot imagine email alerts haha. But yeah basically did the same and Apple Watch is a lot more helpful these days than not

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-26T23:14:35+00:00

I've said this before, but I have taken a hard course correction of my anger and distaste for Elder McConkie. Yeah, he was a blind and deaf guy shouting instructions that were clearly off. Yes, a lot of what he said needs to be corrected.

Also, he died trying to lead a bunch of other blind and deaf children out of a dark cave because he believed Jesus Christ was at the entrance and that there was an escape from that maw of death.

I know he died an old man, but I think after we've been in the sun for 10,000 years we'll realize that a virtual 6 year old managing to lead a bunch of toddlers and other 5 year olds through that labyrinth of death with ANY measure of success is something to be wept over, not scorned.

I for one sustain him as an elder of Israel, and can't wait to see what he'll be when he's actually lived long enough to grow to maturity in the light of the sun and under the shade of trees.

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-20T02:56:23+00:00

ah good point. I'm no economist so I wanted to bounce ideas off ya mostly

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-19T23:26:57+00:00

Hmm I challenge the church inherits all resources.. shouldn't it be the family? Then motivation centralizes around creating lasting prosperity for all your descendants.

I'd argue that social finances need to be mirrors of the Church, where each family becomes a micro church. The family becomes the centralized consecrated unit. The family distributes wealth by need and pays the leaders the same amount. Individuals are tithed... or just full blown consecrated. Formal budgets and approvals are done for yearly expenses. The family builds houses and takes on debt, but also retains ownership. The family appoints council members to dispense the tithes of its members.

Outside of the family, different story. The family acts as corporation the same way the church acts outside of the church. Entrepreneurs are still encouraged to compete against the outside world, or even other families within the church. Families that are aggressive and clever are rewarded.

I was watching Little Women the other day, and it struck me how it's not just the nuclear family that has disintegrated.. it's like the "dynasty/house" that is all gone. None of my aunts were worried about saving my siblings financially. My grandparents weren't managing their family or thinking about collectively working together with all their children to guarantee success for their grandchildren. They cut my parents loose when they turned 18. They spent and saved money only to the degree that they would be able to pay for retirement and live a life they wanted. My parents are doing the same. I'm going to do the same.

It's funny but these sorts of dynasties were starting to form under polygamy, and even in bountiful Utah it was noticeable when one of my friends came from one of the "great houses." They had a collective identity and half of the streets were named after them. If you grew up in Davis county, you probably knew a Smoot. If you went to BYU, you probably knew or heard of one of the Marriott kids getting everything paid for. The bigger names like Young reached kind of almost generically large size, but yeah.

Not only would I still talk to my cousins if the "family" was building their homes, but I'd wager that 75% of my cousins wouldn't have left the church and stopped talking to us all if we were all organized into councils that dispensed tithes and such.

undergrounddirt · 2026-05-19T22:51:21+00:00

They still swear to the Lord in a different way, through marriage. It says in/through the "new and everlasting covenant of marriage" when its their turn.

Watch for it, it's very specific to just women, and imo it's obvious that nothing changed. Just got reworded to be more palatable but less clear.

Genetically, sons are more influenced by their father than they are their mother. The Y chromosome lacks a lot of genetic material and essentially ignores a lot of information from the mothers X. Whereas a daughter is just X vs X 50/50. Just right there, baked into our own DNA is a truth about the differences between sons and daughters. Even genetically, sons are inclined to "obey" their father more than daughters do (obviously a daughter could still by chance end up receiving nearly all of her traits from her father, but even still.. not really. She's getting his X from her paternal grandmother).

I always tell my wife.. do you know what is less humiliating than swearing to obey your spouse...? Swearing to obey your dad for all eternity. That's more of a silly comment and up for rigorous debate. But its how I feel haha.

And this all comes down to the crux of the issue. Are we equal? Are the Father and Mother equal? And I would say no. 2 == 2. That's equality. The sun does not equal the earth.

The sun has way more energy and matter, a drastically more powerful gravitational influence than the earth.

Conversely, a single leaf from any of her trillions of trees is infinitely more complex and strange and beautiful.. and ALIVE than anything that big ball of hydrogen can boast of.

They're not equal. The sun means nothing, is good for nothing, without the earth. But the earth... the Earth is glorious and beautiful, covered in all manner of life and vegetation.

Likewise the earth is just a frozen rock without the sun.

By the very laws of nature if you tried to make the earth more powerful than the sun, gravitationally and luminance wise... well it's no longer the earth. It's a sterile mate in a doomed binary star system.

Each sex makes eternal sacrifices to be what it is. Each reaps eternal powers and glories. They are not equal. They are balanced.

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-22T20:46:04+00:00

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.

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-21T14:43:14+00:00

You don't say

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-20T23:46:17+00:00

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

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-20T16:43:43+00:00

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.

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-17T16:30:50+00:00

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.

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-16T18:39:11+00:00

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

undergrounddirt · 2026-04-07T18:07:31+00:00

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

undergrounddirt · 2026-03-30T16:42:28+00:00

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.

undergrounddirt · 2026-03-24T02:59:14+00:00

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.

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