Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Feb 25, 2022 4:38:21 GMT -6
2022 CONT'D
02/25-
FRIDAY
I had a heart to heart with my heart, then a heart to heart with Jesus upon my bed and watched Lois Vogel-Sharp.
Aside from my entertainment, the people I talk to and the books I read, I need to limit myself to five gospel and motivation influencers on YouTube that speak into my life, NOT five of each.
Michael Hur
Lois Vogel-Sharp
Kat Kerr
Zig Zeiglar
Justen Faull
Only these indefinitely, unless God says otherwise.
Get back into the Scriptures.
Keep asking The Holy Spirit to help me to grasp the simplicity and power of the Cross and the Gospel, and not to try to understand them intellectually, and how to call upon the Name of the LORD.
I was listening to so many people teach me so many lies that I didn't know the truth, which makes one free, not just sets. If you open a cage door, the bird doesn't want to leave the cage, though the door is wide open, but if you take the bird out and toss it into the air it is made free. That's what the truth does..I was trying to justify myself with performance, or correct belief, or struggle, or trying harder.
The five do not include education, instruction, family or political speeches, Scriptures or anything to do with the Restoration. These are all free. It is 5:03 AM, and Casey's has just opened, so I will go get an X-Tra Large Dr. Pepper.
5:40 AM CDT Earlier this morning I cleared my entire YouTube watch history and Started Over with it there, pruning it so it could bear more fruit, and looked up Samuel Goald and Joseph F. Smith Testimony concerning the plates given to Mauricio in Brazil, then put it on Justen Faull and Genesis and it started on the KJ passage concerning the Rainbow in the Noachide Covenant. I wept.
I went to Casey's and got myself a xtra lg dr pepper and a large slice of bacon breakfast pizza. Now Faull and Acts are playing. Acts is exciting. I am not paying attention to Faull because its lower an I cannot make out what it is saying from where I am at my dining area table drinking my pop and typing on the ChromeBook. The pizza was Delish!
5:56 AM Actually, Autoplay went from Faull to History's Very Interesting program America Unearthed, where Archaologists are trying to piece the puzzles of History, side by side with the window I am now sitting cross-legged on my bed typing in and listening to Bible Radio on on my laptop.
Right now, The Jerusalem Conference is going on in Acts.
A couple nights before tonight, Christ himself baptized me in Dreamland, saying, that let all demons in hell know that he baptizes me, etc, and I was also confirmed.
This morning I was converted, fully. I finally heard Jesus' heart. I still need to Truly Call Upon The Name Of The LORD.
Words of Moroni 1:11-17
The Shroud of Turin, Ian Wilson, pp. vii-ix, Table of Contents
I made a YT Watch History Playlist, and am listening to the Pauline Epistles, starting in Romans, now in I Corinthians.
I still need to read 'Shroud of Turin' Introduction and Chapter One today and finish 'God's Secretaries' Chapter One and listen to Disc 10 of 'Catalyst: A Rogue One Story' today, which things I have all day to do.
An America Unearthed Video proving Jeremiah came to America with the Mulekites, an Egyptian Princess and an ark, but not the ark of the Covenant, as Book of Mormon scholars have at least partially concluded, was on, and now an Egyptian Treasure in the Grand Canyon America Unearthed video is on. The first one was about Obelisks and the Stars.
Part of a conversation between myself and SW Santa today:
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 7:48 AM
So I hear you went ahead and got a Patreon (thank you, I got the playlist made now ) How do you like it? Would you reccomend it?
Star Wars Santa — Today at 8:12 AM
I'm still not much of a fan of Patreon, but I was talked into starting it.
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 8:52 AM
by Meg!
[8:52 AM]
[8:53 AM]
well, hope it works out for you
[8:53 AM]
You dont have to worry about copyright claims
[8:53 AM]
on it
[8:54 AM]
I'm listening to Mozart, reading Shroud of Turin's introduction and watching maths videos
[8:54 AM]
its fun, i'm comfy on my loveseat
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 9:16 AM
I'm also listening to the Pauline Epistles
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 9:26 AM
I downloaded a free ebook on company culture
[9:26 AM]
It just popped up; I'm saving it to my flashdrive now
[9:30 AM]
Great! I can read it right on the ChromeBook I'm renting with the aid of my flashdrive!
[9:31 AM]
I am so getting my own ChromeBook! These things are so nifty and neat!
[9:32 AM]
And a SSB External Drive for my laptop
Earlier I got five of my dishes done. Now they are drying in my dish drainer.
Internet Writings, conversations and exerpts from lost journals, texts, etc.
Brent: What I admire about J.J.Abrams is that when he set out to make The Force Awakens, he didn't try to make Star Wars into LOST or Star Trek, but was completely true to the mythos and feel of a Star Wars movie, as grungy, humorous, lived-in and whimsical as anything from Episodes I-VI.-Monday, 6/14/2021 2:08:55 CDT
Brent: The reason that the whole of the last jedi was the empire pursuing one rebel fleet was simply because that in the Force Awakens which happened immediately before tlj, with no time passage at all between the two films, had just lost their entire seat of government and base of support to the starkiller base-hosnian prime system, and the last rebel fleet was all they had left, making tlj an incredible story of survival, with ultra high stakes.
Monday, 6/14/2021 2:38:55 CDT
timmoishere said: ↑
I’m sorry, but if your best evidence that a resurrection occurred is “a bunch of people believed it,” that’s not good enough. There needs to be actual legitimate evidence in order to accept that claim as true. All you have are stories, and stories by themselves are not enough.
Lordban said
Ancient history in general suffers from not possibly escaping reliance on "stories", often written decades or a few centuries later. Without using such accounts, there would be enormous holes in our knowledge of history. And of course, there is often further uncertainty because the original texts did not make it through the millennia and what we have is a copy, which may or may not have been edited, and an additional difficulty comes in the form of ancient translations, for which it's also not possible to know for certain edition hasn't been made in some way. And the deliberate reporting of inaccurate facts is nowadays known to be as old as Ramses II.
So yes, in the end, for a large part of what we know of ancient history, we are never going to get past "a bunch of people believed it".
Sometimes, we even have to rely on "this person said it", because the scarcity of sources means we're probably never going to get corroboration.
For an example, the notion Phenicians had already knowledge of the Cape of Good Hope was initially based on a single, ca. 600BC account of how the sailors reported the position of the sun at the far end of an attempt to navigate around "Libya" ("Africa" was not used to name the continent back then). But because that account is consistent with what the sailors would have witnessed, and a forgery of the text's details would have required knowledge that the Earth is round - which was not known at the time of the writing of the account - we have reason enough to believe it is legitimate testimony and it is likely some Phenicians did manage to sail past the Cape of Good Hope.
But it's not physical evidence, and we probably aren't ever going to get evidence that it happened. Thus, in the end, why a decision has to be made whether to accept that claim as true despite the evidence at the time of discovery of this being literally one story. It's as good evidence as you are ever going to get.
To trace all the way back to religion, you aren't going to find much in the way of physical evidence either, even as to whether the religion started when it says it does. And even when you do find more recent physical evidence, dating it accurately is problematic.
To give an early medieval example, the Birmingham Quran manuscript, one of the oldest fragment of the Quran in existence, has been carbon-dated between 568AD and 645AD, while the Sanaa Palimpsest (for its lower-text part) has been carbon-dated between 578AD and 669AD. In both cases, the interval is given with an 95% confidence that the entire interval is the correct one. Both still cover decades before Muhammad's companions are supposed to have written in (610AD until 632AD) and, of course, long spans both before and after Hijra (622AD).
We therefore can't escape falling back on contemporary writings retelling when the Quran was first written, because the physical evidence simply isn't good enough and/or our means of dating it aren't accurate enough.
Long story short, often, in ancient history, "a bunch of people believed it" is as good evidence as you are going to get, whether it applies to religion or not. Which brings us back to a decision we have to make about ancient history in general: for most of what we know, it's up to you, as an individual, to decide whether you believe its accounts or not. Granted, it takes much less of a leap of faith to believe you know Caesar's last words ("Ista quidem vis est!", according to Suetonius) than to believe Jesus of Nazareth went walkabout after his death. But in either case, it is all but certain you are never going to get actual legitimate evidence. The account of what others believed is as good as you are going to get.
'I am not a good man. And I'm not a bad man either. I'm not a hero. You know who I am? I am an idiot. Passing through. Helping out. Learning.' -- The Doctor
'Mankind has only one science. It is the science of discontent.' -- Count Hasimir Fenring
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timmoishere: 1. New
I never “chose” to not believe. And my mind and heart are not closed. Please stop being dishonest.
If you had evidence that your beliefs were true, you would have presented it already. Instead, all you’ve done is present excuses, weak arguments, and easily debunked claims. That’s not how you convince anyone.
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
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study3600 said: (Brent:) ↑
And all that did not convince you because you chose not to believe the evidence, closing your mind and heart when the evidence stared you right in the face and people conspire to cover up truth all the time just look at nazi germany its the same in america its the world system. You dont believe because you are the ones indoctrinated into unbelief and i am the one and the believers on here whose minds are truly free.
timmoishere: You haven't presented any evidence. (Actually, I had presented PLENTY of evidence and continued to do so but he refused to view it or read it because it was not "peer reviewed" by fellow atheists and agnostics-BLS) You keep making this claim without backing it up.
And there's no indoctrination (lie-BLS), we've actively asked for this alleged reputable archaeological evidence exists (which I gave the sources, or references to where they could be found, yet he still claimed I hadn't-BLS), but you've never provided any evidence that you claimed existed. You have, however, brought up things like the the shoud of Turin, which does have scientific evidence about its origin, which places it to be from the middle ages, several hundred years younger than it is supposed to be (actually untrue, See The Shroud of Turin by Ian Wilson-BLS).
Your mind isn't 'free', as you seem unable to apply a consistent approach to assess new information. You have an approach to preserve the information that you have chosen as true (No, that I KNOW is true, rejecting what I KNOW is false-BLS (And saying I don't know if I don't know, and finding out either from books, Scriptures, the Internet, others or God so I'm not ignorant if I do not know (and evaluating what they (except Scriptures or God) tell me by Scriptures and what I know and by spiritual discernment, unbiased confirmation, and revelation-BLS), here a little, there a little-BLS), and reject information you have chosen as not true.
study3600 said: ↑
False religion and atheism is the opiate of the masses (ok i'll include agnosticism too, wouldnt want to leave you out) and True Religion is Liberty and true independent thought. Your only as free as your mind is. Its hard to rein in or control one whose mind is free. The deepest dankest prison to him becomes heaven. And a cage is a cage to everyone no matter how big a cage it is.
Lowbacca: Your mind isn't free, and there is zero that you have provided that could be used to separate out the 'true religions' from the 'false religions', so from all available evidence, you are entirely incapable of determining what is true using your methods since they are just about reinforcing your conclusions.
Lowbacca: While we have entertained the idea that you might be able to present evidence, you have been unable to consider how you could present the evidence you claimed existed. That alone highlights who is exhibiting a free mind and who isn't.
(Similarly, I know people who are religious who can view that as a faith-based decision and see why those expecting a sort of evidence do not reach the same conclusions, but that is different from what you are doing, claiming that there is clear evidence, then failing to provide it. repeatedly. and shifting the discussion to as many things as you can think of because every one of your claims is extremely threadbare and doesn't have the solid evidence you claim exists)
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Brent: 3. Uh, timmoishere, read Lordban's post. We choose what evidence to and not to be convinced by. If we choose not to believe true evidence that is called closing your mind. If you choose not to believe what your heart is telling you is the truth that is called closing one's heart.
No, no I protect the beliefs in have which are true and reject all false evidence while at the same time assimilating all new knowledge and information that is true. This is called cognitive resonance. Most of you protect your false beliefs unbelief doubt incredulity and biases and false traditions as well as what you believe and know to be true, and shut out all evidence and information to the contrary even if it is true information and evidence. This is called cognitive dissonance. The Bahir man (Jedi Merkurian, the man of the Baha'i faith-B.L.S.K.)(The Bahir is a book of the Kabbalah, NOT the Baha'i faith) has a bias that I know God is a ludicrous concept so anyone who proves or relates to them that you can know God or that I know God or that God is even remotely knowable because his ba'hai (Baha'i) texts tell him God is unknowable then his cognitive dissonance protecting the bias and tradition he learned studying the Bahir (Baha'i texts) and practicing his ba'hai (Baha'i) faith prevents him from believing anyone who claims they know God. This is the case with all belief claims and knowledge and with all people in this world.
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There are two ways to be deceived: One is to believe what is not true and the other is to refuse to believe what is true - Soren Kierkegaard
Brent:I like the Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker the best, depending on which one I'm viewing at the time. I like Revenge of the Sith more than The Force Awakens and TFA more than RoTJ, RoTJ more than TESB TESB more than Clones, CLONES more than ANH and ANH more than TPM. And I love TPM.
For less complication, I'm only ranking the 9 films of the Skywalker Saga.
1 or 2 I like the Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker the best, depending on which one I'm viewing at the time. Love Ben's character, seeing him and Rey conflicted, Ben Redeemed, water symbology, loved stylistically stunning visuals, horseback riding, seafaring, crystal foxes, nuns and porgs, green milk, D.J, Casino Royale, Hyperspace Skipping, Ben/Hux rivalry, Ren slamming a general into the ceiling, Snoke/Ben/Rey/Praetorian Guard Throneroom Fight, Just about everything Poe did and said in those two films, Finn facing off with Phasma, Palpatine attempting self sacrifice for his nefarious ends, New Force Abilities shown not just implied like Jedi Healing and Connection and object grabbing from a distance, and Projection of your essence from a distant planet to make someone think your there, All Walkers firing on Luke, Han visiting Ben, Luke raising the X-Wing, Yoda visiting Luke, and so much more. And Lando. And Rose. Finn's heroism willingness to sacrifice his life for the resistance cause.
3 Revenge of The Sith. What don't I like about this film? Spectacular opening space battle, the most fast and furious lightsaber battle of the franchise at the end between anakin and obi-wan, we get to see Anakin's transition to Vader, Tragedy done so well, General Grievous is just cool, can't get enough of the 'its treason then ' spin and take three Jedi Masters out in 5 seconds scene, Order 66 done so well and explains so much, Padme buried with Japor Snippet, and so much more.
4 The Force Awakens. Right from the amazingly cool opening scene there is SO much to like about this film! Chewie We're home, It's true all of it the Force the Jedi everything scene, BB-8 is so neat, Ren such a good villain, torch passes to new generation, flamethrower, Poe (need I say more?) Rey and Finn's friendship, Han and Leia didn't "just live happily ever after" like they did in the EU, and that Resistance theme music! Wow! Plus everything feels as grungy and lived in as it does in the PT and OT.
5 Return of the Jedi. My favorite of the OT. Love Vader's Redemption, Emporer's first death, "Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battlestation. You may fire at will commander" "That blast came from the death star", "our cruisers cant repel firepower of that magnitude", etc Jabba the Hutt's max rebo band Special Edition Doo Mee Wang" music gets me every time, love Jabba, Jabba's death so satisfying, love Ewok/ Empire asymmetrical warfare, etc, etc, etc
6 The Empire Strikes Back. The Movie that got me back being interested in Star Wars again, love the cliffhanger ending, Boba Fett, Lobot, Lando, Cloud City, Yoda the MAN, Force training on Dagobah, finding lost Luke in the snow, the Battle of Hoth, Han/Leia romance, C-3PO is the funniest he ever is in any movie in this one, (with the exception of maybe the rise of skywalker (bobba frick is my oldest friend ROTFL!)
7.I loved Attack of the Clones so much I saw it three times at the movies and watch it twice in a row one day when I owned it on VHS.
I love nearly EVERYTHING about Clones from the static clean hallways of the Kaminoans to Dex to the beautiful Jedi Archives and Jocosta Nu's refusal to believe the archives could possibly be missing any records, to the arena scene, to Jango fett's scenes, to Mace and Obi-Wan fighting back to back, to Anakin's and Padme's forbidden romance, to Yoda and Dooku's duel, to Palpatine's Machiavellian political maneuverings, one of the things i like about TPM as well.
8. A New Hope. A hands down classic, vI love the cantina scene, Han Solo, The Death Star run and trash compactor scene, Obi-Wan in his golden years, Luke starting his heroes journey as a whiny farmboy, , the Battle of Yavin 4, the beauty of Yavin 4, Princess Leia a strong female character, the droids Artoo and Threepio, and just about everything else about the film.
9.I love TPM. I love Jar Jar Binks. I love how stunning the TPM visuals are, love Duel of the Fates Music and battle of Naboo, especially the Maul/Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan duel, love TPM opening scenes as some of the best opening scenes in the franchise, love PODRACING, BABY! Love origin story of Anakin, love Padme's subterfuge.
So there you have it, my ranking. I love them all. But thats the order in which I have come to currently like them.
Paula Miller: Tue 11:01 PM
Great ok now what makes you understand we are in tribulations?
Brent Sohlden Koivopolo V: All the signs. If you want ill enumerate the ones I and many others are aware of including everyone in the church I am about to join and many protestants baptists evangelicals Utah Mormons pentecostal and many other sects.
Paula: Yeah ok
Brent: 1 Obama has showed just about every biblical sign that he is the Beast
2 ww1 was the first trumpet
3 ww2 the second
4 chernobyl the 4
5 still being fulfilled but partially fulfilled during gulf War but the locusts thr actual ones will come (horseflies-BLS)
6 partially fulfilled with ISIS
Sorry chernobyl the 3, time speeding up with no and Berlin wall 4. Gulf War 5, is is 6
Isis 6
8 the (eyetest catalyst-BLS) is another sign of the trib
Paula:I believe what George Njeim and his book wrote
Brent: 9 the (eyetest-BLS) is a form of the mark
10 earthquakes in divers places
Paula: That’s in Matthew 24
Brent: Even more intensified than anything we have before seen
Paula: Like I said I believe George Njeim
Brent: Tornadoes on the equator
Brent: It is as it was in the days of Noah, giants, hybrids, etc
Brent: Then go ahead and believe it all came to pass in the dark ages like most of the RLDS and live with your eyes shut
Brent: Even the church fathers and Joseph Smith Jr taught the beast is a man not a kingdom or system
Paula: Njeim doesn’t believe that
Anything you here from LDS theology is open for interpretation
Brent: You told me several years ago that he does
Paula: Where did you get that JSJR taught that ?
Brent: And I told you the LDS is only one of the many many Christian sects who know we are in the tribulation
Brent: I read it in his sermons myself
Brent: And I also read it in the church fathers of the first and second century
Paula: I didn’t
Paula: We are not in tribulation
Brent: Ok if we're not in the tribulation then we'll never be. It will always be a future or past event
After all prophecy never talks about the present just the future and the past
Paula: I’m going to bed Goodnight read your doctrine & covenants
Brent: I did
Paula: I read and believe more of it than you do
Good night
Paula: Wed 8:00 AM
You are a very judgmental person Brent
Paula: Wed 8:20 AM
The Book of Revelation is read starting with the early Christians chronologically so then it’s through the Dark Ages, the Medieval Times on to the eternity,
The Angel came at the conclusion of the period of the Apostasy 1260 years or the 42 months mentioned in the 12th and 13th chapters. The vision that was given to Nephi was given in a systematic chronological order.
Brent: Wed 10:27 AM
I know that Paula and you mistake tough love with judgmematllism
It also talks about what is going on now in addition to all that
There is the law of double and even triple reference in biblical interpretation Paula
I'm going to Walmart to get some soda dr pepper
Paula: You are judging RLDS priesthood that is not tough love
Brother Njeim understood the type and shadow reference of the Bible however he used the Fullness of the Gospel when studying Revelation. I choose to believe Brother Njeim.
Brent: Wed 4:14 PM
Over Joseph Smith himself? God is the one judging the traditionalist priesthood I'm just telling you the truth
When men preach opinion and their traditions and put that for the word of God the bom calls that priest craft dear
Paula: Um they are not
Brent: They are if they contradict the church fathers and Joseph smith
Paula: You definitely do have it correct but keep working on it
Brent: Thats two witnesses
Paula: They are not
I believe the course Njeim took
Brent: God taught Joseph Smith that the beast was a man not a kingdom or a system and he preached it giving a very good illustration and the fathers specifically said that the antichrist would be a jew and rule the word. A kingdom or a system cannot be a jew
Brent: Plus I have a third witness my cousin Nephi's testimony which was a complete chiasm about his destiny to fight the armies of the world ruler the man the antichrist
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established
You only need two. I have three
Paula: What in tarnation are you talking about? Pilgrim?
How do you know that God taught Joseph Smith Jr that?
Brent: Because I read his sermon
Paula:Why do you keep assuming I know nothing?
Where
Brent: I know you have a lot of knowledge but you are wrong about this because three credible witnesses Trump njeim
Brent: It is writted
Paula: Where did you read JSJR sermon?
Brent: Look for it yourself. They took the website down so you'll have to read it in Joseph's insufferably sloppy handscrawl in the Joseph Smith papers because they refuse to publish a plain text version of it the only one they had published they took down but I had it printed out but I lost it because Joy convinced me I needed to get rid of js writing s because she mistakenly believed God told her I worshipped Joseph Smith. I regret giving away his sermons letters and journals and now she want me to help her find it and I can't quote it anymore O Lord what a terrible burden is knowledge!
Paula: Who took the web site down?
Brent: The mormons
They like to suppress knowledge
And it was a credible source those were Joseph's actual words
And even without them we still have the church fathers and nephis testimony we still have two witnesses
Go ahead and stay ignorant and believe everything that comes from the Mormons is no good because I know that's what I am outgoing you to say
Paula: Oh then I for sure don’t sgree
Brent: We still have two witnesses
Without josephs
Paula: Njeim interpreted the Bible without precedents of Smith or the fathers
Brent: He went before the lord
Brent: Ran
Brent: Joy always says went
Brent: She means ran
Brent: He interpreted based on rlds tradition rather than what has gone before for precedent
Brent: Sorry to burst your little bubble
Paula: Njeim was a great man and you are not bursting a bubble
Paula: I happen to agree with his review
Brent: There may have been a lot of truth in his writings but he was wrong in his assertion that the entire book of rev was fulfilled in the middle ages
Paula: No he interpreted based on the Book of Mormon
Brent: No he was not wrong
Brent: You are denying the truth
Paula: So what
Brent: Just like you always do
Paula: You are caught up in your own truth
Brent: Why do you idolize njeim
Paula: Brent I’m blocking you
That’s enough
Brent: If every verse in the Bible contradicted njeim you would still choose njeim
Brent: Ok timmoishere. What kind of evidence do you require? Belief comes before evidence. You believed the chair would hold you up before you sat in it and it did. you believed the stove was hot because your mother said so but you didnt know until you touched it.
All the operations of the human mind and body are the result of faith.
The Shroud of Turin, Ian Wilson, pp. 1-2
Words of Moroni 1:18-19
Me to Star Wars Santa today:
I should also get a Texas Instruments Scientific Calculator and a Digital Camcorder.
And a graphing compass and a protractor and a lot of graph paper
And a Guitar.
And a harp.
I'm beyond what I have the capacity to learn at this time in learning math its just numbers letters and symbols to me at this point.
I'm going to call Joy, find out if she's printed up my Utility Bill for tax info, see if she can give me allowance and then take that allowance, pay my 14.00 or so fine, then take the rest of my money, go to the bookstore and buy a good comprehensive math book that I can study. Tameeka Newell told me to study math books, and so did Mom after she had been in the afterlife, and God has led me to do maths and practice it my whole life and the IEP people held me back from advancement in it even though my Algebra teacher Mr. Lovejoy (God rest his soul) recommended me for Geometry, but the IEP people whom dad and I both knew were liars, forbid me to take that or world religion, saying I'd be intolerant, but they did not know me. At Joy's the first time I lived there, I learned math off an educational TV channel, in Michigan the first time I lived there, my Dad taught me how to solve basic circuit equations for electronics, and I watched a movie about a child mathemetician prodigy as a kid and I also watched another, musical one like that as an adult, "Like stars On Earth". I have always liked maths, and I have used the excuse "I like maths, I'm just not good at it" long ENOUGH! I checked some math books out of the library in michigan the second time I lived there but Buster my dog chewed them or it up, because I neglected it or them. He often would chew up things, especially if I neglected them.
I'm not baptized and confirmed yet, only in my dreams, but I hope I will be soon.
4:33 PM CDT Me to Star Wars Santa today:
Ok, I'm taking back ALL my library books save three and keeping out my Chrome Book. I paid my fine. Joy, Cecil and I had a talk. Joy says I'll figure it out. It was about what Jesus told me last night. I'm trying to understand the Gospel and the Cross intellectually instead of the simplicity of it and I was going overboard in reading books and finding too much knowledge without wisdom. I wasn't even READING my library books. They gave me a feeling of intellectual pride. Joy says I need to get self out of the way. After paying my fine I walked home from the library confident that I had not been sufficiently humble in my heart. O Lord forgive me of my pride! Amen. Pastor Pete may be giving me a ride up to the library to drop off most of those library books and then Colt and I can walk up to the bookstore which closes at 6PM so he can look around and I can buy a 4.50 or so dollar math book with the change from my fine. I prayed for the best math book that amount could buy (used books).
Some people believe that there's not just one truth; no one's right or wrong; that there are truths and falsehoods on both sides. That nothing is really true; that it's all from our own point of view; that there are no facts; only beliefs and opinion. This is all a lie. There is only one Absolute Truth, and all who follow the Truth follow Christ, for He Is the Spirit of Truth. There are, however, differences of perception, reality and perspective, and sometimes heroes on all sides of a human conflict, and there are many sides to truth, which is cubical, and two sides to every story. These two do NOT amount to the same thing. There is only One Truth and He is also Love, Life, Light and the Way, to paraphase some of the Scriptures. Truth is knowledge of things as they are, as they were and as they are to come and whatsoever is more or less than this comes of evil. All the world is lies and deception. Many are deceived by false information. We all need to pray daily for spiritual discernment, and to try the spirits, and to check things out by what the Word of God says, and what he reveals.
Star Wars Santa — Today at 4:33 PM
Can you not find something online that's free?
[4:35 PM]
Have you tried Khan Academy? I've used it. It's got practice exercises and fantastic teachers.
(SW Santa gave me a link to Khan University)
Brent: I'll have to take a look at that but God commanded me to study math books
[4:48 PM]
And I could occupy a lot of my time with Khan; it and Hillsdale would keep me out of trouble. Thanks
I got Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey Fifth Edition. The book dealer sold it to me for five bucks and a nickel: 796 pp+Guide to Using A Scientific Calculator, 6 other Appendices and Index and two Geometric designs in the inside back cover and flyleaf.
6:07 PM Perhaps Pastor Pete will take me to the library to drop off my books tomorrow.
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, James Luceno, Disc 10
The Force Awakens, Alan Dean Foster, the first 35 Minutes
The Testimony of Mark
The Beginning of The Testimony of Luke
I took a good shower. Last night, I brushed and flossed my teeth. It is 7:25 PM.
I tried joining Truth Social today, Trump's new Social Media platform, but for now it's only available in the Apple App Store for the iPhone. Soon it will be available on Google Play.
02/25-
FRIDAY
I had a heart to heart with my heart, then a heart to heart with Jesus upon my bed and watched Lois Vogel-Sharp.
Aside from my entertainment, the people I talk to and the books I read, I need to limit myself to five gospel and motivation influencers on YouTube that speak into my life, NOT five of each.
Michael Hur
Lois Vogel-Sharp
Kat Kerr
Zig Zeiglar
Justen Faull
Only these indefinitely, unless God says otherwise.
Get back into the Scriptures.
Keep asking The Holy Spirit to help me to grasp the simplicity and power of the Cross and the Gospel, and not to try to understand them intellectually, and how to call upon the Name of the LORD.
I was listening to so many people teach me so many lies that I didn't know the truth, which makes one free, not just sets. If you open a cage door, the bird doesn't want to leave the cage, though the door is wide open, but if you take the bird out and toss it into the air it is made free. That's what the truth does..I was trying to justify myself with performance, or correct belief, or struggle, or trying harder.
The five do not include education, instruction, family or political speeches, Scriptures or anything to do with the Restoration. These are all free. It is 5:03 AM, and Casey's has just opened, so I will go get an X-Tra Large Dr. Pepper.
5:40 AM CDT Earlier this morning I cleared my entire YouTube watch history and Started Over with it there, pruning it so it could bear more fruit, and looked up Samuel Goald and Joseph F. Smith Testimony concerning the plates given to Mauricio in Brazil, then put it on Justen Faull and Genesis and it started on the KJ passage concerning the Rainbow in the Noachide Covenant. I wept.
I went to Casey's and got myself a xtra lg dr pepper and a large slice of bacon breakfast pizza. Now Faull and Acts are playing. Acts is exciting. I am not paying attention to Faull because its lower an I cannot make out what it is saying from where I am at my dining area table drinking my pop and typing on the ChromeBook. The pizza was Delish!
5:56 AM Actually, Autoplay went from Faull to History's Very Interesting program America Unearthed, where Archaologists are trying to piece the puzzles of History, side by side with the window I am now sitting cross-legged on my bed typing in and listening to Bible Radio on on my laptop.
Right now, The Jerusalem Conference is going on in Acts.
A couple nights before tonight, Christ himself baptized me in Dreamland, saying, that let all demons in hell know that he baptizes me, etc, and I was also confirmed.
This morning I was converted, fully. I finally heard Jesus' heart. I still need to Truly Call Upon The Name Of The LORD.
Words of Moroni 1:11-17
The Shroud of Turin, Ian Wilson, pp. vii-ix, Table of Contents
I made a YT Watch History Playlist, and am listening to the Pauline Epistles, starting in Romans, now in I Corinthians.
I still need to read 'Shroud of Turin' Introduction and Chapter One today and finish 'God's Secretaries' Chapter One and listen to Disc 10 of 'Catalyst: A Rogue One Story' today, which things I have all day to do.
An America Unearthed Video proving Jeremiah came to America with the Mulekites, an Egyptian Princess and an ark, but not the ark of the Covenant, as Book of Mormon scholars have at least partially concluded, was on, and now an Egyptian Treasure in the Grand Canyon America Unearthed video is on. The first one was about Obelisks and the Stars.
Part of a conversation between myself and SW Santa today:
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 7:48 AM
So I hear you went ahead and got a Patreon (thank you, I got the playlist made now ) How do you like it? Would you reccomend it?
Star Wars Santa — Today at 8:12 AM
I'm still not much of a fan of Patreon, but I was talked into starting it.
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 8:52 AM
by Meg!
[8:52 AM]
[8:53 AM]
well, hope it works out for you
[8:53 AM]
You dont have to worry about copyright claims
[8:53 AM]
on it
[8:54 AM]
I'm listening to Mozart, reading Shroud of Turin's introduction and watching maths videos
[8:54 AM]
its fun, i'm comfy on my loveseat
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 9:16 AM
I'm also listening to the Pauline Epistles
Brent"study36"FinalWarning"KoivV — Today at 9:26 AM
I downloaded a free ebook on company culture
[9:26 AM]
It just popped up; I'm saving it to my flashdrive now
[9:30 AM]
Great! I can read it right on the ChromeBook I'm renting with the aid of my flashdrive!
[9:31 AM]
I am so getting my own ChromeBook! These things are so nifty and neat!
[9:32 AM]
And a SSB External Drive for my laptop
Earlier I got five of my dishes done. Now they are drying in my dish drainer.
Internet Writings, conversations and exerpts from lost journals, texts, etc.
Brent: What I admire about J.J.Abrams is that when he set out to make The Force Awakens, he didn't try to make Star Wars into LOST or Star Trek, but was completely true to the mythos and feel of a Star Wars movie, as grungy, humorous, lived-in and whimsical as anything from Episodes I-VI.-Monday, 6/14/2021 2:08:55 CDT
Brent: The reason that the whole of the last jedi was the empire pursuing one rebel fleet was simply because that in the Force Awakens which happened immediately before tlj, with no time passage at all between the two films, had just lost their entire seat of government and base of support to the starkiller base-hosnian prime system, and the last rebel fleet was all they had left, making tlj an incredible story of survival, with ultra high stakes.
Monday, 6/14/2021 2:38:55 CDT
timmoishere said: ↑
I’m sorry, but if your best evidence that a resurrection occurred is “a bunch of people believed it,” that’s not good enough. There needs to be actual legitimate evidence in order to accept that claim as true. All you have are stories, and stories by themselves are not enough.
Lordban said
Ancient history in general suffers from not possibly escaping reliance on "stories", often written decades or a few centuries later. Without using such accounts, there would be enormous holes in our knowledge of history. And of course, there is often further uncertainty because the original texts did not make it through the millennia and what we have is a copy, which may or may not have been edited, and an additional difficulty comes in the form of ancient translations, for which it's also not possible to know for certain edition hasn't been made in some way. And the deliberate reporting of inaccurate facts is nowadays known to be as old as Ramses II.
So yes, in the end, for a large part of what we know of ancient history, we are never going to get past "a bunch of people believed it".
Sometimes, we even have to rely on "this person said it", because the scarcity of sources means we're probably never going to get corroboration.
For an example, the notion Phenicians had already knowledge of the Cape of Good Hope was initially based on a single, ca. 600BC account of how the sailors reported the position of the sun at the far end of an attempt to navigate around "Libya" ("Africa" was not used to name the continent back then). But because that account is consistent with what the sailors would have witnessed, and a forgery of the text's details would have required knowledge that the Earth is round - which was not known at the time of the writing of the account - we have reason enough to believe it is legitimate testimony and it is likely some Phenicians did manage to sail past the Cape of Good Hope.
But it's not physical evidence, and we probably aren't ever going to get evidence that it happened. Thus, in the end, why a decision has to be made whether to accept that claim as true despite the evidence at the time of discovery of this being literally one story. It's as good evidence as you are ever going to get.
To trace all the way back to religion, you aren't going to find much in the way of physical evidence either, even as to whether the religion started when it says it does. And even when you do find more recent physical evidence, dating it accurately is problematic.
To give an early medieval example, the Birmingham Quran manuscript, one of the oldest fragment of the Quran in existence, has been carbon-dated between 568AD and 645AD, while the Sanaa Palimpsest (for its lower-text part) has been carbon-dated between 578AD and 669AD. In both cases, the interval is given with an 95% confidence that the entire interval is the correct one. Both still cover decades before Muhammad's companions are supposed to have written in (610AD until 632AD) and, of course, long spans both before and after Hijra (622AD).
We therefore can't escape falling back on contemporary writings retelling when the Quran was first written, because the physical evidence simply isn't good enough and/or our means of dating it aren't accurate enough.
Long story short, often, in ancient history, "a bunch of people believed it" is as good evidence as you are going to get, whether it applies to religion or not. Which brings us back to a decision we have to make about ancient history in general: for most of what we know, it's up to you, as an individual, to decide whether you believe its accounts or not. Granted, it takes much less of a leap of faith to believe you know Caesar's last words ("Ista quidem vis est!", according to Suetonius) than to believe Jesus of Nazareth went walkabout after his death. But in either case, it is all but certain you are never going to get actual legitimate evidence. The account of what others believed is as good as you are going to get.
'I am not a good man. And I'm not a bad man either. I'm not a hero. You know who I am? I am an idiot. Passing through. Helping out. Learning.' -- The Doctor
'Mankind has only one science. It is the science of discontent.' -- Count Hasimir Fenring
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I never “chose” to not believe. And my mind and heart are not closed. Please stop being dishonest.
If you had evidence that your beliefs were true, you would have presented it already. Instead, all you’ve done is present excuses, weak arguments, and easily debunked claims. That’s not how you convince anyone.
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.
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study3600 said: (Brent:) ↑
And all that did not convince you because you chose not to believe the evidence, closing your mind and heart when the evidence stared you right in the face and people conspire to cover up truth all the time just look at nazi germany its the same in america its the world system. You dont believe because you are the ones indoctrinated into unbelief and i am the one and the believers on here whose minds are truly free.
timmoishere: You haven't presented any evidence. (Actually, I had presented PLENTY of evidence and continued to do so but he refused to view it or read it because it was not "peer reviewed" by fellow atheists and agnostics-BLS) You keep making this claim without backing it up.
And there's no indoctrination (lie-BLS), we've actively asked for this alleged reputable archaeological evidence exists (which I gave the sources, or references to where they could be found, yet he still claimed I hadn't-BLS), but you've never provided any evidence that you claimed existed. You have, however, brought up things like the the shoud of Turin, which does have scientific evidence about its origin, which places it to be from the middle ages, several hundred years younger than it is supposed to be (actually untrue, See The Shroud of Turin by Ian Wilson-BLS).
Your mind isn't 'free', as you seem unable to apply a consistent approach to assess new information. You have an approach to preserve the information that you have chosen as true (No, that I KNOW is true, rejecting what I KNOW is false-BLS (And saying I don't know if I don't know, and finding out either from books, Scriptures, the Internet, others or God so I'm not ignorant if I do not know (and evaluating what they (except Scriptures or God) tell me by Scriptures and what I know and by spiritual discernment, unbiased confirmation, and revelation-BLS), here a little, there a little-BLS), and reject information you have chosen as not true.
study3600 said: ↑
False religion and atheism is the opiate of the masses (ok i'll include agnosticism too, wouldnt want to leave you out) and True Religion is Liberty and true independent thought. Your only as free as your mind is. Its hard to rein in or control one whose mind is free. The deepest dankest prison to him becomes heaven. And a cage is a cage to everyone no matter how big a cage it is.
Lowbacca: Your mind isn't free, and there is zero that you have provided that could be used to separate out the 'true religions' from the 'false religions', so from all available evidence, you are entirely incapable of determining what is true using your methods since they are just about reinforcing your conclusions.
Lowbacca: While we have entertained the idea that you might be able to present evidence, you have been unable to consider how you could present the evidence you claimed existed. That alone highlights who is exhibiting a free mind and who isn't.
(Similarly, I know people who are religious who can view that as a faith-based decision and see why those expecting a sort of evidence do not reach the same conclusions, but that is different from what you are doing, claiming that there is clear evidence, then failing to provide it. repeatedly. and shifting the discussion to as many things as you can think of because every one of your claims is extremely threadbare and doesn't have the solid evidence you claim exists)
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Brent: 3. Uh, timmoishere, read Lordban's post. We choose what evidence to and not to be convinced by. If we choose not to believe true evidence that is called closing your mind. If you choose not to believe what your heart is telling you is the truth that is called closing one's heart.
No, no I protect the beliefs in have which are true and reject all false evidence while at the same time assimilating all new knowledge and information that is true. This is called cognitive resonance. Most of you protect your false beliefs unbelief doubt incredulity and biases and false traditions as well as what you believe and know to be true, and shut out all evidence and information to the contrary even if it is true information and evidence. This is called cognitive dissonance. The Bahir man (Jedi Merkurian, the man of the Baha'i faith-B.L.S.K.)(The Bahir is a book of the Kabbalah, NOT the Baha'i faith) has a bias that I know God is a ludicrous concept so anyone who proves or relates to them that you can know God or that I know God or that God is even remotely knowable because his ba'hai (Baha'i) texts tell him God is unknowable then his cognitive dissonance protecting the bias and tradition he learned studying the Bahir (Baha'i texts) and practicing his ba'hai (Baha'i) faith prevents him from believing anyone who claims they know God. This is the case with all belief claims and knowledge and with all people in this world.
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There are two ways to be deceived: One is to believe what is not true and the other is to refuse to believe what is true - Soren Kierkegaard
Brent:I like the Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker the best, depending on which one I'm viewing at the time. I like Revenge of the Sith more than The Force Awakens and TFA more than RoTJ, RoTJ more than TESB TESB more than Clones, CLONES more than ANH and ANH more than TPM. And I love TPM.
For less complication, I'm only ranking the 9 films of the Skywalker Saga.
1 or 2 I like the Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker the best, depending on which one I'm viewing at the time. Love Ben's character, seeing him and Rey conflicted, Ben Redeemed, water symbology, loved stylistically stunning visuals, horseback riding, seafaring, crystal foxes, nuns and porgs, green milk, D.J, Casino Royale, Hyperspace Skipping, Ben/Hux rivalry, Ren slamming a general into the ceiling, Snoke/Ben/Rey/Praetorian Guard Throneroom Fight, Just about everything Poe did and said in those two films, Finn facing off with Phasma, Palpatine attempting self sacrifice for his nefarious ends, New Force Abilities shown not just implied like Jedi Healing and Connection and object grabbing from a distance, and Projection of your essence from a distant planet to make someone think your there, All Walkers firing on Luke, Han visiting Ben, Luke raising the X-Wing, Yoda visiting Luke, and so much more. And Lando. And Rose. Finn's heroism willingness to sacrifice his life for the resistance cause.
3 Revenge of The Sith. What don't I like about this film? Spectacular opening space battle, the most fast and furious lightsaber battle of the franchise at the end between anakin and obi-wan, we get to see Anakin's transition to Vader, Tragedy done so well, General Grievous is just cool, can't get enough of the 'its treason then ' spin and take three Jedi Masters out in 5 seconds scene, Order 66 done so well and explains so much, Padme buried with Japor Snippet, and so much more.
4 The Force Awakens. Right from the amazingly cool opening scene there is SO much to like about this film! Chewie We're home, It's true all of it the Force the Jedi everything scene, BB-8 is so neat, Ren such a good villain, torch passes to new generation, flamethrower, Poe (need I say more?) Rey and Finn's friendship, Han and Leia didn't "just live happily ever after" like they did in the EU, and that Resistance theme music! Wow! Plus everything feels as grungy and lived in as it does in the PT and OT.
5 Return of the Jedi. My favorite of the OT. Love Vader's Redemption, Emporer's first death, "Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battlestation. You may fire at will commander" "That blast came from the death star", "our cruisers cant repel firepower of that magnitude", etc Jabba the Hutt's max rebo band Special Edition Doo Mee Wang" music gets me every time, love Jabba, Jabba's death so satisfying, love Ewok/ Empire asymmetrical warfare, etc, etc, etc
6 The Empire Strikes Back. The Movie that got me back being interested in Star Wars again, love the cliffhanger ending, Boba Fett, Lobot, Lando, Cloud City, Yoda the MAN, Force training on Dagobah, finding lost Luke in the snow, the Battle of Hoth, Han/Leia romance, C-3PO is the funniest he ever is in any movie in this one, (with the exception of maybe the rise of skywalker (bobba frick is my oldest friend ROTFL!)
7.I loved Attack of the Clones so much I saw it three times at the movies and watch it twice in a row one day when I owned it on VHS.
I love nearly EVERYTHING about Clones from the static clean hallways of the Kaminoans to Dex to the beautiful Jedi Archives and Jocosta Nu's refusal to believe the archives could possibly be missing any records, to the arena scene, to Jango fett's scenes, to Mace and Obi-Wan fighting back to back, to Anakin's and Padme's forbidden romance, to Yoda and Dooku's duel, to Palpatine's Machiavellian political maneuverings, one of the things i like about TPM as well.
8. A New Hope. A hands down classic, vI love the cantina scene, Han Solo, The Death Star run and trash compactor scene, Obi-Wan in his golden years, Luke starting his heroes journey as a whiny farmboy, , the Battle of Yavin 4, the beauty of Yavin 4, Princess Leia a strong female character, the droids Artoo and Threepio, and just about everything else about the film.
9.I love TPM. I love Jar Jar Binks. I love how stunning the TPM visuals are, love Duel of the Fates Music and battle of Naboo, especially the Maul/Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan duel, love TPM opening scenes as some of the best opening scenes in the franchise, love PODRACING, BABY! Love origin story of Anakin, love Padme's subterfuge.
So there you have it, my ranking. I love them all. But thats the order in which I have come to currently like them.
Paula Miller: Tue 11:01 PM
Great ok now what makes you understand we are in tribulations?
Brent Sohlden Koivopolo V: All the signs. If you want ill enumerate the ones I and many others are aware of including everyone in the church I am about to join and many protestants baptists evangelicals Utah Mormons pentecostal and many other sects.
Paula: Yeah ok
Brent: 1 Obama has showed just about every biblical sign that he is the Beast
2 ww1 was the first trumpet
3 ww2 the second
4 chernobyl the 4
5 still being fulfilled but partially fulfilled during gulf War but the locusts thr actual ones will come (horseflies-BLS)
6 partially fulfilled with ISIS
Sorry chernobyl the 3, time speeding up with no and Berlin wall 4. Gulf War 5, is is 6
Isis 6
8 the (eyetest catalyst-BLS) is another sign of the trib
Paula:I believe what George Njeim and his book wrote
Brent: 9 the (eyetest-BLS) is a form of the mark
10 earthquakes in divers places
Paula: That’s in Matthew 24
Brent: Even more intensified than anything we have before seen
Paula: Like I said I believe George Njeim
Brent: Tornadoes on the equator
Brent: It is as it was in the days of Noah, giants, hybrids, etc
Brent: Then go ahead and believe it all came to pass in the dark ages like most of the RLDS and live with your eyes shut
Brent: Even the church fathers and Joseph Smith Jr taught the beast is a man not a kingdom or system
Paula: Njeim doesn’t believe that
Anything you here from LDS theology is open for interpretation
Brent: You told me several years ago that he does
Paula: Where did you get that JSJR taught that ?
Brent: And I told you the LDS is only one of the many many Christian sects who know we are in the tribulation
Brent: I read it in his sermons myself
Brent: And I also read it in the church fathers of the first and second century
Paula: I didn’t
Paula: We are not in tribulation
Brent: Ok if we're not in the tribulation then we'll never be. It will always be a future or past event
After all prophecy never talks about the present just the future and the past
Paula: I’m going to bed Goodnight read your doctrine & covenants
Brent: I did
Paula: I read and believe more of it than you do
Good night
Paula: Wed 8:00 AM
You are a very judgmental person Brent
Paula: Wed 8:20 AM
The Book of Revelation is read starting with the early Christians chronologically so then it’s through the Dark Ages, the Medieval Times on to the eternity,
The Angel came at the conclusion of the period of the Apostasy 1260 years or the 42 months mentioned in the 12th and 13th chapters. The vision that was given to Nephi was given in a systematic chronological order.
Brent: Wed 10:27 AM
I know that Paula and you mistake tough love with judgmematllism
It also talks about what is going on now in addition to all that
There is the law of double and even triple reference in biblical interpretation Paula
I'm going to Walmart to get some soda dr pepper
Paula: You are judging RLDS priesthood that is not tough love
Brother Njeim understood the type and shadow reference of the Bible however he used the Fullness of the Gospel when studying Revelation. I choose to believe Brother Njeim.
Brent: Wed 4:14 PM
Over Joseph Smith himself? God is the one judging the traditionalist priesthood I'm just telling you the truth
When men preach opinion and their traditions and put that for the word of God the bom calls that priest craft dear
Paula: Um they are not
Brent: They are if they contradict the church fathers and Joseph smith
Paula: You definitely do have it correct but keep working on it
Brent: Thats two witnesses
Paula: They are not
I believe the course Njeim took
Brent: God taught Joseph Smith that the beast was a man not a kingdom or a system and he preached it giving a very good illustration and the fathers specifically said that the antichrist would be a jew and rule the word. A kingdom or a system cannot be a jew
Brent: Plus I have a third witness my cousin Nephi's testimony which was a complete chiasm about his destiny to fight the armies of the world ruler the man the antichrist
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established
You only need two. I have three
Paula: What in tarnation are you talking about? Pilgrim?
How do you know that God taught Joseph Smith Jr that?
Brent: Because I read his sermon
Paula:Why do you keep assuming I know nothing?
Where
Brent: I know you have a lot of knowledge but you are wrong about this because three credible witnesses Trump njeim
Brent: It is writted
Paula: Where did you read JSJR sermon?
Brent: Look for it yourself. They took the website down so you'll have to read it in Joseph's insufferably sloppy handscrawl in the Joseph Smith papers because they refuse to publish a plain text version of it the only one they had published they took down but I had it printed out but I lost it because Joy convinced me I needed to get rid of js writing s because she mistakenly believed God told her I worshipped Joseph Smith. I regret giving away his sermons letters and journals and now she want me to help her find it and I can't quote it anymore O Lord what a terrible burden is knowledge!
Paula: Who took the web site down?
Brent: The mormons
They like to suppress knowledge
And it was a credible source those were Joseph's actual words
And even without them we still have the church fathers and nephis testimony we still have two witnesses
Go ahead and stay ignorant and believe everything that comes from the Mormons is no good because I know that's what I am outgoing you to say
Paula: Oh then I for sure don’t sgree
Brent: We still have two witnesses
Without josephs
Paula: Njeim interpreted the Bible without precedents of Smith or the fathers
Brent: He went before the lord
Brent: Ran
Brent: Joy always says went
Brent: She means ran
Brent: He interpreted based on rlds tradition rather than what has gone before for precedent
Brent: Sorry to burst your little bubble
Paula: Njeim was a great man and you are not bursting a bubble
Paula: I happen to agree with his review
Brent: There may have been a lot of truth in his writings but he was wrong in his assertion that the entire book of rev was fulfilled in the middle ages
Paula: No he interpreted based on the Book of Mormon
Brent: No he was not wrong
Brent: You are denying the truth
Paula: So what
Brent: Just like you always do
Paula: You are caught up in your own truth
Brent: Why do you idolize njeim
Paula: Brent I’m blocking you
That’s enough
Brent: If every verse in the Bible contradicted njeim you would still choose njeim
Brent: Ok timmoishere. What kind of evidence do you require? Belief comes before evidence. You believed the chair would hold you up before you sat in it and it did. you believed the stove was hot because your mother said so but you didnt know until you touched it.
All the operations of the human mind and body are the result of faith.
The Shroud of Turin, Ian Wilson, pp. 1-2
Words of Moroni 1:18-19
Me to Star Wars Santa today:
I should also get a Texas Instruments Scientific Calculator and a Digital Camcorder.
And a graphing compass and a protractor and a lot of graph paper
And a Guitar.
And a harp.
I'm beyond what I have the capacity to learn at this time in learning math its just numbers letters and symbols to me at this point.
I'm going to call Joy, find out if she's printed up my Utility Bill for tax info, see if she can give me allowance and then take that allowance, pay my 14.00 or so fine, then take the rest of my money, go to the bookstore and buy a good comprehensive math book that I can study. Tameeka Newell told me to study math books, and so did Mom after she had been in the afterlife, and God has led me to do maths and practice it my whole life and the IEP people held me back from advancement in it even though my Algebra teacher Mr. Lovejoy (God rest his soul) recommended me for Geometry, but the IEP people whom dad and I both knew were liars, forbid me to take that or world religion, saying I'd be intolerant, but they did not know me. At Joy's the first time I lived there, I learned math off an educational TV channel, in Michigan the first time I lived there, my Dad taught me how to solve basic circuit equations for electronics, and I watched a movie about a child mathemetician prodigy as a kid and I also watched another, musical one like that as an adult, "Like stars On Earth". I have always liked maths, and I have used the excuse "I like maths, I'm just not good at it" long ENOUGH! I checked some math books out of the library in michigan the second time I lived there but Buster my dog chewed them or it up, because I neglected it or them. He often would chew up things, especially if I neglected them.
I'm not baptized and confirmed yet, only in my dreams, but I hope I will be soon.
4:33 PM CDT Me to Star Wars Santa today:
Ok, I'm taking back ALL my library books save three and keeping out my Chrome Book. I paid my fine. Joy, Cecil and I had a talk. Joy says I'll figure it out. It was about what Jesus told me last night. I'm trying to understand the Gospel and the Cross intellectually instead of the simplicity of it and I was going overboard in reading books and finding too much knowledge without wisdom. I wasn't even READING my library books. They gave me a feeling of intellectual pride. Joy says I need to get self out of the way. After paying my fine I walked home from the library confident that I had not been sufficiently humble in my heart. O Lord forgive me of my pride! Amen. Pastor Pete may be giving me a ride up to the library to drop off most of those library books and then Colt and I can walk up to the bookstore which closes at 6PM so he can look around and I can buy a 4.50 or so dollar math book with the change from my fine. I prayed for the best math book that amount could buy (used books).
Some people believe that there's not just one truth; no one's right or wrong; that there are truths and falsehoods on both sides. That nothing is really true; that it's all from our own point of view; that there are no facts; only beliefs and opinion. This is all a lie. There is only one Absolute Truth, and all who follow the Truth follow Christ, for He Is the Spirit of Truth. There are, however, differences of perception, reality and perspective, and sometimes heroes on all sides of a human conflict, and there are many sides to truth, which is cubical, and two sides to every story. These two do NOT amount to the same thing. There is only One Truth and He is also Love, Life, Light and the Way, to paraphase some of the Scriptures. Truth is knowledge of things as they are, as they were and as they are to come and whatsoever is more or less than this comes of evil. All the world is lies and deception. Many are deceived by false information. We all need to pray daily for spiritual discernment, and to try the spirits, and to check things out by what the Word of God says, and what he reveals.
Star Wars Santa — Today at 4:33 PM
Can you not find something online that's free?
[4:35 PM]
Have you tried Khan Academy? I've used it. It's got practice exercises and fantastic teachers.
(SW Santa gave me a link to Khan University)
Brent: I'll have to take a look at that but God commanded me to study math books
[4:48 PM]
And I could occupy a lot of my time with Khan; it and Hillsdale would keep me out of trouble. Thanks
I got Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey Fifth Edition. The book dealer sold it to me for five bucks and a nickel: 796 pp+Guide to Using A Scientific Calculator, 6 other Appendices and Index and two Geometric designs in the inside back cover and flyleaf.
6:07 PM Perhaps Pastor Pete will take me to the library to drop off my books tomorrow.
Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel, James Luceno, Disc 10
The Force Awakens, Alan Dean Foster, the first 35 Minutes
The Testimony of Mark
The Beginning of The Testimony of Luke
I took a good shower. Last night, I brushed and flossed my teeth. It is 7:25 PM.
I tried joining Truth Social today, Trump's new Social Media platform, but for now it's only available in the Apple App Store for the iPhone. Soon it will be available on Google Play.