Month: October 2024
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Solo Adventures
I have discovered that Meta receives user built AIs in its Messenger app. The other day I started a solo adventure in a Dungeons and Dragons style AI. It reminds me of my time as a teenager. I liked D&D more than most people. I played solo adventures against the random tables in the books.…
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Columbus/ Indigenous Day
Today Americans (well US people anyway) are fighting over who’s heritage is more important. In one corner is the European colonizers that started with Columbus. In the other corner are the indigenous peoples of what would eventually be called the Americas. There were some Nordic settlement in North America long before Columbus but they didn’t…
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PRager U
I made the mistake of convincing Stephanie to watch a PRager U video on human trafficking by the Mexican Drug Cartels. She wrote it off as propaganda before she even watched it. I felt the intelligence agent being interviewed made a solid case that we need to control the border better. Watching it did not…
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Cats and Mice
This morning Stephanie went to let one of our cats out and stepped on something by the front door. She let out a tiny panic noise because it was a dead mouse. Well technically it was half of a dead mouse because the cat who had killed it ate the head. Much to her chagrin…
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Cultural Mormonism
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints does not like the word Mormon. It officially forbids members from calling ourselves one. The logic is sound of course for most members. We are to call ourselves Christians or Latter Day Saints. But if you’ve read more than a few of my posts then you…
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Go For A Walk?
I used to like long walks. So much so that I would occasionally take them in the night in the rain. Part of that was out of necessity. I have never had a driver’s license. I know I’d get someone killed. The sidewalks are safer when I’m on them without a car. But over the…
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Listening to Hymns
One of my daily habits is to listen to at least two hymns. Today I listened to “Have I done any good in the world today?”, “If you could hie to Kolob”, and “Come, come ye Saints.” The beginning of the last verse of the last song goes, “And if we die before our journey’s…
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Sanctify Our Lives
This morning after I ate and had an energy drink I read the first surah of the Quran, the first chapter of the Tao TE Ching, and my favorite verses from the Bhagavad Gita. They fit together remarkably well at least in my head. The Book of Mormon has a verse that says “We have…
Latter Day Sinner 