Tag: live
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Mobile Ads
The two games I’ve put on my phone so far are very ad heavy, so I’ve been watching a whole lot of mobile ads to get bonuses. I like to mute them because they are far less annoying to look at than to hear. I have also found myself playing a little game called: Is…
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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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Conscience is Atomic
For many years I have asserted that freedom of religion is an inferior way to talk about liberty than freedom of conscience. The biggest reason I have put forth is that appeals to religion shut out a significant portion of the population. It is, and I know this from experience, hard to convince an atheist…
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Wives and Children
What’s the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? I love my wife so much I want another one. I would like to have more children but that would probably require a second wife. I live in the United States where polygamy is illegal. I am…
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Admiration
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? I’ve said before here that I don’t like martyrdom. It’s easier to kill and die for one’s beliefs than it is to live for them and let others live for theirs. I admire when people can do the latter peacefully and articulately. I especially admire my…
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Portland, Oregon
Do you have a favorite place you have visited? Where is it? I lived in Portland for almost two years. I was going to a very expensive liberal arts college there. The city is beautiful and I loved going on long walks both day and night especially in the warm drizzle. I call it a…
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Dictates of Conscience
I want to encourage people to examine, develop, express, work, and live by the dictates of their conscience. A conscience is an inner sense of which ideas and actions are good, which ones are merely adequate, and which of those things which we think or do are neither. Both the church to which I ascribe…