Sunday 12:10am, 9/17/17 Hello Brandon, does this mean I am writing in the middle of the night? Yep. Does this mean I took a nap from 6 to 9pm? Yep. As I left Gayelinn her 5 or 6 vmails as I did my dog walk tonight I just had to share my thoughts about Spot’s favorite scriptures from the bom being the teachings of Korihor. Doesn’t that sound strange? I did not realize that until I read what I had printed for your letter, this morning. I sent that today. Do you remember the + signs and the Ø empty set signs? I was shocked to have to include any empty set signs. [Definition of Empty Set. An Empty Set is a set with no elements. It can be symbolized by {} or ø The solution set for an equation that has no solution is also called an empty set.It is also called a null set.] There are some things about gospel history that just don’t seem to make any sense. 1- How could the earth be flooded? Where did the water come from and where did it go? 2- Why sacrifice animals and people? Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac. Does that make any sense? 3- Nephi cut off Laban’s head. 4- Moses killed a guard. 5- JS practiced the doctrine of plural wives. But when we stop and consider that the earth would not exist if God hadn’t created it we begin to understand we don’t understand! 6- How can the earth be rolled together as a scroll? 7- How could it have been moved from near God to here? 8- How can it be moved back again? 9- How will it be baptized by fire? 10- When will Christ return in his glory? 11- How are miracles performed? 12- How can the Holy Ghost get inside of me? 13- How did JS translate the BoM? 14- How can there be no time with God? And on and on. @ I listened to a couple of sisters tell story after story of their ancestors in room A at FS today. Saturday is when the Spanish indexers take over that room. 11-3pm. My heart is warming a little towards mine. I keep getting invites from FS in my email. Here is an ancestor that needs temple work done. Would you like to know the occupation of this ancestor? @ As you know I have no American ancestors. My mom was born in London, England. My dad’s parents were born in Norway. There must be some conversion stories there but there aren’t any available. I don’t know of a single one! That is not strange when you stop and realize my parents were criminals. But there must have been an ancestor like me who loved the gospel, sacrificed for it, joined the church, felt the spirit, and dedicated their lives to God. FS sent me some distant ancestors that served missions. I was fascinated. I love missionaries. I love missionary work. Who were the missionaries that converted any of my ancestors? B l a n k . Nothing there. Don’t you find that strange? I do. Ø I am playing with the null set sign. I have no clue of how to find it on my keyboard. And I am curious about what it would look like in each of the fonts. Ø One [strange\strānj/adjective\1.unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling or hard to understand."children have some strange ideas"synonyms: unusual, odd, curious, peculiar, funny, bizarre, weird, uncanny, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, atypical, anomalous, out of the ordinary, extraordinary, puzzling, mystifying, mysterious, perplexing, baffling, unaccountable, inexplicable, singular, freakish; suspicious, questionable; eerie, unnatural; informal fishy, bizarro, creepy, spooky
"strange things have been happening"weird, eccentric, odd, peculiar, funny, bizarre, unusual;unconventional, outlandish, freakish, quirky, zany;informal wacky, way out, freaky, kooky, offbeat, off the wall, screwy, wacko"strange clothes"\2.not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien."she found herself in bed in a strange place"synonyms: unfamiliar, unknown, new"visiting a strange house"] One strange/ perplexing discovery I made with Spot’s favorite BoM scriptures was that many were Satanic. 15 or more came from Korihor’s teachings in Alma 30. One of the masterful things the BoM does is it shows us the adversary’s philosophies and deceptions. Just like you can find Anti Mormon teachings in Hugh Nibley’s books as he defends the church, because you have to state the case before you can defend against it, you can find Satan’s teachings in the book of mormon. How many antichrists appear in the book of mormon along with their teachings? I wonder if there are any teachings of antiChrist in the Bible? Ø Antichrist See also Devil\Anyone or anything that counterfeits the true gospel plan of salvation and that openly or secretly opposes Christ. John the Revelator described the antichrist as a deceiver (1 Jn. 2:18–22; 4:3–6; 2 Jn. 1:7). The great antichrist is Lucifer, but he has many assistants, both spirit beings and mortals.
"strange things have been happening"weird, eccentric, odd, peculiar, funny, bizarre, unusual;unconventional, outlandish, freakish, quirky, zany;informal wacky, way out, freaky, kooky, offbeat, off the wall, screwy, wacko"strange clothes"\2.not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien."she found herself in bed in a strange place"synonyms: unfamiliar, unknown, new"visiting a strange house"] One strange/ perplexing discovery I made with Spot’s favorite BoM scriptures was that many were Satanic. 15 or more came from Korihor’s teachings in Alma 30. One of the masterful things the BoM does is it shows us the adversary’s philosophies and deceptions. Just like you can find Anti Mormon teachings in Hugh Nibley’s books as he defends the church, because you have to state the case before you can defend against it, you can find Satan’s teachings in the book of mormon. How many antichrists appear in the book of mormon along with their teachings? I wonder if there are any teachings of antiChrist in the Bible? Ø Antichrist See also Devil\Anyone or anything that counterfeits the true gospel plan of salvation and that openly or secretly opposes Christ. John the Revelator described the antichrist as a deceiver (1 Jn. 2:18–22; 4:3–6; 2 Jn. 1:7). The great antichrist is Lucifer, but he has many assistants, both spirit beings and mortals.
As you can see Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor all taught false doctrines. I used to skip over those. Yuck. Who wanted to learn the bad/ the evil/ the wicked/ the deceived. Not me. But how can you be prepared to resist them if you don’t know them? It looks like it is pretty smart to know Satan’s tactics after all! @ So in conclusion, I am so disappointed. I am so disappointed that the teachings of Korihor would appeal to my youngest brother. I wonder how he got this way? @ Looks like my bishop has cancer. You have probably heard me refer to him as being young. He is 39 and this is his second stint as bishop. He served in CO the first time. He is half/quarter Mexican so he always looks like he has a suntan. We prayed like crazy when he told us they couldn’t have a third child and Sunnie conceived as he was called as bishop. I wrote her a letter back then celebrating our answer to prayers. Bishop Quincy Adams expresses himself well. See what you think of this Facebook post:
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Yes, I have cancer. The rumors are flying around and instead of allowing speculation to set the standard, I'll just give it to you straight. I have cholangiocarcinoma. It's a cancer of the bile ducts, where are the bile ducts? They are in each and everyone of our livers, delivering bile to your intestines. I was diagnosed with primary schlerosing cholangitis (PSC) back in 2006. Ultimately this is the cause of my cancer.
There is good news. The cancer is contained to the ducts in my liver, because of this I am a candidate for a liver transplant. Once I receive the transplant I will no longer have cancer or PSC, I will just have one sweet scar from my sternum to belly button, and then from my belly button to each hip. If you thought I was sexy before, just wait until you see that battle wound.
As you can imagine when I received the news I was devastated and only thought of the worse. As time as gone by I have felt the strength of my Savior, and now look at this as a blessing. In my faith we teach that our trials are an opportunity to trust more in God, draw closer to Him, and submit to His will. It is a beautiful principle, if we allow it. I have felt my Savior's love more in these past few days than I have ever in the past. I feel this as loved ones offer support, willing to give everything they have to help fight this battle with us. I feel it in the prayers on behalf of my family and me. I feel it in the cries of my wife, children, family and friends. I feel it when I pray, when I cry. I feel it as I write this.
I can not deny the existence of Jesus Christ, I know even more that He lives, He died and that He conquered death on that third day.
I don't get on Facebook much at all, so please don't be offended if I don't read your comments or your messages to me. I felt I needed to let the many people I have met through this journey of life, know of my condition. There are many people I love that don't live around me, I promise to keep you posted. Sunnie and I will be going to Salt Lake to meet with the transplant team on Wednesday and Thursday we will find out a lot more. For now please keep my wife and kids in your prayers.
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Hey Michael Murdock,
Good Monday morning,
I have tried to figure out how I can best reply.
Adrian James Jensen lives in his semi truck. He isn't allowed to sleep at home because he is not married to the gal he supports.
cell: 208/789-3291
He drives truck for Parke Cox Trucking.
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How do you like that for an answer? I'll bet you get all kinds of strange ones.
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@@ So let’s go back to the Hittites:The Hittites were famous for their fairness and laws. The video I watched impressed me with the fact that up until then all laws were punishable by violence/retribution/ reprisal but with the Hittites broken laws were compensatory/ restitution. So you may have heard how a finger or hand is cut off for stealing. With the Hittites they made you pay for it, earn it, give money for what you stole. Much better program in my mind! << Do remember reading that? As I study ancient civilizations I end up getting stuck in Turkey all the time. They have ruins there like you would not believe!!! Yes, it is under the Black Sea! So what do we know about the Hittites and why were they important? Wiki:Hittites\The Hittites (/ˈhɪtaɪts/) were an Ancient Anatolian people who established an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia around 1600 BC. {Moses was 1400 BC}This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Suppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of Anatolia as well as parts of the northern Levant and Upper Mesopotamia. Between the 15th and 13th centuries BC the Hittite Empire came into conflict with the Egyptian Empire, Middle Assyrian Empire and the empire of the Mitanni for control of the Near East. The Assyrians eventually emerged as the dominant power and annexed much of the Hittite empire, while the remainder was sacked by Phrygian
newcomers to the region. After c. 1180 BC, during the Bronze Age collapse, the Hittites splintered into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some of which survived until the 8th century BC before succumbing to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Hittite language was a distinct member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and along with the related Luwian language, is the oldest historically attested Indo-European language. [2] They referred to their native land as Hatti. The conventional name "Hittites" is due to their initial identification with the Biblical Hittites in 19th century archaeology. Despite their use of the name Hatti for their
core territory, the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region (until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC) and spoke an unrelated language known as Hattic. [3] During the 1920s, interest in the Hittites increased with the founding of the modern Republic of Turkey and attracted the attention of archaeologists such as Halet Çambel and Tahsin Özgüç, leading to the
decipherment of Hittite hieroglyphs. During this period, the new field of
Hittitology also influenced the naming of institutions, such as the state owned
Etibank ("Hittite bank"),[4] and the foundation of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, located 200 kilometers west of the Hittite capital and housing the most comprehensive exhibition of Hittite artifacts in the world. The history of the Hittite civilization is known mostly from cuneiform texts found in the area of their kingdom, and from diplomatic and commercial correspondence found in various archives in Assyria,
Babylonia, Egypt and the Middle East, the decipherment of which was also a key event in the history of Indo-European linguistics. The Hittite military made successful use of chariots,[5] and although belonging to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were the forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 18th century BC; at his time, gifts from the "man of Burushanda" of an iron throne and an iron sceptre to the Kaneshite king Anitta were recorded in the Anitta text
Inscription. Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament. Francis William Newman expressed the critical view, common in the early 19th century, that, "no Hittite king could have compared in power to the King of Judah...".[6]\As archaeological discoveries revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom in the second half of the 19th century,Archibald Henry Sayce postulated, rather than to be compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization "[was] worthy of comparison to the divided Kingdom of Egypt", and was "infinitely more powerful than that of Judah".
[7] Sayce and other scholars also noted that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and ally to Abraham in the Book of Genesis. Uriah (the Hittite) was a captain in King David's army and counted among one of his "mighty men" in 1 Chronicles 11.Initial discoveries\French scholar Félix Marie Charles Texier discovered the first Hittite ruins in 1834, but did not identify them as Hittite.[4]
The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appeared in tablets found at the Assyrian colony of Kültepe(ancient Karum Kanesh), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of Hatti". Some names in the tablets were neither Hattic nor Assyrian, but clearly Indo-European.[8]The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a "People of Hattusas" discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria. In 1887, excavations at Tell El-Amarna in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaton. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of
Kheta"—apparently located in the same general region as the Mesopotamian references to "land of Hatti"—were written in standard Akkadian cuneiform script, but in an unknown language; although scholars could read it, no one could understand it. Shortly after this, Archibald Sayce proposed that Hatti or Khatti in Anatolia was identical with the "kingdom of Kheta" mentioned in these Egyptian texts, as well as with the biblical Hittites. Others, such as Max Müller, agreed that Khatti was probably Kheta, but proposed connecting it with Biblical Kittim, rather than with the "Children of Heth". Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and the name "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered
at Boğazköy. During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy (Hattusa) that began in 1906, the
Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.
newcomers to the region. After c. 1180 BC, during the Bronze Age collapse, the Hittites splintered into several independent "Neo-Hittite" city-states, some of which survived until the 8th century BC before succumbing to the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The Hittite language was a distinct member of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family, and along with the related Luwian language, is the oldest historically attested Indo-European language. [2] They referred to their native land as Hatti. The conventional name "Hittites" is due to their initial identification with the Biblical Hittites in 19th century archaeology. Despite their use of the name Hatti for their
core territory, the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region (until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC) and spoke an unrelated language known as Hattic. [3] During the 1920s, interest in the Hittites increased with the founding of the modern Republic of Turkey and attracted the attention of archaeologists such as Halet Çambel and Tahsin Özgüç, leading to the
decipherment of Hittite hieroglyphs. During this period, the new field of
Hittitology also influenced the naming of institutions, such as the state owned
Etibank ("Hittite bank"),[4] and the foundation of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, located 200 kilometers west of the Hittite capital and housing the most comprehensive exhibition of Hittite artifacts in the world. The history of the Hittite civilization is known mostly from cuneiform texts found in the area of their kingdom, and from diplomatic and commercial correspondence found in various archives in Assyria,
Babylonia, Egypt and the Middle East, the decipherment of which was also a key event in the history of Indo-European linguistics. The Hittite military made successful use of chariots,[5] and although belonging to the Bronze Age, the Hittites were the forerunners of the Iron Age, developing the manufacture of iron artifacts from as early as the 18th century BC; at his time, gifts from the "man of Burushanda" of an iron throne and an iron sceptre to the Kaneshite king Anitta were recorded in the Anitta text
Inscription. Before the discoveries, the only source of information about Hittites had been the Old Testament. Francis William Newman expressed the critical view, common in the early 19th century, that, "no Hittite king could have compared in power to the King of Judah...".[6]\As archaeological discoveries revealed the scale of the Hittite kingdom in the second half of the 19th century,Archibald Henry Sayce postulated, rather than to be compared to Judah, the Anatolian civilization "[was] worthy of comparison to the divided Kingdom of Egypt", and was "infinitely more powerful than that of Judah".
[7] Sayce and other scholars also noted that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and ally to Abraham in the Book of Genesis. Uriah (the Hittite) was a captain in King David's army and counted among one of his "mighty men" in 1 Chronicles 11.Initial discoveries\French scholar Félix Marie Charles Texier discovered the first Hittite ruins in 1834, but did not identify them as Hittite.[4]
The first archaeological evidence for the Hittites appeared in tablets found at the Assyrian colony of Kültepe(ancient Karum Kanesh), containing records of trade between Assyrian merchants and a certain "land of Hatti". Some names in the tablets were neither Hattic nor Assyrian, but clearly Indo-European.[8]The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a "People of Hattusas" discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria. In 1887, excavations at Tell El-Amarna in Egypt uncovered the diplomatic correspondence of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his son Akhenaton. Two of the letters from a "kingdom of
Kheta"—apparently located in the same general region as the Mesopotamian references to "land of Hatti"—were written in standard Akkadian cuneiform script, but in an unknown language; although scholars could read it, no one could understand it. Shortly after this, Archibald Sayce proposed that Hatti or Khatti in Anatolia was identical with the "kingdom of Kheta" mentioned in these Egyptian texts, as well as with the biblical Hittites. Others, such as Max Müller, agreed that Khatti was probably Kheta, but proposed connecting it with Biblical Kittim, rather than with the "Children of Heth". Sayce's identification came to be widely accepted over the course of the early 20th century; and the name "Hittite" has become attached to the civilization uncovered
at Boğazköy. During sporadic excavations at Boğazköy (Hattusa) that began in 1906, the
archaeologist Hugo Winckler found a royal archive with 10,000 tablets, inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and the same unknown language as the Egyptian letters from Kheta—thus confirming the identity of the two names. He also proved that the ruins at Boğazköy were the remains of the capital of an empire that, at one point, controlled northern Syria. Under the direction of the German Archaeological Institute, excavations at Hattusa have been under way since 1907, with interruptions during the world wars. Kültepe was successfully excavated by Professor Tahsin Özgüç from 1948 until his death in 2005. Smaller scale excavations have also been carried out in the immediate surroundings of Hattusa, including the rock sanctuary of Yazılıkaya, which contains numerous rock reliefs portraying the Hittite rulers and the gods of the Hittite pantheon.\Writings\The Hittites used Mesopotamian Cuneiform script. Archaeological expeditions to Hattusa have discovered entire sets of royal archives in cuneiform tablets, written either in the Semitic Mesopotamian Akkadian language of Assyria and Babylonia, the diplomatic language of the time, or in the various dialects of the Hittite confederation. [9] 
Map of Indo-European migrations from c. 4000 to 1000 BC according to the Kurgan model. @That was about ¼ of the wiki article. @What impresses or surprises you about the Hittites Brandon? Here are some things that impress me: 1- They used the triangle from the edge of a reed to write with. The pattern of triangles impressed into the moist clay was their way of preserving writing. It is called cuneiform. 
{[Cuneiform script one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped". Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC to convey the Sumerian language which was a language isolate (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller (Hittite cuneiform). . . Between half a million and two million cuneiform tablets are estimated to have been excavated in modern times, of which only approximately 30,000 – 100,000 have been read or published. The British Museum holds the largest collection (c. 130,000), followed by the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the National Museum of Iraq, the Yale Babylonian Collection (c. 40,000) and Penn Museum. Most of these have "lain in these collections f/or a century without being translated, studied or published," as there are only a few hundred qualified cuneiformists in the world.(v- this style of writing lasted 3,000 years in many languages but ended about 200AD when alphabetic writing took over. It looks very space consuming to me.]} 2- All our European languages descend from them. 3- John L Sorenson: Mormon’s Codex, says over and over that a few leaders from another tribe would come in and take over the government. Hittites started that way as well. 4- What the bible mentions turns out to be historically true! These Hittites were far from the land of Palestine and did not bother them as much as the Philistines but they were real!! 5- Here is this super great civilization that lasted over 1,000 years and it wasn’t discovered until the 1800’s! What? 6- There are tons and tons of tablets that haven’t ever been looked at or translated. 7- So how much do we know about our past history? It is a good thing we have a bible! Even though it covers only a tiny portion of the world it is the record of God’s covenants and dealings with his promised people! No wonder it exists! Those were his people. Nothing else even compares. 8- So if you had lived 200 years ago was there any understanding of Hittites? Nope! 9- What did they use for a bic pen? A reed! If the triangle got deformed just cut if off again. My son Louis waters his lawn so much he has sedges and reeds growing in it. :) 2:42am enough for tonight. :) @@ Tues. 9/19 Good evening Brandon, last night was empty nesters FHE. I have a hard time remembering once a month things. This Wed is picnic in the park at 6pm. Another once a month thing. Eric Yunker has wanted to attend picnic in the park but can’t ever remember that once a month gathering. There was someone else who misses those, I think it was Ted Fifield. Anyway, I like to take advantage of every opportunity to invite others to gatherings, especially when I home teach them! So I sent a harrowing message out to my Home teachees Sunday but last night I sent them invites to 3 activities this week. Only one member of the HPG presidency was in attendance Sunday. (They are really called High Priest’s group leader and his counselors but that is too uwieldy. I just decided I am going to pretend they are the same as the EQ.) And he professed not to know where the other 2 were! What? That sounds just like EQ! Since I wrote my Ht’s I wrote them as well. There was some terrible news! Our bishop needs a liver transplant! I offered to send them his Facebook blog if they wanted. Todd May n Bruce Randall asked for it. I was pleased to be able to send them the same thing you have up above. Todd May was really affected by it. He is in shock almost. @@ I often don’t know how I really feel about an activity until the next day. This afternoon I realized how special it was to meet with the Stake SS president for him to help us understand the new curriculum for RS next year and of course it will be new for the priesthood too. No more “Teachings of the Prophets”. That surprises and disappoints me. I have loved those books. We repeat the standard works in SS every 4 years, why not repeat our SYTWSSGSMSLKBHHM prophets? We couldn’t go wrong with that plan in my opinion! Teaching the Savior’s Way is the new curriculum and methodology. They youth have been using it for a couple for years. There were only 5 of us in attendance last night. Marilyn and Merrel Palmer who hosted, Quinn (autistic) n Bonnie Carter and me. We had a gay old time! I was so stimulated! And I got to participate all over the place! A blast. The gospel is my hobby! Lynn Blotsum the stake SS president was sweet and sharp. He had a deformed hand to shake because of Arthritis or something but there was nothing wrong with his brain. So no priesthood manual for you next year! :( @@ Have you heard the quote:You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts.Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He. |
Map of Indo-European migrations from c. 4000 to 1000 BC according to the Kurgan model. @That was about ¼ of the wiki article. @What impresses or surprises you about the Hittites Brandon? Here are some things that impress me: 1- They used the triangle from the edge of a reed to write with. The pattern of triangles impressed into the moist clay was their way of preserving writing. It is called cuneiform. {[Cuneiform script one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the Sumerians. It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. The name cuneiform itself simply means "wedge shaped". Emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC to convey the Sumerian language which was a language isolate (the Uruk IV period), cuneiform writing began as a system of pictograms. In the third millennium, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract as the number of characters in use grew smaller (Hittite cuneiform). . . Between half a million and two million cuneiform tablets are estimated to have been excavated in modern times, of which only approximately 30,000 – 100,000 have been read or published. The British Museum holds the largest collection (c. 130,000), followed by the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the National Museum of Iraq, the Yale Babylonian Collection (c. 40,000) and Penn Museum. Most of these have "lain in these collections f/or a century without being translated, studied or published," as there are only a few hundred qualified cuneiformists in the world.(v- this style of writing lasted 3,000 years in many languages but ended about 200AD when alphabetic writing took over. It looks very space consuming to me.]} 2- All our European languages descend from them. 3- John L Sorenson: Mormon’s Codex, says over and over that a few leaders from another tribe would come in and take over the government. Hittites started that way as well. 4- What the bible mentions turns out to be historically true! These Hittites were far from the land of Palestine and did not bother them as much as the Philistines but they were real!! 5- Here is this super great civilization that lasted over 1,000 years and it wasn’t discovered until the 1800’s! What? 6- There are tons and tons of tablets that haven’t ever been looked at or translated. 7- So how much do we know about our past history? It is a good thing we have a bible! Even though it covers only a tiny portion of the world it is the record of God’s covenants and dealings with his promised people! No wonder it exists! Those were his people. Nothing else even compares. 8- So if you had lived 200 years ago was there any understanding of Hittites? Nope! 9- What did they use for a bic pen? A reed! If the triangle got deformed just cut if off again. My son Louis waters his lawn so much he has sedges and reeds growing in it. :) 2:42am enough for tonight. :) @@ Tues. 9/19 Good evening Brandon, last night was empty nesters FHE. I have a hard time remembering once a month things. This Wed is picnic in the park at 6pm. Another once a month thing. Eric Yunker has wanted to attend picnic in the park but can’t ever remember that once a month gathering. There was someone else who misses those, I think it was Ted Fifield. Anyway, I like to take advantage of every opportunity to invite others to gatherings, especially when I home teach them! So I sent a harrowing message out to my Home teachees Sunday but last night I sent them invites to 3 activities this week. Only one member of the HPG presidency was in attendance Sunday. (They are really called High Priest’s group leader and his counselors but that is too uwieldy. I just decided I am going to pretend they are the same as the EQ.) And he professed not to know where the other 2 were! What? That sounds just like EQ! Since I wrote my Ht’s I wrote them as well. There was some terrible news! Our bishop needs a liver transplant! I offered to send them his Facebook blog if they wanted. Todd May n Bruce Randall asked for it. I was pleased to be able to send them the same thing you have up above. Todd May was really affected by it. He is in shock almost. @@ I often don’t know how I really feel about an activity until the next day. This afternoon I realized how special it was to meet with the Stake SS president for him to help us understand the new curriculum for RS next year and of course it will be new for the priesthood too. No more “Teachings of the Prophets”. That surprises and disappoints me. I have loved those books. We repeat the standard works in SS every 4 years, why not repeat our SYTWSSGSMSLKBHHM prophets? We couldn’t go wrong with that plan in my opinion! Teaching the Savior’s Way is the new curriculum and methodology. They youth have been using it for a couple for years. There were only 5 of us in attendance last night. Marilyn and Merrel Palmer who hosted, Quinn (autistic) n Bonnie Carter and me. We had a gay old time! I was so stimulated! And I got to participate all over the place! A blast. The gospel is my hobby! Lynn Blotsum the stake SS president was sweet and sharp. He had a deformed hand to shake because of Arthritis or something but there was nothing wrong with his brain. So no priesthood manual for you next year! :( @@ Have you heard the quote:You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts.Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He. | Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.
I stewed over this for 4 days after our last BoM class. How can I make peace with it? Answer: It is not the calling that is necessarily important, it is the fulfillment of it.
But I have to say. GBH's calling of shouldering the weight of responsibility as president of the whole church 24 hours a day must have a greater reward associated with it than my leading the music in sacrament meeting! When I called JaniceD Monday night I left her vmail an earfull! I was really energized. She too was stimulated by my topic of dialog. >I have to remind you the important part of that quote, where he quantifies our service, “in your sphere as is mine in my sphere” we are not given remotely similar callings and yet they are. He is the father of the church, as a Bishop is the father of our Ward. We help the bishops by doing all of our callings to the best of our abilities (that’s an inclusive our of heavenly father, the Holy Ghost, our leaders who called us by inspiration, and us, willing servants.) Especially home and visiting teaching where we minister one by one, as we’re so divinely loved! As we faithfully fulfill our callings, in our spheres, we enable others to more fully do the same and there’s. That’s president Hinckley’s quote, according to Genesis. Remember, the Scriptures teaches that God is no respecter of persons. However he only has a few big callings and a small pool of those capable of shouldering those burdens, so he has asked us to do our part, in our spheres, to ease the burden, lighten the load, lift up hands that hang down, and raise our own both in sustaining our leaders and serving all who are in their paths. Sorry I should have sent an e-mail ;-) < Woah, bps, can you believe the mind that could write a text like that on the spur of the moment? Where do you think her heart and mind are focussed? Definitely on the gospel of Jesus Christ. Do you think I got her worked up a little bit? :)
@@ wed9/20, I was listening attentively to DTC again this morning. Check out these brilliant phrases and ideas! "Surely love would compel parents to warn their closest “neighbors”—their own children. This means teaching and testifying of gospel truths. It means teaching children the doctrine of Christ: faith, repentance, baptism, and the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Lord reminds parents, “I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth.”\ A crucial element of the parental duty to warn is to paint not only the demoralizing consequences of sin but also the joy of walking in obedience to the c o m m a n d m e n t s ." demoralizing consequences of sin. . . Have I ever considered that before? V
de·mor·al·ize* dəˈmôrəˌlīz/ verb, gerund or present participle: demoralizing
- cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope; dispirit.
- "their rejection of the treaty has demoralized the diplomatic community"
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dishearten, dispirit, deject, cast down, depress, dismay, daunt, discourage, unman, unnerve, crush, shake, throw, cow, subdue; \break someone's spirit, knock the stuffing out of\"the celebratory fuss made about young Browning's promotion has demoralized many of the older employees"\dispirited, disheartened, downhearted, dejected, downcast, low, depressed,despairing;\disconsolate, crestfallen, disappointed, dismayed, daunted, discouraged;\crushed, humbled, subdued
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"How much better it is to have the unchanging law of God by which we may act to choose our destiny rather than being hostage to the unpredictable rules and wrath of the social media mob. How much better it is to know the truth than to be “tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine.” How much better to repent and rise to the gospel standard than to pretend there is no right or wrong and languish in sin and regret."
social media mob. . .today's mob? How did you come up with these words?
"We trust that especially you of the rising generation, youth and young adults on whom the Lord must rely for the success of His work in future years, will sustain the teachings of the gospel and the standards of the Church in public as well as in private. Do not abandon those who would welcome truth to floundering and failing in ignorance. Do not succumb to false notions of tolerance or to fear—fear of inconvenience, disapproval, or even suffering. Remember the Savior’s promise:
“Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
“Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.”"
youth, do not succumb to false notions of tolerance. . .
or to fear-
"Truly, when you think about it, we have in the restored gospel what people, deep down, really want. So the warning voice is generally not only civil, but in the Psalmist’s phrase, it is a “joyful noise.”"
"Sometimes those who raise a warning voice are dismissed as judgmental. Paradoxically, however, those who claim truth is relative and moral standards are a matter of personal preference are often the same ones who most harshly criticize people who don’t accept the current norm of “correct"
Don't judge me.
Oh, no. . . we won't judge you. False!
15 For behold, my brethren, it is given unto you to judge
Judge righteous judgement, but don't label. . . allow repentance, change. All are loved and welcomed back! v
"Deseret News opinion editor Hal Boyd cited one example of the disservice inherent in staying silent."
Have you done anyone a disservice by staying silent?
GBH: This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence. All of us in the pursuit of our duty touch the lives of others. To each of us in our respective responsibilities the Lord has said: “Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the office which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees” (D&C 81:5).
GBH: This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence. All of us in the pursuit of our duty touch the lives of others. To each of us in our respective responsibilities the Lord has said: “Wherefore, be faithful; stand in the office which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees” (D&C 81:5).
“And in doing these things thou wilt do the greatest good unto thy fellow beings, and wilt promote the glory of him who is your Lord” (D&C 81:4).
Further, “And if thou art faithful unto the end thou shalt have a crown of immortality, and eternal life in the mansions which I have prepared in the house of my Father” (D&C 81:6).
All of us in this great cause are of one mind, of one belief, of one faith.
You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will be determined by our joint efforts. Whatever your calling, it is as fraught with the same kind of opportunity to accomplish good as is mine. What is really important is that this is the work of the Master. Our work is to go about doing good as did He.
