Look past the outside curtain and behold the land. It's beauty grows in abundance. If you search, you will find it's most prized possesion before the adversary. Now take heart little one, the fight has yet to begin.
10/29/2006
Looking In
Look past the outside curtain and behold the land. It's beauty grows in abundance. If you search, you will find it's most prized possesion before the adversary. Now take heart little one, the fight has yet to begin.
10/24/2006
It's HERE 10/24
"Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do)." — Stephen Jay Gould
10/20/2006
A Poem
"THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON"
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
--William Wordsworth 1806.
10/18/2006
Cool Cool Website
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It's so interesting. Watch the video's and look at the picture journals. I'm a fan.
It's so interesting. Watch the video's and look at the picture journals. I'm a fan.
10/11/2006
An English Free-Write
Today in Doctrines and Covenants, we talked about the Law of Consecration. The discussion was packed with questions and insights. One question arose which we conversed about for forty of the fifty minute class period. The question went something like this: How does one decide how much material goods he can own? And is a person selfish if he owns a boat because he could have used the money to help build the kingdom in other ways? This led to great controversy, and it got me started thinking. It is my belief that we spend too much of our time on materialistic goods and less on building relationships. We treat each other too much like objects and not as children of a God in heaven. We use each other to get gain, and then dispose of the memories. It’s like a child who gets a new toy on Christmas Day. At first he gets excited over the newness of it all. He values its use and makes sure not to get it dirty. Day after day the toy gets used less and less. The child gets bored with it, and eventually he uses the toy in ways it was not intended for; he throws it around as though it were trash. Finally, the toy’s value grows insignificant to the child. He no longer values it and soon throws it away. Do our relationships follow in this same path? I think far too often they do.
We value the worth of a machine more than we do a human being. Steven R. Covey said that we put our equipment in the assets column of our businesses, and people in the expenses. More and more people are being put to work in factories doing simple mundane jobs—jobs that require little to no thinking. But imagine if we reversed these roles. What if we set people in the assets column, and equipment in the expenses? A human mind is capable of accomplishing incomprehensible tasks—tasks in which machines can never imitate. In fact, there is so much to learn about the brain, that modern day sciences can’t keep up with it. So why do we allow material goods to run our world instead of people? Let’s take people out of the factories and test them intellectually. Allow them to think, and imagine, and then create. How powerful could we as a human race become?
Now let’s go back to the initial questions. How does one decide how much material goods he can own? And is a person selfish if he owns a boat because he could have used the money to help build the kingdom in other ways? Well, in a way it doesn’t matter. As children of God, we get to govern ourselves. So use your incredible brain and decide what you think is best for you. Nevertheless, keep in mind, relationships and people are the most important possessions this world has to offer.
We value the worth of a machine more than we do a human being. Steven R. Covey said that we put our equipment in the assets column of our businesses, and people in the expenses. More and more people are being put to work in factories doing simple mundane jobs—jobs that require little to no thinking. But imagine if we reversed these roles. What if we set people in the assets column, and equipment in the expenses? A human mind is capable of accomplishing incomprehensible tasks—tasks in which machines can never imitate. In fact, there is so much to learn about the brain, that modern day sciences can’t keep up with it. So why do we allow material goods to run our world instead of people? Let’s take people out of the factories and test them intellectually. Allow them to think, and imagine, and then create. How powerful could we as a human race become?
Now let’s go back to the initial questions. How does one decide how much material goods he can own? And is a person selfish if he owns a boat because he could have used the money to help build the kingdom in other ways? Well, in a way it doesn’t matter. As children of God, we get to govern ourselves. So use your incredible brain and decide what you think is best for you. Nevertheless, keep in mind, relationships and people are the most important possessions this world has to offer.
10/05/2006
To Venita, myself, and anyone else
I want you to tell me this, "I am not going to grad school because I know Heavenly Father doesn't want me to go." I don't want you to say you're not going just because things aren't working out. Sometimes it's good to feel like a failure so you can try harder. Take me for example. I had to learn that I'm failing 2 of my 6 classes before I got my head on straight this semester. Now I am determined to work harder to get my assignments done on time. Failure can bring determination. If you want something and it feels right go for it. Don't tell me you're going to stop reaching for your goal because things haven't worked out at the time you wanted them to. I understand; however, that if you truly don't have a good feeling about it then don't do it. Sometime good things can bring fear though. You just need to distinguish what kind of fear or confusion you're feeling. In fact, the first time Joseph Smith saw Moroni, he was scared. But he quickly got over that fear. Sometime in our inadequacy to identify good from bad, we get scared. Don't be scared. Do what YOU feel is right. You're the person who knows you best and knows what is best for you. Believe.
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