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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 4, 2012 7:48:11 GMT -5
I figured it out . . . again. Every month a new adventure. Actually it sometimes seems like my adventures are moment by moment. Anyway, happy July 4th. When in the course of human events . . . . The power of words!
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Post by charlie on Jul 4, 2012 11:18:51 GMT -5
Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth ...
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Post by paulwest on Jul 5, 2012 13:31:31 GMT -5
OK, here's another one. Which one are we going to to with? This one, or Mike's?
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Post by rahmuss on Jul 6, 2012 0:44:05 GMT -5
I like this one better. Mine is a silly phrase whereas this one helps us remember that if we are great it is only because God is great.
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Post by sachiko on Jul 6, 2012 12:43:44 GMT -5
I can't wait to get Sister T's new book!
We had a terrific 4th at Sacajawea State Park. Cora had a nice birthday party and was given a doll half her size (a quarter the size of normal babies, hee) and she drags it around with her when she scoots and clasps it to her when she drinks her bottles.
My dad lent me a book last night called "The Lost Bible". It draws from other sources like the Book of Jubilees and other apocrypha and contains a lot of tidbits about Enoch and Adam! I'm thrilled to go through it. They actually have a description of Nephilim, by describing what Noah looked like when born.
Apparently he looked like a Nephil, and his father Lamech took Noah to HIS dad, Methuselah, to see if the baby was really his and really human.
So apparently they had wooly white hair and red lips, and possibly red eyes. According to this one book, anyway.
They also had a family tree for the patriarchal line from Adam and Seth to Noah. It....doesn't branch much.
I have heard or read somewhere--I'm a TERRIBLE idea mooch, I never footnote anything, any data that passes through my head becomes one of many rumors--that they had a strict prohibition against father/daughter or mother/son pairings then (as cultures do now) but that brother/sister marriages were fine.
And I've heard that worked out because one couple can produce a huge variety of genetic recombinations. Given enough offspring, it's possible the right offspring could intermarry and produce healthy children.
Or, like Sister T and I once thought, bodies were more perfect and less fallen then. Each generation became more mortal, though, but that coincided with an increasingly larger pool of potential mates, including grand-nieces and such.
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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 7, 2012 14:25:55 GMT -5
We had four children. Each was as different as I thought they could be. Like the four winds or something. So I used this argument with my wife that we needed another just to see how it would turn out different. She didn't buy it. I think she saw the fatal flaw in that reasoning. I have to admit, that now with 17 grand children, I'm kinda glad she held back. This can become over powering.
I have written three pages a day for the last two days in my book on religion and science. I am into part four and it feels so good.
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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 8, 2012 8:19:08 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, Cora Dove!
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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 9, 2012 7:18:46 GMT -5
Not sure if any of you check out my blogs, but I thought I'd let you know I have discontinued them. I have gotten myself spread too thin over the last year or two and the time off recently has helped me think through some of that. I suppose I started the blogs thinking I would build readership and be able to be of some influence in the world. That hasn't happened and so I am moving on.
Haven't written since Sat. but I hope to get some more in today. I have to get my column in for the week if nothing else.
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Post by paulwest on Jul 9, 2012 13:55:07 GMT -5
Sachiko, all that sounds fascinating, if not apocryphal. Have you read the "Book of Jashur?" It's another apocryphal book about the times before the flood and some time following. It has some interesting tid-bits to add to your fascinating, if not apocryphal, information. Gary, I'm kind of with you about blogs. I've pretty much quit mine as well, except that I'm now posting my stuff at FaceBook. www.facebook.com/home.php for my general missionary and political stuff and www.facebook.com/pages/Paul-West-Writer/284357001596275?skip_nax_wizard=true for my writing stuff Y'all come join me there
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Post by rahmuss on Jul 9, 2012 16:00:16 GMT -5
sachiko, I'm really looking forward to getting her book as well. I ordered it and then got back after my family reunion and found out that my charge didn't go through, so I had to process it again. I think that the flood of water (likely from ice below and above) which flooded the earth in the time of Noah brought diseases to the earth which weren't around before that which is why people started to age much less. There is also the idea that our bodies became more and more corrupt (which could have happened quicker after the flood with new diseases) and that's why closely related people would have problems with their children. Anyway, some interesting stuff there. I can't wait to read your book. I suggest watching part 2 and 3 of Brandon Sanderson's lecture 13. He's a well known artist, he's LDS and teaches at BYU where these lectures are filmed. Lecture 13 Part 2Lecture 13 Part 3
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Post by sachiko on Jul 10, 2012 11:07:39 GMT -5
oh, brandon sanderson, I LOVED his Elantris. He knows his stuff.
Gary, I really, really have enjoyed your blogs. I hope that the same thoughts and essays will make it into print form, even if e-print form. I hate to miss out on them entirely. I can't tell you how many times I've pondered along a line of logic, to find it fleshed out in something you've written.
Just yesterday I took my oldest to a doctor's appointment, and the doctor made small talk about the weather and I mentioned the bees, and the doctor lit up and said, Yes! The bees! Where would we be without them? They seem like incidental little insects but we would be nothing without bees.
Book of Jashur....I will have to look into that. And watch those lectures! thanks, guys.
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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 11, 2012 10:24:17 GMT -5
Nanner, nanner, nanner! I have "The Lost Curse. Dang, I can't star reading yet. Have to do music lessons and studio. But I got it. Yea! Eat your heart out ya'all.
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Post by paulwest on Jul 11, 2012 12:37:32 GMT -5
I gotta find a minute to get to the book store and do some shopping, so Gary, you beat me out.
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Post by Gary McCallister on Jul 11, 2012 20:19:17 GMT -5
Sachiko, thanks for your kind words. There is just so much going on in my life that I feel an urgency about that I couldn't make that a priority. I am determined to try and make a difference in my families life as best I can. Besides music lessons for six grand kids, and encouragement for the other 11, I have committed to help a grandson get his ham radio license, and another to build a mandolin. I have one family running bees and the farmers market, but that still needs my attentions from time to time. I am still trying to write, and I am determined to do all I can in this years election. Blogs just sort of receded into the background.
I wish I could have a wider audience and influence. Brigham Young advised for everyman to grab all the influence they can and use it for righteous purposes. But the immediate influence with my family seems so much more pressing than the unidentified masses and readers.
I suspect you understand all this completely, Sachiko. Cora Dove and the rest just seem to be where you can make the biggest difference doesn't it?
Sorry Paul, I shouldn't have gloated. But right now I gotta go read.
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Post by charlie on Jul 11, 2012 21:19:24 GMT -5
T. Lynn - The Lost Curse is currently featured at LDSpublisher's blog. She features many new books in the LDS market.
Gary - I know what you mean about blogs, except I'm not neglectful from being too busy. I just can't think of stuff to write about usually. I feel like I'm mostly just boring people.
I will try to get the Lost Curse the next time I'm in Idaho Falls.
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