zionlist blog: First Post

peter

I've noticed that it's been slow around here. I really should be more vigilant about cross-posting from r/lds.

peter

It's a newspaper website. The supposedly reputable old guard media websites have comment threads that are almost as bad as 4chan.

peter

In addition to her logic fallacies and self-contradictions, she extrapolates doctrine that doesn't exist.

If you mean the author, his name is James Summerhays. I don't know if the sex of the author is relevant, but I thought I might clarify.

peter

Just don't Google China.

peter

I think proximity to public transportation routes should be a factor in chapel location decisions, though certainly not the exclusive or predominating factor. My previous bishop's family had only one vehicle, so he traveled to church by bus the majority of the time. The fact that he could make it work is admirable.

It's really only an issue in more urban environments, but proximity to public transit can also help college age kids and young single adults, who often don't have cars and are just starting to establish church attendance habits of their own.

peter

This time of year, when I hear CES, I'm thinking Vegas rather than SLC. :-)

peter

Ugh. Too long. I'm sort of interested, but the length and high probability of irritation is going to keep me away.

peter

Yeah, I feel the same way about overly participating. Some boring lessons would require more participation than would be appropriate in order to keep my attention.

peter

I had that problem in college, although it was due more to my lack of sleep than boring classes. You may have gotten out of the habit of extended concentration. Focusing on one thing for long periods of time is kind of a lost skill, especially if your job or home life involves a lot of multi-tasking.

Here's my advice: make your church attendance more interactive. The obvious way is to answer questions and provide comments in class, but that's not always feasible and not everyone feels like piping up all the time. A better alternative may be to take notes. The late Henry Eyring had a tactic he used during boring talks or lessons: he would rewrite the talk or lesson in his head. I frequently do the same, but I jot things down on 3x5 note cards I keep in my scriptures. I usually like my version of the talk or lesson better than the one being given. I throw away most of those cards, but I file the good ones away and occasionally use that material in talks or lessons I have to give. And it definitely helps me keep my attention better.

peter

Yes, and for further clarification, ICE is the enforcement arm of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

peter

Seems like most General Authority books released lately are merely remixed content. If you liked the original addresses/articles it might be worthwhile, but for the money, you're often better off printing out the talks from LDS.org and binding them up yourself.

I don't actually think this is a new phenomenon. Rather, the original materials are more widely available, so the repacked published versions are more redundant.

peter

I don't see Intellectual Reserve approving a torrent tracker anytime soon. If they released their material under a Creative Commons license you might get away with it, but not under current policies. And I doubt that there's enough public domain material to make a torrent tracker worthwhile.

peter

Oh I do. And it's the best thing ever.

peter

Gotcha. Took me a moment to find this. There should be a way to sticky this for everyone to see, but that's reddit's fault.

peter

Hyperbole to the rescue!

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