Every once in a while, the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants Mind Virus Show takes a serendipitous turn. Today the podcast does just that. Tune in and learn more.
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Apparently the Church has been helping mosques and some Hamas organizations:
https://x.com/i/status/2036209440777748548
https://x.com/i/status/2036306400138371520
https://x.com/i/status/2036291263268528296
More Trump insider trading. This presidency is literally all about enriching himself, family, and donors:
https://x.com/i/status/2036099330839355777
And again:
https://x.com/i/status/2036154042838069441
https://x.com/i/status/2036136393328505324
Facts. It does feel like 2020 again”
https://x.com/i/status/2036218877307236458
Correcting the record:
When Jesus tells Peter, “Thou shalt deny me thrice” (Matt 26:24, Mark 14:30, John 13:38), it’s not imperative. Instead, it’s future indicative (ἀπαρνήσῃ, ἀρνήσῃ), which in Koine Greek can be either a simple statement or a softer command. Your case, however, is strengthened by the fact that it’s the exact same construction (2nd person future indicative) that is used in the 10 commandments in the Septuagint (Exodus 20). In English, “thou shalt” carries both connotations (simple future / command) better than “you will.”
I should have been more clear. I can’t remember if I said technically it was in the imperative mood. (which in English is usually present tense, e.g. “Shut the door.”)
What I meant was that it was a command. It was imperative in how it should be read. I think that can be debated technically, but it was an instruction given, rather than a prophecy and as you point out the linguistic construction allows it. As in any text, the reader must draw some conclusions as things can be interpreted multiple ways.
What is the source to go to for original/oldest known version of New Testament Greek with English translation? App and/or physical book.
For context, I have been in 6 Relief Society presidencies, a Young Women’s presidency, three Primary presidencies, Relief Society teacher (many times), Gospel Doctrine teacher, Sunday School teacher, Compassionate Service leader, Assistant Stake Young Women’s Camp Director, Ward organist, Ward Music Director…etc… and HANDS DOWN the most awful calling I had was Primary President. We had a primary of 180 children!
Apparently I don’t have a “special, sweet spirit.” Ha ha. It was the hardest, and most stressful calling I ever had. I was thinking it should be an “F,” but being with those precious little children, and teaching them, I think a “D” is appropriate.
The Bishop wanted to reactivate members by giving them callings as primary teachers, which unfortunately is pretty common. I thought we should have dedicated members to provide consistency, and serious about their callings as teachers to the Lord’s children. I had the “priesthood card” pulled on me several times. “Sister Reebee, you don’t hold the priesthood, so we will decide this and that…”
Even after a full year of the Star A teachers (a married couple) hardly showing up, the Bishop wouldn’t let them be released. I got a text from them one Sunday, about 10 minutes before Sacrament meeting was ending that said, “Hi Sister Reebee, we won’t be at church today. We don’t have an excuse, we just suck at coming to church.”
I showed that to the Bishop and begged for me to be able to get new teachers, but still a no, and they weren’t the only ones who were not dedicated. Every Sunday I ran like a chicken with her head cutoff rounding up substitutes for classes where teachers didn’t show up! Needless to say, my hubby, Brother “I Play the Radio,” was often covering in primary, along with the husbands (depending on their callings) of my counselors and secretary. It was a nightmare! The Bishop was willing to give my the very best, dedicated members for Cub Scouts, but not for the teachers on Sunday.
I started saying every Sunday night to “I Play the Radio,” “You know what my favorite day is? Monday. Why? Because it’s the furthest day from Sunday.”
Yep, the kids are the only reason that the calling wouldn’t have been an “F” in my book.
This weeks podcast theme is captured within a trio of three songs from the 70’s. Enjoy!
AC/DC – “It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvsqCKK98s
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – “Takin’ Care Of Business”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tpA9ltfqQ
The Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4
-Dmitri
I’m pretty sure women could be Sunday School presidents before the 1980s. At least there was nothing in the handbook prohibiting them from being in the presidencies.
What was God’s principle when he made Abraham, the dispensation head for his time, and one of the most important people to ever lived on this earth, the source of a worldwide, lasting covenant through his posterity while having a concubine or two?
Don’t forget the Bishop has to deal with finances and when I say finances, I mean, people begging for money, especially serial beggars, and also has to deal with serious sins and the church’s repentance process, and of course light marriage counseling. My dad said that is the worst, and he’s only been in for a month or two.
Bishop is also the ultimate fall guy, meaning he is ultimately responsible for virtually everything in the ward.
He also isn’t really in charge of his own schedule. Many times, he gets told when things are that he must attend. He also is constantly getting calls, texts, and emails every single day.
Definitely the worst of ward callings.
The organist in my ward growing up, would always play the final verse slower than the rest of the hymn. I don’t know if it was just to make it more solemn and spiritual or what, but sometimes that was annoying.
I guess bishops get to delegate more than they did prior to also becoming Young Men’s presidents, so its a little bit of a give and take.
You guys are mostly thinking of Utah areas for all these callings. If you include those of us on the outside of Zion, you’ll see those like my dad, when I was a teen, was a stake high councilor, and we lived1.5 hours away from the stake center and he had to go to whatever ward he was assigned to that week and then , many times, to the stake center for meetings afterwards, then 1.5 hours back home. We were on the far side of the stake, so he didn’t get back till late. Left at 6, got home at 6 kind of a thing. Our stake was probably about four hours of driving north to south.
When I was in the stake Sunday School presidency, it was the same, except, thankfully, I didn’t have to go to the stake center for meetings after my assignments.
All state callings out here have a ton of travel requirements, so lots of time put into it, and now that gas is high, you’re paying for it out of your pocket as well.
F tier — ward resident mask wearer. They know everyone else thinks they’re retarded, and they live on by believing that they’re more virtuous than everyone else. There’s always at least one. Saw two in my sister’s ward yesterday.
Kilt guy has got to be top of the S tier “callings”, especially when you have animal pelts in the belt. Her ward also has one of those. Or maybe it’s my ward. I don’t remember.
But in seriousness, Elders quorum presidents get to coast a bit, especially since Home Teaching isn’t really a thing anymore, and the Relief Society basically runs the ward, so it couldn’t be that bad for them.
Nursery sucks. You have rowdy kids and then the ones who just cry and the one who always pees themselves and gets it on the floor. Teaching the older kids isn’t too bad. That’s one of the higher tier callings.
The callings where you do only one or two things a month are S tier, like emergency preparedness specialist/self-reliance specialist, compassionate service whatever, directory photographer, building representative, and activity committee member.
Now we need a tier list for callings that don’t exist anymore.
Plus side for us redneck wards: we get to do bonfires and potluck dinner and then jump in our boats on the bayou to spotlight alligators at night.
Matt Walsh is right. Low information retards never figure it out in the primaries, so the uniparty wins and it literally doesn’t matter what side is in power:
https://x.com/i/status/2038308881932362188
On March 28, Trump urged everyone tune into Mark Levin that specific night. Levin makes the argument for troops on the ground in Iran:
https://x.com/i/status/2038056352669430230
Our “greatest allies” will never send their own ground troops:
https://x.com/i/status/2038358463059820776
US law prevents US companies from taking high resolution images of Israel (but not of America):
https://x.com/i/status/2037493795214762223
Falsely accusing Palestinians, who helped a vehicle accident, of murder:
https://x.com/i/status/2036222664860197091
Someone really hates Lindsay Graham:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5803536-montana-libertarian-candidate-graham-draft
Insurrection Barbie is an account managed by several people, farming and plagiarising posts from other people:
https://x.com/i/status/2037254671115444635
https://x.com/i/status/1846976293784506842 (an example of one of “her” deleted posts)
https://x.com/i/status/1912254698725470457
https://x.com/i/status/2030732584737554800
About two years after we were no longer in the church, we got a call from the person scheduling the cleaning of the building. He asked us if we would come in and clean the building on that upcoming saturday. We had always been one of those “ten families” that would show up to clean. However it wasn’t ten in our ward, there were about five families that were the ones that were always cleaning the building, and since they couldn’t get any one who were members to do it, they decided to ask us, because we always did it. Of course we declined the invitation. Lol
the best calling has always been: 2nd counselor in the sunday school presidency. You ring the bell, in the event that 2 people ahead of you in seniority are unavailable to ring the bell.