tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post8871385493150576158..comments2023-11-02T07:25:45.884-05:00Comments on Mormanity - a blog for those interested in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: A Most Appropriate Thanksgiving Message for This Day: President Nelson on the Power of GratitudeJeff Lindsayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-89521294882258281972020-12-04T15:51:58.696-06:002020-12-04T15:51:58.696-06:00I agree! On another subject I loved President Ne...I agree! On another subject I loved President Nelson's message on gratitude. So in that spirit thank you to Jeff and this well written blogsteve14https://www.blogger.com/profile/13763986212397494823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-725887079905503302020-12-04T15:50:10.983-06:002020-12-04T15:50:10.983-06:00I agree. On another subject I loved President Nel...I agree. On another subject I loved President Nelson message of gratitude. And in that spirit I am thankful for Jeff and this blog. 😇steve14https://www.blogger.com/profile/13763986212397494823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-35898458052184198262020-12-04T10:35:14.244-06:002020-12-04T10:35:14.244-06:00It's so great that everyone on here is making ...It's so great that everyone on here is making coherent arguments instead of resorting to childish insults and stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-8766835394040376932020-12-01T01:33:37.056-06:002020-12-01T01:33:37.056-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-70863590635671532002020-11-23T07:45:15.659-06:002020-11-23T07:45:15.659-06:00You do understand that even nearly 30 percent of D...You do understand that even nearly 30 percent of Democrat voters think the election was stolen from Trump.<br /><br />Here is one way to characterize the incoming president: a doddering, plagiarizing, gropy, unquestionably corrupt swamp creature who hid in the basement throughout the campaign and has difficulty stringing a sentence together, even when a teleprompter is directing him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-40936474426223687682020-11-22T10:38:13.737-06:002020-11-22T10:38:13.737-06:00I didn't find Pres. Nelson reminding us to exp...I didn't find Pres. Nelson reminding us to express gratitude platitudinous. It wasn't a dull or commonplace remark, but a powerful one.<br /><br />I also wish to express thanks to Jeff for continually speaking truth to power.<br /><br />Indeed, power structures have dramatically shifted over the past decade so that speaking truth to power has a different meaning than it used to have, not too long ago. Before it meant advocating for changes — some good some bad — to those in power, who weren't acting with as much corruption as we experience at this time. Now speaking truth to power is an attempt to get corrupt leaders, encrusted with evil, to return to foundational governing principles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-86038601859503419732020-11-22T01:12:06.370-06:002020-11-22T01:12:06.370-06:00"Listen to what President Nelson has been tea...<i>"Listen to what President Nelson has been teaching for years and give it a try, and then you may have the privilege of seeing how much more there is to the Gospel than the shallow banalities you insist on seeing. Yes, that requires faith, but it is through faith that genuine miracles come."</i><br /><br />Millions have done just that and testified that depression was their reward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-85242584560344355492020-11-22T01:10:28.774-06:002020-11-22T01:10:28.774-06:00OK 11:06 - Awesome rejoinder. Jeff deceitfully tr...OK 11:06 - Awesome rejoinder. Jeff deceitfully tried to compare you to biblical stories of prophet rejection. Thank you for not letting Jeff get away with the sleight of hand. Those prophets were criticized for being radical, not banal. Looking forward to Jeff's response.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-34460397364214388212020-11-21T17:21:31.794-06:002020-11-21T17:21:31.794-06:00Just a little correction: the electron transport c...Just a little correction: the electron transport chain doesn't pump hydrogen atoms, it pumps protons. In one case you said protons, but elsewhere you said hydrogen atoms. It's a subtle but important distinction. Also they aren't pumped into the interior of the mitochondria- they're pumped FROM the interior (the matrix) into a space between the inner and outer mitochondrial membranes. Then they flow back into the matrix through ATP synthase, which churns out ATP molecules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-44679318125140603692020-11-21T11:06:47.812-06:002020-11-21T11:06:47.812-06:00Really, Jeff, the mob turned against Jesus because...Really, Jeff, the mob turned against Jesus because of his banality? Have you even read the New Testament?<br /><br />No one will ever see in Russell M. Nelson the kind of danger the Roman and Jewish authorities saw in Jesus. Russell M. Nelson will never speak truth to power the way genuine prophets like Jesus did.<br /><br />Can one even imagine Russell M. Nelson overturning the tables of the money-changers at the temple? More likely he would have told the poor to be grateful to the local business community for providing the opportunity to exchange their Roman coinage for shekels, then had an amiable lunch meeting with the pigeon sellers, and then met with Caiaphas to discuss investment opportunities.<br /><br />-- OKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-40849840434524380832020-11-21T10:17:05.177-06:002020-11-21T10:17:05.177-06:00OK, Jeff, it's a benign if platitudinous messa...OK, Jeff, it's a benign if platitudinous message. No harm done. In a different time It would be so predictable it wouldn't make much of a ripple. But in times when the country is stalled and destabilized in the face of a quarter million deaths that are only escalating, food distribution lines that are only growing nationwide, and a Chief of State who shows every intention of subverting a valid election we need to hear more if Nelson is, indeed, a Living Prophet. ...much less a Living Prophet sitting on $100billion that could be doing something of far more import than adding to the real estate collection.<br /><br />Dismiss this awkward fact if you care to but there are people in the world who are watching. Some are Mormons who may be, like you, inclined to insist on an alternate reality. Some are Mormons whose eyes are beginning to open. Some are young missionaries who are being sent out into the viral contagion and, being stalled in their work, have time to ask what the point is. Some are potential converts the dwindling church could have used.<br /><br />BTW, what was that "special" message anyway? Spread and reinforce the delusion?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-14393313596580183222020-11-21T09:42:44.486-06:002020-11-21T09:42:44.486-06:00OK, you would have been totally in your element ba...OK, you would have been totally in your element back in Jerusalem 2000 years ago. If we could just send you through a time warp and give you a crash course in Aramaic, you could toss out such zingers as, "The Creator of the universe, an omniscient being, comes among men and has nothing more to teach us than repeating ancient scriptures and telling us to be nice? Not even a basic explanation of germ theory?" You'd fit in well with the mob then, in spite of your accent. <br /><br />When we accept and act on the small things the Lord asks us to do, we prepare ourselves to receive the bigger answers and blessings that await or may already be there. Listen to what President Nelson has been teaching for years and give it a try, and then you may have the privilege of seeing how much more there is to the Gospel than the shallow banalities you insist on seeing. Yes, that requires faith, but it is through faith that genuine miracles come. Jeff Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08776493593387402607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-31544437972465882762020-11-20T19:57:21.130-06:002020-11-20T19:57:21.130-06:00I hear ya, Anon 2:29. When I think of all the stru...I hear ya, Anon 2:29. When I think of all the struggle and sacrifice that took place to restore the gospel and the priesthood -- from Nephi putting up with his obnoxious brothers and wandering for years around the desert and building that big ol' ship without the aid of so much as a screwdriver, to all the wars and persecutions and earthquakes, to poor Moroni shagging those heavy gold plates from Central America all the way to New York state, to poor Joseph getting tarred and feathered and busted in the barn with the maid and eventually shot to death -- when I think of the fact that all that bother has eventuated in a succession of superannuated prophets who can do no more than utter the most commonplace of banalities, I do start to wonder.<br /><br />-- OKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-2891590966399089952020-11-20T18:56:42.338-06:002020-11-20T18:56:42.338-06:00As He injects His Glory into all of creation, I...As He injects His Glory into all of creation, I'd call it "Gloriosly clever." Although "clever" seems under qualified as an adjective to describe the Creator of the universe!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06677157192572923852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7139169.post-72035025933367699492020-11-20T14:29:49.301-06:002020-11-20T14:29:49.301-06:00Paraphrasing something I read on a different Momro...Paraphrasing something I read on a different Momron blog:<br /><br />If God's spokesman comes up with the same message you could get from Oprah, what's the point?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com