tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post8351843884505087797..comments2024-01-07T05:28:45.522-08:00Comments on Thmazing's Thutopia: Heart, might, mind and soul (a midweek makeup svithe)Th.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-1173074935355171412010-06-09T22:28:26.727-07:002010-06-09T22:28:26.727-07:00.
[Edit: Corrected spelling of Lady Steed's n....<br /><br />[<i>Edit: Corrected spelling of Lady Steed's name.</i>]Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-10838850939995726212010-06-06T21:20:51.608-07:002010-06-06T21:20:51.608-07:00Sorry. I have a gnat-like attention span these da...Sorry. I have a gnat-like attention span these days... and I woke up the morning after I wrote that and wasn't sure what else exactly had been percolating. But I think I was mostly getting at misplaced faith, in some sense.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-16068790208512153012010-06-05T22:11:58.240-07:002010-06-05T22:11:58.240-07:00.
You might not be finishing your thought, Conf, ....<br /><br />You might not be finishing your thought, Conf, so I'll just say now that the idea of placing faith in the wrong direction is a good point and something I too should consider more.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-65945689656567481562010-06-05T10:13:26.982-07:002010-06-05T10:13:26.982-07:00I'm just sayin' : )I'm just sayin' : )cchrissyyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02380032746955099315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-82780920166893099672010-06-04T23:55:30.378-07:002010-06-04T23:55:30.378-07:00.
Hey....what are you insinuating?
Although I wi....<br /><br />Hey....what are you insinuating?<br /><br />Although I will say that Lady Steed's current baby party preparations are making me feel much the same way.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-79556496886874429042010-06-04T23:05:56.507-07:002010-06-04T23:05:56.507-07:00Theric, the link of late nights, video games, porn...Theric, the link of late nights, video games, porn, twitter and wikipedia is obvious. <br /><br />these are things that keep people up late, in the dark secrecy of a house where all others have gone to bed. any one of them easily leads into hours wasted on another. <br /><br />they also lead to family members annoyed that while they spent their evening reasonably sleeping (the general) you have wasted time and made yourself irritable from shame or frustration.cchrissyyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02380032746955099315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-73516826167581802992010-06-03T22:02:11.690-07:002010-06-03T22:02:11.690-07:00And that should say that we somehow believe is tru...And that should say that we some<i>how</i> believe is true... There are other thoughts stirring in my brain, but I can't make them cohere. I'll see if they don't gel in the morning...Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-77508974836062287982010-06-03T21:59:44.057-07:002010-06-03T21:59:44.057-07:00I actually remember listening to--and loving--the ...I actually remember listening to--and loving--the Elder Bednar talk, because I especially liked his take on his title phrase of "Things as They Really Are." Unfortunately, I'm growing to know more and more people these days who aren't entirely sure about how to locate their own realities.<br /><br />That's not to say that 'reality' as a topic isn't subjective, because let's face it...it kind of is. But I liked the distinction between virtual reality and actual reality. It seems to me as though Elder Ballard's talk, in its own way, falls nicely into the paradigm: to me, blogging/tweeting/what-have-you about Church-related doctrines, etc.--or even about truth in general, or I would personally expand it to even the AoF 13's "anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report, or praiseworthy"--seems a virtual means of reporting actual reality (for lack of a better term).<br /><br />It has always struck me that the Internet provides a valuable way of connecting with people who share similar values and beliefs, but it also (in some sense) de-peoples those we do not know personally. When it comes to blogging, Facebooking, etc., etc. it seems inevitable that connections online are made in similar ways to the connections we make in person--except that I would say the online connections are more tenuous and more likely to be ephemeral (although they won't necessarily be ephemeral).<br /><br />Something else I just thought of (not even sure any of this is helpful or even makes sense): our relationships with certain types of virtual reality end up enacting a shoddy imitation of faith where we believe and exercise trust in something/someone that we don't see but that we some believe is true (in some sense of the word). Foundations, then, seem immensely important: faith in a true foundation (Christ) never leads us astray and isn't a shoddy imitation of anything else.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.com