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Exploring Mormonism, Utah, and other things that interest me. Occasional photos.

Deseret Magazine: “Dave — who looks like the quintessential vacationing dad”
Visiting F-22 catching the setting sun about an hour ago.
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Sorry, did that in a hurry and pulled up the wrong verses:
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Verses 40 on? Women regarded as property. I don’t think that comes through in the first part. And why ignore the worst two verses among all that Joseph Smith produced. JS is using the “Lord” to intimidate his wife to do something she doesn’t want to do. Straight up spiritual abuse.
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Verse 19 - calling and election? Get out of jail free card. Not discussed elsewhere
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Those specific verses are skipped by the manual. I didn’t choose them.

They do make a difference:
Verses 3-4 state polygamy is a commandment for everyone receiving the law. Sort of contradicts this part of the lesson:
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is what happens when white people see helicopters not normally in their area
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Whoever composed this is a sexist asshole:
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
BTW, verses 3 and 4, which are not addressed in the manual, seem important:
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Doctrine and Covenants Section 132 this week. IYKYK

Verses not covered in the manual:
3-4
6-12
24-28
Everything past 40
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
She’s not wrong
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Meanwhile, in northern Idaho, a suspected drunk is arrested for allegedly destroying a house with an excavator.
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The aurora providing a backdrop to Pleiades, and Aldebaran
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Northern Lights over Mount Ogden, Utah.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
“Court recognizes that the 2011 congressional map was legally repealed, is malapportioned, and no one has presented a valid argument that it has been or should be revived by operation of law. For this reason, the Court DENIES Plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment”
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“How is that not representative of American workers? Not one of them is stuck in a cube farm behind a screen, all are doing productive, important work.”

Comment in my FB from a white LDS man and retired USAF pilot, thinking people are having an issue with the jobs depicted.
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This comment 😆
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
"To all the young people of America and Gen Z, I want you to know President Trump is going to deliver for you. So that you could be able to own a home, have big families, believe in this country," he said.”
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
27 people at Camp Mystic died.

Also, having lived in this area what the hell was Eastland thinking?
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Dude.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“…the single largest man-made release of greenhouse gas on record”

Ukraine screwed up on this one.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
See also Ether 3 and Modalism.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I spent an extended amount of time with my daughter’s LDS father-in-law. At one point he said “She must have been difficult to raise.” A strange remark I thought, because she wasn’t. Then I remembered he’s an ass like the FIL below but she pushes back at that crap.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I’m not sure what traction Tim Ballard will have with active LDS overall but here is an LDS TikTok apologist platforming Tim’s complaint that the church did not follow its procedures in excommunicating him.
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM