"Developing spirituality and attuning ourselves to the highest influences of godliness is not an easy matter. It takes time and frequently involves a struggle. It will not happen by chance, but is accomplished only through deliberate effort and by calling upon God and keeping his commandments."

(Howard W. Hunter, "Following the Master: Teachings of President Howard W. Hunter," Ensign, Apr. 1995, 23)

A little anti-war humor.

A geek essay. Being one, I thought I would link it.

"O that cunning plan of the evil one! O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men! When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish. But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God." Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 9:28-29

I find that this quote often applies today in our "information" society and with our "great" technological advances.

As I hear the ignorance of the "peace at all costs", (they are really backed by a completly different agenda) I wish for someone like Captain Moroni in the Book of Mormon. Moroni lived in a society where liberty was threatened and large sections of the population were ambivilent to this or even rallied against liberty. Moroni's response to this is found in Alma chapter 46, verse 12, which says, "And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it-In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children-and he fastened it upon the end of a pole." Moroni called this pole and rent coat the title of liberty. He took the title of liberty and marched throughout the land gathering true patriots to him in support of the things they valued. Moroni then leads his people out against the opponents of liberty, captures them and gives them a choice. Alma chapter 46, verses 35-37 says, "And it came to pass that whomsoever of the Amalickiahites that would not enter into a covenant to support the cause of freedom, that they might maintain a free government, he caused to be put to death; and there were but few who denied the covenant of freedom. And it came to pass also, that he caused the title of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites. And they began to have peace again in the land; and thus they did maintain peace in the land until nearly the end of the nineteenth year of the reign of the judges."

I do not really think that we are to the point where the peaceniks deserve the death penalty yet, but if they knew the story, there might be less people denying "the covenant of freedom."

This morning the radio was talking about how students and teachers on a number of campuses, both college and high school, are going to be skipping class to protest the future war with Iraq. I guess that some of the teachers are going to be holding teach-ins. I think it is interesting that these communists are going to be paid with tax money to encourage anti-American attitudes. Sounds a bit like an inverse Politburo.

Along the same vein as my last post. Some people recently got together and started a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual) club here on campus. I wonder if I would be allowed to start a heterosexual, white male (hwm) club or would the outcry be great. As long as you're not too mainstream, you are OK to go public here on campus. Unfotunately, public probably means public funding as well. Boy am I glad I get to help pay for the degredation of good moral values in our society.

Our campus office of diversity recently sent out an email advertising the upcoming campus diversity week. Part of this email was a graphic depicting three hands forming a circle with some other fru-fru around the hands. The hands are colored black, red and yellow presumably to represent african americans, native americans and asian/latin americans. I thought it was interesting that they didn't think to increase the diversity of their image by including a hand to represent european americans or (since we really don't deserve a politically correct term) whites. It could be that I am just being picky about this, but this same office of diversity gave us all literature when I started going to school here. In this literature was a photo representing the student body here on campus, except that they forgot to have a token white person in their photo full of racially diverse individuals. I guess that since we represent the majority population in this country and here on campus, we are just not diverse enough to be included with the more diverse ethnic groups. Let it be known that the definition of diversity does not include whitey.

Let me just say that Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit.Com has inspired me. I love the idea of being able to record and publish my thoughts in a way that others can access them if they would like. I often find myself ranting and raving while listening to the radio during my drive home from school. Unfortunately, the radio very seldom cares what I have to say, and responds to my rants even less often. Also, by the time I arrive home my thoughts are often lost as the natural instinct to obtain sustaining nourishment takes over my body. This blog will provide a way for me to record those thoughts. Perhaps, somone will even stumble across my words and will be interested enough to respond in some way other than with a grunt.