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I'm dumbfounded. Vague language about blessings from temple covenants. Vague language about how we're tied together for eternity. But in what way are we more connected? Spatially? Communicably? Intellectually? Emotionally? Why can't resurrected people just be connected that way without a temple covenant. People make wedding vows outside the LDS church all the time. I still haven't got a satisfying answer and now the church is making a point of this vague unclear unevidenced thing being the only thing it can offer us apart from any other institution. How is this supposed to make me impressed by what the church has to offer?

They tell me these buildings will offer peace, but from my few times going there for baptisms for the dead, they were a conduit of anxiety. Never has the church felt more pointless.

#ldsconf #mypost

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More moral relativists straw men. Where are these moral relativists that are apparently everywhere?

"Moral relativism is when people criticize me for not liking queer people. Moral relativism is when I can't push the arbitrary viewpoint of my God that I can't even logically explain. This subjective morality is when people don't agree that whatever my God says is automatically true because he said so."

#ldsconf #mypost

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All this talk about laxness leading to going astray. I remember in primary, a teacher said it's impossible to stay still. If we don't move forward, then we're going backward. I approached it with a very mathematical mind and asked something along the lines of "What if I just barely move forward to cancel out the force pulling us back." It didn't make sense to me. Of course it should be possible to stay still.

I think is referring to the moral luck problem. And how its emphasis in church doctrine makes me afraid of learning anymore moral lessons. The church has made me afraid to learn, because the more I learn, the more I can be blamed for not acting on this new knowledge I have. Mormonism seems to be a never ending guilt trip of trying to utilize your moral knowledge.

#ldsconf #mypost

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Boring Social Contract theory. Is he going to say we literally signed the social contract in premortal life?

Oh no. Inherited covenants! That racist thing.

#ldsconf #mypost

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Can't help but feel like Elder Kearon is talking to me like I'm a bad dog.

"No. Eating your own vomit is bad for you. I'm trying to help you."

#ldsconf #mypost

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Pray to know (what, not why), Pray to grow, Pray to show.

Always look at some distant future. Don't reflect. Don't ask why praying hasn't worked in the past. Don't question God's mysterious ways. Just keep praying. You'll get vague promises of more of God's love, whatever that means. It's impossible to verify and only makes me wonder why God has gate-kept that love behind prayer. Just a vague promise to fill you with anxiety of what you're missing out on. Just keep praying. Maybe you'll get whatever you were missing out on. And if you don't feel like that has happened. Don't ask why. Just keep praying.

#ldsconf #mypost

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Carpenter's quick to assume what people's lateral relationship should include. People have different relationship boundaries. It's not nice to prescribe to other people what their boundaries should be. Let people decide their own boundaries. It's called mutual consent. Let's not police what other other people should consider or not consider cheating.

It's also ridiculous for a church that once practiced polygamy to say you can't flirt or date outside your current marriage. We know Joseph Smith had many wives and he couldn't even follow the standard of mutual consent.

#ldsconf #mypost

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How can they ask people to stop criticizing church culture. They're stepping on the toes of people defending the church who want to say so and so is just a culture thing and not a church thing.

#ldsconf #mormonism #mypost

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When did Despicable Me take place?

I'm going to start with an extremely broad range first and narrow it down over time.

Gru was born 1960 September 28th according to his resume in the first movie which may or may not be real. But in Minions: Rise of Gru, 1976, January 30, the day before Chinese New Year's Eve, Gru says he is 11 and 3/4 putting his birthday around 1964 April 30. But given the level of imprecision this gives us a range from 1964 February to 1964 July. If Gru were to live as long as the oldest person to have lived (122 years), he'd live to as late as 2087. So Despicable Me takes place without a doubt between 1976 and 2087.

Gru is obviously older than in Minions: Rise of Gru which took place in 1976. And songs from 1976 are played diagetically in Despicable Me (Boogie Fever and You Should Be Dancing). So the movie must take place after 1976.

There are cars from the 2009, 2008 and 2002 in Despicable Me 3. https://www.imcdb.org/movie_3469046-Despicable-Me-3.html Since the girls haven't aged more than a few years (let's say 5 years), this means the first Despicable Me movie can't take place earlier than 2004.

One would expect Despicable Me to take place sometime between when the movie started production and the year after it was released. Between 2007 and 2011, giving Gru an age between 42 and 50. This is what I would accept if it weren't for the weekdays and lunar cycles.

In Despicable Me, Gru steals the moon and misses the dance recital on Saturday, May 26th.

The limit of Gru's life and the date Saturday, May 26th gives us the years: 1979, 1984, 1990, 2001, 2007, 2012, 2018, 2029, 2035, 2040, 2046, 2057, 2063, 2068, 2074, 2085.

When Gru steals the moon we can see the effects of the moon disappearing, including a werewolf becoming human because the moon was a full moon before it got shrunk. And the moon is once again a full moon when it returns to its "rightful place in the sky".

Once we take the full moon into account, this limits the dates to possibly 2018 with a waxing gibbous. And 2029 and 2040.

I personally go with 2029 because I feel that the 2018 waxing gibbous is not full enough to match what we see in the movie. And 2040 is scheduled to have a semi-permanent human base on the moon, making Gru a murderer or at least a kidnapper, which would call into question why these things weren't mentioned in the movie. Some things may become commonplace in 2040 which would date the movie by their absence. And if it were 2040 then Gru would be 76 or 79 years old.

If the Despicable Me series continues in a way that features current pop culture references or more recent background cars while the series also refuses to show an equal amount of time passing in its universe as in real life, then 2029 will look reasonable if there's still more Despicable Me movies coming out in the 2030s. This would make Gru, 65 or 68 years old in the first movie.

#despicable me #mypost

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Fyi

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Happy creating folks

#public domain #steamboat willie #mickey mouse #reblog

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The very first iteration of Mickey Mouse entering public domain the year right after Disney's sloppy and weak af 100 year anniversary is poetic as hell.

#mickey mouse #steamboat willie #reblog

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Steamboat Willie YTP Update

First Video remained blocked despite New Years having gone by in all time zones. I've reuploaded the video and set it to premiere 2 PM EST It's copyright claimed for the Steamboat Willie music, which I think is stupid, but at least I can share it to the whole world.

#steamboat willie #mickey mouse #public domain #public domain day #freemickey #mypost #Youtube

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Welcome to the public domain Mickey!

#steamboat willie #mickey mouse #public domain day #reblog

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Steamboat Willie YTP Premiere

In Eight Hours from post on Tumblr. Jan 2nd 3:00 AM LINT (Line Islands) Jan. 1st 1:00 PM UTC/GMT (London) Jan. 1st 1:00 AM AoE (Baker Island)

In the best case scenario the copyright claim should cancel itself on New Years, but if not, then the video will be blocked in these locations:

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

If so, then I will re-upload the video later, hoping the copyright checks have disappeared, so it won't be marked to begin with.

#steamboat willie #mickey mouse #public domain #public domain day #mypost

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Apparently in Greece, The term "Mickey Mouse" (or more accurately Miky Maous) is used to generically refer to comic books and cartoons after a Mickey Mouse comic became famous there.

There's also this thing called Generic Trademarks where once a trademark becomes so used in everyday language to refer to everything, the company can lose it's right to the trademark.

Would be a real shame if that happened in the rest of the world. Disney might lose their trademark argument to keep Mickey Mouse under their fingers.

#mickey mouse #trademark #freemickey #mypost