Posts tagged "Questions"
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A perfect quote
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned!
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Heaven, Inc.
The typical Christian characterization of Heaven is one that I find fundamentally boring. For me, the pursuit of knowledge and applications of that knowledge are what truly excite me, and so the idea of being a ministering angel forever or even just creating worlds over and over sounds like it could get extremely … repetitive. And repetition like that breeds boredom for me.
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From Medium: Reasons I'd Be Atheist, But Choose to Be Religious
This is a long read, but well worth it. I wish I had written it. Everything I read in there is exactly my experience:
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Fundamental Questions
In my opinion, asking questions is the best way to learn. But two of the things that can be really difficult for me are 1) knowing which questions to ask, and 2) knowing when I’ve gotten an answer.
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Consider the Lilies
What is it that makes us intelligent? We have unspoken rules about what we consider to be intelligent, but what are the rules? We think that (as a general rule) humans are intelligent. Dolphins are also pretty intelligent. Some of our favorite animals (dogs, cats, elephants, horses, rodents) are also somewhat intelligent. Fish don’t seem to be very intelligent. Rocks don’t seem very intelligent at all.
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Questions
There are many ways to learn. One is superior above all others, and that is to ask questions. I touched on this in a previous post, but I believe it bears repeating.
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Experiments
On the popular TV show MythBusters, one of the hosts once said:
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Breakthrough
I had a breakthrough recently.
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Limiting God
A couple of weeks ago, I had an interesting conversation with a man named Jonathan. We got talking about religion, and I proclaimed myself a believer of the Book of Mormon. He was happy for me, but proceeded to say that all we need is the Bible, and quoted Revelation 22:18:
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Recognizing the Voice of God
Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding. (D&C 1:24)
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What If...
What if the test of polygamy was really to see if Joseph Smith would say “no”? What if by saying “yes”, he failed the test and had to deal with the consequences?
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The Third Person
I’ve been studying the Book of Ether recently, and I came across a verse again that has always bothered me:
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Joy
Tonight, an interesting thought came to me: If Christ were to show up on my doorstep and spend the afternoon with me, what would we talk about? He’d want to sit, listen, and hear about what I’ve been doing recently that excites me. What would I tell Him? Would I be able to look through my life and find a topic about which I could talk endlessly, forgetting that I sat in the presence of God, and expound on the intricacies of the topic? What topic, as I describe it, would fill me with joy and exuberance to be talking about it?
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The Coming of Elijah
Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming. (Joseph Smith - History 1:38-39)
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Seeking the company of angels
If you want to associate with angels, you must go to where they are by doing what they are doing. If you do what they do, then they will seek you out, for you will be like them and be one of them, and they will desire to associate with you. They will come to you if you go to them.
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Broken Hearts
What does it mean to have a “broken heart”?
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Questions and the Sermon on the Mount
This year our Sunday School is studying the New Testament, and last week the lesson covered Matthew 5.
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Searching
[M]y father, Lehi, took the records which were engraven upon the plates of brass, and he did search them from the beginning.
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And They Knew It Not
My mind was wandering recently and caught on the phrase “and they knew it not.” As this phrase reverberated around inside my skull, I started thinking about the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost, which the Lamanites received “and they knew it not.” I started thinking “why didn’t they know? how could they not have known?”
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Stripped down
One of the downsides, if you could call it that, of reading in the Bloggernacle is that of extreme discontent.