In case anyone hasn’t been able to tell from my recent posts
I’ve been busy with finals recently. Because of this and the fact that my preferred
living position is with my feet up in my Lazy Boy, I haven’t had a chance to
talk about all the topics that have been popping up recently. So here’s Joe
playing catch-up on his Christmas vacation.
1: the tragedy in Connecticut
We at Mormon Geeks are devastated by the shootings last week
in Newtown, Connecticut and offer our condolences to those affected by this
tragedy. I know that our Father in Heaven has welcomed his beloved children
back to His arms and that families will be reunited again in a place beyond
fear and pain. So much has already been said on this so all I want to do is
leave with my testimony that I know there will be a time when we will all be
reunited.
2: The Church’s new website
A few weeks ago the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day
Saints launched its new website in order to help members who struggle with
same-sex attraction. A lot has been said about it by both sides of the fence,
but as a guy who sat through the law of chastity lesson as a priest and
remembers the sweaty first counselor of the bishopric stammer out under his
breath that if you were having erotic dreams about your same sex to talk to the
bishop, I feel that this is definitely a step forward. I love how clear and
concise the Apostles are on same-sex attraction, and the member testimony is
incredibly inspirational. Weather you struggle with same-sex attraction or not,
I highly recammend you check out the website for yourself.
3: Christmas
I have a confession: I am really not the biggest fan of
Christmas. For the life of me I cannot figure out how trampling each other
through stores and going into crippling debt in any way celebrates the birthday
of a man born in a manger and was heralded by angels to bring “Peace and
goodwill towards men”. Luckily my family is Wiccan and they celebrate Yule,
which is celebrated a few days beforehand so I get my big fun family
celebration one day and a nice quiet reverent holiday the next (Although
knowing me I’m probably going to end up spending Christmas day on my
beforementioned Lazy Boy in my underwear playing video games).
A cool part about the digital age is that there are just so
many ways to express ourselves on the internet, and I have found myself a neat
one. Pintrest is a picture sharing site where you can essentially make little
bulletin boards of pictures you like and show them off to your friends. Check
out the new Stuff from a Mormon Geek board and see some neat geek stuff!
5: The Apocalypse
If the Mayans have any say the world should be coming to an
end by Friday. Luckily, the world has pretty much taken this as kind of a joke
so I doubt we’ll see much panicking or even the low level looting we got with
Y2K. How do you think the world will end? My money is on either Cthuhlu will
rise from the ocean or the zombie apocalypse is going to start up. Either way
should be fun!
-JOE
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