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Not exactly the premise of this blog, but fall to good to pass up, Charlotte Grey passed away recently at 98 years old. This sassy young lass was part of the French resistance and had a 5 million Franc bounty on her head. Nicknamed the White Mouse because she seemed to always escape from Nazi traps. So feminine was she that when escaping from pursuers on one notable occasion, she

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Susan Walsh's blog has some interesting and highly scientific diagrams illustrating the effect of the Sexual Revolution. And while you might not agree with everything she has to say, she is dead on, in this instance.First of all, prior to the Sexual Revolution, men and women paired off like this. There were roughly as many women as men, and everyone paired off.The benefit of monogamy is that

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One of the impetuses for this book, was a quotation I heard years ago. Or perhaps a visiting General Authority said it himself. The quote stated that pornography was created by Satan in order to destroy sealings, that is to say, temple marriages. Try as I might like, it has been elusive. If any one knows anything of this quote, help a brother out and tell me!

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41¶And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.42And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.43And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

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A passage from my book, in progress.________________________________________________However, in the midst of our emphasis on the physical body, we have come very close to making a a common, but highly significant error, and as a consequence, missed out on the entire potential of chastity and virtue. We have spoken of love, lust and sex purely in terms of our physical bodies. The problem is, (

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My book on Virtue is making slow, if unsteady progress - mostly by leaps and bounds and then copious rest. Even so, this is the conclusion. If anything, I think I need more on how virtue is closely tied to intimacy. Virtue is more than merely an important commandment, or aspect of the Gospel – it IS the central goal of Gospel. It is God's Covenant with Abraham, and the uniting of families in

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I have stated before that marriage itself is in a decline but most of the time, people kind of yawn, and don't pay it much attention. I suspect part of this is because we have so many problems in society as it is that one more inspires a collective yawn, especially when it seems so distant. The blue line is the divorce rate in the United States per 1000 married women, corrected for the ordinary

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Someone in conference might have mentioned something about young men getting married. And I totally support this, though I suspect Elder Packer's comment to the women as well deserves some emphasis, but not in this post. But what I wanted to do here, is point out how the law and courtroom climate we have, disincentivizes that. It does not help that so many of us have seen friends and parents

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Male porn is obvious - some near nudity and sexual innuendo at a minimum, and there you are. We might even be able to argue for a lower minimum.But what of something that does not look like that at all? We might justify ourselves for a very long time. A very long time in deed.Let's define porn as media(books, magazines, movies, etc.) related to mating, that is detrimental to real relationships.

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Life, being as it is, my book on the meaning of what virtue really is, goes by starts and jumps. But it is close to done! And the goal is to be done by Christmas. But I just discovered a wealth of material on narcissism...... later.But for now, this is the conclusion. Enjoy!Virtue is not merely an important commandment, or an important aspect of the Gospel – it IS the central goal of Gospel. It

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There is an interesting article by Susan Walsh on her dating advice site - Is Casual Sex Destroying Empathy?A recurring theme in conversations about dating is the general lack of empathy between the sexes. Women feel that men just want to use and discard them, with little consideration of their emotional needs. Men feel that women focus on just a few alpha males, ignoring all the good guys

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A little off topic, but....This Friday is the 2010 Transhumanism & Spirituality conference in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah on 1 October 2010. I am very excited and will be in attendance. I invite all of you as well! When: Friday, 1 October 2010, 9:00am to 5:00pm MDTWhere: University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium What: At the Transhumanism and

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Often times when I am getting some work done, such as grading papers, or cleaning up my room or desk, I have a little bit of television on. Technically, I watch most of it over my computer, but you get the idea. One thing has been troubling me a bit. In some shows some of the protagonists are not great people. Case in point, I watched a couple of episodes of "The Gates" while I got some grading

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Late, late Saturday night I finished the first draft of "The Meaning of Virtue". There have been too many interruptions to count, but progress is happening!And since I am a bit excited by this, here is the beginning of the current draft of chapter 6. Enjoy!Thus far, we have spoken in bits and pieces about what is virtuous and what is not. Here, however, we are going directly to the root of the

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For just a moment, let's think about what Men are good for, and let's look at what Society around us has to say.The Atlantic helps us celebrate with the articles, "The End of Men" and "Are Fathers Necessary?".A new video game is out called, "Hey Baby", where you as a woman can take FPS vengeance on anyone with the nerve to make a catcall. Video here.Women have recently become the majority gender

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I am behind on blogging AND my book... but here is a teaser for chapter 5.Virtue is tied to our ability to feel. In deed, it is the worst offenders, rapists and abusers and murderers of the worst sort who have lost the ability to feel, to empathize with others, and their victims in particular. On the other hand, the ability of the Father and Son to comprehend all things we suffer, and they suffer

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"It is written of the Saviour that he descended below all things. If he did he descended in capacity. I will merely tell you what I believe on this point. I believe that there never was a child born on this earth with any less capacity than dwelt in the child that was born in a manger of his mother Mary. I believe, according to the natural ability which he received from his mother and from his

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Much of the trend towards self-centeredness in marriage is evident in attitudes toward children, and how much of the developed world avoids them. And in that vein, the words of Joseph Smith, the prophet: "The women of the latter-day saints are more beloved of the living God than any other women, because they are willing to bear His children." (The Prophet Joseph Smith by Truman G. Madsen) “the

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Mind you, neither one is good. But let's compare it to the parable of the Two Sons."But what do you think about this? A man with two sons told the older boy, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' The son answered, 'No, I won't go,' but later he changed his mind and went anyway. Then the father told the other son, 'You go,' and he said, 'Yes, sir, I will.' But he didn't go. Which of the

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The University of Virginia National Marriage Project yearly puts out a report on marriage and divorce called, The State of Our Unions: Marriage in America. And things looks bad. Of course, what everyone seems to talk about, the divorce rate, is on a gradual decline. And that, by itself, is good. But the marriage rate is not only declining, it is doing so at an accelerating rate.First thing to

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"Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. (J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941)"PS. More on the War of the Genders coming soon!

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I read once that Lucifer's goal was to unite what God has separated, and to separate what he has put together. The war of the sexes has only festered hotter and hotter. Neither side is the sole guilty party, and I am very suspicious of anyone who lays blame more on one side than the other. This is not the ordinary antagonism that stems from "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" - from

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An interesting blog post over at Psychology Today on the effects of loneliness.--Loneliness “sets us apart by making us more fragile, negative, and self-critical.”--“When people feel lonely they are actually far less accepting of potential new friends than when they are socially contented.”--“Lonely students have been shown to be less responsive to their classmates during class discussions, and

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Short story - severe economic recession in Siberia prompts women to decide polygamy would be a solution to their problemsA study of polygamy in Russia Interesting.

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A lot of the difficulties in marriage stem from a misunderstanding of what marriage is for, or why we have it. Divorce in particular is often predicated on this.Marriage is not primarily a social arrangement or something you do because you need someone. That just leads to unhealthy relationships and codependence.It is for emotional fulfillment, sexual fulfillment, self-fulfillment or fulfilling

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It is often asserted that we have no control over those whom we are attracted to and this may well be true. Right now, the kind of women who win contests like Miss America are a very different sort than those who won, even just 50 years ago. And this is quite different from the sort of women the ancient Greeks idolized or sculpted. In different times and different places, people have had

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Slate.com has an excellent article on, if America were to collapse however many hundred years from now, how American culture and ideals would be preserved - and we LDS are seen as the most likely of preservers. (Off-topic for this blog, but just really enjoyable and interesting.) This is part of a series of articles looking at possible ways for America to collapse or the world to end.No society

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The Vampire is a particularly apt metaphor. What brings this to mind was an at Slate.com by one Grady Hendrix, where she berates the Twilight series for creating unrealististic expectations --- namely abstinence. She expects those girls to be putting out. Other sites discussing this essay include Double X, Jezebel, and others. I point out these sites because they are mainstream and not just

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Alas - this is a very busy summer for me and so posts will be (as you can see) few and far in between. But I have not forgotten you!There is an very good article in Time on marriage, and its decline in America. But the finest part, in my opinion, was the very end, which illustrated the increasingly confusing modern concept of marriage. The fundamental question we must ask ourselves at the

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As Mormon ideas go, the whole Tree of Life vision is standard for us: it seems remarkably simple and too often we leave it at that. But when we do not go into depth, there is a lot we miss out on, and in particular, things that relate to virtuous living.Prior to the Babylonian Exile, the Jews like to personify Wisdom as a real person, who was symbolized as both a tree and a fountain. This is seen

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My work during the day is Physics, so when I deal with things, I like a mathematical precision to the definitions I use. There is, however, a lot of confusion about exactly what pornography is, how to distinguish from art, or eroticia, both of which is implicitly assumed we should approve of. The classic statement on the matter was given by Justice Potter Stewart in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S.

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Temptation and suggestiveness are all around us. The sheer amount of temptation to be overcome and ignored can be exhausting, particularly when there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Some struggle scarcely at all, while others feel as though there is a gaping hole in their soul that they can find no relief for. And in light of a movie that just came out, I want to reiterate the line, "I

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We often have a little mental image of Satan in our heads, where he sits on our shoulder, tempting us to sin. While Satan does tempt us to sin, that is not the majority of his effort.Satan, is above all, the Father of Lies. It is lies that he loves and cherishes, and that he tries to insinuate into our lives. It makes our sins all the more delicious for him, for if we act according to a wrong

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In the book of Revelations, Jesus twice refers to a group called, the Nicolaitan band, whose deeds and doctrine he plainly says he hates. So who are these people?It seems that as the Great Apostasy was unfolding, that there were some who took a statement of Nicolas, one of the original Seventy, out of context. We don't have exactly what he said, but evidently it was something to the effect of God

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The words we use can make all the difference in influencing how we think of things. (For the pedantic, this would be the weak version of the Sapir-Wolf Hypothesis)I find it interesting, that in Hebrew, there is no word for simply the act of sex, though debateably you could argue that 'to lie with" (שכב) fills that roll. It does occur 212 times in the Old Testament, not all in meaning

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Not all of us have arcane statistics as a hobby, but those that do, I respect. Audacious Epigone is one of those. There is a particularly interesting post on the correlation of support for gay marriage and sympathy for extramarital sex. There is also a strong correlation between those married and those single, in their support for gay marriage.From the post:Homosexuals should marryXmarital sex

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One of the most dangerous and pervasive aspects of Babylon is the mindset and philosophy that we must discard. That is not to say there are not good things out in the world, but when we say, Babylon, or The World, we mean what is worldly from a gospel perspective. Unconsciously we have absorbed a “network of ready-made solutions”, which can be as much of a problem, as our problems themselves. In

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Treating our bodies as sacred, isn't all avoiding tattoos, and piercings. Just as we must be careful not to step off the narrow path to the tree of life to the one side, it is also quite capable to step off it to the other side. Indeed, tattoos and piercings may even be the lesser worry of the two extremes.The more subtle danger is to focus too hard on how the body looks. That is not say we

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Modesty is another issue where we have sometimes allowed the rules overshadow the doctrine. At the risk of sounding cliché, consider the very large amount of money and time that the Church spends on grounds keeping and upkeep of temples. It is no insignificant amount! Likewise, as important as the temple ordinances are (essential for eternal exaltation) look at what the Lord required of the

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One of the most dangerous and pervasive aspects of Babylon is the mindset and philosophy that we must discard. That is not to say there are not good things out in the world, but when we say, Babylon, or The World, we mean what is worldly from a gospel perspective. Unconsciously we have absorbed a “network of ready-made solutions”, which can be as much of a problem, as our problems themselves.One

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You would think that as net-savvy as I am, it would have occurred to me to write in bite size pieces, instead of a chapter at a time. You might think that.... but you would be wrong.So, while I am behind in posting anyway... I am going to put up smaller, but more frequent postings. Which is really the way I write anyway.After all, it isn't what you eat, it is what you digest.So in place of

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Chapter 5: Celibacy vs VirtueDuring the Middle Ages, celibacy was taught as being a higher way of life, especially for those monks and nuns who devoted their lives to God in this way. One proponent of this doctrine was St. Augustine of Hippo, one of the most prolific and influential writers of Early Christianity, born in 354 AD, just before the fall of Rome. Among the many things he is

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While you wait, here are some of the things I have been reading lately - the first two are particularly good.Bearing Our Crosses Gracefully: Sex and the Single Mormon (scroll down the sidebar until you see it - this one is worth it)BYU Magazine Protecting Purity (likewise excellent)When Virgins CollideThe Dedication of a Lifetime - Elder Oaks - CES firesideDating vs. Hanging Out - Elder OaksWhy

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Chapter 4: Part AIn order to be virtuous, we must have the Spirit of God with us as a constant companion and if we do not have the Spirit with us, we are not fully virtuous. In order to do this, we must forsake the things of this World, and treat our bodies as truly sacred. In order to be virtuous we must not have the Spirit only occasionally or often, but continually. A temple is a holy place

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A blog is a great thing to read whatever has been written last - but for long articles, it can be a pain to read. The column is too narrow. So I am opening a webpage in parallel with this blog. I should be much easier to read and navigate. The Meaning of Virtue webpageEnjoy

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Chapter 3: Carnal NatureLinks to Skip aheadThe meaning of carnal, sensual and devilishWe have two natures in conflictOur bodies are built to reproduceEffects of reproductive selection on our bodiesWe can not overcome our physical natures by ourselvesWillpower alone is not enough: we must be born againWe are virtuous as we have the Spirit of GodThe Spirit of God will guide us to what we needSince

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Chapter 2:Links to skip aheadPornographyThe great lie of porn our sexual passions are closely tied to our ability to loveLike virtue, love is a proactive qualityHow lack of virtue skews datingHow lack of virtue skews marriageA General Authority once stated that pornography was created by Satan in order to destroy sealings, that is to say, temple marriages. This may seem odd, as this appears in

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Chapter 1 Links to skip toWe don't really understand the law of ChastityFailure of the Sexual Revolution Russian attempt to destroy familyJust how important is virtue?We need to understand the doctrine of virtue to be more virtuousWe can not be “partakers of the divine nature” by mere abstinenceWe don't really understand the law of Chastity.Too often the law of Chastity or the quality that we

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Virtue is not as well understood as it needs to be. And it desperately need to be understood better.Consider this:In North America, 40% of members are single adults.Of these 18-29, the activity ratio for men to women is 89:100.While for those over 30, is 19:100.16% of these women are single parents.62% of single members 30 and up have never married at all.And these statistics are several years

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