Jared Cook

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no, you logged me out because of inactivity, I will not be gaslit, banking website

"Men must learn that in presiding over the Church, we are dealing with human hearts, that individual rights are sacred, and the human soul is tender. We cannot run the Church as we would a business."

— President David O. McKay

I'm just really holding space right now for the lyrics of they might be giants' minimum wage

honestly why would anyone want to be president

I knew a lawyer who put into a draft, as a placeholder "SJ standard: same old shit" and was mortified when they realized that they neglected to replace it before filing the brief, but was then pleasantly surprised that the judge loved it.

There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.

In science, in law, in basically every other discipline, we're comfortable with uncertainty and with probabilities rather than absolute truths. I don't see why prophets are different. 4/4

I think reducing religion to a quest for abstract knowledge rather than a quest for salvation is a very modern idea that would have been pretty foreign to most of the prophets in scripture. And it's odd because there is no other discipline where reliability requires infallibility. 3/

The point of prophets isn't to just reveal truth in the abstract, it's to reveal the truth*specifically about the gospel of Christ*. It's to testify specifically of Christ's ability to save us, and to inspire us to repentance and reliance on Christ (i.e. faith). 2/

a further thought on this: I think the idea that prophets must always get it right in order to have any value misses the point of prophets, and really, of religion itself, by reducing religion to a question of knowing truth, rather than a quest for salvation 1/

what's wrong with just learning to be comfortable with uncertainty? I don't think you need to formally deconstruct everything or have a faith crisis, and I don't think that means just ignoring it either

peanut the squirrel in heaven with harambe

Me every time a new person is announced on that man’s team.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sitting arms-crossed in a gray chair

"And I kept thinking about how this was really going to cut into my falconry time."

it's gonna be so funny when trump still doesn't make mike lee a justice

Furthest I've been:

North: Quebec City
West: Amsterdam
South: Santiago, Chile
West: San Francisco

I'm "told ghost story" and "joined the wrong church"

Happy Halloween

It's here! www.etsy.com/listing/1589...

some people want to cancel him but I say he was a great man and an italian-american hero

happy columbo day everybody

I don't think anybody floating theories that the church is corrupt and evil can be fairly described as tbm

GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker

GC strikes me as primarily homiletics rather than dogma

oooh!

we've got a fun Mormon horror project coming soon from the arch-hive that I'm really excited for

I'm just saying

It's such a concise encapsulation of completely misunderstanding spiritual things through modern enlightenment epistemology