Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Baptism for the dead united the human family. Joseph himself underscored its value in turning the hearts of the children to their fathers. Something had to bond all the generations from the first to the last going back through time as the prophet Malachi had written or the Earth would be wasted. Locating names and baptizing vicariously created the welding link. Nothing in his later life excited Joseph more than the idea of joining together the generations of humanity from start to finish.
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
A teeny-tiny inclusive language thing I’ve tried to get better at this past year is avoiding northern hemisphere-specific seasonal language. Like instead of ‘this summer,’ I say the months I mean, or a Q3. Because it might be that season for ME but not that season for everybody!
— @bradtroemel repost of screenshot of @lara_hogan tweet
Monday, May 31, 2021
Randy Macho Man Savage's father Angelo who had the world record for most sit-ups... Officially, Angelo completed 6,000 sit-ups in just over four hours. He followed up with another 33—for every year he believed Jesus lived.
— @bathos_country
Sunday, May 30, 2021
How did you two meet?
— Question that started dinner conversation
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Its very dust is shared as a relic.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, information panel near Plymouth Rock
Friday, May 28, 2021
QAnon Now as Popular in U.S. as Some Major Religions, Poll Suggests
— New York Times headline
Thursday, May 27, 2021
And call ourselves an institute.
— Paul Simon, Boyoyo Boys, "Gumboots (with Boyoyo Boys)"
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Cleopatra is closer to the invention of the iPhone than she is to the construction of the Great Pyramids.
— Joe Rogan, "The Joe Rogan Experience #1653 - Andy Norman"
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Is the dollar strong?
— Lily before bed
Monday, May 24, 2021
That's why you have a crick in your neck.
— Lily on me drinking the last bits of a London Fog
Sunday, May 23, 2021
I am both an intimate part of this beautiful world and also very not.
— @mcmubria
Saturday, May 22, 2021
He's thirsty.
— Lily on turkey
Friday, May 21, 2021
I invented the concept.
— A on rabbi cakes for years of rabbinical school*
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Reliance on revelation made Joseph and the other visionaries appear marginal, but like marginal people before them, the prohets aimed a question at the heart of their culture: if believers in the Bible dismissed revelation in the present, could they defend revelation in the past?
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Recently, the founders of DOGE-inspired memecoin Shiba Inu Coin sent Vitalik Buterin half of all existing SHIB (presumably in an attempt to convince other traders that the Ethereum cofounder is fan). After Buterin donated more than $1 billion worth to India for Covid relief, he “burned” the majority of his remaining SHIB, removing them from circulation. Via a message on Ethereum blockchain, he warned other developers: “PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME COINS OR POWER IN YOUR PROJECT WITHOUT MY CONSENT!”
— Coinbase Bytes, "🐕 A brief history of Dogecoin"
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
When I was a kid I came up with this delusion that I remembered every license plate I'd ever seen.
— Lily
Monday, May 17, 2021
So excited to retire.
— Lily as she falls asleep
Sunday, May 16, 2021
The contestants’ investigations of Mr. Donohue had all the signal traits of a normal social media hunt gone awry — largely, that you assume your conclusion and go looking for evidence.
— Ben Smith, "I’ll Take ‘White Supremacist Hand Gestures’ for $1,000," The New York Times
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Stantion
— Sign on stantion in front of Honeycomb Creamery
Friday, May 14, 2021
The world is a hive of bible-making... In the Book of Mormon reading, the Bible becomes not the book of books, but the mother scripture for a brood of bibles. Divine revelation cannot be confined; it is delivered wherever people will listen. The Book of Mormon not only prepares the way for itself by ridiculing those who think the Bible sufficient; it warns readers against restricting God in the present. Revelation may break forth anywhere and anytime.
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
