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Perhaps the most honest and appropriate page on the entire lds.org domain is http://www.lds.org/official-doctrine. As of October 2, 2009, it reads, "The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it." The irony is rich." On a personal level, I get the impression that committed Mormons oftentimes want at some level for their religion to be misunderstood, for it to remain esoteric and elusive. It is as though direct light on the shadowy religion would kill the precious shadow itself, hence...

I don’t recall ever being served, at home or at a ward function, green gelatin with shredded carrots set in it. I have been served – and have served – all kinds of gelatin concoctions – most of them quite good (raspberries and sour cream, mmmm! cranberries and chopped walnuts, mmmm!), and others … well … I remember Jell-o’s short-lived 1960s flirtation with vegetable flavored gelatin. Yeah, I can hear your “Ewww!” already. But they were good! If you’re going to put shredded carrots in Jell-o, doesn’t it make more sense to use celery-flavored gelatin than orange or lime? (The...

Attendees at the recent "Rocky Horror" theater production in Middleton showed up in leather and fishnets, but for "Church Basement Ladies" at Overture Center, the costumes in the audience were just a little different. Mary Ann Jarred donned a light blue apron and vintage hat with a metal whisk and plastic measuring cups dangling from her belt. In her purse she carried several Lutheran church cookbooks, including one with a salad recipe that called for a can of shoestring beets, horseradish and lemon Jell-O. Nancy Pike and her mother, Doreen Davidson, sported aprons, hats and brightly patterned purses made from...

As a guarantee (for Saddams senior Commanders not opposing American forces and laying down their weapons) the United States disclosed some of its agents whom it had planted among the 'human shields' who were guiding the American Military to positions that were being bombed and where President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi Leadership could be found.A brief meeting was held between one of the Central Intelligence Agents serving as a 'human shield' and some members of the Republican Guard during which the latter were handed official written documents addressed to the First Echelon of the Republican Guard. The documents provisions...

Just heard that once the administration facility closes at 10 PM Pacific that the students have taken over, all of the student 'sit in' protestors will be arrested.Organizers have put out the call for more students to come out to enforce 5 items on a 'list of demands' to university adminsitration. (presumably anti-war type demands)

Workers and students across the nation plan to skip work and school Wednesday in a national moriatorium to stop the impending war against Iraq.Backed by dozens of religious, labor, community and anti war groups, the moriatorium's theme is 'no school, no work no business as usual.'Participants are being encouraged to call in sick close their businesses, cancel classes, hold workplace talks about the war, conduct special services at house of worship and stage non violent protests.The student walkout has gained a momentum of its own, with thousands of students on more than 200 campuses pledging to boycott classes.In the Bay...

Non-violent protestors will plan to try and blockade the TransAmerica Pyramid, the Pacific Exchange and other 'war making' corporate and federal headquarters in San Francisco the first day after a prospective United States attack on Iraq.Nobody-not police nor activists who have participated in planning sessions for weeks-know how many people will show up.Still, mindful of the ability of free form groups as the Critical Mass bicyclists to tie up downtown-and of the protests in San Francisco after the start of the 1991 Gulf War that resulted in 1,000 arrests-police and some of the events intended targets are preparing for some...

Protesters settled in front of Democratic United States Senator John Edwards Raleigh office awaiting arrest for their efforts to make a statement that the Senator has not gone far enough to oppose a war with Iraq.But despite the fact that the protestors were breaking the law by blocking an entrance into a public building, the police on site chose not to intervene. Three participating University of North Carolina students Anna Carson Dewitt and Sascha Bollag, both freshman and senior Scott O' Day said they were disappointed when the police refused to arrest them. All three have prior arrest for civil...

Protesters have showed up at John Kerry's office. Three anti war protesters occupied 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate United States Sen. John Kerry's Bowdion Square office late last night.Protester Patrick Keaney: 'We are not leaving until we get a promise that Senator Kerry will back the resolution sponsored by Mass. United States Senator Ted Kenendy.'It was unclear how long the protesters could hold out.

The White House's postponment of a literary symposium it believe was becoming politicized led two former U.S. poets lauerate to characterize the decision as an example of the Bush Administations hostility to dissenting voices.'I think there was a general feeling that the current Administration is not really a friend of the poetic community and that its program of attacking Iraq is contrary to the humanatarian position that is at the center of the poetic impulse,' Stanley Kunitz the 2000-2001 poet lauerate, said Thursday.In a statement, Rita Dove, who served a poet lauerate from 1993 to 1995 said the postponement confirmed...