Pathway Experiences

To me the idea that multiplication and exponents are actually shorthand for serialized addition, etc.  This week's instructor mentioned something I never realized before.  The fundamental reason for the order of operations starting with exponents and ending with addition and subtraction is that it is exponents and multiplication/division are levels of shorthand ! Exponents are shorthand for multiplication/division and multiplication/division is shorthand for addition/subtraction.  This along with the carry over operations of each digit in an arithmetic operation may be the key to my success in creating my own infinite, multi-base calculator for use in my shell that I am creating.  If I create a calculator that can operate to virtually any number of digits, both high and low via a simple shell option and a digits precision variable, then I may produce better results script calculations and operations.  Eventually, if I can compile these shell script operations ...

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not. In the very beginning, God initiated marriage between a man and a woman—Adam and Eve. He designated the purposes of marriage to go far beyond the personal satisfaction and fulfillment of adults to, more importantly, advancing the ideal setting for children to be born, reared, and nurtured. Families are the treasure of heaven. Elder Neil L. Anderson, Spiritual Whirlwinds The quote and meaning is direct and is my own message as surely as can be said, but I think in different terms and have a different chaos that swells in me.  My mind was extremely focused and performing well, when I was a missionary and immediately after.  This is true, but it is also true that my mind was on a path that terminates eventually.  I was in a gradual decent toward doing what my mortal body could not, and thus failing, in terms of what I saw and what I was determined to do.  My perception wa...

President Boyd K. Packer's "I Will Remember Your Sins No More," Ensign, May 2006 referenced the following: Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy Doctrine and Covenants 121:43 Alma taught his sons, but he especially reproved and instructed Corianton, who was responsible for a most grievous sin. In order to call others to repentance, we must be an example of righteousness, therefore Alma called Corianton to repentance so that his example could lead others to repent. Following his reproof, Alma expressed love to Corianton, answered his questions, and proceeded to teach the people to repent. We, being carnal in the nature of the body, require a kind of spiritual interface in order to see the truth when it is made plain before us. This includes all spiritual things, such as the spiritual gifts of unders...

It seem I am now doing basic math and as usual, the course is likely to have lots of filler.  I'm just saying that the scope and proficiency I was told to expect is not something that takes a lot of time or content to cover.  It is mostly repetition, technique, and formula.  Since this is a Pathway course, it is likely to have lots of other requirements of participation that will take time. Even so, I am not unhappy with the course.  Each course has been made rich and beneficial to me as well as others in my class, and I think it fulfills the Lords bigger purposes well. I will simply have to do all my work way early, like on Sunday before the associated week to make enough time to complete everything as well as my daily work.

My response to an aspiring comment on my blade sharpening was as follows: Since you want to save money sharpening yourself, I answered your comment with sufficient detail for some common sense to fill in the blanks, but you can ask me any time for more information on technique, materials or advice.  Unfortunately, there are ways to save money that are practically dirt-cheap, but they don't work very well and if you are intent on the task, you will ultimately be frustrated into buying something to get a blade sharp.  It is better to find a tool that you can really count on from the beginning and reap the cost savings over time than to get one sharpener after another or risk health with sharpeners that leave dangerous metal to be ingested. For many scissors, as you mentioned, if you have a disc grinder, preferably in an even-number inch size, you may be able to order a diamond dot disc (not a normal sanding disc) for it at 800 grit. If you are serious about keeping up on a n...

The spirit and the body shall be reunited again in its perfect form; both limb and joint shall be restored to its proper frame, even as we now are at this time; and we shall be brought to stand before God, knowing even as we know now, and have a bright recollection of all our guilt. Alma 11:43 Elder Oaks said, "This life is the time for men to prepare to meet God", and it seems as though he was reading in the book of Alma recently.  He spoke of the resurrection and the reason we all who have faith in Jesus Christ should have to look forward in faith and hope for the resurrection of the dead.  The people made holy through Christ will be restored to a holy resurrected state, and the filthy will be restored to a state of their filthiness, forever barred from exultation.  We read these truths in the Book of Mormon, but do we read them plainly in the Old Testament or New Testament?  President Ezra Taft Benson quotes the prophet Joseph Smith saying about the Book of ...

Our objectives for the family are a little complex, I think.  I have to find a way to improve my family relationships and have two goals to do so for two respective relationships.  I think any of my step siblings or my parents could work, so first I will call my mother once per week, preferably on Sunday. That will be goal one and it will end in one month.  for goal two, I will avoid saying anything that might sound less than respectful to or about my dad.  This will also last one month, so it should be checked a couple of months before father's day.  Since I already do this, making a goal of it is a way of keeping me from slipping up when he might be sensitive to it.  Also, I am usually so busy that my mother doesn't know when to call me, and I hardly know when I can call anyone beside my employment manager.  That's all for now.  I guess I will see if this is effective: Call Mother once per week, especially Sunday Avoid common or low speakin...