Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow

Philosopher, Story Theorist, Designer, Gamer, Father, Follower of Christ I'm going to carry on the legacy of Walt Disney.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

He described his followers as loving, serving, others, and striving to be like Him and the Father. That’s a standard that we strive to follow, so I am confident that when I return to be judged, God will look favorably on my and other members efforts.

“In as much as you have done it unto the last of these thy brethren, you have done it unto me.”

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@BuzzzStryker @TeeplesCY Is that how Jesus himself described it?

[Alma The Defender @antiantimormon]

Why is it normal for young people to dress in robes, sit apart from family, receive formal instruction, wear square hats modeled after a mason’s mortarboard, line up ceremonially, ascend to a stage, receive hand grasps, and then return with a new status and identity...

But a similar temple ritual is “cultish”?

Society normalizes theatrical rituals of academia because it is secular.

But mock the temple.

Hugh Nibley once called graduation robes the “black robes of a false priesthood,” a medieval, worldly imitation that celebrates human ambition instead of divine truth.

Perhaps temple worship isn't strange?

Maybe modern people only respect ritual when God has been removed from it.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@jmbrim3 @Latterdaytruth And even when we think we do, we probably don’t. Always err on the side of kindness. Sinners and saints are more often changed by it!

Like President Nelson said, “hostility never convinces.” Or something very close to that

[patch @Grownded]

...let them worship how, where, or what they may.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a system for creating great people who form great relationships.

At the heart of those relationships, are the ones we formalize through priesthood ordinances. Covenants are formalized relationships. When we form covenants with Jesus Christ and keep our end of the contract he rewards us by inviting us into his presence by teaching us to become like him.

That’s the Gospel.

[Patrick Kearon @PatrickKearon]

The purpose of making covenants is to draw us closer to our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. We are beloved sons and daughters of God, and He desires that we experience joy in this life. Our covenants can serve as constant reminders of these sacred truths.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@jmbrim3 @Latterdaytruth We don’t want to be Job’s friends, whether for someone else in their trials or whether we do it to ourselves.

It can be part of their learning experience, but I don’t want to be the person piling on when someone else is being tested.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

Any nation that allows this will see the devastating consequences throughout their entire society.

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

AWFUL: A Quebec physician says parents should be able to euthanize disabled newborn babies.

He says parents “should have the opportunity” to have their newborn killed under Canada’s MAiD euthanasia regime.

This is absolutely insane.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

This is what the country most needs.

Power doesn’t corrupt — power attracts corruption. The more power is centralized the more corrupt people will do to obtain it and the more power it has to reveal the corruption in one’s soul.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”

We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.

The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.

If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.

Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@johsblog That is not his style. He would consider it lame and unsportsmanlike. He wants to win brawn against brawn.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

Deuteronomy lays out clearly the pattern of apostasy. This line from Moses could easily be spoken by the apostles before their deaths:

“For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?” 31:27

We saw the epistles that the apostles sent to try and keep sound doctrine, but they tried to expand too quickly and were killed and so the sound doctrine didn’t last.

The true Church of Jesus Christ fled into the wilderness after the dragon tried to will it, see revelations.

It’s a constant pattern in scripture.

[Math Files @Math_files]

Stop sine

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

We have no record of Jesus cussing or using foul language. He did use sharp and very pointed descriptions of the evils around him and the people so engaged in them, but never obscenities.

The Bible is also clear about the need to control our words.

I get people aren’t perfect, but the standard we should be striving for is pretty clear on this one.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

There is a lot of interesting tips here, but ultimately the only thing that you need to know is that the Lord qualifies who he calls.

It’s not your eloquence that the Lord asks for, it’s your faith to prepare and deliver what the spirit puts into your heart. Forget all of the other advice if the spirit directs you in a given direction.

Best of luck to you! May the spirit be with you!

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@desert_starr_57 Personally, I just show up for the crimson tinged rage.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@desert_starr_57 Personally I just show up for the crimson tinged rage.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

I like to say that a physicist would stop believing in physics because one experiment didn’t turn out how he expected.

Once you know that the core truths are actually true, the question is no longer whether what you know is true but how it applies to the current situation or what you might not understand yet.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

At this point people who aren’t going to listen just aren’t going to listen so matter how much evidence is placed before them.

It’s not a logic thing anymore, it’s emotionality and pride. By all means keep sharing, but id stop worrying about what the critics think…

Joseph Smith said that those who reject it wouldn’t be convinced by seeing the gold plates themselves.

[Jared “Musing Ox” Oxborrow @MusingOx]

@hvworlton People keep forgetting that polygamy is literally a part of scripture. D&C 132