13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
  14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

-- Isaiah 58

"And again, my brethren, I would cite your minds forward to the time when the Lord God gave these commandments unto his children; and I would that ye should remember that the Lord God ordained priests, after his holy order, which was after the order of his Son, to teach these things unto the people."

-- Alma 13:1

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Read the chapter and note that the emphasis of ordination is on a time prior to birth into this life; hence the meaning behind the word
"fore-ordination."

        "Therefore [God] sent angels to converse with them, who caused men to behold of his glory."

--  Alma 12:29

        "The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead."

--  Proverbs 21:16

A mother was teaching her three-year-old the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, the child repeated it after the mother. Then one night the child was ready to solo. The mother listened with pride to the carefully enunciated words, right up to the end. "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from e-mail"...

-- source unknown

Q. When you watch television and see what is portrayed there, and in films, do you feel you are losing the crusade or the war?

A. No. I think we are winning the war.  I am an optimist.  I think  the future looks good.  ...I don't think we are going down to ruin and trouble.

-- Gordon B. Hinckley
Q/A at the National Press Club, March 8, 2000.
(Ensign; June 2000; p. 75.)

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        "And now I, Nephi, was grieved because of the hardness of their hearts, and also, because of the things which I had seen, and knew they must unavoidably come to pass because of the great wickedness of the children of men."

-- 1 Nephi 15:4.

        "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis-a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that His justice cannot sleep forever."

-- Thomas Jefferson

-- Christian Science Monitor, reporting on the "Social Security Number, Privacy Attitudes, and Notification Experiment;" in which 21,000 households received a special Census 2000 form with an extra question."

(Piece Title: "Census's most invasive question isn't about toilets;" May 9th, 2000.)

See report synopsis by TNA

Tender Branch

22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender (7390) one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

-- Ezekiel 17

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7390 rak (from the root rakak [7401]) -- (1) tender, spoken of little children; of cattle, young and tender of flesh; (2) infirm, weak, dull eyes (which was considered a defect); (3) delicate; (4) soft, soft words; (5) fearful.

7401 rakak [1] To be tender, soft; figuratively -- (a) to be delicate; -- (b) to be weakened, contrite in mind; used of soft words; [2] to be weakened (broken), of the mind or heart, to become timid; [3] to be softened (a wound with ointment); [4] to break any one's heart.

-- Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament

see write-up

 38 And it came to pass on the other hand, that the Nephites did build them [secret combination] up and support them, beginning at the more wicked part of them, until they had overspread all the land of the Nephites, and had seduced the more part of the righteous until they had come down to believe in their works and partake of their spoils, and to join with them in their secret murders and combinations.
 39 And thus they did obtain the sole management of the government, insomuch that they did trample under their feet and smite and rend and turn their backs upon the poor and the meek, and the humble followers of God.
 40 And thus we see that they were in an awful state, and ripening for an everlasting destruction.

-- Helaman 6

A new mathematical process has been defined.

al*gore*rithm -n. Math. A process whereby a finite set is counted repeatedly until the desired number of items is reached, whether or not that number is less than or greater than the finite number of items in the set.

-- source unknown

"...For they that come shall burn them, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch..."

-- JS-Hist. 1:37

    "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order . Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."

-- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Evians, France, 1991

    "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage."

-- Sheila Cronan
(1988 Houston National Organization for Women {NOW} Conference for Women.)

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    "The simple fact is, every woman must be willing to be recognized as a lesbian to be fully feminine"

-- Sheila Cronan
(National Organization of Women Times' magazine, January 1988)

[click here for similar quotes from
"Neofeminism: Religion of Dispair"]

    "Halloween, you'd not be surprised to know, is my favorite holiday."

-- J.K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter series
(TIME magazine, Oct. 30, 2000; p. 108)

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    "I really hate censorship.  .... One really great thing with my parents: nothing was off limits in my house.  ...I was allowed to read anything I wanted."

-- ibid
[See index on Harry Potter]

    "...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds..."

-- Samuel Adams

[works both ways]

"I thought we were going to get television.
The truth is, television is going to get us."

-- Richard Goodwin
Congressional hearing on NBC quiz show scandal around 1960
(from video: "Quiz Show")

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"[We] give the public what they want. 
...It's entertainment. ...We're in show business."

-- Freedman
Quiz show host at time of ~1960 scandal
Went on to work for Penthouse Magazine

"The name 'Patriot Saint' . . . ?

" 'Saint' having to do with my faith in God, and 'Patriot' having to do with my willingness to defend and support this faith in God."

-- David A. Kenderes
Regarding davidk@PATRIOTSAINTS.com
via www.patriotsaints.com/eMail/

[The following was published just prior to Nov. 7 election]

IS IT OVER YET?
Gore. No, wait. Bush. In Central Florida, some voters can't get excited about, or decide on, either guy.

-- article heading
TIME magazine, Nov. 6, 2000, p. 69
Online with modified heading compared to printed edition

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Article concludes:

    "...Four [at table in restaurant] took Bush; one liked Gore. Asked, Why Gore? he said, ' I'd like you to leave me alone now. '
    "Campaign fatigue. Hang in there, pal. One more week, and we'll all borrow your line."

    "We here in Florida are showing the nation and the world how one person's vote can really count . . . and count . . . and count . . ."

-- Talk Radio call-in

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
        Those who count the votes decide everything."
                                   -- Josef Stalin

    7:5 ...All this iniquity had come upon the people because they did yield themselves unto the power of Satan.
    6 And the regulations of the government were destroyed, because of the secret combination of the friends and kindreds of those who murdered the prophets. And they did cause a great contention in the land, insomuch that the more righteous part of the people had nearly all become wicked; yea, there were but few righteous men among them.
    7 . . . notwithstanding they were not a righteous people, yet they were united in the hatred of those who had entered into a covenant to destroy the government
    9:9 And behold, that great city Jacobugath, which was inhabited by the people of king Jacob, have I caused to be burned with fire because of their sins and their wickedness, which was above all the wickedness of the whole earth, because of their secret murders and combinations; for it was they that did destroy the peace of my people and the government of the land; therefore I did cause them to be burned, to destroy them from before my face....

-- III Nephi 7:5-7,11; 9:9

-- Jesus E. Moses

    "This is a rebellious people . . . that will not hear the law of the Lord. Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits."

-- Isaiah 30:9,10

    "Behold, verily I say unto you, there are hypocrites among you, who have deceived some, which has given the adversary power; but behold such [the sincerely gullible yet deceived] shall be reclaimed; but the hypocrites shall be detected and shall be cut off...."

-- Doctrine and Covenants 50:7,8

    "There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."

--Ian Hart, actor
(contributed by http://www.jokeawhenever.com)

    "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."