tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396719690755349721.post5416073191822808359..comments2024-03-28T09:38:56.008-04:00Comments on The Utter Meaninglessness of Everything: On Choice and EmpowermentDPChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13536202192031966996noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396719690755349721.post-26940555963333899242013-10-09T03:38:41.635-04:002013-10-09T03:38:41.635-04:00What a ridiculously ignorant tale this is and plea...What a ridiculously ignorant tale this is and please explain how a 'philosophing non Mormon' cannot know the meaning of empowerment?? I will explain: it means compassion, empathy, promoting all people equally in whatever area of talent they may have -- not engaging in jealousy (as this blogger continues to do) like a beggar looking into a posh restaurant. Your blog is so utterly ridiculous I am not surprised by it's namesake and the bitches you attract like Southern Bell with lenthy dialogue on a ridiculous religion that has no purpose/backward and confusing so the sheep have no idea what is going on -- I will you would just get off the internet all together -- everything you write seems to be from the viewpoint of a 5 year old.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396719690755349721.post-59515706435481052232008-02-28T02:34:00.000-05:002008-02-28T02:34:00.000-05:00I find it quite curious that SML asserts, "I was p...I find it quite curious that SML asserts, "I was prepared, worthy, happy" and then, in the very next paragraph, demonstrates how very UNprepared she actually was by admitting she was utterly unfamiliar with the underlying principles and practices governing the receiving of endowments.<BR/><BR/>Clearly, "freedom to choose" also extends to the degree to which choose to be informed. Choosing to remain ignorant gives rise to the choice to be blindsided.One Southern Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13041114121860777643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396719690755349721.post-88271228479854748682007-12-06T14:37:00.000-05:002007-12-06T14:37:00.000-05:00You know, I always thought I had the freedom to ch...You know, I always thought I had the freedom to choose for myself too, as an LDS woman. I chose to go to the temple and take out my endowments. I was so excited. I was prepared, worthy, happy. When the time came for my temple recommend interview, my bishop asked my never-mo husband along, for what I figured would be a missionary moment.<BR/><BR/>Instead, I was blindsided by the rule that my husband needed to give me his written permission to attend the temple and take out my endowments.<BR/><BR/>I discovered in that instance when he refused that there was no freedom to choose for me. I chose to take out my endowments and complete the vital ordinance that was necessary for my eternal salvation (I believed at the time), and the choice was never mine to make at all.<BR/><BR/>That was a harsh lesson to learn, and so now when I hear you say that we all have freedom to choose at all times, I beg to differ.Sister Mary Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642154849765529070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396719690755349721.post-27394758949541043412007-11-28T08:53:00.000-05:002007-11-28T08:53:00.000-05:00If you get a chance, read _The Promise of Mediatio...If you get a chance, read _The Promise of Mediation_ -- that is the area where the term actually has meaning (recognition and empowerment are two words that tell you that your mediator should be mediating for the Post Office).<BR/><BR/>Stephen M (Ethesis)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com