In reading Elder Ballard's Pure Testimony from Oct 04, I realized that it shouldn't be any surprise that Alma the younger believed that "bearing down in pure testimony" (Alma 4:19) would have a "more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which happened unto them..." (Alma 31:5). Alma came from a father who was only saved by pure testimony. Alma, the priest of King Noah, heard the testimony of Abinadi, as he stood valiantly in defiance of King Noah's wickedness. That was what changed him. Should we be surprised that, even after his son rebels, he eventually learns from his father that testimony and the word of God is what ultimately causes people to change and not the sword?

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In reading Elder Ballard's Pure Testimony from Oct 04, I realized that it shouldn't be any surprise that Alma the younger believed that "bearing down in pure testimony" (Alma 4:19) would have a "more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which happened unto them..." (Alma 31:5). Alma came from a father who was only saved by pure testimony. Alma, the priest of King Noah, heard the testimony of Abinadi, as he stood valiantly in defiance of King Noah's wickedness. That was what changed him. Should we be surprised that, even after his son rebels, he eventually learns from his father that testimony and the word of God is what ultimately causes people to change and not the sword?

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"UCSF neurobiologist Thomas Lewis
claims that if we're not careful, we can trick a part of our brain into
thinking that we're having a real social interaction--something crucial
and ancient for human survival--when we actually aren't. This leads to
a stressful (but subconscious) cognitive dissonance, where we're
getting some of what the brain thinks it needs, but not enough to fill
that
whatever-ineffable-thing-is-scientists-still-haven't-completely-nailed-but-might-be-smell.
He didn't make this claim about Twitter... I attended his talk at The
Conference on World Affairs, and he was addressing e-mail, chat, and
even television (brain recognizes it's looking at "people", and feels
it must be having a social connection (GOOD), but yet it knows
something's missing (BAD)." (Source Missing)

Anyone see the connection between this and pornography?

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