Awesome 6th Grade Clark Planetarium Field Trip

On February 9th the 6th grade Mount Olympus Team took a field trip to The Clark Planetarium. We went to most of the exhibits and we also went to a movie in the IMAX theater. My favorite part of the whole trip was the star dome. I liked the star dome because I have been to the Planetarium once before. The only thing that I haven't done was the star dome. The lady that was presenting the star dome showed us the phases of the moon and the constellations too! I had an amazing time a the Clark Planetarium! I recommend going there for a fun and excellent time!
By-Kiley McCracken

Another startling insight emerges from the paradigm of preexistence. If it is true that “Man was also in the beginning with God,” that “Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be,” then we have an eternal past. And if we have an eternal past, then humans—like God—inhabit a universe that has always existed. The implications of this view are nothing short of shattering, fraught with possibilities that are simultaneously heady and humbling. It would suggest the possibility that “God, angels and men are all of one species.” Our ancestry and potential are rooted in a divine pattern.

“If we have not existed before birth; . . . then there are no grounds for supposition that we shall continue to exist after our existence has apparently ceased.” Percy Shelle

Awesome Dancing Connor!

We must think and feel for ourselves

As for the question of what is or is not revelation, the answer is simple. People just don’t like to hear it. . . . D&C 68:4 says: “And whatsoever they shall speak when moved upon by the Holy Ghost shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.” There’s your answer and, in terms of simple language, it’s not hard to understand. The problem is that it doesn’t do what people want. What people want is to be absolved of responsibility. They want a formula, a rulebook, or an oracle to which they can defer tough questions. God says: “If you want to know if it’s scripture or not, you’re going to have to have your own connection to the Holy Ghost sufficient to figure that out.” In other words: “The burden is on you.” People say: “That sounds like hard work. Please give us a cheat sheet.” . . . And, when God refuses to give out a cheat sheet, people just invent one. They invent doctrines of prophetic or scriptural inerrancy or sufficiency or infallibility, all of which serve more or less the exact same purpose as the original golden calf: a simulacrum of the divine that doesn’t ask us to do any genuine hard work.