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Tidejwe Dezod (Jon)

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About Me

I served a 2 year LDS mission in Haiti and extended my mission. I have gone back once since then and worked a summer in the orphanages there.I am obsessed with LDS doctrine and can be found in many of the Mormon Groups debating quite often. My "Interests" section will also give you a decent idea of "About Me".I want to write a few books. I am currently working on one (for the last several years) about the LDS issue on "Blacks and the Priesthood" and I'm writing a fiction novel as well dealing with bio/mechanical and genetic engineering, religion and the future (especially detailing a technological singularity) that is also kind of loosely inspired from some dreams I had...mixed with a lot of meaning socially, politically, etc.I'm a pretty easy going guy even if it sounds like I'm forceful when debating...that's just how I argue. I love to argue against my own beliefs/opinions as well. It helps me understand my own views better and the weaknesses in my own views, so if you came here from reading my arguments in the group forums, don't always assume they are what I believe...though it is so some of the time. :) You'll never know.
My political stance is somewhere between a Democrat and a Centrist on Social and economic permissiveness, but I have some strong libertarian tendencies in regards to the government. I am fairly liberal (as in TRADITIONAL liberal ala founding fathers, not necessarily modern liberal) and I definitely consider myself an intellectual.
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Advanced Global Personality Test Results
Extraversion |||||||||||||||| 66%
Stability |||||||||||||| 60%
Orderliness |||||||||||| 50%
Accommodation |||||||||||||| 56%
Interdependence |||||||||||||| 56%
Intellectual |||||||||||||||||||| 90%
Mystical |||||||||||||| 56%
Artistic |||||||||||||| 56%
Religious |||||||||||||| 56%
Hedonism |||| 16%
Materialism |||||||||||||| 56%
Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 63%
Adventurousness |||||||||||||| 56%
Work ethic |||||||||||| 43%
Self absorbed |||||| 30%
Conflict seeking |||||||||||||||| 70%
Need to dominate |||||||||||| 50%
Romantic |||||||||||||| 56%
Avoidant |||||| 30%
Anti-authority |||||||||||| 50%
Wealth |||||||||| 36%
Dependency |||||||||| 36%
Change averse |||||||||| 36%
Cautiousness |||||||||| 36%
Individuality |||||||||| 36%
Sexuality |||||||||||||||| 70%
Peter pan complex |||||||||||||| 56%
Physical security |||||||||||||||||| 76%
Physical Fitness |||||||||||||||||||| 84%
Histrionic |||||||||| 36%
Paranoia |||||| 30%
Vanity |||||||||||| 43%
Hypersensitivity |||||||||||| 43%
Female cliche |||||||||| 36% Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
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My Interests

Learning new things; reading; audio books; traveling; friendships; sleeping; LDS history; hacking; TECHNOLOGY; philosophy; religion; religious philosophy; debate; psychology; computers; bio/mechanical&genetic engineering; evolution; wrestling/sparring/sword-fighting; magic the gathering; solving things; discovering loopholes; IQ tests; P2P; games like same time risk, Solaris, warcraft3, Unreal Tournament, Catan, etc; friends; falling asleep while typpppppppppppppppppppppppppp

I'd like to meet:

OPEN MINDED, friendly INTELLIGENT PEOPLE (I know, I'm asking a lot...) who like to have fun and a good laugh. Especially those interested in religion, philosophy, metaphysics, technology, telecommunications, hacking, religious philosophy, travel, culture, sociology, psychology, LDS history/doctrine, etc. Anyone that wants to talk about Haiti? I'm game! Love that PLACE/people! Don't just add me as a friend without sending a message to go along with it unless I really know you. If I don't know you and haven't ever talked to you in the group forums we're in together then I'll assume you're a spam bot or a friend hoarder and you're probably wasting your time. I am not here to help boost people's popularity contests of adding as many strangers as they can. I think that's a retarded part of myspace culture. If I know you, or we talk/debate in the forums together a lot great, I'll accept. If I don't know you but you have a valid reason for considering me a friend (maybe we think alike, have similar opinions, etc), send me a message so I know what's up. :) If I do actually know you...why on earth are you admitting it? j/k

Music:

LOTS! I used to be hardcore into rap when I was in Junior High, then I moved on to R&B, and then Rock/alternative and heavy metal through High School, then punk and emo...warped tour type stuff, and pop, some more recent country is alright, especially if you can Western swing to it. Some of the newer half rap hybrids are OK again so long as they have a point, especially a political/social point.I don't like Jazz, rarely in the mood for boring...er I mean classical music either.

Movies:

LOTS! Mostly the intelligent movies that make you think...also I really like action movies.

Television:

CSI's (though CSI Las Vegas is the best); Criminal Minds; Alias; 24; Smallville; Battlestar Gallactica; The 4400; The Simpsons; Southpark; Lost; Prison Break; Numb3rs; Day Break; Heroes; One Tree Hill; Sleeper Cell; The Unit; Torchwood; Vanished

Books:

Favorite Non-Fiction Books: God's Debris by Scott Adams; A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson; The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzwell; Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau; More than Human by Ramez Naam; Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor; CS Lewis Books; The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins;SOME Favorite Fiction Books: The Religion War by Scott Adams; Harry Potter series (except the 5th book which drove me nuts, and the first book took forever to get interesting); Ender's Game & Ender's Shadow series; Pretty much anything by Orson Scott Card is a good read; The Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini; JRR Tolkein; Gerald Lund Books; Most books written by Chris Heimerdinger including all the Tennis Shoes Series; I love COUNTLESS other fiction books but this will suffice for now off the top of my head.Favorite LDS/Mormon Non-Fiction Books: Most anything by D Michael Quinn, like Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, & the Mormon Hierarchy Books; Evidences of the True Church by Dennis K Brown; The Dead Sea Scrolls and other important discoveries by Vernon W Mattson Jr; Jesus the Christ by James E Talmage; Unpublished Revelations by Fred C Collier; Satan's War on Free Angency by Greg Wright; The Bible Says 1830 by Chris Tolworthy; Encyclopedia of Mormonism; LDS Library 2006 (I know not A BOOK, but it's hundreds/thousands of books I can search through easily); Evolution and Mormonism by Trent D Stephens & D Jeffrey Meldrum; History of Joseph Smith by his Mother Lucy Mack Smith the Unabridged Original Version compiled by R Vernon Ingleton; Black and MormonObviously I could list hundreds of books that I really love, but for now we will leave it with the ones I currently have listed here.

Heroes:

Charles Darwin; Galileo Galilei; Martin Luther; D. Michael Quinn; Joseph Smith; Leonard Arrington; Bishop Edward Bunker; Jeffrey Nielsen; Richard Dawkins; Lance Corporal Matt Croucher; Jack Bauer...oh wait, fiction doesn't count does it? ~~Feel free to ask me why any of these men should be and are heroes

My Blog

CNG - Natural Gas Cars Utah

Not too long ago, Misty and I bought a dual fuel car.  It runs on both regular gasoline as well as Compressed Natural Gas.  Besides already needing a second vehicle, we were primarily intere...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:22:00 PST

History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith: The Unabridged Original Version

I wrote a book review on Facebook today for the book:  History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith: The Unabridged Original Version (Hardcover) - by R. Virnon Ingleton (Compiler)I wrote...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:29:00 PST

Funerals - Hinckley, Packer & Me

Some time ago when my Uncle Sterling died, it was brought to my attention that President Boyd K Packer proclaimed that funerals are NOT supposed to talk about the person, or eulogize them, etc. In "Th...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:46:00 PST

Sleep Deprevation

My brother Jeff and his wife Beth moved in with us for a month while we wait to move into our new apartment complex we bought together.  We've been playing this new Nintendo Wii game lately cal...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:46:00 PST

Our Daughter, Kiara, is Born!

They Induced Misty Monday June 4th around 8pm and told us it would take around 12 hrs before she went into labor, and then another 12-20 hrs before she actually delivered.  It went a lot quicker ...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:51:00 PST

Dividing the Light & the Darkness...

I wrote this blog about a year and a half ago, but apparently never posted it here...I since have some other alternate interpretations of these verses as well (mostly thanks to Luke's explanations of ...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:07:00 PST

An Interesting Sealing Policy...

In one of the forum discussions I was involved in, we were talking about sealings and relatively recent church policy changes regarding such.   After having posted the official policies list...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:55:00 PST

First Vision Parallels

With the new anti-mormon video that came out, it reminded me about an old email I wrote/sent once.  I think I got a lot of help with this from somewhere, it's been so long ago I don't remember th...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:15:00 PST

Quit with the Justifications, and just admit to drinking caffeinated beverages!

This is another blog that is being written for use in my future debates in the Myspace forums I am always in. Since this topic comes up SOOOO Frequently, I've agreed to turn my arguments into a blog t...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:34:00 PST

Joseph Smith Ordered Destruction of the Garments (& how the "magic underwear" myth began)

So in the Myspace LDS group forums I debate in a lot, several people have asked me for details regarding what we know about Joseph ordering people to stop wearing garments and destroy them before he d...
Posted by Tidejwe Dezod (Jon) on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:24:00 PST