I hope this isn't off base. But, sometimes the church seems very odd to me. This is one example. Attached is a recent announcement regarding the WIFI network. https://www.ldsliving.com/Church-Announ ... ss/s/92404
What is the purpose of a password if you're going to advertise it?
The old password was used within the organization (ward & stake) but not widely publicly distributed as far as I know.
If this is too petty or off base, please remove. It just seems odd to me in so many ways.
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I agree, it is odd. The old network/password (LDSAccess/Pioneer47) were standard church wide as this one is, and you could find that via Google or people would just tell you. I think the new Liahona/Alma3738 is weird, honestly, because there is so much they could have done - even just changing the network name to something like ChurchofJesusChrist because we don't actually type that in on a phone we just pick it off the list. Whatever. I think the only advantage the new network has, from a church/organization point of view, is that you've consented to the user agreement each time. Where I work we all have to sign a paper with the user agreement (it's for work use only, we won't go to inappropriate sites, we won't share private information about clients or employees, etc.) and if you do anything that violates that agreement that's the first thing they pull out ("You agreed that...."). Consenting to an "online" user agreement each day is the next best thing.
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Re: A General Observation.
For me the strangest thing was one of the stated reasons for the change.
1) Why aligning the data access point name with the name of the church would even be necessary.
2) How "Liahona" moves us any closer to aligning with the correct name of the church.
3) Does someone really, and I mean really hate the term LDS?
A simple, "Because it's been a while and we wanted to change it." is a perfectly valid reason to make the change. The stated reason is... insulting? Inane?
I don't get:To align with direction regarding the correct use of the name of the Church, the wireless network is meetinghouses and other Church facilities will be changing from "LDSAccess" to "Liahona."
1) Why aligning the data access point name with the name of the church would even be necessary.
2) How "Liahona" moves us any closer to aligning with the correct name of the church.
3) Does someone really, and I mean really hate the term LDS?
A simple, "Because it's been a while and we wanted to change it." is a perfectly valid reason to make the change. The stated reason is... insulting? Inane?
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Re: A General Observation.
I can see them changing the logon and password every few years as a formality, clears it the users that are in the area of a building and just leeching off of free internet.
But yes the ' aligning with correct name' made no sense whatsoever, unless they are trying to home the the internet is out current day liahona.
But yes the ' aligning with correct name' made no sense whatsoever, unless they are trying to home the the internet is out current day liahona.
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https://www.deseret.com/faith/2020/2/25 ... -lake-city
I think they should have named it Liahona College.
(The article is about renaming LDS Business College Ensign College)
ETA: I got it! I predict the next name change of something will be New Era followed by Friend.
I think they should have named it Liahona College.
(The article is about renaming LDS Business College Ensign College)
ETA: I got it! I predict the next name change of something will be New Era followed by Friend.
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Once there was a gentile...who came before Hillel. He said "Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot." Hillel converted him, saying: That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it."
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Yes. Yes indeed. Someone does.
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“It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God’s moral government of the universe, but to give one courage, through faith, to go on in the face of questions he never finds the answer to in his present status.” TPC: Harold B. Lee 223
"I struggle now with establishing my faith that God may always be there, but may not always need to intervene" Heber13
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I think I know who the someone is and his initials may be RMN.
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I personally do not hate the term (I don't mind it, generally.), but I understand that LDS, like Mormon, makes it easy for other Christians to claim we aren't Christian.
The website stuff seems picky, but, overall, I have no negative feelings about focusing on the Jesus Christ in our church name.
The website stuff seems picky, but, overall, I have no negative feelings about focusing on the Jesus Christ in our church name.
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Even if people view many things differently, the core Gospel principles (LOVE; belief in the unseen but hoped; self-reflective change; symbolic cleansing; striving to recognize the will of the divine; never giving up) are universal.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
Even if people view many things differently, the core Gospel principles (LOVE; belief in the unseen but hoped; self-reflective change; symbolic cleansing; striving to recognize the will of the divine; never giving up) are universal.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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I think you're right, Curt, and I don't hate either of them either. It's just odd to me that LDS is a no-no but Latter-day Saint is not necessarily.Curt Sunshine wrote: ↑26 Feb 2020, 07:19I personally do not hate the term (I don't mind it, generally.), but I understand that LDS, like Mormon, makes it easy for other Christians to claim we aren't Christian.
The website stuff seems picky, but, overall, I have no negative feelings about focusing on the Jesus Christ in our church name.
In the absence of knowledge or faith there is always hope.
Once there was a gentile...who came before Hillel. He said "Convert me on the condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot." Hillel converted him, saying: That which is despicable to you, do not do to your fellow, this is the whole Torah, and the rest is commentary, go and learn it."
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Re: A General Observation.
Will using the term LDS be like using D&C (rather than saying doctrine and covenants)? On my mission it was a no-no as it was too close to an abortion medical procedure.
...Didn't make sense to me then either.
...Didn't make sense to me then either.
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