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Twitter Moonwatch

October 25, 2009 in Cosmology by Greg | No comments

Thanks to Twitterer azericsheats, I came across the Twitter Moonwatch and Meteorwatch Trailer hosted by the International year of Astronomy 2009 UK and Newbury Astronomical Society.

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According to their web site:

To take part in this just follow us on Twitter @astronomy2009uk and @NewburyAS. If you’re not yet on Twitter, you can create an account for free here. www.twitter.com

During Twitter Moonwatch we will be live-tweeting images of the Moon, planets and other astronomical objects, taken by Newbury Astronomical Society. At the same time we’ll be online to answer any questions you might have about the images we’re tweeting, and about astronomy in general.

This Twitter Moonwatch will be a special one, as we will be joined by the Faulkes Telescope Network of professional telescopes, who will be tweeting images [taken] with their 2m telescope situated in New South Wales, Australia.

To find out more, visit Newbury Astronomical Society’s Home page www.newburyas.org.uk or visit www.astronomy2009.co.uk.

It sounds like a lot of fun. Check it out.

Philo Dibble and the Three Degrees of Glory

August 15, 2009 in Temple by Greg | No comments

A previous post entitled Inspirational Poetry includes Joseph Smith’s poetic rendition of Doctrine and Covenants 76 or the three degrees of glory. Philo Dibble was present when “the vision” was given in an upper room of the John Johnson farm in Hiram, Ohio.

John_Johnson_home Concerning the vision of the three degrees of glory, Larry E. Dahl explained:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has an optimistic view of the eternal rewards awaiting mankind in the hereafter. Members of the Church believe that there are “many mansions” (John 14:2) and that Christ’s Atonement and resurrection will save all mankind from death, and eventually will reclaim from hell all except the sons of perdition (D&C 76:43-44). The saved, however, are not placed into a monolithic state called heaven. In the resurrection of the body, they are assigned to different degrees of glory commensurate with the law they have obeyed. There are three kingdoms of glory: the celestial, the terrestrial, and the telestial.1.

These kingdoms were also referred to by the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians. He said the glory of each kingdom differed “from one another as the sun, moon, and stars differ in brilliance.”2

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  1. Dahl, Larry E. “Degrees of Glory”. 1992. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. 15 Aug 2009↩
  2. Ibid. 1 Cor. 15:40-41; cf. D&C 76:70-81, 96-98.↩