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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118045</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 18:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>D-Train, yes I liked the old color scheme ... not that I&#039;m the last word in blog fashion, of course.  Maybe I just have a particular distaste for the inverted style.  I think UM&#039;s very nice banner looked better with the old colors.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>D-Train, yes I liked the old color scheme &#8230; not that I&#8217;m the last word in blog fashion, of course.  Maybe I just have a particular distaste for the inverted style.  I think UM&#8217;s very nice banner looked better with the old colors.</p>
<p>Any others like to chime in with an opinion?</p>
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		<title>By: D-Train</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118044</link>
		<dc:creator>D-Train</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave,

Thanks for the props.  Sorry to hear that you hate the color scheme.  Did you like the old format or was that bad too?

I like the new colors OK, but didn&#039;t dislike the old format either.  Let us know, either here or at UoM, if there are others out there with an opinion.

And, by the by, that smart LDS woman post is the best thing ever.  The problem I have in my ward is that there are the few smart girls and then....well....

Seriously, this is an issue worth talking about.  I&#039;m not sure that it&#039;s so much that men aren&#039;t attracted to the intelligent (I certainly am), but that our culture just doesn&#039;t stress female intelligence all that much, thus making sure that men that are attracted to cultural norms don&#039;t want the smart ones.  Also, since the Church isn&#039;t all that much of an intellectual community where I am (Oklahoma), I can&#039;t really tell how smart the girls are.  There could be twenty Einsteinettes in my ward and I&#039;d never know.  Intellectual discussion just isn&#039;t part of the culture.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave,</p>
<p>Thanks for the props.  Sorry to hear that you hate the color scheme.  Did you like the old format or was that bad too?</p>
<p>I like the new colors OK, but didn&#8217;t dislike the old format either.  Let us know, either here or at UoM, if there are others out there with an opinion.</p>
<p>And, by the by, that smart LDS woman post is the best thing ever.  The problem I have in my ward is that there are the few smart girls and then&#8230;.well&#8230;.</p>
<p>Seriously, this is an issue worth talking about.  I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s so much that men aren&#8217;t attracted to the intelligent (I certainly am), but that our culture just doesn&#8217;t stress female intelligence all that much, thus making sure that men that are attracted to cultural norms don&#8217;t want the smart ones.  Also, since the Church isn&#8217;t all that much of an intellectual community where I am (Oklahoma), I can&#8217;t really tell how smart the girls are.  There could be twenty Einsteinettes in my ward and I&#8217;d never know.  Intellectual discussion just isn&#8217;t part of the culture.</p>
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		<title>By: David J</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118043</link>
		<dc:creator>David J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;He just acts like a Protestant!&lt;/i&gt;

You know it, Ronan! You guys make me laugh.

Wait! Maybe I act like a &quot;peeping wizard&quot;??? ;)

J. Green - Protestants consider themselves orthodox so long as they believe the Creeds. The feeling I&#039;m getting is that most Mormons think the term only refers to the Greek church, in which case (Methodists at least) don&#039;t use the term like that. They  consider themselves &lt;b&gt;starkly&lt;/b&gt; orthodox. This&#039;ll be in Part 2 of the same post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>He just acts like a Protestant!</i></p>
<p>You know it, Ronan! You guys make me laugh.</p>
<p>Wait! Maybe I act like a &#8220;peeping wizard&#8221;??? <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>J. Green &#8211; Protestants consider themselves orthodox so long as they believe the Creeds. The feeling I&#8217;m getting is that most Mormons think the term only refers to the Greek church, in which case (Methodists at least) don&#8217;t use the term like that. They  consider themselves <b>starkly</b> orthodox. This&#8217;ll be in Part 2 of the same post.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118042</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rebecca, you&#039;re right -- I&#039;m not sure where I got that impression.  Here&#039;s a &lt;a href=&quot;http://faithprorumor.weblogs.us/archives/80#comments&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;short bio&lt;/a&gt; of David J., the author of the post (and a permablogger at Faith-Promoting Rumor).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rebecca, you&#8217;re right &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure where I got that impression.  Here&#8217;s a <a href="http://faithprorumor.weblogs.us/archives/80#comments" rel="nofollow">short bio</a> of David J., the author of the post (and a permablogger at Faith-Promoting Rumor).</p>
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		<title>By: Rebecca</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118041</link>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A prostestant is not telling anything - he&#039;s LDS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A prostestant is not telling anything &#8211; he&#8217;s LDS!</p>
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		<title>By: Jonathan Green</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118040</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Uh, a Protestant is presuming to tell us about &lt;em&gt;Orthodox &lt;/em&gt; Christianity? What about 1517 and all that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh, a Protestant is presuming to tell us about <em>Orthodox </em> Christianity? What about 1517 and all that?</p>
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		<title>By: Ronan JH</title>
		<link>http://bycommonconsent.com/2005/11/30/best-of-the-box-2-2/#comment-118039</link>
		<dc:creator>Ronan JH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;The poster is a Protestant blogging on an LDS blog&lt;/em&gt;

That&#039;s funny! Dave&#039;s Mormon born and bred. He just acts like a Protestant! Ha!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The poster is a Protestant blogging on an LDS blog</em></p>
<p>That&#8217;s funny! Dave&#8217;s Mormon born and bred. He just acts like a Protestant! Ha!!</p>
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