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==NEWS==
<s>I start school on Aug 26, so I won't be able to do much Wiki for a while...</s>

* OK, I've decided I'm going to try to get involved again. I'm just about to begin school, but have pretty much got my life planned out, for which there is room to do a little Wiki once in a while :)  [[User:Bccomm|Bruce]] 05:01, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

==I am a...==
#sixteen-year-old high school student.
#[[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon]] (in faith; see below)
(contracted; show full)** However, I think that [[Richard Stallman|RMS]] needs to get a taste of reality...especially in regard to nomenclature.

UPDATES: [[User:Bccomm|Bruce]] 05:12, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

==Interests==
...or things I wrongfully claim to be an expert at.
*[[Abrahamic religion]]

** Specifically, modern issues in religion. I find I am more comfortable about talking about [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Latter-day Saintism]], [[Zoroastrianism]], and [[New age|New age spirituality, mysticism, occultism, and, most specifically, neo-alchemy]]. I am solely a Latter-day Saint myself, but through missionary experiences and secular study of religion (which, by nature, is comparitive---in my case to Mormonism) have come to a much greater understanding of these specific faiths than any previous endeavors to comprehend them would have profited me.⏎
*[[Politics]]
*</s>[[Psychology]]</s>
**UPDATE: Actually, most of my knowledge of psychology comes from my knowledge of religion and politics. I do not consider myself an expert, but am nonetheless interested in, such studies as developmental, linguistic, and clinical psychology.
*[[Music theory]]
**A recent fascination of mine
*[[Computer Sscience]]
**Specifically, issues relating to the lexical structure of computer programming languages are of particular intrest to me, along with scalability, reusability, trust, and speed of large computational applications.⏎
*[[Poetry]]
*[[Cultures|World Ccultures and Social Sscience]]
*[[Typesetting|(Computer-based) Typesetting]]

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==Religion==
My religious journey has been a bit twisted, but I've found the truth. Essentially and chronologically:

* I loved to study [[religion]].
** I was a skeptic, an [[atheist]].
** I drank lots of [[coffee]].
* I found out (discreetly) that a very close friend of mine was LDS. Very, very, LDS.
* I looked into it and became an anti-Mormon (as in against the church) [[apologist]].
* Eventually, I began to think of my friend again...about what I was doing to what she held sacred.
** She didn't know about any of this at the time.
* On the verge of suicide, I prayed for her salvation.
* Over time, I came to realize how ''I'' was wrong.
** Coming out of anti-Mormonism made me all the more faithful in the church.
* I have recieved a [[testimony]] which, according to my friends, is like that of a [[General Authority]].
**My Heavenly Father had put me on the path of tribulation and I was able to find Him because of it.
* I am now a pro-Mormon apologist and firm believer in [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]

Read the whole story (highly recommended!) [http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs4/f/2004/266/6/3/From_A_to_Zion_by_bccomm.html at this site.]