The Elite Eight results are:

1 – Joseph Smith 23
9 – Gordon B. Hinckley 22

11 – Restoration of Priesthood Authority 24
12 – Saving Ordinances 11

1 – The Book of Mormon 31
8 – The 2nd Official Declaration 4

6 – Sacrament Meeting 26
10 – Relief Society 7

The final four matches are:

1 Joseph Smith vs. 11 Restoration of Priesthood Authority

1 Book of Mormon vs. 6 Sacrament Meeting

Wow! That Joseph Smith/Gordon B. Hinckley match came down to the wire (overtime, even)
[edited to reflect the actual bracket]
Also, after yesterday’s games, I suddenly don’t feel so bad about having an 11 seed make the final.

The Joseph Smith/Gordon B. Hinckley race is a tie. Do not let it be so! The race is extended until tomorrow.

1 – Joseph Smith vs. 9 – Gordon B. Hinckley

11 – Restoration of Priesthood Authority vs. 12 – Saving Ordinances

1 – The Book of Mormon vs. 8 – The 2nd Official Declaration

6 – Sacrament Meeting vs. 10 – Relief Society

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Since we are all in an uproar regarding free will (see here, here, and here), I’ll toss my idea into the mix. Hypothetically, I am a compatibilist.

In this I mean that, hypothetically, I could see the material aspects of our selves and the world in which we find ourselves as sufficiently influential as to determine some or all of our actions. I am willing to see this as being the way that the God has established the world (or that this is the way it is always set up). In this, I am suggesting that the material world may be designed to bring people to a point wherein they have to make a decision regarding their interaction with God.

In my mind, Camus’s famous essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, is quite helpful. Although Sisyphus has no control over his fate, he is allowed control over his own will. The will is Sisyphus’s alone and, in the essay, he chooses to make his fate his choice, creating an existential hero.

I am saying that it is possible to be a compatibilist if you allow people this one act of free will: whether or not they will submit to the will of God. That act, in similitude of Christ’s act of submission, may be our one true use of free will.