{"id":87133,"date":"2020-08-03T10:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T16:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=87133"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T04:31:08","slug":"the-teachings-of-enoch-a-gift-giving-idea-and-an-anecdote-involving-cleon-skousen-and-olivia-de-havilland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2020\/08\/the-teachings-of-enoch-a-gift-giving-idea-and-an-anecdote-involving-cleon-skousen-and-olivia-de-havilland.html","title":{"rendered":"The Teachings of Enoch, a Gift-Giving Idea, and an Anecdote Involving Cleon Skousen and Olivia de Havilland"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87134\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/08\/Sacred-Time-Sacred-Space-Sacred-Meaning-206x300.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87134\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2020\/08\/Sacred-Time-Sacred-Space-Sacred-Meaning-206x300.png\" alt=\"Our latest volume\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newest book from the Interpreter Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a new item (including an audio download) from the staff at Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey Bradshaw, and Matthew Bowen:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/book-of-moses-insights-014\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Book of Moses Insights #14: The Teachings of Enoch: Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51\u201368)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And don\u2019t forget about the latest book from the Interpreter Foundation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/books\/sacred-time-sacred-space-sacred-meaning\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Sacred Time, Sacred Space, &amp; Sacred Meaning<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 There are, after all, only 143 shopping days left until Christmas as I write and, every single day that you delay, that number goes down by between .99 and 1.01 days.\u00a0 And be honest with yourself:\u00a0 Aren\u2019t there many other holidays even before Christmas?\u00a0 And I\u2019m not just talking birthdays.\u00a0 (Studies consistently show that, in any given year, nearly half of the population will have at least one birthday between early August and late December.).\u00a0 No, no.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking (among many others)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ganesh Chaturthi<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii Statehood Day<\/li>\n<li>Senior Citizens Day<\/li>\n<li>Jeune genevois<\/li>\n<li>Bu\u00df-und Bettag<\/li>\n<li>Lyndon Baines Johnson Day<\/li>\n<li>Carl Garner Federal Lands Cleanup Day<\/li>\n<li>The anniversary of the capture of Atlanta by General Sherman\u2019s army<\/li>\n<li>National Grandparents Day<\/li>\n<li>Leif Erikson Day<\/li>\n<li>V-J Day<\/li>\n<li>White Cane Safety Day<\/li>\n<li>Dia de la Independencia<\/li>\n<li>The anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World in Orlando<\/li>\n<li>Alaska Day<\/li>\n<li>Hawke\u2019s Bay Anniversary Day<\/li>\n<li>Festa di Sant\u2019Ambrogio (or, in Italy, virtually any <em>other<\/em> day)<\/li>\n<li>Nevada Day<\/li>\n<li>Boss\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<li>Labour Day<\/li>\n<li>Dia de los Fieles Difuntos<\/li>\n<li>Thanksgiving Day<\/li>\n<li>St. Andrews Day<\/li>\n<li>Pearl Harbor Day<\/li>\n<li>Itsen\u00e4isyysp\u00e4iv\u00e4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever thought about giving copies of Interpreter Foundation books out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween?\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that some of Interpreter\u2019s <em>critics<\/em> have.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably aware that Olivia de Havilland recently died in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I received a note in that connection from my libertarian economist friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markskousen.com\/about-mark-skousen\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Skousen<\/a>.\u00a0 I was traveling and then I was catching <em>up<\/em> from traveling, and I have a whole lot of things on my plate over the next few days.\u00a0 (Thanks to Tom Pittman and to my wife for their invaluable technical help!)\u00a0 So I\u2019m running behind.\u00a0 I hope (and trust) that Mark won\u2019t be upset with me for sharing part of his note here now, finally; I think that some of you might find it interesting.\u00a0 :<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Can you pass along this story to your colleagues at BYU, since Cleon used to teach there . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">I thought you\u2019d enjoy this remarkable little known story about the late Olivia de Havilland, the famous actress in <em>Gone With the Wind<\/em>:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativehq.com\/node\/32972\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.conservativehq.com\/node\/32972<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yiv2354645194yqtfd13612\" class=\"yiv2354645194yqt9056281017\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The first time my uncle Cleon told me the story in the early 1990s, I thought it should be published, but Cleon insisted that we wait until after she died.\u00a0 As it turned out, Cleon lived to be 93 and died in early 2006, and Olivia lived to be 104.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Now the story is out \u2014 I sent it to the <em>New York Times,<\/em> but they didn\u2019t use it in their obituary.\u00a0 But it\u2019s an incredible part of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">We plan to dedicate a room to Olivia de Havilland at next year\u2019s FreedomFest, assuming the imperial governor of Nevada allows us.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And now, an article in <em>National Review<\/em> supplies some interesting additional information:<\/p>\n<div id=\"yiv2354645194yqtfd13612\" class=\"yiv2354645194yqt9056281017\">\n<div id=\"yiv2354645194yqtfd67866\" class=\"yiv2354645194yqt1224196543\">\n<div id=\"yiv2354645194yqtfd38429\" class=\"yiv2354645194yqt4356346299\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/08\/how-olivia-de-havilland-and-ronald-reagan-beat-the-hollywood-communists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cHow Olivia de Havilland and Ronald Reagan Beat the Hollywood Communists\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 On the website of the Interpreter Foundation, a new item (including an audio download) from the staff at Book of Mormon Central, Jeffrey Bradshaw, and Matthew Bowen: \u00a0 Book of Moses Insights #14: The Teachings of Enoch: Enoch as a Teacher (Moses 6:51\u201368) \u00a0 *** \u00a0 And don\u2019t forget about the latest book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9176,1809,14326,3493,14347,5736,7401,14341,975,114,2905,1815,3106,55,14329,8241,14344,14338,14332,14335,7641,641],"class_list":["post-87133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book","tag-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints","tag-cleon","tag-communism","tag-communist","tag-enoch","tag-foundation","tag-gift","tag-interpreter","tag-interpreter-foundation","tag-latter-day-saint","tag-lds","tag-mark","tag-mormonism","tag-olivia-de-havilland","tag-reagan","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-sacred-meaning","tag-sacred-space","tag-sacred-time","tag-skousen","tag-temple"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Teachings of Enoch, a Gift-Giving Idea, and an Anecdote Involving Cleon Skousen and Olivia de Havilland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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