NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-01-04 #22

NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-01-04 #22
Joe Biden still president
Jimmy Carter passed on
Respectful of his service in the service, as governor and as president.
Talk about how compassionate he was. True, he was a good human, a good humanitarian, a good Christian, but a bad president. I lived through his administration. Reason why, like Biden, one term
Joe Biden II
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-takes-jab-trump-while-applauding-jimmy-carters-decency-shares-fondest-memory-late-president
When a reporter asked Biden what President-elect Trump should take from Carter's legacy, Biden replied, "Decency, decency, decency. … Can you imagine Jimmy Carter walking by someone who needed something and just keep walking? Can you imagine Jimmy Carter referring to someone by the way they look or the way they talk?"
That was an inappropriate question, a set up. Biden should have called the reporter on it, higher and holiday approach
Biden tool the low road, and degraded Trump.
What about Nancy the Ripper?
BlipNews
Puerto Rico Power outage
New Orleans tragedy and crime
Las Vegas Trump Hotel, Tesla exploding, second terror attack
What insights from the scriptures on all of this news
ETB "If they saw our day, and chose those things which would be of greatest worth to us, is not that how we should study the Book of Mormon? We should constantly ask ourselves, "Why did the Lord inspire Mormon or Moroni or Alma to include that in their records? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?" And there is example after example of how that question will be answered. For example, in the Book of Mormon we find a pattern for preparing for the Second Coming. A major portion of the book centers on the few decades just prior to Christ's coming to America. By careful study of that time period we can determine why some were destroyed in the terrible judgments that preceded His coming and what brought others to stand at the temple in the land of Bountiful and thrust their hands into the wounds of His hands and feet."
BOM, Three disputed elections, and many assassinations
"And now, it came to pass in the twenty and sixth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, behold, when the Lamanites awoke on the first morning of the first month, behold, they found Amalickiah was dead in his own tent; and they also saw that Teancum was ready to give them battle on that day."Alma 52:1
Bad omen, demoralize the new year
Apple spying, $95m: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1O-w6XlIQ0
Writers
Jefferson Snow
https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2024/dec/29/orem-resident-fulfills-dream-by-winning-writers-of-the-future-contest/
Greg Park, Japanese based fantasy
Life Hack: Liahona on Goals
Model: Feelings, Fairness, Friends
I have a family member who is X
If Family member is X or is doing X, it's okay?
Relative a drunk driver, so drunk driving is okay?
relationship over righteousness. Like the mafia. Protect our family, even if involves doing wrong. Social morality
Feelings, autonomy, individualism, moral relativism (dependency)
Talking with a person about using AI art to make books covers. He said there was a movement against that, wanted to support artists
Respect other choices, but also a movement for using art, why did he latch on to the anti-moveent, as opposed to the pro-techonlogy, pro-future movement?
How will you feel about X?
CS Lewis on "hedonics" https://matiane.wordpress.com/2021/09/17/hedonics-by-c-s-lewis/
Feeling preferences can be shaped acculturation, cultural relative
Temperament. mission companion with a short fuse.
Moods change, so ethics change
Process language differently
Smithsonian MRI scans: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percent-accuracy-17536124/
Had a conversation, and person remembers conversation, but not what they said or agreed to?
Social experiences of chatting vs a meeting of the minds?
Confront:
Silence
One word
Several words: (slogans)
Many words (repetitive words, babbling, speeches)
Chuckle and chatter (dude!, condescending laugh)
Deflection ( change subject, "as if" tactic)
Insults
Words
Refer to feelings
Social pressures
Jack London Martin Ededn, 36" He charged them with word-jugglery, with reasoning from words to theory instead of from facts to theory. At this they were aghast. It was the cardinal tenet of their mode of reasoning to start with facts and to give names to the facts."
Aristotle's Organanon
Final Word
Reaching out, and then when you sense awkwardness. Dem friends who know you are conservative, silent treatment (relationship terrorism) or get awkward around you--squirmy. Glen Beck at CNN, and elevator door open, and everyone suddenly quiet
Pray for Charity
Book Life of James E Faust Serving God Offending Devil
That's News Eye of Faith