NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-08 #31

NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-08 #31
DOGE
Credit cards by military, overspending, set limit to $1. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-credit-cards/
Grants cancelled. Friend of mine laid off. Creative destruction/disruptive innovation.
Finances in place
Get on a budget
Get out of debt
Don't do drugs
Emergency Fund: $1K savings, then 3-6 months, Money Market account
Church's Reliance, on app: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/personal-finances-for-self-reliance?lang=eng
Richest Man Babylon, RPE 5 Lessons Millionaire
Dave Ramsey's baby steps
Proper role of government" https://scriptures.byu.edu/#:t664:g88a
Henry Hazlett Economics in One Lesson:
https://archive.org/details/HenryHazlittEconomicsInOneLesson/page/n17/mode/2up
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups."
Short term versus long term
Particular, the whole
Preventing a system collpase
Heritage Foundation
Project 2025. Free speech
Phoenix Declarationhttps://www.heritage.org/phoenix-declaration
Parental Choice & Responsibility: Parents are the primary educators of their children. Public education funds should always follow the child.
Transparency & Accountability: Schools must be fully transparent with parents about curricula, policies, and student well-being.
Truth & Goodness: Students deserve an education grounded in objective truth, free from ideological fads, and oriented toward the pursuit of the good.
Cultural Transmission: Students should learn about America’s founding principles and roots in the broader Western and Judeo-Christian traditions. Students should study the best-competing viewpoints that comprise our intellectual heritage.
Character Formation: Schools must prepare children for the challenges and responsibilities of adulthood by cultivating virtue, personal responsibility, and self-discipline.
Academic Excellence: Schools should prioritize proven teaching methods and a content-rich curriculum rooted in foundational subjects over fads or experimental teaching methods.
Citizenship: Schools should teach students the civic virtues and knowledge necessary for self-government, including the value of civil disagreement. Students should learn the whole truth about America—its merits and failings—without obscuring that America is a great source of good in the world.
Like DOGE, who is opposed to that?
Quite an ideologue to oppose this
National Museum of African American History apologizes for chart listing attributes of 'whiteness' after criticism from Donald Trump Jr and the conservative media
https://www.businessinsider.com/african-american-museum-in-dc-apologizes-for-whiteness-chart-2020-7
The Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington DC has removed an online chart listing "hard work" and "rational linear thinking"
In the section, Smithsonian declares that "objective, rational, linear thinking," "quantitative emphasis," "hard work before play," and various other values are aspects and assumptions of whiteness.
Pres Address Joint Session
Two hour Post-Doctorate certification on Persuasion
Framing: Golden Age
Priming: I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud .. [cure disease, economic growth ] It’s very sad, and it just shouldn’t be this way.
High Ground Maneuver: So, Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America, for the good of our nation? Let’s work together and let’s truly make America great again.
List Persuasion: Specifics of first 6 weeks
Contrast: He and Joe Biden (both 1 terms)
Putting a Face: Young boy in Secret service, other people
Take good notes
Opinion: Religious Americans should be concerned about immigration raids in places of worship, Katie Stevenson
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/03/04/religious-liberty-americans-concerned-ice-immigration/
Consideration: Law.
Clergy is privileged relationship
Benefit clergy 1827, England due to abuses
What incentive are being created if cannot raid houses of worship?
What potential benefits and abuses, for church and for state?
I am not your brainwasher.
Church's statement:
“1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints obeys the law.
“2. We follow Jesus Christ by loving our neighbors. The Savior taught that the meaning of “neighbor” includes all of God’s children.
“3. We seek to provide basic food and clothing, as our capacity allows, to those in need, regardless of their immigration status. We are especially concerned about keeping families together.”
Mother in Heaven
Are We Rewriting Heavenly Mother to Fit Our Own Beliefs? By Amanda Freebairn · March 2, 2025
https://latterdaysaintmag.com/are-we-rewriting-heavenly-mother-to-fit-our-own-beliefs/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=scot-maurine-proctor&utm_content=Monday%2C+March+3%2C+2025
Parental Runaround, playing parents off of eac oher
But something that quickly surprised me was the frequency with which Heavenly Mother was presented as being at odds with her Spouse. There seemed to be an implication that He was the mean Old Testament God, and she is a more compassionate, loving God for modern sensibilities. In many publications, she was presented as an LGBT+ ally and often connected with progressive American identity politics (“Heavenly Mother is an anti-racist!”). Heavenly Mother, according to some, doesn’t approve of our temple garments. For others, the doctrine of Heavenly Mother is too heteronormative, and it needed to undergo “theological queering.” Now, I have no doubt that Heavenly Mother loves all her children fully and equally, including those who identify with different genders, orientations, and races. I am equally confident that our Mother in Heaven doesn’t turn her back on us when we struggle with aspects of the gospel or are not making choices in line with the commandments.
Man, processing this differently. But different doesn't mean wrong.
REligon professor abused women pray to mother in heaven
If she could speak: Dead Ventriloquist Fallacy.
DOGE and disruptions: Friend of mine lost job, due to loss of contracts
That's News eyes of Faith