NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-15 #32

NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-15 #32
Prs. Freeman and new YW history, 10 years in the making. Read it
Trump bought a Tesla
persuasion master: Win Bigly
garbage truck
Vivek and rebel scum t-shirts
Persuasion about emotional perceptions, not reality
CircularNews
Kansas state house Satanic: https://www.kake.com/home/state-leaders-respond-to-satanic-black-mass-happening-at-kansas-statehouse/article_73805afa-ff75-11ef-ab71-b325008da981.html
“Join us at the Topeka Capitol building in Kansas as we dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan,” the event details read. “We will be performing rites to the Black Mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme. God will fall and Kansas will be embraced by the black flame of Lucifer.”
"And it came to pass that there were sorceries, and witchcrafts, and magics; and the power of the evil one was wrought upon all the face of the land, even unto the fulfilling of all the words of Abinadi, and also Samuel the Lamanite." Mormon 1:19
Handbook
38.6.12 The Occult
“That which is of God is light” (Doctrine and Covenants 50:24). The occult focuses on darkness and leads to deception. It destroys faith in Christ.
The occult includes Satan worship. It also includes mystical activities that are not in harmony with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Such activities include (but are not limited to) fortune-telling, curses, and healing practices that are imitations of the priesthood power of God (see Moroni 7:11–17).
Church members should not engage in any form of Satan worship or participate in any way with the occult. They should not focus on such darkness in conversations or in Church meetings.
Govt Shutdown averted.
Why do taxes early.
Continuing resolutions symptom of bigger problem--budgeting.
Middle school, 1984
NAM "Patriotism which sees `beyond the years' leaves legacies to rising generations instead of debt. It leaves clean turf, not the debris of a selfish society."
The trans-mericans turning to guns for protection
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2025/02/25/trans-guns-protection/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trans-army-facebook-page-recruits-veterans-police-officers-to-join-rebellion-stockpile-weapons-prepare-for-what-s-coming/ar-AA1ANxlI?ocid=BingNewsVerp
'Trans Army' Facebook page recruits veterans, police officers to join 'rebellion', stockpile weapons, 'prepare for what's coming
Church statement regarding J6, support it. Ballot box, not bombs
Are we comfortable with double standard of violence?
What reaction to assassination attempt on Trump?
Economics
Friend laid off, Cuts in Post office. Necessary cutbacks
NAM God Mend Thy Every Flaw: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/neal-a-maxwell/our-need-for-true-patriotism/
TArrifs/ Stockmarket
401(k)/Portfolio taken a hit.
Norma cycle, normal uncertainty as tariffs implemented
Age 54:
Stagflation, 1980s boom and taxcuts, dot-com boom, 9/11 recession, 2008 Great Recession, Covid-19
Pay off student loans, hernia operation, toe amputation, and loan my brother $1K to buy a house
What got me through
Financial Common Sense
Self-control
Principles
Earthly Debts, Heavenly Debts By Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2004/04/earthly-debts-heavenly-debts?lang=eng
First, pay your tithing.
Second, spend less than you earn.
Third, learn to save.
Fourth, honor your financial obligations.
Fifth, teach your children to follow your example. Too
Robert D Hales
1) We can't afford it
2)We don't need it
Richard Paul Evans, 1) decide to be wealthy. I will be a celestial steward of Christ's money
Dave Ramsey, two baby steps
Investing
Start safe:
$1K Emergency fund in savings
Pay off debt, keeping you promise (commutative justive)
3-6 months emergency fund in a money market account
EE bonds
CD (Bond to bank)
Stock market:
Rulemakers
Ford, Chevron, Campbells Soup, General Mills, Coke, Pepesi, Nike, Disney, DJIA companies
Rule breakers
AI, EV
think future--who's building the future
Find a coach and mentor, not ward crackpot
Entertainment Conservative
Background
Model philosophical, popular (fiction and non-fiction), personal.
Social Liberal, Fiscal conservative. Now Entertainment conservatives
Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Jesse Grant, Mauler, Overlord DVD
Nerdroctic Daily: https://www.youtube.com/@NerdroticDaily
See the incoherence
Some parts of moral law, tao of CS Lewis in The Abolition of Man, what we call the light of Christ
Broad Common Traditional Morality in finances and entertainment, but not in personal lifestyle
Tension, even contradiction. But it is a foothold.
Things That Happen in Every MCU Movie, Story by Kai Swanson
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/14-things-that-happen-in-every-mcu-movie/ar-AA1ACK1A?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6dfdfccdfc344352f6d54d404274ccb8&ei=26
The Illusion of Moral Complexity
This scene serves a crucial function: it gives the villain the illusion of depth. The best antagonists are reflections of the hero, and the MCU tries (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) to make its villains more than just mustache-twirling bad guys. The problem is that these moments are often the only real attempt at nuance before the third act devolves into a CGI brawl. The formula works because it tricks the audience into thinking they’re watching something morally complex, when in reality, the villain will always be cartoonishly wrong and the hero will always be righteously victorious. And because the MCU doesn’t do ambiguity, these scenes rarely linger—just long enough to suggest depth before returning to the action.
The Illusion of High Stakes
MacGuffins give the audience something to focus on while the characters go through the motions of the formula. They’re a narrative shortcut, allowing screenwriters to build stakes without actually having to develop them. And because the MCU is structured as an interconnected universe, these objects don’t just matter for one movie—they’re part of a larger mythology, ensuring that even the most minor trinket could turn out to be world-altering (looking at you, Pym Particles). The formula works because it creates the illusion of weight, even when these objects are mostly just plot devices. After all, the only thing better than a MacGuffin is the next MacGuffin waiting in the post-credits scene.
The Illusion of Chaos Before the Precision of Action
These scenes exist for two reasons: they make the heroes feel fallible, and they inject humor into the high-stakes finale. The MCU thrives on characters who seem like they’re making things up as they go, even when the plan miraculously unfolds with perfect choreography in the third act. The formula works because it creates the illusion that the outcome is uncertain—except it never really is. The good guys always figure it out, the audience never doubts them for too long, and by the time the plan is put into motion, it barely resembles the conversation that preceded it. The planning scene isn’t really about the plan—it’s about making sure the audience feels involved before the CGI takes over.
The Illusion of Consequence Without the Cost
The fake-out death is the MCU’s way of having emotional weight without committing to real consequences. It lets characters have grand moments of sacrifice without the franchise losing valuable intellectual property. The formula works because it manipulates audience expectations—Marvel movies do kill characters, just not the ones that matter long-term. But with each fake-out, the impact of death in the MCU weakens. If nobody ever truly dies, why should audiences believe it the next time a character makes the ultimate sacrifice?
Key term is illusion. 24 was good--once dead, always dead, except Tony Almeida.
Let down as deviate from Broad Common Traditional Morality
Misandry--Girlbosses replacing legacy white male deadbeat dads
actively antimale
"They Killed Masculinity", CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD's Anthony Mackie Comments On Raising Boys
https://comicbookmovie.com/captain-america/captain-america-brave-new-world/they-killed-masculinity-captain-america-brave-new-worlds-anthony-mackie-comments-on-raising-boys-a216840
“...In the past 20 years, we’ve been living through the death of the American male. They have literally killed masculinity in our homes, in our communities for one reason or another. But I raise my boys to be young men. And however you feel about that, you feel about that.”
gender and race swapping characters
1820 musical, Black Hyrum Smith, blonde Emma, and poster with her using the Urim and Thummim. Antireality
Social Soapboxing
Twilight Zone did this, withing BCTM
Shift, working outside of this system, not just merely social transformation, or radical indivdualism and egalitariaims.
Plato's republic talked about shift in music and politics. He was on to something. https://theoryofmusic.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/music-in-platos-republic/
That's News Eyes of Faith