Husband, father, defender of virtue, accountant, and lover of the outdoors.
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Benjamin Smith retweeted
Jordan Peterson argues the crisis tearing the Western world apart isn't political or economic—it goes far deeper. When science stripped meaning from the world, it left something worse behind: suffering with no purpose and no story to make sense of it. In this lecture, Jordan explains why your values determine what you see, why stories carry a truth science can't, and what it costs a person—and a culture—when they aim at the wrong things. He also breaks down the psychology behind Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, and why those stories grip us whether we understand them or not. If your ambition keeps stalling, your relationships keep failing, or life feels like it's missing something you can't name—this one's worth your time.
This lecture was filmed in Miami, Florida, on March 24, 2025.
Benjamin Smith retweeted
From a 30 year married wife & mother, and a grandmother of 3; with absolutely NO REGRETS that I married young and didn’t delay childbearing; THIS IS MY BEST ADVISE to young 20s today:
Love is harder to find, than work; and family is more important to build, then career.
Don’t delay marriage in your youth!
Don’t delay children in your marriage!
Benjamin Smith retweeted
Well played.
🚨👶💈"UN BEBÉ CON BIGOTES"
En Ecuador informan que el RECIÉN NACIDO llegó al mundo con increíble cantidad capilar.
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El post presenta como un hecho reportado el nacimiento en Ecuador de un bebé con bigote, pero se trata de un video viral sin confirmación independiente de autenticidad o caso real específico. Medios locales destacan dudas y falta de verificación.
metroecuador.com.ec/noticias/2026/…
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Benjamin Smith retweeted
I would counter with this: nowhere did Christ ever command us to argue about the nature of His relationship between Himself, the Father, and the Holy Spirit. Paul actually commanded the opposite — "Avoid foolish controversies… and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless" (Titus 3:9), and "Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels" (2 Tim 2:23).
And it seems that many Christians on X spend so much time doing what Christ never commanded us to do that they never get around to doing what He actually commanded us TO do.
The LDS, in the meantime, are out there living what Christ commanded, each and every day. More than 70,000 full-time missionaries — most of them teenagers and young adults paying their own way — are knocking on doors on every continent, doing the Great Commission as a daily job rather than a debating topic. Their members fast two meals a month and give the money to feed the poor. Their bishops' storehouses, welfare farms, and humanitarian arm move well over a billion dollars a year in aid to people of every faith and none. Every member is assigned specific families to minister to and check on. Their local clergy are unpaid volunteers. They abstain, they tithe, they show up.
Christ gave us the test Himself: "By their fruits ye shall know them" (Matt 7:20). He did not say, "By their metaphysics ye shall know them."
So who is actually following Christ?
Benjamin Smith retweeted
I've always taught my children that to be modest is to not seek attention but to reflect God's glory. This week I found this 1957 teaching on modesty from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It teaches the principle well. I especially like what is taught about our speech in light of President Oaks recent emphasis on peacemaking.
Modesty Is the Best Policy
Modesty, like honesty in the copy book adage, is the best policy. It is the best policy because it is best for you.
Modesty is a many-sided virtue. It applies to your manner of speech, your manner of dress, your manner of conduct. And thus it reveals the manner of person you are.
Take speech. One who is modest in speech talks with restraint, sticks to the facts, gives to others the right to their own opinions without compromising his own. His opinions are listened to, his advice is often heeded.
Modesty in dress is another virtue. Smartness of style and modesty can go together, and often do. On the other hand, to flaunt one’s figure, especially before persons of the opposite sex, may excite attention but not inspire admiration. Immodesty in dress is more likely to bring a “whistle call” of dubious compliment than a sincere proposal of honorable friendship.
Modesty of conduct also brings its own reward. In a day when vulgarity is sometimes commercialized to the tune of “off beat” dance steps, it may take restraint to be modest on dance floor or in parked car, but true modesty will pay off in the lasting trust and enduring friendships of your companions.
To these rewards of modesty you can add another – your own self-respect – and without self-respect you can never have the true joy of living which a loving Heavenly Father put us here to find and cherish. So – be modest –
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF
*courtesy of my brother @BenUtah
#TheChurchOfJesusChrist #LatterDaySaints
#LDS #LDSX #LDX #SaintsOnX #modesty
Benjamin Smith retweeted
Why are marriage and birth rates falling among Latter-day Saints young adults? Sure, culture plays a role, but there's one source you might not have thought of before: parents.
About 10 years ago, BYU professors started polling their students about their barriers in dating and marriage. They've noticed a sizable shift in the answers over the past 10 years: parents urging their kids to delay marriage. Many couples visit them in their offices, saying:
"We're in love, we can't stand being apart, we've even prayed about it many times and we feel so good about it, but our parents are saying no. And they don't even have a great reason for no other than 'we just need to wait.'"
One professor asks his class to "raise your hand if your parents have incentivized you to NOT get married." And "it's pretty consistently about a third of them" and "it's a higher percentage of women than men."
Somewhere along the line, in our desire to make sure our kids had a realistic picture of marriage, we also stopped teaching the blessings and duty of marriage like we once did.
Interview with the BYU professors below. Great resource. This whole series on the Family Proclamation is amazing 👇
youtu.be/zjlRtG2Dxdw
Benjamin Smith retweeted
In 1956, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ran a campaign called "Be Honest with Yourself". The one below, "Modesty is the Best Policy" is from 1957.
"Modesty is the Best Policy
Modesty, like honesty in the copy book adage, is the best policy. It is the best policy because it is best for you.
Modesty is a many-sided virtue. It applies to your manner of speech, your manner of dress, your manner of conduct. And thus it reveals the manner of person you are.
Take speech. One who is modest in speech talks with restraint, sticks to the facts, gives to others the right to their own opinions without compromising his own. His opinions are listened to, his advice is often heeded.
Modesty in dress is another virtue. Smartness of style and modesty can go together, and often do. On the other hand, to flaunt one’s figure, especially before persons of the opposite sex, may excite attention but not inspire admiration. Immodesty of dress is more likely to bring a “whistle call” of dubious compliment than a sincere proposal of honorable friendship.
Modesty of conduct also brings its own reward. In a day when vulgarity is sometimes commercialized to the tune of “off beat” dance steps, it may take restraint to be modest on dance floor or in parked car, but true modesty will pay off in the lasting trust and enduring friendships of your companions.
To these rewards of modesty you can add another–your own self-respect–and without self-respect you can never have the true joy of living which a loving Heavenly Father put us here to find and cherish. So — be modest — BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF."
Benjamin Smith retweeted
🫣… Oh boy! We are in trouble. #TDS has violent ideation.
Benjamin Smith retweeted
Islam—a worldview that allows men to murder their children.
Feminism—a worldview that allows women to murder their children.
Can I interest you in Christianity—a worldview in which parents protect and nurture their children instead?
Benjamin Smith retweeted
🗣: @HollandJeffreyR • “Sunday best” has lost a little of its meaning in our time, and out of esteem for Him into whose presence we come, we ought to restore that tradition of Sabbath dress and grooming when and where we can."
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Behold the Lamb of God (Apr'19) – at Salt Lake City, UT
Benjamin Smith retweeted
Michelle had only two kids. She was rich and famous for most of their childhoods so she would have had a fleet of nannies and assistants doing most of the grunt work. And yet she still couldn’t wait for the kids to leave because the minor demands they made on her time and energy were still too much for her. Just a total raging narcissist.
Benjamin Smith retweeted
If you’re a woman looking for a mom to rally around and celebrate, may I suggest this one instead of Lindsay Clancy
Benjamin Smith retweeted
Correct because Craig is honest and realizes you can’t say something is the uncaused cause and that it is in any sense dependent on something else for its existence. The uncaused cause cannot be begotten in any way.
The creeds not only can’t be squared with the Bible they can’t be squared with classical theism either.
I suggest we all start being honest about that fact.
Benjamin Smith retweeted
“In happy ways.”
That's a phrase I've been thinking about a lot lately.
Spencer W. Kimball prophesied that, “Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last days will come because many of the good women of the world... will be drawn to the Church in large numbers. This will happen to the degree that the women of the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and to the degree that the women of the Church are seen as distinct and different—in happy ways—from the women of the world.”
There is so much female angst in the world.
There are angry women all over the internet and in the news.
The softer sex is becoming increasingly hardened by the philosophies and ideas of the world.
I'm not saying that women should be quiet.
On the contrary. Women need to be bold in declaring and defending truth and righteousness.
But women are most persuasive when they embody their divinely appointed attributes and use the unique gifts God has given them.
Women are powerful when embrace what's uniquely feminine.
As Margaret D. Nadauld said, “Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity.”
If you are a woman in the church, be distinct and different in happy ways. People will notice and be drawn to you. They will want to know why you are different, and you will have the opportunity to tell them.
