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It's good to judge others. It's bad to be a hypocrite.
First look at yourself, then you'll be able to see clearly to remove the mote in your brother's eye. And you won't be afraid of being judged by the same standard by which you're judging.
Stop lying about what Jesus taught.
A good seed still needs good ground to grow in.
Religion requires basic psychological health before it can thrive in a person's life.
Once the minimum standard is met, religious truths can amplify the person's health.
People are making this mistake constantly.
When an idea gains traction, they blame the idea. When it doesn't, they also blame the idea. The same idea can be presented to two different crowds and get two different reactions, and they'll blame the presentation instead of the people.
People who grew up hearing about the parable of the sower still make this mistake. The seeds being sowed are words and the ground is human nature. Sometimes, the ground just sucks. But this is hard for people to accept.
At some level this is rational because people have the ability to use words. They do not have the ability to change people's temperaments, attitudes, or life experiences. To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For humans, speech is the hammer. So they focus on the power of words. It's a power that is meaningful to them because they can use it.
But the hard truth is that words and memes are shallow and rarely affect deeper layers that drive human behavior.
The power of words is to access and direct human energy. But that potential energy has to be there already.
" @jordanbpeterson sounds smart to stupid people, but he's just speaking gibberish."
When you hear someone say this, here's a test you can give them:
Explain the first 60 seconds of this video: youtu.be/0X9_DHaEc3w
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I'm not a Mormon. So why do I zealously support the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints? Because our country is dying. That is a fact. America is in late stage imperial collapse, the same disease that took Rome.
And of every institution still standing, the Latter day Saints are the best positioned, spiritually, demographically, and materially, to stop it.
Sometimes I come down hard on the Saints, wanting them to burn hotter, fight harder. It isn't criticism and it isn't hate. It's a comrade calling across the same battlefield, watching the line thin where you used to stand. I need you back in the fight.
As Charlie Kirk said, “First of all, I love Mormons. I’ve said that forever. I love how Mormons have more kids than they can afford. I think it’s time for Mormons — you’ve got to get your mojo back. No more of this L.G.B.T. stuff. We need the strong Mormon Church back in this country, right?”
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Ben Shapiro today on his podcast:
“There is no category of humans that are entirely good and honest…
…maybe the Mormons come close.”
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The idea that modern, secular people are irreligious is absolute fiction.
Wokeness, Marxism, feminism, and statism are all clear examples of political religions.
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Jordan Peterson’s role in changing the public conversation about religion is undeniable.
The point he made here (2018) was arguably his most important.
What sits atop the hierarchy of your values is your “God.”
In this way, everyone is religious.
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Faith Surges at BYU: In my previous calling as Church Commissioner of Education, I was inspired by the efforts of @BYU to realize its mission. I am thrilled to see this report of strengthened faith in Christ among BYU graduates. I am thankful for President Reese, the BYU leadership, students, and faculty who are striving to become the BYU of prophecy and promise foreseen by past and current prophets. deseret.com/education/2026/0…
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In advance of the upcoming general conference leadership session (April 2, 2026), The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced upcoming adjustments to the Sunday class meeting schedule to support members in their efforts to be lifelong disciples of Jesus Christ. The adjustments will strengthen gospel learning in homes and congregations throughout the world.
Beginning September 6, 2026, the alternating weekly schedule for Sunday School and quorum or class meetings will be replaced. Under the updated schedule:
• Sunday School, Relief Society, elders quorum, Young Women and Aaronic Priesthood quorum meetings will be held each week.
• Sacrament meeting will continue to be 60 minutes, followed by brief transition periods.
• Sunday School and quorum and class meetings will each be 25 minutes.
• Primary will continue every Sunday and will be 55 minutes, held while adults and youth attend their respective classes.
• Where local circumstances necessitate, units may begin with Primary and quorum and class meetings and conclude with sacrament meeting.
Visit the link below to learn more:
Newsroom.ChurchOfJesusChrist…
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The double slit experiment is the probably most misunderstood experiment ever. I have no idea who created the myth that if you 'look' at one of the slits, then the particles (photons/electrons) stop behaving as waves. It's wrong! They of course STILL behave as waves! Because particles are also waves, always.
Photons and electrons make a self-interference EVEN ON A SINGLE slit. Don't believe it? Below an actual measurement from a laser diffracting on a single/double slit from Wikipedia.
What happens if you measure which slit the particle goes through is that you get no interference between BOTH slits. And no, you don't need a conscious observer for this. Believe it or not, there have actually been experiments where they had people literally look at a double slit to see if that makes any difference and the answer is no, it does not.
The entire mystery of the double slit is in the path of the particle TO the double slit. Because it seems that the particle must "know" whether it WILL be measured at one of the slits before it even gets there. It must "know" whether to go through both or just pick one. Seems like the future influences the past? Not really, it just means you have a consistency condition on the time evolution.
The answer is no, and take Physics 101.
for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain
this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it
what i found was...not what I expected?
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If you love learning, here's a warning:
Every time you learn something that makes you see the world differently, take careful notes.
Unless you are able to bring other people to new worlds with you, you will eventually find yourself the only human living in your world.
It's quite common to feel alone even while around other people.
If you never take people with you intellectually, eventually nearly everyone will make you feel this way.
Imagine being on a hike with a group of people, and they start eating tree bark. Then they see a bear and want to go pet it. One gets mauled and the rest are convinced a bad spirit caused it. You try to explain that bears are dangerous, and they make fun of you for saying that bears will try to rob them.
You are technically around other people, but really you're alone.
The same thing happens at higher levels of abstraction. This is why a desire to educate has to accompany a passion for learning.