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The Gospel of Unity
Unity implies oneness, continuity, consistency, compatibility, agreement, harmony, cooperation, and singularity. When we unite ourselves with God, with His laws, teachings, promises, virtue, and truth, we are accordingly blessed, increased, and recreated into His likeness and divine nature. As we move out of alignment with God, we are accordingly cursed, diminished, and destroyed. Moving into…
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Humility is the Ultimate Wisdom
Updated 4/4/2023 – V2 Too often, in our worldly desires for public dignity, prestige, competence, confidence, and accomplishments, we tend to neglect the superlative wisdom and necessity for having humility. It really does not matter how much we have achieved, or how awesome we think we are, or how wise we think we are, having…
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Some Reflections on Seeking New Truth
For behold, thus saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I…
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What the Sigma Male is Not
Most YouTube videos about Sigma Males portray the Sigma Male as: These things are NOT what characterizes a Sigma Male. It seems that there is a lot of wannabe Sigma Males out there who seek a sense of identity merely by relating to a personality concept, working out a ton, and then trying to bed…
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Keanu Reeves—Batman—and the Sigma Male Deconstructed
The sigma male concept is a relatively new personality construction. Dictionary.com defines the sigma male as “a slang term used in masculinist subcultures for a popular, successful, but highly independent and self-reliant man, [or] lone wolf.” A few days ago, I stumbled on a YouTube video entitled “12 Unmistakable Signs You Are a Sigma Male.” I was…
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The Vanity of the World
Updated 3/26/2023 V2 Arriving at a mature and informed understanding of gospel vocabulary seems to be the most valuable commodity that most people lack. A developed vocabulary informs our conceptions of words and philosophical concepts. But too often, we think we understand the word of the Lord and the vocabulary of the prophets, but in…
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Joy and Success in Marriage
A Guide for Husband and Wife Preparation and Selection Introduction One of the ways we receive maximum happiness and joy is by realizing our potential as husbands and fathers, or wives and mothers. As such, we need to plan and prepare ahead of time to meet these responsibilities and receive these blessings. We need to…
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My Ten Commandments for Finding Peace and Joy in Jesus
So I just uploaded two videos to YouTube: My Ten Commandments (personal minimums) 7 Rules for Finding Peace and Joy in Jesus Here are my notes for these two videos: My Ten Commandments …what I feel the Lord would have me do now to have faith and repent: Read these Ten Commandments every morning when…
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Statecraft and Secret Societies
Statecraft is the “craft” of using the power of the “state,” or government, to get wealth and power and to do evil without negative legal consequences. Statecraft is always characterized by the abuse of government authority in violating the rights of the people. Statecraft is the use of government power and authority for dishonest, corrupt,…
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The Improper Role of Government
Since the beginning of civilization, governments (and churches) have been used as get-rich-quick-schemes. Since the beginning, evil, greedy, and designing people have used these institutions to amass wealth and power, and for self-aggrandizement. This is improper. It is improper for civil governments and for religious governments alike. In ancient days, a righteous king was viewed…
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The Proper Role of Government
The proper role of government is to protect the fundamental rights of all people. Any additional roles or functions must be agreed upon and delegated to the government by the citizenry. These additional functions should probably be limited to providing essential infrastructure like roads and utilities, or regulating safety-sensitive activities, like transportation, manufacturing, or potential…
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Political Ideologies
Whether we are talking about God-given rights or humanity to humanity-given rights, as explained, the codified results should be the same. So, whether you are an atheist, agnostic, deist, or any form of religionist, you ought to be content with the superlative justness of the cause, that all human beings are equal in their rights…
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Fundamental Rights and Liberties Listed Categorically
The right to equity under the law – It is reasonable and equitable for all humans to grant all other humans the right to equity under the law. If we are to leave theology out of the equation, then it should be considered entirely reasonable for all individual members of the human species to grant…
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Fundamental Rights and Liberties
It would be useful if the Bible were to enumerate a list of fundamental God-given rights and liberties, but it does not. The Book of Mormon does much more than the Bible in promoting the principles of fundamental rights and liberties, but the Book of Mormon is not universally respected among Christians as divinely authentic,…
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Agency: The First Law of Heaven
Agency is the gift of God to all animal beings giving them the ability and right to choose what they will think and do. It is the ability and right to self-determination. It is choice. It is freedom. It is liberty. It is the dignity to represent oneself on the cosmic stage of action, reaction,…
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The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law is the restriction of inconsistent and arbitrary rules by establishing well-defined, equitable, and just laws that are strictly enforced. Where the Rule of Law prevails, nobody is above the law. Where the Rule of Law prevails, government executives, legislators, judges, and all elected and appointed government officials are strictly bound by…
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The Structure of Law in a Pluralistic Universe
We live in a pluralistic world and in a pluralistic universe. Not everybody is the same. Not everybody wants to be the same. Not everybody believes the same. Not everybody wants to live the same. Not everybody wants the same laws, the same standards, or the same cultural parameters. And believe it or not, God…
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Faith and Repentance
These are my notes from a video with Robert Smith and Todd McLaughlin. There is a mountain of deep doctrine and value here, so I very much want to share this with you. I hope you will watch the video and read and ponder this material with prayerful sincerity. We need to initiate the Lord…
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The Nature of Evil
“And Adam and Eve blessed the name of God, and they made all things known unto their sons and their daughters. And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God. And…
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The Opposition to Virtue
Virtue is voluntary obedience to truth. Virtue is characterized by consistently following specific principles, rules, and standards of morality. Virtue generally implies a combination of goodness, integrity, sexual purity, self-discipline, and honor. Philosophically, increasing virtue is to move from chaos to creation. It is to willingly be intelligently governed by the goodness of light and…
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