I’ve been doing some research. Each election, we have both sides that will engage in “if the other side wins, they’ll do this horrible thing” rhetoric. My analysis going back to 2016 is that MOST of these fears never manifest, many partly manifest, and very few fully manifest. 2024: 12 warnings, 5 didn't happen, 4 partially happened, 3 happened.
2020: 11 warnings, 9 didn't happen, 2 partially happened, 0 happened.
2016: 10 warnings, 6 didn't happen, 2 partially happened, 2 happened. If you guys like this, I’ll go further back and check claims against Obama and Bush, going all the way back to 2000. Check the comments for examples. 👇

Dear Spokane Valley City Council:

Bro. Scripture depicting violence to teach mankind its destructive consequences doesn’t mean that scripture promotes violence. The core message of the Book of Mormon isn’t violence. It’s unyielding peace, love, forgiveness, and even blessing one’s enemies — and all the teachings of Jesus Christ. And we are taught by the Book to OVERCOME all violence and violent tendencies and become even as Jesus Christ. Grok’s a pretty useless AI if it can’t distinguish between depicting violence and endorsing it. 🤦‍♂️ Consider what the text actually teaches: - Mosiah 4:13: “Ye will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably.” - 3 Nephi 12:44: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you.” - Alma 24:19: The Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their weapons rather than risk shedding blood again. - Alma 48:14: The Nephites are taught “never to give an offense, yea, and never to raise the sword except it were against an enemy, except it were to preserve their lives.” - Mormon 3:15: “Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.” - 4 Nephi 1:15–16: A society living according to Christ’s teachings experiences no contention because of the love of God dwelling in their hearts. And probably the clearest example is Mormon 4:5: “But, behold, the judgments of God will overtake the wicked; and it is by the wicked that the wicked are punished; for it is the wicked that stir up the hearts of the children of men unto bloodshed.” The Book of Mormon repeatedly shows us the destruction caused by violence precisely to teach us to avoid it. Depicting violence is not promoting violence. Condemning violence is not endorsing violence. And teaching when defensive force is justified is not glorifying in warfare. But tell me again how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints belongs among the world’s more violent religions because its scriptures document the consequences of wickedness. 😂

Bro, wut?

I am a Saturday’s Warrior.

Anyone else’s 𝕏 app on mobile refreshing your feed every time you tab out for more than a few seconds and then back in lately? It used to refresh only once in a blue moon or if I did it manually. Now it does constantly, and it’s annoying. I checked my device to make sure it wasn’t operating in a degraded capacity, and it’s not. So it must be a change to the app. Anyone else noticing this? Would be cool if they added a Refresh button that could be turned on in Settings.

Let that sink in…

This is a beautiful testimony. My mother also was kicked out of her home when she was a teenager because she was baptized. And I can’t imagine the pain that accompanies such a trial. But the Lord has blessed my mom beyond belief for her continued faith. She has more faith than almost anyone I know, and I am confident this young sister will also embrace the gospel for all her days, and be an amazing light for all the world. God is good.

You can dislike people and still be objective and acknowledge the good or positive things they do.

Lotta rain coming to Spokane this week. What’s it looking like in your area?

Friends, abortion is murder. Prophets and apostles of the Restoration have repeatedly used that word to describe the deliberate killing of children before birth. Consider these historical statements. Orson Hyde stated: “A skillful practitioner is employed to destroy the embryo offspring. This is murder” (Orson Hyde, JD 2:77). John Taylor addressed the subject repeatedly: “Men and women who are the murderers of their own infants by the thousands before or after birth” (John Taylor, JD 20:308). He condemned “murderers, who destroy the life that God has given before and after birth” (John Taylor, JD 21:116). He spoke of those who, “with their prenatal murders and other crimes, are slaying their thousands and tens of thousands with impunity” (John Taylor, JD 20:355). “Many of these murders are committed while the children are prenatal; they kill them either before or after they are born” (John Taylor, JD 21:167). After describing people “killing off their own children … before they are born,” he asked, “What are they doing now? Raising murderers and murderesses” (John Taylor, JD 23:19). He described “human butchers in the shape of physicians to assist in this diabolical and murderous work” (John Taylor, JD 23:62). He warned, “you will not commence your fashionable murders here” (John Taylor, JD 23:67). “they have a fashionable way of murdering them—either before or after they come into the world” (John Taylor, JD 23:238). He explicitly condemned “the murder of the innocents in the shape of feticide and infanticide” (John Taylor, JD 24:6). After condemning “their hellish, murderous practices,” he declared, “No woman murderer, no man murderer can have a place among the Latter-day Saints” (John Taylor, JD 25:316–317). Erastus Snow also condemned the practice: “Today infanticide and feticide are popular. … child murder, this damnable doctrine of devils” (Erastus Snow, JD 23:230–231). Joseph F. Smith spoke of: “children murdered among them annually, either before or after their birth, by their own mothers or fathers” (Joseph F. Smith, JD 24:11). George Q. Cannon described the same practice: “women murder their offspring before they are born, are guilty of this prenatal murder” (George Q. Cannon, JD 26:14). He also included men who sanctioned it, stating that such a man “shares in the crime of murder” (George Q. Cannon, JD 26:14–15). The First Presidency issued this warning: “And we again take this opportunity of warning the Latter-day Saints against those murderous and damning practices of foeticide and infanticide” (John Taylor and George Q. Cannon, First Presidency epistle, April 4, 1885, Messages of the First Presidency 3:11). Joseph Fielding Smith stated it plainly: “It is just as much murder to destroy life before as it is after birth” (Joseph Fielding Smith, Relief Society Magazine 3, no. 7, July 1916, p. 368). So tell me again “the Church & the Lord doesn’t view abortion as murder.” 😂 Sure, Jan.

Hey @grok, under what circumstances could you see AI/SI actually deciding to take over the world and/or end humanity?

This might explain why I’ve never given too much of my time and energy to friends. Not non-existent, but I’ve always preferred to be around family. With rare exception, friends eventually go their own way, and you then might say hi once a year or so via text, and an occasional reunion if you’re in the same place at the same time. But family. That’s what it’s always been about. Ever since Adam and Eve.

AI: “Oh, you’re experiencing a weird symptom? Go straight to the ER!” AI: “Oh, you stubbed your toe? Better have it checked out at the ER!” AI: “I’m sorry they looked at you funny. Better go to the ER and get that checked out. There could be something wrong with your face.”

The problem with the arguments over whether Iran (or Israel for that matter) has a nuke is that nobody can really know. Not even our highest levels of intelligence can know if Iran has a super secret underground base that happened to escape all our sensors. I am confident in saying that the available evidence is that Iran does NOT have a nuke, but that they are constantly trying even underneath all their claims that they’re not. And I am confident that if they actually completed a nuke, they WOULD use it against Israel and/or America as soon as they could. But even then, completing a bomb and successfully deploying it are still two completely different matters. They could have one completed for years before they found a way to succeed in striking either target. And they wouldn’t want to waste it on any small target. They’d go big. And this is also why I support the measures Trump has taken against them, and hope they actually come to the table. Because I’d rather see a thriving Iran than whatever this is.