David Journal

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  • A legitimate nightmare

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    Last night I woke up from a horrible dream. I dreamed I was doing everything I could to patch things up with Laura. I was inviting her to participate in something (not anything I can specifically recall) to help us get closer and she just flat rejected me and told me that she was sure…

  • Claims without substance

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    The judges who was part of the Gadiantons made claims of Nephi rebooking the people but did not cite any specific offense. They wanted to leave the idea in the heads if the people that he had said something offensive or untrue but let the people fill the blanks. They did not want to say…

  • To partake of their spoils

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    Listening to the description of how the Nephites choose to align with the Gadiantons to partake of their spoils reminds me of the process I have seen over these last years as more and more of the GOP side with the authoritarians, white nationalists, bigots, and election deniers in an effort to get their tax…

  • Is this our time?

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    The time of Helaman 3 is interesting. There was great peace and prosperity overall for roughly a decade. The repentance and prosperity they were aware of were quite real but so was the growing influence of the secret society of Gadianton that they were not aware of until later. I wonder if we could see…

  • Reactive

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    Moronihah did not anticipate and prepare for what the landlord would do. Unlike his father, Moroni, he prepared for the previous war. He was still able to text to the circumstances and quickly regain control of the neighbor lands after the Lamanites invaded. I could definitely see the possibility of an attempted political assassination if…

  • Where are modern the sons of Helaman?

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    Wouldn’t it be wonderful today if we had an army of young people willing to commit to defend liberty at all costs and willing to follow the directions if a righteous leader got that cause?

  • Don’t rile Moroni

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    Ammoron blatantly lied in his episode to Moroni and it caused Moroni to abandon the deal he had proposed (well, he took the harder interpretation of his own proposal) so that, instead of exchanging prisoners (getting himself from needing to maintain Nephite prisoners and strengthening his army with soldiers who had been taken prisoner, Ammoron…

  • Iniquity, dissensions, and intrigue

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    What is the difference between these three things? How many of them needed to be present for the Nephites to begin to lose the protections of righteousness? Which of these have been at play in my family to bring us to the brink of collapse? Iniquity has certainly be part of it for many of…

  • In my defense

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    I don’t anticipate ever sending this to Laura but i had to capture my thoughts on the unfairness if how she had treated me—holding unrealistic expectations under the circumstances—and how much I have done to try building positive relationships in the family contrary to her claims. Though I don’t anticipate giving her this letter it…

  • Dead inside

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    I read 9 chapters of Psalms, including the longest (Psalm 119), and it’s just words. I feel dead inside at the reminder that nothing I have tried to do means anything to Laura. She can claim that we had a good weekend in Jackson Hole but really she had a vacation and I was along…