David Journal

Tag: current events

  • A king will lead to destruction

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    He that raiseth up a king against me shall perish. 2 Nephi 10:14 I wouldn’t take this to mean that all who support a monarchial form of government in this promised land will physically die but rather that any movement which supports placing a man above the law to rule (monarchial form—regardless of what name…

  • Two possible paths

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    I see two potential paths for the country with MAGA in charge now, either the people generally embrace the MAGA way and the country has a major fall from stability or the people choose to reject MAGA and those who embrace it fight among themselves until MAGA cannibalizes itself like the kingdom of Jared and…

  • Craig and Meghan

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    The news for today is that Bill called to tell me that Craig and Meghan and their family were in a horrible car crash last night on their way home from somewhere. Craig and their 11 month old died at the scene, Meghan lost her pregnancy, and Craig Jr (6 years old) died this evening.…

  • What was “peace for four years”?

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    Mormon talks about a war followed by four years of peace leading into more war. He also talks about the Gadiantons in the land during that time and it makes me wonder about the 4 years of peace. Was that 4 years without open warfare but with rampant wickedness and deception which were degrading the…

  • Resolved to press on

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    The election result was not what I wanted but the more I thought about it the more I realized that the underlying work that we need to do to move past disinformation is the same work that we would have had to do regardless of who won the election.

  • It’s hard to be patient

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    The votes have been cast but despite being warned repeatedly that things would be close and it would take time to call the race I’m anxious at not seeing a clear break toward Harris to end the suspense early. I remember in 2020 that I made a conscious decision to go to bed on time…

  • Trying to stay patient

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    I managed to get a reasonable amount of work done today. Hopefully I’ll be able to do that again tomorrow. I think it’s safe to say that whether I can get any significant work done on Wednesday will depend on whether we have any clarity on what the outcome of the election will be. Even…

  • More optimistic

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    I’m feeling more optimistic in the outcome of this election. I’m also seeing more optimism coming from others who are pulling for Kamala Harris to win. I also saw Jennifer Lopez website Harris and once again it was a masterclass in political communication — I’ve seen several of these extraordinary endorsements and I’m planning to…

  • The closing argument

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    I listened to Kamala Harris speak at the ellipse tonight—the site where Trump had rallied his people to storm the capitol on January 6th—in what was labeled as her closing argument for the election. I felt fortunate to get to listen to it as it was being given rather than sometime later. In fact, while…

  • The wicked punished by the wicked

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    As I read about the wicked being punished by the wicked I thought of the war in Gaza. I’m not saying that so those who have been and are being killed are wicked (the wicked never confine their actions to the wicked) but wickedness among the people (and the leadership) in Israel helped foster the…