Donald Reay

Disciple, Husband, Father, Patriot, Attorney, Ski bum, Philosopher, Mountaineer, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

Apparently, some members have forgotten their past.

What the leaders of the LDS actually said about communism, in their own words.

David O. McKay, April 1966 General Conference: "The position of this Church on the subject of communism has never changed. We consider it the greatest satanical threat to peace, prosperity, and the spread of God's work among men that exists on the face of the earth."

Ezra Taft Benson, October 1961 General Conference: "No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction."

Ezra Taft Benson, October 1961: "We must ever keep in mind that collectivized socialism is part of the communist strategy. Communism is fundamentally socialism. We will never win our fight against communism by making concessions to socialism."

Ezra Taft Benson, October 1961: "The whole program of socialistic-communism is essentially a war against God and the plan of salvation, the very plan which we fought to uphold during 'the war in heaven.'"

Ezra Taft Benson, October 1979 General Conference:"It is a battle between two opposing systems: freedom and slavery, Christ and anti-Christ."

Ezra Taft Benson, October 1979: "Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan."

First Presidency statement, July 3, 1936 (Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, David O. McKay): "Since Communism, established, would destroy our American Constitutional government, to support Communism is treasonable to our free institutions, and no patriotic American citizen may become either a Communist or supporter of Communism."

Hugh B. Brown, April 1962 General Conference:
"Communism is of the devil. Communism started when the devil was cast out of heaven. It is well that all men know that the Church and the leaders of the Church stand squarely against communism."

J. Reuben Clark, September 21, 1946:
"Tyranny is always a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he always ends by devouring the whole flock, saving none."

Do I need to keep going?

[Kirk Rollins @nicoraytruth]

THIS IS ALL TRUE

Before a single Mormon missionary set foot on African soil, the Lord had already gone ahead of His servants and prepared a people in secret.

In the late 1960s, in eastern Nigeria, a schoolteacher named Anthony Obinna lay down to sleep and was carried in vision into a beautiful building he had never seen.

A tall man walked him room by room through its shining halls. Years passed. Then, confined to his home during the violence of the Nigerian Civil War, Obinna opened a tattered copy of Reader’s Digest and froze.

There, in an article about a people called the Mormons, stood the very building from his dream: the Salt Lake Temple. He had never heard the word before. “From the time I finished reading the story,” he said, “I had no rest of mind any longer.”

He wrote to Salt Lake City and was told plainly that no missionaries were coming. He kept writing anyway. The Spirit would not let him stop.

He raised a chapel with his own hands, painted “Nigerian Latter day Saints” near its roof in blue letters, and gathered a congregation to a church that did not yet know they existed.

When the senior missionaries finally found his nameless street in 1978, Obinna met them at the door and said the words he had waited a lifetime to speak: “You have come at last.”

A thousand miles west, in Ghana, the same fire was burning.

One morning in March of 1964, as Joseph William Billy Johnson rose to begin his daily work, the Spirit of the Lord fell upon him and he heard his own name spoken three times out of the air: “Johnson, Johnson, Johnson. If you will take up my work as I will command you, I will bless you and bless your land.”

Trembling and weeping, he answered yes, and from that hour he could not be stopped. He walked fifty miles in a day and counted it nothing, telling himself he was following the pioneers who had died in the snow.

Persecution came.

Newspapers mocked him.

Landlords threw him into the street.

And still the gifts of God rested on him so plainly that the missionaries who came later called him the Saint Paul of Ghana, a man of healing and prophecy and dreams.

When his own faith faltered in the long silence, his deceased brother appeared to him in the night and told him not to leave, for he had chosen the only true Church, and to prove it the brother sang him a hymn Johnson had never once heard in his life: Come, Come, Ye Saints.

By the time the elders arrived, Johnson had baptized no one, held no priesthood, owned no authority anyone in Utah recognized. He had only ten congregations and a thousand souls standing ready in the rain, waiting to be brought into the waters.

This is the truth that the dreams of West Africa thunder back at us, and we forget it at the peril of our own souls.

The Restoration is a living flame, and the flame belongs to God, and God lets it fall wherever He pleases.

He answered a farm boy in a grove in New York.

He answered an african schoolteacher in a war and a metal clerk on a Ghana morning, and He did not love one of them less than another.

He spoke to them in the only language He needed: the dream, the burning chest, the voice that calls a man three times before dawn.

[Gerrit W. Gong @GerritWGong]

Can artificial intelligence replace God? That question may sound provocative, but in an age when we turn to algorithms for answers, guidance, and even comfort, it matters deeply.

I invite you to join me at https://t.co/DvO30jz9aP on June 7 as we discuss how to hear God's voice in an age of artificial intelligence.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

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[Dan Shaha @DanShaha]

I had an interaction with a critic of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the other day that has fundamentally changed my views on the Church and the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.

After some back and forth about one of a dozen recycled anti-Mormon tropes he asked me a question; what evidence did I need to see to prove that Joseph Smith was false prophet and that the Church was founded on a lie?

I had to pause and think about my answer. I don’t want to tie my testimony of the Restored Gospel to an event, person, or policy. That seems like an easy way to have my convictions undermined. But I also don’t want to come off as a zealot acting on blind faith, either.

After thinking for a while I answered; I would need to have a significant spiritual experience equal to or greater than the experience I had when I first read The Book of Mormon, or the first time I went to the Temple, or when I got married, or when I first held my kids. I’d need an experience so significant that it would outweigh my previous experiences.

The conversation ended there. My testimony of the Restored Gospel comes from God, as revealed through the Holy Ghost. God is the objective source of all truth. I may not have all the answers. Some of my beliefs may not make logical sense. But God has made it very clear to me that objective, eternal truth is found in the Restored Gospel and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[Donald Reay @ReayLaw]

By their fruits shall ye know them.

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

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[AilaunchX @Ai_Tech_tool]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[Donald Reay @ReayLaw]

@UtahCollegeReps No. RINO!

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

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[Donald Reay @ReayLaw]

Awesome. I already knew the Book of Mormon was true, but this is great.

[Fefe Demeny @FefeDemeny]

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[Donald Reay @ReayLaw]

@FefeDemeny Work too much to stay on top of the market.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

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[Donald Reay @ReayLaw]

@WallStreetApes Salt Lake has gone woke. Such a tragedy.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

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