Based Brigham

God, Family, and Country. Restorationist and Reactionary. Latter-day Saint, Brigham Young Enjoyer.

[Based Brigham @BasedBrigham]

"'Mormonism' embraces all truth that is revealed and that is unrevealed, whether religious, political, scientific, or philosophical. No matter how many deny their God and their religion, God is the same, his holy religion is the same, and all the truth is the same." Brigham Young

[Albion Rose @polysophical]

"If the Prophet Joseph had revealed everything which the Lord manifested to him, it would have proven the overthrow of the people in many instances; hence he had to treat them like children, and feed them upon milk, and unfold principles gradually, just as they could receive them. Was all this because it was so hard to comprehend correct principles? No; it was because we were babes and children, and could not understand. How is it now, under the administration of President Young? Much the same, in this respect. He has often found it very difficult to make the people understand things as the Lord has revealed them unto him."

— John Taylor

[Based Brigham @BasedBrigham]

Joseph Smith did not explicitly teach Infinite Regression in the King Follet Discourse. However he did clearly teach Infinite Regression in his June 16, 1844 sermon on the plurality of Gods.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

Infinite Regress...

Does anyone disagree with this?

JOSEPH SMITH DID TEACH:
- God was once as humans are.
- Humans may become like God.
- Matter and intelligences are eternal.

JOSEPH SMITH DID NOT EXPLICITLY TEACH:
-An infinite, beginningless chain of Gods stretching backward forever.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

This is good advice except for three things. First, if a pitbull is mauling a child, you should not “try everything” and wait 30 seconds before killing it. You should just kill it. That should be your first choice. Second, as she covers eventually, if you have a knife your best bet is just to stab the damned thing. Third, even if the pitbull stops mauling the child, it should still be killed, obviously.

[William Wolfe 🇺🇸 @WilliamWolfe]

Studies show that when a father comes to faith in Christ first, there is a 93% probability everyone else in the household will follow. 

So, Happy Father’s Day to all the dads! You matter more to your family and society than you’ll ever know.

[Based Brigham @BasedBrigham]

@TradAdvocate @xIYFAx The Song of Solomon is pornography in writing that glamorizes fornication and gang rape. It has historic literary purpose as ancient hebrew poetry but is certainly not inspired.

[Based Brigham @BasedBrigham]

@TradAdvocate @xIYFAx The Song of Solomon is pornography in writing that glamorizes fornication and gang rape. It has historic literary purpose as ancient hebrew poetry but is certainly not inspired.

[Andrea D. Huberwoman, Ph.D. @thegenesisbl0ck]

Yes, you CAN have a baby in your 40s in the same way that you can free climb a skyscraper with no ropes. It’s possible, but probably a bad idea for most.

The chance of conceiving and carrying a healthy pregnancy in your 40s is not zero, but it’s *significantly* lower than in your 20s and even 30s.

It’s really possible if you’re already metabolically healthy, but the majority of women aren’t in that position by their 40s. You can’t spend your 20s and 30s on and off hormonal contraceptives, running chronically high cortisol and ignoring metabolic health, then think you’ll instantly get pregnant once it suits you.

Most women aren’t Anne Hathaway. She’s healthy, has a team and enough resources to increase her odds as much as possible. Perhaps she even froze her eggs back in the day. She’s not the norm!

I’m all for celebrating pregnancies, of course. But trying to convince women that this is attainable to the point of normalising it is harmful. Even to the point of being anti natal propaganda.

[Samuel Holden @SamuelHolden_]

I'm wishing a Happy White Boy Summer to all who observe 🤗

To those who don't...

happy pride month I guess??? 🤢

[Defiant Baptist @DefiantBaptist]

I debated about how to cover James White’s crashout stream over the Ogden Bros, because there was so much there.

Since Brian and Eric already addressed the controversy in full, there wasn’t any reason for me to respond to James point by point, so I opted for a supercut.

Enjoy!

[Joel Webbon @JoelWebbon]

Gonna frame this and hang it in my office.

[Defiant Baptist @DefiantBaptist]

James White was none too happy about being trolled by @PerfInjust yesterday. James’ time is valuable, don’tcha know?!

He lost a whole EIGHTY MINUTES listening to a great lecture on political theory. Dr. Wolfe didn’t even discuss RV repair or intermittent fasting, for goodness sake!

I did splice in an abbreviated supercut of Wolfe’s trolling, so I hope you enjoy it. And props to whichever one of you savages was trolling James White on Strava. 🚴‍♂️

[Stephen Wolfe @PerfInjust]

Here's the stream. Lag gone (hopefully)

[Thomas Stevenson @RealTStevenson]

“I believe in Christ, He is my King!”

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.

Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.

And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.

You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

[Eric Meadows @EricCMeadows]

A member of a former ward of mine had Down Syndrome. I remember when he became a priest and wanted to bless the sacrament. His dad and the bishop worked a ton with him until he could do it unassisted.

The first time he blessed the sacrament on his own, it was not perfect, but there was not a dry eye in the chapel. To this day, I have never seen anyone smile bigger than he did when he finished and stood up. It was one of the most profoundly spiritual experiences of my life, to feel the love of the Savior for him, and for me, through his simple act of service. I’ll never forget it.

After high school, he wanted to serve a mission. He was called as a service missionary. He worked in a Bishop’s Storehouse.

I have never met anyone more excited and proud to wear his name tag. The world needs more people like him. He radiates pure joy wherever he goes.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The more Netanyahu prevents the war with Iran from ending, the more obvious it becomes that he convinced Trump to start it.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

This is one of my favorite Book of Mormon evidences.

Justin is doing some great things.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

One of the most basic fundamentals of leftism is the abhorrence of beauty.

You have the primal desire to destroy anything that is beautiful, whether it is the family, architecture, classical art, or anything that is desirable.

If it’s not yours, you have a compulsion to destroy it.

[The Eternal Saints @Eternal_Saints_]

I thoroughly and genuinely enjoyed Brother McClellan’s video from yesterday.

I half expected him to just demolish Jacob. But he actually did him a solid by explaining where he went wrong in a theological debate with an evangelical and provided more defensible data that can help any Latter-day Saint in future such encounters.

I highly recommend watching this whole video from Dan. Great stuff.