Life: Some Pointers™ (The Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-10-18 #48)

I. Life: Some Pointers™ (The Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-10-18 #48)
i. For some decades now, I have been itching to write a book called "Life: Some Pointers," for teens and pre-teens, Jr High demographic.
ii. Like to do this, Guideposts for life.
iii. At a certain age you need to mentor. I'm at that age now. Get to it at the end.
iv. But first, news
II. New Prophet
i. Second lawyer, University President (Holland, Eyring, Bednar), experience in Philippines.
ii. Speed of decisions.
1. Managing Oneself.
a. People are different. "Understand men and women as they are, and not understand them as you are." DBY, 254
b. Readers, Listeners, Talkers, Doers.
2. ETB, RMN, quick; TSM, DHO slow decisions
iii. Discussion about leadership, and also teaching
1. Leaders: principles, personalities, circumstances, nature of people
2. Teaching: Different learning styles, and getting a teacher who syncs up. Part of issue.
III. Trump
i. Kirk Presidential Medal of Freedom
ii. Body Shaming?
1. Orange complexion.
a. Arnold Joke
2. Small hands, small breasts
3. Hair #1. Halloween and Gal on bus. Time magazine
4. Missing hair #2 time Magazine, sunlight effect
5. Time and OJ, darkened cover June 27, 1994
IV. Charlie Kirk
i. Who replace him? Pray for wife. And supporters. Post Limbaugh--very decentralized.
ii. Beck and hand off empire to him.
iii. Rush Limbaugh, no one filled void.
V. Bullet Points
i. If you were wrong about Fetterman, raise your hand.
1. Psychologically healthy to admit you're wrong
2. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fetterman-says-he-knows-loves-trump-voters-im-only-democrat-my-family
3. "I'm the only Democrat in my family. I grew up in a conservative part of Pennsylvania," he noted during a NewsNation Town Hall while wearing a hoodie.
4. "I would never compare anybody, anybody to Hitler, and those things," Fetterman declared.
5. Such "extreme rhetoric" will make it "more likely" that there will be "extreme … outcomes and political violence," he suggested.
6. Pointing to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Fetterman said, "let people grieve, give people the space. I'm not gonna use that terrible thing … to make my argument and try to put out my views. It's like, my God, you know, he's a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet."
7. The senator also pointed to the near-assassination of Trump in Pennsylvania last year.
8. "We really gotta turn the temperature down," he said.
ii. Justice Jackson. SCOTUS
1. https://www.megynkelly.com/2025/10/16/ketanji-brown-jackson-comments-about-minority-voters-and-americans-with-disabilities-act/
2. “In my kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the ADA. Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities, and so it was discriminatory in effect,” she began. “Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities, if readily possible. I guess, I don’t understand why that’s not what’s happening here.”
3. She then made the connection between race and ability. “The idea in Section 2 [of the Voting Rights Act] is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don’t have equal access to the voting system, right,” Jackson said. “They’re disabled.”
4. Well, holdover from the Auto-pen Presidency Era. Judge Thomas Griffith introduced her.
5. Model (Charlie Kirk and Pink Elephant Effect), Left and Right process language differently
iii. Mandami NYC.
1. Plan and how to pay for it. Tax rich, markets ADJUST.
2. https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1978974963873784046
a. Eyal Yakoby, I never said to defund the police, and Y shows screen captures
b. Bill Clinton, knew he was a problem but went along with it.
iv. Pope an King Royal confrater
1. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/10/17/king-charles-pray-with-pope-leo-first-time-in-500-years/
2. American Pope with Royal Monarch
3. First time in 500 years.
4. Glad reconciling.
5. Ecumenism.
a. Hugh Nibley The World and The Prophets
b. Peter Kreeft Ecumenical Jihad
c. Church:
i. Adding Protestant hymns
ii. Protestant verbiage: Good news, brokenness, focus on "born again" terminology
iii. Catholic derivative holidays
d. D&C 1 and 1 N 14:10
v. Separated Twins: Separated at birth, identical twins raised in Korea and America found to have unusual differences in IQ
1. https://scoop.upworthy.com/identical-twins-raised-in-korea-and-the-us-show-surprising-differences-in-iq-new-study-reveals-ex6
2. "The sister raised in the US had an IQ 16 points lower than her sibling in Korea. Previous studies revealed that identical twins typically have no more than a 7-point IQ difference, making this case astounding. Differences and similarities in intellect, reasoning, values, and more were observed among the sisters."
3. What does that mean?
a. Hasty Generalization, one instance
b. Raise question about American school system
i. State by State
ii. Public, university. better GPA at U
VI. Understanding the Left
i. Model: Feelings, Fairness, Friends
ii. Charlie Kirk and Pink Elephant Effect
iii. Rabbi Daniel Lapin: The Severed Flower: https://www.policyarchive.org/download/12677
VII. Life: Some Pointers™:
i. Success Library
1. Drucker, Managing Oneself
a. Take initiative
b. Learning styles
2. 7 Habit, Godfather of Modern Self-Help books
3. 8th Habits
4. 10 Natural Laws, Time management
5. Drucker, The Effective Executive, Newt Gingrich recommended
6. Built to Last, Good To Great, G2G Social Sector
ii. Influencing
1. How to Win Friends and Influence People
2. Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Change Anything
iii. Money Matters
1. 5 Lessons a Millionaire Taught me about Life and Money
2. Richest Man in Babylon
3. Dave Ramsey Baby steps
4. Investing
a. Motley Fool
b. Nerdwallet
c. Investor.gov
5. Me
a. Get on a budget
b. Get out of debt
c. Don't Do Drugs
d. Killing you debt is the key to it all
6. Right now
a. I like credit unions
b. Checking account for bills
c. Savings account for utilities
d. Money Market (not IRA, but normal) for 6 month emergency fund. Higher interest rate
e. CD/SD get a 12 month, and try it for a year.
f. Federal bonds, I have a few , for patriotic reasons, and a sure thing. better rats with credit union
g. Stocks: Index Funds over individual stocks. I do long term, just park it in there and don't worry.
i. Diversify
ii. Invest future
iii. Common-sense
1. G Mills and Kellogg’s
2. Kellogg’s sold.
h. Crypto: Ashtray money
i. Credit cards. Pay off every day. get into habit as you kill your debt. Use points for Christmas gifts  If issue, debit card works.
VIII. That's the passing scene, seen with the Eyes of Faith