Life: Some Pointers #2 (The Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-11-29 #54)

Good to see you, you all who are three steps above average.
Lead Story. Take things easy for Thanksgiving weekend. Here' some skills to add to skillset toolkit.
The ability to write AI prompts:
One of the key things is asking the right question, so you get the right answer. Joseph Smith said, "If we start right, it is easy to go right all the time; but if we start wrong, we may go wrong, and it be a hard matter to get right." This applies to writing good prompts.
My dad, while at BYU, took a chemistry class or something, 1961. His professor told the class, that because computers would do all the work. he just taught them how to set up mathematical problems.
Nowadays we just dictate to chatbot.
right phraseology, know that earlier statements are weighted heavier, clear, concise, pithy.
Ability to discern advice given:
That is, am I getting good advice, or am I getting bad advice.
To sniff out, to feel when the advice you are being given is wrong.
Vetting:
"At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." Deuteronomy 19:15., Englarge datatbase.
Maybe the person likes being in control. People who like organizing big bashes, or popping off on every topic, answering every question.
Honestly mistaken.
Religious and wisdom literature.
Recognize other's strengths:
See other people as assets.
Paul's analogy of Church as a body, different people different strengths. 3rd Wizard of OZ book, Ozma of Oz. "I have in my Army eight Generals, six Colonels, seven Majors and five Captains, besides one private" Top heavy. Little guy, the grunts, do all the work.
Double effect. Things can have both good and bad effects (trade-offs) People have strengths and weaknesses. Reinforce strengths and minimize weaknesses. True,weaknesses have a threshold of lethality, so, win/win or no deal. But sometimes have to work with situational realities.
Wisdom to resolve dilemmas:
How to make difficult choices. Two categories: knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge are bare facts, letter of law, justice. Wisdom is superior use of facts, spirit of law, mercy. Something that fails with knowledge succeeds with wisdom. Stephen R. Cover
The ability to compromise on non-essentials:
We have mixed attitude towards compromise.
In one sense, seen as a negative, synonymous with selling out.
But in US History "The Great Compromise." Constitutional Convention, deadlock on congress: equal or proportional. Small states and larger states different interests.
Second sense. Hang up with essentials
Permanent essentials, Malum en sei, doctrine
Permanant non-essentials, malum prohibidum, policy
Situational essentials and non-essentials
Great compromise:
Senate and house popular. Smaller states, New Jersy, would be dis-empowered; large states,like Virginia would dominate.
This a stalemate.
Population: more people, more say-so. Due to greater impact.
States on equal footing, peers.
Issue of fairness versus equality:
Is it fair to give smaller states a large voice than population would allow.
Or should they be equal? Same representation.
One countermove would be to have voting blocks in congress (Small State Caucus)
So they did both: Senate, more elitist body, equal; lower house congress, or assembly, would be based on population. Best of both worlds.
Both had to sacrifice one house to make it work. It was a hockey fight, but they made it work.

Think in terms of principles
Discussion has been a lead up to high-level thinking.
RGS:
"Principles are concentrated truth, packaged for application to a wide variety of circumstances. A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and compelling circumstances."
"Search for principles. Carefully separate them from the detail used to explain them."
Fundamental Principles:
Basics of reality, metaphysics, natural laws
Situational Principles:
Instances of the basics, special sciences, positive law.
RMN:
Ch. 11. Medical school, couldn't touch a heart, or stop it.
first, that all blessings are predicated upon obedience to law [see Doctrine and Covenants 130:21] and, second, that to every kingdom there is a law given [see Doctrine and Covenants 88:38].
“Well, I reasoned that if every kingdom had a law, there must be laws that govern the beating heart. I was determined to discover those laws and obey them. By doing so, blessings would come and lives could be saved.
“In medical school I had been taught that if one touched the beating heart, it would stop beating. However, one of the first laws we discovered in the lab was that we could touch the heart of an animal without losing its heartbeat. This finding opened the door later to uncovering another law that made more complex open-heart operations possible.
“We learned that if we added potassium chloride to blood flowing into the coronary arteries, thereby altering the normal sodium/potassium ratio, the heart would stop beating instantly. Then, when we nourished the heart with blood that had a normal sodium/potassium ratio, the heart would spring back to its normal beating pattern. Literally we could turn the heart off long enough to repair it and then turn it back on again.
“Decades later, when I explained this to a group of medical students, one prominent professor asked, ‘But what if it doesn’t work?’ My answer? It always works, because it is based on divine law.”
Fundamental principle: idea of natural law; Situational principle: biochemistry,Potassium to stop and restart the heart.
Hard and soft sciences, Ruhterford physics and stamp collecting (Biology and paleontology)
Look at disagreements: confusing situational with fundamental, knowledge with wisdom.
And that's the passing scene, seen with the eyes of faith

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