Walk - I Was Accused Of Being "Bold"

I was accused of being "bold" in my speech, so I used word "Bold" to describe our new Substack newsletter. If we are bold in speaking the truth with charity, others will do the same.

If we live in a world of feelings that dictate our behavior and character, then we reject truth. If we stand for something that is true, then we can supersede those feelings anchored on solid ground.

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this has to do with both the topic and
the reason I put a description in on a
live and intelligent substack you know
it wasn't that long ago that uh I was
having an online discussion a little bit
with the comment section about speaking
boldly speaking out defying the spiral
of silence if you will and had someone
uh in the comment section that says that
being bold was
uncristlike and that speaking out was
uncristlike and you're going to offend a
number of people and that's not a
Christian thing that is not uh what
Christ would do and you know look nobody
wants to offend any i certainly don't
want to offend anybody that's not a
desire of mine but I do think it's
important that you speak to truth right
and he said that boldness is not
good so in the description on Alive and
Intelligent on the Substack that opens
up this Sunday it's available now for
registration by the way so you can go
there to Alive and Intelligent on
Substack i'll put it in the description
box
uh and it's free and you're going to
have a a number of authors there that
are very thoughtful uh they dwell on
these types of issues a lot they write
very well so this whole team is going to
be a part of this Substack that that I'm
very excited about um but I put in the
description there that is it's a bold
newsletter part of what I said is it a
it's a bold newsletter did it
specifically because of this interaction
that I had of people trying to shut you
down again you've got to think about
well you don't want to be a jerk of
course not in situations
where you know truth is not being spoken
or you're tr you're being told to shut
up or you're being cancelled for
standing up for example for the family
proclamation or for the order of God or
for Christian principles whatever it
might be
uh there's a way to handle that with
charity
but it's not a matter of being polite as
the top
value and being bold is important think
about Paul was Paul
bold he writes about being bold several
times by the
way here here he is in Philippians he
says "And many of the brethren in the
Lord waxing confident by my bonds,"
that's his bond with Christ and all that
he had gone through are much more bold
to speak the word without fear
and I think that we're moving a little
bit more into an environment with
YouTube and
podcasts where we can break this spiral
of silence a little bit where where it's
you're
almost encircled by attitude of hey you
better not talk about this you better
not speak up about this but we're
starting to break out of this after the
last several years
um I used to feel when I would talk
about things like this even within the
church I felt online that
that you know that was not part of the
culture at all it was going against
Mormon culture now there are several
voices out there we need more and more
voices that are going to speak toward
orthodoxy that are going to speak toward
truth and that is starting to
happen but we need more there needs to
be more you know standing for something
the title of my piece this Sunday is
called Standing for Something Defying
the Spiral of Silence standing for
something remains completely out of
favor in our current age of
entitlement right our judgments and
behavior generally
uh derive from our feelings right that's
the culture that we're moving into are
are they manifest through the way we
feel instead of truth instead of
values and that's a real problem and
that is the culture that we have been
uh almost
uh dropped into over the last few years
even feelings matter more your truth
does not matter my truth versus your
truth a very postmodern type of a
uh world view and that's really
dangerous it's very dangerous in fact
Psychology Today had an article out a
couple years ago talking about how
actually when you don't stand for
something you actually end up more
intolerant because you're you're you're
subject simply to your feelings and not
your feet on the ground right you're
going you're dust in the wind and and so
you're going to react more and be more
intolerant to things that might go
against your feelings which are running
your behavior which are running your
character and and that's a real problem
but it is what we're seeing today in our
culture that's what's happening at this
point I think about
uh thorough
right saying
uh um feel not simply
good feel good for something all right
feel not simply good feel good for
something that's really
important that's why personally I don't
like the term plan of
happiness it's not a matter of just
uh feeling good right you want to feel
good for something you've got to be
attached that means you got to be
attached to truth and you know when you
stand for something we used to talk
about this a lot more i mean think about
President Hinckley and his talk and his
book Stand for Something when we when we
stand for something we are sending a
message doesn't have to be a a message
of contention but we're spend we're
sending a message not only to the
individuals around you that hey I am
sitting on solid ground here in what I
believe i'm not just being passive a
passive dust in the wind i am standing
on solid ground of truth that I know are
derived from the scriptures i know are
derived from the word of God and and
you're not just sending a message to
others you are sending a message to
yourself and as Paul had stated you know
when you are
uh true to your principles when you are
when you stand up for what you believe
then others around you will wax stronger
and I see this all the time i mean one
of the one of my favorite comments at
least is you know hey I' I've heard you
speak about these things i haven't been
able to do that before i feel like now I
can do this i I understand number one
here's someone that's speaking out on
these things but number two there's a
community of people that agree with this
and understand it instead of uh another
very common comment is I thought I was
all alone i thought I was going crazy
with all these changes in the culture
and everything going on
and now I can see with a little more
clarity and maybe it's been
articulated for you that yes I do have
these this sense of this change and what
is going on and I don't need to just go
along with it so in this week's article
uh in alive and intelligent I will be
talking
about standing for something and the
psychological issues that go along with
that the spiritual issues that go along
with that the backing of how important
it is for you in your your own
well-being and the well-being of those
around you to stand for something and to
manifest that this Sunday that article
will drop look for that on the substack
okay the second thing I want to talk
about that I think is crucial is is
family and the and the way
that outside of the last several months
maybe about 6 months or so maybe a full
year the depopulation that is happening
is very concerning and I want to just go
to one element about this when I say
depopulation I mean we're still growing
in in in the population of the west of
the United States of the world obviously
etc but that's going to reverse very
shortly in the west and uh just in a
couple of couple few decades we're we're
we're looking at some some difficult
things happening here with contraction
of economy uh the breakdown of the
family and and that's what I want to
focus on here is the breakdown of the
family we're getting married
older we are getting married less we are
having fewer
children there are a lot more single
mothers than there have been in the
past and that's really concerning to me
i think that you know I think about my
own life and what family has meant to me
what it has done for me um going from my
parents who are have both passed away
and I think about their legacy i think
about what they've taught me how
important their words are and if I mess
up I I I kind of feel bad even though
they're gone because it's like "Sorry
mom sorry about this sorry
Dad sorry about this this is not what
you would have expected of me." Right
and my my parents were really good good
people i'm just moving down generations
here uh I think about my
wife and man what a what a difference it
is i mean well I think there's more and
more of an attitude these days of well I
don't want to deal with a relationship
and I understand people have bad
relationships i understand that they
deal with toxic people sometimes and
individuals that make things maybe
impossible i'm not saying that's not
true but the
benefit of having a solid
relationship and working through things
is is so much greater than not having it
and being
alone um so we should keep that as an
ideal as much as possible the matter of
the number of times that I know I'm just
being checked kind of in my own behavior
a second set of eyes uh uh words um but
sometimes you may not be always
welcome they're they help you as a rough
stone rolling right they help smooth
things out with you and it's not just
all about you and so I I think that's
crucial for our individual development
um it's for our behavior we have checks
and balances on us that's a good thing
to do it's like the government has got
some checks and balances out there my
kids you know I I don't want to make
certain decisions sometimes
because a lot of times I just think well
I couldn't do this to my kids i can't do
this you know I have to be an example i
have to I have responsibility for their
well-being
um you know nothing nefarious but uh you
know I think that that's something
that's there it's a check and balance
and family provides that for you and of
course the stretching that you have to
do the actual love and
sacrifice that you end up leaning
toward in difficult
situations i know that's not necessarily
uh what we all look
for but it definitely strengthens your
character it definitely makes you a
better person when you're dealing with
adversity especially with people that
you're close to and that you're trying
to work things out with
and I think the world needs a lot more
of that not a lot
less and as we disintegrate family we
are creating that laboratory for growing
individuals and developing individuals
men and
women that
diminishes and and that's that's a
tragedy right that that's an absolute
tragedy the gospel is true the order of
the family is
true and we should all wax confident and
be bold in our
beliefs find truth grab onto it and
stand firmly on ground on that ground of
truth thanks for listening the wicked
flee when no man pursueth but the
righteous are bold as a lion
proverbs 28:1