In human history who, besides Joseph Smith Jr., has seen and spoken with God?

Did Joseph describe God?  How tall is He; His eyes, nose, hair?  Does He have a beard?  What kind of clothes does He wear?

The less a leader does and says
The happier his people,
The more a leader struts and brags
The sorrier his people.
Often what appears to be unhappiness is happiness
And what appears to be happiness is unhappiness.
Who can see what leads to what
When happiness appears and yet is not,
When what should be is nothing but a mask
Disguising what should not be? Who can but ask
An end to such a stupid plot!
Therefore a sound man shall so square the circle
And circle the square as not to injure, not to impede:
The glow of his life shall not daze,
It shall lead.

  The Way of Life According to Lao Tsu
  Translated by Witter Bynner

(Today, every American should read and seriously consider this!)

A realm is governed by ordinary acts,
A battle is governed by extraordinary acts;
The world is governed by no acts at all.
How do I know?
This is how I know.
Act after act prohibits
Everything but poverty,
Weapon after weapon conquers
Everything but chaos,
Business after business provides
A craze of waste,
Law after law breeds
A multitude of thieves.
Therefore a sensible man says:
If I keep from meddling with people, they take care of
                   themselves,
If I keep from commanding people, they behave
                  themselves,
If I keep from preaching at people, they improve
                  themselves,
If I keep from imposing on people, they become
                  themselves.

  The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
  Translated by Witter Bynner

And his lust for unlimited power, Donald Trump turns republican precepts of limited government and states’ rights on their head!

Vladimir Putin plays Donald Trump with the finesse of Itzhak Perlman bowing a pawnshop fiddle.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints website, in the western hemisphere, between 600 B.C. and 400 A.D. The Book of Mormon was compiled.  Some 7000 miles to the east, in the late fourth century A.D., the Vulgate Bible was codified as official cannon of the Catholic Church.  Subsequent translations and interpretations of the Vulgate became Protestant Bibles.

Curiously, these two foundational texts exhibit identical, structural protocols. The Bible employs The Book of Mormon’s book, chapter, and verse format!

Moreover, various Biblical passages occur verbatim with passages from the Book of Mormon!

How can this be?

Think about it!

If I had any learning
Of a highway wide and fit,
Would I lose it at each turning?
Yet look at people spurning
Natural use of it!
See how fine the palaces
And see how poor the farms,
How bare the peasants’ granaries
While gentry wear embroideries
Hiding sharpened arms,
And the more they have the more they seize,
How can there be such men as these
Who never hunger, never thirst,
Yet eat and drink until they burst!
There are other brigands, but these are the worst
Of all the highway’s harms.*
  The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu
  Translated by Witter Bynner

New thought on an issue I’ve addressed before:

In a speech, July 15, at Carnegie Mellon University, Donald Trump boasted that his uncle, MIT Professor John Trump taught Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

Kosinski earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.  His and Professor Trump’s paths never crossed.

If Donald concocted this story, he is a liar; If he believes it, he is delusional!

In either case, we have a deeply flawed, potentially lethal mind in the Oval Office!

Producers and importers will not absorb Donald’s tariffs.  Trump’s national sales tax will cost the average American family between $2500 and $3500 a year!

And his lust for unlimited power, Donald Trump turns Republican precepts of limited government and states’ rights on their head!

With USAID contracts canceled, American wheat-growers/Trump-voters face bankruptcy.  As their workforce is swept up by ICE, farmers and ranchers who voted for Donald scramble for bodies to manage livestock and harvest crops, meatpackers search desperately for laborers.

And his lust for unlimited power, Donald Trump turns Republican precepts of limited government and states’ rights on their head!

Vladimir Putin plays Donald Trump with the finesse of Itzhak Perlman bowing a pawnshop fiddle.

Google: Ronald Reagan’s Radio Address to the Nation on Free and Fair Trade | Ronald Reagan

A sound man’s heart is not shut within itself

But is open to other people’s hearts:

I find good people good,

And I am fine, bad people good

If I am good enough;

I trust men of their word,

And I trust liars

If I am true enough;

I feel the heartbeat of others

Above my own

If I am enough of a

Enough of a son.

  The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

  Translated by Witter Bynner