contention

The prevalence of a spirit of contention amongst a people is a certain sign of deadness with respect to the things of religion. When men's spirits are hot with contention, they are cold to religion. - Jonathan Edwards “The Book of Mormon does not supplant the Bible. It expands, extends, clarifies, and amplifies our knowledge of the Savior. Surely, this second witness should be cause for great rejoicing by all Christians.” - Joseph B. Wirthlin

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Optimizing a thing that should not exist

Lots of smart Latter-day Saints have worked for decades to optimize the Mesoamerican/two-Cumorah's theory of Book of Mormon geography.

Optimizing a thing that should not exist is a common error.

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The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.

Why would people do that?

Everyone's been trained in high school and college to answer the question. Convergent logic. You can't tell the professor 'Your question is dumb' or you'll get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. 

So everyone, basically, without knowing it, has got a mental straight jacket on. 

They'll work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist. 


— Elon Musk

https://x.com/DimaZeniuk/status/1980485244550860818


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