Author Archives: Monte Shelley

December 1984 The following principles are important in learning to interpret the scriptures of the Restored Gospel. 1. The fullness of the scriptures is the key to knowledge. The scriptures do not bring knowledge of themselves, for they are only … Continue reading →

December 1991 1.   Definition: Communication: The effect or relationship one being has on or with another. Kinds: Static: One thing contiguous with another.Dynamic: One thing affecting another. Static communication is always reciprocal. Dynamic communication may or may not be reciprocal. … Continue reading →

Premise: Human beings are primarily doers, not knowers. Doing: Physical action to achieve a physical result. Knowing: Mental representation of the universe created on the basis of the experiences of the individual, which are primarily physical experiences. Conclusion: Knowing is … Continue reading →

September 1991 1.   What human beings do: They These four things constitute the bulk of what human beings do. But there is one more important activity. Human beings also: 2.   Thinking is done by human beings in all of the … Continue reading →

March 1991 1. Communication: One thing affecting another. Two-way communication is conversation (action-reaction cycle). Some conversation is language facilitated. A language is a patterned and socially normed set of items used to converse. All language conversation is based in non-language … Continue reading →

February 1987 1.   History of universals: Plato: There is a general ideal entity (the true) which is named. Materially instantiated particulars have their being in being like the general. Aristotle: Recurring identities are noticed in the comparison of particulars, affirmed … Continue reading →

October 1991 1.   Human being consists of doing: Be-ing. 2.   Human beings assert themselves to fulfill desire.      Assertion: Any deliberate action (doing: Be-ing) 3.   Assertion results in conversations.      Conversation: A series of interactive assertions and receiving of assertions with a … Continue reading →

Problem: Is technology more helpful to good or to evil (LDS frame)? (Hypo) Thesis: Technology fosters evil more than good. Definitions: Argument: Therefore: An increase of technical power is more helpful to evil than to righteousness in many cases. (Is … Continue reading →

The Original Covenant The New and Everlasting Covenant And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them. (Abraham 3:25) And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch … Continue reading →

November 1989 Step 1: Establish the problem. Step 2: Relate the problem to its context. Step 3: Examine the thinking which governs the problem area. Step 4: Propose and justify a solution to the problem.