Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video’s discussion has many thematic elements, but an underlying narrative continuously demonstrated is the following:
1. Receive a rule
2. Follow/learn the rule
3. Understand why the rule exists
4. Recognize the underlying principle
5. Apply that concept where no explicit guideline exists
Questions indirectly introduced & explored:
- How should a person mature from external instruction toward internal wisdom without losing the values the instruction was meant to cultivate?
- What behaviors would the person be anticipated* to demonstrate?
- What types of outcomes are they assumed* to create?
*Word choice surrounding anticipations and assumptions often reveals perspectives hidden in plain sight 🐣
00:00 Where there’s a Will, there’s a way
01:39 Historical Context Behind the Word of Wisdom
06:06 Rules, Principles & Why Commandments Exist
09:15 Thought Experiment: The 11th Commandment?
15:24 Seeing Through Another Culture (Hookah & Hospitality)
21:19 The Grocery Store Parable
26:02 Your Social Media Feeds are a Parable
30:41 When Abstinence becomes Routine: what next?
31:23 What Does Spiritual Maturity Actually Look Like?
33:16 Self Mastery in a Modern World
35:18 What Was the Word of Wisdom Trying to Produce?
39:30 Final Reflections
This video’s discussion has many thematic elements, but an underlying narrative continuously demonstrated is the following:
1. Receive a rule
2. Follow/learn the rule
3. Understand why the rule exists
4. Recognize the underlying principle
5. Apply that concept where no explicit guideline exists
Questions indirectly introduced & explored:
- How should a person mature from external instruction toward internal wisdom without losing the values the instruction was meant to cultivate?
- What behaviors would the person be anticipated* to demonstrate?
- What types of outcomes are they assumed* to create?
*Word choice surrounding anticipations and assumptions often reveals perspectives hidden in plain sight 🐣
00:00 Where there’s a Will, there’s a way
01:39 Historical Context Behind the Word of Wisdom
06:06 Rules, Principles & Why Commandments Exist
09:15 Thought Experiment: The 11th Commandment?
15:24 Seeing Through Another Culture (Hookah & Hospitality)
21:19 The Grocery Store Parable
26:02 Your Social Media Feeds are a Parable
30:41 When Abstinence becomes Routine: what next?
31:23 What Does Spiritual Maturity Actually Look Like?
33:16 Self Mastery in a Modern World
35:18 What Was the Word of Wisdom Trying to Produce?
39:30 Final Reflections
