TROLLS, ENTROPY AND HITTING A NERVE ON THE SLIDE TO THE CESSPOOL OF LIFE

You OFTEN (not always) can gauge where you are at in your journey just by observing the resistance that you are encountering.  You will find that there is little resistance to the guy who wants to shoot up on heroin or to visit a brothel in Winnemucca, NV.  In fact, among the minions - there is usually clamoring and chanting to go ahead with the despicable act - much like the virginal co-eds at the college frat party as they step up to the beer bong.  The loudest cheers coming from the debauched males who hope to gain something from the soon-to-be drunken sorority "sisters".......  In that environment, there is little to counter the acts of debauchery that are about to be completed.  It is usually one-sided and it is always to a lesser entropic state - the cesspool of life.  It starts out as we come from Father's presence trailing celestial wings of glory, and then the slide to a telestial state of lower entropy begins.  Truly - the domain of the devil this slide to the bottom condition.  That of the Lowest Common Denominator or LCD, as I like to call it.  When there is no more energy, the Lord usually pulls the plug on the whole situation and flushes it like a turd-infested fruit salad.....

So, when you find yourself in a cesspool with many others who find the environment quite pleasant, ask yourself why you feel at ease.  Have you succombed to debauchery about you?  Is it just a matter of convenience or lack of care for those over whom you have responsibility?  Are you amongst those who find the ease of the slide to the bottom so much easier than the striving against the wicked winds of the day?  What are your motivations?

Are you luke warm?  Or are you cold?  It takes energy to become hot - and to remain so without succombing to the entropic slide to mediocrity.
                                

  15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The Lord would rather have us striving for something that is good (hot), much as Noah did in his day, than throwing insults from our lazy and smug position - and then finding that we were off just a little as the rains started to fall.  The one who took the higher entropic state of wood and pitch fashioned with care into something good, floating peacefully away as those of the lesser entropic state (of mind and preparation) gasped the last few breaths in cursings against the God who had tried to warn them through regular people doing extraordinary things.  Here is a Stake President from West Jordan, Utah that I just became aware of - being a watchman on the tower preparing his people for what surely must come to pass in that valley - all with no (public) direction from the top, that I am aware of:

Did you already know- maybe you did?- that the Oquirrh Mountain Temple is in one of the very few purple (lowest-shake) areas in the valley?  The area the purple includes nearly follows my stake boundaries, with just a couple exceptions. (We're the first stake north of Daybreak)  I was on the stake's emergency prep committee about three years ago; at the time I felt impressed that our stake's coming role would be to assist other, harder-hit, areas.  So our stake president now has a page outlining what we can do as a stake to train and prepare-- the more self-reliant we are, the better position we'll be in to help. 

If you think that is radical, you ought to hear what my former BYU room mate's SP is doing in the Highland area.

Remember that Jeremiah spoke nothing of Lehi and Lehi spoke nothing of Jeremiah.  Both ended up out of there.  Jeremiah with Tamara Tephi on a boat to Ireland and Lehi on a boat to the Americas.  Neither of those two spoke of their other contemporaries (previous post) who were warned and fled in two ships who wrecked on the coast of India.  None, most likely, were aware of Mulek who hopped a ship and split, as well from that bad situation.  Personal revelation is a tricky thing - because it is just that; personal.  Lehi did not speak of time spent counseling with the great minds of the day in Jerusalem about how bad things were getting.  He was told to go - and he went and did.  Likewise, I have also been told.  I choose to share those things through this blog - my journal, my Book of Iraq, so to speak.  As a troll and fellow Elder, you are under no obligation to follow - in fact I would consider that laziness on your part.  Go find out for yourself what you need to do for you and yours.  We were directed to Montana years ago and the Lord has shown us line upon line and precept on precept how that journey was to be.

Many, sleeping while my family and I were sacrificing and striving, were doing nothing.  I choose not to be a refugee when the things spoken of in Matthew 24, D&C29, 45 and 88 come about.  I have always chosen to be ahead of the curve.  I had my life planned out when I was 16.  It is my nature.  Many of us, use our time less wisely and worship different things - and in so doing, we lock up our future and secure our blessings, or not.  Sometimes we are so busy worshipping our false idols (see youtube below to wake yourself up), that we have little time to think and ponder on things that really matter; instead smugly stating that we will be told by the Jeremiah's and Lehi's of our day - and giving no thought for ourselves what we should do for the stewardship of our own families.  No one from Salt Lake called the Bishop of the Sendai, Japan ward and asked to get the calling tree going right before the big one struck there.  No one from SLC called the Mission President of the Santiago, Chile mission and told him a record EQ was about to strike there.  His wife, however, did receive personal revelation for her joint stewardship and sent out the warning to her charges.



Noah prepared for the improbable that came at a time when the people thought not.

I would be careful as to who I would be calling a fool.  Those words will sting off the end of your tongue one day as your family suffers in an unprepared state.  You have been warned.