NASA-FUNDED STUDY ON IRREVERSIBLE SOCIETAL COLLAPSE

Apparently NASA thinks that there is a pattern that has happened historically....

Ya think??  The Book of Mormon nails it down to the detail of how it comes about.  And it cost nothing more than a few lives and some gold to make happen.....  No taxpayer funds required!:

  

Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?

Natural and social scientists develop new model of how 'perfect storm' of crises could unravel global system

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This Nasa Earth Observatory image shows a storm system circling around an area of extreme low pressure in 2010, which many scientists attribute to climate change. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.
Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common."
The independent research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary 'Human And Nature DYnamical' (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, in association with a team of natural and social scientists. The HANDY model was created using a minor Nasa grant, but the study based on it was conducted independently. The study based on the HANDY model has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Elsevier journal, Ecological Economics.
It finds that according to the historical record even advanced, complex civilisations are susceptible to collapse, raising questions about the sustainability of modern civilisation:

"The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent."

By investigating the human-nature dynamics of these past cases of collapse, the project identifies the most salient interrelated factors which explain civilisational decline, and which may help determine the risk of collapse today: namely, Population, Climate, Water, Agriculture, and Energy.
These factors can lead to collapse when they converge to generate two crucial social features: "the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity"; and "the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or "Commoners") [poor]" These social phenomena have played "a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse," in all such cases over "the last five thousand years."
Currently, high levels of economic stratification are linked directly to overconsumption of resources, with "Elites" based largely in industrialised countries responsible for both:

"... accumulated surplus is not evenly distributed throughout society, but rather has been controlled by an elite. The mass of the population, while producing the wealth, is only allocated a small portion of it by elites, usually at or just above subsistence levels."

The study challenges those who argue that technology will resolve these challenges by increasing efficiency:

"Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use."

Productivity increases in agriculture and industry over the last two centuries has come from "increased (rather than decreased) resource throughput," despite dramatic efficiency gains over the same period.
Modelling a range of different scenarios, Motesharrei and his colleagues conclude that under conditions "closely reflecting the reality of the world today... we find that collapse is difficult to avoid." In the first of these scenarios, civilisation:

".... appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, but even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society. It is important to note that this Type-L collapse is due to an inequality-induced famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature."

Another scenario focuses on the role of continued resource exploitation, finding that "with a larger depletion rate, the decline of the Commoners occurs faster, while the Elites are still thriving, but eventually the Commoners collapse completely, followed by the Elites."
In both scenarios, Elite wealth monopolies mean that they are buffered from the most "detrimental effects of the environmental collapse until much later than the Commoners", allowing them to "continue 'business as usual' despite the impending catastrophe." The same mechanism, they argue, could explain how "historical collapses were allowed to occur by elites who appear to be oblivious to the catastrophic trajectory (most clearly apparent in the Roman and Mayan cases)."
Applying this lesson to our contemporary predicament, the study warns that:

"While some members of society might raise the alarm that the system is moving towards an impending collapse and therefore advocate structural changes to society in order to avoid it, Elites and their supporters, who opposed making these changes, could point to the long sustainable trajectory 'so far' in support of doing nothing."

However, the scientists point out that the worst-case scenarios are by no means inevitable, and suggest that appropriate policy and structural changes could avoid collapse, if not pave the way toward a more stable civilisation.
The two key solutions are to reduce economic inequality so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources, and to dramatically reduce resource consumption by relying on less intensive renewable resources and reducing population growth:

"Collapse can be avoided and population can reach equilibrium if the per capita rate of depletion of nature is reduced to a sustainable level, and if resources are distributed in a reasonably equitable fashion."

The NASA-funded HANDY model offers a highly credible wake-up call to governments, corporations and business - and consumers - to recognise that 'business as usual' cannot be sustained, and that policy and structural changes are required immediately.
Although the study based on HANDY is largely theoretical - a 'thought-experiment' - a number of other more empirically-focused studies - by KPMG and the UK Government Office of Science for instance - have warned that the convergence of food, water and energy crises could create a 'perfect storm' within about fifteen years. But these 'business as usual' forecasts could be very conservative.
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development and author of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How to Save It among other books. Follow him on Twitter @nafeezahmed

• This article was amended on 26 March 2014 to reflect the nature of the study and Nasa's relationship to it more clearly.

UN PREPARING FOR MARTIAL LAW IN THE USA

Folks, this is not just idle hot air and sensationalism.  If you do not think this can happen, you are deluded in my opinion.  And then there are the witnesses of so many more people that I have run into:

http://prepperchimp.com/2014/06/26/dave-hodges-the-un-is-preparing-to-impose-martial-law-on-the-us/

UTAH BAN ON "GAY MARRIAGE" STRUCK DOWN IN COURT OF APPEALS

This is pathetic news.  Where is the voice of the people in activist judges??

No coinkydink that the rally celebrating this abomination (that soon will desolate) was held at City Creek Park just above Temple Square.  I cannot remember any of the reasons why we were sent the 20 miles to do service in this park while I was a YM leader in West Jordan (other than to be a witness as to how bad things were back in the mid-90's), but we found innumerable amounts of underclothes, shorts, etc in the bushes there and just threw them away.  I was just a little more naive than I am today and did not make the connection to that and what I later learned was a serious problem with "gay cruising" in that park.  This clothing was shed, while like so many feral dogs, the homosexuals went in the bushes to play out their animal lust.  I have said it before, and I will say it again, that the very animals will testify against many of our species who have far less morals than they have had as lesser beings in the animal kingdom.

Here is what got me spun up:

   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865605769/Utah-cannot-deny-right-to-marry-based-on-gender-appeals-court-rules.html

PREPARING FOR THE SECOND COMING - WORDS OF THE PROPHETS

This is a great vid put out by my former missionary companion.

Hope you enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IqaesQ2EE8w

DICK CHENEY CALLS OUT FUTURE NUKES?

I will never forget my surprise when there was a movie to be released that dealt with two airplanes slamming into the twin towers around the time the actual event occurred.  Movies take a year or two to film and produce and release.  Who would come up with such a random plot line? 

I do not think it is random.  In the height of arrogance, TPTB like to say beforehand what they are going to do in order for the people to worship the beast and those that give it power.  I used to really like Cheney - but I realize he is just part of the machine of evil that is making money off of lives that are being spent in war.

Here is what he had to say on the matter:

    http://www.businessinsider.com/dick-cheney-911-attack-america-us-obama-2014-6#ixzz35c8TVq6G

WHY THE PUSH FOR HOMOSEXUALITY IN OUR CULTURE?

Because the secret combos have gotten above us.  And I am not talking about someone in the McD's food development lab holding a new happy meal above their heads....

It is something that has been from the beginning.  In one of the current incarnations of Cain's first rebellion, the new initiates of the "Skull and Bones" club, which include John Kerry and George Bush, they have to climb into a coffin naked and masturbate while telling the rest of the "brethren" about their previous sexual exploits.  I am sure it is filmed these days.  I am sure this seals the deal and the newly initiated person then has to do as he is told - or face the humiliation of that information becoming public.  Sick - just sick.  And I am not making any of this stuff up.

Here is an article from a blog follower and FB friend:

  This is from the book "There are Save Two Churches Only" and from the chapter THE ORIGIN OF CONSPIRACY...pay attention to everything which I put here in PURPLE.  Scriptures in BLUE.  Attention getters in bold and red.

“Beneath the broad tide of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depths the changes that take place upon the surface. These societies have existed in all ages and among all nations, and tradition has invariably ascribed to them the possession of important knowledge in the religious[,] scientific or political order according to the various character of their pretensions.”

 It was said long ago in a certain garden, by the devil himself, "I will buy up armies and navies, false priests that oppress, and tyrants that rage with blood and horror on this earth".

In order to fathom the scope, reach and origin of the devil’s kingdom today, it is critical to understand at what point it was founded and how it flourished. Fortunately, the Lord revealed to Joseph Smith these foundations, which are canonized in The Pearl of Great Price. The fifth chapter of the Book of Moses covers these matters.

However, from the outset, it is important to touch upon how the term “know” is used Biblically, and thus in the Pearl of Great Price as well. The original Hebrew word in the Bible is pronounced “yaw-daw.” According to Gesenius’ Lexicon of Hebrew and Chaldee, this Hebrew word is the root of the sense of “seeing” in Greek, Latin, German, Slavic, English, Sanskrit, nearly every other Indo-European language. In Hebrew it is used to express a variety of manners of familiarity or interaction, depending upon context. Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance lays out dozens of ways in which the Hebrew equivalent of “know” as used in Biblical records can be translated into English; some of the definitions include: acknowledge, answer, be aware, comprehend, discern, discover, familiar friend, lie by man (i.e. a male’s sexual interaction), have knowledge, make known, teach, tell, and understand. Essentially, “to know” in Hebrew is not only a status of comprehension, as is most commonly used in English (i.e. “I know about that”), it is also used to describe action, as in to discover, to teach, to interact. Additionally, it is also applied as a metaphor for male sexual activity. The reader needs to keep this in mind when reviewing quoted segments from the fifth chapter of the Book of Moses. All emphasis is added.

Verse 2:

“And Adam knew his wife, and she bare unto him sons and daughters, and they began to multiply and to replenish the earth.”

This is a contextually obvious usage of the verb “know,” plainly demonstrating the term being applied in reference to the male sexual act. Adam “knew” his wife and she became impregnated, thus they gave birth to many children.

Verses 16 and 18:

“And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words. But behold, Cain hearkened not, saying: Who is the Lord that I should know him?… And Cain loved Satan more than God.”

These verses make it known unto us that Cain, from birth, was inclined to not hearken to the word of the Lord. He seemed to hold an attitude of contempt, as demonstrated in his words “Who is the Lord that I should know him?” In Cain’s response, the word “know” is contextually ascertained to mean seek, discover, or desire interaction with. Additionally, as Cain became acquainted with Satan, he chose to love him more than God.

Verses 18 to 21:

“And Satan commanded [Cain], saying: Make an offering unto the Lord. And in process of time it came to pass that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering; But unto Cain, and to his offering, he had not respect. Now Satan knew this, and it pleased him. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.”

Cain was told by Satan to make an offering to the Lord. It is implied that Cain was fully educated from childhood about everything that is required to offer sacrifice — that a pure lamb must be offered. With Cain being a “tiller of the ground” (i.e. a farmer), he would be required to obtain a lamb from his brother to properly offer sacrifice to the Lord. Likely, he would need to trade some of the “fruit of the ground” that he had harvested with one of his brothers who raised sheep in order to get a lamb to offer sacrifice. This is what would be required in order to keep the ordinance, and perform it properly, as the Lord taught it to Adam and his posterity. However, Cain — apparently lacking any faith in the Lord, and lacking respect for the preciseness in which the ordinances needed to be performed — decided to place a portion of his harvest on the alter as an offering.

The scriptures do not clarify how the Lord made it known whether someone’s offerings were accepted or rejected, but apparently Cain was infuriated that his was “not respect[ed]” by the Lord — despite Cain comprehending that he did not perform the ordinance of sacrifice correctly.

Verses 22 to 26:

“And the Lord said unto Cain: Why art thou wroth? Why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, thou shalt be accepted. And if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door, and Satan desireth to have thee; and except thou shalt hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver thee up, and it shall be unto thee according to his desire. And thou shalt rule over him; For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world.
“And it shall be said in time to come—That these abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent. And Cain was wroth, and listened not any more to the voice of the Lord, neither to Abel, his brother, who walked in holiness before the Lord.”

The Lord somehow confronted Cain directly, likely in an unmistakable voice to his mind, as the phrase “listened… to the voice of the Lord” alludes. The Lord harshly and clearly warned Cain of the consequences of the path that he was currently on. The following was destined to occur if Cain would not repent:

1. The Lord would deliver Cain to Satan, who was very anxious to use him.
2. Although Cain could rule over Satan (due to Cain having a physical body), he would also be forever manipulated by Satan: “it shall be unto [Cain] according to [Satan’s] desire.” Cain would thereafter be the progenitor of Satan’s lies.
3. Cain will be called “Perdition” — the first of those who rejected their testimony of God after being given an overwhelming knowledge and understanding of Him and eternal matters.
4. Abominations that spring forth, continue and persist in the world will have their root in Cain.

Cain held onto his anger and pride instead of hearkening to the voice of the Lord, or anyone else for that matter. Satan anticipated all of this, which is why he commanded Cain to make an offering to the Lord in the first place — he knew Cain would perform it wrong and it would be rejected. Satan was then able to manipulate Cain by stoking his anger, pride and other hurt feelings.

Many Christians and LDS are well-versed in these matters, for it is frequently discussed as part of the Adam and Eve story. However, the next parts are often glossed over, not contemplated deeply, or sometimes completely ignored.

Verses 27 and 28:

“And Adam and his wife mourned before the Lord, because of Cain and his brethren. And it came to pass that Cain took one of his brothers’ daughters to wife, and they loved Satan more than God.”

Adam and Eve mourned “Cain and his brethren.” Adam and Eve had many children; Cain was merely one of the older ones. Cain had caused, and was the leader of, a rebellion of a portion of his brothers and sisters against their parents. This was a sizable group of individuals, not just Cain and a handful of others.

Cain couldn't have done all of this by himself; he needed extra help.  He got it from his brothers.

Verses 29 and 30:

“And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by the living God, that they tell it not; for if they tell it, they shall surely die; and this that thy father may not know it; and this day I will deliver thy brother Abel into thine hands. And Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according to his commands. And all these things were done in secret.”

Here it is: the origin of conspiracy. Not only is the first secret combination introduced, but also the manner of its oaths — within the LDS Church’s canonized scripture.

Consider carefully what Satan said to Cain: “Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt die.” Cain covenanted and bound himself to Satan — or “sold his soul” as it is often referred to in today’s vernacular. Also, consider the severity of the price of breaking that oath — if Cain were to disclose this oath, he would die.

What did Cain get in exchange for this? “Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according to his commands.” Imagine for a moment what must have gone through Cain’s mind: “Let’s see here. I promise my soul to this amazing, appealing, flattering, accommodating, powerful, brilliant being of light — and in exchange he’ll do anything I tell him to do. I fail to see a downside to this.”

Consider the similarity of this is to the concept of Aladdin and the genie of the lamp: a powerful, magnificent ethereal being, bound to its master to obey his every command. Fictional retellings genies in lamps were likely inspired by actual occult practices of making oaths with demonic forces — of promising one’s soul in exchange for worldly wishes. This subject will be brought up again later in this book.

All who joined in Cain’s conspiracy with Satan, becoming members of this secret combination, swore and bound themselves to Cain by their own heads. Each of their heads was offered to Cain in order to be a part of the conspiracy. They were additionally bound by blaspheming (rejecting) the Lord, “the living God.” If they divulged the secrets or the acts of this combination a death sentence was to be immediately carried out, probably by decapitation as per the oath being “by their heads.” They primarily desired to keep their secrets from the knowledge of Adam, and the sons and daughters of his who hearkened unto him.

Verses 31 to 33:

“And Cain said: Truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret, that I may murder and get gain. Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness. And Cain went into the field, and Cain talked with Abel, his brother. And it came to pass that while they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and slew him. And Cain gloried in that which he had done, saying: I am free; surely the flocks of my brother falleth into my hands.”

The first nefarious motive resulting from this conspiratorial allegiance was to murder Abel without suffering from the just consequences. Instead of suffering for the murder of his brother, Cain’s worldly situation would flourish. Abel’s property and possessions would be claimed by Cain after his brother’s death.

Cain was so thrilled with the concept of enriching one’s self through conspiratorial methods of evading justice for unjust deeds, including murder, that he titled himself “Mahan,” meaning the master of secret works. Cain even gloried in the murder of Abel. Immediately after the slaying, he declared “I am free!” Abel’s murder was the culminating event that dispelled his inherent conscience — the Light of Christ which is infused in all men from birth. He rejoiced in being “free” of the divinely-provided senses of empathy, remorse and moral guilt. He celebrated its banishment.

Verses 34 to 38:

“And the Lord said unto Cain: Where is Abel, thy brother? And he said: I know not. Am I my brother’s keeper? And the Lord said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother’s blood cries unto me from the ground. And now thou shalt be cursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
“And Cain said unto the Lord: Satan tempted me because of my brother’s flocks. And I was wroth also; for his offering thou didst accept and not mine; my punishment is greater than I can bear.”

Many are familiar with this, especially Cain’s deflection of “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain cleverly (in his own mind) deflected the Lord’s inquiry with another question — attempting to change direction of the conversation. As discussed later in this book, this is a common manipulation tactic used today, especially in legal matters, in debates, etc. It’s often used in avoiding confessing, outright lying or to avoid committing perjury.

Instead of confessing, Cain attempts to lay the blame on Satan’s temptations, and on the Lord rejecting his offering. Then he complains that his punishment is too great, despite the Lord’s previous warnings to him of what would happen.

Verses 39 and 40:

“[Cain said] Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the Lord, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that he that findeth me will slay me, because of mine iniquities, for these things are not hid from the Lord.
“And I the Lord said unto him: Whosoever slayeth thee, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And I the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. And Cain was shut out from the presence of the Lord, and with his wife and many of his brethren dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.”

Cain’s punishment was interesting to say the least. Apparently from this moment on, Cain was unable to die. When the Lord banished Cain from his presence, He caused that Cain could not die — he would be forced to wander the earth as “a fugitive and a vagabond” — and to this day he still exists on the earth in the flesh.

There are a number of LDS who feel that Cain still being alive is merely an erroneous speculation — that he is as dead as any other person who has lived and died. However, interpretation of Cain’s punishment being unable to die is confirmed in LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball’s influential book The Miracle of Forgiveness:

“On the sad character Cain, an interesting story comes to us from Lycurgus A. Wilson’s book on the life of David W. Patten. From the book I quote an extract from a letter by Abraham O. Smoot giving his recollection of David Patten’s account of meeting “a very remarkable person who had represented himself as being Cain.”

“As I was riding along the road on my mule I suddenly noticed a very strange personage walking beside me—. His head was about even with my shoulders as I sat in my saddle. He wore no clothing, but was covered with hair. His skin was very dark. I asked him where he dwelt and he replied that he had no home, that he was a wanderer in the earth and traveled to and fro. He said he was a very miserable creature, that he had earnestly sought death during his sojourn upon the earth, but that he could not die, and his mission was to destroy the souls of men. About the time he expressed himself thus, I rebuked him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of the Holy Priesthood, and commanded him to go hence, and he immediately departed out of my sight—”

This would suggest that Cain’s spirit is banned from entering Spirit Prison, forever barred from the post-mortal process of suffering and meting out transgressions not repented of. His body and spirit are fused together in corruption — something akin to an unglorified resurrection. It’s very likely that Cain’s physical situation is similar to the physical properties of how a vampire is perceived to be unable to die.

Denied even the lowest of glories, Cain’s imminent fate will be Outer Darkness. For now, he’s still “alive” and confined to the earth — actively perpetuating the plans and machinations of Lucifer, seeking the deception and destruction of mankind.

With Cain still being alive on the earth, both God and Satan have agents in the flesh that are not susceptible to death: God has John the Beloved and the Three Nephites, Satan has Cain. (And both may yet have others we are completely unaware of.) God creates, Satan imitates.

Later in the chapter, we are informed about Lamech. (Note: the “Enoch” that is mentioned is one of Cain’s sons, not the prophet Enoch whose city is taken up to the Lord hundreds of years later.)

Verses 49 and 50:

“For Lamech having entered into a covenant with Satan, after the manner of Cain, wherein he became Master Mahan, master of that great secret which was administered unto Cain by Satan; and Irad, the son of Enoch, having known their secret, began to reveal it unto the sons of Adam; Wherefore Lamech, being angry,slew him, not like unto Cain, his brother Abel, for the sake of getting gain, but he slew him for the oath’s sake.”

One of Cain’s grandsons, Irad, decided to break his oath and began revealing the existence of the conspiracy, even exposing the secrets of the organization, to the other sons of Adam — who, in all likelihood, were completely oblivious to this tremendous evil beforehand. Irad therefore was the first ever whistleblower. Whether or not anyone believed him, poor Irad also became the first recorded martyr for whistleblowing. He was not killed as part of a strategy to obtain wealth, power or manipulation, but because he had broken the oath of secrecy which he had made with his conspiratorial brethren.

Up to here, most of this stuff is well known by the average Mormon.  Some of this stuff is also known to the three main branches of Abrahamic religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  But here is where things REALLY get interesting.

Verse 51:

“For, from the days of Cain, there was a secret combination, and their works were in the dark, and they knew every man his brother.” 

Remember the Hebrew euphemism "to know" suggesting a male sexual act?  This is where this comes into play.  Many times in gangs an initiation right almost ALWAYS has to deal with murder or some sexual sin.  In the big secret combinations, it appears that homosexual relations are the ticket in.  For that reason, every man "knew his brother" in the combination.  More below:

Every secret combination initiate knew every other initiate. This phrase is not merely saying that they could tell each other apart from non-initiates. Consider the wording: Would the Lord feel it necessary to state that these men were aware of each other? Or that they sealed their dark works with a perversion of divine procreation?

Sodomy is a part of the oath and bond of the initiates of secret combinations. As a marriage covenant is consummated on the wedding night, so the initiation into Lucifer/Satan-bound secret organizations is sealed with the act of sodomy. God creates. Satan imitates. This verse reveals that the male homosexual act not only existed long before the vices of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that from the start it was an integral aspect of secret society initiation.

If this seems too far fetched, refer to Genesis chapter 19 verses 4 through 8. Two angels visited Lot’s home in Sodom and Gomorrah (however, the Hebrew translation is “messengers”, so it’s likely that they were men sent on errand from God, or they were possibly angels appearing as normal humans) (emphasis added):

“… the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

These influential men of the city of Sodom wished to “know” Lot’s visitors. By the context of Lot’s reaction, it is obvious that they intended to sodomize them.

Those who bind themselves to secret societies take an oath to do all in their power to protect each other from discovery and prosecution, as well as assisting each other in getting away with any manner of wickedness. The homosexual act is a consummation of that oath. Whether they are personally inclined to prefer intercourse with men, women or both, initiates express and strengthen their conspiratorial binding by engaging in homosexual intercourse with each other.

Ponder the implications: secret combinations are the origin of homosexual intercourse. It is one of the abominable fruits of their unholy alliance with each other. It is one of themultiple symptoms that creeps into the cultures they infect and infest. As in the powerful example of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, the prevalence of homosexuality or bisexuality in any given culture is in direct correlation to the power, influence and overall number of initiates which secret combinations have on that society.

Rome, Greece, the current Western Civilization, is quite infected with this.  Russia, China, and many countries in Africa, are trying to stamp it out of their countries.  Rome, once an empire, is just a city.  Greece, once an empire, though a country, is much smaller than before.  Russia and China, started out small and they are big and getting bigger.  America, started out small, became bigger, and like Greece and Rome, are fading.

Verses 52 and 55:

“Wherefore the Lord cursed Lamech, and his house, and all them that had covenanted with Satan; for they kept not the commandments of God, and it displeased God, and he ministered not unto them, and their works were abominations, and began to spread among all the sons of men. And it was among the sons of men….
“And thus the works of darkness began to prevail among all the sons of men.” 

Talmudic custom points precisely to homosexuality and even state-sanctioned homosexual marriage as the reason why God sent the Flood.  When everyone was infected with this, it was time to cleanse the earth by water.

Lucifer/Satan-covenanted conspiratorial combinations “began to spread among all the sons of men.” It spread secretly, being undetected by those who had not taken such oaths. These things did not occur here or there, or in remote areas — “it was among the sons of men… the works of darkness began to prevail among all the sons of men.”

Recall Doctrine and Covenants 123 (emphasis added):

“Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness…. These should then be attended to with great earnestness. Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things.”

Awaken.  And be different than others.  Once we know these things we have to warn others to avoid these pernicious practices.  No wonder God hates the sin of homosexual relations so much.  It is a clear affront to His plan and the secret combos that rise up against Him and His work, use it as initiation.

A FLOOD OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - PRETEXT FOR FEMA CAMPS??

Could it be that one of the reasons for this flood of illegals is a pretext for openly creating FEMA establishments that could be used to round up other "less-desireables" such as religious and political dissidents?  While releasing those from the camps who would otherwise support a dictator willing to give them free stuff?

I have to say that I trust this piece of poo as far as I can kick him......  What a nightmare the last 6 years have been.

And, more along those lines.  Why does the gubbimint need guillotines?  Maybe to go in conjunction with these camps.  This is an interesting theory.  Parts of you might get recycled into the Chinese elite.  Immortality thru aborted fetus tissue and stem cells and harvested organs.  Going to the highest bidder, of course....

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/06/29/why-does-the-government-need-guillotines/

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT - AND INDIGESTATION

You know, sometimes you just say something that tickles the funny bone.

Here is a FB convo I had with Marc Webster from "Awaken to Our Awful Situation".  These guys are at the cutting edge of getting themselves killed by the NWO who will eventually come a calling.  I hope to be part of that select group, if possible.  I will not cower any more.  No PC job or "friend" or other inducement is worth losing my soul because I had the chance to be valiant and did not stand up and make myself heard in this the final heat of the final battle for the hearts and minds of man:

Henry Makow had this to say. What are your thoughts?
"The nuclear family is the basic building block of society. We derive our identity, meaning, values and security from it. Heterosexual marriage is the basis for raising the new generation to be productive responsible citizens. It is based on the exchange of female power for male love which awakens the man's protective and constructive instincts. It is an essential step in our personal development and fulfillment.
The promotion of gay marriage has nothing to do with the welfare of homosexuals. As with feminism,it is designed to increase sex-role confusion, divorce, and depopulation. By conflating hetero and homosexual marriage, straights are being encouraged to emulate gays, who generally are not monogamous and do not have children. This is part of a wider attack on our gender identity ( i.e. masculinity and femininity.)"

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  Marc Webster Eric, Henry does a lot of writing on the internet and exposes the NWO. I like that he understands the agenda with gay marriage. I'm frustrate that some Mormons and others are sympathetic to the gay marriage agenda. They should realize the truth, that it's not about equality. It's about destroying the family.

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  Me And thus have the VERY ELECT been deceived in these last days. The first commandment given to man was not to love God, although that was implied. It was to multiply and replenish the earth. Last time I checked, the large intestine is not conducive to any form of gestation. Although indigestion is kind of close.....  Thinking of two dudes getting hot over each other is conducive to indigestion - to me at least.  Just sayin'.

AN ALTERNATE PROTEIN SOURCE

This sounds gross to me right now, but it may come in handy one day.....

The Food Insects Newsletter
Hunter-gatherers were sometimes very labor-efficient
A Grasshopper in Every PotJuly 1989. Volume 2, Issue #2.
By David B. Madsen
originally published in Natural History (New York). July 1989. pp. 22-25.

In the spring of 1985, "millions" of grasshoppers (the migratory grasshopper, Melanoplus sanguinipes) were found lying along the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. Madsen, state archaeologist in the Antiquities Section of Utah's Division of State History, says, "enormous numbers of the insects had flown or been blown into the salt water and had subsequently been washed up, leaving neat rows of salted and sun-dried grasshoppers stretched for miles along the beach." The hoppers, coated with a thin veneer of sand, were in as many as five rows in some places, with the widest rows ranging up to more than six feet in width and nine inches thick and containing up to 10,000 grasshoppers per foot.

A year earlier, while digging in Lakeside Cave which is at the western edge of the Great Salt Lake, Madsen and co-workers had discovered thousands(and estimated millions)of grasshopper fragments in the various strata of the cave floor. The hopper fragments, in a matrix of sand, were also found in the majority of samples of dried human feces found in the cave. The connection between beach and cave was obvious. Lakeside Cave has been visited by Great Basin hunter-gatherers intermittently for the past 5,000 years. It served only as a temporary base because it is far from fresh water. Obviously, the cave was used as a winnowing site for removing sand from the grasshoppers which were scooped up at the beach and most of which were then hauled elsewhere.

Madsen and colleagues found that one person could collect an average of 200 pounds of the sun-dried grasshoppers per hour. At 1,365 calories per pound (compared with about 1,240 calories per pound of cooked medium-fat beef and about 1,590 calories per pound of wheat flour), this amounted to an average return of 273,000 calories per hour of effort invested. According to Madsen, "Even when we took a tenth of this figure, to be conservative, we found this to be the highest rate of return of any local resource. It is far higher than the 300 to 1,000 calories per hour rate produced by collecting most seeds (such as sunflower seeds and pine nuts) and higher even than the estimated 25,000 calories per hour for large game animals such as deer or antelope."

Madsen also investigated the rate of return per unit of effort expended in collecting Mormon crickets (Anabrus simplex), another food of early Native Americans. Crickets were collected from bushes, grass, etc., at rates of 600 to 1,452 per hour, an average of nearly two and one-third pounds or, at 1,270 calories per pound, an average of 2,959 calories per hour. The crickets often reach greatest densities along the margins of streams or other bodies of water which lie in their line of march and which they will attempt to cross. In two such situations, they were collected at the rates of 5,652 and 9,876 per hour, an average of nearly 18 1/2 pounds of crickets or 23,479 calories per hour. The first number (2,959 calories per hour) surpasses the return rate from all local resources except small and large game animals, while the latter compares favorably even with deer and other large game.

Madsen places cricket collecting in a modem context by saying, "One person collecting crickets from the water margin for one hour, yielding eighteen and one-half pounds, therefore, accomplishes as much as one collecting 87 chili dogs, 49 slices of pizza, or 43 Big Macs." He concludes, "Our findings thus showed that the use of insects as a food resource made a great deal of economic sense."

INTEREST RATES TO RISE IN 2015?

Well, we are stuck in a catch 22.  If we raise interest rates to try and hedge inflation, the economy will strangle.  If we keep interest rates stable, the economy dies.  We are at the end of the road and TPTB know it.

Their exit plan?  Most likely civil distractions or war.  The international soccer matches, olympics and teen idol can only go so far to distract the masses....

Here is the article: 

   http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-26/bullard-sees-fed-raising-rates-in-first-quarter-of-2015.html

THE HEIGHT OF ARROGANCE

It has been interesting to watch the attempts by many to seek to "counsel the Lord" in regards to Priesthood and so many other topics within the Church.

This arrogance is the anti-thesis of humility.  Humility was required of the Savior to do His Father's will in all things.  Truly required to be submissive, even in the act of baptism by a mere mortal who was subject to sin and weaknesses of the flesh.

The root cause of arrogance is sin.  By attempting to counsel the Lord, you put yourself above the "need to be told what to do" and instead, put yourself in the seat of counseling those whom you should be receiving counsel of.  Truly, the father of all lies, satan himself sought to counsel those over him.  His very father.

In regards to my own father, I know he is a mere mortal and has many flaws, but I never mock him, nor do I seek to counsel him in much of anything.  For the most part, that would be the height of arrogance.  In some way I do not understand, it will help ensure that my days are long on the land as the promise that has been given as part of the command to honor both he and my mother.

Times are getting interesting!

ALL THINGS IN COMMOTION

We read in the Doctrine and Covenants that all things shall be in commotion in the last days.

Here is something from a very wise woman and FB buddy:

the definition of 'commotion', as used in D&C 88:91: "And all things shall be in commotion [after the testimony of the Saints is offered and rejected]; and surely, men’s hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people.", as well as in Luke 21:

1828 definition of commotion: "Tumult of people; disturbance; disorder, which may amount at times to sedition or insurrection; as the commotions of a state."

We are beginning to see this in many ways.

CHINA PUSHES FOR WORLD BANK RIVAL

The Mp said this kind of thing would happen as the plans to sanction Russia for its "Ukrainian sins" would back-fire.  This is the birth of the one-world bank and economic backbone that sends Russia and the "kings of the east" into orbit as the new world powers:

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b1012282-fba4-11e3-aa19-00144feab7de.html#axzz35lIQBGwS

A MORMON FEMINIST'S VIEW

I received this from a gal who showed up at the W Jordan EOTW presentation.

This article is a stark and solid answer to many who are questioning "fairness" in the Priesthood in the Church.  My wife is a feminist and is pretty comfortable with our unique roles within the family and within the Church.  I think we were both "converted" to the idea that having the Priesthood is a blessing and a heavy burden when our child died.  To have the responsibility to potentially have to raise the dead and to know the will of the Lord (under pressure) by the gift of prophecy in order to do the right thing?  NOT for the faint of heart!  To be at that level of worthiness at all times?  NOT an easy thing!  I have also pointed out that my wife and I are co-authors of the Priesthood that WE jointly bear in our home as Patriarch and Matriarch, potential Queen and King and Priest and Priestess over our dominion; worlds without end, if we are true and faithful to God's commands.

I have a nearly identical view of what Valerie presents below:

       http://mormonscholarstestify.org/1718/valerie-hudson-cassler

I am a Mormon Because I am a Feminist
I am a convert to the Mormon Church from Roman Catholicism, and gained my testimony as the result of spiritual experiences that I cannot deny. In this essay, however, I will discuss instead why, as a feminist, I remain a steadfast member of the LDS Church.
It is very difficult to be raised in one of the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity), as I was, and not come away with some fairly unpleasant conclusions about women. Depending on the religion and sect involved, one may be taught that the first woman was feeble-minded or a murderess and that all her daughters are marred by that fact, that a woman’s body is unclean, that God meant women to submit to their husbands and in general be subservient to men, and that divinity is male and male alone. (Of course, echoes of such teachings can be found in other faith traditions besides the Abrahamic, as well.)
After decades of studying LDS doctrine concerning women (and carefully distinguishing it from LDS cultural understandings and practices, which in quite a few cases contradict that doctrine), I have been liberated as a woman from the erroneous and harmful beliefs about women that haunt those raised in Abrahamic traditions. How remarkable and in some senses ironic it still seems to me to have experienced “women’s lib” by conversion to Mormonism!
I will first review the main points of doctrine that make Mormonism the most feminist of all the Christianities in my view, and then proceed to re-tell the story of the Garden of Eden from the vantage point of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Restored Gospel teaches that the term “God” means an exalted woman and an exalted man married in the new and everlasting covenant (D&C 132:19-20). We are taught that there is no God without men and women loving each other as equals. Heavenly Father is not an eternal bachelor; he is married to our Heavenly Mother. In fact, the one who’s an eternal bachelor is Satan.
Second, the Restored Gospel teaches that all will have their male or female body forever. It is not a curse, but a great gift and a blessing that each soul had to prove itself worthy to have. Women readers, your breasts, your womb, your ovaries, are not unclean cursings; they are blessings. And the Restored Gospel also teaches me that I will be married forever, and that I will have children forever, and that the life of being a woman married to my sweetheart and having children forever is the life that will bring me the fullest joy in the eternities—as it has here on earth.
Third, LDS doctrine teaches that men and women are equals before the Lord and before each other. “Equal” does not mean “identical”—for example, there are no two men who are identical, and yet they stand as equals before each other and before the Lord. Can we imagine an understanding of equality that means that a man and woman, though different, can be equals before the Lord and before each other? That is the vision of equality that the Restored Gospel teaches.
Elder L. Tom Perry, an apostle of the LDS Church, said in 2004: ““There is not a president and vice president in a family. We have co-presidents working together eternally for the good of their family . . . They are on equal footing. They plan and organize the affairs of the family jointly and unanimously as they move forward.”¹ What an incredible vision, especially for a Christian denomination, many of which believe in some type of doctrine of submission of wives to husbands. The LDS do not preach submission of wives.
In my opinion, we cannot fully understand this revolutionary doctrine of the LDS Church unless we go back to the story of the Garden of Eden. Again, let us start with three main points of difference in the telling of that story from the vantage of the Restored Gospel.
Number one: the LDS do not believe that the Fall was a great tragedy. Rather, we believe that the Fall was foreordained, that it was for our progression, and thus the Fall was a blessing. Number two, the LDS do not believe that Eve sinned in partaking of the fruit of the First Tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And number three, because the LDS do not believe Eve sinned, we also do not believe that Eve was punished by God for her role in partaking of the fruit, but rather rewarded.
The Great Plan of Happiness devised for the children of God mandated that they leave their heavenly home, receive a mortal body as a blessing, enter into full agency by being separated from God, and then return once more to their heavenly home to be judged for how they used their agency. That is, the Plan was to be a “round,” if you will: it would take us from our heavenly home and, if we walked that path well, the plan would bring us back to our heavenly home, now much more like our Heavenly Parents, with much more knowledge, a fuller agency, a desire to choose the right, with so much more than we ever could have acquired if we had stayed in heaven with a pale or dilute version of agency.
Only the children could choose to leave, and to bring to pass a separation from their divine parents. And so in the Garden were placed a son and a daughter of God, and two trees. Two persons, two trees.
Both Trees represented doorways along the journey of the Great Plan. The First Tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, symbolized the doorway leading from heaven, and the ordinances of entering mortality with a mortal body, gaining full agency, and having the light of Christ awakened within. The Second Tree, the tree of eternal life, symbolized the ordinances of salvation and exaltation, and the doorway back to our heavenly home.
Eve was created second, then, not because she was derivative of Adam: she was created second to highlight that the giving of the gift of the First Tree was the gift to be given by women in the Great Plan.² It is through women that souls journey to mortality and gain their agency, and in general it is through the nurturing of women, their nurturing love of their children, that the light of Christ is awakened within each soul. And we should include in that list of souls Jesus the Christ. Even Christ our Lord was escorted to mortality and veiled in flesh through the gift of a woman, fed at his mother’s breast, and awakened to all that is good and sweet in the world. Women escort every soul through the veil to mortal life and full agency. It is interesting to think that even Adam, who was created before Eve, entered into full mortality and full agency by accepting the gift of the First Tree from the hand of a woman. In a sense, Adam himself was born of Eve.
If Eve was foreordained to give this good gift as her stewardship in the Great Plan, then she did not sin—and that is LDS doctrine. As Elder Dallin H. Oaks, an apostle of the LDS Church, has said, “Some Christians condemn Eve for her act, concluding that she and her daughters are somehow flawed by it. Not the Latter-day Saints! Informed by revelation, we celebrate Eve’s act and honor her wisdom and courage in the great episode called the Fall.”³ We believe that our Heavenly Parents, and also all of the rest of God’s children, were happy and grateful that Eve offered her gift.
Eve, then, was not the worst among women; Eve was the best among women! She was the most courageous, the most full of faith. It was also right, then, that the first mortal being that the resurrected Jesus showed himself to was not a man; it was a woman. Jesus’ performance of the Atonement repaid Mother Eve’s faith in the Plan, her courageous opening of the door represented by the First Tree.
Did God curse Eve? We know that the ground was cursed for the sake of Adam and Eve—is this a cursing of Adam and Eve? In the teachings of the LDS Church, we do not believe that that was a curse meant to punish them—it was a curse meant to start that law of opposites that undergirds agency: virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, light and darkness, truth and lies (2 Ne 2:11-13). Eve was told she would labor in childbirth—was this a cursing of Eve? Again, from the LDS perspective, absolutely not. To have children, to be able to fully give the gift of Eve, is one of the most soul-satisfying parts of a woman’s life that she will either experience here or in the hereafter if circumstances have prohibited it here.
And then in the King James version of the BIble, we are told that Eve, as part of her punishment, was told that Adam would rule over her. Is that what the LDS believe? Actually not. Elder Bruce C. Hafen, a seventy in the LDS Church, says: “Genesis 3:16 states that Adam is to ‘rule over’ Eve, but… over in ‘rule over’ uses the Hebrew bet, which means ruling with, not ruling over…. The concept of interdependent equal partners is well-grounded in the doctrine of the restored gospel.”⁴
So the LDS alone among all Christian religions assert that not only did Eve not sin, but she was rewarded for her courage and wisdom, and God was assuring her that, just as she fulfilled her role in the Great Plan of Happiness, Adam would step up to the plate, and he would perform his role in the Great Plan of Happiness, and that would entitle him to rule with her. This is absolutely revolutionary and astounding doctrine among all the Christianities!
What gift will Adam give to further the Great Plan? The LDS believe that Adam and his sons will give the gift of the fruit of the Second Tree to the children of God, those who are worthy to receive it, just as Eve and her daughters give the fruit of the First Tree to all who are worthy to partake of it. The fruit of the Second Tree is the ordinances of salvation and exaltation administered by the sons of God. Just as the doorway through the veil into this life is administered and guarded over by the women, the daughters of God, so the doorway through the veil that brings us home is administered and guarded over by the sons of God. And those that have accepted the gift of the Second Tree from the hands of the sons of God will pass through that veil and back to that celestial place where they can be with their Parents once more.
Just as Adam was asked to hearken to Eve and received the fruit of the First Tree, Eve is asked by God to hearken to Adam in accepting the fruit of the Second Tree. We would be remiss if we did not see that there were two hearkenings, two gifts given, two gifts received, two stewardships.
That means that priesthood, in the LDS understanding, is not some extra given to men and denied women. Priesthood is a man’s apprenticeship to become a heavenly father, and it is clear from LDS doctrine that women have their own apprenticeship to become like their heavenly mother. The ordinances—and they are ordinances—of body and of agency—pregnancy, childbirth, lactation—the spiritual ordinances of the First Tree are not less powerful or spiritual than the ordinances of the Second Tree.⁵ Women have their own godly power.
Some have erroneously felt that the Church and its male leaders preside over the members’ families, and that somehow that means that men are to rule over women. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Restored Gospel helps us see that the Church is intended to be the gift that the sons of God give to the family, just as the daughters of God give a great gift to the family. The Church, then, is but an auxiliary to the family, which stands above it in the eternal plan. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, an apostle of the LDS Church, has said, “There might be wards and stakes in heaven—I don’t know anything about them—or there may well be some other organization that we don’t know much about. What we do know will exist in heaven is families. And most of what has been revealed about our afterlife, our eternal life, our celestial life, focuses on family organization….”⁶ The family is the divine organization, and we know from LDS doctrine that, in the family, women and men rule as equals. President James E. Faust, of the First Presidency of the LDS Church, said: “Every father is to his family a patriarch and every mother a matriarch as coequals in their distinctive parental roles.”⁷ Notice the drumbeat, again, of equality.
I remain a steadfast member of the Mormon Church because, for the first time in my life, I understand why it is not a curse to be born a woman, and how it can be said with a straight face that men and women stand before God and before each other as true equals. I understand now that women are that they might have joy (2 Ne 2:25). And, odd as it may sound to some, I believe that one of the most profoundly feminist acts one can commit is to share the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ with others. The Restored Gospel not only restores right relations between man and God, but right relations between men and women, making it the strongest, most progressive force for women in the world today.
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Notes:
¹ L. Tom Perry, “Fatherhood—An Eternal Calling,” Church News, 10 April 2004,:15, hard copy version only; the original wording is in the audio version of the 2004 April General Conference address at http://broadcast.lds.org/genconf/2004/apr/4/4_2english.mp3
² Alma Don Sorensen, “The Story of Eve,” in Alma Don Sorensen and Valerie Hudson Cassler, Women in Eternity, Women of Zion (Springville, Utah: Cedar Fort, 2004), pp. 68-101
³ Dallin H. Oaks, “The Great Plan of Happiness,” Ensign, November 1993, pp. 72-75
⁴ Bruce C. Hafen and Marie K. Hafen, “Crossing Thresholds and Becoming Equal Partners,” Ensign, August 2007, pp. 24-29
⁵ Analiesa Leonhardt, “The Sacrament of Birth,” SquareTwo, Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring 2010, http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleLeonhardtBirth.html
⁶ Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, LDS Church, February 9, 2008, p. 12
⁷ James E. Faust, “The Prophetic Voice,” Ensign, May 1996, p.4
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Valerie Hudson Cassler (http://vmrhudson.org/) was born in Washington, D.C., and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1971. She attended Brigham Young University, where she received her B.A. in political science, with minors in International Relations and Russian. She obtained her Ph.D. in political science from Ohio State University. She taught at Northwestern University and at Rutgers University before joining the political science faculty at BYU in 1987. She served for eight years as director of graduate studies at the David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies, and is the recipient of several teaching honors, including the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Hudson Cassler is the author, co-author, or editor of many scholarly books and articles on international relations, national security, and foreign policy, including Foreign Policy Analysis: Classical and Contemporary Theory (Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007), Culture and Foreign Policy, Artificial Intelligence and International Politics, and, with Andrea Den Boer, Bare Branches: Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Populations (MIT Press, 2004). Among numerous academic distinctions, she won the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the American Sociological Association in 2004 and, in 2005, the prize for the Best Book in Political Science from the American Association of Book Publishers. In 2009, she was named among the 100 Most Influential Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine. She has written considerably on Mormons and Mormonism, as well, having, among other things, edited multiple books with Kerry M. Kartchner on Latter-day Saints and their relationships with United States foreign and security policies, and, with A. Don Sorensen, published a substantial article on Latter-day Saint views of feminist theology in David L. Paulsen and Donald W. Musser, eds., Mormonism in Dialogue with Contemporary Christianity (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2007). She is also one of the co-founders of the on-line Latter-day Saint forum SquareTwo (http://squaretwo.org/).
Valerie Hudson Cassler is married to the artist David Cassler, and they are parents to eight children. They reside in Orem, Utah.
Posted September 2010

THE IMPORTANCE OF GOING DEEP

I have struggled with some who believe preparedness is just a lark.  There are some things that clearly need to be done in order to prepare for what is coming.  In this blog post, there may indeed be a key to understanding what the great test will be - so if you have eyes to see and ears to hear, this is for you.  I am still trying to parse out the details.  I would love comments from visionaries:

GO DEEP, YOUNG MAN. GO DEEP

Well, we just finished plinking and gassing our gophers that had set up shop in the horse pasture.  It was quite an effort.  As it turns out, they may have been onto something.  According to John Koyle and the Alberta Temple prophecy by Sols Guardisto, there may be a need to get underground after some point - after the great earthquake.  Here is a quote in the notes on the Dream Mine in Spanish Fork, Utah:

"During that time this dugway will serve as a means to refuge for many of our people with their supplies. We take cover in the safety of the tunnels until that army is destroyed together with all who surrender.
"Following this, we will also have the Russians to fight, and they will get half way across this country before they are put down." (--To the Missouri River.)
I noticed that he was somewhat shaken by this experience, and that he had to sit down to recover his strength. Later when I had discovered the Bulkley and Farnsworth visions about the U.S. Army coming against Zion, I learned that Bishop Koyle had never heard of them, and that he had no previous knowledge of the "U.S. Army worse than Johnston's coming against Utah."
When he had recovered enough to talk about it, I then pointed out that the tunnels would not offer much protection against an army. He then told me that the importance of the tunnels would be understood when this time came. Of course, I did not know in 1934, as I know today, that we would be taking refuge from the wrath of God upon the army and all who would surrender to it, when "the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat." (II Peter, 3:12) And "the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold." (See Isaiah, 30:26.)

According to Guardisto, the mining district in the Crows Nest Pass area north and west of Cardston will be developed for purposes of underground storage and preservation.  I would not be caught dead underground during the great earthquake.  That will be the means of killing off the "elite" who were prepared against that event - but there will be another time after that when the underground refuges will be required.  People will be guided to know when those times are.

Mother Mary Shipton spoke of this, as well.