SWINGING, ADULTERATING, AND POLYGAMERATING - NEW LOWS

 So, I just found out a few days ago that I am a polygamist.  That makes me an adulterer, as well, under the current doctrinal set.  I am still trying to figure out who I am having sex with - because I may have other children out there or may be in danger of some nasty STD if my other polygamist wife is a wild-n-crazy gal.  Hopefully, I can figure this all out before it is too late...

Meanwhile, I was in the grocery store telling my woeful tale to a gal and getting her filled in on the Visions of Glory narrative.  We were talking about Draper Lake and the whole swinging thing they have going on down there.  She goes, "Well, we happen to have a problem here in Cardston".  I was like, no way!!

I bump into her later on at the checkout and she says it is a doctor here in town (plus others, I am sure).  Second person to confirm the problem.  It has been going on for years.  Apparently in the old days, you threw your keys into a pile and, blindfolded, picked up a set of keys.  That's who you went home with.  

Well, I guess in a small boring town, you have to make up your own fun...

Kind of like spin the bottle for big kids....

I prefer my wife's keys, thank you.  And not my wives' keys...

And THAT is how you end up with 70% black body bag rates and at the bottom of deep lakes.  That trash is not making it into the Millennium without some major repenting.  And it might be too late for that. Leav itt alone, man!  Stick with the Gospel and the Law of Chastity.

TATTOOS AND INCREASED RISK OF CANCER

 I know people have them for various reasons - but by and large, those who have loosened their grip on the Iron Rod, this is one of the things they are touting.  My wife and I knew a family whose oldest daughter went full lesbo and mom and dad (a former Bishop - and momma, a full-on Molly Mormon) went down the tatoo path as they rebelled against what is right and good.

To me, tattoos equal a sign of rebellion against God.  Not against cultural Mormonism, but a finger in the eye of God and His creations (namely, the human body).

So, I am heartened when I see something like this:

https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/27/new-study-warns-tattoos-trigger-a-rare-form-cancer-20916704/

All I can say is that the Maori with their traditional tattoos must have a heckaton of blood cancer going on....

WE ARE TO FOLLOW RIGHTEOUS LEADERS

 Well, well.  Mosiah 23:14 popped up in this week’s reading:

[14] And also trust no one to be your teacher nor your minister, except he be a man of God, walking in his ways and keeping his commandments. 

[15] Thus did Alma teach his people, that every man should love his neighbor as himself, that there should be no contention among them.

If the minister kicks the man on the side of the road while he is down, while obliquely enjoying the spoils of the initial robbery, or does not correct those who passed by and did nothing, is that minister a Just man?  

I was talking to my old landlord whose husband is a temple sealer and pointed out that the move above was worse than the original indifferent act by the Levite and High Prete who passed by and acted indifferently towards a moral obligation to help, instead of hinder.

I cannot name the number of hours of sleep I have lost with my condition, let alone those I have lost due to worry about how to get my project finished with the Cardston weather and the threat of lawsuits from a friendly neighbor pressing the county.  And some of my neighbors have the ability to use their means to put some legal hurt as they have full indoor sports courts/gymnasiums.

All of this is a kick on a guy who literally is flirting with the increasing specter of death, much like the man on the side of the road, bleeding in the ditch.

Life is a bitch…

JESUS, THE DISRUPTOR

 Did y’all know Jesus was a disruptor? Yes, that’s right. That’s a new term I learned for Him in church yesterday. Jesus came into this world to disrupt the norms of hypocrites. He disrupted so much that those around Him were angered to the point of wanting to kill Him. And they did kill Him.

So remember. If you’re disrupting the hypocritical norms of our day, like Christ did in His day, you too will be hated. No parades for you. No special months of recognition and celebration. No flags on every other house and in every school. No festivals, no parties. No, it’s the hypocrites with the power who are openly and endlessly celebrated for their hypocrisy. Just as they were in Christ’s day.

Hypocrisy such as declaring themselves “inclusive” and “tolerant” when in reality they exclude, protest, and mock all who disagree with them. Just the same as did the hypocrites in Christ’s day - nothing’s really changed. Different words, same behavior. 

So, knowing this, it makes sense then that Jesus Christ gave us the Family Proclamation. His words in this document absolutely disrupt the hypocrisy of our day. And when you stand for it, you will be hated, just like Christ was in His day.

Yes - Christ was literally killed for the truth He spoke. So if you, like Him, are protested, persecuted, rejected, and mocked when you stand for truth, take courage. You’re in good company. Be grateful that you have the faith to do as He’s asked of you. I know I am.

#thefamilyproclamation #wearemurray #believeinmurray #standfortruth #disruption #disruptinghypocrisy #WWJD

HOW TO HANDLE A POLYGAMIST WHO GOES TO YOUR SACRAMENT MEETINGS OR WHO HAS A CURRENT TEMPLE RECOMMEND - BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR PIE HOLE

 So, this is an open letter based on common sense and good principle.  If you are a Stake President, a Bishop or a counselor in a Temple presidency or a humble 14 year old Teacher and you know of someone who is lurking in your midst who has part or parcel in a polygamous relationship in today's environment, you need to use your authority to act to have their membership records invalidated or have their temple recommend revoked, at the very least.  If you are a Teacher, you are to report the gross wickedness within the fold to one in authority that can revoke a TR or invalidate a membership.

IF you do not have enough evidence of said nefarious activities, then you need to keep your mouth shut and (in my case) shut your pie hole and stop spreading rumours that are salacious and defamatory/slanderous in nature.  No, "it should not be surprising these days" to find a polygamist in your ranks.  They need to be rooted out and sent packing if they are found to be guilty of this crime against the current doctrinal set.  A temple recommend is very easy to pull.  In this day and age, that is nothing as it can be done electronically and probably would not even require a face to face with a Stake President (although every accused has the right to stand before their accusers and at least defend themselves).   No Stake President should act under the "orders" of an Area Authority and have someone excommunicated without having the Spirit ratify that decision at the very least.

IF this is NOT corrected, I stand as a witness before God that you are in the wrong and that you stand guilty of stressing my bi-polar wife who will spend countless hours in the night wondering in her mind if there could be ANY shred of possibility that this polygamy thing has any merit to it.  So, I suggest you stop before I get pissed to the point that I "say the prayer" in a wrenching and heartfelt manner.  And I promise you that the pain and misery that you bring down on me in any measure (regardless of what your dislike for me may be coming from) will be visited on your heads to the measure of ten fold.  I get what I ask for.  If my wife gets pissed off, she gets what she asks for.  This blog is full of the recording of those events.  Google Gene Matthews (and the Wood Zone) who was a fellow engineer at Boeing and who hated the Law of Chastity, that I then defended and was met with the most withering verbal assault ever experienced.  He was weighed in the balances of Heaven, was apparently found wanting and is resting nicely in his grave now.  Most fervent prayer ever raised to heaven by me.  Problem solved.  Justice delivered within 72 hours - a rare thing to experience in this life and a fact that pains my wife and I a little (why must innocents have to continuously suffer at the hands of foul men over time instead of a heavenly intervention to remove them from the stage of life).

Another asshole during the Romney presidency years who hated anything "moron" and was quite vocal about it.  Another prayer that he would be humbled.  A few weeks later, he accidentally killed (drowing by car in the Puget Sound at a Des Moines marina and restaurant) his own mother and made the King5 news.  Never had to hear from his pompous mouth again other than a whimpered yes or no.  Asshole problem solved.

For the jerks who constantly complain about my house in it's unfinished state, if you happen to be in the medical profession, instead of complaining, bickering, bitching or trying coerce me into action via the county, please take some time to censure your professional colleagues who, for almost three years created a CSF leak during a botched naso-gastro tube insertion (during intubation for Covid) that was then mis-diagnosed at multiple levels (the worst at the ENT level where a $50 test would have caught it and defined the clear fluid coming out of a single nostril only) and that my humble wife (hardly any formal training in biology, etc) was able to guess and then we were able to navigate the US health system completely advocating for ourselves until we hit the Uof U surgical team who were all surprised that I am still alive.  Every single doctor - surprised that I was not pushing up daisies with a 10% chance of death if not properly diagnosed and left to the eventual meningitis if you fly or do other things that create a negative pressure in the spinal column or cranial sac holding the fluid.  Instead of bitching, get off the high horse, put on the leather tool belt and get over to my place to see what you can do because the NUMBER ONE symptom of a CSF leak is "EXTREME FATIGUE".  So, if you want me to finish my house expeditiously, either fix a health system that is obviously deficient, or come offer a hand to a guy who my benefits adminstrator says ought to be on permanent medical leave because he has no testosterone levels, no adrenaline, no serotonin to produce normal productive sleep - all because the pituitary has been crushed and impacted by the brain fluid problem and attendant pressure problem thanks to the instrumentality of AHS and the Area Presidency overlords who are medical mafiosos (who consider those of us who correctly declared that this FORCED/COERCED jab was neither safe, nor effective, were just the tares among the beloved wheat who blindly did what our Prophet was forced to project via the gads that are putting pressure on him.

IF you spend time working in the oil fields and have several weeks off at a time, feel free to get on over with your tool belt and start swinging a hammer.  I will not turn people away - but I will get awful hot under the collar if I get yet another report back that you or your wife have been bitching about the unfinished roof, while asking for help on your acreage for an afternoon to till around the garden and landscape features that required the tractor and the driver, while his house remains unfinished and in a bitchable state.

You know, we are ALL being judged.  If you judge unrighteously, how I would bow and scrape before the Lord asking for forgiveness.  Especially if I were in a position of power in a Stake Presidency and one of the people I actually have stewardship over was literally at death's door and I never so much as offered my help let alone set about to move people to act in a member of the flock's best interest to see what kind of assistance could be rendered - other than to complain about them.  Not much different than the self-righteous scum that Jesus pointed out that went to the other side of the path when passing the wounded man on the path.  And to add insult on top of insult, the Master (teacher) pointed out in His story that the lowly-regarded Samaritan (Samaritans were considered half-breeds, and not Chosen because they had bred with the locals while the Jews were going through their Chastisement over in Babylon) was the one who actually stopped and did the right thing.  This was the burn of the millennia - and yes, Jesus was edgy and could roast with the best of them - so get rid of your mushy/mealy view of who He was.  He was a bone cutter.

If I were in a Temple Presidency and were spreading malicious and salacious rumours and gal who has a bi-polar condition and who normally finds solace in temple worship now refuses to go for fear of running into someone and giving him a piece of her mind, now no longer goes and the husband who has no fuggin' energy to chase his poor own wife, let alone someone else's woman or whatever, and refuses to go there or to church, wondering who else in the group is secretly wondering who he is chasing or if their 18 year old daughter is in jeopardy of being propositioned by him.

You can all go #&@% yerselves....  I would have better luck in a den of wolves in wilds of the Canadian Rockies than hanging out with this kind of posse.  And then next time I am in a Stake Meeting and am asked to sustain certain people, you can guess who will shoot to his feet with hand raised as high as possible when asked if there any who do not sustain....

I have a mind to take it to the level above you all and shove it down your throats.  From ENTs to "spiritual" leaders and "good neighbors", a little culling of the flock is in order.  But I would just get the same thing I got at corrupt Boeing - the uppers cover for the corrupt underlings instead of censuring them for just plain stupidity.  My hell....  literally.  Reminds me of the scripture Jesus was quoting from Isaiah where he burned the Pharisees to the ground when He pointed out that they were the blind guides who were taking their new acolytes and turning them into twice the children of hell that they were... 

Rant over and out.

MOVIE REVIEW - ESCAPE FROM GERMANY

 All I can say is, "WOW!!".  I dropped a few tears on that one.  I am not sure what hit me the most.  During the Covid scamdemic, I wondered if they would go full nazi and start rounding up dissenters who refused the hi-jab.  Thankfully, people from all walks of life came together and put up enough of a stink that they had to back down and then admit that it was a scam (it really does not work) and a way to make tens or hundreds of billions for the medical mafia and their overlords, the pHARMaceutical companies (man, do I love sticking a finger in their eyes).

We have our contingency plans in case it comes to that.  There is no place to run and tech makes it almost impossible to run under the radar. Only God can save one in that scenario - and thus the Saints crying day and night until deliverance comes.  We have not quite gotten there.  Yet.  But it will come.  

Fascism is the perfect marriage of industry and government.  Normally, you expect the gubmint to come to your aid if things are unjust or unfair - but in a fascist regime, they are one in the same so there is no recourse.  No reprieve from injustices imposed on the little guy by the other guy with bigger lawyers and more means.  When you find yourself fighting the government, who is using your tax dollars to prosecute and persecute you, then you are officially cooked...

Go see the movie.  See what the Spirit teaches you.

DEATH OF IRANIAN TOP OFFICIALS A HARBINGER OF MASSIVE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

 If the "doom" scenario is part of the picture, then this sparks a civil war in Iran between the hardliner Shia and the moderates that are sick of the compulsive and mandatory religious observance (the devil's plan).  

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13437737/Israel-insists-wasnt-Butcher-Tehran-Iranian-president-killed-mysterious-helicopter-crash-month-ordering-missile-attack-Jewish-state-Islamic-regime-supports-Hamas-Gaza-war.html

I get the feel that the hardliners are a distinct minority.  They usually are (I am among them in the LDS scene).  If Iran dies out, a major arm of Islam dies with it as the Shias go away.  So, there is a radical element that wants to preserve that, if only for that.  It is more nastalgic than rational, but it will attempt to preserve itself as any living organ does.  Self preservation is a tricky and mysterious thing - sometimes a little delusional in nature.  Satan and his minions, though on the long-term losing side of the equation (love always wins - and the Atonement has already been completed successfully), still hold out for the win (and they are reveling in the current state of affairs as they out themselves and their mortal minions), but the odds-men are still giving the win to the more perfect and more prolific plan (I doubt the satanic plan has been abundantly successful anywhere else in time nor in space).  Oh sure, there may have been temporary wins in the short-term, but no long-term inroads can be made.  LOVE ALWAYS WINS.  It truly is the more excellent way!  Que the Emperor scene with Luke and his father.  When you have experienced the Love that is there and find that the Universe is awash in it, why would you shrink back to an embittered, diminuitive state?  It would be rubbish.

I do not have enough background in OT imagery and prophecy to make a call, but I bet somewhere in there it talks about the beast receiving a wound to it's head and then it recovers and then does its thing....  We shall see how this all turns out.  Meanwhile, I will just turn blue from holding my breath over it all...

Of course, my biggest concern is the enrichment/nuke weapons progress they have made.  In either a CW or radicalization scenario, things could be unstable enough for them to shoot their wad from Libya.  In a CW scenario, a launching of a nuke by Israel in retaliation for a strike on Tel Aviv would solidify any disparate feelings within Iran and they would rally behind the strongest leader and vow once again, "Death to Israel" or "From the river to the sea".  What can you say when hatred abounds on such a level?  And worse, when that hatred becomes irrational?  I have seen that irrational hatred in those who estrange themselves from others against most accepted common norms.  I estranged myself from my MIL for awhile when she rose to her predicted toxic level (I had acted against my wife's better advice hoping that my MIL would finally turn the corner), but I never let my disdain for her behavior, turn to hatred or irrational memories of her.  Just to pity for her twisted upbringing and how satan had gotten the best of her (she is just a spiritual shadow of what she used to be when I first met her).  She is one of those people whom I am thinking of when I recite my favorite quote of, "I am yet to meet a single person who is better off for having loosened their grip on the Iron Rod."

THE CHEROKEE WILL RETURN TO POSSESS THE LANDS THEY WERE DRIVEN FROM

 A lot of good history in this song and video.  My people will come out on top after their chastisement is over (very soon):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ0gobSHgIs&list=RDMM&index=26&pp=8AUB

ANOTHER ASSASSINATION (ATTEMPT?) IN THE BALKANS

 There seems to be a connection to the Balkans and World War....

Hopefully, this is not a harbinger of things to come:

https://www.the-sun.com/news/11374201/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot/

He is pro-Russian, so I do not know which way to pray (for or against him).  As far as the whole Ukraine vs NATO thing, I have the same funk.

One of my great fears/concerns is rooting for the wrong team.  There is no way to know but by the direction of the Holy Ghost.  He seems to be in short supply.

So my prayers are often vague - praying that the Lord's will be done.  Is there any other way to go?

I TAUGHT TUCKER CARLSON TO FLY

 What a dream!  It seemed like it took up most of the night.  In fact I woke up two hours late for work because I was working away on it so hard.  In actual life, I was listening to a podcast of him and half-brother of Castro-spawn (Canada's marxist PM) and fell asleep with that going.  In my dream, agents were trying to kill off Tucker because he was making too many good points against them and due to his following, decided it was time to eliminate him.

I had bumped into him and somehow got invited to go out on the town after a meeting he had.  His intention was to have a drink at a bar before he went back to his hotel for the night.  We met up with some of his colleagues and were trying to get to this place when they attempted to kill Tucker and I in an elevator when we had been isolated.  Somehow, I said something that thwarted that attempt (by letting them know this would be live-streamed, or something) so the attempt was off.  As we were walking to the place to meet his friends, I decided to show him how to fly.  He did very well on his first attempt, but landed pretty hard.  I then reasoned that, if we could levitate and overcome gravity, that we could then walk on water (or just above water).

I spent the rest of the night convincing him and others to learn to do it.  Fun times!

FROM LSD TO LDS

 Great example of shepherding by the Great Shepherd:

https://youtu.be/7iEJKYg3PEI?si=e9bEYijgO396GvlH

Enjoy!

THE DISCERNING OF SPIRITS

 Great quotes and words of wisdom:

“Who can drag into daylight and develop the hidden mysteries of the false spirits that so frequently are made manifest among the Latter-day Saints?  We answer that no man can do this without the Priesthood, and having a knowledge of the laws by which spirits are governed…. A man must have the discerning of spirits, before he can drag into daylight this hellish influence and unfold it unto the world in all its soul destroying, diabolical, and horrid colors: for nothing is a greater injury to the children of men than to be under the influence of a false spirit, when they think they have the spirit of God.” (Times and Seasons, Vol 3, No 11, Apr 1, 1842, p 744; HC4:573; TPJS 205)

This quote is from Joseph Smith’s treatise on false spirits (D&C 50:2) titled, Try the Spirits. A false spirit is an evil spirit whose entire existence is devoted to deception. The job given the false spirit by Satan is to use any conceivable method or tool to lead everyone astray. It doesn’t have to get you to sin; all it has to do is get you to believe in some form of untruth – a lie – however small just enough to keep you from gaining your exaltation. That’s because anything short of exaltation is damnation. The Bible dictionary says this about damnation. “Damnation is the opposite of salvation and exists in varying degrees.  All who do not obtain the fullness of celestial exaltation will to some degree be limited in their progress and privileges and hence be damned to that extent.”

Joseph was deeply concerned about the problem of false spirits within the Church. He was so concerned about this that it was his number one subject to teach. His cousin, the apostle George A. Smith said, “There was no point upon which the Prophet Joseph dwelt more than the discerning of Spirits” (Words of Joseph Smith, p 21). Joseph would conduct weekend fireside chats in his home that taught nothing more than the discerning of spirits. These chats would focus on the nature of evil spirits, their power, laws, government, intelligence, and the signs by which they may be known.

The discerning of spirits was the first thing Joseph was taught by the angel Moroni. “The morning after the visitations from the angel Moroni (21-22 September 1823), Joseph Smith went to the side of the hill Cumorah to unearth the plates he had seen in his vision. As he later told Oliver Cowdery, on the road to Cumorah he became fixed and determined to obtain the plates for wealth and prestige and not for the glory of God. Only after attempting unsuccessfully three times to remove the plates from the stone box in which they were enclosed did he become aware that Moroni was present. The angel indicated that he was permitted by God to be led by this evil spirit so that from that time forth he would always know the difference between a true spirit and an evil spirit. This was only a beginning of his instructions in the gift of discerning spirits (D&C 46:15-16, 23, 27).”

The Lord considered the discerning of spirits to be so vital that it was included in the original temple endowment as revealed to Joseph Smith. “There were ‘keys of the kingdom,’ [Joseph] said to a Sunday audience of the saints in the Grove, ‘certain signs and words by which false spirits and personages may be detected from true, which cannot be revealed to the Elders till the Temple is completed.... There are signs...the Elders must know...to be endowed with the power, to finish their work and prevent imposition’ (1 May 1842 discourse). Three days later Joseph Smith revealed these sacred keys to nine men…. To these men he taught the keys of prayer and detection whereby all false documents, revelations, or manifestations could be tested” (Words of Joseph Smith, pp 20-21).

The last time the discerning of spirits was correctly taught in general conference was in 1918 by acting Patriarch Elder Hyrum M. Smith. For unknown reasons, its teaching was discontinued and it morphed into the “discernment” that is taught today and contains no mention that discernment is for the discerning of evil spirits.

TO THE DAY - PRECISION PROPHECY

 This is pretty interesting - and my limited understanding seems to back it up in other areas:

https://youtube.com/shorts/RjLYSNfE80E?si=pg-mn2_xJL4Quf7m

Enjoy!

THE POLY CONFRONTATION

 So, like a real man, I sent my wife on errand to confront the gadianton about the rumors that he was spreading about me - attempting to slander me with the whole pligger thing?!?  Why do I give the name gadianton here?  Because there are two options here: the guy came off as a Mormon Progressive to me when we ate dinner. I was plying him hard to see what his stance was not knowing he would later be tapped for a prominent position in Cardston.  I simply need to know if I can trust someone - precisely because I despise back-stabbers (people who work their way into one's bosom, only to betray them).  Seems Jesus and Joseph and Job were all surrounded with them; bleche!!  Like slimy parasites, a serious downer when you realize you have an infestation in your area.  To me, you can not be formally blood-oathed into a gadianton enclave and still carry out the objectives of their secret society, which is; to gain control of means, of power or of influence over anything that purports to carry the truth.  To supplant righteous authority and replace with satan's duplicitous fake.  They have gotten above us.  There is no question in my mind.

This is what Joseph referred to in his last dream (he found something in place that he wanted nothing to do with).  Something he did not recognize.  I am old enough (thank God for that) that I understand the vector the Church was on when I was growing up.  There was a certain (screw you, in your face) bravado or swagger about it, from the pre-1989 endowment all the way down to the fact that we were stirring the hornet's nest enough that we were hated to the point that we often had fences and guard shacks (at least outside Utah) in order to fend off the protesters and malcreants that refused to just let things be and do them while we did us in our own quirky way.  I was there in 1978 when the Seattle Temple was under seige by the Ed Deckerites, etc who were inflamed about the depiction of the Preacher in the old film - and his obvious subservience to Ole Scratch....  Those were the good old days when it was said like we meant it and little pulling of punches.  When the Church was not afraid to "tell the Samaritans that they were not the chosen people and that they would have to wait their turn in line".  I am perfectly fine being told I am a "Gentile" and that I may be considered somewhat chopped liver in the big picture.  I really give ZERO schitts about it - so long as my loyalty and adoration of Christ does not waver.  Doctrine being number one - without apology.  Now we have lost our way and we grovel and feel after the one while losing the 99 because we refuse to teach doctrine and the sheep - the entire flock - seems to be lost as de-emphasization occurs and certain hard subjects become taboo to talk about.  Instead, we attack leaders who were not afraid to say the difficult things, above all Brigham Young and I am surprised that it is not considered good sport to go after ETB, the last one to lay it down and call out the wickedness of the general membership.  The fact that the general membership would not take to heart the principle warning of the BoM - and plea to awaken from our awful situation and root out the gadiantons amongst the fold.

I have lost the very best people I know in my Cardston and other circles who simply have not been taught the doctrines clearly and succinctly; therefore, there is confusion, fear, stampeding from one wind of thought to another.  For some, this is the rejection of Section 132, tithing and so much else.  For others, it is extremism which includes embracing plural marriage out of order or some other cafeteria doctrine which fits their personal agenda.

I had a peep who is pretty universally beloved who went in for hip surgery and, while on some pretty heavy meds, decided he was going to take himself some other wives while his actual wife was on the East Coast for an extended period.  Turns out, once he came off the meds, he found himself in a real mess and his wife went to town on anyone on the list (apparently my wife was included in that list, but never approached by him, but approached by her to see if she had given in to his Oxycontin-induced wiles...).  I would have just laughed after having my own fentanyl-induced whackadoodle coming out of intubation where my wife was not allowed to visit me in the h-pital (after promises by Staff that she could once out of quarantine) and I thought I had been abandoned and decided to break out of there in -20C weather with my arse hanging out and go make a move on the single French lady by impressing her with my gravel-spreading capabilities (long story for another day).   So, if I am part of the Cardston Codeine Confederacy who practice polygamy, while under the influence of some serious schitt, then yeah.  Guilty as charged.

I can also say that most of us accept Church history as written by those that I call the "earlies" or those who rubbed shoulders with Joseph.  My key witness being Eliza.  If folks had deviated from the words of Joseph, she would have raised hell.  You can say all you want about the "Patriarchy" - but one thing is certain; they, no doubt, feared the likes of Eliza R. Snow and other feminists of the day.  So, my primary goal is to identify those who are attempting to move the rudder from the setting set by Joseph to new and unexplored territory.  Not a single time has that every gone well, from the Catholics with Indulgences to the CoC with ordaining women to the office of Elder.  Not EVER Once!

And so it goes.  This is my daily grind - to ferret out the impostors and to throw it back in someone's face if they attempt to label me one.  This was the political schitt that I had to deal with at Boeing.  I correctly predicted it's demise (without an abrupt course correction) to the point that my wife finally gets the level of stress I was under while in my Production roles.  It seems like I will never shake this role of pot stirrer at least while in this life - and look forward to the next when I hope to have a few more cimeters and sharp pointy things in my arsenal so that I can take names and kick some ass in a more gratifying manner and in a way that moves consequence from painfully slow to something this side of the action at the local DMV.

And believe me, I will do so.  I was born for this.

IS THE WOOD ZONE MAN A POLYGAMIST?!?

Wow - just wow!  Of course I am not - but this is the latest hometown gossip I just heard.  And I always seem to be the last to find out that I have second (or third wives) and all that goes along with that.  I bet they are all wearing pastel polyester dresses and black patten leather shoes, as well.  Just my thing!

I actually met the perveyor of these rumors at a dinner we had with some friends some time back.  He came off as a Liberal Canadian (just my impression - not sure if this is true) - but I am somewhat tolerant of lefties, so long as they leave me alone and do not try and tax me any more.  But yeah, he was aware of my blog - so I have another stalker (wink) out there.  I am kind of glad he is reading it, because I lay traps in it and perform loyalty tests, just as Joseph Smith did when he was attempting to ferret out the gossipers (of untruth) in his midst.  The fastest way to catch one, is to lay a good one down - and then set the timer to see how long the nefarious news takes to get back to you.  I find that to be good sport and some of the best entertainment I can find in a sleepy town.

I suppose that my support of Brigham Young and support of full Consecration (including the principles as laid out in Section 132) all make me out for a bad actor.  In reality, whatever is just around the corner, I push and lay out there so that the people are not gobsmacked by reality when it get's rolled out.  That does include all of the above - and most all of it is taught and practiced within the walls of our very temples (just ask any man who is sealed to multiple women as a linear  polygamist...)  Seriously...