(July 14, 2016 at 10:57 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Another failing perhaps; Joe made the crucial mistake of putting True Believers in his inner circle. Sincere, well meaning folks who bought all Joe's crap, lock stock and barrel.
So when Joe announced a revelation that noted God expected them to be a record keeping people, it didn't occur to the pious folks in the org chart NOT to record the chicanery. While it is beyond obvious a paper trail delineating where all the bodies are buried, so to speak, is a bad thing then as now, we apparently will always have dum-dums that just can't grasp the bigger (scammy) picture.
Anyhow, a tip of the hat to Joe for failing to realize that 'record keeping' revelation was going to bite his church in the ass for decades to come. Current LDS poobahs understand all too well the perils of a paper trail in an inherently corrupt organization with specious and flexible dogma, and are keeping a VERY tight hold on releasing incriminating documents these days.
That the horse is already out of the barn limits their effectiveness, but they're trying.
Yeah, to be honest, after growing up de facto mormon by birth and accepting basically everything (with the exception of old testament rubbish) that the church had to offer, their beliefs, and their culture with the obvious diluted state of mind encompassed in the thought "I am so lucky to be mormon with all the truth"....I am quite overwhelmed, even now, regarding all the conniving intellectual dishonesty perpetuated by the church. Like after growing up for 21 years I had thought the whole church was on purpose, guided by truth and reason, and that it was exactly the way things were supposed to be as directed by God and then discovering that it was all just IMPROVISATION. And then I spent a great deal of time stressing over the reason why I was the only one that saw it in my entire family. Insane...haha
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