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Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and your own WofW! All have been helpful. It is challenging here in the deep south to be LDS. There really isn’t a Mormon culture here. Maybe a member might bring green jello to the “eating meeting” on the occasional 5th Sunday but that’s about it. Most non LDS churches are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention with the rest being a mix of Evangelical, Catholics, Pentecostals etc.Mormons includedal churches are gaining popularity here too. They are also the most tolerant of others of different faiths since they usually have a general policy of no bashing other denominations (not so with the Baptists ones). Why do I feel like a bit kooky? With some of the rational, scientifically minded Mormons I’m too literal and “Cleon Skousen-esque”. (I did like the 1000 yrs series tho some of his postulations seemed far fetched.) I don’t believe in all the concepts of the theory of evolution (like that life spontaneously began in a primordial soup that evolved to higher forms) nor a young earth either. I don’t really know where people (some mormons included) get the young earth theory by reading Genesis. It simply says that God divided some waters and dry land appeared. He never says ” let there be” either one. It was already there. Maybe for eons.
Yet being anti-evolution, I think science is extremely exciting and I think that perhaps the different quantum theories will bring rationality to religion someday. I really like the concept of super-string theory. It explains how if you were in the 10th dimension you could have god-like power. No linear time exists (like event horizon of a black hole) so you could have all eternity to answer a prayer while innumerable prayers are being sent at once on our linear realm. The whole “Eternal round” alpha-omega thing. Also, if one was in that dimension they would be bigger than the universe and could hold all of creation in their hand. Sounds very Pearl of Great Price-y. And a bit kabbalah-ish.
And since I digressed to Judaism, I firmly believe in a Heavenly Mother. Judaism has some material on a feminine aspsect of God like the”Queen of the Sabbath” and Shekinah”. Only Jewish women can light sabbath candles, and God s presence that manifested in Solomon’s temple was supposedly this Feminine aspect. I speculate that we dont know much about her because PERHAPS it could be some unpardonable sin if we took her name in vain. Like blasphemy against the HG. I guess i am a confirmation bias junkie trying to fit stuff in a mormon paradigm by searching different religions, apochryphas, even stuff considered occultish. But enough of my kooky theories for now. I’m just glad I’ve found a place of acceptance.
I don’t know why I posted this twice. A 1000 apologies and perhaps the moderators will delete the duplicate Polygamy in the CK? I suppose I will find out since my mom married a widowed man that was sealed to his 1st wife (if they come visit me in a lower kingdom since I am not married in the temple and I haven’t even seen my non member husband in 3 yrs). She is old school TBM so she is fine with it. I suppose my “other mother” is too since my step dad says it was her dying wish for him to remarry. There are also dinonosaurs on petroglyphs in Utah. Dinosaur footy prints besides human ones at Glenn Rose Texas among a few other places. Ica stones of Peru. The accounts of Pliny the Elder, Homer, Marco pollo, to name a few describes dinosaur like critters they called dragons. The Evangelical crowd really have taken it and ran with it and they have some very interesting concepts. I read very interesting book called “dragons or dinosaurs” which has good points about the fallibility of carbon dating. It was actually very edifying when Darwinism has eroded faith so much in Creationism. Apocryphal versions of the Sodom and Gomorrah story also support a lack of charity as the reason of their destruction. One story relates that one of Lot’s daughters gave charity yo a stranger and she was punished by be covered with honey while tied up so angry bees could sting her to death. According to that account, her cries ascended to heaven and that was the fi all straw for God. So it wasn’t the homosexuality that was the proverbial straw but hatred of fellow man While I have issues with modern Mormonism ,the BOM DNA issue has never really been one since it looks like the DNA was miraculously changed if God put a “curse of blackness” on the Lamanites. And this supposedly followed them if they mixed with the “white and delightsome” Nephites. so the Creator changing a few sequences of Dna doesn’t require a hugh leap of faith, just a hop. I mean we can mix goat DNA with spiders to make their hair have spider silk properties, or glow in the dark puppies by combining bioluminescent jellyfish with canine DNA. I even have a college biology text book that depicts a rat with a human ear growing on its back. Creepy stuff. But trying to validate or refute the Bom on DNA just doesn’t really make a difference to me. I give more credence to legends of of a “white bearded god” among various native tribes or the Lakota saying they had pre-columbian horses than mapping the human genome and cagtigorizing it in boxes. The only reason I find it uplifting is due to studying many Jewish traditions and apochyrpha. Genesis 6 implies that fallen angels had decided to take daughters of men as wives and beget a race of giants. A detailed account is in the book of Enoch and Jubilees. These fallen ones were supposedly trying to sabotage the Messianic blood line. It also Implies the corruption of the animal kingdom. I sort of think this is where the legends of all the demigods and chymera animals of Roman/ Greek myths come in. According to Jubilees, many of these fallen ones intermixed with Canaan’s descendants which later multiplied and settled in the promised land. Moses sent spies but the were terrified because they were merely gd”grasshoppers in their sight”… and David fought Goliath (who also had multiple giant brothers), Agag the the king who Samuel got so angry at Saul for not killing was (according to tradition) a giant, Og,the king of Bashann, etc. The Raphaim of Egypt, the Zazummin are other examples. All the “Ancient Alien” stuff the legends all over the world in almost evrry culture about a giant race seem to almost justify a cleasning though in light of that it still seems radical.
