I just want it to be day 90 already. I just want to be done for a while, even though I know that I won't be.

And the thing is when I talk about day 90 everyone assumes that it has to do with addiction. It does, in a way.

In the way that I'm free and finally will allow myself to be in a relationship kind of way.

letterstobriannacalveri:

Okay, hopefully I’m going to get all the politics out of my system right and not talk about it again for a long time. So I’m not trying insult you or your mom or the rest of the state of Utah but I seriously just don’t understand why Mormon people tend to be republicans.
Like, for example, one of the basic principles the Mormon religion is agency.  We really value our right to choose.  But republicans, on many issues, are against the right to choose - legalizing marijuana, abortion, gay marriage.  Yes, I understand that the Mormon church is against smoking marijuana, having an abortion, or acting on same-sex attraction.  But making those things legal doesn’t mean you HAVE to do them.  It just means you’re making it legal for other people to make their own choices - to use their agency.
Or, the Mormon church really values helping the needy, right?  But republicans are against many things that do help the needy.  Like Obamacare, most republicans could talk for days about what a terrible program it is.  But in my opinion, it’s just trying to help people out and make sure everyone is able to receive on of the most basic human rights - medical care.
And yeah, people rag on Obama (and democrats in general) for “being a socialist” but to me……..the law of consecration, that law that is supposed to come into play after Christ is resurrected, is a lot like socialism.  You know, everyone shares everything and the rich share their poor with the needy.  Well, that’s kind of what the democratic party tries to accomplish.  They try and do things like tax the rich so that money can be used in programs to help the poor.
So, I’m not saying the republican party is bad, but their views don’t really seem to align with the Mormon church’s at all, and that’s why it just blows my mind that it’s so predominantly a republican church.  

I studied socialism/communism while going through my homeschool academy and we basically figured that for everything, Satan has a counterfeit. Zionism/the law of consecration will work because Jesus will lead us as a people and at that point we'll all be converted, and those that aren't will be living far away from Zion and the Zion cities. It wouldn't work now because we as a people are not moral and are too petty and deconstructionist to band together like that. Communism and socialism will not work because we as a people are not righteous and therefore would not work to help one another. It hasn't worked in the past. We can't be forced to help one another, or else is it really charity?

The issue is not to share the money of the rich with the poor, or to give it away, it's for everyone to be converted to the point that we are all charitable with what we have regardless of where we are in the "social ladder".

Yes, we value the right to choose, but we also accept that all choices have a consequence. And why should sin be legalized? We hold that abortion is a sin against the law of "thou shalt not kill, nor do anything like unto it". We hold that same-sex marriage is a sin because we have been commanded to only marry a husband and a wife together for time and all eternity.

If we stuck to the original democratic values, principles, and ideals, we would be a very good nation. But we don't. So we aren't. We took God out of nearly facet of our lives. And now because of this, pride, Satan's influence, the deliberate dumbing down of the american people, false media messages, and a lot of other crap, we're heading in the wrong direction. It's been prophesied over and over again that the USA is going to fall. The scourge is going to come and wipe nearly everyone out on the continent, so much so that the smell itself will kill anyone that goes near Washington D.C.

But I'm just a stupid homeschooled Utah Mormon male while Christian so why the hell should anyone listen to me?
Socialism and communism is marxism which is based on the communist manifesto which is totally anti-God and atheistic. It won't work because no system based on an absence of Almighty will ever rule the world for long. Capitalism only works if the people are a moral people - which we are not as a nation. We were, and then several things happened within a few years of each other that destroyed us.

Why do people keep leaving?

Buggie and I have been talking at length about this tonight. This is the true church. This is the true and restored gospel. It is true whether you think it's true or not. The precepts are eternal--meaning that they are above and beyond your mind whether you comprehend them or not. God's ways are higher than yours. And it doesn't matter if you believe it, you will be confronted by it, whether you try and convince yourself otherwise.
There is no way that Joseph Smith could have done what he did without God. He did not have the education, money, means, or intelligence to fabricate the Book of Mormon. He was not intelligent enough or versed enough in any area of societal construction, refinement, upbringing, war tactics, stratagem, political struggles, or any other area of the Book of Mormon with the education that he had--which would not have been made up for by sheer intelligence.
To deny this is to deny God. Testimony of the Book of Mormon comes through the Holy Ghost, a member of the Godhead.
You cannot and will not ever be able to convince me otherwise.