Posted by:
Wally Prince
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Date: April 08, 2019 11:50PM
...and that means attention from the men who are already high up in the ruling hierarchy.
What makes one "worthy of attention".
BEING RELATED/CONNECTED TO MORMON ROYALTY.
Nepotism is a big factor in determining who gets ahead and up the ladder in Mormon society. In the past, it was relatively easy to see the nepotism just by counting the numbers of Smiths and Youngs and Snows and Kimballs and Haights who held prominent PAID leadership positions. In more recent generations, it is not so clear due to various intermarriages resulting in more surnames. But if you scratch the surface, you often find that a lot of the nepotism is still there. Just a few easy examples:
---> The Apostle Bruce R. McConkie married the daughter of Prophet (PPSR) Joseph Fielding Smith...and when Joseph Fielding Smith died it opened up an Apostle vacancy. Guess who was called to fill the vacancy? That's right. Bruce! Bruce immediately was made an Apostle and slid right into the vacancy that was created when his father in law died. McConkie was also the son of Oscar McConkie, founder of the law firm Kirton McConkie. Kirton McConkie is for all practical purposes the church's law firm and Bruce's dad knew all of the top leaders of the church. If you dig around, you can find McConkies all over the place in paid jobs connected to the Church. One example is Bruce's son Joseph Fielding McConkie who got a nice professorship at BYU and also paid positions in the Church Education System.
----> Neal A. Maxwell was a relatively popular (pseudo) "intellectual" Apostle from 1981 to 2004, but joined the circle of PAID GAs as a Seventy in 1974. So he had a 30-year career as a paid GA. Guess who his wife was. Colleen Hinckley, first cousin of one Gordon B. Hinckley.
----> The Eyrings. Currently Henry B. Eyring is an Apostle and member of the First Presidency. His son, Henry J. Eyring is currently the president of Brigham Young University--Idaho. (I'm sure it was a total coincidence and had nothing to do with family connections--ha ha ha.) Henry B. Eyring's father (Henry J. Eyring's grandfather) achieved some prominence as a scientist/chemist in the first half of the 20th century and published a book titled "The Faith of a Scientist" (among others) and became a "scientist" propaganda poster boy for the LSD Church pushing the idea that the teachings of the Church were very much in harmony with science. Guess who Henry Eyring's brother-in-law was. Spencer W. Kimball (Kimball married Camilla Eyring, Henry's sister.) The Eyrings are also closely related to the Romneys. Henry Eyring's father was a polygamist who married two Romney girls (great aunts of Mitt Romney). They were all part of the Mormon polygamist colony in Juarez.
---> Richard Hinckley, son of Gordon. If you look at his bio, it appears that he never had any real job in the real world. He mostly worked with and for his dad, the Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley. Just before Hinckley passed on, Richard Hinckley was called to a paid GA position.
---> Haights and Huntsmans. The billionaire Huntsman family is closely related to the Apostle Haight family. (The mother of the second generation of rich Huntsmans (including Jon Huntsman, Jr.) is Karen Haight, daughter of (deceased) Apostle David B. Haight.(Note that Isaac C. Haight was a prominent participant in the Mountain Meadows Massacre.)
When you start poking around it really gets bizarre to see the extent to which a relatively few families essentially "own" the LSD Church. Even at lower levels, they are notorious for looking out for each other and making sure that church-related jobs and business opportunities go to the well-connected Mormons who are informally considered to be "Mormon Royalty".
But it's not all nepotism. New blood does come into the hierarchy quite regularly.
BEING A TALENTED AND SOCIOPATHIC MANAGER OF THE FLOCK.
Another way to be worthy of attention is to be a polished, successful, practical businessman or professional who has demonstrated the ability to implement (e.g. as bishop, stake president or mission president) the will and agenda of the top leadership--no matter what. They are prized for their ability to manipulate, cajole and coerce cooperation and obedience from the sheeple they are put in charge of.
This method of rising to the top is to some degree encapsulated in the question "which way do you face?" Seventy Lynn G. Robbins, in a conference talk, reported receiving the following conversation with Boyd K. Packer:
---> “Which way do you face?” President Boyd K. Packer surprised me with this puzzling question while we were traveling together on my very first assignment as a new Seventy. Without an explanation to put the question in context, I was baffled. “A Seventy,” he continued, “DOES NOT REPRESENT THE PEOPLE TO THE PROPHET BUT THE PROPHET TO THE PEOPLE. Never forget which way you face!” It was a powerful lesson.
So, basically, Packer was telling this young Seventy that if he wanted to get ahead and move up the ladder, he always had to remember that he served the people ABOVE HIM and did not serve the people BELOW HIM.
If you do this very well PLUS have talent for herding the sheep wherever the leaders want you to herd them, you are "worth of attention" and possibly further promotion.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/which-way-do-you-face?lang=engIn conclusion, it's a creepy hierarchy full of self-serving families and well-connected people. They are politicians and corporate hacks masquerading as "spiritual leaders."