Posted by:
Dr. No
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Date: December 01, 2021 04:04PM
An imprisonment and slavery of the mind.
Because the end product is my father who cannot independently decide whether to carry an umbrella.
Joseph Smith wanted money, sexual gratification, and so power over the lives of others. He therefore constructed a system where he, alone, was the divine source of all rules and all knowledge. Consequently, all competing sources of information, all other methods of inquiry and thought, were forbidden. Self-inquiry - turning examination inward - was also forbidden, as this leads to "why" and therefore the development of critical independent thought, and then inevitably questioning of the whole. This design has continued, whether current leadership is aware or not.
It's asinine arbitrary rules do not matter.
The point is to control.
The result is to stunt human growth.
It's "fruits" are people who:
*Are chronically fearful, as there is no development of mastery, since there is never a reliance upon the self, and the judgments of the self. Therefore there is never confidence. Such people are chronically cowed, uncertain, and fearful.
*Are judgmental. In a system devoid of self-inquiry, the only measure of "success" is how well these arbitrary rules are kept. This inevitably leads to comparison of rule-keeping against others, leading to judgement and feeling either smugly superior; or conversely inferior and envious, depending on the status of comparative rule-keeping. Pecking order becomes of supreme import. Crabs in a barrel.
*Blind hypocrisy. Arbitrary rules contravening human nature are never "keepable"; therefore there is hypocrisy, of which there is no awareness, since the capacity for self-observation has never been developed. They are truly not aware of their hypocrisy. This is why pointing it out is futile.
*Superficiality. No depth; a cardboard person. Again, no self-examination.
*Intolerance, that is the inability to tolerate (there is real fear from) a difference of being or thought. A concrete example is the act of "shunning." (This is actually because that an alternate method of successful happy living actually exists at all threatens the whole flimsy architecture of this so-called church) Most interesting, I could be profoundly racist, yet truly and honestly without lying deny it, as there is no self-examination, so I am unaware of my profound racism (or any -ism). (It's those things we are unaware of that are the most dangerous.)
*The incapacity to stand alone and apart from the herd (i.e.true integrity is never developed). The locus of authority is forever external to the self. It is a system of parent-child where the child never grows up and emancipates, never becomes independent.
So basically, as a Truly Good Mormon, you stay in the box you came in and never explore what it is to be fully human. You never develop your inherent gifts and capacities. You never get out of the package. At death the plastic wrap is still on the box.
Such people never master the bicycle, always requiring training wheels.
They never develop the full measure of what it can be to be human.
This obscenity of a "church" is a crime against humanity.
Even a human gardener wants the seed to sprout.