Not asking what the annointing means, but what it could mean to Mitt--and our country/government.
As I understand it, the 2nd annointing guarantees exaltation to the recipiant--no matter what they might do in the future. (am I wrong here and misremembering?)
If someone high in power has this guarantee, what might he be capable to doing? murder? causing a war? I found the idea of a TBM in the white house chilling before--assuming that he really believes and what all that entails (law of consecration, etc.)
Adding in the idea of a possible 2nd annointing is kind of a scary thought.
Funny Steve! Love your quick wit. Dianne thanks for picking up and continuing my thread. I think if he has and believes in it which I think he has and does beleive. why else give all that money. I just don't like the idea of some elitist, secret society club member leading our country. Look at the mindset of the leaders in the mo church - they are just psychotic and out of touch with reality. Don't want any of the Repubs in office but the thought of Mitt in there makes me that more uneasy.
My never-mo husband doesn't see the problem, He says that a lot of past presidents believed that they could do no wrong and he doesn't see a difference. I know the Mormon mindset and it scares me.
...deep down, even subconsciously, Mitt would feel he could do nearly anything with impunity. No fears of celestial demotion.
....his TRUE allegiance is to the LDS empire, NOT to the U.S. Constitution.
....he is open to, ripe to the influences of the LDS General Authorities. Under-the-cover communications with them would go unknown & unreported; having perhaps much weight in Mitts decisions and policies.
This is not good stuff. It needs to somehow be exposed to the media, the pundits, the adversaries.
There's a guy who sometimes posts here who did have his second. His story is in the archives I believe. Anyway, he says the SA made him even more determined to be a good person and be a shining example to the world. He said it didn't even cross his mind that he could get away with stuff now.
Of course now he's an apostate, so he obviously didn't have the mindset of a "real" mormon. ;-)
Only one thing would stand in his way, whether or not he denies the Holy Ghost, and then you become a so-called "son of perdition." And no one really defines what THAT means, either. Like our friend Jim who sometimes posts as Anointed One. He appears to assume that he's a SOP, but who knows? Mormons never define their own doctrines.
I wouldn't get too excited about this. All that Hoover Dam level of power I got with various priesthood ordinations, patriarchal blessing (from Eldred G Smith hisself), endowment™, and sealing™, didn't change my life much.
Whatever Mitten's faults, he seems to be the ultimate pragmatist, and there is no pragmatic value to a second anointing, unless you aspire to GA-hood, which I think is now off the table for Mittens.
If he has had the dreaded SA, which I doubt, I don't think he thinks much about it. He's not a philosopher at heart. He's a car salesman.
I think it means the church owns him. Unless, like Annointed One, he comes to his senses.
I rather like the idea of an Exmo POTUS. TBMs are already getting smug about him getting this far, now wouldn't his apostacy that turn the tables. I can dream can't I?!
It would mean he has his "calling and election made sure" or so they claim. I'm not sure what all that means, but it's a separate ordinance done for some of the members. It's a religious ordinance/ritual that is important to the believers and those that receive it.