Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: April 07, 2012 05:09PM
(Response to the original post was rapid and filled the posting limit quickly,* so here it is again. Further input welcome):
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I was recently approached by a member and employee of the Mormon Church who informed me that they had “a couple of interesting stats” that they were willing to share with me.
In response, I requested some confirming I.D. (this person’s identity will remain confidential for obvious reasons). I then asked the informant if they wished that the data be posted on RfM. The informant said that I would be “welcome to do that.” The informant then sent me the information and told me that I could refer on this site to the informant as "an insider who writes for TSCC [The So-Called Church].”
The information relayed to me included the following:
--The Mormon Church is providing assistance to its “assets” manager in tasking for quality assurance—i.e., data automatically collected on Church assets is in need of cleaning, scrubbing and formatting in order to verify that vendors are in Mormon Church-specified compliance.
--The assets involve 30,000 workstations that are presently being tracked by the Mormon Church.
--The Mormon Church expects these workstation assets to increase in number to 70,000, and to include 4,000 servers and 5,000,000 individual licenses.
The informant urged me to “read between the lines” when reviewing this information. In response, I asked the informant for their interpretation of the information and was given the following assessment:
“It is my understanding that TSCC will grant licenses to members to access TSCC's database. Why the hierarchy feels the need to issue licenses to members is bewildering. Personally, it continues to shelter more of secret society and a possible attempt to make members feel more secure withing their own, cult-subscribed world.
“More importantly, and granted that the majority of members in undeveloped countries don't have access to computers, note that the projection of only 5 million licenses, as opposed to 14 million members, gives reason to believe that TSCC's active membership is only 1/3 of the total membership which coincides with what RfMers have been noting. And again, this is a projection and possibly a lofty one as I think TSCC is on the decline.
“Honesty and integrity appears to be out the door: Requesting members to serve ‘missions’ in lieu of actually paying members, some of whom I am sure could use the money, for their computer, accounting, etc. skills and requiring them to volunteer 20 to 40 hours per week at home (as 'assets') leaves me to question whether these requests are both ethically and morally right. But, they are hopeful!
“Apparently, the data that has been collected by TSCC has a quality issue. Considering the duplication mess specifically within the temple records, I do not doubt that it has.“
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--*for the original post along with responses, see:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,467611--*see also:
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,468066,468066#msg-468066http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,468228Edited 10 time(s). Last edit at 04/07/2012 10:22PM by steve benson.