I remember being taught that final judgement would be everyone sitting around and viewing like a "movie" of your personal life from start to finish. All the lies, sins and indescretions would be projected for all to see.

Well, thanks to the internet, that actually has happened - to LDS, Inc. Now their lies are revealed for all to see and we sit in judgement against them.

It's good to be on the right side of this for a change.

...is that in the afterlife, you can't hide much. Who you are, who you were...everybody knows.

So my personal opinion is that Joseph Smith is now as transparant as glass. All the lies, all the shenanigans, are out in the open for everyone to see.

I've wondered, in such a scenario, if he would still get followers. My guess is yes.

We all do pretty much the same stuff.

"Oh, yawn, another liar/petty thief/masturbator. Same old same old."

Sure, once in a while there would be an exceptionally vile person, someone with some horribly embarrassing secrets, but who wants to sit through billions of ordinary schmucks.

"This is boring. I'm going to go see if I can find my buddy from third grade."

"But Hitler is supposed to be on soon."

"When?"

"Um, let me check. 7:45, Tuesday, six weeks from now."

"Later."

Your right! After listening to sins for so long it would get boring. In a sick way this comforts me!

Hey! What happened to, "Judge not, that ye be not judged"? Doesn't anyone care about the scriptures anymore?

Which scriptures are you referring to? Personally, I like the Greek epics over anything the Hebrews vomited onto the page:

"Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle
would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,
so neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost
nor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.
But now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us
in their thousands, no man can turn aside nor escape them,
let us go on and win glory for ourselves or yield it to others."

Iliad, XII.322-328 (Sarpedon to Glaukos).

It's all fiction, mckay.

That's pretty much what happens. Very funny.

So basicly everyone else will judge everyone else? Lovely.

That movie thing freaked me out as a child. For many years I referred to myself in the third person in my thoughts as though narrating the movie of my life.

Especially because I think she is taking a flier about the after life as much as anyone else who tries to explain what happens after you die. But I like how she described the "movie" - that it was just a personal video you watched by yourself or with a best friend and it is just instructive not judgmental. It's about learning from your mistakes, not paying for them. And it's no one else's business.

Now the LDS and the internet ... I prefer the suffering version of this theory. Let it all hang out and let them be judged for it. I try to be fair with people but I feel less compassion for organizations manipulating and using people.

Particularly when it's conscious, relentless, and persistent.