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This is some thoughts about how life is different beyond the Zion Curtain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaK9dtCc0cM

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These are thoughts that I have been having while in Idaho on vacation.

I spoke to a smart young lady at a local head-shop, and our conversation got me to thinking about our society and why we accept this socialistic industrial complex that benefits 2% of the population, and fuels huge wars in which this 2% benefit greatly.

It’s almost like we are endentured servants to our empire.

Enjoy the nice scenery of Idaho!

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This study that was done by BYU some years back is hot topic.  Mormons often boast of Utah’s clean-living, low alcohol usage and large families, and while some of that is true there is also a reality that has become an epidemic in Utah with depression, and teen suicide.

Since these reports started coming out, BYU did a study on suicide related to religious orientation vs. non-religious.  The study indicates that those with a high level of church activity are less likely to commit suicide.  However, even in this skewed study from BYU, LDS with high religious activity are not less likely to commit suicide than other predominate religions with the same level of comitment.

The overall point that I was making is that I don’t believe it is Mormons in Utah who are the ones at the most risk.  It seems to me that the ones at the most risk are gays, people of color and certainly non-Mormons or ex-Mormons in Utah.

With the LDS church supporting forms of prohibition, a unique 3.2% alcohol limit in stores, support for such things as proposition 8, and a number of other political and social injustices based on strict LDS morality doctrines..  I believe that when the LDS force these issues on other people, who are not of a like mind.  Or when they shut out and marginalize dissidents..  THAT is the real issue with suicide and depression in Utah.

I believe also that Utah women are expected to endure a lot as a result of their religion too.  This is something that was spoken about at length via an article at CBSnews, by Dr. Curt Canning who is the head of the Utah Psychiatric Association.

After losing my brother to depression in Utah in 2002, I have been increasingly interested in this Utah phenominon.

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I am fascinated by how the LDS church is so supportive of the Proposition 8 which denies certain people the ability to marry.

The LDS are the same group that for years fought for their right to have “Celestial Marriage“, (aka plural marriage), and after about 60 years of fighting the government to allow them to keep this religious institution a part of their religion..  They lost.

So now what, they want to deny other people in their marrital pursuits?!

Here is a video on the subject of Mormon Celestial marriage as defined in D&C Section 132.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdB2SWsBiIc

I am just not too sure if this kind of approach is working out, or creating an opposite effect as what they planned?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK6COHZHVQ&feature=related

And this one.  Though, I think they were pretty effective in this one.  But I still think that their effect may not be diserable in the long run.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6FOE_pI1LE

It’s kind of like that black preacher that really put the law down on the Mormon boys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abahKnkOcC8

Their words are accurate, and they seem to control the conversation.  But the approach is so bitter.  I just don’t know if it’s being served with too much salt.

I just think it’s interesting, I really don’t have anything profound to say about it.