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ilovemesomevincentprice · 3 months

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Vincent Price

Brigham Young (1940)

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loveerran · 4 months

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Could you elaborate on the JS sealing practices?

Great question! Thank you :)

What I am referring to (in this post) is the breadth and depth of the sealing power as envisioned and implemented by Joseph Smith and practiced in the early church. The original post speaks to how our family is more than just direct line descent or blood relations.

I've previously noted that 9 of Joseph's first 12 plural sealings were to women already legally married. Today, we regularly seal deceased women to more than one man (and deceased men to more than one woman) if they were married to more than one individual in mortality. We understand it will all be sorted out later.

But more interesting to many of us is the notion that sealings were performed for things other than marriages and the sealing of direct-line ancestors to direct-line progeny. Consider this account from the diary of John M. Bernhisel relating a sealing between friends and cousins, aunts and nephews and so on:

"The following named deceased persons were sealed to me on Oct 26th 1843, by President Joseph Smith: Maria Bernhisel, sister; Brother Samuel's wife, Catherine Kremer; Mary Shatto, (Aunt); Madalena Lupferd, (distant relative); Catherine Bernhisel, Aunt; Hannah Bower, Aunt; Elizabeth Sheively, Aunt; Hannah Bower, cousin; Maria Lawrence, (intimate friend); Sarah Crosby, intimate friend, /died May 11 1839/; Mary Ann Bloom, cousin."

A Gospel Topics essay notes early sealing practices may have been intended to extend family ties "both vertically, from parent to child, and horizontally, from one family to another".

Of additional interest is how proxy ordinances for the deceased, including proxy baptisms, could be performed by someone of any gender, prior to Brigham Young clarifying the same gender requirement in 1845. We also note non-related individuals were sealed by adoption to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and other church leaders, including men sealed to men as father/son adoptive pairs.

Some believe our current evolution in practice aligns itself more closely to God's will and the original practice was at fault or incomplete. However, I give Joseph's expansive vision a lot of room. And the truth is that non-family, non-lineal sealings were performed by Joseph and others. Will those sealings be honored in the eternities, or will they be null and void? I have a hard time believing the latter. And what of OP's case for "the spinster aunt who had no kids but made sure that three of the six kids her sister abandoned survived into adulthood"? Church doctrine is big on adoption already, and I can only imagine that relationships like found family and adoption continue in the eternities.

To me, the sealing vision feels more expansive than our current understanding and practice may be.

#questions!#polygamy #sealing #temple #joseph smith #brigham young #lds #mormon #lgbt #lgbtqia+#queerstake #tumblrstake #religion #trans #transgender #love

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peppermint-rat · 3 months

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"XMO Heart Attack"

Glued inside the stall door of a bathroom in a mormon chapel. "Praise to the man" is one of the most disgusting hymns to me. It was a real struggle to keep it in my head long enough to write this. I know saying you were literally shaking is kind of an eye roll on here (for good reason) but I can honestly say I was trembling with rage as I composed this. So cathartic to finally, finally do something with that anger.

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Praise to the man who wrote Doctrine & Covenants!

Verse 59, Section 132

Nothing is sinful if men do it in God's name

Thank Joe for that, or the mormons would be doomed

Praise to our Brigham, who ordered "EXTERMINATION!"

A series of massacres we call the "Black Hawk War"

Those poor Timpanogos, they were killed by the thousands

But our grand, spacious building was built upon the gore

The mormon militia carved the heads from their victims

For two weeks, the captives were forced to watch them rot

Those women and children were then sold into slavery

They were Lamanites; they deserved what they got

Your children sing of "Lamanites", just as I did

So don't try to tell me it's different today

Say that your prophet told you, "Murder your brother"

Could you, a good mormon, really disobey?

Packer and Oaks said, "Sometimes truth is not useful"

What useful lies have they told you instead?

Pulled threads cannot unravel truth, so I ask thee

Why have they made it a sin to pull their thread?

This made you uncomfortable, and thus, must be evil

A test of your faith, I remember, yes, I know

But Jesus will want to know why you're cool with murder

He won't be impressed when you say, "Have you met Joe?"

"Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of Heaven"?

The church must atone for the blood on stolen land!

Wake up, the world will see your buried injustice;

Millions SHALL KNOW "Brother Joseph" again!

#exmo #exmormon #apostate #apostake #brigham young #and now I'm allowed to turn 30 in two weeks

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tyronepowerblog · 25 days

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Tyrone Power on the set of Brigham Young (1940)

#Tyrone Power #Brigham Young #1940s #old hollywood #old cinema #old movies #classic movies #classic hollywood #photos

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dynamobooks · 10 months

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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (1887)

#arthur conan doyle #sherlock holmes #penguin classics #iain sinclair #detective #mystery #london #mormon #brigham young #salt lake city

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brothermouse · 11 months

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Sunday doodles: fast Sunday edition

Some of them I almost missed but, once again I am proud to say I got everyone who bore their testimonies

And, just for you guys on Tumblr, because I think you’d appreciate it, here’s a bonus doodle:

#tumblrstake #lds #mormon art #lds art #lds artist #mormon artist #my art #sunday doodles #fast sunday #fast Sunday doodles #queerstake #brigham young

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theotherpacman · 6 months

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I work at an elementary school and there are a few mormon kids in my classes and every time I think about it I have to fight the urge to sit them down and Explain to them what indoctrination is and what cognitive dissonance is and what thought-terminating cliches are and what critical thinking is and also the entire truth about church history

I have to tell myself "no no you could be fired if you did that. don't do that"

#exmormon #elementary school #religious indoctrination #joseph smith #brigham young

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exmo-diaries · 2 years

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yes noaks is good, but have you considered:

#exmo #exmormon #joseph smith #brigham young #noaks

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ghassanrassam · 6 months

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1940/Mormon history with Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell

#brigham young #tyrone power #linda darnell

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wowbright · 9 months

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I did a thing. I'm so sorry:

Summary: Everything is the same as in the show, except Stede Bonnet is the son of Brigham Young, the second prophet and president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Which means it's different.

#ofmd fic #mormon fic #our flag means death #ofmd fanfic #stede bonnet #brigham young #wowbright writes fic

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 6 months

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Vincent Price - Brigham Young (1940)

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rabbitcruiser · 9 months

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After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young lead 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City on July 24, 1847.

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tyronepowerblog · 11 days

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Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell in Brigham Young (1940)

#Tyrone Power #Linda Darnell #Brigham Young #1940s #old hollywood #old cinema #old movies #classic movies #classic hollywood #gifs #my gifs

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wewerealwaysthere · 2 years

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In 1855, Morris Young “began performing as a cross-dressing singer under the pseudonym Madam Pattirini. Young performed as Pattirini in… Utah venues from 1885 to the 1900s. He could produce a convincing falsetto, and many in the audience did not realize that Pattirini was Young. One of his performances as Madam Pattirini was for the last birthday celebration of LDS president "Lorenzo Snow" in April 1901. He also once portrayed a "fine Irish girl" named Bridget McCarthy at a Christmas ball at the Salt Lake Theatre in 1886.”

#we were always there #Brigham Young #Morris Young #drag performer #Mormon church #Madam Pattirini #Bridget McCarthy #Lorenzo snow #gay

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pressforwardsaints · 1 year

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#lds #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #christianity #brigham young #quotes #100ofthebookofmormon #Instagram

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heathersdesk · 1 year

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Stolen unceremoniously from Rachel Hunt Steenblik because it must exist everywhere.

#lds #mormon #mormonism #mormonish #brigham young #ejaculate responsibly #there is nowhere more in need of this message than that campus

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