I've been quiet about the trial that's going on because so much of it is just plain upsetting to me, so I've avoided it. But I was asked a question about a specific issue (won't go into detail) and came across this post. That's the potentially triggery stuff, btw. Never forget that this organization isn't some hippie, feel good "we just want to worship our God" religion. This is an outfit that went about specifically targeting YOUNG (as in: seriously under aged) girls to make them subservient and to be breeders. That's all women are good for, they can serve no leadership positions, their advice isn't wanted (and can get them a pop in the mouth or a few days in the potato shed for speaking out of turn) and they are systematically beaten and broken down until there's nothing left.
If I read one more comment on a blog about how they're "just wanting to practice their religion" I'm going to fly off in a rage. Or create a religion where I get to take anything of yours I want and rock out on amyl poppers. What? It's what my god wants me to do!
(Important to note: even old time FLDS folks - read: pre Warren Jeffs - were shocked by the temple bed. But the more secretive these people get, the more crazy stuff they do. Like how apparently Jeffs kept TAPES OF HIMSELF CONSUMMATING HIS "MARRIAGES" TO YOUNG GIRLS.)
I will never forget the shock I felt when I got a question from the State Troopers re: the original bust and they asked if there were beds in the temples. There are padded altars. This whole thing is just a gross distortion of the original weirdness. (Here's what Mormon temple altars look like.) I MEAN, HELLO.
Geh. In other news, I've completely gutted my office, selling off the furniture, painting walls, etc. and I'm wanting to put in this coffee table and a bunch of comfy chairs and have a relaxed space. No more formal office for me, I think. We're all laptop users now, so why have a desk designed for a PC? Exactly.
I have hummingbirds all over my Mexican bush sage out front. <3
If I read one more comment on a blog about how they're "just wanting to practice their religion" I'm going to fly off in a rage. Or create a religion where I get to take anything of yours I want and rock out on amyl poppers. What? It's what my god wants me to do!
(Important to note: even old time FLDS folks - read: pre Warren Jeffs - were shocked by the temple bed. But the more secretive these people get, the more crazy stuff they do. Like how apparently Jeffs kept TAPES OF HIMSELF CONSUMMATING HIS "MARRIAGES" TO YOUNG GIRLS.)
I will never forget the shock I felt when I got a question from the State Troopers re: the original bust and they asked if there were beds in the temples. There are padded altars. This whole thing is just a gross distortion of the original weirdness. (Here's what Mormon temple altars look like.) I MEAN, HELLO.
Geh. In other news, I've completely gutted my office, selling off the furniture, painting walls, etc. and I'm wanting to put in this coffee table and a bunch of comfy chairs and have a relaxed space. No more formal office for me, I think. We're all laptop users now, so why have a desk designed for a PC? Exactly.
I have hummingbirds all over my Mexican bush sage out front. <3
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Jeffs directions for making that bed are creepy. (On top of creepy, coated in a generous coating of Creepysauce.) There was just a LOOOOOT of ongoing detailed planning for systematic rape. It takes the fucked-upness to a whole new level.
ANd yeah - the DETAILS and planning involved so he can do what he wants!! Augh, the grand delusion/aggrandizement that man had. Just despicable.
Thank goodness there are hummingbirds to lighten the post! We've got black swallowtails all over our abelia bushes.
HUMMERS! And the good, tiny kind! :D I'm going to do some window shopping in a bit, too. More comfy chairs of a reclining, but can still function nature, please!
(If you can, quick as shakes throw some fennel in the garden for the swallowtails to lay their eggs on! Or milkweed, if you can find any, assuming it's not there already.)
re Jeffs: Ick. The marriage to young'uns is bad enough, but the added violation of knowing there are tapes must be horrible for these girls. This is not religion; this is a perversion cloaking itself in religious rhetoric.
(I must say that LDS temple altar is kind of pretty.)
And hummingbirds always make me happy.
That altar for the LDS temple is a unique one. They're all different to match the style/exterior of the temples around the world. They do make pretty temples, I'll give them that.
How can hummingbirds not bring the happy? Such busy little dudes.
I'm happy I'm not living 10 minutes from the Crick! (The local name for Colorado City.) UGH, so sad and gross.
*gags*
I just...it makes me so angry i have no words. It makes me want to commit intimate, physical violence. Often. And hard.
It makes me feel tainted just to read it. FUCK HIM and the insane, creepy horse he rode in on.
Yeah, I've had to distance myself from the trial for just that reaction, too. :((((((
On the flipside, I am in drooling love with that table.
Which means he's the latter. :)
But on a much lighter note? The Petrie chair! Oh, please, grand poobahs of design at C&B, please have named that lovely chair after Laura and Rob!
Happy ending to this story: This professor claimed that kiddie porn on the internet didn't exist and gave us an extra-credit assignment to find ten kiddie porn sites. A parent found out. Guess what happened?
This is the THIRD entry on my flist today that makes me want to just banish men in general from the planet, or at least the hemisphere of it that I live in. I feel so powerless, Stoney. Why is so much of the world so awful? :-(
ION, your prospective furniture is beautiful! I kind of like the IKEA chair better than the C&B, but my eyes crave bright colors 99.9999% of the time.
Love to the hummingbirds. I wish I had some of their pretty to look at my own self right now. The weather here is in deep pre-winter condition, with everything dark and gray and all the little animals gone to ground. It's kind of depressing. :-/
I love the colors on the ikea chair, too. But the Petrie chair looks so coofy! And I have a fabulous print pillow with a coordinating orange in it to give it some color. Pillows are a great way to change a look, that and paint. I'm a big fan. :D
Here's a pretty icon for you to look at - it's spring on the down under!
You remember the post where I ranted about human beings are fundamentally stupid, well lets just say that I was not lacking in evidence and this all just reinforces that conclusion.
Your office furniture - the shelves in the table are for the skull bongs yes/yes? Also, you've been watching Mad Men, heeee!
THIS IS A BIG REASON WHY I AM A HAPPY ATHEIST. And hahahaha, yep, your post was spot on, as per usual.
I havea special curio cabinet for the skull bongs, and one for the bongs made of squeezy honey bears. Ahaahahaha, I LOVE THE MAD MEN MID CENTURY LOOK. I've been converting my house over for the past year. And I don't even watch Mad Men! I have it recorded, I'm just lazy. (Also, say someone wanted to add some LOST along with the other DVDs winging their way to you. Would you be interested? All five seasons - the last one is just about to start airing here?)
how apparently Jeffs kept TAPES OF HIMSELF CONSUMMATING HIS "MARRIAGES" TO YOUNG GIRLS.
Okay - so can they get him on kiddie pr0n for that?
...I have to go self-medicate with peanut butter now.
The fact that I'm spamming this post is not unrelated to my other recent LJ spamming adventure ("spamventure," if you will) in which I have ranted, raved, and generally frothed in utter horror at the Roman Polanski apologism running rampant.
Are young girls so worthless in our society that we should expect them to be regularly raped? And, those that object are puritans, or prudes, or intolerant of "alternative" faiths?
Anger.....So. Much. Anger.