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I'm very skeptical about this. Can you give the actual quote, and is it just the author or is it a GA?
The book is, the following, correct?
Life Everlasting: A Definitive Study of Life After Death
by Duane S. Crowther

I’ll be the first to admit, I am not well-versed in early LDS Church history and my knowledge is novice level (at best).  I recently watched a documentary about Emma Smith (on Amazon Prime) and my perception about her has changed.   
 
There has always seemed to be a stigma associated with Emma Smith.  But I’m not sure that’s completely fair.
 
I’ve always imagined that Emma lived an exemplary life prior to Joseph’s death and then lost her way after.  I think that’s a common held LDS belief or myth.  Clearly, there seems to be a negative perception of her that she didn’t come West with the Saints.  There was a heated disagreement between her and Brigham Young that seems to have damaged her character.  Her remarriage to a man that many viewed as sketchy.  And finally her involvement (with her son) in starting the Reorganized LDS Faith have each led to unfair questions about her.
 
It’s impossible for me to defend or justify one way or another.  All I know after watching this documentary is that Emma was a woman who endured tremendous trails over her entire lifetime, and showed amazing faith and love.  In addition to watching her children and husband die early in life, she also raised her 2nd husbands illegitimate child as if he were her own.
 
Emma is the only female to be directly addressed by the Savior and mentioned as an Elect Lady scripturally.  That’s enough for me to remove the thought that she should be viewed as controversial.

I just sent this as a private message to Eowyn. I will copy it here publicly too - maybe it will explain myself a little better to you all:
 
To Eowyn:
I apologize for not answering your question in detail. I posted against my better judgement, but I get upset. Politics is not worth arguing with most people. It feels like a big pointless waste of time, and everyone is just mad at each other afterward.
I will try to give you more details about what I mean sometime soon. I don't agree with Hillary on everything, but especially in this election you don't have to love her - Trump is so horrible, in my opinion.

OK, as some of you may know, I don't like arguing politics and I think it's almost always pointless. I would prefer not to see political threads on this site. But even if a dog just wants to take a nap, if you poke it enough it will probably respond - that's how it feels.
In this election, in my opinion, you don't even have to love Hillary. Trump is so unsuited to be president and says so many ignorant and offensive things that clearly it should be anyone but Trump. He is so far out off the map, as far as what a candidate should be. To someone who disagrees with me, I can only say please follow the news better, and don't get only one perspective. Go to the Washington Post site on any given day, if you want to see what I'm talking about, as far as Trump.
There are too many points, as far as areas I agree with Hillary on. I don't agree with everything - I'm completely against gay marriage, for example.
Check out all her points, and see how you think they align with the gospel. I mean the gospel, not Mormon conservative culture.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
I'm not a Democrat, but I agree with them on many points, Please read the following, including page 2, to get my general feeling about that party and the gospel.
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Why-Im-a-Mormon-Democrat
I apologize if I'm seeming to be evasive. I really don't want to argue about this. I stated my opinion. I know many Mormons disagree with me. I'm sure I haven't answered to your satisfaction.
[edited, forgot the second link]

Why does it have to be pandering, when she explains to Mormons in terms that Mormons understand, why she will be a better president than Trump?
Apparently, she was asked by they paper even, to give this statement.
Personally, as a Mormon even, it's not even close. Hillary will be a better president and shares my values, much more than Trump does. Way more than Trump does.

I would put the Lord first and pray and have faith that it will work out.
Sunday activities affecting grades is ridiculous to me, but it sounds like that's how it is, unless you try a different educational route.
In my experience, having that Sunday day off mentally helps me do better in the remaining 6 days of the week
 

Paul said it best, IMO (JST included, emphasis mine):
More seems pointless.

Can we agree that one person's personal revelation is only hearsay to everyone else?
No matter which religion and/or god you believe in, there are more people who have and do believe in something else. And each claim to have personal revelation confirming the truth of their beliefs. Not all religions can be correct (they're too contradictory), but it is possible that all are false. Therefore we need to mechanism for determining which is true. Since personal revelation is demonstrably poor at determining what is true, we need to find something else. I'm open to suggestions.

Okay so, various issues came up that I can't go into for site security reasons.
No posts were lost in this attempt, but we are not updated yet.
Will contact the software developers to get some answers about a few things, and will try again in a few days (depending on how prompt they are about responding).
Thanks for your patience.

Either way, we have a lot of things to consider when choosing software. Presently we are going to continue forward with invisionpower. There are a lot of bugfixes and improvements coming with this update. Hope it alleviates a few concerns.
The latest major version that we are using was built from the ground up. So it definitely has bugs. But they are actively working on fixing them.
And boy let me tell you, the backend of the old version was a complete disaster.

It's interesting to speculate. I personally expect God's reality to be something we haven't even imagined yet. 
The whole multiverse idea strikes me as a false idea, but what do I know. The same with the idea that we're just living in a simulation, or a hologram, or other such recent ideas from physics. But what do I know.
We don't even know how much we don't know and our senses are so limited, I'm not sure we can even imagine. We can't even perceive spirit matter.

We used vBulletin before, it has its own issues. Not real excited about anything more from them.
Additionally, there are a lot of other concerns we worry about. Such as keeping the millions of posts we already have in here. Its not quite as simple as just installing new software most of the time.
We have recently upgraded our database to help alleviate some of this. But I agree it can still take a while. SQL doesn't like it much when you have multi gigabyte databases. The search index alone for this thing is 700MB. 

And this is one significant place where Catholic (and most of Protestant) dogma is simply wrong.
God did not create us out of whim or caprice. We are His children. He does not need to redeem us, any more than we must breathe. But it is in our nature to breathe, and it is in His nature to redeem His creations, and, especially, His children (us). To be true to Himself, He must redeem us. That (among a few important "other things") is what makes Him God.
Lehi
Lehi

Grateful for the site.   Grateful for the team that makes it work.  Grateful for the people who fund the site.
That said, yeah, the current SW have some pretty annoying bugs and limitations.

Hi,
Site Tech here.
There are a lot of improvements and bug fixes in this patch. I don't write the software, I only administer it, so, all I can do right now is quote the changelog:
So, in short, yes, we hope to see fewer duplicates.

By the way, the parts I've red in what I said may not be strictly doctrinal. I've heard these explained this way and it seems to make sense. 
The atonement is a mystery we don't fully understand.
However, the main point is that you can't get back to God by your works alone. A Savior is needed.
The greek word here for "glory" (as in falling short of) is doxa, which can mean the following:

opinion, judgment, view

opinion, estimate, whether good or bad concerning someone:
in the NT always a good opinion concerning one, resulting in praise, honour, and glory

splendour, brightness:
of the moon, sun, stars;
magnificence, excellence, preeminence, dignity, grace

majesty:
a thing belonging to God;
the kingly majesty which belongs to him as supreme ruler, majesty in the sense of the absolute perfection of the deity

a thing belonging to Christ:
the kingly majesty of the Messiah;
the absolutely perfect inward or personal excellency of Christ; the majesty

of the angels:
as apparent in their exterior brightness

a most glorious condition, most exalted state:
of that condition with God the Father in heaven to which Christ was raised after he had achieved his work on earth;
the glorious condition of blessedness into which is appointed and promised that true Christians shall enter after their Saviour's return from heaven
 

I ran across a great talk by Neal Maxwell today, which included this quote. We kept our first estate (siding with God in the war in heaven) and so he gave us this second estate (mortal life). We can't reject this now that we're in the middle of it:
 

Please take it from someone who's interacted with @Carborendum for a while on these forums - it wasn't intended that way (and I didn't / don't see that in his post).  Sometimes strong feelings might seem that way, or different communication styles, but I'm certain no one who has replied to this thread so far feels this way or means for you to.

I`d like to add some personal insights to the comments of LeSellers and Zil about being happy in a kingdom of glory:
 
In 2 Nephi 2:25 we read that “men are that they might have joy”. Happiness is the very core of the reason a plan was design by our Heavenly Father, as His work and glory is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man (Moses 1:39). That being said, we need to understand that, except the sons of perdition, all children of Heavenly Father will be saved in a degree of glory, as stated before. This means happiness, for no one can have the fullness of joy without a body (D&C 93:33-34). Those who will inherit the Celestial Kingdom will be able to receive the fullness of the blessings of the Father (D&C 93:20,27;132:19 ). Those who will inherit the other kingdoms (terrestrial and telestial) will receive the fullness of those kingdoms (D&C 88:30-31). So, happiness will be in all kingdoms, but only in the Celestial Glory the fullness of joy will be found.
 
Now, concerning the power to decide to live on or not after the resurrection:
 
1) Our bodies are gifts from our Heavenly Father and constitute part of our obedience in the pre-mortal world. Though we can’t recall, we all decided to come down to earth and were happy with the idea of having a body like Heavenly Father. Without a body, our spirt could not progress. Regardless of the importance of our bodies for our eternal progression, it is known to us that diseases and all kinds of mental and physical challenges would afflict us because of the flesh. Depression and the desire to die are bound to the body, not to the spirt.
 
2) Death, though part of the plan, is not meant to linger. Because of the Fall, death was introduced into the world, but because of the perfect atonement of Jesus Christ, all children of Heavenly Father that had, has or will have a body will be able to come forth from the grave and reunite with his/her spirit to separate no more;
 
3) Amulek teaches us that the same spirt that possessed out bodies will have power to possess them after the resurrection (Alma 34:34). What will give and maintain life after the resurrection will be the spirt, not blood. It indicates that our spirits will have power over death (for they are eternal). It also indicates that through pre-mortal, mortal and post-mortal experiences our spirits were added knowledge, light, glory. Jacob tells us that our knowledge in the resurrection will be perfect (2 Nephi 9:13-14). It means that there won’t be veil of forgetfulness anymore. All knowledge we once possessed in all stages of progress will be restored to us and will qualify us for the kingdoms of glory, whatever they may be. Plus, our bodies won’t experiment corruption anymore (Alma 11:45; 12:18).
 
So I believe that there won’t be a desire to quit life. Our understanding of God’s plan will be perfect and we will surely be glad with our inheritance. Those who will inherit any kingdom of glory will still be God’s children and will enjoy their inheritance. People will enjoy working, learning and serving in the kingdoms of glory. There won’t be ‘nothing to do’ in Heaven.
 
Now, as we won’t be told the details of the Outer Darkness, it is hard to know how life will be like there, except that it will be like a lake of fire and brimstone (see D&C 76:31-38). Still it will be life.
 

I ran across a great talk by Neal Maxwell today, which included this quote. We kept our first estate (siding with God in the war in heaven) and so he gave us this second estate (mortal life). We can't reject this now that we're in the middle of it:
 

When I allow myself to depart from reality (the truth as we know it from scripture, prophets, revelation, etc.), I'm pretty good at exploring an idea to find out whether it would work...
Meanwhile, FWIW, I tripped over Alma 42:9, 16 this morning in my scripture study - the soul can never die (in this case, "soul" appears to mean our spirits, and not the resurrected body & spirit together).

Everything I know about gospel doctrine says that we are immortal, and that our next life will be joyful. God will give us as much joy as we were willing to allow him to, determined by our level of obedience.
In the short term we may have to suffer until we pay for sins, if we don't repent. 
So no one is going to cease to exist, and ultimately no one will want to.
Those in outer darkness may be some kind of exception. We don't know much about them, and I hope none of us find out... It's very hard to go there, luckily

The answer: replicator machines like in Star Trek

For examples - http://en.fairmormon.org/Countercult_ministries
FairMormon.org is a great pro-Mormon website, created by volunteer "apologists" - people who defend the Mormon church against lies, distortions and misunderstandings.

I’ve met plenty of Saints who are quietly obedient and live exemplary lives.  I wouldn’t classify them as Molly Mormon/Peter Priesthoods.
 
I’ve also met a few rare wacko’s who appear to be constantly auditioning for leadership positions within the LDS Church.  They are also obedient (or at least give that appearance), but for different reasons.  That is who I define as Molly/Peter.  They have a severe lack of personal introspection and recognition. 
 
This reminds me of a story about President Monson.  I love this story.  We all know of Pres. Monson’s dedication to visiting the sick.  Years ago, during an important church meeting he received an impression that he should go to the hospital to visit someone.  He didn’t know who.  However, someone important was speaking and he rationalized that instead of rudely running out of the meeting interrupting the talk, he would wait until the speaker finished.  After 20-30 minutes, he rushed to the hospital.  As he entered the hospital, a nurse recognized him and told him he was too late.  A person that was asking for him had passed away a few minutes earlier.
 
I love that Pres. Monson was so honest and would open up and share this experience.  He didn’t need to.  He recognized that even as much as he has done for others, even he falls short on occasion.  I think honesty and self-realization is a clear indicator as to whether someone is Molly/Peter or not.