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How familiar are you with the Skull & Bones secret society? The Bohemian Grove? or Straussians?

Both the Republican and Democratic parties are thoroughly corrupt. and Kerry as well Ether 8:24-25

I agree, selling the means of production is like selling one's farm for food. I doubt they would enforce something like this, as coercion is against the law of consecration. My guess is that they were probably sharing resources in a community setting, as the people were *asked to donate* to the Saints in other less fortunate region(s). Without agency, it's slavery.

Genius! This is the best definition of addiction I have seen yet. :)This support group will be a very good thing. *inserts praise*

I disagree. I'd say they are comparatively the same ... because one must realize that trashy soaps (along with other trashy Hollywood TV shows) have been in the media for a longer period of time than internet pornography ... and so their effects are more visible (greed, envy, idleness ... it's emotional pornography as it toys with emotions and in turn feeds trash). This new plague of internet pornography in the rising generation is causing physical promiscuity and perversion at an accelerated rate. Hip hop and other music is also geared to promote sex, and combine such with the immodesty trends (Isaiah 3), "entertainment" promoting vacuous minds, and the whitewashing of public education ... it will slowly create a rising generation of mindless, sex-crazed, pill-popping basket-cases that make hippies look holy.I call it ... America: Death by Entertainment.

Well I'll be flat out honest: I'm grateful my wife fulfills my sexual appetites. (Granted it's probably impossible to fulfill ALL those appetites, but you get the idea). I believe Fiannan is right to a noticeable degree ... because when sexual appetites are not fulfilled in a marriage (male or female), the temptation is infinitely greater to resort to other sources of fulfillment. If a woman (or man) never allows sex with the partner and keeps putting it off time and time again (without giving the other a reason why and also supply love and care), there WILL be sexual and EMOTIONAL frustration, which very often leads to significant temptation, and the sin will be partly on the head of the partner for their neglect. That's right, sometimes a wife can be partly responsible for a man resorting to pornography. .... and then some guys just REALLY need help and [expletive verb deleted] their wives more often. Edit: In summary, if the couple has a healthy sex life, then it's all the man's fault, and the man should NOT be looking at porn ... period.

To every good thing, the devil offers a counterfeit. The law of consecration is on a volunteer basis, not by coercion, and this is the fundamental difference. Christ's plan was to give men agency and have them choose for themselves on this earth (Abraham chapter 3), whereas Lucifer's plan was to force all men to be good ... and force man to have all in common.The city of Enoch lived the law of consecration (which is the higher law, and tithing is the lower law), as well as the Nephites at certain times including 4 Nephi. The New Testament Church also lived this law for a time. The law is based on charity for one's fellow man. Socialism is the adversary's counterfeit to the law of consecration. It destroys charity, and is based on coercion. Under the guise of "helping the middle class" it oppresses all, solely to benefit the few ruling elite. Oppression, even economic oppression, is all part of Lucifer's plan to bring about Revelations 13 (Armageddon, just prior to the Second Coming of Christ). "Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own...The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional ‘do-gooders,’ who attempt to set themselves up as gods and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means." (Ezra T. Benson, quotes Henry G. Weaver, An Enemy Hath Done This, p. 140)

"It has been fundamental to our way of life that charity must be voluntary if it is to be charity. Compulsory benevolence is not charity. Today’s egalitarian are using the federal government to redistribute wealth in our society, not as a matter of voluntary charity, but as a matter of right." (This nation shall Endure p.91 Ezra T. Benson) It is a system of government where all the masses are skimmed from all surpluses by an elite ruling mega-rich ... like Oligarchy. Extreme right leads to oligarchal feudalism - extreme left leads to state feudalism. Both are a variation of fascism. Socialism is just Communism with a happy face :)

Mitt Romney will be President in 2008 and be re-elected in 2012. Politics is the art of deception. Cursed is he who putteth his trust in man, or maketh flesh his arm.