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indoor urn plant The Living Urn Indoors / Patio for Pets White Pearl / Peace LillyThe Living Urn Indoors Patio for Pets provides families with a way to grow a beautiful living Memory Tree or plant indoors, or on a patio, from our attractive, proprietary urn holding the cremated remains of a beloved pet. The urn itself is made from sleek porcelain, comes in three colors, and measures approximately 9 high and 9 in diameter. Inside is a special compartment to hold your pet's cremated remains, our proprietary growing system of

The Living Urn® Indoors / Patio for Pets provides families with a way to grow a beautiful living Memory Tree or plant indoors, or on a patio, from our attractive, proprietary urn holding the cremated remains of a beloved pet. The urn itself is made from sleek porcelain, comes in three colors, and measures approximately 9” high and 9” in diameter. Inside is a special compartment to hold your pet's cremated remains, our proprietary growing system of interlocking ring trays, and accessories to assist in the planting process.

How Does It Work?

The Living Urn® Indoors / Patio for Pets has a special separated outer chamber to hold and securely contain the cremated remains of your beloved pet. The inner chambers hold the Bonsai Tree or houseplant and growing medium. Instructions are provided to distribute a small amount of cremated remains into the growing medium. All you have to do is choose your Bonsai Tree or plant that you wish to place inside and follow the easy instructions provided. The ceramic lid will enclose everything for a lovely, finished look. Questions? Check out our FAQ page.

Order a bonsai tree or houseplant from us to plant in the urn, or pick one up from your local nursery and follow the instructions we provide to plant with The Living Urn® Indoors / Patio for Pets!  

What’s Included:

Everything you need to grow a living memory of your beloved pet:

  •    The Living Urn® Indoors / Patio for Pets
  •    Planting Instructions
  •    Bonsai Tree or Houseplant of Choice (optional)

    If you select a bonsai tree or houseplant to plant with the urn, it will ship separately within 5-10 days from your order fresh from our nursery and ready to plant. Please contact us if you need your bonsai or houseplant sooner or by a certain date. Bonsai trees and houseplants cannot be shipped to HI and AK due to state restrictions.

    See Our Lovely Bonsai Tree Options:

    Ficus Retusa Tree

    Also known as Banyan Fig and Taiwan Ficus. The Retusa has small, dark green leaves which alternate up the stem and which are more oval than the Benjamina. Grey to reddish bark dotted with small, horizontal flecks, similar to tiger-like markings. All have heavy trunks and all are trained in the traditional curved shape. Among the most tolerant, versatile and trouble-free bonsai trees for indoor use. 6 years old, 8″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors. 

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    Braided Money Tree

    The Money Tree is an age-old token of good luck and an invitation to good fortune. Resilient and does not require much care. It is the most popular plant for “Feng Shui” because it creates positive energy (“Chi” or “Qi”). It brings prosperity and wealth to your surroundings and decorates your home with nature and good luck. 8 years old, 14″ to 16″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors. 

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    Hawaiian Umbrella Tree

    A beautiful bonsai representing the islands! The glossy green leaves of the umbrella tree are miniature and shaped like umbrellas to form a beautiful dense canopy. The truck is relatively thin and does not branch out into a crown as some other tropical plants do. 8 years old, 10″-12″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors. 

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    Traditional Windswept Juniper Tree

    This dwarf Juniper from Japan is the most popular evergreen in the U.S. When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like, we think of a “Juniper Procumbens Nana.” It is very hardy, long-lived, and tolerates many adverse conditions. 8 to 10 years old, 11″ to 12″ tall. Plant outdoors on a patio or in a garden.

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    Trained Tiered Juniper Tree

    This dwarf Juniper from Japan is the most popular bonsai in the U.S. These special trees are very hardy, long-lived and tolerate many adverse conditions.This impressive, trouble-free evergreen is an excellent tree for the beginner. Trained style. 13 years old, 9″ x 4″ x 13″ tall. Plant outdoors on a patio or in a garden.

    See Our Lovely Houseplant Options:

    Peace Lilly

    With its striking white flowers, the Peace Lilly is a beautiful indoor plant that is adaptable and requires little maintenance. It is one of the more popular options for an indoor memorial and a great addition to any home! Keep it within 1-5’ of a window and enjoy all of the beauty this plant has to offer!

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    Lucky Bamboo

    The Lucky Bamboo is one of the easiest to grow indoors and also makes for an interesting and beautiful memorial. Its branches grow in various directions and it requires little maintenance. An important part of feng shui, lucky bamboo plants are believed to bring good luck and fortune.

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    Flamingo Flower (Red or Pink)

    Flamingo Flower plants are hardy plants that can grow and thrive for years. They have large, bright heart shaped flower bracts that typically begin to bloom in early February, just before Valentines Day!  Keep this plant out of direct sunlight and it will grow and thrive for many years to come!

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    Sago Palm

    The Sago Palm is one of the easiest houseplants to grow. The origin of this special plant dates back to prehistoric times and it has survived thousands of years basically unchanged in nature! Its leaves are dark green and feathery and it fits with many contemporary, country and other home styles. Be sure to keep the Sago Palm out of the reach of children or pets as it can be harmful if eaten.

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    Indoor Urn for Pets Only with Your Own Tree, Plant or Flowers

    If you're not interested in a selecting a bonsai tree or houseplant from us, you can order The Living Urn Indoors / Patio for Pets without a houseplant or bonsai tree and simply pick up a small house plant or tree to grow in the urn, or place cut flowers in the center of the urn!  

     

    Learn More About The Living Urn Indoors / Patio for Pets

     

    How do Patio Urns for Pets work?

    When our pet’s time has come, we can beautifully and lovingly commemorate their memory through indoor urns and patio urns designed with pets uniquely in mind.

    Our indoor and patio urns have a special separated outer chamber to hold and securely contain the cremated remains of your beloved pet. The inner chambers hold the Bonsai Tree or houseplant and growing medium. We provide instructions that aid you in distributing a small amount of cremated remains into the growing medium. A ceramic lid will enclose everything for a lovely, finished look. Questions? Check out our FAQ page.

    What’s included?

    We provide everything you need to lovingly commemorate your beloved pet. Our all-inclusive indoor or patio urns allow you to celebrate the life of your special four-legged family members in a special and dignified way.

    With each urn, you will receive all that’s required to grow a living memory of your beloved pet. Our kits include:

    • The Living Urn Indoors / Patio for Pets
    • Thorough planting instructions
    • Bonsai tree or houseplant of choice (optional)

    How to choose the best Memorial Tree or Urn for your Pet?

    As you walk through selecting your optimal indoor urn or patio urn experience, you have a few simple and quality options to select. You get to choose the color and the organic foliage provided by The Living Urn which best honors the memory of your beloved pet. You can select from a wide range*:

    • Ficus Retusa Tree
    • Braided Money Tree
    • Hawaiian Umbrella Tree
    • Traditional Windswept Juniper Tree
    • Trained Juniper Tree
    • Peace Lilly
    • Lucky Bamboo
    • Flamingo Flower
    • Flamingo Flower
    • Sago Palm

    Once you’ve made your choice of tree or plant for your indoor or patio urn, all you have to do is follow the straightforward instructions provided to correctly place the foliage in its new home.

    *See full descriptions below

    What if I don’t need a plant but still want a Pet Memorial?

    Sometimes, families have a preselected plant, tree, or other commemorative element they wish to place into their chosen indoor or patio urn. The Living Urn offers urn-only selection options which enable you to use an alternative plant or tree. You can take your chosen plant from a local nursery or other favorite location, and once your indoor or patio urn arrives, you can follow the instructions to seamlessly plant your chosen foliage.

    How long does shipping take?

    If you select only the quality crafted indoor or patio urn, you can expect your package to arrive during the standard shipping time allotment. We ship all indoor and patio urns same day if the order is received by 2pm MT (4pm ET).

    If you have chosen to further commemorate your beloved pet through one of our provided bonsai trees or houseplants along with the urn, please expect separate packages. The chosen foliage will ship separately within 5 to 10 days from your order. This allows the plant or tree to arrive safely and fresh from our nursery so it will be ready to plant directly upon arrival.

    If you are in a situation where you need the bonsai tree or houseplant sooner than the standard 5 to 10 days or have a specific need-by delivery date, please contact us.

    Note: Bonsai trees and houseplants cannot ship to HI and AK due to state restrictions.

    What are my tree selections for the pet memorial trees?

    We only provide the best foliage for your commemorative indoor or patio urn. All of our bonsai tree selections are easy to grow and nurtured with care within our nurseries. We begin to bring them to growth so that they can flourish within your chosen urn to be a living memory of your dearly loved four-legged family member.

    We’ve cultivated a wide selection of bonsai trees so that you can find the best natural option to celebrate the life of your beloved pet. These options include:

    Ficus Retusa Tree

    This tree is known as Banyan Fig and Taiwan Ficus. The Retusa has small, dark green leaves which alternate up the stem and which are more oval than the Benjamina. It’s bark is grey to reddish in color and dotted with small, horizontal flecks similar to tiger-like markings. All have heavy trunks and are trained in the traditional curved shape. The Ficus is among the most tolerant, versatile and trouble-free bonsai trees for indoor use.

    6 years old, 8″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors.

    Braided Money Tree

    The Money Tree is an age-old token of good luck and an invitation to good fortune. Resilient and not requiring much care, it is one of the most popular plant for “Feng Shui” because it creates positive energy (“Chi” or “Qi”). It brings prosperity and wealth to your surroundings and decorates your home with nature and good luck.

    8 years old, 14″ to 16″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors.

    Hawaiian Umbrella Tree

    This beautiful bonsai represents the islands. The glossy green leaves of the umbrella tree are miniature and shaped like umbrellas to form a beautiful dense canopy. The truck is relatively thin and does not branch out into a crown as some other tropical plants do.

    8 years old, 10″-12″ tall. Plant indoors or over 50F outdoors.

    Traditional Windswept Juniper Tree

    This dwarf Juniper from Japan is the most popular evergreen in the U.S. When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like, we think of a “Juniper Procumbens Nana”. It is very hardy, long-lived, and tolerates many conditions.

    8 to 10 years old, 11″ to 12″ tall. Plant outdoors on a patio or in a garden.

    Trained Tiered Juniper Tree

    This dwarf Juniper from Japan is the most popular bonsai in the U.S. These special trees are very hardy with long lifespans that tolerate many adverse conditions. This impressive, trouble-free evergreen is an excellent tree for the beginner and maintains trained style.

    13 years old, 9″ x 4″ x 13″ tall. Plant outdoors on a patio or in a garden.

    What are my houseplant selections?

    Our indoor urns are uniquely designed to also accommodate a wide variety of quality houseplant choices. Just like our bonsai trees, our houseplants are carefully cultivated in order to flourish in your house as a living remembrance of your four-legged family member.

    We’ve cultivated a wide selection of houseplants so that you can find the best natural option to celebrate the life of your beloved pet. These options include:

    Peace Lilly

    With its striking white flowers, the Peace Lilly is a beautiful indoor plant that is adaptable and requires little maintenance. It is one of the more popular options for an indoor memorial and a great addition to any home! Keep it within 1-5’ of a window and enjoy all of the beauty this plant has to offer!

    Lucky Bamboo

    The Lucky Bamboo is one of the easiest to grow indoors and also makes for an interesting and beautiful memorial. Its branches grow in various directions, and it requires little maintenance. An important part of feng shui, lucky bamboo plants are believed to bring good luck and fortune.

    Flamingo Flower (Red or Pink)

    Flamingo Flowers are hardy plants that can grow and thrive for years. They have large, bright heart shaped flower bracts that typically begin to bloom in early February, just before Valentines Day! Keep this plant out of direct sunlight and it will grow and thrive for many years to come.

    Sago Palm

    The Sago Palm is one of the easiest houseplants to grow. The origin of this special plant dates back to prehistoric times and it has survived thousands of years basically unchanged in nature. Its leaves are dark green and feathery and it fits with many contemporary, country and other home styles. Be sure to keep the Sago Palm out of the reach of children or pets as it can be harmful if eaten.

    What now?

    We want to help you take the next step in your journey to honor your pet. Contact us today or review other resources we crafted to come alongside you during this time.


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    The Three (3) Pillars of my bedrock testimony have been destroyed
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    Having been born and reared in the Church, it was not merely a "church," but it was "The Only True Church on the Face of the Earth." It was my identity, I served a misson, Branch President, H.P., Stake Mission President, sending my son on his mission next week, so imagine my sense of betrayal, and the helplessness and confusion I felt after reading this book. My three (3) pillars were: (1) a young man may spawn a lie, for personal motivations, but he can still be a Prophet, and nobody would carry a lie so far as to be killed for it; (2) No man could have written the Book of Mormon; and (3) the Temple Ceremony is so sacred and unusual that it could not have been imagined or contrived. Well, this most carefully documented, carefully written, carefully researched book, has all but destroyed my pillars. Fawn Brodie, Niece of the Prophet, David O. McKay, has done meticulous research and I have searched for but never found or read an official LDS Church response or debunking of it; I've searched the BYU F.A.R.M.S. site hoping for an academic, honest review of her evidence and hoping to find that Ms. Brodie's research was flawed or dishonest. But despite my motivations and wide-spread search, I have never read a criticism of her sources, or documented proof that her research is false, or that her conclusions are false, only that she had an agenda and some of her conclusions are specious and not well supported. Well, that is simply disengenuous criticism. To say that Ms. Brodie can only prove "A, B, C, and D," but "jumps" to a conclusion that "E" exists, is simply blind faith ignorance and dishonest academia. This book constitutes the "mysteries," that the Church teaches its members to stay away from. But it is hardly a mystery. This book explains with a clarity and insight never-before heard by an LDS member, how Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon, how he practiced polygamy before receiving the alleged revelation; why he was tarred and feathered; exactly where the Temple signs and symbols came from; the extent Joseph would go to protect his power and authority, and many more "mysteries." No active member of the Church should read this book lest their eyes be opened. It hurts! Truth is not pleasant sometimes, why should it be. I just wanted it "straight," I didn't want to be lied to any longer. If the Church simply said, "we're a good church, doing good deeds, helping the poor, please give your tithes to help us, I would most certainly go. But the Church says, "we are the only true and living church on the face of the earth." To me, that's a challenge to find out for myself, which I did. Now, I am a "mormon in recovery." My entire belief system, every single word I've ever been taught, is a lie. I am undone. Now I must look to God, for answers that I thought only the LDS Church had.
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    This book is a classic, and is generally recognized as such. The topic, which is the life of Joseph Smith, found its ideal author in Fawn Brodie, a Mormon who was on the verge of excommunication and who as about as sympathetic to Smith as an honest historian could be. One is tempted to say that Smith is presented, warts and all. But it would be more helpful to say that Smith is presented, virtues and all, because a man who concocts what purports to be holy scripture, who fakes divine revelation, who organizes three Waco-type compounds, who institutes militias and secret societies to kill his enemies, who decrees polygamy to satify the lusts of himself and his male colleagues, who orders the destruction of his enemies and who lies about most of these things probably has more warts than virtues. Brodie wrestles constantly with the issue of how a man of such limited education and rather obvious fraudulent intent could attract thousands of dedicated followers. It is no wonder that Brodie in her later works became so attracted to psycho-history. She advances a rather attractive hypothesis which suggests how Smith could have deluded himself into believing his own nonsense: Since all our thoughts are the product of previous states of mind, and since these states include all the factors which go into our perceptions, concepts and mental "programs", there is no essential difference between our control over our waking thoughts and our control over our dreams, reveries, and other semi-conscious states. We just think there is, because the illusion of control is part of the nature of the mental state we call "consciousness." If that is so, then it can be argued that a "revelation" which derives from our past state of mind is no more originated by our own will than the conscious perception that we are being visited by the angel Moroni. Of course, this line of thought comes dangerously close to solipsism, and solipsism comes dangerously close to autotheism (if there is nothing else in the universe but oneself, then everything there is must be an extension of oneself, and hence one must be God). Toward the end of his life, Smith's megalomania was indeed headed in this direction. Brodie does a wonderful job describing how Charismatic Smith must have been. To have persuaded people of real intelligence and ability like Brigham Young and his own wife Emma into believing and supporting him throughout his career, and to have, as she puts it, "Caused men to see visions" is no mean feat. And to have created a religion which, for all its faults, is far more admirable than its own founder bespeaks one of the most fascinating characters in American history. Everyone interested in religion, psychology, and American History should read this book.
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    "The definitive work on the Mormon prophet"
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    When a Mormon girl joined our school when I was in the fifth grade, I became curious about Mormonism, though never enough to read much about it. That curiosity eventually morphed into curiosity about Joseph Smith, its founder. How does one go about establishing a new religion? In nineteenth-century America, no less? One salient point in Fawn Brodie's biography of Smith (b. 1805, d. 1844) is that the years of his youth and early manhood "were the most fertile in America's history for the sprouting of prophets." William Miller, John Humphrey Noyes, Jemima Wilkinson, Joseph Dylks. Smith, then, was not an isolated phenomenon. Another salient point: before the angel Moroni directed him to the book of golden plates that he then translated and published as the Book of Mormon, Smith was a practitioner of necromancy and advertised his ability to divine buried deposits of gold and money. Brodie seems to like Smith. She portrays him as gregarious, imbued with great personal charm, having a quick mind, and genuinely fond of people. She also writes that "embedded in [his] character was the commonplace Yankee mixture of piety and avarice," which "he developed to a special flowering." That special flowering was a religious con man, one who eventually inhabited the fabulous castles of his own devising. By the 1840s and the settlement of Nauvoo, Smith was using his position as spiritual and political head of the Mormon community for his own, secret, monetary gain. And then there was his concupiscence. In his later years, he took somewhere between twenty-seven and fifty wives; not all but many of those marriages were consummated sexually. The practice of "plural wives" of course received theological blessing (or rationalization), but even so Smith could be both sneaky and high-handed in pursuing it. For example, in April 1843 his wife Emma went to St. Louis on business with Lorin Walker, one of Smith's business aides. During their absence Smith asked Walker's seventeen-year-old sister Lucy to become his wife. According to Lucy, his proposal/seduction went like this: "I have no flattering words to offer. It is a command of God to you. I will give you until tomorrow to decide this matter. If you reject this message, the gate will be closed forever against you." In many respects, Joseph Smith seems to have been a quintessential American. Similarly, his Mormonism seems a fittingly American religion. Along the same lines, Brodie sees the Book of Mormon as "one of the earliest examples of frontier fiction, the first long Yankee narrative that owes nothing to English literary fashions. Except for the borrowings from the King James Bible, its sources are absolutely American. * * * Its matter is drawn directly from the American frontier, from the impassioned revivalist sermons, the popular fallacies about Indian origin, and the current political crusades." NO MAN KNOWS MY HISTORY quells my curiosity regarding Joseph Smith. It also serves as a history of the early Mormon Church and a window on the United States circa 1820 to 1845. The book's style is somewhat old-fashioned (it originally was published in 1945), and as history it is more scholarly than popular. There is a lot of detail, much more than I really wanted. (Smith would make an ideal subject for a pithy two-hundred-page biography.) Most importantly, I sense that the biography is objective. In that regard, it should be noted that before becoming an esteemed professor of history at UCLA, Fawn Brodie grew up a devout Mormon in a small hamlet outside Ogden, Utah. In 1946, she was summarily excommunicated from the Mormon Church as a heretic. In 2012, James Reston, Jr. wrote that NO MAN KNOWS MY HISTORY "remains today the definitive work on the Mormon prophet."
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    Raises a 100 questions for conscientious Mormons
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    If you want a good understanding of the history of the Mormon church, this is the book. Mormons don't like it and wont read it because they have been told not to read it. But Brodie was a solid historian and I think any courageous Mormon should read it and challenge their own beliefs (or if you will, there own inculcations). I have a number of good friends who are Mormon, I don't criticize their compassion and commitment to family. I do question their theology. Here are the questions that occurred to me after reading Brodie's book. Preamble: In order for something to be valid, the source and the content need to be credible. If the source is not credible, the content is held suspect. If the content is not credible, the source is held suspect. Would I trust someone who spoke of peace and preached bloodthirsty war? Would I trust someone who called drinking a sin but set up bar in his own house? Would I trust someone who said he was faithful to his wife, when all the while committing adultery? Would I trust someone who has so-called revelations from God that are clearly self-serving? Would I trust someone who claims that he is reading Egyptian when the text is really Greek? Would I trust someone who said he was given golden tablets from God—tablets that were conveniently returned to heaven? Would I trust someone who declared he was the only prophet on earth? REVELATIONS (Can we follow a prophet who is so self serving?) 1. Changes Genesis to include a prophesy of the coming of Joseph Smith. Isaiah made to refer to the book of Mormon and the witnesses. 2. Doesn’t want to be a farmer. “In temporal labors thou shalt not have strength, for this is not thy calling.” Book of Commandments, Chapter 25, verse 14 3. Emma wants JS to be a farmer. New revelation: “Thou needest not fear, for thy husband shall support thee from the Church. Continue in the spirit of meekness and beware of pride. Let thy soul delight in thy husband…And except thou do this, where I am you cannot come.” Book of commandments Chapter 26, pp58-59 FB90 4. Cowdrey thought that others should share in revelations (including Hiram Page who was trying to get revelation with a black stone). JS has a new revelation: “”behold, I say unto thee, Oliver…no one shall be appointed to receive commandments and revelations in this Church, excepting my servant JS, Junior, for he receiveth them even as Moses. Thou shalt take thy brother Hiram page, between him and thee alone, and tell him that those things which he had written from that stone, are not of me, and that Satan deceiveth him.” FB92 5. Revelation to give all property to JS: “Behold, thou shalt consecrate all thy properties, that which thou hast unto me, with a covenant and a deed which cannot be broken and they shall be laid before the bishop of my church” Book of Commandments. Later revised.FB106 6. In Kirtland, Ohio, JS tries to heal a man with a withered hand, a lame man, a dead child. Fails. New revelation: “Thirty men to leave at once for Missouri” Why? The miracles could not be performed in Ohio, because it was not consecrated ground, that only in the Promised Land could the blind be made to see, the lame to walk, and the dead be quickened. Doctrines and Covenants, sec 52 FB112 7. Resentment in Zion (Independence Missouri) against Joseph’s absence: “Cease wearying me concerning this matter.” Doctrine and Covenants, Section 90. FB122 8. Arguments about how to parcel out the community property. So JS has a revelation giving him the temple lot. FB141 9. JS revelation directing Cowdery to go to Toronto where they would find a man anxious to buy the book of Mormon. Didn’t happen. FB81 10. JS revelation to deal with Martin Harris. “And again, I command thee that thou shalt not covet thine own property, but impart it freely to the printing of the Book of Mormon…And misery thou shalt receive if thou wilt slight these counsels, yea, even the destruction of thyself and property…Pay the printer’s debt! Release thyself from bondage.” (Book of commandments, Chapter 16) Thoroughly scared, he sold his farm and the book was printed in 1830. FB82 11. In Missouri on a high bluff overlooking Grand River someone discovered the ruins of what seemed to be an altar. JS: “This Upon this very altar Adam himself offered up sacrifices to Jehovah. Here Adam shall come to visit his people.” The Far West is probably where Cain killed Abel. FB211 12. Polygamy. Revelation: Destroy Emma and give me 10 virgins. FB 341 Doctrine and Covenant 132 13. The president presides over the whole church. Doctrine and Covenants 107 14. JS revelation to build a hotel with a suite of rooms in the hotel for JS and his posterity “from generation to generation for ever and ever.” FB263 15. Revelation to bless Bennett FB268. Later Bennett is excommunicated when both Bennett and JS lusted after Nancy Rigdon See JS’s letter to Nancy: FB310 In The History of the Church. Unsigned letter—nice use of artifice. PROBLEMATIC THEOLOGY (Can theology so convoluted and false be believed?) 1. Nephi and his brothers and father Lehi (as in Lehigh River) leave Jerusalem in 600 BC. Nephi’s brothers, Laman and Lemuel were evil-tempered brothers, God cursed them and all their descendants with a red skin. (So indians are cursed?) Nephi and his pious younger brothers begat white children (although they must have married evil redskins to multiply). 2. JS has Jared bringing horses, swine, sheep, cattle, and asses to America. The Nephites produce wheat and barley rather than the indigenous maize and potatoes. FB72 3. Revisionist. 2500 BC Jared sailed in barges that could sail anyside up. The Book of Ether. (FB p 71) 4. Witness of the plates. In the Lord’s name, “It is by your faith that you shall obtain a view of them…And ye shall testify that you have seen them…And if you do these last commandments of mine, which I have given you, the gates of hell shall not prevail against you.” (FB 76) 5. Lorenzo Snow: “As man is, God once was; and as God is, man may become.” (FB300) 6. Paul had said that in heaven there would be no marriage or giving in marriage, but Joseph taught that this would not apply to his Saints. That which he and his elders sealed on earth would be binding also in heaven. There a man would have not only his wives and children, but also the prerogative of procreating more, until, as he expressed it to Parley Pratt, “the result of our endless union would be offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven. This was the road to godhood. (FB299) 7. Three levels of heaven: Celestial (three levels), terrestrial, teletrial. 8. If a man went to heaven with ten wives, he would have more than tenfold the blessings of a mere monogamist, for all the children begotten through these wives would enhance his kingdom. The man with only one wife, on the other hand, would be denied even her and forced to spend eternity as a ministering angel rather than a god. (FB300) 9. Martin Harris, one of the witnesses, is having his own visions: Seen Jesus in the shape of a deer and talked with him. The devil resembled a jackass with short hair similar to a mouse. He prophesied that by 1838 Joseph’s church would be so large that there would be no need for a president of the US. [No surprise given that he is one of the credulous witnesses.] 10. JS goes to Canada for 5 weeks. When he returns, his three witnesses (Harris, Cowdrey, and David Whitmer—all later excommunicated) had turned their loyalty to a young girl seer of a black stone. Patterning herself after the Shakers, the new prophetess would dance into exhaustion, fall upon the floor, and burst forth with revelations. Harris is cutoff. FB205 QUESTION: Don’t you question the veracity of the witnesses who are so easily duped? SPURIOUS ASSERTIONS (Can we give credence to so many discrepancies and inconsistencies?) 1. Of the 11 witnesses of the Book of Mormon only Joseph’s father and brothers were left in the church. The others either left or were excommunicated. 2. View of the Hebrews. Oliver Cowdery, transcriber, came from Vermont; mother and sister were members of Ethan Smith’s church. Ethan Smith, author of View of the Hebrews (1823) and lectured in JS’s town. B.H Roberts Mormon apologist, wrote his opinion in 1922, but not published until 1985 (Roberts died in 1933). 1985 Dallin Oaks “The fact that something is true is not always a justification for communicating it. Some things that are true are not edifying or appropriate to communicate.” 3. 1835, exhibition of mummies. JS pronounces the papyrus writings of Abraham and the Joseph of Egypt. They were ordinary funeral documents as found on thousands of Egyptian graves. FB171, 175 4. Cowdery excommunicated for accusing JS of adultery. FB182 5. 1836 JS goes to Salem on a Treasure hunt for gold as ordered by God. There is none to be found. FB 192 Doctrine and Covenants 111 6. JS has three versions of first visit from angels: 1. The lord 2. Two persons 3. God and Jesus. And his age changes from 14 to 16. The last version was the only one known by believers until 1965. FB409 JOSEPH SMITH’S CHARACTER (To quote Matthew, “By their fruits you will know them.” Joseph Smith’s behavior shows him to be petulant, imperious, arrogant, hypocritical, belligerent, bellicose, irascible, manipulative, fraudulent, adulterous, and mendacious. (Can we put our trust in someone with so many character flaws?) 1. Arrogant: Character: Requested and received from the Governor the commission of lieutenant-general. He often preferred the title of “General,” even to “president,” and used it in his correspondence. His uniform included gold braid, military boots and chapeau topped with ostrich feathers. On his hip a sword and two big horse pistols. Seated on a magnificent black stallion. FB272 2. Arrogant: Runs for president of US for publicity and respect.FB262 3. Arrogant: He was not only a US presidential candidate, but also mayor of Nauvoo, judge of the municipal court, merchant of the leading store, hotel keeper, official temple architect, real estate agent, contractor, recorder of deeds, steamboat owner, trustee in trust for all the finances of the church, lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion, spiritual adviser and Lord’s communicant to the true church, King of the new Kingdom of god (see FB356), and husband of almost 50 wives.” In Joseph Smith’s words: “I want the liberty of thinking and believing as I please. It feels so good not to be trammeled.” FB366 4. Hypocritical: Permitted the construction of a brewery and advertised in the Nauvoo Neighbor. FB289 5. Hypocritical: JS sets up a bar in his hotel until Emma protests FB 332 6. Petulant and irascible: Sylvester Smith and the bulldog “I’ll whip you in the name of the Lord. And if you continue in the same spirit and don’t repent, that dog will eat the flesh off your bones and shall not have the power to resist!” History of the Church, Vol II, pp 150-160. FB 150 7. Bellicose: War Speech “We will trample down our enemies and make it one gore of blood from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.” FB230 (Source Affidavits from seven followers. FB229) 8. Bellicose: War cry: “If mobs come upon you any more here, dung your gardens with them” FB352 History of the Church.Vol 5, pp 465-73 9. Bellicose: JS empties all six barrels of a pepperbox gun in the prison cell. FB393 10. Imposter: He doesn’t know Greek from Egyptian FB290 11. Fraudulent and Mendacious: JS forces leaders to perjure themselves, swearing that polygamy does not exist. These sworn statements were published in Times and Seasons, Vol III in October 1842. JS had already been married to Sarah Ann Whitney 3 months earlier—and 19 others. FB320-21, 335. 12. Fraudulent: To take care of debt, he creates an illegal bank and starts stamping out money, designating himself as cashier. History of the Church, Vol 11, p 471 FB194 13. Manipulative (and criminal): He had the city council pass an ordinance providing that if any officer came to Nauvoo with a writ for his arrest based on the old Missouri difficulties, he should be arrested, tried, and if found guilty sentence to life imprisonment in the city jail. He could only be pardoned by JS. FB355 7. Manipulative and mendacious. William Laws (mentioning no names but swearing that he had read the revelation of every man granted 10 virgins) of The Expositor reports story of polygamy. JS proclaims that the press must be destroyed and so it was. FB374-377 (Reminds me of Dallin Oats: “The fact that something is true is not always a justification for communicating it. Some things that are true are not edifying or appropriate to communicate.” 14. Mendacious: 1844: “What a thing it is for a man to be accused for committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can find only one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago, and I can prove them all perjurers.” History of the Church, Vol VI, pp 408-412. FB 374 He had 48 wives as early by 1844. FB335
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