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Nighhawlk, thanks for the link. I read the whole article, it was very interesting and informative. But this family they're talking about is a very wealthy one, the husband is very rich, I wonder how those polygamous families who are not that well off handle all the pressure and stress of maintaining financially a whole bunch of wives and kids!.

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I could be wrong here, but I think that the family is wealthy because of the way they live their lives. This is very, very different from the FLDS who live "across the street" from them. In the FLDS group, women aren't allowed to work outside the home (as I understand it), there is almost no private property ownership, and the people are essentially kept ignorant and poor.

My relatives (not in FLDS, not even sure which group they are in) are reasonably well off. Most of the men are involved in construction throughout northern Utah, and they do extremely good work, so are in high demand. Because of this, they are able to provide for their families. At the same time, I have some cousins who have rejected this, and now apparently live in the Arizona desert in a trailer without running water, because they won't work for "Gentiles".

Different strokes, I guess.

NightHawk

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What do you exactly mean by 'the way they live their lives'?.

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LDS, I think he means because many of the women work, bringing in income for the family. Although many of the woman do work, they have other woman in their "family" that are home with the children running a family day care.

Apparently the other group to which Nighthawk referred doesn't "allow" the woman to work, period.

After I read this article, I wanted to join this family. It sounds all so nice. I wonder if it really is?

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I'm sure they put their best foot forward for the article and that they have normal ups and downs like the rest of us. With some women working outside the home, and other women working inside the home, it really does sound efficient and organized. I like how they keep the money at home by having their own daycare -- that's brilliant.

But they still have to hide from the world who their patriarch is. That must be difficult. And there isn't, in my opinion, any large household that gets along perfectly at all times. I would imagine they try very hard to get along, though.

The one scary thing to me was how young they are marrying off their daughters. It seems very out of line and borders on "very bad behavior" in my opinion.

Roz

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This brings up some questions in my mind...

In such a family is the daughter taught that one day she will marry into a similar relationship or that she should see after plural marriages? Are there consequences imposed? Or is it just whatever happens?

I wonder about the role of matriarch or head wife, if there is one, and isn't that a role that can be filled with envy and selfishness?

I believe although this is a 'norm' in the heavens I believe it is very difficult to live outside at least a Terrestial order, since such feelings and carnal minds must have been already abased in order to see the positive side of it.

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Many members of what they call LDS fundamentalists who practise polygamy fall in incest or statutory rape, there are several cases like that.

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OK, I just finished reading the first 246 replies to this post. Took me two days. Quite an interesting subject that is not discussed enough in the church. I tend to follow the general consensus that Plural marriage is an eternal principal, inspired by God but just not currently praticed. My wife has said on more than one occasion that she would welcome plural marriage. It would be like having some sister wives.

Now to take a different perspective. Nobody has brought up the possibility that the whole Polygamy situation was a mistake. Joseph Smith, although called as a Prophet of God was still human, subject to making mistakes like all of us. Suppose the revelation he received was from his own mind, or from the Devil and he was deceived. Due to the great importance given to agency, God would not necessarily intervene.

The Lord himself even told Joseph that some revelations come from the Devil. I don't have a link, but Joseph once prophesied to someone that he would go on a mission to Canada the following year. Well, this person soon passed away and did not serve the mission. When Joseph went to the Lord and inquired why the Lord told him this man would serve a mission, the Lord responded, " Some revelation comes from God, some is of your own design and some revelation comes from the Devil".

Since I don't have the reference in front of me, I am quoting in my own words, but that was how I remember it. So, if some revelation comes from the Devil, how do we know Polygamy was not from Satan?