Isolated, self-sufficient LDS communities

[Cherish]

I like the way the Colorado City Warren Jeffs compound functioned. EXCEPT, of course, for the child brides & polygamy & inter-marrying.

What I do like about it is the general lifestyle: waking early and having daily family devotionals centered around scripture study, hymns, and prayer. I like the way they don't allow toxic media into their lives. The children work & play outside (there's nothing wrong with child labor as long as it's healthy & meaningful & loving), everyone is daily focused on meaningful, life-sustaining activities like farming food for their own communities. Dollar amounts are never placed on produce because they all work to make it and preserve it and stock it, and families go to the "store" as needed to get as much produce as their family needs. The children are full of light & wholesomeness and are unjaded, and they've got healthy, rosy cheeks. Children are patiently homeschooled or locally schooled by teachers with the same beliefs & values as their family. Children have their mothers' love all day, every day.

Most importantly, I like the way an entire city adheres to this lifestyle. Because while any family can choose to raise their children with such vastly different values than the rest of society, it truly takes a village to raise a child, and for that village to all be on the same sheet of music is essential for success of individual families.

As a stark contrast with mainstream teens growing up sitting in front of the TV & computer, influenced by the media, vanity, commercialism, splintered & broken families.


For the LDS church to thrive, it needs to begin to address this and fortify its members from the toxins of the modern, industrialized, greedy, unhealthy society the USA has become.

When I read the Book of Mormon, I see how far removed our society has come from pure religion, and from Christ. The unspoken religion of mainstream USA is a religion that all of the Book of Mormon villians would agree with.

We need to depart, stand alone, and stand strong and thrive above the ills of society.

What do you think?

I suspect that the LDS Corporation has preferred to stay mainstream in order to keep drawing in tithes from members of all walks of life. If the LDS church were to go extreme and actually require members to live the Book of Mormon lifestyle, it would lose all its superficial, materialistic, worldly members, and lose their tithes as well.

[Matchmaker]

Cherish,

I agree that there is something wholesome and comforting about large close-knit families and communities that are all on the same page and love and support one another. It will be great when the Lord brings back the United Order and removes the wicked from the world. No one living will be alone,if they don't want to be, or have to do without the comforts or necessities of life.

[Cherish]

Thank you for understanding, Matchmaker. Now why should we have to wait for the Lord to bring back the United Order? Why can't the Corporation of the President of the LDS Church take its self-proclaimed Truth and use it to fortify happy, healthy, authentic Christ-centered communities?

[Matchmaker]

Maybe that is what they will try to do when they build their new community of 500,000 residents that they are hoping to establish just south of Orlando, Fl.

[Ezra]

I have thought about how nice it would be to live In a community like that.

My hope is that the cleansing that is for told to happen will usher in that life style for everyone if they want it or not.