Text 36129, 51 rader
Skriven 2016-09-02 08:54:45 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
  Kommentar till text 36124 av Allen Prunty (1:2320/100)
Ärende: Re: Salt Lake City
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Allen,
 
AP> So they took many
AP> wives and kept them as pregnant as possible to increase their numbers.
 
Meaning there were many men who didn't get any nookie-nookie ... ?
 
Wrong.  Historically the taking of many wives has become a distorted issue.
During the settlement of the West many men perished, a lot more than women, and
there were no social services to take care of widowed women. It was custom for
men to take care of the women in the family who became widowed ... it also
meant taking care of their children ... and if there was an 80yr old granny ...
well ... her too.
 
The plains indians had exactly the same system, nobody ever complained of a
warrior having 4 or 5 women.
 
Plus, it was also custom to marry very young girls who became orphaned as a way
to provide them with a livelyhood. Some months ago we already covered that
subject here. Orphaned girls marrying at age 13, getting pregnant at age 14 and
dying because of complications during childbirth were quite common.
 
Today marrying such a young girl would be called pedophaelia, then it was
"doing the right thing".
 
AP> Their first prophet Joseph Smith died at the site where Salt Lake City
AP> was making it a very holy place.
 
Joseph Smith was murdered in jail in Carthage, Illinois where he was being held
on charges of riot and treason.
 
AP> Bringham Young, the prophet who
AP> preceeded him, declared it their "promised land."  Like you said they got
AP> screwed.
 
Brigham Young was a missionary, not a prophet.
 
AP> At least they have Jamba Juice... good luck finding a starbucks.
 
Lots of alcohol in Salt Lake City ... a lot of brown-bagging too.
 
Besides, they've got an excellent airport with good dining. I always get a hoot
of asking for a coffee there.
 
BTW, there IS a Starbucks and also competing coffee-outlets.
 
 \%/@rd

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