An Irrelevant Question

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

They have a faux Abysinnian monumental temple here in West LA complete with the 
trumpeting angel Moroni (we like to call him Bony Moroni) on top.  30000 square feet and 
not a single window.  They have genealogical data on literally millions of people, but they 
will share none of this information with anyone who isn't an LDS (LSD or not), not even 
people looking to find lost parents, children, etc.  They massacred a lot of native 
americans, but all with that same smile and wide eye henry notes.  Even a jew is 
considered a gentile if the person lives in Utah, the closest thing to a theocracy 
(discounting the Republic of Moloch) we've had yet here on the lower 48.

john m


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>I worked a number of years for Novell, which is hq'ed in Provo, UT, 
>near Salt Lake City. That company owes much of it's success to Latter 
>Day Saint (Mormon) work ethic, read hierarchical integrity. Lot of'em 
>have those big cult/cow eyes, like airport moonies. We have a big 
>LDS (not LSD!) church here in Washington (looks like the Emerald 
>City. Someone even wrote "Surrender Dorothy" graffiti nearby). They 
>let the public in (good neighbor pr I guess) for a while, and when 
>they stopped, the place needed a ritual cleansing. Did you know that 
>they consider anyone who isn't LDS or Jewish to be a gentile? I guess 
>everyone's familiar with their data banks on ancestry. They preach 
>tolerance, but practice conversion, even of the dead. A-and I'm sure 
>someone else can hold forth on Brigham Young's body guard / sheriff, 
>good old what's his name; nice guy...  blah, blah, blah... Don't get 
>me started.
>
>As far as Holmes is concerned, Doyle never met a secret society that 
>he wasn't a member of that he liked.
>
>> Date:          Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:34:08 -0600 (CST)
>> From:          LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU
>> Subject:       An Irrelevant Question
>> To:            pynchon-l at waste.org
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>> 
>> Since everyone's making lists and talking about right-wing nuts and the 
>> like, I have a question that someone here might be able to address:
>> 
>> Sherlock Holmes fans (speaking of influential writings!) know that the
>> first Sherlock Holmes story, A STUDY IN SCARLET, includes an extended
>> digression on the past of the American characters who show up in London
>> to perpetrate bloody deeds.  The thing is, they're all Mormons!
>> There's quite a bit of backstory about how the one who actually did the
>> killing was a Mormon only because Brigham Young and co. picked him and
>> his young daughter up in the dessert on the way to Utah.  Then, when
>> said dad refused to let her get married off to one of the more repulsive
>> polygamists of the tribe, Brighma sicced a secret society on father and
>> daughter to enforce the Lord's Will.
>> 
>> I'm curious--Is this all just the rantings of someone afraid of yet another
>> religious cult, or where the Mormons actually as fascistic as portrayed?
>> 
>> Steely?
>> 
>> Anyone?
>> 
>> Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
>> 
>> 
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