An Irrelevant Question

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Fri Feb 14 17:45:19 CST 1997


John Mascaro sez

>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.

I attended Emerson Junior High School, virtually in the shadow of this 
thing.  On the playground, it was the very height of 13-year-old humor to 
give a sudden and dramatic start, stare up at the gilt statue of Moroni, 
and yell "Oh no!  DON'T JUMP!!!"

>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.

Actually this is mistaken.  I believe most anyone can get at the 
archives, for a fee.  Those archives, by the way, are in vaults deep in 
the heart of a tunnel complex under a granite mountain in the Utah 
Rockies; they will rent you space for your own archives in these tunnels. 
 It's a popular place for software companies to keep backup copies of 
their code.

>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.

On one occasion (long ago, to be sure) they even massacred a wagon train 
of "Gentiles," and then franed the local Indians, causing them to be 
massacred by the gullible but bloodthirsty  U.S. Cavalry.  Two birds with 
one stone.



Cheers,
David




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