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06-28-2012, 10:10 AM
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06-28-2012, 10:34 AM
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RE: Becoming Sister Wives
(06-28-2012 10:10 AM)Persnickety Polecat Wrote: I'm ashamed to admit that I want to read this. Long time ago, I went to their museum out in Salt Lake City, the Pioneer Womens Museum... tons of pics of families with like 70 people, man in the center. This was back when I was young and naive (before they were on TV!) and I just GAPED. We were scruffy hippies and they were very polite to us though. One thing I noticed is all the stuff the women GOT DONE since they worked together; the quilts and afghans and crafts were BEAUTIFUL, some even made their own furniture, woodwork and upholstery. Think how much time you would have if you had other women to babysit for you, LOL. But those men all looked DAMN SMUG in the paintings, or maybe I was projecting, haha. I dislike the lifestyle too much to enjoy the book... But I did read the book about Warren Jeffs, titled "Answer them nothing": http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Them-Nothin...words=flds Off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush |
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06-28-2012, 10:39 AM
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(06-28-2012 10:34 AM)DaisyDeadhead Wrote:(06-28-2012 10:10 AM)Persnickety Polecat Wrote: I'm ashamed to admit that I want to read this. This family seems substantially different from the Jeffs group. That said -- the patriarch is most assuredly smug, and I really do wonder how things are when the cameras are off. I do think plural love CAN work in some situations, but living that "lifestyle" as a matter of religion strikes me as off. |
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06-28-2012, 10:43 AM
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06-28-2012, 10:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2012 10:56 AM by Persnickety Polecat.)
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(06-28-2012 10:43 AM)Zadig Wrote:(06-28-2012 10:10 AM)Persnickety Polecat Wrote: I'm ashamed to admit that I want to read this. lol, because it's not a book about the history and culture of anything but rather a myopic portrait of a single TV family. 
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06-28-2012, 10:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-28-2012 11:00 AM by elfdream.)
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RE: Becoming Sister Wives
I've heard all sides of that debate. One telling thing was a young man from one of those families was interviewed and he said that he was NOT going to live this particular lifestyle when he became an adult. He was only going to have one wife. He would not say why on camera.
Apparently in these communities there is a surplus of marriageable aged young men with nothing to do. All the women are taken! Similar problem as they are having now in China with all the bachelor villages because of the one child policy. O Beauty ever ancient, O Beauty ever new; you, the mirror of my life renewed, let me find my life in you.~St. Augustine |
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06-28-2012, 11:00 AM
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I think he makes that pretty clear in the book, that they are a fringe group and don't represent Mormonism as a whole. Have you read his book on Pat Tillman? I think that's his best one.
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06-28-2012, 11:01 AM
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06-28-2012, 11:01 AM
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RE: Becoming Sister Wives
(06-28-2012 11:00 AM)Zadig Wrote: I think he makes that pretty clear in the book, that they are a fringe group and don't represent Mormonism as a whole. Have you read his book on Pat Tillman? I think that's his best one. I replaced the post when I saw you had the word fundamentalist in your post. I missed that the first time around. O Beauty ever ancient, O Beauty ever new; you, the mirror of my life renewed, let me find my life in you.~St. Augustine |
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06-28-2012, 11:09 AM
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