- Jack on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “I think we have to consider what exalted beings are really like. IMO–they are perfectly virtuous and perfectly loving. I don’t know if eros plays any part in their motivation. My guess is that it is subsumed by the love of God. And so what ever marriage “looks like” in the next world it will be based on pure love and the joy that comes from considering the welfare of others before our own.” Nov 20, 14:05
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “I hope there will be same-sex couples in eternity (not for everyone, of course, just those that want it). And if those couples make it to the next life and discover they don’t want that forever, they don’t have to stay together, and at least they got to be happy in mortality.” Nov 20, 13:15
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “The more immediate thing to ponder is how it will be in the Millennium, with a mix of resurrected and mortal beings. A 1,000 year family-building experience.” Nov 20, 13:03
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “The implication is that some choices and desired — other desires and choices will not be allowed. It begs the question as to which desires and choices will be allowed. I am confident that those people who dislike plural marriage would be perfectly fine with the young widow or widower with 4 kids remarrying, at which point they would be in a “plural marriage” arrangement — sealed to first spouse and either married for time or sealed to second spouse, depending on facts. Eventually someone will seal by proxy a woman to all husbands she had in mortality, so at the end of the day, all spouses will be sealed to all spouses. The questions that arise: can/will woman accept a sealing to their second husband? Will women have to choose between spouses, and if so, how would they choose? I know several older sisters who have were sealed, widowed, remarried, widowed, remarried — each time to a good husband. There is no such thing as a “marriage of convenience.” Marriage is marriage. In the end, all I know is that I could be the best husband in the world, but that will never trump my wife’s excercise of agency. If I die and she ‘moves on’ and remarries, I have to believe I will be given the same opportunity to ‘move on’ in the spirit world.” Nov 20, 12:00
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “I think the hard lines we draw around our own nuclear families will disappear. I agree with Neal – this is much more about being the family of God, than your own individual families. I also have a hard time with the “grin and bear it” attitude toward polygamy. That’s not heaven. As Valarie Hudson says, heaven has to be a place women actually want to go.” Nov 20, 11:58
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “A few years the following language was added to the Handbook after encouraging members to seek comfort: “Heavenly Father will ensure that each person receives every blessing that his or her desires and choices allow.” What does that mean? 38.4.1” Nov 20, 11:16
- on 1860 Utah Had Fewer Skilled and Educated Workers than Almost Any Other State/Territory in the US: “Very interesting! Good piece of research, too. As Rumsfeld would say, we work with the data we have, not the data we’d like to have.” Nov 20, 11:13
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “The church is sexist with current practices. Better, but still sexist. No one, NO ONE knows what relationships look like in the next life. The sealing power, I believe, is to seal us in God’s family. Some early leaders viewed collecting wives as a competition to build their personal kingdoms. They looked forward to endless sex in the next life. The church should allow living women to be sealed to multiple men. It should lose short veils in the temple and the word “preside” in sealing ceremonies. I’m not holding my breath but maybe the boys in the red chairs will figure it out before they lose all the women in No America.” Nov 20, 11:02
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “REC, your willingness to except any role should make you ready for any contingency! Anon, that’s my point. What about variance: spouses dying, not married, divorce etc? One way of putting it, who should Elizabeth Olsen be married to in the movie? Young husbands dying in war has been a pretty common occurrence in human history. The Sadducees’ question to Jesus came in context. Plato taught eternal marriage and the Greeks had been dominant in Judea since Alexander the Great over three-hundred years before. What happens in the next life with a woman with more than one husband? Again, not uncommon. Of course, Jesus said no marriage in the resurrection, an idea that Joseph Smith and Christian Platonists rejected. So those believing in eternal marriage like Christian Platonists did have to deal with that answer from Jesus. Thus Jacob 2 and DC 132.” Nov 20, 09:06
- on How Do YOU Think Eternal Marriage/Family Should Work in the Next Life?: “One wife is GOOD, and no, I don’t think that marriage is hard. I want nothing to detract from our relationship, in time or eternity. I want to be with and help her…. always. I don’t believe we’ll need to populate generations on multiple planets, or that anyone’s wife (or wives) will be walking, talking, spirit body factories in the next life. I think that is someone’s overactive libido played a role in those type of ideas.” Nov 20, 08:23
