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jasper-pagan-witch · 1 year

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As far as pcp goes, how would you go about creating and worshipping your own deity, if thats possible?

Hello hello!

As requested, I am tagging @alter-altars and @janhasnoplan in this answer. For convenience, I'm breaking this down into three headers - Don't Get Caught In A Cult, DIY Gods, and Religions From A Writing Perspective.

Don't Get Caught In A Cult

Cults are fucking terrible. And the worst part is, the more immune you THINK you are to them, the more likely you'll be to fall for their tricks.

The New Age to Alt-Right pipeline is a big example of this in metaphysical spaces, but many people have also drawn parallels between Jehovah's Witnesses, the Amish, or Mormons and cults - not because the model is wrong, but because groups that are cults often get away with it in many parts of the United States.

You may not be trying to start a cult for your DIY divinity, but it's important to be aware of the warning signs. People much smarter than I (or at least have the PhDs for it) have written many things about how to identify and escape cults, which brings us to:

Important Links

Steven Hassan’s BITE Model of Authoritarian Control on the Freedom Of Mind Resource Center

Mind Control - The BITE Model on the ex-cult Resource Center

The BITE Model of Cult Mind Control Explained by Joseph Sherwood on A Little Bit Human

How to Recognise a Cult; How to Avoid Cults That May Try to Convert You; and How to Leave a Cult on WikiHow

What To Do When You Realize You Accidentally Joined A Cult by Carrie Saum on Ravishly

How To Help A Loved One Who Joined A Cult by Stephanie Gomulka on Oxygen: True Crime

@pondering-the-kaiju's entire pinned post

DIY Gods

People have been making up gods for their needs for as long as we've had gods. Aradia (the creation of Charles Leland, fuck that dude) has one book as her source. Cernunnos appears on maybe one cauldron. People make up Greek gods all the time because there were just so many of those guys, what's one more? (Good examples of this are Mesperyian and, arguably, Makaria.) And, of course, we can't get through this without mentioning Robert Graves (fuck Robert Graves) creating the White Goddess as his wife's self-insert.

So yes, creating your own god is possible and has precedent. You could even argue that every god was created by someone at some point, because that's just how humans work. We see an idea (often because we're introduced to it by someone else), we go "Oh, that's neat!", and then we take the bits that work for us and we add new stuff that helps flesh out the divine in question. It's how Aphrodite evolved from Astarte, it's how Dionysus got developed and changed over time, and it's how we have the two Wiccan divines.

I recommend studying other religions and how they came to be, because that will also help you learn about how the gods in question came to be. Who moved where? What gods got brought along and turned into other gods? I particularly recommend looking at the Romans and how they went "Wow, everyone worships our gods but with different names! Neat!"

Important Links

Literally anything by Overly Sarcastic Productions that goes into detail about the origin of various deities (which is mostly on Red's end) - namely these ones about Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hades and Persephone and Demeter, Hermes, and Loki

Anything broadly about deity work and religion, frankly, because in the course of developing your divine figure, you'll have to come up with their offerings and portfolio and what they may help you with

Wolf Of Antimony Occultism - aka @wolfofantimonyoccultism here on Tumblr, they're creating their own religion that's really cool to see

Religions From A Writing Perspective

At heart, I am a worldbuilder. I build worlds. That's what I DO. My Kephea project is a great example of this, though I have others as well. In particular, I love building magic systems and religions.

I will accept any chance to talk about my Kephea project, but this is about building a religion. Generally speaking, religions like to talk about the following three things:

How did the world come to be?

How should we act towards one another?

What happens when we die?

Not every religion (real-world or in media) talks about all of these. Hell, some don't touch on any of them. Here's a fictional example of a religion that has some things to say: the Church of Avacyn (the plane of Innistrad in Magic: The Gathering):

Doesn't discuss how the world came to be.

Says that humans should help and protect each other from the monsters of Innistrad, which include vampires, werewolves, zombies, geists, and even other humans. Later says that humans are inherently sinful during the height of Avacyn's madness and they should be slain to save them from themselves. One archangel and her flight took that second part personally and caused a schism in the church.

Promises a Blessed Sleep that won't be bothered by undeath in either zombie or geist form. This isn't going well now that the archangel and her flight who oversees it are destroyed.

It's important to sit and think about how your religion addresses or doesn't address these questions. Is it more of a henotheistic approach, where any number of gods exist but you only worship some? Is it a monotheistic approach, where there's only a single deity? Is it a polytheistic approach, where there are many deities with a strong connecting thread? Is it an entirely different approach, like archetypes (the Mother, the Child, the Himbo), natural forces (the sun and moon, the forest, the potty pond), or something else? That's up to you.

A lot of my links here will be about polytheistic religions, because those are the ones I build the most. Yes, I have a lot of these links, because this is one of my special interests.

Important Links

On Worldbuilding: Religions [ polytheistic l Avatar TLA l Game of Thrones l Cthulhu ] by Hello Future Me/Timothy Hickson on YouTube (a written version of this video is also Part 12 in his book, On Writing And Worldbuilding volume 1)

So You Want To / Create a Mythopoeia; Fantasy Pantheon; and Stock Gods on TV Tropes

Creating a Religion Guide part 1, part 2, and part 3 on Roll For Fantasy

Common Misconceptions About Old Mythologies & Religions; Basic Tips To Create More Believable Sci-Fi & Fantasy Religions & Belief Systems; How To Create Fictional Structured Religions; and Things That Show Up In Christianity-Inspired Fiction That Aren't In The Bible on Springhole

List of religious ideas in fantasy fiction on Wikipedia

8 Tips for Creating a Pantheon for Your Novel by Jill Williamson on Go Teen Writers

How to Create God Characters for Your Fantasy World by Kathy Edens on ProWritingAid

In Summary

I didn't actually give advice, did I? I just kind of dumped a lot of my resources here. Oh well, hopefully you all get something useful out of this!

~Jasper

#answered #anonymous #religion #deity work #pop culture #masterpost #writing

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gleefulpoppet · 7 months

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I was tagged by @bitbybitwrites ♥ All the rest of the questions are under the cut!

favorite color: Turquoise/Teal/Blue/Navy somewhere in there!

last song: You Make Me Feel (Adam Lambert)

last movie: Red, White and Royal Blue (whatever day it came out!)

currently watching: I really don't watch much TV but the last show I watched was Heartstopper Season 2.

other stuff I watched this year: Heartstopper. (when I say I don't watch much TV I really was not exaggerating lol). I really want to see Barbie, but haven't yet.

shows I dropped this year/didn't finish: Erm. Once again, nada. I am either working or if I have a free moment you'll find me writing or working on art😁.

currently reading: Some poetry! Selected Poems by Neruda and The Essential Rumi (both are translated into English). I used to consume copious amounts of books, but I haven't read nearly as much since I've become obsessed with writing.

currently listening to: Adam Lambert. Always. And the Sonder playlist I've been making/working on for hours and hours to find the right songs for!

currently working on:

Sonder (A Klaine AU that I am having the best time with. It's updated several times a week.)

Chapter headers for @wowbright Mormon!Klaine verse

Unnamed Elliot/Kurt/Blaine fic that I LOVE. Not sure when I'll get it finished at this rate, though!

I have three other drafts I've started in the last two years that I'll finish at some point.

Looking forward to NaNoWriMo!

current obsession:

Writing. Writing. Writing.

Stickers (I love finding artists on Tumblr and purchasing their vinyl stickers)

Popcorn with M&Ms

Vintage Muppet Photos (I have a side blog that is getting out of control)

Tagging anyone who wants! I know a lot of you have already played along! ♥

#gleefulpoppet #get to know games

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catre33 · 2 months

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My favourite books in my personal library: (in completely random order)

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint Exupery. 111pg

'The little prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger than a house. He owned three volcanoes, two active and one extinct. He also owned a flower, unlike any flower in all the galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the little prince's world and started him on the interplanetary travels that brought him to earth, where he learned, finally, from a fox, the secret of what is really important in life.'

OH, my heart-. This absolute journey of a story is impossibly dear to me. I always pull it out when I need a reminder to grow old, but never grow up; and how stupid grown-ups can be. I've read this at least 7 times and watched the corresponding movie at least 5 times. It puts such a thrilling perspective on things I have had to fight with myself whether it should go in the fantasy or philosophy section. Sometimes we all need to remember how simple the world really is.

High Maintenance by Jennifer Belle 351pg

'Liv Kellerman has just left her cheating husband and--more tragically--their fabulous duplex with its Empire State Building views. Now Liv--alone for the first time in her life with few marketable skills, and crammed into a crumbling "fixer-upper" in Greenwich Village--is contemplating her next move...'

This book is HILARIOUS. I read it during my first and only trip to The Big Apple and finished it in the hotel room on the 2nd day (if I remember correctly). High Maintenance made the trip so much more thoughtful, and the people-watching much more interesting. People-watching in New York is already AMAZING, but I was able to better imagine the story behind the dude doing pull-ups on the street lamp (no joke). And it honestly made me think more than it made me laugh.S

tonewords, A Ghost Story by Pam Conrad 130pg

'The first time Zoe met Zoe Louise, Zoe was four years old. Zoe Louise was more than one hundred. From that day on--living in the same house, separated by a staircase and a century--Zoe and Zoe Louise have been an important and permanent part of each other's lives. Now Zoe is older. And although Zoe Louise never grows up, she is changing in dreadful, frightening ways. Time is running out for Zoe's best friend--and Zoe is the only one who can help her. To do so, she must travel back one hundred years in time and somehow alter the past. But in changing the past, must she also change the present? If she saves her friend's life, will she lose Zoe Louise forever?'

Stonewords is an annual fixture in my life. Though it doesn't in my book classify as a thriller it's still a ghost story and my favorite thing to read late on Halloween night. It's also one of the only books that use theoretical time travel that I will tolerate (mainly because it doesn't try to explain it away but rolls with the ideas). The character development is refreshing, as it is not in the ways you would originally expect.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 489pg

'An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last.'

This book is an absolute constant stream of 'I should have seen that coming!!!' I mean, are you kidding me?! Twists and turns left and right, never quite knowing where you are for a couple of paragraphs, and riddles hidden in the page headers! And an absolute wonder as a mythology lover having grown up in a Mormon household. The recognition of pagan beliefs and traditions that have become such essential parts of Christian culture is incredible. The Da Vinci Code rivals Good Omens as my favourite book of all time.

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A. S. King 323pg

'Is it okay to hate a dead kid? Even if I loved him once? Even if he was my best friend? Is it okay to hate him for being dead? Vera's spent her whole life secretly in love with her best friend, Charlie Kahn. And over the years she's kept a lot of his secrets. Even after he betrayed her. Even after he ruined everything. So when Charlie dies in dark circumstances, Vera knows a lot more than anyone--the kids at school, his family, even the police. But will she emerge to clear his name? Does she even want to?'

This was a surprisingly recent read; and though it took a little bit to get into it, I was entranced. It was really just an erratic puzzle coming together much slower than I would have liked it to, and it was terribly easy to relate to Vera's desire to please be ignored. I have to be honest; I grew as a person, reading this book. You get to know the dead kid more than you think you would. It is altogether nowhere near what I expected, and more than I thought I'd ever need.

Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell 579pg

'Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes an assignment in New York City, where an injured patient in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric prison ward has specifically asked for her. While Scarpetta examines him, she listens to one of the most bizarre stories she has ever heard. Oscar Bane says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder...that he did not commit...' (the blurb is paraphrased as it is the longest blurb in history sorry)

Not only is this book written by one of my favourite milfs, but there is also a very homo romantic subplot that I could not get enough of!!! (pg354 AAAH!!!) Scarpetta and everyone around her had me hooked from the first words (which were 'Brain tissue'). There is nothing I could do while reading this but live the plot. The incredibly emotive writing dragged me along for a rough but worthwhile ride.

Frogkisser! by Garth Nix 372pg

'Poor Princess Anya. Forced to live with her evil stepmother's new husband, her evil stepstepfather. Plagued with an unfortunate ability to break curses with a magic-assisted kiss. And forced to go on the run when her stepstepfather decides to make the kingdom entirely his own. Aided by a loyal talking dog, a boy thief trapped in the body of a newt, and some extraordinarily mischievous wizards, Anya sets off on a Quest that, if she plays it right, will ultimately free her land--and teach her a thing or two about the use of power, the effectiveness of a well-placed pucker, and the finding of friends in places both high and low.'

I bought this book from an elementary school book fair when I was maybe 10 years old, and it must be one of my most 'loved' paperbacks with all it's been through. It has been in the hands of family and friends and calls me out in ways I will never admit. Frogkisser! is a beautiful story with the perfect doses of snarky and silly weaved throughout every character. I used to know the plot so well that I would open to a page at random and read it just to cheer myself up. Now it's a nostalgic symbol of my childhood; not just of the good parts, but a basis of the good parts.

Skellig by David Almond 182pg

'Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. It was all going to be wonderful. But now his baby sister's ill, his parents are frantic, and Dr. Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then one day he steps into the crumbling garage. What is this thing beneath the spiderwebs and dead flies? A human being, or a strange kind of beast never seen before? The only person Michael can confide in is his new friend Mina. Together they carry the creature out into the light, and Michael's world changes forever.'

This was also a very recent read and oh my goodness gracious aGnES NUTTER, WITCH! I didn't know what to do with myself after it. I... I can't even explain it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, to read this book for the first time. I was helpless in dreaming of angels and owls and clay and death and life and everything in between. I could never possibly do Skellig justice, so I'll leave it at this. Read it, and you'll know what I mean.

Notes: Good Omens is not listed here as it lives in my schoolbag, not my personal library. Coincidentally, all books listed were paperbacks LMAO

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defyingedits · 4 years

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— like or c hadstwn

#the book of mormon #the book of mormon headers #the book of mormon header #headers the book of mormon #header the book of mormon #headers #header

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westbwayicons · 5 years

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Icons Andrew Rannells (request).

✧･ﾟ Like if you save/use.

✧･ﾟ © on twitter (link).

Bonus: Falsettos header.

Credits on twitter are necessary.

#andrew rannells #book of mormon #jersey boys #hamilton #hairspray #falsettos #icons #icons with psd #headers #headers broadway #icons broadway

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mapsontheweb · 4 years

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Etymology of County Names in Idaho.

Kirsan_Raccoony

Notes:

Idaho is a highly contested name, however I could find several peer-reviewed papers that supported a Plains Apache (a.k.a. Kiowa Apache; a Athabaskan/Na-Dene language) origin of the name from ídaahę́, 'enemy'. The name was originally proposed for Colorado Territory but as it was contemporarily believed to be an invented name (for either a girl named Ida or for an unattested Shoshone expression, 'ee-da-how', meaning sunset) it was not considered (although Idaho Springs, CO used the name). Later, a Columbia River steamer Idaho was the namesake of Idaho County in Washington Territory and later applied to all of Idaho Territory when Washington became a state. So as far as I can tell, Idaho is the only state named after a boat!

Anglo-Norman are names that derive from Old Norse and Norman French from the times of the Norman Conquest. They are well-integrated into the English language and have developed since their entry alongside native English names. That being said, they have a distinct history from other English names.

Mormon Semitic refers to names that appear to be of Semitic (usually Biblical Hebrew, with some Akkadian, Ammonite, and Aramaic influence) stock and are solely attested in the Book of Mormon. This is a name of my own coining, as there's no real consensus of what to call these. I have chosen to classify it as Afro-Asiatic as again, they are of Semitic (Afro-Asiatic for consistency with other maps) stock.

Owyhee County is named for the river, mountains, and mining region. The region is in turn an archaic anglicisation of Hawaiʻi, named for three lost Hawaiian furtrappers employed by the Montréal-based North West Company to explore what is now called the Owyhee River and Owyhee Mountains. They disappeared and were presumed dead and the name was meant to honour the three fur trappers.

Public Works Projects includes mines and hydroelectric dams.

Assets:

Public domain Idaho county map from Wikimedia Commons.

Header typeface: Brandon Grotesque (Hannes von Döhren, 2009)

Legend typeface: Brandon Text (Hannes von Döhren, 2014)

Map typeface: Orkney open-source typeface (Samuel Oakes and Alfredo Marco Pradil, 2016)

#maps #idaho #etymology

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rbcclndr · 4 years

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Tagged by: @lieutenantg

Icon: Andrew Rannells with puppies because it’s so cute and I lov him

Content: Recently, it’s been a lot of Falsettos/Book of Mormon/ANDREW RANNELLS/general theater(?)/funny jokes or whatever... in the past though there’s also been some Marvel/Queen/B99/Star Wars/Harry Potter/etc. ,,,, it’s honestly just whatever the latest hyperfixation is wooooo

Header: a couple of cute hearts that are from a falsettos phone lock screen that zoomed way the fuck in when I tried to set it and I actually liked how it looks so I just left it

URL: my name with no vowels lmao

Blog name: “Hiya!” because I want people to know I’m friendly and energetic :))

I tag: @ameliaaa-l @morgicorgidacaptian @letspushastrollerjustmeandyou @paintingsofdicks @rowaen @a-three-part-mini-opera @ anyone else who feels like it lol

#dont feel obligated to do this tho lmao

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what-i-covet-i-keep · 4 years

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Tagged by @poetslyre (thank you!)

Icon: I’m gonna have to say Alison Bechdel. I don’t talk about her a lot on here, but she’s amazing and if you don’t know who she is I highly recommend you look her up. She’s honestly inspiring and just iconic.

Content: Probably like, 48% falsettos, 49% cult related things, 2% random thoughts, and like, 1% Book of Mormon

Header: The original cast of falsettos from 1992. So, I like the revival of falsettos more. But I chose this header back when I was trying really hard to make good falsettos content (pre-cult I tried way too hard to make quality posts) Anyway, I should probably change it now but...I’m lazy. Plus I find the original cast kind of hilarious.

URL: My url is one of my favorite lines from falsettos, “what I covet, I keep.” I really like the way Christian says this, it’s a very good line.

Blog name: So, again, my blog name is back from when I was trying really hard to make amazing posts. I should really change it too. I guess the cult is sort of my “tight knit family” so I don’t have to want one anymore (wow, cheesy) So I should probably change that but...again I’m too lazy.

I tag: @marvins-breakdowns @morgicorgidacaptian @slime-tutorial @a-three-part-mini-opera

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kirbythegreat · 5 years

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also ive been meaning to ask you wyf is your header

it's an edit of the book of mormon book but I just changed it to something better

#friend tag #wither-brown

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almonihahzrathanzon · 6 years

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How did you choose their name? (All of your characters have interesting names, tell us about the ones you want to share! :) )

Thanks! Let’s see...

Almonihah: This is a mashup of names from the Book of Mormon. :D Alma + Ammon + -ihah

Garkhen: I took “guardian” and tried to make it more dragon-y

Zakhin’Dakh: I don’t recall any more. It’s supposed to be Swift Wing in Draconic.

Sar’Tket: I don’t remember precisely beyond wanting it to sound Aztec-snake-y

Ignis: This one is rather obvious. :D It’s supposed to be obvious--it’s a pseudonym he’s chosen, and being a dragon he chose an obvious and rather arrogant one. His true name, Khereshilthanal, falls under the header of “something that sounds dragon-y”

Iolar: Literally ‘eagle’ in Irish. It’s supposed to be from some ancient language that’s lost, but I didn’t want to come up with such a language and Irish sounds nice and fantastic. :D

Kit: Rather obvious. :D His ‘real’ name, Xihe Kitaro, was made so that his nickname could be Kit.

Katla: Chose so that she and her brother could be Kit and Kat. XD

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wesonerdy · 7 years

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Autoboyography by Christina Lauren is out now! This incredible young adult romance is a must read! Take a look at our 5 STAR review and add it to your TBR!

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RATING: 5 STARS {Young Adult; No Spoilers}

Autoboyography isn’t just a young adult novel. It’s a necessity.

This novel hit a particularly sharp cord with me because I watch kids navigate a very delicate time in their lives every day. They’re figuring out who they are, who they like, and the person under the surface. It’s novels like this and other diverse young adult lit that are helping under-represented kids see themselves in stories that are relevant to them and help them through their feelings, hardships, and give them confidence.

How do you come to terms with your first love while you’re still accepting who you truly are? How can parents balance their protective nature with learning to let their kids grow and change or even learn to accept their kids for who they are? Can I have a happily ever after, too?

Tanner and Sebastian’s story will resonate with everyone who reads it, and you can absolutely bet this quote will end up on my wall somewhere, too.

You are an exceptional human, with depth and heart. Don’t let anyone–or anything–dim that light inside you.

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Synopsis

Three years ago, Tanner Scott’s family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah.

But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High’s prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can’t resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity.

It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.

Amazon | Barnes & Noble Add to your Goodreads TBR!

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We had the privilege of interviewing the authors at SDCC. You can catch that HERE!

Thank you so much to Simon & Schuster for the advanced copy of this novel.

SPOTLIGHT/REVIEW: ‘Autoboyography’ by Christina Lauren Autoboyography by Christina Lauren is out now! This incredible young adult romance is a must read! Take a look at our 5 STAR review and add it to your TBR!

#5 stars #Autoboyography #Book Review #Christina Lauren #Diverse Literature #Simon & Schuster #Spotlight #young adult

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imaginestartrek · 7 years

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Prompt: A small mountain town finds themselves welcoming a new resident and his daughter, but what effect will this have on the other residents? On you? Welcome to Crawford. Word Count: 1055 Warnings: Chicken pox Author’s Note: Part 7!

You can thank @wonders-of-the-enterprise for the delicious header.

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You felt terrible doing this, showing up in the middle of the night, but Leonard had kept saying it was fine. “What happened?”

Setting Oliver down on the couch you watched Leonard grab a medical bag he kept handy. “He came into my room and said he wasn’t feeling well, he was running a fever and I thought maybe it was just a cold.” You had called and told Leo that Oliver wouldn’t be at school because he was a little sick, runny nose and a cough, but he hadn’t gotten better. “But then I noticed a rash and he’s just so agitated right now.”

Leonard lifted up the little boys shirt and took a look at the rash, the red dots were covering his chest and stomach. “Y/N, you can relax. It’s chicken pox, he’s completely fine.”

He asked for help getting the sleep shirt off of Oliver and she he had Leonard took calamine lotion and spread it across his skin being sure to discard the gloves he used right after.

“Have you had the chicken pox before?” You shook your head no. “What about the vaccine?”

“We both got the vaccine, but shouldn’t that mean that he can’t get this?”

Leonard chuckled, pulling the shirt back over Oliver. “Not exactly, kids who get the vaccine can still get chicken pox it just won’t be as bad as it would be if they hadn’t. Luckily, after this you won’t have to worry about it again. On the other hand, if he has it there’s a chance everyone at school has it.”

As if on cue, Joanna appeared behind her dad’s legs. “Daddy, I can’t sleep.”

When he scooped her up in his arms Leonard immediately placed a hand on her forehead. “Like I was saying, most of them are probably sick.”

Joanna’s bumps were coming up on her arms and you could already tell that she was miserable. “Sorry for barging in like that, I was just so freaked out.”

Leonard was applying the lotion to his daughter but turned his head to smile at you. “There’s no need to apologize, that’s what I’m here for. Do you have calamine at home to reapply?” You said that you did but he nodded towards the bag. “Take some gloves with you just in case, don’t want these things to get infected.”

“Thank you, I’m going to try and get him to sleep. Safe to say he won’t be at school.”

Joanna was curled up on Leonard’s lap now, asleep almost instantly. “Listen, I won’t be sending her in either so if you need someone to watch Oliver feel free to drop him off.”

“I actually have off tomorrow so this works out perfectly.”

His smiled broadened. “Great, let’s make a day of it! We can have a pajama party and watch movies all day. I’m sure it’ll help them keep their minds off the itching too.”

You had to admit, the idea of spending your day off with another adult to help out with a sick Oliver sounded amazing, you could hardly say no. Agreeing that you would both be back later that morning, you and Oliver headed home snuggling into bed together with a smile on your face.

As promised, you packed up a bag and drove back up towards Leonard’s house getting flagged down by Mike on the way. “Hey there little man, why are you in your jammies?”

“He’s got chicken pox, so no school until he’s better.”

Oliver was still a little sleepy so he just waved quickly at his uncle before closing his eyes again. “Where are you two headed?”

“The doc’s daughter has it as well, we’re going to let the kids have a day together and hopefully the playing will keep them from itching too much. Misery loves company and all that.”

Mike nodded. “Alright, well I hope he feels better. Tell the doc I said hey.”

When you finally got there, Leonard had set up a bunch of blankets and pillows on the living room floor so the kids would be comfortable watching their movies and had pancakes setting at the table. “I didn’t know if you guys had eaten yet, Jojo wanted pancakes so I figured I’d make enough for everyone.”

“That’s so sweet, thank you. We actually brought some snacks as well for later and a bunch of movies.”

You found that Leonard McCoy made one hell of a pancake and within moments your plate was wiped clean. “There’s some more if you want them.”

He looked amused from across the table and you felt your cheeks redden in embarrassment. “Sorry, I should have at least chewed.”

“Don’t worry about that! I’ve just never seen someone enjoy my cooking so much.” Leonard’s smile made you blush and look down at your plate, something about it just seemed intimate and you spent the rest of breakfast wondering why it had affected you that much. “Alright, who’s ready for some movies?”

The kids cheered and raced out to the living room where Leo was putting on the first movie. You started cleaning up the dishes barely hearing him come back into the kitchen.

“Thanks for doing this, it helps a lot not having to do everything yourself.”

Leonard smiled taking the dirty silverware and loading it into the dishwasher. “Trust me, I understand that completely.”

It had been a week since Ellie had gone home and Leonard had gone back to being a working single parent. Just as you were finishing up the dishes the phone rang and Leonard answered it immediately throwing his head back in frustration.

“I’ll be right there.” He walked back over and looked almost sad. “Another sick kid, I have to go down to the office for a bit.”

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He laughed grabbing his coat. “This is why I keep you around.”

You finished cleaning up and curled up on the couch watching the movie. “Mommy, come down here with us.” Oliver held out a little hand and you nestled between them letting both kids cuddle up with you until all three of you fell asleep.

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Media on My Extended Family, Friends, and Fundamentalist Mormon Cults

This is a movie done some years ago about my infamous Uncle Ervil LeBaron, my mother’s brother. He is now known as “Evil Ervil,” and “The Mormon Manson.” I knew, respected, and loved him before he went off the deep end with his sociopathy and psychosis.

The film was very well done. I love how brilliantly Brian Dennehy played the part of my Uncle Ervil. But no film can possibly portray the depth of suffering and lunacy that went on in this man’s life that also affected the lives of all his brainwashed, true-believing followers and children.

You will have to get the film from wherever you get movies and find out the rest of the story for yourself; though I will be telling my experiences with my Uncle Ervil later on down the line in my memoir blogging.

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THE TRUE PROPHET is an independent film written and directed by Scott Hillier and executive produced by…

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*NOTE: This movie was planning on its release in 2014. It was never released due to lack of funding. However, there is some interesting information on the site that you may find useful. For example, on this Website are some of Ervil’s writings and more. Must see.

*You may also read books written about him. I have listed here, below, some of these books. Wikipedia and other such sites relate a history of him also –– as well as a short history of the rest of the LeBaron family: His parents and siblings.

A Documentary about the LeBaron’s, especially Ervil LeBaron and his Cult

But hats off to him! Till I recently read his chronicle, I had no idea just how devious and wicked was the cult Uncle Ervil spawned; not to mention the people who followed him hook, line, and sinker/stinker!!

Rena’s story about Ervil LeBaron and his cult

This Memoir, written about thirty years ago, seems merely an immature, biased, apologist’s cold hearted revisionist tale written by the infamous Rena Chynoweth wherein she could brag about the part she played in the sad and dirty story of her husband’s bloody, violent, and psychotic cult. All is not fact-checked nor factual, much is omitted, and she writes more about her girlish romantic escapades and herself than anything.

In other words, it appears to be, largely, an attempt to be in the limelight and cash in on the notoriety of Ervil LeBaron, so as to make money and be a starlet — albeit a notorious one. We were lucky to get two paragraphs about her cold-blooded murder of Dr. Rulon Allred. And the best apology she could come up with, as to the “Lambs of God” atrocities and murders is, “This did not need to happen.”

But you may find her book worth a perusal just to see how a member of Ervil LeBaron’s murderous cult used to think. I say “used to think” because recently I had the opportunity to meet and visit with Gabriela LeBaron, a first cousin, and one of Uncle Ervil’s more than fifty children! She brought me up to date on how Ervil’s ex-cult is doing now — and that includes Rena!

Please see my Menu Bar to read about this important update and Info I have included in my full book review of Rena’s thirty-year-old Memoir “The Blood Covenant.”

If you want to get more of a chronicle of Ervil’s old mafioso cult, and its demise, read “The 4 O’clock Murders” by Scott Anderson, published in 1993. And “Prophet of Blood” by Ben Bradlee and Dale Van Atta, published in 1981.

These two documentaries are not always exactly right, in some of the history of this cult they wrote about, but hats off to them for doing as well as they did with a subject that was often hard to get “the truth” about.

*For much more information on anyone or anything I mention on this site, you may use your search engine to look up these people and topics. Also check YouTube, Wikipedia, and other sites.

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Both Doris Hanson and Aunt Rebecca Kimbel are success stories of brilliant and determined women — who are also escapees from Mormon Fundamentalist cults!

They are each now Independent TV Producers who also host their own YouTube sites, among other things. Each of them interviews, among other outstanding leaders and people, escapees from dangerous Mormon cults.

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My cousin, Donna LeBaron Goldberg (as seen below with her sister Barbara LeBaron on their website header) is interviewed a number of times by Producer Aunt Rebecca Kimbel on YouTube, for example. I hope you check out these YouTube interviews.

Doris Hansen and Rebecca Kimbel also each interviewed Authors Irene LeBaron Spencer (See: IreneSpencerbooks.com) and Susan Ray Schmidt (see her website). Both are my Aunts. And Aunt Irene is Donna LeBaron Goldberg’s and Barbara LeBaron’s mother, as seen in the photos above.

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Aunt Rebecca Kimbel and Doris Hansen also interviewed, on their TV and YouTube sites, other relatives and friends of mine from my days in the cult — people such as my cousin, Carolyn Jessop, a memoirist who wrote the bestselling,”Escape,” and other books.

Also, check out Aunt Rebecca Kimbel’s excellent and adamant speech on YouTube’s TED-X Talks. (In around only 18 minutes, she did a genius presentation on all the main issues to do with Mormon cults, including White slavery.

See also (on Goodreads.com) her novel, “A Savage Wild,” published in 2013. I have yet to get and read it

See the film: “The Childbride of Short Creek.” It was on YouTube, among other places, the last time I checked. (To get Info for their Script, my sisters were interviewed by the writers of this film.)

“Banking on Heaven“ is a super Documentary my cousin Laurie Allen and her cohort, Dot Reidelbach, created. (It gives a good overview of life as a Mormon fundamentalist in Short Creek, Arizona, and Hilldale, Utah/ Colorado City, Arizona.

I went online a few years ago and ordered an updated 2006/2007 80 Min. copy of their DVD. (It’s far better than their first published DVD by the same name.) You can find it on Amazon.com, YouTube, the Internet. And her following website: Banking on Heaven

http://www.bankingonheaven.com/

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Some Recommended Books and Films Written Mostly by My Relatives and/or By Fellow Ex-Mormon Fundamentalists

(Many can be found in Public Libraries, on Amazon.com, etc., and on the Authors’ website. A number of them are in audiobook form also):

“Shattered Dreams” and “Cult Insanity” by Best-Selling Author Aunt Irene LeBaron Spencer, at IreneSpencerBooks.com. Her books are also in audiobook form. (Irene is my Aunt, through marriage, as is Rebecca Kimbel, Irene’s half-sister.)

*Note: I took the picture featured on Irene’s book cover,”Cult Insanity. (See it below in its original form :

“Uncle Ervil LeBaronis holding my eight-year-old daughter, Asenath Marie Tucker, the little girl in the yellow dress. I took this photograph before I had any idea that Uncle Ervil was a psychotic sociopath.

Uncle Ervil LeBaron, Brother-in-law Dan Jordan, & my daughter, Asenath Marie Tucker

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One of my favorite books on the subject of my relatives and my past is the following book, written by a very talented writer, Aunt Susan Ray Schmidt. (I took care of her for five days when she was around nine years old (long before she married my Uncle Verlan LeBaron, of course, and thus became my aunt) while her parents were out of town, and we were still living in Colonia LeBaron, Chihuahua, Mexico).

“His Favorite Wife,” by Susan Ray Schmidt (Another Aunt of mine, her book reads like a novel. My family is mentioned in it.)

TWO EXCELLENT BOOKS: “PLYGS” and “PLYGS 2“ by Ed Kociela, available for sale on Amazon.com

*(He calls his book “Fiction,” to protect the innocent and himself, I suspect. It’s not fiction!

~ Also see Rebecca Kimbel’s YouTube interviews with this amazing journalist who spent many years writing news reports on the infamous polygamist town, Short Creek/AKA Colorado City.)

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Another must read is Prophet’s Prey, by Sam Brower (also an audiobook).

A film came out September 2016: Prophet’s Prey. It is based on his book and was playing in theaters. I haven’t seen it yet.

Another “must read” is “God’s Brothel,“ by Andrea Moore-Emmett. (Also check out her super interviews with Rebecca Kimbel, and possibly also with Doris Hanson, on YouTube.)

No Man Knows My History, by the late UCLA researcher and professor, Fawn McKay Brodie (niece of David O. McKay, a former President and Prophet of the mainline Mormon church) This book is a well-researched history of the so-called “Prophet Joseph Smith” — a must read!)

My great-great-grandfather, Benjamin F. Johnson, was sealed to Joseph Smith as a son. Beginning at the tender age of eighteen, he became one of Joseph Smith’s Scribes. (I recently read, in a questionable place, that his son, Benjamin F. LeBaron, was also sealed to Joseph Smith as a son! But given the references for this claim, I’d say the jury is still out on this one!)

* This concludes my present most-recommended books and media on the subject to do with my Mormon fundamentalist past. However, there are plenty more books, films, and TV shows published on this subject of Mormon fundamentalism, polygamy, and cults.

Check libraries, bookstores, Youtube, your online search engine, and “Media” in the Menu of my own website for more material on these subjects. I own around one hundred books and also some films and TV productions about Mormonism, its past, and Mormon polygamist cults. Many of the books and scripts are written by former Mormon Fundamentalists who have left/escaped their cult.

I found all one hundred or more of my books worth reading, but have gleaned from them the ones I most recommend to start with. If I think of any other books or media, I will come back and add them later. But I’m sure this is more than enough to start with.

Again, you can always check the public libraries and online Book Stores like Amazon.com, also, if you want even more books and Media presently available on the subject.

I am open to questions or feedback on this material, should you wish to make comments on my site. Till then, happy reading, listening to, and watching films, YouTube interviews, and TV shows on this informative media.

As always, I look forward to hearing from you and to your following my site. Thank you in advance for your most appreciated feedback. It’s what we Authors thrive on.

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The following books and films, etc., I also recommend, if you are interested in learning more about my extended family, or/and other things to do with Mormon fundamentalism:

(*By the way, this Romney insert is not a book, but I thought it interesting. Also wanted to say, my mother (born 1921 in Colonia Pacheco, Mexico) grew up with Gov. Romney’s (George Romney, et Al) family, there in the Mormon colonies in Mexico.

Joseph Smith, Benjimen F. Johnson, Dayer LeBaron, and Joel LeBaron

My Uncle Joel LeBaron

Book cover created by Sigfried Widmar

“The LeBaron Story” is truly a “Vanity Book” — not only because my uncle Verlan LeBaron paid a publishing company in 1981 (back when self-publishing was far from the norm) to publish the book — but also because it is a revisionistic, apologetic, and biased history of some of my grandparents Maud and Dayer LeBaron’s rather grandiose offspring.

What’s more, my Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Verlan are largely NOT the authors of this book though they have taken all the credit for it. Truth is, Uncle Verlan was FAR too busy to write a book — even if he knew how — too busy working, traveling around from country to country visiting his ten wives and fifty-plus kids — and running from his brother Ervil who was out to kill him! And Aunt Charlotte was about this busy too!

Fact is, my mother/Verlan’s sister Esther LeBaron-McDonald de Spencer (with a BA in journalism) is the one whose idea it was to write “The LeBaron Story.” She wrote a large part of this book, then turned her manuscript over to Verlan, along with her journals and notes, telling him he could finish and publish her work — could even have all the proceeds from it!

It was Mother’s effort to help her brother Verlan “build up the kingdom of God” — her way of paying tithing and defending “God’s work” because Verlan had taken over for her brother Joel LeBaron, “The One Mighty and Strong,” after Joel was murdered by his brother Ervil!

The work of finishing and compiling Mother’s book was largely done by my Uncle Verlan’s first wife Charlotte who relied on Info from my mother’s journals and notes to help her.

About 2/3 of “The LeBaron Story,” therefore, came directly from my dear Mom’s manuscript as well as her journal entries. I remember when she was writing this history. She talked about it a lot at the time. I recognize her writing and input. It’s mixed throughout the text — makes up a large part of it.

You may want to note the two different writer’s voices used in the book! Anything with the more beautifully written structured writing, defined paragraphs, quotes, and sources listed at the back of the book, etc., is my mother Esther LeBaron Spencer’s writing voice — her contribution. Whereas Aunt Charlotte, Uncle Verlan, et Al’s writing voices are in the chapters where everything is run together and there aren’t structured paragraphs, footnotes, etc.

Although Uncle Verlan and Aunt Charlotte used large parts of what my Mother wrote, word for word — used her material exactly as she had written it — no editing at all — they gave Mother not one BIT of credit — not one speck of acknowledgment, let alone so much as a howdy-do-dee or thank-you. It’s tantamount to plagiarism — shameful how Charlotte and Verlan took all the credit for this book!

But getting to the body of the work, if you were to take the authors’ word for everything, for sure the Mexico LeBarons are/were “a saintly people with a Godly mission.” But I beg to differ: Wishing doesn’t make it so. In other words, wishful thinking, such as self-proclaiming oneself as “The One Mighty and Strong,” and claiming one comes from “A Godly people with a Messianic mission” doesn’t make it true.

Much of the book’s lore takes place in Chihuahua, Mexico. Unfortunately, the authors tell the story in the words of true-believing, fundamentalist-Mormon-LeBaron cult members. In other words, it’s a highly biased history with a Messianic purpose.

True to their fanatic religiosity, as I said above, the book was mainly written to proselytize and promote Uncle Joel LeBaron’s cult, “The Church of the First Born of the Fullness of Times.” This presupposes a revised and rewritten history, then — and a white-washing of the LeBarons … It’s myth in the making, to be sure.

Nonetheless, I was able to glean a bit of useful information from it. I’m glad the book was written, despite the biased viewpoint, because nobody else in the immediate Mexico LeBaron family has written any first-hand history about themselves.

But suffice it to say, the book could use a good Editor’s service, if nothing else — although, even as it is, it was a big endeavor and accomplishment for my aunts and uncle to pull off. For they were very busy people who had done little reading in comparison to Scholars and those Majoring in Journalism or such. Plus they were laboring under great pressures and disadvantages like raising huge families of small children while living in backward, primitive conditions. But book-buyer beware … be wary! That’s all I can say!

I was given a copy of this book many years ago when it first came out in 1981, fourteen years after I escaped the LeBaron cult in 1967. After reading the book, the preaching, plus the white-washing and grandiose fabrications throughout the chronicle of the LeBaron family got my gut so badly I was about to toss the book in the dumpster when two of my Uncle Verlan’s daughters dropped in. They still believed their father was a prophet, back then, so were very happy to be gifted with my book, “The LeBaron Story.” And I was very happy to get rid of it.

But thirty-six years later, for purposes of my own writing, understanding, and research, I had to re-buy the book on Kindle! Argh! It’s going for around $45.00 or so in hardback, no less, on Amazon.com. Wonders never cease to amaze me … so I wonder! Well, to each his own. Read on!

Elissa Wall was raised in the FLDS cult, the same cult that I was raised in for around eight years, as a child, before my parents left this fundamentalist group and joined another, the LeBaron group.

Anna LeBaron is my cousin, one of Uncle Ervil’s daughters.

Her above book, The Polygamist’s Daughter, is presently available in bookstores as of March 21, 2017. (See her website, AnnaLeBaron.com.)

The is a wonderfully and intelligently written memoir by Flora Jessop (and Paul T. Brown), who was born and raised in the FLDS cult — there in Short Creek, Arizona (now called “Colorado City,” on the map) and Hilldale, Utah, where I lived for some time, as a child.

My sister, Leonora/Lenora Spencer (mentioned in the credits of this book) gave Jon Krakauer a lot of the good information included in his book about Short Creek/Colorado City, Hilldale, and Centennial Park, Utah.

In turn, he helped her a lot — with advice, etc., that aided her escape from the bonds of White slavery, polygamy, and Mormon fundamentalism.

My niece Vicky Rogers LeBaron filled Krakauer in on some of the details, also, that have made up part of the research that went into writing this documentary.

Memoirist and Author Ruth Wariner Ruth (LeBaron) Wariner Centofante, a daughter of my mother’s brother Uncle Joel LeBaron, published her memoirs Feb. 2016.

A best-seller, it’s in public libraries. Audiobook also available.

In 2016, I read “Maud’s Story,” a 2013 self-published book written by my Aunt Charlotte LeBaron (Uncle Verlan LeBaron’s first wife).

The book largely consists of a collection of some of my grandmother’s letters — and some vignettes Grandma wrote that are run together in often hard-to-decipher paragraphs.

More to be said on this later. I’ll say, for now, she’s done a revised version—a rewriting of the history of the “Joel LeBaron: Prophet” saga, turning it upside down and him into a martyred prophet. (She shows, though not intentionally, how religious myths are made.)

*Note: It’s now 2019: See my blog post by the same name for my updatd “Review of Aunt Charlotte’s Maud’s Story,” posted below:

Maud Lucinda LeBaron is my maternal grandmother, of whom I am “the spittin’ image,” I was always told growing up. In fact, the above photo of her looks so much like me at that age, I look at it and think it’s me. I can’t tell the difference!

Needless to say, Grandma Maud LeBaron was special to me. So when I saw, on Amazon.com, Aunt Charlotte had published her story, I spent $4.00 on it … and three hours reading it — such was its brevity. That includes the many times I had to re-read parts, attempting to understand what had been said, because Aunt Charlotte isn’t a natural author.

Suffice it to say, the book was no bargain: Its shortness left me wanting more. And it is supposed to be Grandmother LeBaron’s story but many of the tales Grandma used to entertain us with are not in the book.

Nevertheless, nobody else has published anything about her. So I’m grateful Aunt Charlotte wrote all she did. (“If you don’t like how the story was written, write it yourself,” they admonish.)

Still, I resent she used my grandmother Matriarch Maud Lucinda LeBaron’s story to draw in her progeny and relatives, as well as others, so as to promote her’s and Uncle Joel’s Church of the Firstborn doctrine — a la Charlotte LeBaron’s lore. So “Maud’s Story” really should be renamed: “Charlotte’s Story.”

But to give Aunt Charlotte a little credit (though I’m disappointed “Maud’s Story” wasn’t imbued with more of Grandmother’s colorful history—her growing up with Spencer W. Kimball as a pioneer in poverty and primitive conditions in Thatcher, Arizona, for example! (See: “The Story of Spencer W. Kimball : A Short Man, a Long Stride“) she includes in her booklet numerous short vignettes that are, she claims, direct “Quotes from Grandma’s Notes.

“Perhaps, to get a little more of Grandmother’s history, Charlotte expects us to read “The LeBaron Story,” which she also claims authorship for along with her husband, my Uncle Verlan LeBaron—though it was my mother who wrote a great deal of “The LeBaron Story.” See my review all of this book, another apologists’ chronicle largely written to preach the Church of the Firstborn religious doctrine.

Even so, other criticisms I have are that the book is biased and provincial—written with an attempt to whitewash and glorify the Alma Dayer and Maud Lucinda LeBaron family so as to make “The Mexico LeBarons” look like “a Godly family with a saintly mission.”

I find its covert preaching of the Church of the First Born dogma distasteful— especially the revising of its doctrine and history to make it more palatable than it was when my Uncles Ervil and Joel LeBaron first spawned this sect/cult in 1953—an offshoot from their brothers Ben and Ross Wesley LeBaron’s cults!

To be sure, Aunt Charlotte has rewritten history in “The LeBaron Story” and “Maud’s Story” so as to turn Uncle Joel into a Prophet, Saint, and Martyr — And his untimely murder into “A Modern-Day Cain and Abel story.” But there is much more to this whole dirty tale than she’s letting on. So “Charlotte’s Story” is myth in the making, if ever there was such!

My final thoughts on “Maud’s Story” are: Grandmother should have given a sermon or two in church, if she were truly as well-versed in the cult’s dogma as she appeared to be in Charlotte’s short biography — or were words put in Gramma’s mouth; i.e., Did someone else write at least part of those letters for Grandma—or at least coach her in the writing of them?!*

I’m especially referring to what Grandma supposedly said in those letters to her girlhood friend Spencer W. Kimball. I say “supposedly” because Aunt Charlotte wasn’t honest about the story of how my Uncle Joel became the self-proclaimed “One Mighty and Strong.” Therefore, I can’t trust anything else in the book.

Though I could say more, I’ll suffice it to say: Should she ever do a reprint of her book, please get a good editor to go over it beforehand. And do not run Grandmother’s notes ‘n’ quotes together as if they were one organized piece — because they’re not:

They are short vignettes and should be separated as such. That way, the reader isn’t hoping to find the rest of the tale in the next paragraph, only to be left hanging — for a whole new tale has taken up!

*Ghost writing was the name of the game when I was in the cult: One of the sect’s two leading Scriptorians (Ervil LeBaron and William Preston Tucker, my husband) would write the exposé, or such, then publish it with whatever name or signature they thought would most impress those receiving the literature — or letter.

This is an excellent memoir written by a nephew of Warren Jeffs, Brent Jeffs. It is a very informative and bravely written memoir of one of the unfortunate and abused (sexually, physically, emotionally, and mentally) boys raised in the FLDS/Mormon fundamentalist cult. He has been interviewed on TV a number of times.

You go, Brent! More people need to follow your example and bring to light what is really going on in Mormon fundamentalist cults in the name of religion.

This film is/was about my Uncle Ervil LeBaron. Did a Google search and found it was scheduled to be released in 2014, but was canceled for lack of funding. But am told a new film on Uncle Ervil is due to be released in 2017 or 2018.

Joanne Hanks Memoir is one of the best books written on what life in polygamy is like, and why she eventually fled it. See my book review on her memoir. It’s posted on my Website.

Media on My Extended Family, Friends, and Fundamentalist Mormon Cults Media on My Extended Family, Friends, and Fundamentalist Mormon Cults This is a movie done some years ago about my infamous Uncle Ervil LeBaron, my mother's brother.

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