I drove through the Twin Towns last summer on my way to raft the Grand Canyon again and was struck by the deserted look of the place, like the occupants have either fled or gone to ground, much different than earlier visits on the way to other raft trips in the Canyon. I still keep my RSS feeds and my Google Alerts active on the subject, but it feels like with Brooke’s absence and the spotlight attention of the national media melting into boredom that the people of polygamy have once again faded from public view much like after the Short Creek Raid in the fifties. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing, maybe these people need to be left to themselves more and out of the view of prying eyes, like mine.

At any rate, I thank you, Ms. Adams, for keeping us well and unbiasedly informed on a subject that probably beyond a certain level is really none of our business anyway. I wonder what the polygamists in my family background would think of the resurgence and subsequent subsidence of interest in their lifestyle in recent years. They’d probably be appalled at how so many people have reacted so intensely and so negatively with such bitterness and bias. But then again, some of the people that have been reported on have been pretty appalling themselves. It’s a very complex issue that I’ve come to realize just doesn’t involve me much personally, even as much as I find it fascinating. But then, fires are fascinating as well, and as I spent my professional life fighting them tooth and nail I’ve often wondered why non-firefighters seem fascinated by them. Maybe I have my answer

Bill Paxton’s character was also as ignorant of his religion, and Mormonism, as they come as to being a supposed Mormon Fundamentalist.

It could have been really good. But, has turned out to be just so so.

I also enjoyed going thru the history on some of these people.

“Stupid is as stupid does”.

Definition of insanity: Repeating the same mistakes which didn’t work in earlier times.

When they are few in number, they are “cults”. When they become large, they are called “religions”.

Just another demeaning “flame” name.

Definition from Dictionary.com:

cult
   /kʌlt/ Show Spelled[kuhlt] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.
2.
an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult.
3.
the object of such devotion.
4.
a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc.
5.
Sociology . a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols.
6.
a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader.
7.
the members of such a religion or sect.
8.
any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
–adjective
9.
of or pertaining to a cult.
10.
of, for, or attracting a small group of devotees: a cult movie.
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Origin:
1610–20; < L cultus habitation, tilling, refinement, worship, equiv. to cul-, var. s. of colere to inhabit, till, worship + -tus suffix of v. action

—Related forms
cultic, cul·tu·al  /ˈkʌltʃuəl/ Show Spelled[kuhl-choo-uhl] Show IPA, adjective
cultish, adjective
an·ti·cult, noun, adjective
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