#joseph smith

[would-you-punt-them]

Joseph Smith

[hiseyeisonthesparrow]

Thinking about the Smith family never fails to crack me up.

Imagine. The year is 1815. You live with your parents, Lucy and Joseph. You don't have a lot, but you have your family, and that's enough. You do farmwork in Palmyra, New York.

You have nine siblings. Your parents named you Joseph Jr., but your brothers are named Alvin, Hyrum, Samuel, William, and, inexplicably, Don Carlos.

[justineportraits]

Joseph A. Smith The Witch and the Devil, ill. from Witches by Erica Jong 1981

[amazing-spiderlad]

I like how matt and trey just came up with one joseph smith design and stuck with it

[bornofgoodlyparentsandalsotrans]

Found in The Compass Gallery in Provo, Utah

[sciencefictiongallery]

The Day of the Triffids, 1962.

Joseph Smith artwork.

[weirdlookindog]

The Mummy (1959) - Poster/promo art by Joseph Smith

[lady-asbestos]

someone send me back in time so i can absolutely ravage joseph smith's ass and stop the mormon church from happening. i wanna fuck that little twink until he's seeing angels in the woods. some good dick wouldn't have fixed him but it would've made him found a considerably gayer cult at least

[lizartgurl]

Do you remember?

[brothermouse]

Sunday doodles 8/15/24

This Saturday is the 21st night of September, and you know what that means!

It’s the anniversary of the Angel Moroni appearing to Joseph Smith, of course! It’s a holiday that we’ve definitely been celebrating the entire time!

HAPPY JOVIAL VISITATION DAY!

[mormonmew]

Man, teenagers having insecurities about themselves has basically always been a thing, hasn't it? Joseph Smith as a teen had them and that was what prompted him to seek answers from God and I love that

[loveerran]

Could you elaborate on the JS sealing practices?

Great question! Thank you :)

What I am referring to (in this post) is the breadth and depth of the sealing power as envisioned and implemented by Joseph Smith and practiced in the early church. The original post speaks to how our family is more than just direct line descent or blood relations.

I've previously noted that 9 of Joseph's first 12 plural sealings were to women already legally married. Today, we regularly seal deceased women to more than one man (and deceased men to more than one woman) if they were married to more than one individual in mortality. We understand it will all be sorted out later.

But more interesting to many of us is the notion that sealings were performed for things other than marriages and the sealing of direct-line ancestors to direct-line progeny. Consider this account from the diary of John M. Bernhisel relating a sealing between friends and cousins, aunts and nephews and so on:

"The following named deceased persons were sealed to me on Oct 26th 1843, by President Joseph Smith: Maria Bernhisel, sister; Brother Samuel's wife, Catherine Kremer; Mary Shatto, (Aunt); Madalena Lupferd, (distant relative); Catherine Bernhisel, Aunt; Hannah Bower, Aunt; Elizabeth Sheively, Aunt; Hannah Bower, cousin; Maria Lawrence, (intimate friend); Sarah Crosby, intimate friend, /died May 11 1839/; Mary Ann Bloom, cousin."

A Gospel Topics essay notes early sealing practices may have been intended to extend family ties "both vertically, from parent to child, and horizontally, from one family to another".

Of additional interest is how proxy ordinances for the deceased, including proxy baptisms, could be performed by someone of any gender, prior to Brigham Young clarifying the same gender requirement in 1845. We also note non-related individuals were sealed by adoption to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and other church leaders, including men sealed to men as father/son adoptive pairs.

Some believe our current evolution in practice aligns itself more closely to God's will and the original practice was at fault or incomplete. However, I give Joseph's expansive vision a lot of room. And the truth is that non-family, non-lineal sealings were performed by Joseph and others. Will those sealings be honored in the eternities, or will they be null and void? I have a hard time believing the latter. And what of OP's case for "the spinster aunt who had no kids but made sure that three of the six kids her sister abandoned survived into adulthood"? Church doctrine is big on adoption already, and I can only imagine that relationships like found family and adoption continue in the eternities.

To me, the sealing vision feels more expansive than our current understanding and practice may be.

[justineportraits]

Joseph A. Smith Witch in flight

[sandmandaddy69]

Joseph Smith

[mudwerks]

The Curse of the Werewolf (Universal International, 1961)

Joseph Smith Artwork

[silvene]

incoming info drop gonna tweak everyones brains out yuh