Episode 185: The White Horse Prophecy for Dummies

So jealous I didn’t get to be on this one. 

Excellent run-down!  Thanks for the podcast.  As was reinforced multiple times during the podcast, it almost does not matter what the provenance of the prophecy was.  The motifs are now hardwired into mormon culture and thought.

A note on food storage….
Last January (2011) my TBM parents’ house was flooded when the city of Brisbane Australia was flooded. They had several barrels and drums full of wheat and other grains. The flood waters got into all the plastic containers, which expanded and pushed open the lids. The wheat was ruined, and became absolutely putrid. It seemed like flies came from a 100km radius to party on the stinking wheat. During the several days when the city was fragmented by flood waters, the remaining food storage cliches where never used, neither were the 72 hour packs which just took up space in the cars meaning valuable things like computers with hard drives full of photos were left and destroyed.  

Several areas of the city of 2 million were blacked out as Energex turned off transformers that were at risk of being flooded. Consequently, there was a HUGE loss of food in fridges and freezers by many hundreds of thousands of households, however supermarkets had generators so people could buy what they needed before each meal.

During the flood, you could still get most of the food sold at McDonalds, Hungry Jack’s (BK), KFC, Red Rooster etc. So we were there with freeze dried chili con carne, and you could still buy a whopper.

What I learnt - The most important things to take in a flood are your papers, photos, title deeds etc (although these were also held at state archives) ELECTRICAL goods such as TVs, PVRs, computers, coffee machine etc. These things are valuable and will be destroyed. It might sound like out of wack priorities but clothes and bed coverings can be washed, most furniture is too big to take in a hurry, and you can fit out your kitchen with toaster, microwave, blender etc for less than $200 total.

Generators are an essential item for power outages that may last a few days until the floodwaters are out of transformers. You need to keep food fresh in fridges and frozen in freezers. You need power for a TV to watch what is happening and to prepare for further developments. You need to be able to charge your mobile phones – some landlines failed, and the government sent text messages to all mobile phone numbers in specific locations warning of evacuations etc. We were able to check the radar images of the rain on a laptop owned by the people where we stayed. More generators would have saved a lot of people their food and allowed them to keep their phones charged. A car charger should also be kept in the car. 

I also learnt that when it comes to natural disasters, if your wheat etc is ever to come in handy, society as a whole has to pretty much fail completely – i.e there will be no other people safe anywhere and able to help you out. In countries like the US and Australia, that will just never happen unless a comet takes the whole place off the map.

The church is clueless when it comes to preparation. If people are going to need a years supply of food, there will be gangs of thugs roaming destroyed cities looking for lights at night so they can take what you’ve got. If there is no food supply for a year, people will be eating each other. An entire year when every system breaks down and there is no other human population anywhere on the planet able to send food drops? Let’s be realistic.

Shame on the lawyers for not knowing the purpose of the “three-fifths” clause. I am so sick of the lack of historical (and political) understanding about this clause. Do you not understand that without the “three-fifths” clause that slavery would have existed in the U.S. longer than it did? The Southern states wanted slaves to have the right to vote. Why? Because as property, the slave owners would have been able to order their slaves to vote as they directed and therefore giving the Southern states a huge voting block and a tremendous amount of political power in the federal government. A majority of the founders wanted to abolish slavery, but abolition was political quicksand and a stumbling block to completing the work of ratifying the Constitution. So a compromise was reached and the “three-fifths” clause was born. (BTW, no conservative I know wants to reinstate or preserve the “three-fifths” clause; that is just ridiculous nonsense.)

Quite evident that this prophecy was clearly taken from the New Testament..just repackaged…I do not like the idea of the commentators dismissing the fact that we are living in end times..We have biblical prophecy from our christian bible that has not been wrong as has the Joseph Smith teaching…the bible tells us that the generation who sees the nation of Israel (you know, the one in the middle east) reborn will live to see the Jesus’ return…we have no reason to doubt that.  I hope that Mormons would take a look at biblical teaching of the New Testament and compare them…