Polygamy justification?

[RC Vikings]

I am guessing this is why polygamy is an eternal principle...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us...mon-women.html

There are simply not enough men that can keep it up (or endure) to the end.

My wife says she is going to live until she is 100 so I will never be able to test out those 10 to two odds, of course after the age of 66 I'm pretty sure I would rather be golfing than hot tub with a bunch of old ladies.

[hostile]

I wasn't advocating modesty.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I am guessing this is why polygamy is an eternal principle...

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us...mon-women.html

There are simply not enough men that can keep it up (or endure) to the end.

I just showed this graphic to my widowed 64 year old mother. It's been almost 7 years and she's just starting to consider even the possibility. She didn't seem to find it very encouraging.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I just showed this graphic to my widowed 64 year old mother. It's been almost 7 years and she's just starting to consider even the possibility. She didn't seem to find it very encouraging.

Way to cheer her up.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Way to cheer her up.

No kidding. Kind of a dick move but today is day 10 of her visit, so I've been helping her out the door a little this morning.

[Sizzle]

I just showed this graphic to my widowed 64 year old mother. It's been almost 7 years and she's just starting to consider even the possibility. She didn't seem to find it very encouraging.

At least she knows things get worse after 66, so at least she has that going for her.

[Sullyute]

Interesting article on the potential demographics of the celestial world. Based on our doctrine that infants who die before the age of 8 are automatically saved in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, demographics speculate that there is currently an excess of 1.7 billion males waiting in heaven.

Furthermore, it also follows that 16.8 billion males and 15.1 billion females
have been exalted by early death, producing a surplus of about 1.7 billion
males.

So it appears that Joseph may have been right on the money with his polyandry and wrong with polygyny!?

[Uncle Ted]

Interesting article on the potential demographics of the celestial world. Based on our doctrine that infants who die before the age of 8 are automatically saved in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, demographics speculate that there is currently an excess of 1.7 billion males waiting in heaven.



So it appears that Joseph may have been right on the money with his polyandry and wrong with polygyny!?

Is it the highest degree of the celestial kingdom or just in the celestial kingdom (including those areas where marriages is not required)?

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-te...37.10?lang=eng

[Sullyute]

Is it the highest degree of the celestial kingdom or just in the celestial kingdom (including those areas where marriages is not required)?

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-te...37.10?lang=eng

According to Almighty Bruce it is the highest: https://www.lds.org/ensign/1977/04/t...ldren?lang=eng

Will they have eternal life?
Eternal life is life in the highest heaven of the celestial world; it is exaltation; it is the name of the kind of life God lives. It consists of a continuation of the family unit in eternity. We have quoted scriptures saying that children will be saved in the celestial kingdom, but now face the further query as to whether this includes the greatest of all the gifts of God—the gift of eternal life. And in the providences of Him who is infinitely wise, the answer is in the affirmative. Salvation means eternal life; the two terms are synonymous; they mean exactly the same thing. Joseph Smith said, “Salvation consists in the glory, authority, majesty, power and dominion which Jehovah possesses and in nothing else.” (Lectures on Faith, pp. 63–67.) We have come to speak of this salvation as exaltation—which it is—but all of the scriptures in all of the standard works call it salvation. I know of only three passages in all our scriptures which use salvation to mean something other and less than exaltation.