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Old 06-22-2009, 11:59 AM
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I know, this may or may not be accurate... but parts of it are starting to sound accurate to me...

http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/whitehorse.pdf

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You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber.... The time will come when the banks of every nation will fall and only two places will be safe where people can deposit their gold and treasure.... A terrible revolution will take place in America such has never been seen before; for the land will be left without a Supreme government, and every specie of wickedness will be practiced rampantly in the land. ...
We were told in the last GC that we are in decline... .
LDS.org - Ensign Article - Learning the Lessons of the Past

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The 179 years that have passed since The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was officially organized have been extraordinary by any measure. Never in recorded history has there been a period of such remarkable progress in terms of science and technology. These advances have helped to facilitate gospel growth and expansion throughout the world. But they have also contributed to the rise of materialism and self-indulgence and to the decline of morality.

We live in an era when the boundaries of good taste and public decency are being pushed to the point where there are no boundaries at all. The commandments of God have taken a beating in the vacillating marketplace of ideas that absolutely rejects the notion of right and wrong. Certain factions of society seem generally mistrustful of anyone who chooses to live according to religious belief. And when people of faith attempt to warn others of the possible consequences of their sinful choices, they are scoffed at and ridiculed, and their most sacred rites and cherished values are publicly mocked.

Does any of this sound familiar, my young brothers and sisters? Do you see the historical pattern emerging again—the pattern of righteousness followed by prosperity, followed by material comforts, followed by greed, followed by pride, followed by wickedness and a collapse of morality—the same pattern we’ve seen again and again within the pages of the Old and New Testaments and the Book of Mormon? More importantly, what impact will the lessons of the past have on the personal choices you make right now and for the rest of your lives?
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