Testing Validity of Polygamy Theory

[Diggerdan60]

I know the members here at Fair are not a good sample for the general LDS population, but I was just curious to see how this poll turns out.

From my personal experience being involved in at least 20 different wards in three different states, I have noticed far more active women at church then men, and based purely on personal experience and my own objectivity, or lack thereof, can buy into the argument that there will be more females than males in the Celestial Kingdom. Thus a reason for polygamy there. Mind you I am not dead set that this is the main reason, or even a reason at all, I just find it plausible.

Please keep your answers anonymous, so this poll is not personal. I am only allowing replys so this poll doesn't quickly disapear to the bottom of the pile.

[Seneca]

However, there will be NO extra women for the men who do make it to the Celestial Kingdom...

At 64 or 72 Virgins a pop for the Suicide Bombers in the Middle East, they will all be taken by the time any of the men here get there.

[Diggerdan60]

However, there will be NO extra women for the men who do make it to the Celestial Kingdom...

At 64 or 72 Virgins a pop for the Suicide Bombers in the Middle East, they will all be taken by the time any of the men here get there.

That takes care of all the virgins, but what about all the sisters I've observed who are married but always attend without her spouse?

[Seneca]

However, there will be NO extra women for the men who do make it to the Celestial Kingdom...

At 64 or 72 Virgins a pop for the Suicide Bombers in the Middle East, they will all be taken by the time any of the men here get there.

That takes care of all the virgins, but what about all the sisters I've observed who are married but always attend without her spouse?

Well there are some pretty hot married women I wouldn't mind being with on the otherside, but because I wouldn't mind, I probably won't be with them.

You have to NOT have those feelings to get the girls..er..

No, perhaps they GO to the guys who chicken out at the last minute from blowing themselves up and then got shot by the troops.

Did you hear the one about the Suicide Bomb Instructor?

He told his class he only going to show them how to it once.

ba boom boom

[Nomos]

O.K. enough suicide bomber comedy for one day...

[Garden Girl]

Hello Diggerdan60....

In my own experience, I was married to non-LDS while being active TBM... widowed now, and sealed to my dear one... what happens to me if he does not accept the work (I know he will as was very close in life)... and what happens to all the faithful sisters who have through no fault of their own ended up endowed only? I always think of Sheri Dew as an example... GA's have said that such women who remain faithful and endure to the end will not be denied any of the blessings of the Celestial Kingdom... in order to realize all of the blessings, that would mean that such a woman would, in the CK, have to be part of a marriage... i. e., a plural marriage...

Garden Girl

[BCSpace]

Because God-authorized plural marriage exists, I have no doubt there will be more women than men in the CK.

However, as far as 'spares' to add to your (ahem!)...'harem'....there are millions of single men who died as soldiers or in childhood who will have to be matched up first. Slim pickins indeed!

[charity]

seneca, I have it on good authority that a mistake was made in the translation. A suicide bomber arrived in paradise, and almost immediately a bullet whinged past his ear. And then another. And another. He ran back to the gate and asked the guardian angel what was wrong, and where were his 72 virgins? "Virgins?" the angel asks. "Oh, you are mistaken. It's Virginians."

Edited to add: This is an interesting speculation. We don't know the numbers. We assume an equal proportion of male to female births, we try to say what will happen in terms of infant mortality, or soldiers getting killed in war, and then there is always the "women are more spiritual than men" argument.

These are the facts: Celestial marriage is a requirement for exaltation. No worthy person will be denied a blessing because he/she did not have an opportunity in this life to meet a requirement. God is just. That's all there is to say about it.

[Diggerdan60]

Looks like my speculation is being debunked. So far only 25% of the married guys will need to take on a second wife for the numbers to equal out. Now if we could only get one of you 12 to take 3 additional, that would help the other 11 breath much easier. But at least 75% are in the clear so far.

[Tsuzuki]

You're making the assumption that only those who were baptized LDS in this life will make it the Celestial Kingdom, and that church attendence = automatic exaltation. No one can know for certain the ratio of men to women there. My guess is that it's close to one-to-one.

[MrsLET]

That takes care of all the virgins, but what about all the sisters I've observed who are married but always attend without her spouse?

In my ward it would be because there husband is deployed. We are a military ward. about half of the preisthhood holders are "down range".

[Moksha]

One of the posters here at FAIR previously estimated that 97% of all women and .03% of all men world wide would make it into the Celestial Kingdom. That would mean that while the males were occupied with their considerable spiritual reproduction duties, the females would be able to run the cosmos.

There is a margin for error either way,

[tag]

In our ward single unmarried men outnumber single eligible women (and we are midwest USA with no military or other such numbers).

If our Father has worlds without end, and if we are all the same family, looking at our world alone is like looking at one uncle's family and judging the make-up of whole clan.