steve benson ( )

Date: July 02, 2012 08:02PM Posted by:Date: July 02, 2012 08:02PM

Word has come to me from an individual and long-time contact (identity protected here) who appears to be giving some degree of credence to rumors that Thomas S. Monson may be suffering from Alzheimer's' disease.



However, note was also made that these reports are believer-based, that they presently remain unconfirmed and that they therefore cannot be reliably vouched for. These reports on Monson's supposed failing brain health are said to have come from a source who is described as having been accurate in past reports and predictions regarding the situation with Daniel C. Peterson. The current information on Monson is allegedly coming via connections to the Mormon Church hierarchy.



These yet-unconfirmed reports describe Monson has having engaged in embarrassing behavior at public events that has supposedly resulted in him now being continuously managed by Mormon Church-assigned handlers.



There are further unconfirmed reports that Uchtdorf is wanting to assume the office of Mormon Church presidential responsibilities through the approach supposedly employed by First Presidency counselor Hinckley (in order to take over the running of the Church presidency office of Ezra Taft Benson when the latter had fallen into significant mental and physical decline).



Another, (also presently unconfirmed) rumor has it that Packer is attempting to have the Quorum of the Twelve move to grant Monson emeritus status, thereby allowing Packer to become LDS Church president.



GA "musical chairs" at play here? When the music stops, they all fall down? We shall see.

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My opinion (based on how LDS, Inc. handled my grandfather's steady decline into pure figureheadedness) is that the Mormon Church will manage the affairs of the Corporation from behind the scenes, leaving the so-called "living prophet" in place as window-dressing akin to--as one skeptic called it--a dime-store mannequin display, with key decisions being made by First Presidency counselors, associated long-term embedded Church bureaucrats, PR designates and lawyers assigned to work with the front office, aided and abetted by cut-and-paste rehashes of old General Conference talks and perhaps a signature machine thrown in when needed for important legal stuff.



The membership won't have a clue and will follow as they always do; i.e., blindly.







Edited 7 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2012 09:27PM by steve benson.