Moving to the Best Country

I've heard rumors of rumors of US citizens looking to expat, or trying to find the best place to live, etc.

Well, I've fond it. The wealthiest, smartest, longest living country, where people are kind, generous, and don't commit any crime. They'll even stop by regularly and help you move furniture, fix your toilet, and see if you need help with anything. Unlike almost every other first world nation on earth, it's also in no danger of extinction - they get married young and have big loving families.

Better yet, you don't have to renounce your citizenship. You don't even have to move. They'll even send a welcoming committee to your door.

So what's the catch?

You're expected to attend a local meeting every Sunday, help out in your new country, give up your bad habits, and tithe 10% (one of the lowest "tax rates" in the world). If you can commit, you can get baptized.

Mormon Life Expectancy

It is interesting how there is a lot of correlation between intelligence, income, crime rate, etc. and these all skew towards the ideal end among Mormons. Another indicator is life expectancy.

According to Wikipedia, Utah is ranked #10 in the nation with a life expectancy rate of 82.2

So what's the Mormon life expectancy?

The national average is 78.74, so Utah has an "extra" 3.46 years, but assuming that skew is primarily due to the high rate of Mormons in the state - of whom we estimate as 63% of the population - we extrapolate the average increase as actually 5.49 years per Mormon.

That gives Mormons an average life expectancy of 84.23 years!

Thinking of "Mormons" as a nation, that would make the the 5th longest living nation in the world. So not only do we have the wealthiest by median income, the smartest, and the lowest crime nation in the world, we also have one of the longest living.

Conservatives Have Been Cuckolded

Traditional conservatives have a strong sense of respect for authority. That is for institutions, religions, and nations. Conservatives also tended to be the founders, funders, and respecters of educational institutes.

Conservatives tend to argue from said authority (this Pope said, or the constitution, etc.), but of course, the institution is composed of individuals and thus living.

So tradition and conservative ideals are only respected if the present body of the institution respects those things, and liberals figured out if they take over an institution, conservatives will in good-faith continue supporting those institutions for a very long time - at least the present generation, or until respect for that institution or authority utterly dissipates.

For example, the post-Vatican II changes in the Catholic church were widely lamented by conservatives, but few actually took the step to admit their hierarchy had largely been cuckolded by modernism (which was explicitly stated as a heresy a mere 50 years earlier). So rather than remaining in obedience to tradition, they obeyed the present authority.

The same sort of thing applies to the Republican party in the US, the Boyscouts of America, and even the US government in many aspects - it certainly no longer functions primarily as a republic, but the goal was long ago changes to democracy. One could, of course, go on...

So what's the solution? Above all, obedience to God. That is, God is a living God, He did not die with tradition nor did He die with the present authority figures chose to rewrite His law and disobey Him. Therefore, ones allegiance and obedience is to be, primarily and always, obedience to God and His eternal laws.

Respect for authority is only contingent insofar as the authority in turn obeys God. No human or group of humans is immune from sin, they are always victim to it expect by God's grace.

Modern anti-Education

Traditional education, including Catholic, was primarily focused on teaching people how to think - how to reason, understand philosophy, judge if things are true or false.

Modern "public education", or better said anti-educaiton, trains the youth to be indoctrinated in established politically correct propaganda and punishes those who step out of line (i.e. those who think).

Two Kinds of Eucenism

The word "ecumenism" has been bad-mouthed by conservatives and adored by liberals, but this is again due to an abuse-of-meaning by liberals.

For the left, to be ecumenical means to undermine one's own faith, to eliminate those doctrines that don't get along with everyone else's (i.e. those doctrines that aren't liberal, progressive, modern).

A conservative should respect ecumenism by embracing allies who also love God and truly desire to do His will - and very specifically not Satan's.