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What, I thought that all the unmarried sisters got to have a line of war casualties from the ages paraded before them in the afterlife and take their pick. Have hope, sisters: hunky ghosts in shining armor await you! 
Alan Manning, a Linguistics prof at BYU, wrote a scifi novel in which he proposed a scenario where the post-mortal life had too many alternate realities for two souls to stay together who weren’t joined somehow . . . I forget the details and should probably mention this over in book recommendations but it was an interesting concept, even if pure speculation.
“Idealized model” is a good way of putting it. The part of Section 121 that talks about men losing their authority if they exercise unrighteous dominion lends a good scriptural recommendation to your belief. I dimly recall an episode from my childhood: overhearing someone relate a story about a man who got to the spirit world and was told that since he’d been a bad husband his wife would get to go with someone worthy. So this concept of God’s ability to override any earthly sealing: I imagine that it’s fairly commonly held among the membership. You’d have to be really convinced of God’s cruelty and rigidity — and more to the point, our power over God’s — to hold to the notion that everything we enact ritually here is unalterably fixed in the eternities.
More speculation: there will be millions of “worthy” faithful sealed male souls in the spirit world suddenly left to their own devices as their wives say “so long, sucka!” after realizing they don’t have to put up with an eternity of chauvinistic treatment. Maybe there will be epic quests by these men to restore their trustworthiness as eternal mates: cosmic, galactic love stories to put our best mortal literature to shame . . .
When I was last at the temple, an older brother complained to me that people were getting sealed to their parents before the parents were sealed together. I just said, I think it will all be sorted out… I have had several cards in which endowments have been done, but not baptisms, or Bs & Es, but not confirmation and initiatory… Quote:What, I thought that all the unmarried sisters got to have a line of war casualties from the ages paraded before them in the afterlife and take their pick. Have hope, sisters: hunky ghosts in shining armor await you!
Who gets to marry Louise Brooks?
Quote:More speculation: there will be millions of “worthy” faithful sealed male souls in the spirit world suddenly left to their own devices as their wives say “so long, sucka!” after realizing they don’t have to put up with an eternity of chauvinistic treatment. Maybe there will be epic quests by these men to restore their trustworthiness as eternal mates: cosmic, galactic love stories to put our best mortal literature to shame . . .
Well, I think there will also be a lot of unrequited loves out there too.
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