#22 (5/12/99) (1 p.)

Help GreaterThings get Listed:

GreaterThings and the Church of the Firstborn -- a petition to MiningCo

Greater Things Newsletter #22 -- 5/12/99

Hello friends of Greater Things,

Below is a copy of a post I am sending out right now to several index personnel ("guides") at MiningCo.com. An easier-to-read version is posted on-line at http://www.greaterthings.com/Working/WebSubmit/miningco.htm

MiningCo.com is a major search resource, featured at Lycos, which is one of the top five Web search engines. They specialize in weeding out the best of the best on the Internet. "We Mine the Net So You Don't Have to," is their slogan.  This is a good service.

I have not been able to get GreaterThings.com listed there--not because it is not worthy, but because it is too controversial. If you type in "greater things" in their search query, nothing about scriptures comes up. Rather, in the top ten listing is a pornographic site link.  That is unfortunate.

Over the past six months or so, I have been in communication with Melanie Cooper, who heads the section titled, "Christianity-LDS." She has resisted listing GreaterThings.com there because she doesn't consider some of the content to be LDS-friendly. She maintains that if there is any major scrutinizing to be done of the way we do things as Mormons, it should be by the brethren. The prophets of old don't count when it comes to polemic on our day, because that requires some interpretation, and only the brethren can do that. 'Pretty convenient for a people who refuse to awaken to a sense of their awful situation.

In the following post, I make the suggestion to her and others at MiningCo that a new category be created to feature sites such as mine which are not "anti" Mormon but are "super" Mormon.

The very idea of "Greater Things" is that the Lord has more in store for us. Hence, we should not be comfortable just to relax with what we have now. What we have in store is personal communion with the heavens, literally piercing the veil and being brought into the company of angels and even into the very presence of God: the Church of the Firstborn; that we might become powerful instruments in his hands to carry forth his work here on the earth, that his kingdom might come, his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. This is our destiny.

The core objective of GreaterThings.com is to to facilitate our move as a people in that direction. By very nature, this new wine is not welcome in the old bottles.   Those bottles contain the unfortunate tradition that say that only "prophets" can see talk to God, ignoring the fact that the message of the prophets of God is that we all are to be prophets.

The stalwarts of mainstream Mormonism who prefer to trust their salvation into the hands of other men are not going to like anything that requires them to discern for themselves, to knock, seek and ask, that the heavens be opened to them.  They want every thing handed to them on a polished platter by the brethren. That is a sandy foundation, for there is only one sure foundation, which is Christ, with no intermediary of the arm of flesh in-between.

So rather than try and fit GreaterThings.com into an already established niche at MiningCo, I am proposing they create a new category called "Church of the Firstborn," under which they can list GreaterThings.com and other sites like it.

What I am calling upon you to do, as friends of greater things, is to personally contact the names listed in the post and express your support of the need to establish this new category. Perhaps you could list an example website or two that would fit in that classification. I would hope that you would also say something favorable about this web site, www.GreaterThings.com, encouraging them to feature it at their site in this new category.

The e-mail addresses are as follows.  Merely cut and paste these into your e-mail's "To" box.

To: lds.guide@miningco.com; altreligion.guide@miningco.com; protestantism.guide@miningco.com;
catholicism.guide@miningco.com; christianhumor.guide@miningco.com;
sterlingda@GreaterThings.com; paganwiccan.guide@miningco.com;
buddhism.guide@miningco.com; christianity.guide@miningco.com;
judaism.guide@miningco.com; atheism.guide@miningco.com

Thanks,

Sterling D. Allan
http://www.GreaterThings.com

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