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Writing about Space Age, Cold War Mormon history at hightokolob.substack.com

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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 9h
Spiderman pointing meme
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought it was really cute that about the same time that he started doing the "disagree better" schtick the Mormon church started doing their own version of the messaging. Probably fine that Utah politicians and religious leaders coordinate their messages.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the Exmormons on here: this is the same thing as when members say that the church is perfect but the people aren't.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Muscular Christianity
Arnold Frieberg painting a ripped Nephite about to get in a sword battle over some sheep. Praise Jesus or whatever.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a direct reflection of LDS doctrine. Telling members that they are supposed to "gather Israel" to the US leaves them more accepting of multiculturalism. Explicit anti-LGBT and pro-life teachings/policies being a core feature of Mormonism leaves them more conservative on these issues.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah, where's your Messiah now, Flanders?
Chief Wiggam arresting Flanders, The Simpsons.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jeffrey Holland, BBC interview, A+ Mormon PR
Holland: I am assuming that any religious candidateOsama... I mean, (nervous chuckle), President Obamahas made a pledge of some kind to God
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Space Twitter seems a little disturbed by SpaceX getting ready to retire Dragon and Falcon but I can't understand why because isn't Starship all but guaranteed to start hitting daily flights next year? hlp Eric Berger I'm so confused. it's a working rocket right? right?
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
but i heard that the church has been getting more progressive towards women because they are less weird about tank tops, noooooooo
wojak in front of the christus statue on temple square
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't do this with Mormon leaders because they have tunnels from their condos to Temple Square. Something for Mitch to consider.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thought this was a Jon McNaughton painting at first.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
how your email finds me
Problems of mortality: trials, adversity, discouragement, pain, sorrow
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
what if we kissed at the BAE Systems Jimmy Johns 👉👈🥹
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy Sunday
"What can I do to strengthen myself against future relapses?"

A video from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints entitled "How can i avoid replaces with corniogoraphy use?"

I'm not sure I can say the dread word in the alt text without Bluesky getting made at me but you get where I'm going with this.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Holy heck the Book of Mormon confirmed to be true. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature
Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Well you see Jared there's a difference between NASA intentionally crashing rocket stages for scientific research and a piece of uncontrolled space junk accidentally crashing into the lunar surface.
For those interested in a spent booster impacting the lunar surface, this rare occurrence has decades of history, going back to the Apollo era, when NASA intentionally crashed spent stages into the Moon for science and seismic research. The reality is that meteoroids strike the lunar surface hourly, with impacts comparable to this upper stage occurring roughly every six days. The future lunar base will incorporate reusable spacecraft that not only deliver astronauts and payloads, but also become part of the infrastructure itself.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Talking to my grandkids: there used to a time when websites loaded nearly instantaneously, your computer would boot up that quick too.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Starship is going through the same decline that the Mormons did with Joseph Smith: Book of Mormon translated with Urim and Thummim -> Ok, sometimes it was a rock in a hat -> Ok, most of the time it was the rock -> A good number of times he wasn't looking at anything -> What does translate even mean?
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Starship's heat tiles are a dead end for rapidly reusability (read: SpaceX profit) but don't worry, Eric Berger knows who to blame.... NASA for not using our public science funds to research the tech to make Starship profitable. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
This is an area where NASA could probably help.

The experts noted that NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for vehicles entering from low-Earth orbit (speeds of Mach 25) for three decades. The underlying technologies on Starship, they note, are all based on work done for the space shuttle, National Aerospace Plane, or X-33 programs. No one today, they said, is seriously investing in new, advanced thermal materials for orbital reentry.

Miller, who interviewed a number of senior NASA officials as part of the transition team work in late 2024, said he was told nothing was in the basic research development pipeline. However, he said current and former NASA researchers in this area felt like there were some promising solutions to pursue.

“Based on all this we recommended that NASA create a new initiative to invest in Mach 25 thermal protection system research, development and demonstrations,” he said. So far that has not happened.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As a big Iain Banks fan, I'm glad somebody finally did this. Somebody should also ask him what he feels about the Culture being explicitly trans-affirming.
From that point on, it was all downhill for Musk. He suggested that everyone read Iain Banks for a vision of the future, and Beddoes pointed out that Banks was a socialist. Musk insisted he wasn’t. Musk said he wanted a Star Trek version of the future, which is also a version of the future that is routinely referred to as “space communism.”
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is how the Falcon 9 program has felt to me.
Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is spaceX, Padme is NASA. Anakin goes: We're going to lower launch costs. Then Padme goes "To launch more science missions" and Anakin looks smug and Padme looks nervous and she goes "To launch more science missions, right?"
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
You think Starship will fail, a rocket from the same company that made the Falcon 9? You think Cybertruck will fail, a vehicle from the same company that made the Model 3? You think X, powered by Grok, will fail, a website from the same guy involved with PayPal?
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Barney Gumble drunk and blasting off
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
the liberal, pluralistic society that the mormon leaders fight against being the thing that keeps them safe
Palpatine Ironic
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"With posts titled “Urgent Word,” “Brace Yourself,” “Zombies,” and “US Decimated,” she spoke of darkness consuming America, urged followers to “get provisions,” and warned that Salt Lake City would soon be destroyed." www.eastidahonews.com/2026/06/utah...
eastidahonews.com
Utah mother charged with international kidnapping claims she was saving kids from 'end of times' - East Idaho News
SALT LAKE CITY (KSL) — A Utah mother, who believed she was saving her kids from “the end of times,” is facing federal kidnapping charges after she fled to Croatia with her four children. Elleshia Anne...
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump: "Listen up, supreme leader Khamenei. I'm sorry"
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
BUt WIThoUT the FalcON 9 we cOUlDn't GEt to the SPAce sTaTion Yes. That's what we call a policy failure.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hello yes I'm a LDS Democrat and my church's organizational structure is objectively the best (women are never put in charge of anything). Democrat Mormons are deeply unserious.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
noooo! we're christian nationalists too! we believe that jesus made the consitution, we dropped the mormon nickname, we put jesus in the logo, we're talking about ministries, we changed the website to "churchofjesuschrist.org", we still hate the lgbts, we advocate for republican policies! noooooo!
crying wojak meme with jesus
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I appreciate that they sent out a press release after the Blue Origin explosion:
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Oh gawd not another Utah police scandal what'd they do this time... wait... wut??
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fascinating article. One thing I want to point out is that Northrop Grumman is the contractor for the LGM-35 Sentinel, which is the next generation nuclear missile. As is traditional, work on the guidance systems and engines will be done in Utah. (cont'd)
Three days after the first six U.S. troops died in the Iran war, the country’s third-largest defense contractor hired a lobbying firm run by a former Utah congressman and U.S. Air Force veteran in hopes of courting favor with Congress.

Under the contract with Northrop Grumman, Chris Stewart’s Skyline Capitol worked to influence senators and representatives on “issues relating to space, missile defense and advanced national security programs,” according to documents filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. And the firm raked in $20,000 in March by doing so.

Less than a month after The Salt Lake Tribune first reported he would leave Washington — and three months before he would officially step down from his seat — Stewart incorporated Skyline Capitol as a limited liability company in Delaware on June 28, 2023.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
wow it's time for the 12th space x starship test flight
Anakin: "We lost something"
Obi-Wan: "Not to worry. We are still in the iterative prototype stage
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I've seen people in Mormon/Exmormon spaces say that the church should lean into their alien beliefs, that embracing the weirdness would make them better. In actuality this is an incredibly dangerous theology and we are very lucky the church doesn't like pushing it.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Any Latter-day Saint knows the answer. Of course visitors from outer space can come to earth! They’ve been doing it for six thousand years! God and angels visited Adam..." Always interesting that the Mormons go the opposite direction of the usual theories about spiritual UFOs being demons.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Interesting to see Scientology land on the same strategy as the Mormon influencers. This sort of thing has been going on for years in Mormonism, but with a much more intricate series of shell games and money moving around.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
starship will land a colony on mars, starship will land on the moon, starship will make grimes come back, starship will launch starlink satellites, starship will build ai data centers, starship will make people not talk about me behind my back, starship will make a dyson sphere, starship will enable
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
really gonna have to step up those prayers for moisture
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Sorry Spencer Cox but in the March 1988 Ensign Thomas S. Monson said that artificial intelligence is impossible. Looks like somebody wasn't paying enough attention in Sunday School 😏
Could it be that these machines that can add, multiply, divide, sort, eliminate, and remember will someday be able to think? The answer is definitely negative. While the computer is an advance in man’s thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing, it is neither the symbol of the Millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. There are limits to human genius. Man can devise the most complex machines, but he cannot give them life or bestow upon them the powers of reason and judgment.

Why? Because these are divine gifts, bestowed solely at God’s discretion.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Always funny how Utah's homespun, 19th-century branding justifies them having regressive social views, but then they'll turn around and have a shadowy state military development agency signing on to build a cutting-edge AI data center that will use up all the state's natural resources.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Can't wait for the TikTok Zoomers to find out that you can also do a speedrun challenge with Mormon temples.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Mormon church supports stuff like this to the tune of $288 million.
The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Deseret Books, I hereby declare this concept to be in the public domain. Feel free to have someone write it.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is the greatest piece of Mormon scripture art I've ever seen.
A book called Zion Rising depicting a floating city (Zion) emerging from trees.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mormon scripture - Dune novel concordance //thread//
The God Emperor of Dune
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I love when guys like this show up and try to tell me what LDS doctrine actually is. I was a pretty normal member and I knew about the Battle of Armageddon. I can look into my own brain to find out that a big war around Israel leads up to the Second Coming in Mormon doctrine.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Can't speak out against the Iran War when your premillennialist eschatology requires big Middle East wars for Christ to return.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
At least Jon McNaughton was a little more subtle when he implied that Trump was Jesus by cribbing another Mormon artist's painting.
Jon McNaughton - Not Forgotten, Trump comforts a depressed young man on a benchGreg Olsen - Lost and Found, Jesus comforts a depressed pop-punk fan sitting on a bench.
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We call this "pulling a Shen Yun"
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From Kolob In Peace @hightokolob.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It was lovely watching so many people cheering on Artemis II yesterday. Years of SpaceX has left people checked out of space exploration---for good reason--- so it was really cool to watch everyone get excited about NASA again.
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