Talking Big Love: Part One
We gathered a few people together to see what they thought of the premiere episode of HBO's new series "Big Love." This is an excerpt from a conversation that included members of Centennial Park, a fundamentalist Mormon community at the Utah/Arizona border.
The second episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On Relationships: The men
Joyce Steed: The men in our culture, I just have the greatest respect and appreciation for them because they absolutely have a huge job and they do well.
And they are able to love and be kind to people and try to bring them together. The little bit I saw [of that in the show,] I kind of appreciated that. He was obviously appreciative of his family, admiring his family and things like that.
Alma Hammon: ...I appreciated some of the main points of the problems in the family with the ladies and his side of it. I thought he did well. They portrayed that to a degree somewhat accurate because some of the men are pulled this way and that way and we are very busy with our jobs and our lives.
And trying to govern a family like that and trying to make it all work. When there is a problem with one lady or another or a child, it is a pull, a drain on the men to try help fix that and sometimes you can't fix it, sometimes you have to work it out and let time heal and go on.
They were pretty close in some of that there.
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Priscilla Hammon: We know for a fact that a man is absolutely capable — just like a mother can love more than one child in her life — a man can love more than one woman and he may even love them in different ways because they have different personalities.
And that is something as women, as you begin to mature in this principle, you start to understand that. He is never going to see you as someone else, because you're you.
But everyone brings so many talents to the family and lends in their own individual way that that's where the dynamics of the family become something so valued by us. Everyone is bringing to the table something that they personally can lend, and it may be something totally different than the woman sitting next to you.
Mark Timpson: It kind of centers around the man in a sense, that you can have hell on wheels with a certain man, or bring another man into the conversation with ladies and it will be heaven on earth. If men allow the natural man to dominate and rule and they encourage that among their ladies, they are going to have hell on wheels.
But if they engage the women in higher principles, in a higher way of living and thinking, and create a situation where they are not pitting one woman against another and not encouraging one woman to be jealous of another and engaging that women for her gifts and benefits and enrolling her in the greater family ideal. . . In my opinion, it kind of centers around the man and his ability to do that.
The second episode of "Big Love" airs Sunday.
On Relationships: The men
Joyce Steed: The men in our culture, I just have the greatest respect and appreciation for them because they absolutely have a huge job and they do well.
And they are able to love and be kind to people and try to bring them together. The little bit I saw [of that in the show,] I kind of appreciated that. He was obviously appreciative of his family, admiring his family and things like that.
Alma Hammon: ...I appreciated some of the main points of the problems in the family with the ladies and his side of it. I thought he did well. They portrayed that to a degree somewhat accurate because some of the men are pulled this way and that way and we are very busy with our jobs and our lives.
And trying to govern a family like that and trying to make it all work. When there is a problem with one lady or another or a child, it is a pull, a drain on the men to try help fix that and sometimes you can't fix it, sometimes you have to work it out and let time heal and go on.
They were pretty close in some of that there.
..........
Priscilla Hammon: We know for a fact that a man is absolutely capable — just like a mother can love more than one child in her life — a man can love more than one woman and he may even love them in different ways because they have different personalities.
And that is something as women, as you begin to mature in this principle, you start to understand that. He is never going to see you as someone else, because you're you.
But everyone brings so many talents to the family and lends in their own individual way that that's where the dynamics of the family become something so valued by us. Everyone is bringing to the table something that they personally can lend, and it may be something totally different than the woman sitting next to you.
Mark Timpson: It kind of centers around the man in a sense, that you can have hell on wheels with a certain man, or bring another man into the conversation with ladies and it will be heaven on earth. If men allow the natural man to dominate and rule and they encourage that among their ladies, they are going to have hell on wheels.
But if they engage the women in higher principles, in a higher way of living and thinking, and create a situation where they are not pitting one woman against another and not encouraging one woman to be jealous of another and engaging that women for her gifts and benefits and enrolling her in the greater family ideal. . . In my opinion, it kind of centers around the man and his ability to do that.
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What if a polygamist woman loves more than one man? What is the FLDS view on polyandry?
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