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_ludwigm
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memory hole

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A memory hole is any mechanism for the alteration or disappearance of inconvenient or embarrassing documents, photographs, transcripts, or other records, such as from a web site or other archive, particularly as part of an attempt to give the impression that something never happened. The concept was first popularized by George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four the memory hole is a small chute leading to a large incinerator used for censorship:
"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building."
In the novel, the memory hole is a slot into which government officials deposit politically inconvenient documents and records to be destroyed. Nineteen Eighty-Four's protagonist Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth, is routinely assigned the task of revising old newspaper articles in order to serve the propaganda interests of the government.
For example, if the government had pledged that the chocolate ration would not fall below the current 30 grams per week, but in fact the ration is reduced to 20 grams per week, the historical record (for example, an article from a back issue of the Times newspaper) is revised to contain an announcement that a reduction to 20 grams might soon prove necessary, or that the ration, then 15 grams, would soon be increased to that number. The original copies of the historical record are deposited into the memory hole.
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Up to this point, this is off topic.

Step 1.
See Ronald E. Poelman here!
In the October 1984 general conference of the LDS Church, Poelman delivered a sermon entitled "The Gospel and the Church". Controversy ensued when the version of his sermon that was published in the November 1984 Ensign magazine differed from the sermon Poelman had delivered orally. Further, the videotape copies of general conference that were included in church archives and distributed throughout the church contained Poelman delivering the revised version of his sermon. A "cough track" was included in the retaping to make it appear that the revised sermon was delivered in front of an audience.
One commentator has criticised the changes to the sermon as a dramatic shift in the meaning of Poelman's address:
"The rewriting and refilming of Elder Ronald Poelman's October 1984 Conference address, originally a rare and inspiring defense of free agency, so that it became yet another cry for obedience. His text was not edited — his ideas were turned inside out."
Poelman was not invited to speak in general conference again for four and a half years.


Step 2.
From the Ensign » 1976 » December News of the Church
see page http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnex ... &hideNav=1
Elder Boyd K. Packer Conference Address
“Elder Boyd K. Packer Conference Address,” Ensign, Dec. 1976, 79
The recent October conference address of Elder Boyd K. Packer, given in the priesthood session of conference, has been published as a pamphlet to be distributed to bishops for further distribution to parents of young men. Elder Packer’s address was not included in the November Ensign’s conference report by determination of the First Presidency. The address was a sensitive treatment of the important subject of chastity.
According to * Home o LDS.org o * General Conference * October 1976 Addresses October 1976, Elder Boyd K. Packer didn't say anything that time. Not a word. There were no such talk.
See page http://lds.org/general-conference/sessi ... 0?lang=eng

Fortunately we have http://corpus.byu.edu/gc/ to fix the problem.
CORPUS OF LDS GENERAL CONFERENCE TALKS
10,000+ TALKS / 24 MILLION WORDS /1850s-2000s
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BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
It gives us 7 results for "little factory/factories".
3 of Brigham Young, 4 of Joseph F. Smith, all of them from 18th century, when factories were real factories, not dicks.
No BKP talk. by the way, that site sometimes works as a madman. If one moves the mouse, the screen skips as a drunken flea.
Ther are no 10,000+ talks. There are 10,000-1.

So, friends, there were no "little factory" talk. It is a blatant antimormon lie. You can find it only on anti sites.

FYI: Some quote, intentionally without names.

somebody in another thread wrote:given that everything "taught openly over the pulpit" of General Conference has been recorded and is available on line
And re-recorded. And available or not available.

somebody in another thread wrote:Latter-day Saint historians today have the benefit (and the curse) of a perfectly enormous collection of records.
There are holes here and there, but, overwhelmingly, it's a pretty impressive body of materials.
And there are holes made by members called Winston Smiths. Members of Correlation Committee or whatever.

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From this point on (another turning point, You see) I can handle ALL lists, texts and/or videos/mp3s of General Conference as unreliable.
Untrustworthy, slippery. (You know, my english is rudimentary. Or primitive.)

Who and what is the next? Bednar's cucumber? It exists at this moment. Bednar wasn't eunuchized - yet. Up to now, only the little factory of BKP has disappeared. I am talking about the text.

ps. We've always been at war with Eastasia.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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Re: memory hole

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And Joseph Smith was martyred for preaching the true Gospel. His fate was totally undeserved. The mob was a rabble of bigoted degenerates.
Huckelberry said:
I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.

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How does the church expect the youth to control their little factories if they're going to hide this important talk? :(
Parley P. Pratt wrote:We must lie to support brother Joseph, it is our duty to do so.

B.R. McConkie, © Intellectual Reserve wrote:There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish.
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Re: memory hole

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.........and this happened before Packer died?
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