About Curt Porritt
You can do a quick search on Google for either "Curt Porritt" or "Curtis Porritt" and find more information about me than you probably care to know.
Here are a few of the highlights:
- Born in 1960
- Married with four children (3 girls and a boy)
- Have lived in Utah since I was a teenager
- Served an LDS mission in Holland (The Netherlands)
- Studied philosophy at BYU (was a teaching assistant for a while)
- Worked at WordPerfect for eight years during its glory days
- Was an international globalization consultant for five years
- Director of Strategy at Caldera for two years
- CEO/President of 10x Marketing (online marketing) for three years
- Currently the SVP of Marketing for MasterControl (software company)
- I teach classes for the SBDC on Internet marketing and business strategy
- I've been lucky enough to travel to a lot of different places
- Once upon a time I spoke both Spanish and Dutch pretty well
- I own a pontoon boat and enjoy fishing with family and friends
- I'm an avid BYU football fan (somewhat of a love-hate relationship ;^)
- I'm in favor of pretty much anything that hurts oil companies or the BCS
- I'm still an active Latter-day Saint with a pretty strong testimony
- I love the gospel as restored through Joseph Smith (good stuff!)
- My local church leaders never quite know what to do with me ;^O
- When all is said and done, I'm kind of a boring guy
I've always enjoyed asking the hard questions about life and religion. During the 90's I was pretty much trying to investigate and learn about anything I could regarding the "mysteries" of Mormonism. It was during those years that I wrote most of my stuff on religion and philosophy.
In this century I became more interested in politics. I ended up writing various letters to the editor of my local newspaper. For some reason they published every single one of them. I'm not sure I converted anyone, but at least I was standing up for what I believe.
I used to enjoy talkng about such things with various friends and relatives - most of whom ended up "wigging out" a bit. These days it seems like it's more difficult to find open-minded people who genuinely enjoy discussing the "mysteries of the universe."
I used to manually send out copies of my writings to people. This becamse rather time consuming. So, I created this website to share my ideas with anyone who might be interested. It just makes it a lot easier for people to get what they want without having to wait for me to send it to them.
So, feel free to download at will. I hope you enjoy them!
Curt
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