Our father’s and sons/daughters campout is the Friday before Father’s day. Hopefully the SMR’s of the ward stay home so the rest of us can enjoy making fun of them behind their backs!Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Our father’s and sons/daughters campout is the Friday before Father’s day. Hopefully the SMR’s of the ward stay home so the rest of us can enjoy making fun of them behind their backs!
"Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism" - Joseph Smith Jr.
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I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.
I respectfully request an invite. In support of my request, I promise to remain a faithful member of the Alec Burks fan club.
The crux of what has traumatized us about CUF/CG is that we thought they were our friends. And their identity as BYU fans turned out to be the most important thing to them. What empty lives! What a damning indictment of the LDS Church!
--SeattleUte
He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not sin goes to heaven. The logic is impeccable.
--Charles W. Bamforth, Ph.D.
We will! Enjoy your shitty food and lack of shade!
I'm like LeBron James.
-mpfunk
Whoa how do you know all this stuff?
Isn’t all this far too abstract and theoretical to put out there like it’s math or science?
Seriously I don’t understand how anybody can think he knows all this very specific stuff about what God supposedly does and knows and agency and repentance and justification and atonement and all this stuff works.
You understand that people have just made all this stuff up, right? The biggest mistake is thinking any of that stuff you state with such assurance is knowable or known by you.
It’s always interesting to see which religious post will set Cardiac off.
You understand that people have made all this stuff up, right?
Lol. Love cardiac.
I'm like LeBron James.
-mpfunk
Revelation!
τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
It’s the glib certainty and lecturing, condescending tone that triggers me I think.
According to John Taylor, present revelation is the foundation of our religion.
"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
- Goatnapper'96
I think you dosed out an equal amount of glib certainty, lecturing, and condescension to poor Brother Crockett.
Don't turn on me, I'm only the messenger.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
I did a double-take to make sure it wasn't SoonerCoug's avi.
Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.
"Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson
Study question for next week:
How do I honor and please myself instead of honoring God?
Ahem.
The government forces everyone to have a colonoscopy.
This was in Teacher's Quorum. I'm not sure what made the kid an expert on colonoscopies, but I guess his step-dad is a Dr.
He insisted that the government forces everyone to have one, whether they want it or not. I stopped the discussion to assure the other boys that the government does not force this on everyone. He followed up with something along the lines of basically requiring it and talking everyone into getting it done.
Weird conversation for a Teacher's Quorum. Then again - I think about anything is game in the 14 yr old mind.
LOL... yeah, the government does force everyone to have a colonoscopy. I would have told the kid what the government actually does to everyone is a lot worse and left it at that.
"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
Sounds like the kid was talking figuratively.
Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
Or maybe he'd heard his step dad say something about getting reamed by the govt. and thought it was the same thing.
That was the figuratively speaking I was talking about!
Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
I learned that the speaker, who was new to the ward, not only attended Harvard but earned his master's degree from Harvard. I also learned that he is a fantasy novelist. I learned all of that within the first two minutes. Sadly, the rest of his talk did not do his resume justice.
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." - Friedrich Nietzsche
What were you doing in sacrament meeting?
"Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtle
Occasionally I indulge friends and family.
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." - Friedrich Nietzsche
If you paid for that indulgence... you went to the wrong church.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
Currently sitting in sacrament meeting in a new ward after a huge stake boundary re-org.
To answer everyone’s most urgent concern, Parrot Head and I are still in the same ward.
This is the fourth split/boundary change since we have lived here. We are now back in a ward that we were founding members of ten years or so ago.
Anyway, the bishop just made a comment that inspired this post. We are on the 1:00 schedule, and due to a dearth of people in callings, we only have sacrament meeting today (yay!). As he stood up to bear his testimony, he said “since we have no other meetings today, we can go as late as 2:30 with your testimonies”.
I could have sworn that my 13 year old daughter never lets a word of sacrament meeting penetrate her brain, but I guess I was wrong because she jerked her head up in shock, and turned to me with a look of despair.
The next 45 minutes will go a long way in determining how I feel about this new ward. If the members take the bishop’s words to heart and we have a 90 minute F&T meeting, I don’t know if I will ever be able to fit in here.
General Conference never runs late. At times, it ends early. We review conference talks half the month. You would think we would follow the example of the brethren in time management as well.
It is now 2:06. Anyone who stands up is officially on my list.
You could just stand up and leave
The crux of what has traumatized us about CUF/CG is that we thought they were our friends. And their identity as BYU fans turned out to be the most important thing to them. What empty lives! What a damning indictment of the LDS Church!
--SeattleUte
He who drinks beer sleeps well. He who sleeps well cannot sin. He who does not sin goes to heaven. The logic is impeccable.
--Charles W. Bamforth, Ph.D.
Mack follows the brethren. Always starts right on time and let's us out on time out early, even if he has to skip something that was on his list to work on.
“Every player dreams of being a Yankee, and if they don’t it’s because they never got the chance.” Aroldis Chapman
Update, the "amen" of the closing prayer was updated at 2:27. This new ward has an uphill battle with me.
The only plus was that one of the OT testimonies was from the stake patriarch who gave me a shout out.
Surprisingly, I am 100% with funk on this one. Get up and go. You put in your time.
τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
Running a meeting too long is dumb. So is walking out if it goes long.
"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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