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"...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Postwth?You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostThat apostolic blessing and the ensuing multilingual closing hymn is an experience I will never forget.
Kidding. I thought the multilingual hymn was very well done and inspiring.
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Originally posted by PaloAltoCougar View PostHope it'll be Funk's or H8r's next tat.
Edit: Nuts, posted this before I saw AA's post in the other thread. Still, great minds...
Sent from my Pixel 4 using Tapatalk"I don't mind giving the church 10% of my earnings, but 50% of my weekend mornings? Not as long as DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket is around." - Daniel Tosh
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostConference is essentially 10 hours of above-average Sac Mtg talks. Every six months we get an avalanche of non-descript blasé boilerplate that buries whatever came before it. In 5 years, or roughly 100 hours of conference talks later, I will be shocked if you can remember anything from yesterday or today.
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Originally posted by SCcoug View Postlol knock it off. Church members bring up old conference talks all the time.
You should have trigger warning'd that post my dude.You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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Some great moments, few low moments, and a lot of boring stuff. So, I guess it's par for the course for me.
I thought the highlights were asking normal people to speak, a really cool touch. I liked James Rasband's take on finding some new personal insights from the BoM. I'd like to go through the text once it's available. His comment that young people can feel what you think their potential is based on how you treat them really hit me. That's good ol' fashioned religion that can make a difference in the world.
I wonder if Holland changed his talk last minute (meaning, in the last few weeks). It seemed like two talks. It was refreshing to see someone address the pain and suffering that people are going through right now. I'm disappointed more people didn't do that. Hearing about the restoration stories for the n-th time doesn't really help at the present moment. Came off as a little tone deaf, in my opinion. Back to Holland. I'm curious about what he meant when he addressed the decline of religion in the world. I wondered if he was also talking to the people in the red chairs. I'd need to read the text to see. I was reminded of this quote I heard from Ostler in an interview about his book:
"It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the decline of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion — its message becomes meaningless."
-- American Jewish scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-72), in his book "God in Search of Man,"
I was expecting something on Saturday night. Bingham on working together and then Oaks on priesthood... I was expecting an announcement that women would be given more callings, or something. Was I the only one thinking he was laying the groundwork for some announcement?Last edited by Brian; 04-06-2020, 07:13 AM.I intend to live forever.
So far, so good.
--Steven Wright
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Originally posted by Brian View Post
I was expecting something on Saturday night. Bingham on working together and then Oaks on priesthood... I was expecting an announcement that women would be given more callings, or something. Was I the only one thinking he was laying the groundwork for some announcement?
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostConference is essentially 10 hours of above-average Sac Mtg talks. Every six months we get an avalanche of non-descript blasé boilerplate that buries whatever came before it. In 5 years, or roughly 100 hours of conference talks later, I will be shocked if you can remember anything from yesterday or today.
"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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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostWait, so are you telling me that we will hear a regurgitated summation of these 10 hours of Conference talks during the next 6 months of Sac Mtg?
You should have trigger warning'd that post my dude."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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I had lunch with The Dude once in Provo.
He pointed out to me that, a lot of the time with church issues, we are all fired up about stuff that doesn't really matter.
He told me, in effect, that once a person lets go & stops worrying about the crap that doesn't matter in Mormonism, the church, religion, etc., it is a lot easier to start caring about the stuff that really matters - like helping other people and living a virtuous life. I takes a lot of confidence to live that way - to shrug off the nonsense and keep focused on the essentials. Most people are probably trying their best to do the right thing, and most of the time they deserve the benefit of the doubt (This probably applies to any organization or religion).
I apologize if I'm misremembering, Lebowski, but that's what I remember.
It was good advice, and I reflect upon it often.
The Dude Abides."More crazy people to Provo go than to any other town in the state."
-- Iron County Record. 23 August, 1912. (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lc...23/ed-1/seq-4/)
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Originally posted by Solon View PostI had lunch with The Dude once in Provo.
He pointed out to me that, a lot of the time with church issues, we are all fired up about stuff that doesn't really matter.
He told me, in effect, that once a person lets go & stops worrying about the crap that doesn't matter in Mormonism, the church, religion, etc., it is a lot easier to start caring about the stuff that really matters - like helping other people and living a virtuous life. I takes a lot of confidence to live that way - to shrug off the nonsense and keep focused on the essentials. Most people are probably trying their best to do the right thing, and most of the time they deserve the benefit of the doubt (This probably applies to any organization or religion).
I apologize if I'm misremembering, Lebowski, but that's what I remember.
It was good advice, and I reflect upon it often.
The Dude Abides."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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For those of you interested, this is the essay from which Holland took his quotation about religious commitment being in decline. I liked this essay, as it mirrors many of my own thoughts.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/12/59322/
I have not been on the board much lately and so apologize if this is redundant info.PLesa excuse the tpyos.
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostConference is essentially 10 hours of above-average Sac Mtg talks. Every six months we get an avalanche of non-descript blasé boilerplate that buries whatever came before it. In 5 years, or roughly 100 hours of conference talks later, I will be shocked if you can remember anything from yesterday or today.PLesa excuse the tpyos.
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