Random stuff worth reading on the internet thread

[YOhio]

This is a very cool story. Even those of you who choose not to follow the commandments may have your hard hearts softened a bit.

http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865....google.com%2F

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is a very cool story. Even those of you who choose not to follow the commandments may have your hard hearts softened a bit.

http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865....google.com%2F

That's incredible.

[TripletDaddy]

This is a very cool story. Even those of you who choose not to follow the commandments may have your hard hearts softened a bit.

http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865....google.com%2F

that story underscores the dangers of playing video games.

[Lost Student]

This is a very cool story. Even those of you who choose not to follow the commandments may have your hard hearts softened a bit.

http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865....google.com%2F

Not when you post a mobile link. Link to full site or GTFO.

[Armenag]

Never knew Nabokov spent time in Utah:

Instead, Alta, Utah. Marmots and Mormons. Here Jay Laughlin, the 28-year-old head of New Directions publishing company, owned a rudimentary ski lodge in a tumbling canyon full of aspens and rock faces. Nearby peaks reached over 11,000 feet. Utah had been only lightly harvested by lepidopterists at that time; its violently up-and-down terrain excited Nabokov, who knew that mountain ranges promoted allopatric speciation, whereby populations of butterflies become isolated and diverge genetically.

https://theamericanscholar.org/net-gains/#.VYTHCflVhBe

[Sullyute]

that story underscores the dangers of playing video games.

And the dangers of NOT speaking to strangers.

[CardiacCoug]

This is a very cool story. Even those of you who choose not to follow the commandments may have your hard hearts softened a bit.

http://m.deseretnews.com/article/865....google.com%2F

OK is anybody gullible enough to think this story actually happened as it's described?

20 million people in Taiwan and this guy bumps into his birth Mom randomly like that?

Who would believe a story like that other than dumb Elders and avid readers of the Deseret News?

I'm not buying it -- surely that story has to be bogus.

[old_gregg]

OK is anybody gullible enough to think this story actually happened as it's described?

20 million people in Taiwan and this guy bumps into his birth Mom randomly like that?

Who would believe a story like that other than dumb Elders and avid readers of the Deseret News?

I'm not buying it -- surely that story has to be bogus.

besides, all asian people look alike and there's no way he could even tell who his birth mom was

[CardiacCoug]

besides, all asian people look alike and there's no way he could even tell who his birth mom was

It would be a cool story -- definitely good enough to be picked up more widely in the media.

It seems like any decent journalist would prove it's not true. These are the kind of stories new converts make up to impress their new Mormon friends, right?

[PaloAltoCougar]

It would be a cool story -- definitely good enough to be picked up more widely in the media.

It seems like any decent journalist would prove it's not true. These are the kind of stories new converts make up to impress their new Mormon friends, right?

My initial reaction was the same as yours. Among the questions I had is why didn't the orphanage on the one hand, and local police authorities on the other, do a little more tire-kicking with respect to lost children? Surely they could have compared databases and matched up a lost kid with new orphanage entrants. Among my suspicions was perhaps the parents had simply given the kid up, as happens a fair amount in Asian cultures, I believe.

But I know the author of the article really well (I was her home teacher for many years). She's well-educated, very bright and I've always thought she'd be a lock for stake president when the priesthood is extended to women. I also know two bishops of wards in which the elder has served, and he's still serving in our mission here. All of them are convinced the story is genuine. But then, who wouldn't want it to be genuine? I'm sure none of my believing friends did the due diligence to verify the story independently.

[CardiacCoug]

Yeah I'm a cynical POS. Maybe a few of the elements of his story are true but no way did it happen like he says.

I think Chinese orphan stories are awesome obviously but this one is so clearly fake.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Not necessarily worth reading, but I couldn't find a better thread in which to mention this article from our local rag. We're gone a lot and despite living in a fairly crime-free area, we're nervous about possible break-ins or other mischief when we're gone. Such was the lot of some people who live in our general neighborhood. I love the headline. It's one thing to break into another's home and raid their liquor cabinet, but steal their bacon?

[Art Vandelay]

Gommorah is a fantastic book. Though I seemed to have forgotten most of its characters and stories, other than the tailor who cried when he saw Angelina Jolie wearing his gown, on the red carpet. REGARDLESS, writing about what really takes place with the mafioso doesn't seem worth living the rest of your life in fear and hiding.

Why Does the Mob Want to Erase this Writer?

[Donuthole]

No animals were harmed in the making of this movie. 70 members of the cast and crew were.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/hol...-made-20150707

[falafel]

This should be in the I Want To See That! thread.