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  • #31
    Originally posted by eldiente View Post
    S. Gifford Nielson -- is that the same as Giff Nielson?
    He's the right age, he's retired from broadcasting, and he's been a stake pres. Now we just know about the first name he never went by.

    I'm not positive, but I'd be shocked if there were another Gifford Nielsen in the church, much less another Gifford.
    Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
    God forgives many things for an act of mercy
    Alessandro Manzoni

    Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

    pelagius

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    • #32
      Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
      What would happen if it dipped to 1.9x the birth rate?
      Clearly, we would stand in need of repentance. And we'd have to start recruiting better.

      Prop 8 doesn't seem to have had an immediate effect on numbers, if that means anything.
      τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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      • #33
        Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
        He's the right age, he's retired from broadcasting, and he's been a stake pres. Now we just know about the first name he never went by.

        I'm not positive, but I'd be shocked if there were another Gifford Nielsen in the church, much less another Gifford.
        Someone already updated his Wiki
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        Get confident, stupid
        -landpoke

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        • #34
          Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
          What would happen if it dipped to 1.9x the birth rate?
          what is the birth rate of the church as a whole? I was a little surprised that there were so few new children of record on the books. I do question the accuracy of that number though because I know in our ward alone less than half of the kids born in 2009 are still not on the records.
          Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
          God forgives many things for an act of mercy
          Alessandro Manzoni

          Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

          pelagius

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          • #35
            Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
            He's the right age, he's retired from broadcasting, and he's been a stake pres. Now we just know about the first name he never went by.

            I'm not positive, but I'd be shocked if there were another Gifford Nielsen in the church, much less another Gifford.
            Lol! I've never understood this naming convention. 10:1, the ratio of GA's who go by their middle name vs the public at large.

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            • #36
              why is it that only 50k missionaries are out? that's the same number as when i was in the field in 1991.

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              • #37
                Originally posted by RobinFinderson View Post
                Lol! I've never understood this naming convention. 10:1, the ratio of GA's who go by their middle name vs the public at large.
                It's kind of funny. When I first heard of Larry H. Miller as a teenager in Dallas, my first thought was that he was a GA. When I found out he wasn't, i realized it was just a great marketing tactic to a predominantly mormon customer base.

                I'll thusly be: J. Viking Samuelsen
                Last edited by Viking; 04-03-2010, 01:57 PM.

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
                  LOL! I've been editing that page to remove bias. There was lots of unsourced stuff trying to relate him to 'legendary' coach Edwards, and other stuff trying to associate him with more famous BYU QB's.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View Post
                    craigohobson awesome. watching people sustain church leaders from their cars on the freeway. #ldsconf
                    half a minute ago from Tweetie

                    Only in Utah.
                    I wonder if anyone has ever had an accident and died from sustaining church leaders while driving? It would be kind of cool if it happened while sustaining a newly called Prophet, but not so cool during, say, the sustaining of the General Sunday School Presidency.
                    "In conclusion, let me give a shout-out to dirty sex. What a great thing it is" - Northwestcoug
                    "And you people wonder why you've had extermination orders issued against you." - landpoke
                    "Can't . . . let . . . foolish statements . . . by . . . BYU fans . . . go . . . unanswered . . . ." - LA Ute

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by DU Ute View Post
                      I wonder if anyone has ever had an accident and died from sustaining church leaders while driving? It would be kind of cool if it happened while sustaining a newly called Prophet, but not so cool during, say, the sustaining of the General Sunday School Presidency.
                      They immediately go to the celestial kingdom.

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by RobinFinderson View Post
                        Lol! I've never understood this naming convention. 10:1, the ratio of GA's who go by their middle name vs the public at large.
                        Didn't you know that's how to fast track your son to becoming a GA?

                        I hate the LDS practice of referencing middle initials, not middle names. I've been sustained in Ward conference a few times and sometimes they've come last minute asking me my full name. Knowing why they want it I've told them that they can only use the full name, not my middle initial. I'm batting .500 in that request.
                        Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                        God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                        Alessandro Manzoni

                        Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                        pelagius

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                        • #42
                          Not as many on line as I'd expect. There must be lots of poeple playing hooky from conference.
                          When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

                          --Jonathan Swift

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                          • #43
                            well Holland drew the porn talk straw
                            "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

                            "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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                            • #44
                              Porn talk! Mark it, Elder Holland. 3:35 PM!
                              Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

                              None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

                              I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

                              --Portland Ute

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                              • #45
                                Sounds like Holland is the first to have the courage to finally address the great unspoken problem.
                                τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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