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  • #106
    Originally posted by Surfah View Post
    Pun intended? No mention except for briefly in Pres. Monson's final address where he ran through the typical dos and don'ts.
    Heh, actually, no pun intended this time. I noticed it after the fact - maybe I should have chosen less-loaded words!

    Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
    If it was while he was at BYU and did not mention it, he didn't name BYU because he wanted to keep BYU's reputation and image pure.

    I wouldn't take it as a slight.

    Regardless of whether or not it was the U. or BYU, I took it to be him concealing the identity so as not to cast the school's student body in a poor light.
    Wikipedia does not mention Pres. M. as having gone to the Y - degree in business administration from the U. Did he go to the Y at one point? Not that it particularly matters - I've seen cheating at every school I've ever been to.
    Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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    • #107
      Originally posted by nikuman View Post
      Heh, actually, no pun intended this time. I noticed it after the fact - maybe I should have chosen less-loaded words!



      Wikipedia does not mention Pres. M. as having gone to the Y - degree in business administration from the U. Did he go to the Y at one point? Not that it particularly matters - I've seen cheating at every school I've ever been to.
      Actually, wiki does mention him receiving his MBA from BYU in 1974.

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      • #108
        This is a great TSM talk. He has a real talent to weave the words of the New Testament into an address.

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        • #109
          Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
          Actually, wiki does mention him receiving his MBA from BYU in 1974.
          You added that in just now, I know it!
          Actually, I didn't read that far down. MBA as an apostle? Interesting.
          Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.

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          • #110
            Originally posted by 8BR View Post
            This is a great TSM talk. He has a real talent to weave the words of the New Testament into an address.
            It's one of his better talks in recent memory. Certainly much better than the one last night in Priesthood.

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            • #111
              Originally posted by nikuman View Post
              You added that in just now, I know it!
              Actually, I didn't read that far down. MBA as an apostle? Interesting.
              Negative.

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              • #112
                BYU getting air play in conference!

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                • #113
                  I have always loved President Monson, but I was such an admirer of President Hinckley that it's taken me a while to get used to the idea as President Monson as Prophet. All hesitation has been demolished today. It's difficult to type because eyesight is so tear-blurred. I love this strange, strange feeling, which I experience only when overwhelmed by the spirit. I thought this Sunday morning session one of the finest I've ever experienced, but TSM's concluding words were amazing. I love how he brings culture into his talks, art, Robert Louis Stevenson, poetry. His love of the Gospel and the Saints is evident with every word he utters. He makes me want to be worthy of that love. I wish I had remembered to watch yesterday's sessions. Can't get enough of this amazing stuff.
                  "We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
                  --Henry James (1843-1916)

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                  • #114
                    Originally posted by hopfrog View Post
                    I have always loved President Monson, but I was such an admirer of President Hinckley that it's taken me a while to get used to the idea as President Monson as Prophet. All hesitation has been demolished today. It's difficult to type because eyesight is so tear-blurred. I love this strange, strange feeling, which I experience only when overwhelmed by the spirit. I thought this Sunday morning session one of the finest I've ever experienced, but TSM's concluding words were amazing. I love how he brings culture into his talks, art, Robert Louis Stevenson, poetry. His love of the Gospel and the Saints is evident with every word he utters. He makes me want to be worthy of that love. I wish I had remembered to watch yesterday's sessions. Can't get enough of this amazing stuff.
                    Thanks for that post, hopfrog.

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                    • #115
                      Originally posted by hopfrog View Post
                      I have always loved President Monson, but I was such an admirer of President Hinckley that it's taken me a while to get used to the idea as President Monson as Prophet. All hesitation has been demolished today. It's difficult to type because eyesight is so tear-blurred. I love this strange, strange feeling, which I experience only when overwhelmed by the spirit. I thought this Sunday morning session one of the finest I've ever experienced, but TSM's concluding words were amazing. I love how he brings culture into his talks, art, Robert Louis Stevenson, poetry. His love of the Gospel and the Saints is evident with every word he utters. He makes me want to be worthy of that love. I wish I had remembered to watch yesterday's sessions. Can't get enough of this amazing stuff.
                      He quoted Tennyson last night. I really enjoy President Monson as well.
                      "Nobody listens to Turtle."
                      -Turtle
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                      • #116
                        I enjoyed the TSM talk also.

                        I am going to admit that I had my doubts about Elder Uchtdorf when he was first called. Not sure why. Perhaps he just seemed a little too tanned and good looking. I suppose I imagined that he would be a wooden, corporate-type GA. Boy, was I wrong. I love his talks.
                        "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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                        • #117
                          Originally posted by Portland Ute View Post
                          He also had his eyes open during the end of the prayer. Don't ask me how I know that. Alos, best I could tell, he did not say Amen.

                          Some of the linguists on the board can either confirm or deny this, but I believe that the orator saying amen is redundant.

                          I think he's a guy that knows that and refuses to play along. I like that.

                          It did cause a stir at our building, too, however.
                          "Amen" is the word used in the new testament and translated as "verily" whenever Christ says "verily, verily I say unto you. I understand that it was Hebrew before making it to Greek. It made it to English via Latin ("amen, amen dico vobis . . .").

                          It doesn't mean "I agree" so much as "truly" or "so be it." Walter Cronkite probably used the correct translation to end his broadcasts: "and that's the way it is."
                          τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν

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                          • #118
                            Come o thou tourney run!
                            We haven't had such fun
                            since nineteen eighty freaking one
                            We're kings of one and done!

                            Come now Dave Rose with thy pug nose
                            Hang a banner in bleacher dome!

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                            • #119
                              That's my all-time favorite arrangement of one of my favorite hymns, "Jesus, Once of Humble Birth." I think it's Mack Wilberg's. And old Parley P. could certainly turn a phrase.
                              “There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
                              ― W.H. Auden

                              "God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
                              -- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

                              "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
                              --Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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                              • #120
                                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                I enjoyed the TSM talk also.

                                I am going to admit that I had my doubts about Elder Uchtdorf when he was first called. Not sure why. Perhaps he just seemed a little too tanned and good looking. I suppose I imagined that he would be a wooden, corporate-type GA. Boy, was I wrong. I love his talks.
                                Hmmm... I wonder why you would think this:



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