I learned in church today

[TripletDaddy]

The speaker opened his talk with the following:

"I will now show you all a miracle."

He then took off his suit coat, stepped to the side of the pulpit, and did this tap dance thing for about 20 seconds. It was pretty wild.

He then says, "that was called a triple sidestep buffalo shuffle combo."

Then he explained that at one time, he was paralyzed and unable to walk, relating his story and subsequent recovery. He was an MDT at BYU and quite the performer, but had an accident and was unable to walk for over a year. His recovery took almost twice that.

It was a really interesting talk but it made me wonder why we dont allow a little more free styling at the mic. In all my years of going to Church, I have never seen someone Tap dance during a sacrament talk. It would be fun to jazz things up a bit, actually.

[Pheidippides]

Oh. My. Gosh.

Teaching my gospel essentials class today. Running way short on time so I'm finishing up without saying half the stuff I had prepared. One of the points that I did make is that the scripture where God says to Eve that Adam is going to rule over her isn't something to take literally perhaps and certainly not use as an excuse for bad behavior. Admittedly some freestyle editing by me.

I close up and sit down a couple of minutes later. I'm done now, but the ward mission leader insists on making a follow up comment (something I hate as a teacher) like he often does. Only this time he says that the word "rule" is probably akin to the word "help meet" in the previous chapter and that isn't as bad sounding as "rule", and isn't it nice we have women to be our help meets for us. I may not be capturing the comment properly but it is the most sexist thing I have heard in church in the last decade for sure.

I was done teaching and we were over time so I was not going to say anything. But my wife, may she ever be praised, kindly and gently tore him a new one.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

Quite the argument today over removing tags from garment tops.

Position A - There's nothing wrong with it. They're itchy.

Position B - It's an unexcusable act of prideful rebellion and will surely cost you your soul.

[wuapinmon]

Quite the argument today over removing tags from garment tops.

Position A - There's nothing wrong with it. They're itchy.

Position B - It's an unexcusable act of prideful rebellion and will surely cost you your soul.

Awesome.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Some crazy lady talking just told the the YW not to dream of a knight on a horse riding in to sweep them off their feet to dream about things you can accomplish. Also don't rush to marriage, don't get married until you have an education.

[DU Ute]

Oh. My. Gosh.

Teaching my gospel essentials class today. Running way short on time so I'm finishing up without saying half the stuff I had prepared. One of the points that I did make is that the scripture where God says to Eve that Adam is going to rule over her isn't something to take literally perhaps and certainly not use as an excuse for bad behavior. Admittedly some freestyle editing by me.

I close up and sit down a couple of minutes later. I'm done now, but the ward mission leader insists on making a follow up comment (something I hate as a teacher) like he often does. Only this time he says that the word "rule" is probably akin to the word "help meet" in the previous chapter and that isn't as bad sounding as "rule", and isn't it nice we have women to be our help meets for us. I may not be capturing the comment properly but it is the most sexist thing I have heard in church in the last decade for sure.

I was done teaching and we were over time so I was not going to say anything. But my wife, may she ever be praised, kindly and gently tore him a new one.

Good for your wife. What did she say?

[marsupial]

Quite the argument today over removing tags from garment tops.

Position A - There's nothing wrong with it. They're itchy.

Position B - It's an unexcusable act of prideful rebellion and will surely cost you your soul.

The tags are awful, when you rip them out you almost always end up with a hole in the seam. They should do like Hanes and go tagless.

[marsupial]

Some crazy lady talking just told the the YW not to dream of a knight on a horse riding in to sweep them off their feet to dream about things you can accomplish. Also don't rush to marriage, don't get married until you have an education.

That is pretty crazy. Women accomplishing things? Getting an education? Not rushing into marriage?

[CardiacCoug]

Unlike the philosophies of men and theories of science, the true Church and its teachings have never changed and will never change.

[wuapinmon]

Unlike the philosophies of men and theories of science, the true Church and its teachings have never changed and will never change.

OED

deluded
Pronunciation: /dɪˈl(j)uːdɪd/
Etymology: < delude v. + -ed suffix1.


Deceived by mocking prospects, beguiled, misled

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

That is pretty crazy. Women accomplishing things? Getting an education? Not rushing into marriage?

Seriously! I thought it was great nobody laughed.

[Pheidippides]

Good for your wife. What did she say?

SHW has this awesome way of telling you exactly why you are a complete moron while smiling and exuding universal love at the same time. It's an innate gift that annoys the living hell out of me when I'm the target, but that I otherwise love.

She piped up and said that she thought that it was thinking like that that had produced a few thousand years worth of female slavery, and that it's pretty damn dangerous to go looking at the OT for cues on how to treat women since they sorta sucked at leadership, given that the eternal unchanging perpetual gospel principles for leadership laid out in D&C 121 were somehow not around in OT times.

Not in those words, mind you - she exuded universal love and peace somehow while doing it, in her way. There's a scene in one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books where a major character coaxes in a deer by giving off a sense of radiant wellness and then proceeds to break the deer's neck. It was sort of like that.

Then she winked at me to let me know the answer was on my behalf too. If I had any less personal inhibition I would have gotten freaky with her right there on the doily-covered RS table. It was that awesome.

[NorthwestUteFan]

Apparently the parents of some of our six and seven year old kids in our primary class have convinced their progeny that there are some GOOD alcohols, and that it is allowable to drink them.

Bravo parents!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Some guy from Las Vegas is rambling, without provocation or invitation, during priesthood opening. It appears that Harmon Killebrew was not only the greatest baseball player of all time, but also the "single greatest missionary influence the LDS church has ever known", in case you were wondering though the crazy man is from Las Vegas he doesn't gamble or drink.

I think it might be falafel, but I'm scared to go say hello.

[wuapinmon]

Some guy from Las Vegas is rambling, without provocation or invitation, during priesthood opening. It appears that Harmon Killebrew was not only the greatest baseball player of all time, but also the "single greatest missionary influence the LDS church has ever known", in case you were wondering though the crazy man is from Las Vegas he doesn't gamble or drink.

I think it might be falafel, but I'm scared to go say hello.

falawful's not that coherent when he's drunk.