I learned in church today

[TripletDaddy]

Let's see a close up of that warm hat!

[NorthwestUteFan]

While cleaning the house tonight, one of my 5 year-old kids broke into song thusly:
"Follow the yourself, Follow the yourself, Follow the yourself, You must obey.
Follow the yourself, Follow the yourself, Follow the yourself, You know the way!"

I am preparing myself for an encore performance when my literalist, unquestioning, TBM family members come to my house for Thanksgiving Day.

[Sullyute]

Technically, this happened last week, but I learned in Elders quorum that Donnie Osmond will teach Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson the gospel in the spirit world.

[thesaint258]

Our ward did an impromptu choir yesterday. Instead of the usual rest hymn, they just gave a hymn number and said that anyone in the congregation who wanted to sing could come up to the stand and sing. There was a good number of people who went up, so after they finished, the guy conducting said that they all were drafted into the ward's choir and that the choir practices every Sunday at 12.

[Pheidippides]

I learned that your marriage is bad if you sometimes fall asleep in a place other than together in bed, and a conference talk would be provided to show me how bad my marriage is, and that after being called to repentance my wife would thank me for listening to correct counsel.

This was directed at me personally, not at the class generally.

[Moliere]

I learned that your marriage is bad if you sometimes fall asleep in a place other than together in bed, and a conference talk would be provided to show me how bad my marriage is, and that after being called to repentance my wife would thank me for listening to correct counsel.

This was directed at me personally, not at the class generally.

This is why I won't ever attend a "strengthening marriage" Sunday school class.

[Art Vandelay]

The teacher's quorum adviser is my ward is fantastic, and fits in with 14 and 15 YO boys perfectly, because they all are at the same level of maturity. Every week we wonder what the pearl of wisdom he is going to inadvertently drop. Yesterday he blessed us with two. a) "the least believable thing about "Breaking Dawn" was, Robert Pattinson or the wolf-guy fighting over Kristen Bell- she is a 6 1/2, at best. b) The YM president asked him about the new sister-wife on the reality show, "She is polygamy hot".

[Brian]

A teacher and a high councilor gave talks about appropriate music.
The teacher gave a very nice talk. He really did. He's a very bright kid, and shared some nice thoughts on the power of music on the human mind, focusing on the good it could do.

The HC on the other hand......
He recited the lyrics to "She Loves You"

You think you lost your love,
Well, I saw her yesterday.
It's you she's thinking of
And she told me what to say.

She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad.

And then asked, "Who would pay money for a poem like that?"
Well probably nobody. They weren't writing poetry, by the way.
Then he said "Hey Jude" was all about drugs.
You can put anything to a Satan inspired heavy beat and it will move the soul, but not in a good way.
Music that stirs the emotions is not good. Music should only be calming.
Go to any football game and do "stomp, stomp, clap. stomp, stomp, clap." And everyone will join in. My wife and I turned to each other and mouthed "we will, we will rock you." That song was in everyone's mind the rest of the meeting.


There was a semi-active 50year old lady with dyed hair, and a flair for the artistic who was clearly getting pissed by this old man.
Well done Brother. Well done.

[pellegrino]

Technically, this happened last week, but I learned in Elders quorum that Donnie Osmond will teach Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson the gospel in the spirit world.

as if there were any doubt.

[Jeff Lebowski]

A teacher and a high councilor gave talks about appropriate music.
The teacher gave a very nice talk. He really did. He's a very bright kid, and shared some nice thoughts on the power of music on the human mind, focusing on the good it could do.

The HC on the other hand......
He recited the lyrics to "She Loves You"

You think you lost your love,
Well, I saw her yesterday.
It's you she's thinking of
And she told me what to say.

She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad.

And then asked, "Who would pay money for a poem like that?"
Well probably nobody. They weren't writing poetry, by the way.
Then he said "Hey Jude" was all about drugs.
You can put anything to a Satan inspired heavy beat and it will move the soul, but not in a good way.
Music that stirs the emotions is not good. Music should only be calming.
Go to any football game and do "stomp, stomp, clap. stomp, stomp, clap." And everyone will join in. My wife and I turned to each other and mouthed "we will, we will rock you." That song was in everyone's mind the rest of the meeting.


There was a semi-active 50year old lady with dyed hair, and a flair for the artistic who was clearly getting pissed by this old man.
Well done Brother. Well done.

We had a high councilman talk in our ward a few years ago and talked about when he was in HS and decided that most of his music collection was inappropriate and not compatible with the spirit so he burned the offending vinyl LPs. I approached him after the meeting and said "Please tell me your collection didn't include Led Zeppelin." He winked and said that he replaced his entire collection the next year. It left me wondering why he told the story in the first place.

[EuropeanFootballMale]

A teacher and a high councilor gave talks about appropriate music.
The teacher gave a very nice talk. He really did. He's a very bright kid, and shared some nice thoughts on the power of music on the human mind, focusing on the good it could do.

The HC on the other hand......
He recited the lyrics to "She Loves You"

You think you lost your love,
Well, I saw her yesterday.
It's you she's thinking of
And she told me what to say.

She says she loves you
And you know that can't be bad.
Yes, she loves you
And you know you should be glad.

And then asked, "Who would pay money for a poem like that?"
Well probably nobody. They weren't writing poetry, by the way.
Then he said "Hey Jude" was all about drugs.
You can put anything to a Satan inspired heavy beat and it will move the soul, but not in a good way.
Music that stirs the emotions is not good. Music should only be calming.
Go to any football game and do "stomp, stomp, clap. stomp, stomp, clap." And everyone will join in. My wife and I turned to each other and mouthed "we will, we will rock you." That song was in everyone's mind the rest of the meeting.


There was a semi-active 50year old lady with dyed hair, and a flair for the artistic who was clearly getting pissed by this old man.
Well done Brother. Well done.

That's wierd. We had a HC talk 3 years ago (it still anoys me) that sounds like it was almost word for word the same one you got. He read the words to She Loves You, mentioned Lucy In The Sky and talked about the messages of songs played at athletic events. Just dumb.

[Solon]

We had a high councilman talk in our ward a few years ago and talked about when he was in HS and decided that most of his music collection was inappropriate and not compatible with the spirit so he burned the offending vinyl LPs. I approached him after the meeting and said "Please tell me your collection didn't include Led Zeppelin." He winked and said that he replaced his entire collection the next year. It left me wondering why he told the story in the first place.

When I was a kid we had an LDS book about how the music of today's youth preached immorality and drugs that sounded exactly like these posts, including parsing the lyrics.

I can't remember the book's title. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?

[Topper]

When I was a kid we had an LDS book about how the music of today's youth preached immorality and drugs that sounded exactly like these posts, including parsing the lyrics.

I can't remember the book's title. Does anyone know what I'm referring to?

Too bad no Mormon men did drugs to know the real drug songs. The Topper knows.

[Goatnapper'96]

We had a high councilman talk in our ward a few years ago and talked about when he was in HS and decided that most of his music collection was inappropriate and not compatible with the spirit so he burned the offending vinyl LPs. I approached him after the meeting and said "Please tell me your collection didn't include Led Zeppelin." He winked and said that he replaced his entire collection the next year. It left me wondering why he told the story in the first place.

This is something that I find fascinating. How much of what we often say from the pulpit is really just spiritual peacock dancing? It is really liberating when you reach that point where you really don't care so much about appearing like a pillar. Whenever I hear stuff like that I just tune it out because I am convinced that the overwhelming majority are just saying what they think they should.

Now saying that there was a signing missionary in Derby when I served there back in '93 who was hyperventilating in the foyer when another Elder in the district was lipsincing "I lost my religion" by REM at Roz Slice's birthday party at the Derby Chapel. So maybe those folks really do believe some of what they say.

[Pheidippides]

This is why I won't ever attend a "strengthening marriage" Sunday school class.

I was teaching the damn class!!