I learned in church today

[ERCougar]

So this was a watch AND play sort of date. Wife swapping and all. TMI.

9/10.

Might be a bit too on-the-mark for Solon, as I caught his wife in an awkward embrace (?) yesterday as I was spotting her down a downclimb in a slot canyon. Oh well--he deserves it for starting this whole DDD fantasy.

[Topper]

9/10.

Might be a bit too on-the-mark for Solon, as I caught his wife in an awkward embrace (?) yesterday as I was spotting her down a downclimb in a slot canyon. Oh well--he deserves it for starting this whole DDD fantasy.

I knew Solon's wife first. She is a quiet gem. BTW, tell Solon, emails have a reply function.

[Solon]

Hate to be the cold shower in this little fantasy of yours, but spouses were present.

Look, ER Coug is well plugged-in to our local performing-arts community. Trust me - if he was looking for dudes, he could do WAAAAAAY better than me.

[DrumNFeather]

Our EQ this week was basically the rest of us watching a conversation between two people...and it was actually pretty fascinating. We had a guy get up and talk about the Eastern Orthodox church and the various tenants of that faith that can be found in Mormonism. He had written his dissertation on the Eastern Greek Orthodox church, having been raised by a Father who was Eastern Orthodox and a mother who was a LDS convert. Then he found one to attend here locally and as it turns out, the person running it was the same person he'd met and given a BOM to some 20+ years ago.

So that lead to a discussion of the fundamental tenants of the various faiths and how we can find common ground with many of them. After a while, a guy who has been in the military over in Afghanistan started talking about the fundamental tenants of Islam and what they believe as compared to the Christian world and how because of the radicals they've been vilified etc...

They had a back and forth for a while that was just very interesting to listen to...certainly not your typical lesson from the book.

At the end of it all, or EQP talked about how he takes his kids to other churches all the time, and encouraged us to do the same. All in all it made the hour go quickly.

[Katy Lied]

In my GD class last sunday, I discussed the movie A Separation, in the context of the sharia court scenes. Up until I saw the movie, I thought sharia courts were solemn and uncrowded, with a group of clerics on the dais condemning a lone adulterous woman to stoning, with lawyers and media present. The movie portrayed sharia courts as busy and bewildering, more bazaar than cathedral, with people moving in and out of them, dragging witnesses and babies along. The courtroom hallways looked like passport offices, with participants camped out for long periods of time waiting to get their case heard. The clerics looked for all the world like bishops, harried and overworked, accompanied only with a book of scripture in order to judge the merits of each case.

It came up when someone asked about BOM judges, and their use of scripture even if they weren't church leaders.

[Topper]

In my GD class last sunday, I discussed the movie A Separation, in the context of the sharia court scenes. Up until I saw the movie, I thought sharia courts were solemn and uncrowded, with a group of clerics on the dais condemning a lone adulterous woman to stoning, with lawyers and media present. The movie portrayed sharia courts as busy and bewildering, more bazaar than cathedral, with people moving in and out of them, dragging witnesses and babies along. The courtroom hallways looked like passport offices, with participants camped out for long periods of time waiting to get their case heard. The clerics looked for all the world like bishops, harried and overworked, accompanied only with a book of scripture in order to judge the merits of each case.

It came up when someone asked about BOM judges, and their use of scripture even if they weren't church leaders.

That film was fantastic and showed a subject of which there is considerable ignorance in the west.

[SoonerCoug]

I haven't been to church in a million years, but I thought this was a good summary of every Sunday School lesson ever.

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[DU Ute]

I haven't been to church in a million years

I know you aren't one to exaggerate your stories, but this seems a bit far fetched.

[Pelado]

I haven't been to church in a million years, but I thought this was a good summary of every Sunday School lesson ever.

[YOUTUBE]5THhmPQgdw4[/YOUTUBE]

Not how my lessons went. I tended to focus more time on deep, false doctrine and unfunny, poorly timed jokes - just like I do at CUF.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

It is cool that kimchicoug, the apparent voice of his generation, deigns to post on CUF when he could be out writing books or hitting the lecture circuit at major universities.

Don't get antsy that you are part of the more distinguished generation of CUF, PAC, 71, Topper, SU are good company to be in. One day kimchi and I will be older also.

[Solon]

Don't get antsy that you are part of the more distinguished generation of CUF, PAC, 71, Topper, SU are good company to be in. One day kimchi and I will be older also.

My wife learned today that the reason LDS churches have stoves & ovens, even though actual cooking/baking are forbidden, is to feed masses of refugees when society collapses at the End of Days.

This is also the reason for the strategic arrangement of LDS-owned Girls' Camps throughout the Mountain West. The Camps have been pre-fitted to accommodate 20,000 - 30,000 refugees each, which will come in handy when political authority has disintegrated and we've fled to the hills to escape contagion, nuclear winter, and Nightrider & Toecutter's gang.

[wuapinmon]

My wife learned today that the reason LDS churches have stoves & ovens, even though actual cooking/baking are forbidden, is to feed masses of refugees when society collapses at the End of Days.

This is also the reason for the strategic arrangement of LDS-owned Girls' Camps throughout the Mountain West. The Camps have been pre-fitted to accommodate 20,000 - 30,000 refugees each, which will come in handy when political authority has disintegrated and we've fled to the hills to escape contagion, nuclear winter, and Nightrider & Toecutter's gang.

Yeah, but I'm guessing that they've got nothing for how to deal with zombies.

[Moliere]

Yeah, but I'm guessing that they've got nothing for how to deal with zombies.

Baptisms for the undead

[wuapinmon]

Baptisms for the undead

[FMCoug]

My wife learned today that the reason LDS churches have stoves & ovens, even though actual cooking/baking are forbidden, is to feed masses of refugees when society collapses at the End of Days.

This is also the reason for the strategic arrangement of LDS-owned Girls' Camps throughout the Mountain West. The Camps have been pre-fitted to accommodate 20,000 - 30,000 refugees each, which will come in handy when political authority has disintegrated and we've fled to the hills to escape contagion, nuclear winter, and Nightrider & Toecutter's gang.

I'm confused. Who has the authority top decide society has collapsed badly enough to warrant the use of the meetinghouse appliances? If there is a power outage or a natural disaster does that count? Or must it be the apocalypse? And how do we know that it is the actual apocalypse? Is that what the ham radio network is for? Will we get a ham message that says "This is the apocalypse. Ignore the handbook. Thus sayeth the Lord."?