183rd Annual General Conference Predictions

[Pheidippides]

Let's get this party started. My wife and I discussed this morning and have the following prognostications:

- Two women will pray to the fanfare of progressive mormons everywhere.
- These same ProgMos will record the session and fast forward through all the women speakers.
- This will result in a lack of anger when the women give talks about women's roles and how everything about being a woman in the church is hunky-dory.
- Even money on BKP coming down hard on women's roles and/or gay marriage. Slightly lower odds of a redacted or changed written version of the talk and/or damage control by the church PR office.
- Porn once again is absent from Priesthood Session except in oblique references.
- New temples announced in two African countries, two in the Rockies, three in S. America, none in Europe.
- Moliere has to be physically dragged from the TV set during the auditor's report.
- President Monson shares no fewer than four stories I've heard before.
- DFU has only one reference to being a pilot.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Priesthood given to all women, but taken from all men.

[Indy Coug]

Priesthood given to all women, but taken from all men.

[byu71]

- President Monson shares no fewer than four stories I've heard before.

What is amazing to me is that he will probably share two or more amazing personal stories that no one has ever heard before.

[Rickomatic]

- President Monson shares no fewer than four stories I've heard before.

Is he only giving one talk this session?

[thesaint258]

I predict that I'll be sitting in Priesthood with my iPad on a low brightness setting toward the back of the building.

[Moliere]

- Moliere has to be physically dragged from the TV set during the auditor's report.

I might be the only person that says "AMEN!" at the end of that report.

My prediction is that a woman, or group of women, visibly and/or audibly interrupts something (probably the sustaining of officers) to make a stand against misogyny....and they are quietly escorted from the Conf Center.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I predict that I'll be sitting in Priesthood with my iPad on a low brightness setting toward the back of the building.

I'll just be using regular brightness, but similar situations. I got committed to going for the first time in a while, I wasn't planning on going again until Jr was 12.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Temple for Cedar City

[pellegrino]

I might be the only person that says "AMEN!" at the end of that report.

My prediction is that a woman, or group of women, visibly and/or audibly interrupts something (probably the sustaining of officers) to make a stand against misogyny....and they are quietly escorted from the Conf Center.

tensions are high, the stage is set. My only question is will it be newsworthy.

[thesaint258]

I'll just be using regular brightness, but similar situations. I got committed to going for the first time in a while, I wasn't planning on going again until Jr was 12.

The commitment pattern rears its ugly head yet again...

[Surfah]

Richmond, VA temple.

[Indy Coug]

Richmond, VA temple.

That would be surprising.

[Clark Addison]

I keep fearing that they will announce a temple in Charlotte, NC, leaving me with no excuse for my sporadic attendance.

[Harry Tic]

The policy change re: mission age is referred to as a "miracle" by no fewer than four different speakers.

It is referred to as evidence of continuing revelation by more than one speaker, including one member of the 70 that no one has ever heard of before.