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  • #646
    Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
    We were told on Sunday that we all need to go see it so that the movie makes it to Netflix.

    Totally agree that it's nutty to think non-LDS people will pay to see this in the theater.
    If anything Mormons are good at creating false demand.
    "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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    • #647
      Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
      An e-mail was sent to all SPs last week regarding the MTM movie informing them to instruct all members to:

      1) Contact your local cinema and request that they get the movie.
      2) Swamp the theaters on opening weekend in October. Supposedly a strong opening week will trick convince other cinemas to pick up the movie.

      For the life of me, I can't understand what they are trying to do here. There is just no way that the average person is going to take part of their leisure time and pay actual money to sit through a promotional movie about a church. Would you pay to go watch a movie about JWs for example? Not a chance. Put it on youtube or something.

      Somebody should have raised their hand in a committee meeting. Good grief.
      Our stake was apparently not important enough to get the email.
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      "Outlined against a blue, gray
      October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
      Grantland Rice, 1924

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      • #648
        Sometimes long business trips are a good thing.

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        • #649
          Originally posted by cowboy View Post
          Our stake was apparently not important enough to get the email.
          It was only sent to stakes that had movie theaters in its boundaries.
          Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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          • #650
            Originally posted by cowboy View Post
            Our stake was apparently not important enough to get the email.
            I haven't heard anything about this push either but it wouldn't surprise me if it is real.
            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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            • #651
              Originally posted by Moliere View Post
              If anything Mormons are good at creating false demand.
              Are you implying that the Brethren would ask us to Jimmer a poll?
              Last edited by Non Sequitur; 09-15-2014, 07:52 PM.
              "The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuane

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              • #652
                Originally posted by TripletDaddy View Post
                It was only sent to stakes that had movie theaters in its boundaries.
                And the internet. It was sent via email.
                "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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                • #653
                  Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                  An e-mail was sent to all SPs last week regarding the MTM movie informing them to instruct all members to:

                  1) Contact your local cinema and request that they get the movie.
                  2) Swamp the theaters on opening weekend in October. Supposedly a strong opening week will trick convince other cinemas to pick up the movie.

                  For the life of me, I can't understand what they are trying to do here. There is just no way that the average person is going to take part of their leisure time and pay actual money to sit through a promotional movie about a church. Would you pay to go watch a movie about JWs for example? Not a chance. Put it on youtube or something.

                  Somebody should have raised their hand in a committee meeting. Good grief.
                  IMO this film completes our move to religious fascists. We may not be violent (anymore), but we've got all the other bases covered.
                  Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                  God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                  Alessandro Manzoni

                  Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                  pelagius

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                  • #654
                    Originally posted by cowboy View Post
                    Our stake was apparently not important enough to get the email.
                    Neither is ours, yet. I'll admit I am scratching my head about this effort, however. It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
                    “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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                    • #655
                      Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
                      IMO this film completes our move to religious fascists. We may not be violent (anymore), but we've got all the other bases covered.
                      Which is cool because that's just a step or two before it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear.

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                      • #656
                        Originally posted by YOhio View Post
                        Which is cool because that's just a step or two before it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear.
                        that's the ticket!
                        Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
                        God forgives many things for an act of mercy
                        Alessandro Manzoni

                        Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.

                        pelagius

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                        • #657
                          Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
                          IMO this film completes our move to religious fascists. We may not be violent (anymore), but we've got all the other bases covered.
                          I would think you would love that move given you seem to love all things Italian.
                          Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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                          • #658
                            Originally posted by pellegrino View Post
                            IMO this film completes our move to religious fascists. We may not be violent (anymore), but we've got all the other bases covered.
                            Somebody has been surfing reddit. Say hey to nikuman for us.
                            "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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                            • #659
                              Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
                              Mother f! it popped up in my FB feed and didn't check the date. But it was posted by a guy in my old ward that teaches CCW classes, so he's probably always dredging up old stories to keep people good and scared. Sorry to get everyone all excited.

                              (For some reason, I don't remember much of this story from 5 years ago.)
                              Ha! My boss just came in to my office and asked if I'd heard about this. Her daughter had told her. You aren't the only one getting sent old news.

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                              • #660
                                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                                An e-mail was sent to all SPs last week regarding the MTM movie informing them to instruct all members to:

                                1) Contact your local cinema and request that they get the movie.
                                2) Swamp the theaters on opening weekend in October. Supposedly a strong opening week will trick convince other cinemas to pick up the movie.

                                For the life of me, I can't understand what they are trying to do here. There is just no way that the average person is going to take part of their leisure time and pay actual money to sit through a promotional movie about a church. Would you pay to go watch a movie about JWs for example? Not a chance. Put it on youtube or something.

                                Somebody should have raised their hand in a committee meeting. Good grief.
                                I bet the church buys up tickets and gives to missionaries or guilts members into buying extra tickets and giving to missionaries.

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