"Hold my root beer" - the Russell M. Nelson thread

[YOhio]

Do you think women have the priesthood of Aaron? Well if you do, then you are very wrong.

It's a prototype! We implement these and every popular elementary school teacher in American history will have their work done.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Do you think women have the priesthood of Aaron? Well if you do, then you are very wrong.

[YOhio]

We will need some social distancing baptism machines.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

We will need some social distancing baptism machines.

[Bo Diddley]

Nelson promised an historical general conference and delivered:

- New symbol. Love it. I have always wondered why Moroni was used. I mean the guy is the cool but it's not his church.
- 200th anniversary of first vision. Cool. BTW, the date of the first vision was most likely not April 6th but March 26th, 1820: https://www.facebook.com/10827759062...31662257545756
- A solemn assembly. Yes, we mormons are weird and all my baptist friends are now sending me videos of people waving white handkerchiefs.
- A freak'n temple in China! Now we can baptize the hell out of those bat-eating commies!

I love that phrase.

[Uncle Ted]

Of course that doesn’t stop leadership from hyping announcements coming and generating buzz about what they will be!

Nelson promised an historical general conference and delivered:

- New symbol. Love it. I have always wondered why Moroni was used. I mean the guy is the cool but it's not his church.
- 200th anniversary of first vision. Cool. BTW, the date of the first vision was most likely not April 6th but March 26th, 1820: https://www.facebook.com/10827759062...31662257545756
- A solemn assembly. Yes, we mormons are weird and all my baptist friends are now sending me videos of people waving white handkerchiefs.
- A freak'n temple in China! Now we can baptize the hell out of those bat-eating commies!

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Conference was great. The Prophet and his messages were great.

Someone mentioned it earlier, but I think all the big changes out of the gate conditioned people to expect big changes ever 6 mo. That's not sustainable, or even advisable.

Of course that doesn’t stop leadership from hyping announcements coming and generating buzz about what they will be!

[Walter Sobchak]

You guys are jacked up.

Haven't been jacked for a long time.

After 3 weeks of quarantine:

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[BigFatMeanie]

I would agree here with the tone, but would change the last word to state that the announced changes are disguised as "revelation". Corporate re-branding plus the publication of a meaningless boilerplate "proclamation" which could be more simply described as a run-of-the-mill press release. Do better RNM.

+1 on a extreme disappointment with the current presidency. +1 Mormonforever. This is what happens when 90 year old men that don't take advice from others are leading. The corporate rebrand is 30 years too late. Irrelevant now. Evangelical christianity is on life support, and we're finally trying to align ourselves with them. Secularism is the enemy now. No one is asking which is Christ's true church. They are asking, why should I care about Christ. That said, I was stimulated and inspired by portions of conference and feel the community of my fellow saints.

You guys are jacked up.

[falafel]

Conference was great. The Prophet and his messages were great.

Someone mentioned it earlier, but I think all the big changes out of the gate conditioned people to expect big changes ever 6 mo. That's not sustainable, or even advisable.

[Bo Diddley]

#teampresidentnelson

[Uncle Ted]

I hope President Nelson lives for another 10+ years... or at least longer than DHO. Love President Nelson.

[Jeff Lebowski]

+1 on a extreme disappointment with the current presidency. +1 Mormonforever. This is what happens when 90 year old men that don't take advice from others are leading. The corporate rebrand is 30 years too late. Irrelevant now. Evangelical christianity is on life support, and we're finally trying to align ourselves with them. Secularism is the enemy now. No one is asking which is Christ's true church. They are asking, why should I care about Christ. That said, I was stimulated and inspired by portions of conference and feel the community of my fellow saints.

Jay, this is ridiculous. Did you not just witness an entire conference dedicated to the first vision, restoration, etc? I can't imagine any reasonable evangelical seeing RMN's tenure as an attempt to align with them and abandon our core beliefs.

I think there were countless reasons given to care about Christ in this conference.

[SCcoug]

Tough crowd. I think he's doing a fine job.

[Donuthole]

I don’t think you could have more persuasively argued in favor of these changes if that had been your purpose than you did by arguing against them.

Oh brother.