April 2020 General Conference - Global Pandemic Edition

[Walter Sobchak]

lol knock it off. Church members bring up old conference talks all the time.

Wait, so are you telling me that we will hear a regurgitated summation of these 10 hours of Conference talks during the next 6 months of Sac Mtg?

You should have trigger warning'd that post my dude.

[SCcoug]

Conference is essentially 10 hours of above-average Sac Mtg talks. Every six months we get an avalanche of non-descript blasé boilerplate that buries whatever came before it. In 5 years, or roughly 100 hours of conference talks later, I will be shocked if you can remember anything from yesterday or today.

lol knock it off. Church members bring up old conference talks all the time. No one is trying to retain all of GC but certainly will remember the talks or moments if they stood out to them. Which is why we still here about "tender mercies", or "lift where you stand" or "good better best" etc.

[ewth8tr]

Hope it'll be Funk's or H8r's next tat.

Edit: Nuts, posted this before I saw AA's post in the other thread. Still, great minds...

lol, sorry, I've got my next several already planned out, maybe later though [emoji1787]

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[Omaha 680]

That apostolic blessing and the ensuing multilingual closing hymn is an experience I will never forget.

It's the new Soosamay! (Old called to serve video with all the Mtc classes singing in different languages).

Kidding. I thought the multilingual hymn was very well done and inspiring.

[Walter Sobchak]

wth?

Conference is essentially 10 hours of above-average Sac Mtg talks. Every six months we get an avalanche of non-descript blasé boilerplate that buries whatever came before it. In 5 years, or roughly 100 hours of conference talks later, I will be shocked if you can remember anything from yesterday or today.

[Northwestcoug]

Feeling the same way. There area few posters now that have so thoroughly eliminated all other notes from their posting that you know the single note they will play before you read the post.

Here’s hoping I still have at least a harmony!

[falafel]

wth?

You know, a day or two ago you made a post about an almond allergy or something. As I was reading it I was thinking how refreshing it was to read something from you that was genuine and in good faith - that is incredibly rare these days. Sadly, almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. Then I got the end and discovered that the whole point of your post was to say that Uncle Ted's allergy doctor relative was in a useless profession. Sigh...

Feeling the same way. There area few posters now that have so thoroughly eliminated all other notes from their posting that you know the single note they will play before you read the post.

[Pelado]

Really liked that Spirit of God/Hosana number. My wife usually likes to fast forward and/or ignore the music. For that number, she paid attention.

[Joe Public]

One of several things I liked about conference was the absence (unless I missed it) of any mention about the pandemic being divine retribution. The article AV linked to has some truly awful quotes from a few evangelicals blaming gays, oral sex, etc. for the virus. I suppose having accomplished physicians (or simply persons with functioning cerebrums) among the GAs helps us avoid such nonsense. Instead of focusing on etiology (let's leave that to the scientific professionals), Conference focused on the love the Savior has for us, and how with that love we can overcome all things, including a lousy virus.

I'm tempted to start a poll along the lines of "if you could eradicate the virus but it meant eradicating oral sex as well . . ."

[All-American]

Unfortunately, being slightly better than the Evangelicals is not going to win over the millennial generation. Not that we need to cater to them. But if you lose a generation, you lose your church. Although more of that in bold I think is a good start.

JL, I think JS just made a Chiasmus out of your corporate hack post.

[jay santos]

One of several things I liked about conference was the absence (unless I missed it) of any mention about the pandemic being divine retribution. The article AV linked to has some truly awful quotes from a few evangelicals blaming gays, oral sex, etc. for the virus. I suppose having accomplished physicians (or simply persons with functioning cerebrums) among the GAs helps us avoid such nonsense. Instead of focusing on etiology (let's leave that to the scientific professionals), Conference focused on the love the Savior has for us, and how with that love we can overcome all things, including a lousy virus.

Unfortunately, being slightly better than the Evangelicals is not going to win over the millennial generation. Not that we need to cater to them. But if you lose a generation, you lose your church. Although more of that in bold I think is a good start.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I thought Elder Holland's talk was perhaps the best conference talk I've ever heard. Every talk touches every person differently, but for me, his was perfect.

Yeah, that was outstanding. Loved it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Disagree, you will.

wth?

You know, a day or two ago you made a post about an almond allergy or something. As I was reading it I was thinking how refreshing it was to read something from you that was genuine and in good faith - that is incredibly rare these days. Sadly, almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. Then I got the end and discovered that the whole point of your post was to say that Uncle Ted's allergy doctor relative was in a useless profession. Sigh...

[cowboy]

I thought Elder Holland's talk was perhaps the best conference talk I've ever heard. Every talk touches every person differently, but for me, his was perfect.

[PaloAltoCougar]

One of several things I liked about conference was the absence (unless I missed it) of any mention about the pandemic being divine retribution. The article AV linked to has some truly awful quotes from a few evangelicals blaming gays, oral sex, etc. for the virus. I suppose having accomplished physicians (or simply persons with functioning cerebrums) among the GAs helps us avoid such nonsense. Instead of focusing on etiology (let's leave that to the scientific professionals), Conference focused on the love the Savior has for us, and how with that love we can overcome all things, including a lousy virus.