Dang it! I knew I forgot something!
LDS General Conference Fall 2015
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Dang it! I knew I forgot something!
mellow
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I thought everyone loved Uchtdorf, he seems pretty mellow to me. And I don't remember him ever saying anything controversial. I understand some of the others, for instance, I have a friend who still struggles to pay tithing years after Elder Eyring talked about selling his extra property in San Francisco to get out of debt. And holland gave some fiery sermons as byu president and in his early days, but Uctdorf? Who are these disaffected people?
In other news, I liked Elder Andersons talk, and Larry Lawrence from Saturday morning.
green
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I think there is a lot of truth in this. And that bothers me. It feels like the Church is more worried about LDS, Corp sometimes than proclaiming the gospel of Christ.
Oh well, life goes on. I'll be baptizing my oldest boy later this year and am looking forward to it. He's a good kid who tries to do the right things. I'm excited for him.
Zulu
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Yup was very disappointed in the callings.... So went and watch "Book of Mormon" instead of conference!!
Zulu
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I agree... I bet half the quorum was like hell no I'm not going to do that!!!
Makes me think of that Prancerize video by that woman who was trying to create a new dance/exercise - that was a hoot!
Anyhow, small steps, right? It does take time for folks to rise up thru the ranks to achieve positions of leadership in any organization.
How long did it take for Catholics to choose a pope from the Western Hemisphere? A few centuries?
seattlejazzfan
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Yeah, not a fan of the ponderize thing, but you lead all of D1 basketball in scoring and shoot 58% FGs while you do it, you get a mulligan from me during your first conference talk.
At least there is one non American. There's a German in there.
That's been one of my wife's biggest complaints ever since we moved to Utah. We'll see if Pres. Uchtdorf's message gets across. (I'm with you... probably not.)
On the plus side it's one of the handful of talks that I can remember without having to look at the summary. So in that sense it was pretty successful.
I think it was designed that way. I will remember it too, not because of the spirit I felt, but because it was catchy.
My wife's been talking about "Thomas and the Monslers". Sounds like a 60s rock group!
b_line
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Sorry. I mean disaffected Mormons will love him. A lot of people who have problems with the church like the guys listed above because they are not the typical conservative Mormons. That is interesting about the view on eyring being out of touch. I like these guys, but they definitely are far removed from having to do blue collar work for a living.
I did a perfunctory search and didn't find anything. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'd like to either watch or read about this talk. It sounds interesting...
I appreciate the response. It sounds like a plausible scenario but even if it is the reality, what you're saying is that the leadership of the church didn't think diversity was important in the year 2005.
b_line
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That is why it is frustrating.
ok maybe my opinion doesn't count for much since it's coming from a position of white privilege and all that, but I don't think you can automatically jump to this conclusion without knowing the places of all the moving pieces
perhaps there's a certain protocol that's typically followed and they're grooming a diverse group to move up the ranks but nobody was yet in position to advance
from my quick reading of what's been posted, it seems that is a large part of it and the next group of leaders to move up will reflect more diversity
or so it may be hoped