Our stake (located in the south Davis County) started once a month meetings in July. The way we are doing it right now is every ward in a chapel gets one week a month to have the building. My ward split into two different times, based on last name. We (my wife and I) went that first month because we got a new Bishopric and wanted to be there to see who it was. We also went today because my oldest daughter just got a new calling into the young women class presidency and wanted to be there to support her. We all wear masks everywhere, so obviously we did to church as well. Everyone did. My calling as finance clerk requires me to go to the building and count donations, etc. basically every week anyway, so I might as well go on our week. It is weird only having like 15 families in the chapel for a sacrament meeting. Kind of reminds me of my mission.
How is being a financial clerk since the advent of online donations? I was FC back like 8 years ago, well before online was an option. Took 1.5-2 hrs each Sunday, if I’m remembering correctly. I’d imagine most people donate online and probably a huge benefit to clerks and bishopric who spend more of their Sunday away from family. It should be criminal to donate in person.
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I completely agree with this. I’ve seriously looked at real estate prices in Canada. Seems pretty expensive and I don’t know the first thing about finding another job in a foreign country. But I’m honestly about done here. I’m getting some very early 1930 Germany late 1990 Russia vibes. Our democracy is potentially entering a very dark place and I don’t want to be here when things boil over.
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And as a PS, people shouldn’t throw the term Nazis around so much. It makes you look like a fool and not a scholar of history in the slightest.
When the government starts rounding up people based on their gender, race, religion or political views and executing them en masse then we can.
When the government starts rounding up people based on their gender, race, religion or political views and executing them en masse then we can.
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I didn’t know we still had financial clerks seeing how so much is done online now. Interesting.
Avery
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Ireland for me. People mind their own business and are pleasant with you.
Imagine being of service to others other than yourself.
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Whoa! What a concept! Never been to Ireland. Visited London and France last summer. Really liked London. Ireland and Iceland are definitely on the list.
Most do online. The elderly and kids are the vast majority of those handing in envelopes. We have one lady that has an automatic bill pay set up to just mail her tithing check directly to the Bishop. You can even opt to have reimbursements direct deposited via ACH now as well. There will always be the need to write checks though.
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Okay, I'll be super patient. I hope I'm not on the first train. Only after I see other people being exterminated will I bring up parallels. Wouldn't want to look silly!
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But I think it’s fair to bring up fascism, esp. since we have a history of it here. I think what some may forget is that fascism will always display home grown roots, and will reflect concerns, issues, and the history of the nation in which it appears. And mentioning fascism and Trump in the same sentence is not the same as saying Trump is a Nazi, or America’s Hitler. Trump is Trump, and nobody else, but he is part of an ugly stream:
American Fascism: It Has Happened Here | Sarah Churchwell
“When Americans think of dictators they always think of some foreign model,” wrote the anti-fascist journalist Dorothy Thompson in the mid-1930s, but an American dictator would be “one of the boys, and he will stand for everything traditionally American.” And the American people, Thompson added...
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And as historian Timothy Snyder pointed out in a recent Washington Post commentary, regarding Trump’s now fairly apparent re-election strategy:
“A fascist guide to commentary on elections would have eight parts: contradict yourself to test the faith of your followers; tell a big lie to draw attention from basic realities; manufacture a crisis; designate enemies; make an appeal to pride and humiliation; express hostility to voting; cast doubt on democratic procedures; and aim for personal power”.
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