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  • November 15, 2014 at 8:08 pm #110485
    SunbeltRed
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    If anyone is interested here is the talk I plan on giving tomorrow. Would welcome any constructive criticism –

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-zDvOKacHyTX3FOeTdCRDUyWWs/view?usp=sharing” class=”bbcode_url”>https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-zDvOKacHyTX3FOeTdCRDUyWWs/view?usp=sharing

    November 15, 2014 at 9:02 pm #193022
    mom3
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    Sunbelt – Thank you. That is beautiful. I find no critique. I am homebound, which has it’s benefits, this will be my Sacrament Talk for tomorrow.

    Good luck with it tomorrow. You will do great.

    November 15, 2014 at 10:15 pm #193023
    dash1730
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    That is beautiful. You develop some themes I first learned from the Givens and has become an important help for me to StayLDS. Thank you for sharing. My only concern is how orthodox members would respond to citing the Givens and Ted Talks. You have many more quotations from “official sources” so hopefully they won’t object.

    Let us know how it went.

    November 15, 2014 at 10:46 pm #193024
    mom3
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    My only concern is how orthodox members would respond to citing the Givens and Ted Talks.

    Dash I had the same thought as I was replaying the talk in my head this past hour. I think Sunbelt you could insert “LDS Historian” before the Givens name. It’s accurate and if anyone flinched they would be doing so on a technicality. On the TED talk, I would just say, “Persons name” said ….. If anyone complains use the C.S. Lewis excuse. “G.A.’s use C.S. Lewis all the time.” or “Thomas Monson told a story about a Methodist man who was a service leader in General Conference.”

    November 16, 2014 at 2:16 am #193025
    SunbeltRed
    Participant

    Thanks for the feedback. I will put in LDS Historians in front of the Givens, that is a good call.

    I thought the really edgy part was my comment about white shirts :D

    If a very Orthodox member listens and their only complaint is that I quoted some non-typical sources, I’ll call it a win 🙂

    November 16, 2014 at 2:18 am #193026
    DarkJedi
    Participant

    I make a similar white shirt comment all the time – including in my talk tomorrow. Don’t worry about it.

    November 17, 2014 at 5:24 pm #193027
    Heber13
    Participant

    How’d it go? How do you feel about it?

    November 17, 2014 at 5:52 pm #193028
    SunbeltRed
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    It went Ok. Speaker ahead of me went 10-12 minutes over so I had to condense on the fly. It felt rushed, and if you can’t tell I like to slow build into my key takeaways. So not sure how it came across. I probably chopped half to 2/3rd’s of my talk. My comment about white shirts got the axe :silent:

    I got some nice compliments, but you never know sometimes how sincere they are. It was also a ward that we lived in for our first three years in this area. Lots of friends still there, so pretty easy going crowd.

    -SBRed

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