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Thanks Donald Hallstrom, I was already going to be a nervous wreck when my husband and son go on High Adventure. Now I won’t be able to sleep a wink. 😯 (Also, I thought he was going to say “the first people who reached him were LDS, and they gave him a blessing!” But no, he’s giving credit to the mountain rangers and EMT’s.
:clap: )This is not a bad talk either – he seems to be contradicting the theodicy that’s been creeping into our doctrine lately.
First talk is by a woman, and it’s a decent one, overall. We need to focus more on the Savior and less on how terrible the world is compared to us. (No Primary voice either, if you’re bothered by that – I’m not.) I’ve given up the idea that God is going to split up loving, happily married couples (and families) in the next life unless they are one of the 0.5% who participated in certain rituals. That doesn’t really help me, since I was married in the temple, but maybe it helps you. hawkgrrrl wrote:
Joni wrote:
While I’ve got my complainy pants on, I really didn’t like the way RMN was talking about grieving families needing a padded room to receive bad news. It was very much “we’re better than them because we’ve got the plan of salvation.” You would think a retired doctor would have more compassion than that.
Doctors are more valued for being dispassionate. They can let nurses do the heavy lifting of nurturing, particularly surgeons.
Being dispassionate is one thing. Mocking them in front of an audience of millions is quite another. But maybe I’m just primed to dislike most of the things RMN says.
I really dislike the idea that it’s the culture, not the doctrine (or “the church is perfect, the people are not.” Since when is the church perfect?!) It really feels like SLC is foisting blame for any and all problems right back into the membership. And that honestly doesn’t feel like fair play to me. mormonheretic wrote:
Just remember that StayLDS.ORG is an anti-Mormon site by a cyber-squatter. Hopefully nobody gets .COM confused with .ORG, but I know that has happened, especially at first.
Wait, really?
All the years I’ve been on here my husband’s been insisting that StayLDS is an anti Mormon website designed to get people to leave the church. I thought he was being judgemental, but maybe he just went to the wrong site.
While I’ve got my complainy pants on, I really didn’t like the way RMN was talking about grieving families needing a padded room to receive bad news. It was very much “we’re better than them because we’ve got the plan of salvation.” You would think a retired doctor would have more compassion than that. Sorry President Nelson, but if I was offered either diamonds + rubies or the Book of Mormon, I’d take the diamonds + rubies. After all, they give out the B of M for free. 😆 EDIT: I may have just yelled ARE YOU KIDDING ME when he told the story about reading the B of M leading to higher test scores. That would be a NOPE.
Sometimes a coincidence is just a coincidence. If we’re going to ascribe every coincidence to God, we’re creating a pretty significant theological conundrum for ourselves. Although it does make for interesting stories in F&T meeting.
😆 Oooh, if I only had a dollar for every humblebrag I’ve heard in testimony meeting… Hey! He just used the word “modesty” correctly!
The opening prayer to this session was kind of weird. I gave up trying to follow it and just thumbed through the new IKEA catalog. Youth choir sounds great.
Also, I was pleasantly surprised that the talk about social media didn’t go where I thought it was gonna go.
Wait, your wife doesn’t have her ears pierced? GBH said only two extra holes per lady head so she’d still only be halfway there. 😆 I’ve thought about this piercing for my daughter, who does already have her ears pierced. I don’t think that an uncanonized one-off statement by a prophet who is no longer alive is a good reason to suffer needlessly.
FWIW, I’ve heard from some friends who’ve done it and they say it helped. Yes, it’s unproven. But unlike most unscientific remedies, it costs very little and has no harmful side effects (unless the piercing gets infected, I guess.)
