Posted by:
onetheDownLow
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Date: October 21, 2011 06:57PM
My TBM brother is in town with his son visiting my kids and family. Today he told me he was downloading a free version of Starcraft 2 for those of u that are familiar with video games. It is mildly violent. I sat down on the couch and flipped on the tv and the xbox to call of duty to shoot up some zombies.
My TBM bro got nervous and said that it is too violent for his 8 year old. I let my 2 eight year olds play it with me on split screen. At any rate, where does on dry the line in the sand between too violent a video game and one that is appropriately violent?
I told him, "hey, just imagine that I am one of the stripling warriors fending off the evil laminites and that its by the faith of my mother that I stand tall against these mildly violent creatures. LOL.
One other funny thing happened. I discretely asked him today if he knew when the next time the LDS church would display the actual papyri on temple square. He looked at me funny. I said, "you heard that they were found in 1966 in a museum in NY?" He said "No". I said "ya the church displayed it along with the pepperbox gun that Joseph used to fend off the angry mob in his final hour. He still looked perplexed. I dropped it for the moment and asked him an hour later "so David, you mean to tell me you never heard about the papyri being found and it was confirmed by Hugh Nibly etc..." I also asked him if his wife knew and he said he didn't know (she ready to allow him to practice polygamy due to her strong faith, she cries when she confesses this fact and bears her testamony about the true and everlasting covenent).
My brother finalized his comment on the subject by saying that he has heard some stuff on the POGP and the papyri but he has never been interested in such things.
How the heck can you not be interested in seeing the actual papyri that Joseph claims he translated into the POGP and has taught us so many wonderful things about the gospel? LOL I wonder if he was really trying to avoid the conversation with me?