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Book of Mordor
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Date: July 21, 2014 05:04PM
Cheryl, you beat me to it. I was going to start a thread on this myself but I'm too late.
So here is the text of I was going to going to post anyway –
*Which hymn(s) do you dislike the most?*
Any set of criteria can be used – singing it, listening to it, cheesy words, the doctrine, etc.
"I Am a Child of God" has always been the absolute worst for me. Hate everything about it. It was on my shelf before I had ever heard the word, or knew what a shelf was.
"Choose the Right" sucks too; probably no coincidence that these two began as Primary songs.
And of course, the bootlicking "We Thank Thee, O God, For a Prophet." Screams hero worship and cult of personality. An exmo favorite.
Missionary songs are on my list as well, like "Called to Serve" and "We Are All Enlisted."
I haven’t forgotten "Ye Elders of Israel," either. In fact, I disliked that one so much that I wrote a parody of it about a third of the way into my mission (Feb-Mar 1981). [Vowels between "/ /" symbols are carried over two notes.]
Ye /e/lders of /I/srael, you're wasting your time
By knocking on doors where you're treated like slime
You're w/or/king your t/ai/ls off in snow and in sleet
And rarely are teaching the people you meet
[Chorus]
O Montreal, O Montreal, Province of Quebec
If you reject us, then you’ll all go to heck
The h/a/rvest is sm/a/ll and the winters are cold
"Ça m'interesse pas," seems to be all you're told
You're called upon to separate the wheat from the tares
You represent Jesus, but nobody cares
[Repeat Chorus]
You're set apart to tr/a/ct and compete with the Mass
But as you have seen, it's a pain in the grass
This work is making m/y/ stomach feel like a stone
Oh please, President, would you transfer me home?
[Repeat Chorus]
Of course, if an elder does something like that today, he gets hauled into the MP's office for a good reaming. But nothing ever happened to me over this. It was no secret, either; by the time I went home in June 1982, even the AP's knew full well that I was its author.