Many people look at Mormonism from the outside and believe they're seeing a happy community. Little do they know that a failure to simulate happiness within the community is a sin. Members must be happy, or they might become wicked. No, that couldn't be.

So if you're looking for happy Mormons, you'll find them. They've been told to be happy. Failure to comply is a crime against God. Find 'em happy dammit, cause happy is what they are.

I'm reminded, in the secular world, of Chuck E Cheese's Pizza. Here's a place where everything is so fucked up and crappy that you would be considered a fool for liking it. The pizza is garbage, cardboard coated with tomato paste. The ambiance is ghetto--screaming and running and bruises.

If you put a steeple over Chuck E Cheese, it's still a crap hole. Likewise the steeple over Mormon churches signifies nothing. Ripped pieces of Wonderbread and a cup of tap water don't mean a thing.

A little part of it in everyone.

just a thought .... I recently saw a documentary about the founder of Chuck-e-Cheeses. I don't remember the name right now, but he was a computer programmer and one of the head guys with Atari and various game design companies and such. When revenues dropped from putting arcade games in actual arcades in malls and such as the focus turned to home PC games they came up with the idea of Chuck-e-Cheeses. They were very open and admitted that it was a pizza place founded by computer engineers who knew nothing about pizza but that wasn't the purpose anyways since from conception it was and is all about just getting kids to play the games.

Thats nice and a good reason for the way it started out. That's okay for the first six months. But no improvement since then? Think how much more they could be if they actually had good pizza and ambiance. Same goes with the church.

In most other states, Chucky Cheese sells pitchers of beer. Makes the crappy pizza & amped up kids somewhat tolerable.

Scott.T Wrote:
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> just a thought .... I recently saw a documentary
> about the founder of Chuck-e-Cheeses. I don't
> remember the name right now, but he was a computer
> programmer and one of the head guys with Atari and
> various game design companies and such.

Surprise Surprise...
Nolan Bushnell of Utah is the of the founder Chuck E Cheese... and is LDS..wow who would of thought?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Bushnell

"Bushnell was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but is no longer an active member."

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I loved your post Don- spot on

Gees, that explains why there's been no improvement there!

Just like a Mormon ward-house, it smells like dirty diapers and rancid broccoli, and you're sure to catch some sort of weird skin disease just from walking in the door.

Wow I never would have compared TSCC to CC.
But I tolerated both at times.
Now my grand daughters are older so CC is history.

And TSCC is just a part of my history. But I continue to recover from the church.

K

but I think you're the coolest.

Ok, I do know why. It's because you are the coolest.

Liked the post.

Thanks for all the positive feedback. I did go out on a limb with a crazy metaphor, but then, I am less than sane. I just got a short story about my experiences in a mental hospital published in a British Magazine called Firstwriter. If anyone would like a free copy of the story, just give me your email.

I might of lingered longer in the Church if they had "take out" Sacrament.
I'd check the bag before I drove off to make sure they gave me bread.

pkdfan2@yahoo.com

Thank you Don Bagley!