http://209.188.95.163/~meridian/index.php?option=com_zine&view=article&Itemid=3&ac=1&id=7723
"I was talking to a friend not long ago, who confessed that she doesn’t watch all four sessions of General Conference—and sometimes zero sessions—because she thinks they’re boring. “It’s always the same old messages we’ve heard dozens of times,” she said.

And I had to smile. You, I thought to myself, are part of the reason for that."

And I bet the following will just give you the spiritual shivers like it did me. More than one ear piercing is and ADVANCEMENT in spiritual learning!!!! WOW!

"And guess what? If we’ve gone backward a step or two, the leaders will once again meet us where we are and give us milk before meat. A good example is that we are now being instructed in far more detail than in past years, about piercings, tattoos, and casual attire at church. Years ago such messages weren’t needed; today they are."

Yup!

The GA's give milk instead of meat to cover their hindparts. Imagine if BoydKKK, Bednar, and God-wants-to-put-you-in-a-full-Nelson talked about "deep doctrine". This would lead to tons of embarrassment, contradiction, and ever increasing "he was just speaking as a man" claims. (Think Boyd's last talk or Nelson's 2003 talk on how God's love is not unconditional).

When they get up and say, "Go to the temple, pay your tithing, listen to the profit, etc etc", they don't have to worry about the ensuing fallout.

It also helps ensure that new converts don't go running faster than they already are. Imagine if Tommy Boy got up and started talking about Kolob, the eternal doctrine of blood oaths, and loss of reproductive organs for those who don't make it to the Celestial Kingdom. Anyone not totally assimilated into the Morg would run away screaming.

In the early church, people got all kinds of direction from their leaders whether they were ready or not.

The problem is, that all that good old revelation was worthless and nowadays perfect fodder for the so-called critics of the church.

The reason we get nothing in Conference any more is that the "Brethren" have nothing to add. They know from experience that their every word will be picked up and scutinized by everyone everywhere. Gone are the days when they could secrete opinions on a consolidated exclusive audience of faithfully tuned adherents.

In short, they have nothing unique to say, and are too cowardly to try... 'cuz otherwise, you couldn't shut them up.

JoD3:360 Wrote:
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> In short, they have nothing unique to say, and are
> too cowardly to try... 'cuz otherwise, you
> couldn't shut them up.

Dallin Oaks should have shut up long before he drew the comparison between his organization, The Civil Rights Movement and the possible boycott of Mormon businesses as a backlash to prop-hate.

Come, come ye saints, no toilet paper here, but with joy spend your way into one of the stupidest hypocrisies.

The Mormon church prophets, seers and revelators neither prophesy, see, or reveal. Furthermore, their history is a minefield, so what do they have to talk about? The best pacifier is a safe, boring subject.

Which makes the members safe, boring subjects. But they pay and they continue to pay, viewing it as spiritual insurance, while they scam people, watch porn, commit adultery, overeat, drink and whoop their way through life like the rest of us, only with a gawdawful granny chair of a monkey on their back.

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What a great way to rest assured you never have to put a lot of effort into your talk.

Shit like this sure makes me glad I have a job where I have to work on Sundays, har har.

After last October's GC and the shit from Doydkk Hacker and those two other assholes who repeated that fucked up 14 jackass fundies of following the profit, I got so upset, so I won't be watching any GC ever again.

(I hate that I can say "over ten years ago." *sigh*)

His entire talk revolved around the thesis that the gospel principles that are repeated over and over and over (and over, and over,and over,and over,and over...) should "RIVET OUR ATTENTION" because if the GA's keep repeating them, it's because they are essential.

He went on to share, that if he's listening to a talk about a subject that he's heard before (isn't that every talk?) and the speaker isn't sharing anything new, he takes that time to ponder on that subject quietly in his mind. Sometimes he "rewrites" the talk in his head.

Sadly, I don't have documentation for this. You'll just have to take it our leave it.

"Or, you can do as my friend does, shrug it off and decide you’ve got the math down good enough and the piano piece polished enough, and stop listening. But then you can expect a talk or two about folks who don’t heed the words of the Prophets, who settle for weak testimonies, and who resent rules instead of eagerly enjoying obedience."

Holy Crap! 'eagerly enjoying obedience'...that sounds like some S&M kinky ritual.

I love how the writer is so condescending to her 'friend'. This friend probably is one of the few people in the LDS church that are mentally healthy with clear boundaries on their time and obligations.

And with all of us exmos being so evil, the profit should have to go WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY back to the basics...yep, it's my fault conference is so boring. One more thing for the tbms to blame on us apostates.

If that woman won't admit she has been bored out of her gourd sitting in church and GC, she's a dam*d liar. I'm sure she really wants to sit through another earring and flip-flop talk, like she's in so much danger of tipping over into that transgression.


She's just striving for brownie points with her priesthood betters with that silly article. [Oooh, Your talk was sooooo edifying!]

If I had not been raised in the morg, I doubt if I would have EVER heard the word "edifying."