Yes he does. My wife, who is still a co-dependent devotee of all things Mormon, calls him plastic man. He looks as though he has been molded. When he left the high school in Rexburg (BYU-I) apparently the staff was extatic. He was apparently a prick to work for.
I actually do have an experience with Bednar! A couple of years ago he was giving a YSA fireside in Knoxville, TN. I carpooled out there with a couple of friends from Nashville. I heard it was to be a Q&A session and I was excited. Six months earlier I was in the Nashville temple and a temple worker told me that unmarried women couldn't be veil workers. Being a single endowed sister myself I was disturbed - I felt like I was just as 'endowed' as anyone else. I decided I was going to ask Bednar why single sisters couldn't be veil workers. I was very TBM so the question wasn't meanspirited - I honestly wanted to know and had been unable to attend the temple because that question bothered me.
A couple of questions into the fireside (after some softballs like, "What should I do to prepare for my mission", etc...) I had the mike and I asked my question. He was angry with me and retorted "I know the answer to that one, but you're going to have to put that question on the 'shelf'" I was speechless for a minute. An 'apostle' of the Lord couldn't give me a straight answer to a simple question. I ran out of the fireside crying. I was outside crying for the rest of the fireside. I knew something had happened to me that night. That was the turning point for me losing my testimony. That night my 'shelf' crashed from the weight of too many questions.
Anyway, that's the reason I think Bednar is a dick! He probably gave that talk about how we shouldn't be offended because he has a tendency to offend people!
I was a temple supervisor for several years and an ordinance worker for 8 years. In 3 different temples. I am single. I worked at the veil every day at each of those temples.
I don't know what kind of gibberish was going on at that temple, but something odd was. Single women work at the veil, in the initiatory and in sessions every single day and have full authority to do so.
Let's just say that within the Mormon context, single sisters have full authority to perform those ordinances and officiate for the sisters at the veil.
Whether these actions have any cosmic effect, or are wasted time, is another matter.
I had the select opportunity of having this plastic-haired man as a professor at BYU-I.
Class was similar to hitler youth camp and almost as racist. This guy once literally chewed out a student for not shining his shoes. Guess what Bedrat? The guy was poor. Really poor.
If Christ himself had attended Bedbug's class Bedrash would have chastised him for his appearance.
Bednar would not remember me, but I remember him and how terrifying his class was.
My favorite memoy of Bedsore is when he and his wife (of the West) got in a public argument in the Manwaring Center. I thought he was going to hit her. She looked as if she might cut off his dick in his sleep.
I'm pretty sure she didn't because the man is still a total dick.
L.T. Commander Data has more humanity, more likeability, and more real hair than Bednar does.
Why would Bednar be the "next to last" (penultimate) Nazi? Who is the ultimate Nazi? What are you trying to say? Do you understand the meaning of words you use?
The funny thing is that these guys think the world is crazy about them -- how they groom, how they talk, etc. That's why they're always saying look, think, and act like us.
They are actually pretty clueless about what the "world" really thinks about them.
I met him a couple times as a student at his university, and while still plastic-looking, he wasn't nearly that waxy! I think a lot of the waxy look that the GAs have is a result of the makeup that they wear during conference. Like a good politician, these guys need to make themselves look more than human (for better or worse) in order to perpetuate the idea that they are something else. In this case they want to be seen as the errand boys for god. Why are they so afraid to let people see that they get old and wrinkled just like the rest of us? Would it diminish the "value" of their message? It all seems so vain and superficial.
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Did anybody else hear what Dave Bednar said in conference yesterday? He said (in a rather disingenuous way) that in fact he has never received a real answer to his prayers for confirmation that the BoM/church is true. This from a man who claims the privilege of being a special witness to all the world of Jesus Christ and His vehicle for promulgating His message, namely the LDS church. Does anybody else out there think this is kind of odd?
He one scary dude! Jeezuz Christ on a leaking raft he looks like one of the walking dead. Plus he has funky ears. He has seriously attached ear lobes that look like growths. Demonic growths to be precise. And the tops of his ears look pointed. He needs to be shaved and strip searched because he carries the mark of the beast. Somewhere on him in a 666.
And I agree completely about him being the penultimate Basically. The ultimate Nazi was Hitler. Duh.