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Posted by: Sykes Picot ( )
Date: October 10, 2023 06:00PM
Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

Gary Stevenson demands the proper respect in Madagascar.

https://youtu.be/NG9k7i-JOuw

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Posted by: Done & Done ( )
Date: October 10, 2023 06:18PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I love whoever made this video. I can't even find the words for that kind of arrogance and smug self importance. I did see it first hand when Mark E. Petersen came to our house after dedicating our new chapel. Even as a kid I could see the benevolence was an act and I knew he was slumming it to be there. His wife wasn't even faking it. Why didn't that wake me up?

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Posted by: summer ( )
Date: October 10, 2023 06:44PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

"They were all standing until they were given permission to sit by the white man in authority." lol

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: October 10, 2023 06:56PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

Joseph F Smith did away with the standing thing.

It was reintroduced after his death.

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Posted by: Rubicon ( )
Date: October 11, 2023 10:49AM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

Joseph F Smith also said the church would no longer require cash tithing once it paid off its debts.

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: October 11, 2023 03:01PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

Too bad he didn't live long enough to implement that.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: October 11, 2023 03:09PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

When I was a child, I paid tithing in gerbils.

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Posted by: Heartless ( )
Date: October 11, 2023 07:57PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I collected food as fast offerings.

Lots of older folks, especially widows, gave from their gardens or food storage.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: October 11, 2023 07:59PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I was born in the wrong time and place to see that, but it's remarkable to think that tithing in kind was still practiced so recently.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2023 08:28PM by Lot's Wife.

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Posted by: bradley ( )
Date: October 14, 2023 12:02AM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I wonder if JS would have accepted tithing in kind from hookers.

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Posted by: Villager ( )
Date: October 13, 2023 01:08PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

Gary is looking a little tubby. Time for a walk on one of those treadmills that made him so wealthy.

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Posted by: Pooped ( )
Date: October 13, 2023 10:23PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

This happened when I was a new convert in Illinois. GAs seldom came that far out in the "missions field" so we didn't know we were supposed to stand. Someone came out and instructed us to stand. I thought it was pretty lame tradition. Why weren't we instructed in church when we were told about the visit? It wasn't even the prophet. He really meant very little to us converts.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: October 13, 2023 10:58PM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I'm happy to tell you all (again, for many) that in early July of 1965, not only did I not stand up when Joseph Fielding Smith entered the room, but I also flipped him 'the bird.'  And it wasn't covertly; I held up my right arm, with three fingers curled closed, with my extended right middle finger flying in the breeze.

You're welcome.

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Posted by: Pooped ( )
Date: October 14, 2023 12:03AM
Re: Stevenson lords it over the plebs in Madagascar

I didn't even know what a Mormon was in 1965. You're going to get a better spot in outer darkness than I old dog!

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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: October 14, 2023 06:32AM
Makes about as much sense as "Madagascar" (2005)

https://youtu.be/fq5zU9T_Hl4?feature=shared

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