Now there's a 2016 movie (shockingly it's rated PG). I guess the one they made in 2000 wasn't holding up. I grew up in a TBM household in the 1970's and it was mandatory that we go see the play, as well as buy the album. My mother was convinced that I was one of Saturday's warriors. My brother who made it clear he was leaving TSCC when he turned 18, didn't get the same compliment,

http://saturdayswarrior.com/



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(singing)I've seen that movie somewhere before...I've seen this plot before...

My SIL's parents just had their 60th wedding anniversary. At the party the dad mentioned how grateful he was that his family members had all chosen each other before they were born.

I tell you, there is such a divide between what the church officially says it "believes" and what the members actually believe. Does this happen in any other religion?

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I'm not defending Moism, but, yeah, the divide between teaching and belief exists in other churches, too.

Sometime ask a BIC Roman Catholic what they believe versus what the Church teaches. The eyes just glaze over and they answer, "Well, you know."

That's true about what BIC Catholics say they believe in, as going by the fact that Catholics are having smaller families, they don't believe in the ban on birth control.

I think it comes from direct experience, independent of Church doctrine. So, people from lots of religions would believe it.

"I tell you, there is such a divide between what the church officially says it "believes" and what the members actually believe."

The thing is, Joseph Smith preached the idea of "soul mates" in the pre-existence. It was a line he used on women to induce them to become his plural wives.

However, in a 1977 sermon, Spencer W. Kimball said:

“Soul mates” are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price."

So the whole "Saturday's Warriors" theme was dissed by the church's president during the very era in which the play became popularized.



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Rated PG for scenes of excessive piety. But, there's good news! SW will lead to a new church essay on how we did NOT choose our parents in the pre-existence. The Boner.

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> Rated PG for scenes of excessive piety.

PG in this case stands for "Pious God-stuff" Not suitable for young children, parental guidance very much suggested.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D--w9bOGpi2s&ved=0ahUKEwihy5Tj8YDOAhUH42MKHfbKDcEQtwIIHjAB&usg=AFQjCNHM3HlmtZfApo73i21VeW9Sl9J1rw&sig2=BW-5O6KUZ3wDn373e7hoyw

The whole sappy sugarcoat 1989 version. It's on YouTube.

Godawfulmovies (podcast) recently reviewed "Saturday's Warrior" (the 1989 movie). They pretty much poke fun at everything and everyone in it. One of the reviewers said, "This movie was "Fiddler on the Roof meets an anti-abortion clinic activist"."


I was in the chorus of the South High School run in the early 70s in SLC, and I practically memorized the whole play. Wow! was I a different person back then! I loved the show at the time, and I made sure all my family & close friends came to see it.

But I also fell in love with the director, and he and I lived together for a year. Such memories, and such inner turmoil! I'm not sure how I made it through those times.

TQB.