Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: January 02, 2019 06:36PM
Boring is the best word to describe the majority of my time put in being an active member of the beliefs of Mormons.
Sprinkled throughout that time I had some really cool experiences. If I were like some Mormons I know I wouldn't talk about them and use them to prop up the smoldering remains of their burning my bosom so long ago.
Long into adulthood in Mormonism one becomes the pathetic old person sifting these ashes hoping for a phoenix to arise at the end of their life. It doesn't happen. It also has a phrase for not happening - "endure to the end."
So I'm no too surprised by this quote.
"When you take this cacophony of concerns and blend it into one community of faith, “it is,” Green says, “overpoweringly beautiful.” "
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/12/27/this-week-mormon-land-why/Yes, looking into the eyes of people of a community of faith where life started with hope and is toiling towards one of bored peace and order and as Gordon Hinckley said "safety" one can see the beauty of turning green eyes blue with the hardships of all the mentally attempting to have some kind of peace with Mormon boredom.
"...But life under the Taliban was better. At least there was peace and order."
https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-green-eyed-Afghan-girl-up-to-these-daysAmazing that a journalist would publish a piece on how the Mormon Church isn't boring. And to top it off with American Mormonism's "cacophony of concerns" as something that could even come close to be "overpoweringly beautiful" like the photo of girl with green eyes is.
How has the girl with green eyes survived?
“It was,” said Sharbat Gula, “the will of God.”
And that my friends is all the Mormons have. Their boring survival because it is their "will of God."
I saw this first hand over the holidays with my visiting family. Their boring Mormonism is some kind of badge of overpoweringly beautiful concerns like when they all got online with their devices to study at home because of some directive from their prophet. The boredom in my children's eyes was palatable. But their they were with their elders of a mother and her parents studying stuff they could care less about but want to believe in its importance.
Mormonism and church time is achingly boring. If that is beautiful then I don't know what beauty is. For me, hauntingly beautiful is what the girl with green eyes is and for Mormons their church isn't hauntingly anything except haunting them. They place themselves in this restrictive box and make it about their god and endure tortuous meetings of mind-numbing boredom for the hope that they will have some burnings return and have some spirit of burnings past long ago in their youth reignite them to help them through the drudgery of the Mormon way.
Yes Virginia, Mormon church is boring and they like it that way. Mediocrity meted out by corporate business plans is the perfect recipe for overpoweringly beautiful cacophony of concerns that tear hearts apart and force people upon crosses of concerns that are generated by those corporate business plans. Very boring plans played out in very boring meetings.