Catch Phrases. Once one clicks in your mind you may be its slave.

Heavenly Father loves us.


The power of simplicity is overwhelming. Easy to relate to. Easy to remember. Easy for the lobes and cortexes to marinate in an olio of buzz words and slogans. Mottos. Mantras.

I know Joseph Smith was a Prophet.


Certain professions talk in catch phrases. Each "team" in the country talk in their own catch phrases. You go to another group and you may not speak the language or if you try you may come off as a "foreigner."

Follow the prophet.

I just cannot bring myself to say chill instead of cool. I speak Boomer. Still I am learning as much of the other languages as I can--Millenialese, Genzeer--- because I would like to at least try to be Bi-Catchphrasal. Important in navigating a diverse world.


Be in the world but not of the world.

Mormons prefer you defer to their buzzwords and understand that your own words are inferior. Especially at family events like Black Coat's Daughter and other's are facing. I read an article last night in the NYT about how many people found during the Pandemic that being with their own "friend family" during holidays was so much more pleasurable than the expected blood relative event.

Interestingly the article profiled many people but lead off with a family from Idaho who had decided not to join their family in Provo this year.

Type O. Good way to go.

Type A

And all the performance anxiety that must go with it!

Luckily I’m Type B; no pressure…

elderolddog Wrote:
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> Type A
>
> And all the performance anxiety that must go with
> it!
>
> Luckily I’m Type B; no pressure…


Unluckily I’m B-, always anxiously trying to keep up with you carefree plain ol’ Bs.

Are there still Hospitals and Blood Banks in Salt Lake/Utah that have White Only blood?

I know there used to be. How about now - even if kept quiet?

My reading has left me with impression that the bloods and the crips now mingle!

I suppose that since "...even a single drop of 'Negro' blood..." could cost you your priesthood power and associated eternal good times, the Saints-what-ain'ts were not in the mood to take any chances.

My own words are inferior, but I try to make them better than buzzwords, any buzzwords. “Where the rubber hits the road” is precisely the thing to avoid. Better to war against cliché, as Martin Amis has it.

Since my own words too often fail, I take a cue from Marianne Moore and simply quote better words from others. She’s a marvellous quoter, and always honest about it.

We expect a war against cliché from our literary writers and are often rewarded by their effort. Would that science writers were as committed. After all:

INTERVIEWER

Another thing: in your criticism you make frequent analogies between the poet and the scientist. Do you think this analogy is helpful to the modern poet? Most people would consider the comparison a paradox, and assume that the poet and the scientist are opposed.

MARIANNE MOORE

Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, “In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist.” The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in the Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it’s not established once and for all—it’s evolving.

—The Paris Review (1960)—

Buzzwords don’t evolve. In fact, their point is to not evolve. Precisely what LDSinc thinks is the moral thing to do; or, at least, preventing evolution is something they find serviceable to the needs of the corporation.

“Fertile procedure” is a wonderful way of expressing what we are free to find for ourselves as we leave behind LDSinc.

Human

40 years ago "Fertile procedure" described a woman asking me out on a date.


What did it mean in your life?

elderolddog Wrote:
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> 40 years ago "Fertile procedure" described a woman
> asking me out on a date.
>
>
> What did it mean in your life?

A way of life that leads to abundance is a way to use your freedom.
Somehow, along the way, Felicity always waylaid me out of the way.
C’est la vie.

Human, procedureless.

"Buzzwords don’t evolve. In fact, their point is to not evolve."

Yes. And they impede evolvement. Useful little buggers they are to some.


A book review I read recently contained this phrase, " . . . our tin-eared age of tweets can make it harder to distinguish soaring oratory from flimsy bombast, but most of the sentences won't bear the weight of careful reading." Elizabeth D. Samet, Professor of English at West Point.

This said after listing about a large and carefully curated collection of buzz words used in the same speech at a D-Day ceremony that made it sound so solemn and important when nothing was really said but served to make the speaker seem a grand statesman.

Done & Done Wrote:
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" . . . our tin-eared age of tweets can
> make it harder to distinguish soaring oratory from
> flimsy bombast, but most of the sentences won't
> bear the weight of careful reading." Elizabeth D.
> Samet, Professor of English at West Point.

No one who attempts to combine that many metaphors in a single sentence has any business complaining about others' English let alone teaching impressionable minds.



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The Mormon blood type is Israelite.

Remember what Joseph F. Smith and his bowdlerizing son-in-law, Bruce McConkie, told us: if someone is not of the House of Israel, upon baptism a magica--ehr, holy--process of adoption transforms their blood into that of Israel. We are all the seed of Abraham whether we like it or not!

I wonder if resigning gets you your original blood back.

And if you have twinkle-ready blood, and you have children, and they are never baptized Mo, do they have your original issue blood, or the twinkle-ready blood.

So much deep doctrine to ponderize.

I had my DNA done before and after I left the Mormon Church.
No worries, nothing changes.
I'm still heathen. Nothing can fix that. Not even holding me underwater.

What if that's what is keeping these ancient GAs alive? Maybe they slurp on blood bags like a toddler on a juice box.

...Duh...

I think I'm type O...but I'm from decidedly non Mormon bloodlines.

MormØŽism is kind-of like the Red Cross blood bank, getting their 10% every so many weeks!

Some TBMs have green Jello pumping through their veins.

I read this somewhere that Type O Blood-ers don't catch Covid like we Type As. It stands to reason that the virus passes right through the hole in the O.

No?

Makes perfect sense . . .

You're a scientist and didn't know it.

EOD, is the plural of virus “viri” ?

kathleen Wrote:
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> EOD is the plural of virus.

He's contagious!

No! No! EOD is my word-usage examplar !

But if he is contagious, I hope he doesn’t accompany Anybody to Shambhala.

I just got a chuckle when I saw your heading.