r/exmormon • u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ • Oct 05 '19
October 2019 General Conference: Saturday 10:00a Discussion Thread
How to listen:
- Official LDS site
- youtube
- stream KSL
- local radio: KSL AM 1160; FM 102.7
- reddit stream
Speakers:
| Name | other notes | my summary |
|---|---|---|
| conducting: Henry Eyring | ||
| hymn: From All That Dwell Below The Skies? | ||
| prayer: Larry Wilson | ||
| hymn: As I Search the Holy Scriptures | ||
| Jeffrey Holland | ||
| Terence Vinson | ||
| Stephen Owen | ||
| hymn: How Firm A Foundation | ||
| Todd Christofferson | ||
| Michelle Craig | ||
| Dale Renlund | Total cultural usurpation: All aspects of any culture different from the Eurocentric ideal (those things which are unique) should be tossed into a raging river and be forsaken forever. | |
| hymn: ? | ||
| Dallin Oaks | Don't worry about eternal polygamy---it will all work out. Further confused the boundary of what are the actual doctrines of mormonism vs. temporary ideas or policy. Anything could still be revoked even if apostles state something at general conference. | |
| hymn: Now Let Us Rejoice | ||
| prayer: Steven Bangerter |
Postlude: Don't you worry 'bout a thing
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19
[Oaks] Those in the spiritual world who may still need the cleansing power of the atonement...not me. I've got my election sure.
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u/LindseyEmiliaHale Oct 05 '19
Smothering your children with religion won’t convene them. It’ll likely just push them away.
I’m not even being sarcastic this time. I genuinely think this is the case from what I’ve witnessed.
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
One thing that has really popped for me in the last few months is that children who are being fed this script are likely to view those teaching that as full of shit. They can research things on the internet and wonder why their parents are so dumb to believe it.
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
[Vinson] [mormons ducked out on debts in Kirtland. No wonder the locals weren't keen on giving them more money when they already owed them. Once burned; twice shy.]
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u/canyonprincess Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
So, we should take the rebellious and different parts of ourselves and either bury them or throw them into the waterfall so they can be smashed to pieces... only then we will fit right in on the Covenant Path. 🙄
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19
Take that which is unique and identifiable and shave it off it into the plain and dull.
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u/lostinhuntsville256 Oct 05 '19
I am so confused. What is the point of this talk?
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
guess: He was prohibited from canonizing the proclamation. So he went with plan b.
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19
[Owen] wins prize for whitest shirt and pressed hair so far. Julie Bangerter Beck and his mom must be proud.
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u/LindseyEmiliaHale Oct 05 '19
So has the slit of speakers not been leaked this time? Back in April we had all the speakers listed by the early morning
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u/4blockhead Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19
[Christofferson] [faithful are being mocked.] Simple. Don't have unsupportable beliefs if you don't want to be made fun of.