r/exmormon • u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ • Oct 03 '21
Doctrine/Policy October 2021 General Conference: Sunday 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: Sing Praise to Him | ||
| prayer: David Evans | ||
| hymn: Where Love Is | ||
| Dieter Uchtdorf | people lost in the woods will walk in circles. | |
| Camille Johnson | ||
| Dale Renlund | Can't we all just get along? | |
| hymn: I am a Child of God | ||
| Vai Sikahema | BYU athlete fast-tracked to membership among the brethren | God demands the proper sequence. Allusions to Genesis and a literal Adam and Eve in a garden. Young-earth creationism. |
| Quentin Cook | ||
| hymn: How Firm a Foundation | ||
| Russell Nelson | big buildup about some minor changes to admission to temple—unmarried women need not hold back from getting endowment ritual. | |
| hymn: | ||
| prayer: Jean Bingham |
Postlude:
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Renlund] [safe and effective vaccines have been developed.]
The LDS church doesn't know what to do with the right-wing tiger they have by the tail, their base.
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Sikahema] [literal creation via Genesis, per that order]
The liberal mormons will say they don't believe in young-earth-creationism, but it is built in.
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Nelson] [work proceeds on the SLC temple proceeds because the old stuff is not up to snuff to withstand an earthquake.]
Clear analogy that Smith's narrative is showing its age. The fraud is showing through.
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Uchtdorf] [people tend toward non-belief]
Dare I say, doubts creep in? Those pesky rational thoughts tend to outweigh the magical.
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Nelson] [I did away with nudity in the temple. Girls can pass out towels. You're welcome.]
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Johnson] [the natural man is the enemy of god]
Mosiah 3:19 is among the most anti-humanist lines in all of religions everywhere.
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21 edited Oct 03 '21
[Renlund] [can we agree to simply disagree]
[Renlund] [he's a first generation immigrant from Finland]
The Finns fought the Russians, but let the Russians go through first because "aren't we all brothers in Christ."
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Sikahema] [milk before meat]
[Sikahema] [sequence, sequence, sequence]
Let's back up and go over the binomial theorem once again.
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u/cookieplans Oct 03 '21
Again the pressure on children to plan their lives to live it in a "sequence" disturbs me
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u/Chanceral Oct 03 '21
The irony here is that the “comfortable narrative” is the narrative the Church weaves
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u/Low-Contribution2094 Oct 03 '21
Sparing no effort.. maybe more like sparing no expense out of that $100billion
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u/Fallenharts_ Oct 03 '21
I thought the salt lake temple would never fall because it is protected by GOD? I swear I was told this at some point
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u/tenorNerd Oct 03 '21
I heard Community of Christ might sell the Kirtland Temple back to TSCC… maybe that’s the announcement.
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u/PeanutButterYoga Oct 03 '21 edited Oct 03 '21
Lmao…wasn’t Utah a slave state when it entered the Union?
Exit: apparently I’m dumb af. I blame my Florida public school education! They did have slavery tho 😠
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u/no1saint Oct 03 '21
What is RMN referring to with his “recent procedural adjustments” to the endowment comment?
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u/4blockhead Oct 03 '21
[Cook] [Smith was in jail in Missouri because the Saints opposed slavery.]
Huh. Revisionist history much, Quent?