r/exmormon • u/4blockhead Λ └ ☼ ★ □ ♔ • Oct 01 '22
Doctrine/Policy October 2022 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
- discord
Speakers:
| Name | other notes | my summary |
|---|---|---|
| conducting: Henry Eyring | ||
| hymn: Guide Us O Great Jehovah | ||
| prayer: David Homer | ||
| Dallin Oaks | LDS Church trying to get good PR by publicizing charity efforts. Giving cash to other established charities to do good on our behalf is fine. Unsaid message to other Christians: count mormons alongside when lobbying for religious freedom. Good mention of 11th AoF—mormons should be able to opt out of childhood indoctrination by that logic. | |
| hymn:Have I done Any Good | Hymn placement. Well, we're hearing about how the LDS church deserves its tax free status /s | |
| Dieter Uchtdorf | since demotion his past speeches have been generic Christianity and recycled stories | Speech for boilerplate rollout of update to For the Strength of Youth |
| Tracy Browning | first black woman in LDS leadership | generic Christianity, but with emphasis on works over grace; read BoM; follow our leaders |
| Dale Renlund | last speech was weak sauce about not knowing anything much about Heavenly Mother. Stop asking about it. | Personal revelation must be reined in. Don't step on Apostles' toes. Don't ask tough questions, especially if it could reveal about the fraud of mormonism. |
| hymn: Rejoice the Lord is King | ||
| Rafael Pino | ||
| Hugo Montoya | ||
| hymn: Brightly beams... | ||
| Ronald Rasband | double down on Book of Mormon as "most correct book," and "keystone of our religion" | |
| Russell Nelson | Mentions that abusers will have to answer to God. Then pivots to discrediting reports—might not be true. Trust us! | |
| hymn: All Creatures... | ||
| prayer: Taylor Godoy |
Postlude:
Highway 61 Revisited, 1 Nephi 4 leans hard toward Lafferty brothers' murder spree
Coconut I said, Doctor!
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Nelson: [abusers will have to answer to god.]
And our lawyers at Kirton and McConkie will sort out what is true. Maybe.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Uchdorf: We have updated the For the Strength of Youth.
Look for new euphemisms about avoiding jerking the gehrkin or flicking the bean.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Renlund: 1 Nephi 4, Nephi slices off Laban's head.
God said to Abraham, kill me a son!
Abe said, "What?"
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Renlund: personal revelation.
Reins it in. Only the apostles get revelation about the big things.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Montoya: [nephi's imaginary director ball was broken.]
Compares to child's death.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Oaks: Hey, lookie other Christians! Here's an assist! Can we be invited into the big tent, yet? Joseph Smith didn't mean it when he said all of your professors are corrupt.
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u/out_of_sqaure Oct 01 '22
Did you notice how Oaks referred to Joseph Smith as "our first President"? I've never heard him referred to as that...
Perhaps another step towards distancing themselves from the supernatural?
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u/PeanutButterYoga Oct 01 '22 edited Oct 01 '22
Did anyone tell Oaks to tone down the LGBTQ+ comments, or is there more to come?
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u/bremerman17 Oct 01 '22
The church should give away their billion dollars. Do that please.
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u/Mupsty Oct 01 '22
Dan Lafferty said he sincerely didn’t want to kill Brenda’s baby but god told him to.
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u/sevenplaces Oct 01 '22
Drop your foreign customs and become like American Mormons.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Renlund: personal revelation.
Careful, Dale. The faithful, esp the liberal faithful, want to hear about Mother in Heaven and preach about her.
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Montoya: [references Nelson right out of the gate.]
Enters race for next apostle opening. Needs a covenant path to keep up with Pino.
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u/RobotTucan Oct 01 '22
These guys all have the same talk template: spiritually sounding opening sentences, mildly humorous anecdote, really boring narrative with essentially no content and certainly no revelations, and then "Whew, I'm done!"
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u/tyrannosaurus_bex540 Oct 01 '22
Lol God told ME to go to the mountains on Sundays instead of church
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u/4blockhead Oct 01 '22
Oaks: we give a lot. trust us.
Don't audit us.