BKP Predicts the End of the World as We Know It?

[_Persephone]

Apparently President BKP had the following to say in his home ward in SLC last week: [SNIP!] What do you all think?

I think it's way, WAAAY too detailed for having been a Fast & Testimony meeting talk. There's no way he could've recalled it in that much detail.

I'd ask him whether he'd had a tape recorder or camera phone running and transcribed the footage. If not, then I call hoax.

See post above. It was, at least according to what I was told, recorded by some digital device, either cell phone or PDA. Then it was transcribed.

At least that's the story that is circulating. You know how these Mormon Urban Legends go ...

[_SatanWasSetUp]

This is why the Lord calls prophets who are very, very old. It is so they can remind us of the great depression. What other leaders around the world were alive during the great depression? This is more proof that the church is true.

[_Ray A]

At least that's the story that is circulating. You know how these Mormon Urban Legends go ...

Here are some from SHIELDS

[_TAK]

This is why the Lord calls prophets who are very, very old. It is so they can remind us of the great depression. What other leaders around the world were alive during the great depression? This is more proof that the church is true.

WTF?
Catholics have old popes.. does that make them true too?

[_SatanWasSetUp]

This is why the Lord calls prophets who are very, very old. It is so they can remind us of the great depression. What other leaders around the world were alive during the great depression? This is more proof that the church is true.

WTF?
Catholics have old popes.. does that make them true too?

They have some truth. But only the LDS have ALL truth.

[_Who Knows]

Cinepro raised a good point at MAD - instead of LDS trying to figure out whether or not this is a hoax - why don't they pray and get an answer from the spirit?

Can a TBM get an answer, and then let us know? Is this true, or is it a hoax?

[_Ray A]

When you hear reports like the one alleged to have come from President Packer, you need to check your food storage:

Kirby

[_Sethbag]

End of World Predictions Since 44AD

I know. But you don't usually hear this kind of stuff coming from Mormon leaders. At least not since the late 19th century. That's what makes it novel.

Yeah, and when the Mormons leaders of the 19th Century were preaching the imminent 2nd Coming, what did that all amount to?

I'm not going to say that Packer's comments were stupid. Far from it - there are financial and economic challenges coming, and it's not that hard to see it. If the Q12 and FP were truly prophetic, they wouldn't be stating the obvious after the crap has already hit the fan - Packer would have been preaching this stuff 5 years ago. But that doesn't mean his advice - except, perhaps, paying tithing to the Mormon church - is bad. And even that may work out for people who come upon hard times and receive help from their bishop, help that someone who didn't pay their tithing might not receive.

The fact is that the church is made up of people, and to the extent that a group of people bands together to help each other out, pooling some resources and risks, that can be quite successful and quite helpful. None of this makes the church true, but the non-truth of the church also doesn't render its successes unreal. To the extent that the church succeeds in doing good for people, it is the result of the efforts of well-meaning people doing what they can to make it a helpful organization. The same could be said for a lot of other organizations too.

[_Jason Bourne]

This is about the fifth BKP stopped by and predicts calamities in the past few years. The other ones were considered not accurate. I wonder about this one.

[_TAK]

When you hear reports like the one alleged to have come from President Packer, you need to check your food storage:

Kirby

When my mother died in addition to the 1000s of pounds of wheat and dry pinto beans that would end up being 30 years old and tossed, we found at least a 100 lbs of chocolate under the bed. LOL!