Equality wrote:Maybe the one Monson told a few years back about the paper boy who kept missing the porch with the paper and Monson's neighbors drove the boy to suicide by signing a petition to get him fired (but fortunately, Mrs. Monson hadn't signed the petition, so the Monsons had a clear conscience). That was a doozy.
Hi Equality. That really is a doozy.
Do you have a handy link for that one? Somehow I missed that the first time around. I feel I should read it. (I never read or listen to Monson, unless I don't have any sleeping pills handy, but I bet I can stay awake for this one.)
I detest my loose style and my libertine sentiments. I thank God, who has removed from my eyes the veil... Adrian Beverland
Several years ago we had a young paperboy who didn’t always deliver the paper in the manner intended. Instead of getting the paper on the porch, he sometimes accidentally threw it into the bushes or even close to the street. Some on his paper route decided to start a petition of complaint. One day a delegation came to our home and asked my wife, Frances, to sign the petition. She declined, saying, “Why, he’s just a little boy, and the papers are so heavy for him. I would never be critical of him, for he tries his best.” The petition, however, was signed by many of the others on the paper route and sent to the boy’s supervisors.
Not many days afterward, I came home from work and found Frances in tears. When she was finally able to talk, she told me that she had just learned that the body of the little paperboy had been found in his garage, where he had taken his own life. Apparently the criticism heaped upon him had been too much for him to bear. How grateful we were that we had not joined in that criticism. What a vivid lesson this has always been regarding the importance of being nonjudgmental and treating everyone with kindness.
"The Church is authoritarian, tribal, provincial, and founded on a loosely biblical racist frontier sex cult."--Juggler Vain "The LDS church is the Amway of religions. Even with all the soap they sell, they still manage to come away smelling dirty."--Some Schmo
Some Schmo wrote:Imagine how many Mormon homosexual lives could have been spared had they actually put this idea into action.
Well you see, when your chosen enemy commits suicide, they're viewed as analogous to suicide-bombing terrorists trying to manipulate society. When someone you care about does it, it's a tragedy.
That's General Leo. He could be my friend if he weren't my enemy. eritis sicut dii I support NCMO
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.