Hellmut wrote:Any apostle older than seventy ought to retire. Boyd Packer can go first to be a good example.
They would never go for it.
If you get some young buck in there that can serve 30-40 years as the "prophet", it makes it a whole lot harder to hide what they say, compared to someone who does it for 10 or so years.
They ain't no dummies when it comes to that part of damage control.
Also, you know it is the everyday average Mormons fault for this happening to him right? Not enough prayers and tithing.
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You seem to forget that I am ranking next after bro. Monson and bro. Packer.
Reportedly, Perry is dealing with dementia, as well.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
I predict that Monsons birthday bash (funded from tithing) in August will be his last public appearance as President/Prophet...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
This is all so insane. All this will take is one of these guys to stand up and announce they no longer have the health/mental acuteness to continue in the calling and go on emeritus status. Once you break the log jam, then it becomes a lot easier for others to follow. I bet you up to half of the Q15 would be mostly relieved to become emeritus GA's and go into retirement and occasionally give a talk in General Conference or Stake/Regional conferences, maybe go to Disney land with the grand kids or take a cruise or ten. Then healthier men, or even better, men and women could take over.
no thanks wrote:This is all so insane. All this will take is one of these guys to stand up and announce they no longer have the health/mental acuteness to continue in the calling and go on emeritus status. Once you break the log jam, then it becomes a lot easier for others to follow. I bet you up to half of the Q15 would be mostly relieved to become emeritus GA's and go into retirement and occasionally give a talk in General Conference or Stake/Regional conferences, maybe go to Disney land with the grand kids or take a cruise or ten. Then healthier men, or even better, men and women could take over.
Once a rock star, always a rock star.
And your basic premise is off. You assume they want the best for the organization. There is nothing that currently support that assumption. If any of the Brethren really wanted the best for the organization, they'd open the books. And they don't, so they don't.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
I had assumed from reading older Steve Benson writings that church handlers kept everything very secret about his grandfathers health because of a long-standing belief that the Lord will remove a prophet that no longer can mentally or spiritually lead the church.
Here's hoping Monson doesn't do something truly demented in public, such as quoting from FrontPageMag.
"It doesn't seem fair, does it Norm--that I should have so much knowledge when there are people in the world that have to go to bed stupid every night." -- Clifford C. Clavin, USPS
"¡No contaban con mi astucia!" -- El Chapulin Colorado
This is a pretty big deal. 1000x bigger than the Maxwell business. We shall wait and see.
I think it's a good idea; not that I think it must be done now. But I think Packer, as much as I like his fire and brimstone, would have to be given the same status at approximately the same time.
Well, if Packer does become president really soon, that may be good news for the Obama campaign. Bad news for the LDS Church, but potentially great news for Obama, especially if Packer were to stage a deeply reactionary General Conference in October
Not at all. The Left already hates the Church and knows what it's doctrine is. Monson took some pretty nasty swipes at the gay lobby in his first public appearance as prophet If I recall correctly. It can be done again.