More Musings on Monson's Mental Malaise

[_RockSlider]

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Perhaps his handlers want to avoid a JSF proclamation that men will never reach the moon...

- VRDRC

Have you not heard? It was all a government hoax ... and he was right!

[_Drifting]

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Perhaps his handlers want to avoid a JSF proclamation that men will never reach the moon...

- VRDRC

The old maxim keeps coming true...

"When an Apostle speaks, very little thinking has been done"

[_harmony]

I am praying that heroic means be employed to keep President Monson with us for as long as possible.

So, what contributions do you expect from him that he hasn't had a chance to deliver already?

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

You get the idea.

[_RockSlider]

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

You get the idea.

lol ... you have to love Harmony and her most favorite Apostle!!

(but her words here are oh so true)

[_Ludd]

Since Dr. Scratch's OP about the declining mental health of President Monson, I have looked into this a bit further.

Three of the last four temples the Church has dedicated have been dedicated by either Eyring or Uchtdorf. Before then, the previous 10 temples were all dedicated by Monson. Temple dedications are, in terms of a come-together-as-a-large-group-of-people-moment, the Church’s most important ritual event. It’s usually seen as one of the privileges and even duties of the sitting President of the Church to preside over the dedication of new temples and deliver the dedicatory prayer. Monson’s dementia must be getting pretty serious. Poor guy…

While Hinckley was President of the Church, the Church dedicated 76 new temples. Of those 76, Hinckley dedicated 62. Nobody other than Hinckley dedicated anything between August 2000 and October 2006. (No temples were dedicated between Oct. 2006 and Hinckley’s death in Jan. 2008.)

Monson, after assuming the Church Presidency, dedicated 10 temples right in a row between 2008 and 2012. Now, apparently because of the worsening descent into madness, the dedicatory duties are being carried out by his counselors in the First Presidency. It’ll be interesting to see if Monson dedicates the Brigham City Utah or the Calgary Alberta temples later in the year. I’m guessing he will not. He may not even speak at the upcoming October general conference. If he does speak, pay attention to the mechanics of his speech. He’s slurring his words to a noticeable degree these days and speaking (i.e., reading his speech) rapidly in a pseudo-falsetto much of the time. There was a time not too long ago when Monson was just about everybody’s favorite speaker at conference. He was folksy, even funny, down-to-earth, a regular-seeming guy who loved sports, fishing, occasional cussing, and who happened to hold the office of apostle. Now, I just feel bad for the poor man when I hear him talk from the pulpit.

If Monson really is slipping into dementia at a rapid rate, I wonder what will happen in the next general conference. That last thing the church would want is it's president doing something off the wall in conference. I'll bet the PR people are recommending that Monson suddenly come down with some terrible sickness that prevents him from appearing in public.

[_son of Ishmael]

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

You get the idea.

It might be good for the Church to have Packer as president. He would only be in for a few years. Sometimes to go forward you must go backward...

[_harmony]

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

You get the idea.

It might be good for the Church to have Packer as president. He would only be in for a few years. Sometimes to go forward you must go backward...

God forbid.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

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I wonder if BY needed handlers, too?

- VRDRC

[_moksha]

So, what contributions do you expect from him that he hasn't had a chance to deliver already?

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

You get the idea.

Thank you Harmony. Preserving us from the ills of the past can sometimes hinge on the miracles of biomedical engineering and trust in President Uchtdorf.

[_Dr. Shades]

It's more of a "not".... as in Packer will "not" be president of the church. Packer will "not" be able to set the church back a hundred years. Packer will "not" be able to reverse whatever improvements have been made in the past 5 decades...

Maybe, but won't the church become much more entertaining if President Packer takes over?