Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty nets"

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_brade
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Re: Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty ne

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lulu wrote:
brade wrote:Ok, just finished it. He's passionate, I'll give him that </shrug>

It's ironic, I complain about the GA GC drone and then when someone brings some emotion, I complain.

If there is one thing I noticed from the clips I watched, there was a lot more use of hands during the talks. Maybe they're trying to liven things up.


Setting content aside, I like Holland's delivery.
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Re: Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty ne

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The only problem I have with Holland is he's acting. He's reading, he's re-read and edited it several times. When you're reading and acting like you're talking spontaneously, and then choking on cue it's phony. Guys that don't act and are just straightforward about the fact that their talk is just a reading are considered boring.

Sorry maybe you can get teared up like that reading your own words for what may be the tenth time in a week. I think it's circumstantial and they see it as magnifying their calling. It's deceptive in my opinion.

A prophet and apostles where the only things they say on God's behalf are written and goes through an editing department before being read as if it were a well-delievered speech. The only time they're speaking words that haven't been sent through editing you're not allowed to use any recording devices and they'll reiterate that several times before they come in to speak. God sure is a funny man.
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Re: Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty ne

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sock puppet wrote:Cafeteria, picking and choosing, Mormonism principles will lead to "a lot of long nights and empty nets".

This cracked me up when I heard it. When my family left we had a few leaders tell us to stay and try to take what works for us and leave the rest. Looks like that wasn't the "approved response" for apostates.
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Re: Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty ne

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"Long nights and empty nets" seems an apt description for the Church programme known as 'The Rescue'. Was Holland perhaps projecting...?
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Re: Holland to NOMs: Expect "a lot of long nights & empty ne

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brade wrote:
sock puppet wrote:Cafeteria, picking and choosing, Mormonism principles will lead to "a lot of long nights and empty nets".


What does that mean?


Net stockings. But the same emptiness can come from spending too much time at the computer screen or drawing organic molecule arrangments.
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