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Anyone catch Elder Eyring's talk on Sunday morning? He related a story where he was asked by a secular university to give a speech - but they noted that he wasn't to use the opportunity to pimp his religion (not their words, obviously). Despite the noticeable lack of flames anywhere, Eyring saw fit to compare himself with Abinadi. He even got choked up about it, and, realizing that he was crying off cue, made some excuse for it. I think he's so used to blubbering at the podium that it's difficult for him not to cry at inappropriate moments.

Anyway, long story short, he pulled a dick move and went ahead and used the opportunity to pimp his faith in an inappropriate venue. Luckily everyone seemed to like his talk anyway.

It seems like he was almost disappointed that he wasn't tarred and feathered, but rather the godless secularists treated him with respect and courtesy.

That's why these guys have their own universities. So they can hear themselves speak and be wooed by their listeners.

Same reason FAIR was created, so people like Peterson could do the same thing.

These guys love to hear themselves talk. Some even call out their own names.

Baptize the 15 by Fire.

hatersinmyward wrote:Baptize the 15 by Fire.

What do you mean by that? (And I'm disappointed you did not choose my avatar suggestion).

Break'em... they enjoy being in the lime light.

Make them want to hold the ring, if not for just one more time.

Make them cry "Worship Me" into the nothingness.

It's a Revolutionary Road Avatar.

Buffalo wrote:Anyone catch Elder Eyring's talk on Sunday morning? He related a story where he was asked by a secular university to give a speech - but they noted that he wasn't to use the opportunity to pimp his religion (not their words, obviously). Despite the noticeable lack of flames anywhere, Eyring saw fit to compare himself with Abinadi. He even got choked up about it, and, realizing that he was crying off cue, made some excuse for it. I think he's so used to blubbering at the podium that it's difficult for him not to cry at inappropriate moments.

Anyway, long story short, he pulled a dick move and went ahead and used the opportunity to pimp his faith in an inappropriate venue. Luckily everyone seemed to like his talk anyway.

It seems like he was almost disappointed that he wasn't tarred and feathered, but rather the godless secularists treated him with respect and courtesy.

If he was asked to speak at the university about a topic unrelated to his faith/religion, I can understand their request. If he was asked to speak BECAUSE of his role in the LDS church, the request seems strange to me. The fact of the matter is that I take stories like this with a grain of salt. I suspect that the facts of the exchange were far less "faith inspiring" as they were made out to be.

Aside from his strange story, I'm really getting tired of the blubbering in general conference and in church. It's time to man up. Put on your big boy pants, stiffen your upper lips, and stop crying at the drop of a wet hankie. Seriously. Find a better way to pretend that you're deeply spiritual.

He has no idea what real persecution is. From Eusebius' Church History (on 2nd century persecutions in Gaul):

"Blandina was filled with such power as to be delivered and raised above those who were torturing her by turns from morning till evening in every manner, so that they acknowledged that they were conquered, and could do nothing more to her. And they were astonished at her endurance, as her entire body was mangled and broken; and they testified that one of these forms of torture was sufficient to destroy life, not to speak of so many and so great sufferings. But the blessed woman, like a noble athlete, renewed her strength in her confession; and her comfort and recreation and relief from the pain of her sufferings was in exclaiming, ‘I am a Christian, and there is nothing vile done by us.’"

“But Sanctus also endured marvelously and superhumanly all the outrages which he suffered. While the wicked men hoped, by the continuance and severity of his tortures to wring something from him which he ought not to say, he girded himself against them with such firmness that he would not even tell his name, or the nation or city to which he belonged, or whether he was bond or free, but answered in the Roman tongue to all their questions, ‘I am a Christian.’ He confessed this instead of name and city and race and everything besides, and the people heard from him no other word. There arose therefore on the part of the governor and his tormentors a great desire to conquer him; but having nothing more that they could do to him, they finally fastened red-hot brazen plates to the most tender parts of his body. And these indeed were burned, but he continued unbending and unyielding, firm in his confession"

"[The pagans] reproached them often, saying, ‘Where is their God, and what has their religion, which they have chosen rather than life, profited them?’"

Buffalo wrote:Anyone catch Elder Eyring's talk on Sunday morning? He related a story where he was asked by a secular university to give a speech - but they noted that he wasn't to use the opportunity to pimp his religion (not their words, obviously). Despite the noticeable lack of flames anywhere, Eyring saw fit to compare himself with Abinadi. He even got choked up about it, and, realizing that he was crying off cue, made some excuse for it. I think he's so used to blubbering at the podium that it's difficult for him not to cry at inappropriate moments.

Anyway, long story short, he pulled a dick move and went ahead and used the opportunity to pimp his faith in an inappropriate venue. Luckily everyone seemed to like his talk anyway.

It seems like he was almost disappointed that he wasn't tarred and feathered, but rather the godless secularists treated him with respect and courtesy.

Is there a link to this talk, Buffalo? I'd like to read it. Thanks.

Blixa wrote:
Is there a link to this talk, Buffalo? I'd like to read it. Thanks.

I don't know - I'm going from memory. It was the opening talk in the Sunday Morning session.