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This came in my Facebook feed this morning:

"You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... It's your choice!" ~ Gordon B. Hinkley

We should choose to be smart rather than choose to be stupid? Why am I having such a difficult time making sense of this? Maybe because I didn't choose to be smart? But, if I chose to be stupid, then why do I still feel happiness? Pres. Hinkley, you lost me on this one...

I hate to put too fine a point on it, Zeez, but I think the subtext is that if you follow the prophet, you are smart, and you will inevitably be happy.

On the other hand, if you don't, you are by definition dumb and misery is your ineluctable doom.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

zeezrom wrote:This came in my Facebook feed this morning:

"You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... It's your choice!" ~ Gordon B. Hinkley

We should choose to be smart rather than choose to be stupid? Why am I having such a difficult time making sense of this? Maybe because I didn't choose to be smart? But, if I chose to be stupid, then why do I still feel happiness? Pres. Hinkley, you lost me on this one...

Maybe it should have been stupid and happy or smart and miserable? There seems to be a lot of smart, miserable secret apostates still in the church. There also seems to be a lot of happy Mormons who refuse to think about things too much.

Off topic warning! How was the strudel?

The hinckster truly believed he was the smartest most savy guy in the room and as psr everyone around him told him that.

i will predict if he knew mo'ism was a fraud and scam, his psr status on the other side is causing him all sorts of grief with his maker. "You will call out Lord and Lord but i will say "I don't know you". OOps!


just sayin

k

zeezrom wrote:This came in my Facebook feed this morning:

"You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable ... It's your choice!" ~ Gordon B. Hinkley

We should choose to be smart rather than choose to be stupid? Why am I having such a difficult time making sense of this? Maybe because I didn't choose to be smart? But, if I chose to be stupid, then why do I still feel happiness? Pres. Hinkley, you lost me on this one...

it makes perfect sense in the Mormon context. Choosing the gospel is smart/happ6y, rejecting it is dumb/miserable. Black and white.

I've been getting this crap on Facebook too. Usually Monson with some warm and fuzzy -- yet meaningless -- tripe. But today something a little different, a photo of an Afghan woman with this caption: When you cannot love someone, look into that person's eyes long enough to find the hidden rudiments of the child of God in him Oooh, I'm not sure this really meshes with Mormonism so well. Namaste.

Quasimodo wrote:
Off topic warning! How was the strudel?

the phyllo dough is still in the freezer! I got distracted by a massive cake project. This thing was sinful.