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Mormon Think wrote:Apparently the video on LDS.org has already been edited so it doesn't show much of a slump and video angles were changed so it doesn't show Monson in quite the fragile state of the original. This was from a post on RFM.

Dan

The videos were edited to show the 3/4 view so that his face wasn't so obscured by the microphone as he slumped down. If anything, the different angle exposes more of his frailty.

Dan from the Church's Publishing Services Department

I think just about everyone had the same reaction. By the end of his talk, the microphone was obscuring his face, and he was repeating sentences. I was shocked, and was wondering if I was watching President Monson's last public address. They cut to an extreme wide shot about 1 millisecond after the talk ended.

Here is how one faithful LDS responded:

If you were watching general conference this Sunday morning, your heart probably melted as you watched President Monson’s physical strength begin to fail on him in front of the entire Church. He started strong, and then all of the sudden it was as if an entire lifetime of church service came crashing down on to his shoulders.

http://www.gregtrimble.com/president-monson-i-wish-i-could-have-come-and-held-you-up/

The video shows Monson slumping and repeating words. I've seen this in the elderly as their Parkinson's medication wears off. That said, if the church wants to put old men with medical problems on display before the world, well, that's another reason to hate the church.

LDSToronto wrote:The video shows Monson slumping and repeating words. I've seen this in the elderly as their Parkinson's medication wears off. That said, if the church wants to put old men with medical problems on display before the world, well, that's another reason to hate the church.

You must have seethed with rage when the Muhammed Ali, shaking from his Parkinson's, lit the Olympic fire in Atlanta.

My theory, they have been to the cross roads, and this part of the the price they must pay, enslaved to the very last breath.

maklelan wrote:You must have seethed with rage when the Muhammed Ali, shaking from his Parkinson's, lit the Olympic fire in Atlanta.

I used to watch it on TV.

Any of You can watch it now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wMMFAcweQ -

There was no sermon said by him...

maklelan wrote:

LDSToronto wrote:The video shows Monson slumping and repeating words. I've seen this in the elderly as their Parkinson's medication wears off. That said, if the church wants to put old men with medical problems on display before the world, well, that's another reason to hate the church.

You must have seethed with rage when the Muhammed Ali, shaking from his Parkinson's, lit the Olympic fire in Atlanta.

Exploiting the weak, in any form, is repugnant. This Monson stuff, pure exploitation - already a martyr and he's not even dead:

Uchtdorf is such a hero...

Children See Angels Carry Monson Away

H.

maklelan wrote:You must have seethed with rage when the Muhammed Ali, shaking from his Parkinson's, lit the Olympic fire in Atlanta.

You're equating those two events? Odd, but understandable given your bias.

It didn't look to me like he "almost collapsed". He just looks frail. My mother is his age and needs help to get around. I give him a lot of credit for going out there and speaking as frail as he looked, it must have been difficult.

LDSToronto wrote:Exploiting the weak, in any form, is repugnant. This Monson stuff, pure exploitation

Clearly. The way he kept saying he didn't want to be up there gave it all away. None of the leaders wanted him to sit down and rest. Didn't you know that's why nobody came to hold him up?