Chap wrote: 1. Who stopped the Gold and Green Balls in 1990?
I think it was the Beatles/Elvis/Chuck Berry and the rock music genre and the associated dancing which went along with that kind of music that became the beginning of the end in regards to the traditional dancing that was part and parcel of the Gold and Green Balls. Most folks gradually lost the skills/ability to dance in the old ballroom fashion.
Too bad. Big time too bad.
When I was a teenager down in southern cal I would go to the West-Co-Monte dances (El Monte and West Covina stakes combined) and we would gyrate around out on the floor basically making fools of ourselves. How I wish that I had been taught and/or brought up to dance in the traditional ballroom fashion as a matter of course/normality.
Regards, MG
You mean they weren't stopped by higher authority, they just stopped by themselves because people didn't go any more?
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Chap wrote: You mean they weren't stopped by higher authority, they just stopped by themselves because people didn't go any more?
Probably a combination of both. For the reasons I've already stated.
A sad thing overall, though. It would be cool to go to a dance and be able to show some real dancing moves/skills rather than gyrating like we did back in the day. The Beatles and Co. screwed everything up for my generation and after. I remember as a teenager having some folks in our stake come into our ward and try to teach us ballroom dancing and other traditional dances...but it was a lost cause at that point. We had succumbed to the beat of the drum/electric guitar(s).
The snowball effect occurred and here we are. My guess is that the 'powers that be' back in the day would have loved to see the type of social activity that occurred during Golden Green Balls could have continued. But alas, it was not to be.
I love Beatles music. I was...and still am...a rock and roll enthusiast (the GOOD stuff anyways...), but the harm this genre of music did to the traditional 'dance' back in the sixties and seventies was irreparable.
I generally enjoyed the experience of attending church, even after I ceased believing in the conventional sense. What got me was the strong alignment to the political Right and Religious Right. Still, I didn't mind hanging out with people whose opinions were very different from my own. In the end, it was the action the Church took against Prop 8 and the new policy of refusing baptism to the children of gay couples that did me in, especially the latter. Once it seemed to me that the LDS Church had so blatantly and decisively betrayed basic Christian principles, I could no longer go along for the ride.
What do I miss?
The hymns, the rituals, and the people.
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I miss having my own building key so I could go shoot hoops anytime I wanted. Either by myself or with a group of late-night friends playing from midnight to 2:00 am.
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candygal wrote:The best testimony meeting I ever attended was when a non-mormon went to the podium and gave everybody hell for not letting his son join the scouts....good one..cuz' he was right!!
I attended a New Jersey branch one time. A man got up and must have thought it was an AA meeting. He said, "hi. My name is ____ and I've been sober for 4 months" and sat down.
Jonah wrote:I miss having my own building key so I could go shoot hoops anytime I wanted. Either by myself or with a group of late-night friends playing from midnight to 2:00 am.
I used to slip in when it was open to play the organ...I miss that.
candygal wrote:I used to slip in when it was open to play the organ...I miss that.
That reminds me of something I miss, also...I remember my brother (on the organ) and his wife (on the piano) playing a beautiful duet during a service. I think it was Bach, something you don't normally hear in a Mormon chapel.
candygal wrote:Shoot..I miss the Gold and Green Ball...the Road Shows..and your own Christmas Bulb on the ward Christmas tree..I miss the ward parties outside with homemade entertainment. And believe it or not..I loved the Sacrament Meeting sacrament songs..everyone of them were just beautiful..easy to play and beauitful to sing.
This. This is the Mormonism I grew up with. If the Church was still like this today, I would still be active. That Church no longer exists.
So you're chasing around a fly and in your world, I'm the idiot?
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candygal wrote:Shoot..I miss the Gold and Green Ball...the Road Shows..and your own Christmas Bulb on the ward Christmas tree..I miss the ward parties outside with homemade entertainment. And believe it or not..I loved the Sacrament Meeting sacrament songs..everyone of them were just beautiful..easy to play and beauitful to sing.
This. This is the Mormonism I grew up with. If the Church was still like this today, I would still be active. That Church no longer exists.
But I assume that your 'testimony' was based on more than dances, plays, parties, and decorative Christmas trees?
Oh, and beautiful Sacrament songs, of course. by the way, those are still there.
And now you can even sing along with the LDS Hymns app whenever you want to!
