charity wrote:I had no idea until now what has caused all of you guys to go apostate. Now I know. You don't have a sense of humor. You can't tell when someone is joking.
Actually I think they went apostate because they have developed highly nuanced senses of humor which allow them to see that the whole thing is a farce.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Maxrep wrote:Someone should have asked him about Satan's mode of hair fashion. The MTC presidents are constantly spotting the devil and his angels outside the MTC at night poised for battle, with the three Nephites or some manner of angelic presence preventing their entrance. Surely Elder Holland has not missed this most common of MTC urban legends!
Yeah, and you know, you would think that it would be Satan who would be sporting the long, "hippie" hair-do, rather than the Savior. He would no doubt be wearing multiple pairs of earrings as well.
..avoiding the very appearance of evil and all, right?
When Loren C. Dunn was mission president in the late 70's, he required all missionaries to have a hair part and only on the side. He called the one in the middle the "Wasach Split" and it was forbidden. Lots of lock step going on back then with the "Rainbows" (the verbatum discussions), and the "BD" (baptismal discussion - missionaries would literally bring people off the street to the chapel for a hammering/baptism "like the day of pentacost").
charity wrote:I had no idea until now what has caused all of you guys to go apostate. Now I know. You don't have a sense of humor. You can't tell when someone is joking.
charity wrote:I had no idea until now what has caused all of you guys to go apostate. Now I know. You don't have a sense of humor. You can't tell when someone is joking.
Did the missionaries know it was a joke?
LOL!!! Yeah, right. I'm sure they knew that, at base, how they wear their hair is *totally irrelevant*! In fact, I would imagine that we can expect Elders Smith and Jensen to be sporting mullets the next time we see them, and with the full approval of the Brethren to boot!
The Dude wrote:So, is the earring limitation based on Mother in Heaven's sense of fashion?
Recently, and I think you can find this on the news as well as youtube, a young man was video taped right after being struck by lightning. Quite interesting actually, but as he rose from the ground and opened his mouth, it was obvious that his tongue piercing had disintegrated.
Perhaps more than fashion, the earing limitation has more to do with meteorological safety.
I don't expect to see same-sex marriage in Utah within my lifetime. - Scott Lloyd, Oct 23 2013
charity wrote:I had no idea until now what has caused all of you guys to go apostate. Now I know. You don't have a sense of humor. You can't tell when someone is joking.
Did the missionaries know it was a joke?
Even read as mere words on a screen, they're funny.
I think you guys/gals are entirely too unbending and rigid. That's what I am beginning to see a lot of in the ex-mp. anti and critic crowd.
While I've never heard of an Apostle sharing details of such an experience I've been in 4 meetings (with 3 Apostles) wherein the Apostle said they had had such an experience.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Inconceivable wrote:When Loren C. Dunn was mission president in the late 70's, he required all missionaries to have a hair part and only on the side. He called the one in the middle the "Wasach Split" and it was forbidden. Lots of lock step going on back then with the "Rainbows" (the verbatum discussions), and the "BD" (baptismal discussion - missionaries would literally bring people off the street to the chapel for a hammering/baptism "like the day of pentacost").
For which he was chastised. When SLC heard what was going on, they put a stop to it. I was Ward Mission Leader when Dunn was in Sydney, and also one who objected to his program. There were a few successes, but the majority baptised under this program never returned to the Church. It was a complete farce, and most members also thought so.
charity wrote:I had no idea until now what has caused all of you guys to go apostate. Now I know. You don't have a sense of humor. You can't tell when someone is joking.
Did the missionaries know it was a joke?
Even read as mere words on a screen, they're funny.
I think you guys/gals are entirely too unbending and rigid. That's what I am beginning to see a lot of in the ex-mp. anti and critic crowd.
I repeat my question: did the missionaries know it was a joke?
