The Shape of Mormonism to Come

[_EAllusion]

Nimrod.

Rivers are occasionally called turgid because they swell in size. I can't say I ever seen an ocean described as turgid, though I guess they do swell. That description wouldn't make any sensible point you were going for, though. But thanks to this post, we now know you were shooting for something akin to murky. "Congested" is only a similar meaning for turgid when you mean that something is swollen due to it being full of stuff (fluid).

Cheer up, though. With this correction you'll probably come back a slightly better Droopy who will shoehorn this word into future, and ironically turgid, posts correctly.

[_Tarski]

Nimrod.

Rivers are occasionally called turgid because they swell in size. I can't say I ever seen an ocean described as turgid, though I guess they do swell. That description wouldn't make any sensible point you were going for, though. But thanks to this post, we now know you were shooting for something akin to murky. "Congested" is only a similar meaning for turgid when you mean that something is swollen due to it being full of stuff (fluid).

Cheer up, though. With this correction you'll probably come back a slightly better Droopy who will shoehorn this word into future, and ironically turgid, posts correctly.

Turbid with a "B"

[_EAllusion]

Turbid with a "B"

Hah. Totally didn't make the connection. Even better.

[_Kevin Graham]

Do you remember The New Yorker's old "Block That Metaphor" feature?

You just don't have a sophisticated enough reading ability to appreciate Droopy's penetrating prose.

[_Droopy]

Do you remember The New Yorker's old "Block That Metaphor" feature?

You just don't have a sophisticated enough reading ability to appreciate Droopy's penetrating prose.

Unfortunately, the only thing Kevin ever penetrated was the dark, swirling maelstrom of his own ego, and it is highly unlikely he will ever develop the appreciation of the English language, or of serious, imaginative, critical thought, to ever penetrate my prose.

Again, it feels just like being back in High School. Smells like teen spirit...

[_Buffalo]

develop the appreciation of the English language

[_degaston]

Joanna Brooks sounds like the typical member of Mormon culture in the future. In the past we had a lot of bigots who believed and preached folklore full of racism, sexism, homophobianism, non-tolerance for other Christian denominations and frankly a whole host of unChristlike teachings. Now we see a future where most people who have ever been baptized into the Mormon culture don't accept such dogma and insist on the Mormon culture being welcoming and forthrightfully truthful/transparent. There's always going to be some old geezers like Warren Jeffs seeking to claim that their office entitles them to obfuscate truth and take power trips over the lives of others. But those guys are losing respect as their evil ways are exposed.

[_harmony]

She's a "drive by" sniper who hits and runs and apparently thinks she's quite "smart" (and for Blixa, you can only be "smart" if you have a formal advanced degree, such a credential conferring smartness in the same way a union card makes one a skilled craftsman, non-union workers being less skilled by definition).

So I guess from this we can assume that Droopy, in addition to having no advanced degree, also has no union card?

[_Droopy]

Joanna Brooks sounds like the typical member of Mormon culture in the future.

Joanna Brooks. The New Mormon Woman of the Future!



In this brave new Mormonism, I do suppose that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ per se will have ceased to exist. We're all Unitarians now.

In the past we had a lot of bigots who believed and preached folklore full of racism, sexism, homophobianism, non-tolerance for other Christian denominations and frankly a whole host of unChristlike teachings.

Gee, I never noticed any of that. (homophobianism is a new one. Good work. Political correctness continues to spawn neologisms from its bloated, pulsating egg sack of linguistic defamation apace. I do confess, however, that I do not know who the homophobians are, nor whether I would have an irrational fear of them or not.

Now we see a future where most people who have ever been baptized into the Mormon culture don't accept such dogma and insist on the Mormon culture being welcoming and forthrightfully truthful/transparent.

The vast majority of Mormons have never accepted such ideas as you mentioned because, all being strawmen, there was nothing to accept.

There's always going to be some old geezers like Warren Jeffs seeking to claim that their office entitles them to obfuscate truth and take power trips over the lives of others. But those guys are losing respect as their evil ways are exposed.

Warren Jeffs is not, and as far as I know, never was a Mormon. He may very well have been a homophobian, however (which I understand are very much like homophibians, except that homophobians can't breath underwater).

[_lulu]

Joanna Brooks sounds like the typical member of Mormon culture in the future.

Joanna Brooks. The New Mormon Woman of the Future!

It's so much easier than being the Old Mormon Woman of the Future.


---lulu - Director of the Department of Redundancy Department Manager