Stalking the Prophet

[_Kishkumen]

I hope everyone can now plainly see where your real motives lie, and the red herring about "better apologetics".

Oh get a sense of humor, Ray.

You are such a party pooper.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Oh, come now. You know this is pretty fun. These guys are great. Like post-mission puppy dogs. They used to chase potential golden contacts through the streets of El Salvador, and now they can obsess over the latest rest stop visit of President Monson.

I think it's kind of touching, really.

I remember late nights in the mission when we would gather and speak in hushed tones of spirit sightings and angelic visitations like Girl Scouts speak of ghost stories. We didn't actually know anyone who had seen such things, but we knew someone had. We probably would have had the same swooning reaction to the prophet's presence as these people on the Haymonds' site.

(Does anyone else note the undertone of sexual arousal in some of these sightings?)

[_RayAgostini]

Oh get a sense of humor, Ray.

You are such a party pooper.

That was the excuse you've used all along, since the first days of the emergence of "Kishkumen".

But go right ahead, make fun of the President/Prophet, and subject him to mockery here. It's all in "good fun".

[_Kishkumen]

I remember late nights in the mission when we would gather and speak in hushed tones of spirit sightings and angelic visitations like Girl Scouts speak of ghost stories. We didn't actually know anyone who had seen such things, but we knew someone had. We probably would have had the same swooning reaction to the prophet's presence as these people on the Haymonds' site.

(Does anyone else note the undertone of sexual arousal in some of these sightings?)

I recall the basic outlines of some of the old mission folklore about miracles. Sister missionaries who escaped serial murderers and so forth.

There definitely is a sexual component to charismatic leadership. Some of the Medieval poetry about Jesus is fairly erotic in its tenor. Interesting stuff indeed.

[_Kishkumen]

That was the excuse you've used all along, since the first days of the emergence of "Kishkumen".

But go right ahead, make fun of the President/Prophet, and subject him to mockery here. It's all in "good fun".

Ray, an irreverent sense of humor is something I have always had. My mission president loved it. He got a real kick out of my Elder McConkie impersonations and the time I told him to kneel by the lampstand with putti on it because it was our apartment "graven image."

Some people have that kind of funny bone. Clearly you are on your "evil Kishkumen" kick.

Don't let me stop your fun. I know you won't let you throw your wet blanket on mine.

[_RayAgostini]

Ray, an irreverent sense of humor is something I have always had. My mission president loved it. He got a real kick out of my Elder McConkie impersonations and the time I told him to kneel by the lampstand with putti on it because it was our apartment "graven image."

Some people have that kind of funny bone. Clearly you are on your "evil Kishkumen" kick.

Don't let me stop your fun. I know you won't let you throw your wet blanket on mine.

You may convince your followers (if they're stupid enough), but you won't convince me that this is all about your "sense of humour".

[_Kishkumen]

You may convince your followers (if they're stupid enough), but you won't convince me that this is all about your "sense of humour".

?

I was looking for my followers, and all I saw were tumbleweeds rolling by.

So, folks, who among you are my "followers"?

I think you have me confused with your friend Will, Ray.

He is the one who cultivates followers or makes up sock puppets to fulfill that role.

[_Bob Loblaw]

That was the excuse you've used all along, since the first days of the emergence of "Kishkumen".

But go right ahead, make fun of the President/Prophet, and subject him to mockery here. It's all in "good fun".

I thought we were making fun of the people who run that site.

[_Kishkumen]

I thought we were making fun of the people who run that site.

Ray will tell us both what we are doing. We should just hush now and listen.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Ray will tell us both what we are doing. We should just hush now and listen.

I don't find Monson particularly funny, but the twitterpation of these prophet-groupies is definitely mockworthy.