New Intel: The Decline of Pres. Monson

[_just me]

I bet they are already warming up the autosignature machine. Its Benson all over again.

Oh come now. That is already how everything is "signed." Now we'll get holographic encounters with him, darlin!

[_Cicero]

Uchtdorf came to our stake back when he was still in the Seventy. (In fact, coincidentally enough, Schryver was on the stake high council at the time and was the guy who was assigned to take care of Uchtdorf's every need while he was here and I saw them talking together both before and after stake conference--something Schryver was sure to remind everyone in Sunday School about when Uchtdorf was called to the Big Twelve a year or so later. He claimed he predicted to Uchtdorf that he would be called to the 12.)

Anyway, I know lots of people really like Uchtdorf, but he came across to me as a very arrogant, egotistical guy who likes to give orders.

Garbo: I have heard similar things about him (essentially that, like GBH, he is very good from the pulpit at seeming down to earth, but that he is terrible in small group or 1:1 settings). I wonder why President Eyring never comes up in these discussions? I have always liked him (I like Monson too).

[_Dr. Shades]

Things can get very fragmented in a family that runs to late marriage.

When you say "runs to late marriage," do you mean "whose members tend to marry later in life?" If so, how does that fragment anything?

When we want to capture family history from our elders, sometimes we are too late, and that is a bad lemon.

Early Alzheimers is lemonade.

Wait, . . . early Alzheimer's is a good thing? How so?

I believed without a doubt that Monson truly spoke to God and had a witness of Christ in the flesh, and that someday when he ascended to the office of prophet that he would set about a reformation in the church.

A reformation? From what into what? In other words, what did you think was defective, and what improvements did you hope to see made?

If any of the Brethren really wanted the best for the organization, they'd open the books.

What makes you think that opening the books would be good for the organization? It might well destroy it.

[_harmony]

What makes you think that opening the books would be good for the organization? It might well destroy it.

If truth and honesty would destroy it, then it needs to be destroyed so it do a Phoenix and come back as true, honest, and living up to it's mandate.

[_lulu]

Maybe he should lay off the Pepsi
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Conv ... =video&c=y

[_Drifting]

When the leaders of God's one true Church decide that being truthful isn't best for the religion then that is the time they receive God's resignation from membership.

[_OzPoof]

The COB string pullers should let him go for it in GC. He could babble some "revelation" or speak in tongues like TSCC used to allow back in the day.

[_harmony]

Anyway, I know lots of people really like Uchtdorf, but he came across to me as a very arrogant, egotistical guy who likes to give orders.

He should fit right in then.

[_krose]

It seems to me that dementia should provide an ideal vessel for the Lord to use for delivering his words to the people. If the person in physical possession of the brain no longer fully controls it, God can more easily take control and deliver revelation.

In this case we would know that the prophet is not speaking as a man, inserting his own reasoning.

[_ludwigm]

Tokaji Essence - The Elixir of the Tsars (Tokay Essencia, Essenzia, Eszencia, Aszu-Essencia) may help.

(Tokay Essence 1811, bottled about 1840)

There are numerous stories of the restorative powers of Tokay Essencia, including the fact that it was once reserved principally for dying monarchs.

Unfortunately, it would be against WoW.