What is it about Uchtdorf...

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Re: What is it about Uchtdorf...

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Nightlion wrote:Here ya go:

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What's he got you don't see in me?
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This made a big improvement for my morning, thanks Nightlion.
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Blixa wrote:... he's "exotic," ...

The only nonUS high leader in an US church...
More than 50% of the members are nonUS...
20, 30 (40...) % of the members speak other language than English (Spanish and Portuguese)



See the German speaking members - from cumorah.com:

Germany:
LDS Members: 37159 - 0.045% of the population, 0.26% of the church membership (Approx. Active Members: 11147)

Austria:
LDS Members: 4176 - 0.051% of the population, 0.029% of the church (Approx. Active Members: 1252)

Switzerland:
LDS Members: 7872 - 0.11% of the population, 0.056% of the church (Approx. Active Members: 1968)


I am exotic, too...
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ludwigm wrote:
Blixa wrote:... he's "exotic," ...

The only nonUS high leader in an US church...
More than 50% of the members are nonUS...
20, 30 (40...) % of the members speak other language than English (Spanish and Portuguese)



See the German speaking members - from cumorah.com:

Germany:
LDS Members: 37159 - 0.045% of the population, 0.26% of the church membership (Approx. Active Members: 11147)

Austria:
LDS Members: 4176 - 0.051% of the population, 0.029% of the church (Approx. Active Members: 1252)

Switzerland:
LDS Members: 7872 - 0.11% of the population, 0.056% of the church (Approx. Active Members: 1968)


I am exotic, too...


And I'd stand you to a beverage of your choice, as well. :smile:
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Blixa wrote:And I'd stand you to a beverage of your choice, as well. :smile:

Thank You. I've posted the entry. :smile: :smile:
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I want to have coffee with Nightlion and Ludwigm... and many others.
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Ludwigm!

I just read that this was stolen. So beautiful.

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"The Lovers' Meeting" by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary
Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather, who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given... Zeus (1178 BC)

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zeezrom wrote:Ludwigm!

I just read that this was stolen. So beautiful.

[#img]http://www.caboodle.hu/typo3temp/pics/0cd66737e7.jpg[/img]
"The Lovers' Meeting" by Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary

He was a genius.

Look at the cedars
[#img] http://www.myartprints.co.uk/kunst/tiva ... _einsa.jpg[/img]
[#img] http://www.berze-nagy.sulinet.hu/stilus ... randok.jpg[/img]
and Mostar
[#img] http://www.myartprints.com/kunst/tivada ... ruecke.jpg[/img]
When I first traveled to Yugoslavia (today there are five successors) I visited Mostar only to see the original scene.

From Csontváry page:
On a hot sunny afternoon, 13 October 1880, — when he was 27 years old — he experienced a mystic vision. He heard a voice saying "you will be the greatest sunway painter, greater than Raphael!"
...
Most of the critics in Western Europe recognized his abilities, art and congeniality, but in the Kingdom of Hungary during his life he was considered to be an eccentric crank for several reasons, e. g. for his vegetarianism, anti-alcoholism, anti-nicotinism, pacifism, his latent, but more and more apparent schizophrenia and his cloudy, prophetic writings and pamphlets about his life (Curriculum), genius (The Authority, The Genius) and religious philosophy (The Positivum).
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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Blixa wrote:
(I'd rather have coffee or other beverage of choice with Nightlion, though.)


ahhh!
As would I with you. :cry:

You prefer the quixotic to the exotic. :lol:
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zeezrom wrote:I want to have coffee with Nightlion and Ludwigm... and many others.

Turns out there is a quaint coffee shop just down the hall from The Apocalrock Visitor Center...................?
Every time I pass by now
I will sigh
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huckelberry wrote:

This made a big improvement for my morning, thanks Nightlion.


you see that the road to Zion is NOT traveled.
'tis straight and true but abandoned
this much change
The Apocalrock Manifesto and Wonders of Eternity: New Mormon Theology
https://www.docdroid.net/KDt8RNP/the-apocalrock-manifesto.pdf
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