…There is simply no such thing as a "Mormon movement consisting of the LDS main Church and the 200 or so other branches" of a movement. The reason is that there is no such thing as "the LDS Church" which is, as you wrongly have it, is "a branch" of a movement.
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This reminds me of a great sci fi short story i read long ago, titled something like “the other shoe.” The person telling the story has a father with a unique gift, whatever he says doesn’t exist…simply ceases to exist. The story starts with a humorous foray into various things disappearing, which can be recovered if the father will simply state the thing exists again, but then it takes a dark note as the father develops Alzheimer’s.
In the final scene, the son hauls the dad away from some encounter, and when they get home, the dad goes upstairs to get ready for bed, muttering under his breath about the audacity of his son feeling like he needed to rescue him. The son hears one shoe come off and drop by the bed, then hears his dad say “and who is this guy [name the son calls him]. I bet he doesn’t even exist.”
The story ends with the son in a panic, waiting for the other shoe to drop, which of course it never does.
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Louis Midgley, and the lds church that never existed.
I remember that story from eighth grade!
Though I would not have remembered it without your synopsis.
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This reminds me of a great sci fi short story i read long ago, titled something like “the other shoe.” The person telling the story has a father with a unique gift, whatever he says doesn’t exist…simply ceases to exist. The story starts with a humorous foray into various things disappearing, which can be recovered if the father will simply state the thing exists again, but then it takes a dark note as the father develops Alzheimer’s.
In the final scene, the son hauls the dad away from some encounter, and when they get home, the dad goes upstairs to get ready for bed, muttering under his breath about the audacity of his son feeling like he needed to rescue him. The son hears one shoe come off and drop by the bed, then hears his dad say “and who is this guy [name the son calls him]. I bet he doesn’t even exist.”
The story ends with the son in a panic, waiting for the other shoe to drop, which of course it never does.
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Louis Midgley, and the lds church that never existed.
I remember that story from eighth grade!
Though I would not have remembered it without your synopsis.
This reminds me of a great sci fi short story i read long ago, titled something like “the other shoe.” The person telling the story has a father with a unique gift, whatever he says doesn’t exist…simply ceases to exist.
This reminds me of a great sci fi short story i read long ago, titled something like “the other shoe.” The person telling the story has a father with a unique gift, whatever he says doesn’t exist…simply ceases to exist.
This reminds me of a great sci fi short story i read long ago, titled something like “the other shoe.” The person telling the story has a father with a unique gift, whatever he says doesn’t exist…simply ceases to exist.
