GenCon Fall 2017

[Korihor]

What will be spoken?

[RubinHighlander]

My guess is they will play it safe and maybe announce a new temple or two.
BORING!

[MoPag]

I can't wait for the suck up 70s. They are like my favorite thing about he church right now!!

[Corsair]

I would love to be surprised at something either great or scandalous being said at church. I will mostly pay just enough attention to get the basic idea then go back to inconveniencing various data structures (ie. "playing video games").

[Hermey]

They will surely stick their collective foot in their mouth. They TBM faithful will see it as faith promoting while the rest of everyone else will cringe and ask if they really just said that.

[moksha]

I would imagine the talks will be carefully scrutinized ahead of time with the aim being to eliminate any embarrassing controversy. It's not like they have any currently serving Trump-like Authorities who will mire the Church in a vat of poop with an improvised speech.

I just hope President Uchtdorf shines through with some good stuff amid the calls for obedience, tithe monies, and the elimination of porn shoulders.

For you TV watchers, there is now no need to feel sheepish about enjoying the Conference with a Diet Coke and a big bowl of popcorn. Popcorn is no longer demonized!

[Korihor]

They will surely stick their collective foot in their mouth. They TBM faithful will see it as faith promoting while the rest of everyone else will cringe and ask if they really just said that.

They always say something cringeworthy, but the reality is most cringeworthy stuff is benign. Yes, the ExMo crowd will freak out and create 3,000 memes and say "can you believe they said that?!" while the TBM's will have no clue something was said.

I'm referring something of actual weight that is a true misstep instead of the normal baloney

[didyoumythme]

I expect more of the same old reguritated Sunday school manual lines. More quoting each other. A meme on Reddit said "come see prophets, seers, and revelators do none of those things." But now that I see it all as fiction, I will find reason to be angry at 75% of what is said because of lies, bad analogies, confirmation bias, blatant contradictions, and many forms of manipulation.

I will anxiously await the talks about staying in the boat, doubting doubts, giving bro joe a break etc. though so I can tear them apart in my head. Not looking forward to this weekend. It is strange thinking back on how much I LOVED gc during my mission especially. Every talk was amazing for some reason...Now I can't get anything out of it.

[2bizE]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

[DPRoberts]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

I tried to make one once. Plenty of free apps for that.

[Evil_Bert]

I saw the title and immediately thought of the GenCon gaming convention. I guess I am a geek.

[RubinHighlander]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

[MoPag]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

Yes!!

Miracles that aren't miracles.
Demonizing those who leave
Circular logic
Sexist comments
Racist comments
Religious Freedom

[wtfluff]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

• Doubt

• Adiction

• Tender

• Mercy

• Tender Mercies (Can you get double, triple or quadruple points in Bingo? This should be one of those.)

• Even (As in: Even Jesus Christ. As opposed to Odd Jesus Christ?)

[redjay]

Has someone found a good conference bingo game to download?

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

• Doubt

• Adiction

• Tender

• Mercy

• Tender Mercies (Can you get double, triple or quadruple points in Bingo? This should be one of those.)

• Even (As in: Even Jesus Christ. As opposed to Odd Jesus Christ?)

Satan.

[Hagoth]

Expect a few talks designed to lower your expectations about prophets, priesthood power, Brother Joseph, etc. offset by a few talks about the dangers of lowering your credulity about the very same things.

[2bizE]

I think tender mercies should be on there for sure.
How about:
Stay in the boat
Quotes another living GA
It has been noted (when people vote opposed)
Speaker smacks lips at least 10 times during talk
“Penned”. As in CS Lewis penned the words...
Awkward use of the word “Even”. as in, our savior, even Jesus Christ

Follow the prophet he won’t lead you astray

[ulmite]

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

• Doubt

• Adiction

• Tender

• Mercy

• Tender Mercies (Can you get double, triple or quadruple points in Bingo? This should be one of those.)

• Even (As in: Even Jesus Christ. As opposed to Odd Jesus Christ?)

Satan.

Vicissitudes
President Monson, we love you
Airplane story!
Philosophies of men

[moksha]

Slogans it would be fun to hear:

Philosophies of Mormons
Follow the Fifteen
Imagine if you will...
I say this in the name of Joseph Smith

[wtfluff]

Maybe we should collaborate a NOMish one here? What squares would you put on the board? We should also hand out the awards.

• Ponderize (oh wait, that was so last year...or was it the year before?)

• Taffy Pull (that would be awesome if he used that one again!)

• New Ship Zion

• Miracle

• Succor (they really need to kill this one)

• I Know

• WOW (will be interesting to see if this is talked about since the BYU announcement)

• Porn

• Same Sex Attraction (since one out of thousands of the flock came back)

• Doubt

• Adiction

• Tender

• Mercy

• Tender Mercies (Can you get double, triple or quadruple points in Bingo? This should be one of those.)

• Even (As in: Even Jesus Christ. As opposed to Odd Jesus Christ?)

Satan.