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Hagoth wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:46 pm
My favorite question was the one from the girl who asked how we can sacrifice even more, like the saints who built the Kirtland temple. Those are the hard-hitting questions that only and apostle can answer.
Low point: Elder Cook's extended laughter at the thought of the cast-aside first wife staying home and do all of the work while her husband took the younger, prettier second wife out to show off to his cronies. That really seemed to tickle his funny bone. I wonder if Mrs. Cook would find it as hilarious.
Even before Bill/RFM talked about Cook's laugh I found it absolutely disgusting. Kate was basically making a comment about how polygamy was really ugly in that the first wife was left aside, and Cook was sitting there laughing for way too long at something that wasn't funny in any way.
I would love to take that audio clip and buy an ad playing it - it's disgusting.
And yes, I love how they claimed to have no time to answer the tough questions in detail yet found plenty of time to answer a question about how we can all do more in service of the church.
jfro18 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 6:02 pm
And yes, I love how they claimed to have no time to answer the tough questions in detail yet found plenty of time to answer a question about how we can all do more in service of the church.
I was really annoyed with a couple of the softball questions. We find out how to sacrifice for the church every Sunday for three hours. General Conference is loaded with instructions about how to do more for the institutional church.
FiveFingerMnemonic wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:36 am
did anyone else have slight irritation with the primary children voice inflections and pentameter that both Kate and Matt use when speaking? I get that the audience is the youth, but it was noticeable to me. Feels patronizing in some way.
Yes! Really grinds DW's and my nerves to hear that tone in church talks and events. The fake laughter/laugh lines and topics were also really bad and hard to listen to.
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I really liked the podcast. Cook et.al responses made my blood boil. (His laughter at the first wife’s pain was just awful)
I kept wondering though, in their commentary, why RFM or Bill didn’t reference Boyd Packer’s talk to the BYU CES audience that; there is a temptation to tell everything when teaching about church history, but “sometimes the truth is not very useful.”
Cook and team are just following Boyd’s admonition aren’t they?
The church has engineered your eternal family into a commodity that can be purchased with an annual fee. The fact that full tithing payment is a requirement for saving ordinances is the biggest red flag imaginable. Hagoth
