NOM

Reuben wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 5:48 pm
10 new GAs will be sustained, 3 of which are first cousins once removed of an apostle. There will be 2 who seem to have darkish skin if you squint hard enough.

1smartdodog wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 11:18 am I remember the days of hoping for some big revelation coming out at conference. It was the last days and all. Surely the prophet would have some vital proclamation to make.

Now I predict he will say nothing of any real value to mankind other than confirming to live a christ like life. Which does not require you to be a prophet.


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2bizE wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:45 am I predict the background floral arrangement will be a harvest blend featuring turnips, pumpkins, and cauliflower. That will be the “talk” on Twitter and social media.

Linked wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:20 pm I think we will get a bump in 2nd coming talks due to the extreme events going on right now, a la Oaks April 2004 speech. This is something that it seems church leaders have de-emphasized recently, but they need a big stick to whack people back to church.

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:24 am I'm hoping that President Mopag will have a few tricks up her sleeve for NOMference to make it a little more lively. Nelson set the bar pretty low the last conference, Mopag, as did the pulpit designers, so I'm thinking you can step over it.

alas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:22 am

Linked wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:20 pm I think we will get a bump in 2nd coming talks due to the extreme events going on right now, a la Oaks April 2004 speech. This is something that it seems church leaders have de-emphasized recently, but they need a big stick to whack people back to church.

Hmmmm, I was thinking kind of the opposite, that the church will remain silent on any hint of second coming as to not encourage the right wing to run out and buy more guns and store more ammo. The days of having food storage that you plan on sharing with neighbors are over. Now the preppers are planning to shoot their neighbors, more than share stored food. Preppers have decided it will be more effective to store a little food, then protect it by shooting everyone who comes near. And besides, there are all those deer in the canyons that can be hunted with guns and then you don’t need to store that nasty texturized vegetable protein. And the neighbors will carry the latest pandemic anyway, so save yourself by storing guns and ammo instead of wheat. They have seen the nut cases who start to think they *Personally* ARE the second coming after being raised on “end times” kind of talk. They have seen the “marry your daughter to have perfect genes” so the Savior can be reborn and usher in the second coming. When second coming talk soaks for several generations in small town Idaho or Southern Utah, the crazies crawl out of the muck and murder children, or marry children, or whatever their flavor of crazy is.

I mean, now is the perfect time to start imagining all those Biblical predictions about wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and hurricanes and the moon turning red from forest fire smoke are actually starting to happen. But I don’t think the church WANTS to stir up the crazies anymore than they already are.

This should be interesting to see which way this goes.

Linked wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 4:38 pm

alas wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:22 am

Linked wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:20 pm I think we will get a bump in 2nd coming talks due to the extreme events going on right now, a la Oaks April 2004 speech. This is something that it seems church leaders have de-emphasized recently, but they need a big stick to whack people back to church.

Hmmmm, I was thinking kind of the opposite, that the church will remain silent on any hint of second coming as to not encourage the right wing to run out and buy more guns and store more ammo. The days of having food storage that you plan on sharing with neighbors are over. Now the preppers are planning to shoot their neighbors, more than share stored food. Preppers have decided it will be more effective to store a little food, then protect it by shooting everyone who comes near. And besides, there are all those deer in the canyons that can be hunted with guns and then you don’t need to store that nasty texturized vegetable protein. And the neighbors will carry the latest pandemic anyway, so save yourself by storing guns and ammo instead of wheat. They have seen the nut cases who start to think they *Personally* ARE the second coming after being raised on “end times” kind of talk. They have seen the “marry your daughter to have perfect genes” so the Savior can be reborn and usher in the second coming. When second coming talk soaks for several generations in small town Idaho or Southern Utah, the crazies crawl out of the muck and murder children, or marry children, or whatever their flavor of crazy is.

I mean, now is the perfect time to start imagining all those Biblical predictions about wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and hurricanes and the moon turning red from forest fire smoke are actually starting to happen. But I don’t think the church WANTS to stir up the crazies anymore than they already are.

This should be interesting to see which way this goes.

That's a good point. My dad has been sending more end-of-days links than usual lately, he and his ilk don't need more fuel. But I was thinking more of the people likely to become jack-mormons after getting 6 months off of church. People that still believe but need some extra motivation to get their butts back in the pews and their dollars back in their tithing envelopes. I guess we'll see in a couple weeks!