Scott Lloyd Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 The "town-hall style" presidential debate is just a couple of hours away.These events are something of a wild-card as presidential debates go; you never know what's going to come up.How about it? Will there be any goofy anti-Mormon questions?"Gov. Romney, do you believe you will get your own planet someday?"Anything about "magic underwear"?Predictions?
Duncan Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 not planning on watching it as I just got season 5 of the Big Bang theory on the DVD, my bro has a meeting and I am unplugging the phone so barring a rocket ship crashing through the window i'll be getting my nerd on! 3
Scott Lloyd Posted October 16, 2012 Author Posted October 16, 2012 not planning on watching it as I just got season 5 of the Big Bang theory on the DVD, my bro has a meeting and I am unplugging the phone so barring a rocket ship crashing through the window i'll be getting my nerd on!If I lived in your neighborhood, and if there was food involved, I might be persuaded to come join you.
Duncan Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 If I lived in your neighborhood, and if there was food involved, I might be persuaded to come join you.it would be so on like ping pong!
Mola Ram Suda Ram Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 I actually dont think any questions of the sort will come up. Just my prediction. 3
Gillebre Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 If I were allowed to ask a question, mine would be: "Sausage, or pepperoni?"Then Pizza Hut would owe me a pizza every week for 30 years. lol
RobertAC Posted October 16, 2012 Posted October 16, 2012 Chanting from the audience: "Show! Us! Your horns! . . . Show! Us! Your horns!" 2
canard78 Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 As long as there's not a 'why is there a french word in the book of mormon.' I sigh when I hear that one and think, come on, you can do better than that!I wonder if the 'planet' question is asked he'll give the same answer as the LDS newroom. I find the church media pages 'rebuttal' of our 'planet' belief slightly excessive (mormon 101 I think it is).
DavidB Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) The "town-hall style" presidential debate is just a couple of hours away.These events are something of a wild-card as presidential debates go; you never know what's going to come up.How about it? Will there be any goofy anti-Mormon questions?"Gov. Romney, do you believe you will get your own planet someday?"Anything about "magic underwear"?Predictions?Is it anti-Mormon a Mormon if that Mormon believes he/she.will have a planet? Edited October 17, 2012 by DavidB
Nathair/|\ Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Is it anti-Mormon a Mormon if that Mormon believes he/she.will have a planet?I don't think any Mormon literally believes (s)he will have only one planet. 1
RobertAC Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I don't think any Mormon literally believes (s)he will have only one planet.. . . 'cause there's an interplanetary sale on whole galaxies?
spartacus Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) Umm, I am pretty sure that the questions in these town hall formats are still not only reviewed but selected by the Moderator. After listening to a bit of it I believe that was still the case. So unless you were asking for predictions not just on what the question would be but on the likelihood that someone would deviate from their submitted question to get a ringer in there, I think this OP was based on a mistaken understanding. Edited October 17, 2012 by spartacus
DavidB Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I don't think any Mormon literally believes (s)he will have only one planet.What a particular Mormon beleives is entirely irrelevant to claiming someone is anti-Mormon for simply asking about getting a planet
swfarnsworth Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I wonder if the 'planet' question is asked he'll give the same answer as the LDS newroom. I find the church media pages 'rebuttal' of our 'planet' belief slightly excessive (mormon 101 I think it is).I'm just going to ask for one planet then see where it goes from there./SIn all seriousness, I consider the response given in the Mormon Newsroom misleading. While it's true that we don't believe that we will get our own planet and that to suggest such is an attempt to caricature, we do believe that we will be able to create planets. The response should not have omitted this information.
canard78 Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I'm just going to ask for one planet then see where it goes from there./SIn all seriousness, I consider the response given in the Mormon Newsroom misleading. While it's true that we don't believe that we will get our own planet and that to suggest such is an attempt to caricature, we do believe that we will be able to create planets. The response should not have omitted this information.As a youth we used to love chatting about our experimental planets "look, look, I've got guys with two heads on this one"Completely agree, the newsroom goes off on a tangent of 'many mansions' is not understood and everything being speculation. There are some pretty categorical, church published statements, that say otherwise. I noticed Obama got a subtle reference at the end. "I know your family and your faith are very important to you, but 47% etc"
bu11fr0g Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Any reasonable moderator would not let a question like that come up. 1
Saints Alive Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) Now that the debate is over we know the answer. I wonder if any anti's will make meat out of Romney's "we've got binders full of women" The first thing I thought was someone is going to link that to the fundamentalists "joy books" Edited October 17, 2012 by Saints Alive
canard78 Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Any reasonable moderator would not let a question like that come up. But I bet Obama was praying one would slip in anyway. Well... I say praying...
Mola Ram Suda Ram Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Well. I watched pat of the debate and read other articles about the debate. I didn't see any questions about his faith. Romney did however mention his fatih.
thesometimesaint Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Such questions are like two Christians arguing as to how many angels can dance on a head of a pin.
Damien the Leper Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I didn't watch it but did any of these silly "anti-Mormon" question predictions come up?
Saints Alive Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 I didn't watch it but did any of these silly "anti-Mormon" question predictions come up? No, not even anything close to what could be considered a religion question.
thesometimesaint Posted October 17, 2012 Posted October 17, 2012 Valentinus:I didn't watch it either. But from what I've read of the transcripts so far. That type of question didn't come up.
Scott Lloyd Posted October 17, 2012 Author Posted October 17, 2012 What a particular Mormon beleives is entirely irrelevant to claiming someone is anti-Mormon for simply asking about getting a planetIt's my observation that generally, when it's brought up outside the Church it's either by an anti-Mormon endeavoring to make Mormonism look ridiculous by taking doctrinal beliefs out of context, or it's by an ill-informed individual who has been misled by such anti-Mormons.
Scott Lloyd Posted October 17, 2012 Author Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) I didn't watch it but did any of these silly "anti-Mormon" question predictions come up?The moderator had a pretty tight control over the questions that were asked, had obviously selected them in advance. And much of the time was taken up with responses elicited by her own questions.So no, there were no real clown questions (to borrow a recently coined idiom from the sports world). Edited October 17, 2012 by Scott Lloyd
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