Dark Night Of The Soul

[mfbukowski]

That's ok

It wasn't important anyway

Edited February 27, 2015 by mfbukowski

[mfbukowski]

Darkness Darkness Take away the Pain of Knowing

 

Blame it all on Adam and Eve

"Is there no other way?"

[Robert F. Smith]

no time at all.  It is in the que.  there are currently like 43 episodes recorded but not yet released.  One will release per week.  It is not Bro. Quinn's turn yet.  I race like crazy during the school year so I can be podcast free during the summer and enjoy more time with family.

Spoken like a True Blue Mormon family man.

[Robert F. Smith]

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In 1958-59 hardly any LDS living rooms exhibited

anything even remotely resembling a family library.

A few residences had cheap sets of the type of

encyclopedias peddled door-to-door at discount

prices. Copies of something resembling TV-Guide

were frequently seen. Maybe, here and there an

issue of "Improvement Era" or a cookbook might

be noticed among the family possessions. I never

once saw a Book of Mormon -- though perhaps a

Bible or two were spotted.

 

But... as early as 1959, I'd bet that 3 out of 10 Mormon

households had McConkie's big black book -- sometimes

lying open on a table -- more likely set atop the fireplace

mantle, next to Aunt Agatha's frowning framed portrait.

 

Everybody knew what it was. When I was called into the

school principal's office (a hall monitor had reported my

saying a bad word, or some such infraction) I could see

the spine of "Mormon Doctrine" poised alongside the

school's past annuals, and a Webster's.

 

If it was printed there -- and it disagreed with what the

Bishop or a visiting Stake President said from the lectern,

then they were obviously wrong -- and the Apostle right.

............................................................  

I never owned a copy and never referred to it, and considered it a mistake to take it as settled Canon Law, even if Elder McConkie considered himself the LDS canon lawyer par excellence.  It was never an official publication of the Church, certainly was given very negative reviews by some of the Brethren, and did considerable damage to authentic LDS doctrine and theology.

 

You might want to more frequently consider, Dale, that there are some very strong differences of opinion among loyal LDS Church members.  Maybe not as much fun to think about that, but it is true, and has nothing to do with the noisy rebels and apostates who are found here and there in Mormondom.  Thus it shall ever be.

[Uncle Dale]

 

...there are some very strong differences of opinion among loyal LDS Church members.

...

 

.

Just as long as you keep it all a House of Order

and don't play loud music after my bedtime, you

folks can argue all you want.

 

I grew up seeing that. As a lad I visited the Malad

Public Library and there was an autographed

Fred M. Smith personal copy of vol. 4 of History

of the Church (probably worth something). But,

sitting right next to it, was a bound set of some

less lofty publication, ear-marked to a page where

an article writer remarked of the same Pres. Smith,

that when he brought a "Thus saith the Lord..."

to General Conference, the other leaders looked

it over and told the embarrassed supreme directional

controller to "Go back to the Lord" and "back to your

typewriter" and this time "get it right."

 

Which he did.

 

Another church -- another time -- but that was my

view of normative, argumentative, latter day saintism.

 

UD

[Robert F. Smith]

.

Just as long as you keep it all a House of Order

and don't play loud music after my bedtime, you

folks can argue all you want.

 

I grew up seeing that. As a lad I visited the Malad

Public Library and there was an autographed

Fred M. Smith personal copy of vol. 4 of History

of the Church (probably worth something). But,

sitting right next to it, was a bound set of some

less lofty publication, ear-marked to a page where

an article writer remarked of the same Pres. Smith,

that when he brought a "Thus saith the Lord..."

to General Conference, the other leaders looked

it over and told the embarrassed supreme directional

controller to "Go back to the Lord" and "back to your

typewriter" and this time "get it right."

 

Which he did.

 

Another church -- another time -- but that was my

view of normative, argumentative, latter day saintism.

 

UD

An awesome example of humility, very much to be praised.