As LDS do any of you find Kirby's columns distasteful?

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7 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

I do follow Kirby for years now, always liked him. As years go by He's becoming bolder and outspoken about certain community & cultural issues that His Church opposes. 

 

I wouldn't know if he is distasteful. I never heard of him before now.

[mnn727]

I find some Utahans believe they are the center of the Universe and everyone should know what some local yokel is doing. 

Come on out into the big wide world.

[Calm]

50 minutes ago, CountryBoy said:

Kirbys are overpriced.  I mean, they are a fairly decent vacuum, but for the money?  I would go with a Shark.

 

Too heavy to be useful, imo.

[Calm]

41 minutes ago, mnn727 said:

I find some Utahans believe they are the center of the Universe and everyone should know what some local yokel is doing. 

Come on out into the big wide world.

It has been that way every where I have lived, including Russia and China.  Hmm...maybe not Kansas but I was only there three years and one of those I was pregnant, plus didn't get a paper or have internet and our tv was too tiny to watch much---what did I do to pass time?---- so I can't say for sure.

[mnn727]

2 hours ago, Calm said:

It has been that way every where I have lived, including Russia and China.  Hmm...maybe not Kansas but I was only there three years and one of those I was pregnant, plus didn't get a paper or have internet and our tv was too tiny to watch much---what did I do to pass time?---- so I can't say for sure.

Funny, I've lived in 12 cities in 4 vastly different states, visited 3 different countries and have never seen it to the degree I see some Utah LDS people do it..

[JAHS]

Usually they are pretty funny, but he does drive close to the edge sometimes with some of the things he says. Maybe that's why his Bishop keeps him serving in the nursery. ;-)

[Atheist Mormon]

10 hours ago, Storm Rider said:

Oh, a little bit of everywhere, but not Idaho.  It has been 40 years since I was in Utah.  Now on the east coast.  Is he someone I should know or is he really just a Utah talking head of sorts?

Hard to picture someone A TBM (if you are) with no Utah connections....

[mrmarklin]

11 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

Where are you from, Backwoods of Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, where papers cant reach you?

What is a paper?  I haven't read an actual paper in years.

[Calm]

2 hours ago, mnn727 said:

Funny, I've lived in 12 cities in 4 vastly different states, visited 3 different countries and have never seen it to the degree I see some Utah LDS people do it..

I saw it tons more in California and not just among LDS.  Not saying you didn't experience it, it could just be the type of people we hang out with over the years.

Edited September 3, 2016 by Calm

[Boanerges]

I've been reading Kirby for years. I think he's hilarious and sometimes in the midst of the lightheartedness makes some really good points. I don't live in Utah and never have (it's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there), and I have never touched a physical copy of the Tribune, I have always read his stuff online. He writes both church related and non-church related stuff. The church stuff usually comes at the end of the week.

[rodheadlee]

11 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

Hard to picture someone A TBM (if you are) with no Utah connections....

I drove through on I- 15 a bunch of times. Does that count?

Edited September 3, 2016 by rodheadlee

[Atheist Mormon]

57 minutes ago, rodheadlee said:

I drove through on I- 15 a bunch of times. Does that count?

Not even!!!!! It is like passing through the best place to observe Earth in Geological terms with a glimpse...

[mnn727]

18 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

Hard to picture someone A TBM (if you are) with no Utah connections....

Why? Both my wife and I are Adult Converts of over 20 years now.  You know.....we're the reason missionaries go out all over the world for.

We have no relatives living in Utah, we've visited twice (touristy things) and there's NO WAY I'd ever move there. Some (many?) tend to take themselves too seriously. Seriously, most Utah Mormons should live out in the real world for longer than just a mission. And I won't even talk about the people living in Utah that hate the LDS Church, in most cases their attitudes are just sadly laughable.

Mormons make up 1.7% of the U.S. population. Now think about living where, out of 100 people, 98 are not LDS and probably knew almost nothing about Mormons. Think about that and you realize Utah is not ordinary and certainly not the center of the universe.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not disrespecting Utah Mormons here, but we really are just a small minority no matter what it looks like where you live.

 

Edited September 3, 2016 by mnn727

[BCSpace]

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As LDS do any of you find Kirby's columns distasteful?

It would depend on whether or not he's active in Church attendance in his home ward, does his home teaching for real (priesthood in the home), serves in callings, is politically conservative, etc.  If so on all those, then I might judge some of his stuff to be tongue-in-cheek.

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22 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

Hard to picture someone A TBM (if you are) with no Utah connections....

It's hard to picture anyone on this entire planet with no Utah connections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

[Atheist Mormon]

On 9/2/2016 at 1:55 PM, ERayR said:

The definition of delusional.

Very well defined....After all who'd think there's so much free space on the planet....

Edited September 4, 2016 by Atheist Mormon
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[Rain]

I feel like some are distasteful.  I haven't read him in years.  Some I thought were great.  Some were far too caustic. 

[Scott Lloyd]

On 9/2/2016 at 3:25 PM, mnn727 said:

I find some Utahans believe they are the center of the Universe and everyone should know what some local yokel is doing. 

Come on out into the big wide world.

I find that some in the "big wide world" who accuse Utahns of provincialism do things that betray a sort of reverse provincialism on their own part -- like spelling Utahns as "Utahans."

Virtually nobody who is decently acquainted with the state and its people spells the word in that manner.

Reminds me of the old New Yorker magazine cover in which most of the map has New York City locations and the rest of the United States is pictured as being just kind of out there someplace.

 

Edited September 5, 2016 by Scott Lloyd

[Scott Lloyd]

On 9/2/2016 at 2:51 PM, CountryBoy said:

Kirbys are overpriced.  I mean, they are a fairly decent vacuum, but for the money?  I would go with a Shark.

 

I don't know about the vaccum cleaner brand so much, but Kirby the columnist is overrated imho.

[Atheist Mormon]

39 minutes ago, Scott Lloyd said:

I don't know about the vaccum cleaner brand so much, but Kirby the columnist is overrated imho.

How does one read an overrated columnist? He is popular in SLC, that's self evident.

[Stargazer]

On 9/2/2016 at 6:41 PM, Atheist Mormon said:

Hard to picture someone A TBM (if you are) with no Utah connections....

Gosh, that's ridiculous.  If you find that hard to picture, you need to get out more.

[Atheist Mormon]

3 hours ago, Stargazer said:

Gosh, that's ridiculous.  If you find that hard to picture, you need to get out more.

Couldn't agree more...Living far out of Utah I try to spend most of my free time in Utah or Southwest.......

[Scott Lloyd]

3 hours ago, Atheist Mormon said:

How does one read an overrated columnist?

Very infrequently, in my case.

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He is popular in SLC, that's self evident.

I'm not necessarily one to follow the pack.

[maxrep12]

On 9/2/2016 at 10:36 AM, Storm Rider said:

Who is Kirby?

John Dehlin's father

[maxrep12]

5 hours ago, Scott Lloyd said:

I don't know about the vaccum cleaner brand so much, but Kirby the columnist is overrated imho.

Oh, come off it Scott. Since when has your opinion registered as humble?

Kirby's success speaks volumes. And then there are sour grapes...