conference

[Ouagadougou]

6 minutes ago, Bobbieaware said:

Very much appreciate your mild response. Some others might very well have taken offence with my post. You may want to get checked out to see if you're suffering from adult Attention Deficit Disorder, which could be the cause of your impatience and the difficulty you seem to have focusing.😉

Haha I don't have ADD, but thanks for suggesting that I suffer from it, without actually knowing me.  I know numerous members who agree that 10 hours of conference talks is just too much....

[Ahab]

1 minute ago, Ouagadougou said:

Perhaps I'll start watching conference talks at night when I need to fall asleep...

Good idea. Best to have good thoughts just before you go to sleep. It can often inspire good dreams.

[Ahab]

2 minutes ago, Ouagadougou said:

Haha I don't have ADD, but thanks for suggesting that I suffer from it, without actually knowing me.  I know numerous members who agree that 10 hours of conference talks is just too much....

...too much at one time, most mean.

The total time can be split into separate 20 minute addresses.

[JAHS]

53 minutes ago, Ahab said:

59 minutes ago, JAHS said:

My Nephew makes LDS cartoons. Some have appeared in Deseret News:

No mention of Saturday sessions!?!?

tsk tsk tsk

OK. Here's a good one for Saturday.

 

[clarkgoble]

I confess I vastly prefer reading the talks to watching them, but it's good to keep your kids in the habit. Something we like to do is go on a nice drive with conference on the radio. 

While there's rarely more than one or two talks saying anything terribly new, it's useful to see what the theme is which often reflects a commonality regarding what they feel is most important that year. That in turn makes me think about those issues and consider why God might see it as important even if I don't. Often in doing that exercise I realize that there are things I could do better in that regard.

[Ahab]

Repetition of good thoughts is great, with different people saying pretty much the same thing in their own way in their own words and their own phrases.

Sometimes someone will focus more on one point than another point, but as long as they're all saying pretty much the same thing and keep saying it I eventually get to the point where I can understand what they are thinking.

Maybe someday I'll even get to the point where I know what they are going to say before they say anything.

 

[Duncan]

Just now, Ahab said:

Repetition of good thoughts is great, with different people saying pretty much the same thing in their own way in their own words and their own phrases.

Sometimes someone will focus more on one point than another point, but as long as they're all saying pretty much the same thing and keep saying it I eventually get to the point where I can understand what they are thinking.

Maybe someday I'll even get to the point where I know what they are going to say before they say anything.

 

a Latter-day Radar O'Reilly

[Ahab]

20 minutes ago, Duncan said:

a Latter-day Radar O'Reilly

Lt Colonel Harry Blake, more like.

Righty-o. RogerWilco Over and out. Ten-four and goom-bye

[Glenn101]

1 hour ago, Bobbieaware said:

Very much appreciate your mild response. Some others might very well have taken offence with my post. You may want to get checked out to see if you're suffering from adult Attention Deficit Disorder, which could be the cause of your impatience and the difficulty you seem to have focusing.

I actually am afflicted with that disorder so if Ouagadougou is also I can understand his frustrations.  But your comments about us basically being responsible for our own spiritual preparation were well made. There are times, especially on Saturdays after morning activities (Easter U.S.), that I do not put in the requisite preparation and do not feel the Spirit when trying to listen to the talks. And I have often gotten lost in my mind while listening and actually stopped hearing what was being said until maybe the last few minutes of the last talk or maybe even the closing prayer.

Sundays are usually better, especially if I take time to meditate a bit before watching a session. But I have always found something worthwhile, something inspiring, and/or new insights concerning different aspects of the Gospel.

What I have come to really enjoy is the talks by non-U,S, speakers with the differing perspectives and insights on different aspects of the gospel.

But I do remember one of the apostles being plenty put out by being told the same thing over and over, i.e. when Peter was told by the Savior to "Feed my sheep."

I have decided this year not to do my usual skim of the so called "Mormon Archipelago" of bloggers after a General Conference. It is really distressing to find out just how many more people there are that are more qualified and know more how to lead the Church than do the General Authorities.

Glenn

Edited April 1, 2017 by Glenn101
Just couldn't leave it alone, as usual.

[Duncan]

Just now, Ahab said:

Lt Colonel Harry Blake, more like.

Righty-o. RogerWilco Over and out. Ten-four and goom-bye

 

[Atheist Mormon]

3 hours ago, Ahab said:

Some people really like statistic reports.

is it going to be possible for for you even reconsider those numbers did not reflect reality for long...long time?

[Ahab]

10 minutes ago, Atheist Mormon said:

is it going to be possible for for you even reconsider those numbers did not reflect reality for long...long time?

The numbers mean what they mean.

Just not necessarily what you think they mean.

[Bobbieaware]

2 hours ago, Glenn101 said:

I actually am afflicted with that disorder so if Ouagadougou is also I can understand his frustrations.  But your comments about us basically being responsible for our own spiritual preparation were well made. There are times, especially on Saturdays after morning activities (Easter U.S.), that I do not put in the requisite preparation and do not feel the Spirit when trying to listen to the talks. And I have often gotten lost in my mind while listening and actually stopped hearing what was being said until maybe the last few minutes of the last talk or maybe even the closing prayer.

Sundays are usually better, especially if I take time to meditate a bit before watching a session. But I have always found something worthwhile, something inspiring, and/or new insights concerning different aspects of the Gospel.

What I have come to really enjoy is the talks by non-U,S, speakers with the differing perspectives and insights on different aspects of the gospel.

But I do remember one of the apostles being plenty put out by being told the same thing over and over, i.e. when Peter was told by the Savior to "Feed my sheep."

I have decided this year not to do my usual skim of the so called "Mormon Archipelago" of bloggers after a General Conference. It is really distressing to find out just how many more people there are that are more qualified and know more how to lead the Church than do the General Authorities.

Glenn

The thing I find so remarkable is how those who criticize the Church, thinking they are wiser and more qualified to lead than Lord's anointed, somehow fail to awake to the painfully obvious fact they are following in the well-worn footsteps of the defiant and proud of every previous gospel dispensation who squandered their opportunities.

Edited April 1, 2017 by Bobbieaware

[Storm Rider]

8 hours ago, Ouagadougou said:

Not really...are they really going to proclaim/say anything that we haven't heard 1000 times already?  Hours and hours of talks that have already been given (just with different names).  Conference is way too boring for me to sit through and listen all the way through.  I'll probably read a few talks once they are available after conference.  I think my time can be spent better with my family enjoying nature and this world (exercising) instead of sitting on my couch for hours (pretending like I'm interested or playing on my phone) trying to stay awake, as I listen to the same message I have heard numerous times already.  

Thatta boy, that's the winning attitude that is sure to lead success in all facets of life.  

[Sleeper Cell]

5 hours ago, Ouagadougou said:

Also, this post took me maybe one minute or so, ...

That explains a lot.  

[The Nehor]

I find the main problem I had with Conference is that the sitting too long was a distraction. Now I have a schedule. Deep clean my bathrooms while listening to Saturday Morning, deep clean the kitchen Saturday Afternoon, work out for at least half of Priesthood (President Uchtdorf's talks are much better when you have a punching bag). On Sunday I usually go visit my parents and eat breakfast in the Morning session and usually start dozing in the afternoon one.

Then if I miss anything I listen to the most recent conference talks on a loop while jogging over the next six months.

Find a way that works.

[sunstoned]

7 hours ago, bluebell said:

I'm not sure about stem, but I really like the annual statistical report. 

I miss the poster who used to compile them each year and post the comparisons from the previous year. 

Pretty interesting stuff. 

He does this on the other discussion board now.

[Robert F. Smith]

8 hours ago, bluebell said:

I'm not sure about stem, but I really like the annual statistical report. 

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The World Report in the mid-afternoon is also usually very interesting.

[Robert F. Smith]

7 hours ago, Ouagadougou said:

You've never thought that conference was just too long?  It's painfully too long IMO...I mean, church is already too long IMO at 3 hours...but conference is like going to church three times back to back to back.  I do not like meetings and long talks, so I admit that I lack patience. 😀

I once lived in a ward whose territory included a medium security Federal Prison, and there were several of us authorized to attend their LDS services on Sundays (two at a time).  After General Conference, we always brought CDs of the full Conference for those guys, and they spent hours watching, filled with great interest -- pretty good for a bunch of guys who were all excommunicants and who were not allowed to have the Sacrament.  They exhibited great faith and great patience.

[Calm]

13 minutes ago, Robert F. Smith said:

The World Report in the mid-afternoon is also usually very interesting.

I heard last Sunday there will be a program on the Just Serve website in between sessions, cant remember which day. The stake I attended is having a push to make people aware of it in the area.

[Robert F. Smith]

4 minutes ago, Calm said:

I heard last Sunday there will be a program on the Just Serve website in between sessions, cant remember which day. The stake I attended is having a push to make people aware of it in the area.

I watch it on lds.org, in my pajamas.

Edited April 1, 2017 by Robert F. Smith

[Meadowchik]

An LDS friend on a secular politics board reached out and pled with me to reconsider my deconversion and listen to General Conference with sincerity.

I haven't decided if I will. On the one hand I do have an interest in "checking my answers," but there's a difference between that and giving my mental energy to hours and hours of highly manipulative material.

What the heck, I may give it a go. Surely this won't count as a credible test to anyone other than me, but that's not the point, is it?

In any case I truly appreciate the gentle concern of my friend.

[Rain]

6 hours ago, Calm said:

I heard last Sunday there will be a program on the Just Serve website in between sessions, cant remember which day. The stake I attended is having a push to make people aware of it in the area.

I hadn't heard that.  Thank you for letting me know!  

[Rain]

I remember when I discovered that conference would be happening while I was in the MTC. I was NOT looking forward to it. My family had always done Saturdays like Nehor talked about - housework while listening.  So I had pictured all of us missionaries sitting in desks watching and that just didn't excite me.  I was surprised when,  without the desks I thought we would have,  I actually enjoyed listening.  I was more spiritually prepared during the week in the MTC. 

Over the years I appreciated it,  but I really didn't come to love it till one of the scrapbook stores set up a conference thing. They used a nearby empty store and set up a bunch of empty tables and chairs in it. The price to come included lunch, classes at night during priesthood session and make and takes between sessions. Then they had a big screen TV where all of us watched while we scrapbooked. Now I was used to doing crafts while watching conference,  but there was something about sitting there with those women,  singing with them,  talking about the talks afterwards that made me grow to love conference. 

Now I have found that how long I can stay with it really depends on what I put into it.  If I am listening sincerely for answers I find the Spirit teaching me lots of things and I love it.  And it's not just a matter of the Spirit teaching me what the speakers are saying. There is just something about the taking the effort to listen that makes me prepared to hear what the Spirit wants. 

[bluebell]

5 hours ago, Meadowchik said:

An LDS friend on a secular politics board reached out and pled with me to reconsider my deconversion and listen to General Conference with sincerity.

I haven't decided if I will. On the one hand I do have an interest in "checking my answers," but there's a difference between that and giving my mental energy to hours and hours of highly manipulative material.

What the heck, I may give it a go. Surely this won't count as a credible test to anyone other than me, but that's not the point, is it?

In any case I truly appreciate the gentle concern of my friend.

I agree, that's not the point so it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.  

I don't mean to be confrontational at all in my questions.  I am honestly wondering though, how can you hope to 'check your answers' if you go in sincerely believing that it's going to be 'hours of manipulating material'?  Is that what you believe your friend meant when she asked you to listen with sincerity?