Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

A favorite memory of mine is the night I learned how to pronounce abominable. We'd been reading scriptures earlier that night and my mom had sounded the word out for me "a bomb in a bull". I spent the rest of that night riding my tricycle (I was probably around 5 or 6) singing "a bomb in a bull" and giggling.

Does anyone know who wrote the pronunciation guide?

Defy V wrote:Does anyone know who wrote the pronunciation guide?

From Board Question #46734, it was a committee formed by Joseph F. Smith in 1920. (Also, I believe that commenter meant 1981, not 1891, simply because 1891 is not after 1920. Also, a new version of the Book of Mormon was released in 1981.)

We're moving (still in Los Angeles) next week, and I just have to express my excitement over our new chapel. Just check out the Google Image search for it: http://www.google.com/search?client=saf ... 0gG2w9jvCQ
The whole top row, at least, is our building. Cool, huh?

Wow! That building is great. I wish we still built beautiful, interesting chapels and not just boring boxes.

The LA Tabernacle?!?! Very cool.

Cindy wrote:Wow! That building is great. I wish we still built beautiful, interesting chapels and not just boring boxes.

Seconded times a million. (Also, I wish we at least had interesting art in our boring buildings.)

Good news:

I occasionally do contract cataloging work for a company in Utah and they've got some Russian books for me to work on.

Bad news:

It could be over 30 hours of work and I'll have a little over a week to finish them, on top of my regular full-time job and on top of another big project I need to finish, soon.

Bottom line:

It's going to be a crazy, crazy week, but then I'll get some extra money, which will be nice.

Yesterday, the old cranky guy that was speaking in church was discussing the temple and how important it is. And then he said that "we know that we shouldn't judge others, but I have noticed others in this neighborhood running and walking past my house and I know that they have been to the temple. And when I see what they are wearing, I have to wonder, where are their garments? How can they possibly respect the garments of the temple and wear that clothing while running down the street?"

My husband wants to go tell the guy just how wrong he is. I have no idea what good he thinks telling a cranky old guy he is wrong will do. (This isn't his first cranky moment, mind you. Last year he made sure it was announced in every single meeting three weeks in a row that people needed to slow down on his street because someone ran over his cat. Who may or may not have even been in our ward.)

TheAnswerIs42 wrote:someone ran over his cat. Who may or may not have even been in our ward

They let cats go to church now?


In all seriousness, though, I agree with you. I don't think your husband ought to approach the cranky man. Doing so would probably just guarantee your husband a cranky shout-out at the next testimony meeting.

TheAnswerIs42 wrote:My husband wants to go tell the guy just how wrong he is.

It's the bishop's job to stand up and correct people who say blatantly wrong things over the pulpit, but I've never seen it done.

I have seen the bishop stand and correct blatantly wrong things.
I do think there is a difference between false doctrines being taught and opinions that aren't necessarily accurate being presented.

I've seen it, too, but I think it's a delicate balance of "How much will I offend and embarrass this person?" and "Is what they said really a big deal?" The one in my ward was an old guy who said something about how he believed the immaculate conception was just a parable, and the bishop had to stand up and give the Church's official stance.

I remember once, the Sunday following youth conference, a girl stood up to bear her testimony. We had gone to Palmyra that year. She emphasized how grateful she was that Joseph Smith had knelt down in the Garden of Gethsemane with a question.

I cringed when she said that. Everyone let it slide, which I think was probably the right thing to do, but I couldn't help but think about the investigators and new converts in the audience.

We also had a member testify of his own divinity over the pulpit (as in "I am Alpha and Omega"-type stuff, not "we all have divine nature") and got to hear a visitor speak to the young men in graphic terms about how exactly they could possibly be breaking the law of chastity.

Those testimony meetings were more ... intense.

krebscout wrote:I've seen it, too, but I think it's a delicate balance of "How much will I offend and embarrass this person?" and "Is what they said really a big deal?" The one in my ward was an old guy who said something about how he believed the immaculate conception was just a parable, and the bishop had to stand up and give the Church's official stance.

Does the Church really believe in the immaculate conception? I've never really heard anyone ever talk about it, except in Civ 201.

I figured since we don't go in for original sin, the immaculate conception is ... just a parable.

I'm pretty sure that we believe that Christ was born of a literal virgin, which is my understanding of immaculate conception.

C is for wrote:

krebscout wrote:I've seen it, too, but I think it's a delicate balance of "How much will I offend and embarrass this person?" and "Is what they said really a big deal?" The one in my ward was an old guy who said something about how he believed the immaculate conception was just a parable, and the bishop had to stand up and give the Church's official stance.

Does the Church really believe in the immaculate conception? I've never really heard anyone ever talk about it, except in Civ 201.

I figured since we don't go in for original sin, the immaculate conception is ... just a parable.

My understanding is that we believe that Christ is the literal, biological son of Heavenly Father. How that occurred has not been revealed as far as I know.

Oh right. That.

Actual Definition of Immaculate Conception

/C4's know-it-all edification for the day

Yeah, it was that Mary's conception was immaculate.

Though how that's a parable, I couldn't say.

I knew there was something I was forgetting. In that sense, the immaculate conception wasn't needed (as there was no original sin). However as evidenced by the many times I've had to be told the difference between the virgin birth and immaculate conception, I don't think it is a concept widely understood properly.