no. No one has attacked Reid for simply BEING a Mormon.
yeah, but nevada is a heavily mormon state. wouldn't make political sense to anger mormons in nevada, so reid's always been safe on that score. anyway, i'm not talking about directly attacking romney. i'm talking about subtly encouraging sympathetic jewish and catholic religious leaders to make a big, bloody ISSUE of the post-mortem baptism of holocaust victims and the like, enough to bring it into the news cycle. then the fringier, angrier, "grassroots" elements of the democratic base could run with it like a pack of maniacs - the way the tea partiers ran with obama's birth certificate and the swift boaters ran with gore's war record - all while the "respectable" dem leadership remained above the fray. dirty pool, in other words.
real problem, i suppose, is that the dem base isn't terribly upset by the practice, and don't do outrage for sport. they seem averse to moral outrage on general principle, tbh. so they won't seize on the story organically, and any attempt to conjure up the appearance of a "controversy" without corresponding public anger would probably backfire. ah, well. it was a fine dream...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
Obama's mother posthumously baptized into LDS Church
Not only Obama's mother, but Simon Wiesenthal's parents as well
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
And we've come circle.
Which usually doesn't happen in LDS since everything is for eternity.
― pplains, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
haha I should have looked at the whole thread
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:148b.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ "mormonad"
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yah Mormonads
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:f2f.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:59.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:1265.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ykeKGjX7mBg/Tw5Qsw25TAI/AAAAAAAAAr4/1oKRH27eXQM/s1600/MormonAd+Winners.jpg
CHOOSE THE MOST MORMON DRESS
http://www.lds.org/images/Magazines/NewEra/Archive/neweralp.nfo:o:d79.jpg
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
otm about white-boy slap bass, at least
― Cruller, Cobbler, Poffert, Pie (latebloomer), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
lol THIS one I can get behind:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iAD82Dlk9GA/Sbhc_-Gc2tI/AAAAAAAABJU/F33pM0cKZpk/s320/Text+Messaging.jpg
Don't text on a date, you dummy!Heavenly Father is on my side when it comes to phone etiquette.
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUmuisDK11c&feature=player_embedded#!
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
WHAT WILL WE DO WITHOUT LEATHERBYS
― lil kink (Matt P), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
Why would you ignore an ice cream sundae?
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
That's a parfait, get your head in the game!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
Went to a v cute and snowy little ice cream shop like that when I went to visit my family. My sister, her husband, and I ended up having loud ~~~ice cream drama~~~ over whether gay people should be able to marry, so maybe the insular and stupid world of texting has its malty place.
― high five delivery device (Abbbottt), Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com/
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
The best thing about that site is how Mormony all the Mormon names are, it's like hanging out in the Tooele cemetery.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
I've already converted several Romneys, just by chance.
― kate78, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I would happily accept a gay card for my after-life wallet, if it helps me any.
― pplains, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
CELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURECELL PHONES ARE KILLING OREM MALT CULTURE
hahahahahah!!!!
so many flavors - this was one thing my ex-mormon ex-bf still shares with the religion he was brought up in. He gets super disappointed and a bit snobby tbh when a place that has milkshakes has only 3 or 4 flavors. His 2nd brother is even worse, and would go to Denny's and insist on a blueberry cobbler milkshake, and get irate when the Denny's employee would not indulge him by mixing the vanilla milkshake with a piece of blueberry pie. Pretty sure he's given places bad yelp reviews for not doing this.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
There is a definite bittersweetness for ex-Mormons, at death, when their family members have a funeral or post death announcements, etc. Someone from my hometown was murdered recently. Total hard punk rock gal, didn't know her too well except from seeing her at local shows at the bar where old Mexicans hung out. So there's the death announcement, picture of her in lime green eyeshadow and Horus eyeliner and a bondage top, with the message that she's returned to the loving embrace of her Heavenly Father. Probably hasn't been in a church since she was a teenager. Shit is just weird.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
Or when another punk friend died maybe 10 years ago. His dad was a Mormon state senator and none of his friends (eg me) were allowed to go to the funeral because we'd "send the wrong impression."
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Thursday, 7 June 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i guess this would be the right place for this...http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/10/cat-buried-in-cement-sent-as-warning-from-polygamist-church2/
what i found *most* shocking is this has happened before and the authorities couldn't be bothered to look into it?!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
So my brother-in-law, who went on a mission to Minneapolis, was telling me they market a special "missionary friendly" bike called THE LIAHONA:
http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/bicycles/liahona-missionary-bike-package-1-liahona-27-speed-bike-with-disc-brake/
He loved that it was called the Liahona because he could make jokes all the time whenever they got lost – "Sorry I couldn't get it to go the right direction."
Mpls has a rep as a bike friendly town but his mission president made them wear full suits in the summer on their bikes, which has to be hell no matter how nice your bike paths are. He admitted the first ten days on bike in suits were a painful challenge to adjust to.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
He also served in Prince's area – I was like 'omg did you knock on the door of Prince's mansion." He said no, but that one of Prince's neighbors was an inactive member (meaning her name was on the records but she quite participating), so they visited her a lot to cajole her to attend church. She said one day that Prince had visited HER door as a JW missionary, and she went head-to-head with him on Bible precepts for two hours.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
!!!!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
dunno if this ever got posted here: extreme mormons. (full segment on the subject of mormon movies here.)
― fit and working again, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/microfiber/microfiber-tie-style-40/"Microfiber ties are a blend of polyester and polyamide and they are durable as well as stain resistant. Just what every Missionary needs. - See more at: http://www.themissionarydepot.com/shop/microfiber/microfiber-tie-style-40/#sthash.YbfDK7fj.dpuf"
not a bad tie for $8!
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
This may sound flip, but it is really, really not: nothing prepared me for North Korea so much as having lived in Utah.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
OK I should amend that to say that visiting the Kims Il Sung and Jong Il would have been a lot more strange had it not been for my years of Mormon proximity.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
er they were lying in state. never hung with them personally. that really would have been something.
quincie, can you explicate?
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'm sorry, that was not well put. Mormonism is not a repressive communist dictatorship! I should have been a better job saying what I mean.
What I mainly mean is:1) visiting the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the first two Kims lie in state, had a lot of similarities to visiting the Temple in SLC. Which I didn't get to visit, obv, because I am a non-Mormon! But I have gone to multiple temple visitors centers, and my parents and I talked a lot about their visit to a per-commissioned (<<<not proper terminology, I think) temple; they toured the whole thing before it was officially a Temple open only to Mormons in good standing. Anyhow, the whole thing--from the architecture to the interior and exterior decor to the artwork hanging inside to the formal and reverent atmosphere to the "OMG what the hell is this" attitude of outsiders (i.e., us)--the only touchpoint I had was my experience with the Mormon church as a non-Mormon in Orem, Utah.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
OK and 2) the isolation/insulation from outside culture. This was so huge, bigger than I even expected, in North Korea. Obviously, mainstream Mormons are not in anywhere near the same situation. But I lived in small-town Utah before the internet, and the situation was. . . a little bit similar in some ways. I'm sure it is different now. But the norms of "outside" were not well-integrated into small-town Mormon Utah in the mid-80s. And, as of five or seven years ago, very much not integrated into FLDS communities such as Colorado City, AZ. That was the place in the U.S. that most closely resembled NK ime.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I srsly predicted you were going to say NK people were really into storing grain.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Which you didn't; my prediction was wrong.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
xxpost hahah no, I don't think they have the luxury of storing much anything. But living in Utah had a PROFOUND affect on my parents' food-buying, which continues TO THIS DAY. Actually, I'm visiting them now and was just directed to the "food storage" pantry they have in their garage. They go into that stuff waaaaaaay before the advent of Costco, etc, why b/c Utah!
Did I make any sense there? I really don't feel superior or dismissive about either Mormonism or NK! Just not communicating very well, because both experiences were really whoa.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
nope, that makes a lot of sense.
― mattresslessness, Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Oh you made total sense and you never came off as dismissive about either! I was just curious!
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
There are million reasons why I would love to go to NK with you, Crabbits, but your Mormon background would just make it soooooo o_O I just know it! Juche philosophy may seem pretty distant from Mormonism, but the cultural values have a lot of similarities. In a lot of good ways, and some. . . not so good (see: insularity, anti-feminism, etc.)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
Plus someone who was fucked up on drugs grabbed me by the arm the other night and insisted that I agree with her that I AM KOREAN. It's a sign!
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
I imagine that North Korea is srsly the Last Frontier for Mormon missionaries! Holy shit I don't even know how that would go down; not well, I suspect.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
They are so dying to get there because there's a prophecy that says the second coming of Christ won't happen until missionaries can teach in every part of the world.
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
I think they could really give a fuck about the North Koreans .
― lord of the files (Crabbits), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Well I mean I think it would be more helpful for Mormons rather than Rodman to get in with Kim Jong Un.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:16 (ten years ago) link
So this is an interesting question (which I shall google): Where *aren't* Mormon missionaries?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 27 April 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link