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MikeWaters · 10-05-2008, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

This may have been a back-handed compliment....sort of like saying "I was pleasantly surprised by Palin in the VP debate...."

that's a possible interpretation, but after my full-scale investigation, I was able to rule that out.

Tex · 10-06-2008, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by CardiacCoug

Here's the quote from Joseph Fielding Smith that was displayed on the screen during Elder Oaks's talk. I went back on my DVR.

"Amusement, laughter, lightmindedness, are all out of place in the sacrament meetings of the Latter-day Saints."

He said it and it even got its own text box. How is that a distortion?

I'm guessing you'd make a fine lawyer.

Solon · 10-06-2008, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

We're going to hell.

We might already be there.

Archaea · 10-06-2008, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Tex

I'm guessing you'd make a fine lawyer.

Oaks, not known to trumpet the fundamentalist cause seems to be carrying their water by quoting JFS.

MikeWaters · 10-06-2008, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Oaks, not known to trumpet the fundamentalist cause seems to be carrying their water by quoting JFS.

I don't know about that. Oaks seems to be pretty hard-core conservative.

jay santos · 10-06-2008, 02:47 PM

What I didn't get about that talk was that he told us not to laugh in sacrament meeting, then less than a couple minutes later, told a joke and paused waiting for the laughs.

Another odd thing was saying he'd rather have people sleep in sacrament meeting than disturb your neighbors.

Very un-Oaks-ish.

MikeWaters · 10-06-2008, 02:54 PM

I think Boyd Packer is more "liberal" than Oaks, Holland, and Eyring. At least when you judge them solely through their public talks.

Indy Coug · 10-06-2008, 04:24 PM

This thread should be completely moot since most of the people posting in it don't know how to laugh to begin with.

10-06-2008, 02:47 PM	#46
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	What I didn't get about that talk was that he told us not to laugh in sacrament meeting, then less than a couple minutes later, told a joke and paused waiting for the laughs. Another odd thing was saying he'd rather have people sleep in sacrament meeting than disturb your neighbors. Very un-Oaks-ish.

10-06-2008, 02:54 PM	#47
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	I think Boyd Packer is more "liberal" than Oaks, Holland, and Eyring. At least when you judge them solely through their public talks.

10-06-2008, 04:24 PM	#48
Indy Coug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Between Iraq and a hard place Posts: 7,569	This thread should be completely moot since most of the people posting in it don't know how to laugh to begin with.