12-02-2005, 07:30 PM | #1 |
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As a newly active member in the church
There is one huge issue that I have yet to resolve. Something that still shakes my faith even when I feel strong in the church. Something in the churches past that I just do not understand how it could have ever happened.
I am speaking of course of the Mormon Rap. It is a good thing I have developed a testimony because otherwise I do not think I could get over this issue, and I'm not sure it will ever be fully resolved. |
12-02-2005, 07:41 PM | #2 |
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Funk, to get through life as reasoned member of the church, you have to learn to live with some ambiguity. As you said there are just certain things that we can't easily reconcile. Sadly, the Mormon Rap may lead that list for most of us. I have pushed it to the back of my brain, where I am also storing angst regarding the movie "The Home Teachers". I feel your pain.
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12-02-2005, 08:20 PM | #3 |
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We all feel a sense of shame...
You might be able to take comfort in the fact that scholars believe that the lyrics were not received by accepted revelatory methods. The author apparently mistook a Ouija board for a seer stone and the rest is, well, painful history. Glad you're attending again.
So does this mean that BYU turned you away from the church and a small school in Oregon got you back in? :wink: |
12-02-2005, 08:20 PM | #4 |
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I'm pretty sure Robert Lund didn't do the Mormon Rap, but that guy is one of the more annoying and unfortunate by-products of Mormon Culture.
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12-03-2005, 01:16 AM | #5 |
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Excuse my ignorance...
but just what the dickens is the Mormon Rap?
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12-05-2005, 07:42 PM | #6 |
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Remember il Pad, Ignorance is bliss.
Before you ask that question again, just ask yourself - Do I really want to know the answer? Many ill-fated travellers have gone down the Mormon rap path, never to return (or never be the same once they return). Let's just say I remember the Mormon Rap in the same grey matter that contains Rick Astley and "I missed the bus" by Criss Cross. Something things you just try not to remember. Thanks a lot MPFunk. Pandoras box was just fine where it was. |
12-06-2005, 01:30 AM | #7 |
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Ok, thanks for the heads up...
I suppose I really don't want to know.
Speaking of rap, I've decided that I'm going to make my own rap album. I've decided that, despite the world not being ready for it, people need to know the truth about what it's like to grow up in an upper-middle class suburb of Salt Lake City.
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12-06-2005, 02:01 AM | #8 |
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I repeat the inquiry, what is Mormon Rap?
Is it a joke, inside, that we outsiders aren't supposed to know about?
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12-06-2005, 02:31 AM | #9 | |
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Re: I repeat the inquiry, what is Mormon Rap?
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12-06-2005, 02:42 AM | #10 |
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Don't forget his follow-up single: "BYU of U."
On second thought, do forget it. |
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