Spencer W. Kimball Lessons

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Arch, you have shown time and time again that if someone has the temerity to disagree with you, you fall back to the lazy tactic of extrapolating whatever position they've taken and grossly mischaracterizing both the stance and the person that took that stance.

It's both painfully transparent and intellectually insulting.

It's the "I'm on the side of angels approach" that you three mullahs employ that is venomous.

A mullah approach is to find an austere, inflexible quote by a leader declare it supports the mullah's approach. The psychology of the rhetoric is that the speaker is better than those who disagree with the argument on the side of angels. It's not a gross mischaracterization of the stance. What is transparent is your belief that mullahs are better than everybody else, when in fact, they're just people like the rest of us schmucks, slogging away. None of us are on the side of angels, we're all devils.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by Archaea

It's the "I'm on the side of angels approach" that you three mullahs employ that is venomous.

A mullah approach is to find an austere, inflexible quote by a leader declare it supports the mullah's approach. The psychology of the rhetoric is that the speaker is better than those who disagree with the argument on the side of angels. It's not a gross mischaracterization of the stance. What is transparent is your belief that mullahs are better than everybody else, when in fact, they're just people like the rest of us schmucks, slogging away. None of us are on the side of angels, we're all devils.

After what I just said, you calling me a "mullah" just reinforces my point.

After what I just said, you stating that "your belief that mullahs are better than everybody else" just reinforces my point.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Do you really believe SWK never attended a boring Sacrament Meeting, or was he just using it as an object lesson? I believe the latter.

As I was nodding off during Sunday School today, this discussion came to mind, and a thought occurred to me: if Sunday meetings are (supposedly) so vanilla as to bore you to tears, try thinking outside yourself. Undertake the personal assignment of making a meeting meaningful for someone else around you. Make your church attendance a service.

Not exactly a unique or brilliant observation, but one I hadn't considered before from the perspective of a congregation member.