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Old 04-23-2008, 10:17 PM   #1
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Did Jessop start this underground whisper campaign? I think it takes more guts to be open and public than start a gossip-fest.
No. My source is not Jessop.
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Old 04-23-2008, 10:38 PM   #2
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Did Jessop start this underground whisper campaign? I think it takes more guts to be open and public than start a gossip-fest.
The way these things usually go suggests he eventually will.
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Old 04-25-2008, 12:23 AM   #3
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Yes, suffering institutional abuse silently is a sign of being a good soldier in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Martyrdom is even more highly valued, Adam.
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Thank heavens I didn't post the information I heard about using a slightly lesser quality cardboard cover on the hymnals. This place would have erupted.
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Thank heavens I didn't post the information I heard about using a slightly lesser quality cardboard cover on the hymnals. This place would have erupted.
No kidding. If you're going to spread an unfounded rumor, might as well go big!
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No kidding. If you're going to spread an unfounded rumor, might as well go big!
An unfounded rumor would be that you finally left your bunker and joined the Peace Corps. Not this.
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Old 04-23-2008, 08:04 PM   #7
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This post is so replete with conjecture and speculation, my head is shaking involuntarily, and it isn't that I am plagued with Parkinson's desease.
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This post is so replete with conjecture and speculation, my head is shaking involuntarily, and it isn't that I am plagued with Parkinson's desease.
Kinda my thought as well. But Cali's good at posting anonymous "Inside Baseball" church rumors without attribution.

And no good story about what SOBs the leaders are goes unheralded on CG. After all, it makes them more human, right?
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Tex, we do like the embarrassing stuff written down on church letterhead. It makes it harder to deny.
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Tex, we do like the embarrassing stuff written down on church letterhead. It makes it harder to deny.
Church letterhead would certainly lend this tale some credibility.
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