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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
The bad thing about CB is that it makes me hate BYU.
But that may be true for any message board and any college.
To be fair, I did like and do like BYU much better when I'm at least 1000 miles away from BYU.
The little creepy root beer sipping ding-dong mullahs piss me off.
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What makes me most sad is when people miss or lose the beauty of the restored gospel of Christ because they can't stomach the cultural crap that so many wrap around it and think is the gospel. Just one example: Mitt Romney failing to win the presidency is a sign of being in the last days and shows how the power of Satan is running rampant in the world. FWIW, I think these ridiculous ideas seem to gain traction more with naive female members who don't leave the house much and don't have much experience associating with anyone who isn't from their exact cultural and religious background. I don't have a facebook account, but my wife does and sometimes shows me some of the ridiculous CRAP that gets posted by members of our ward. Every time it makes me feel like selling my house and moving back to a part of DFW that is less yuppy and affluent and where the ward looks more like Texas and less like the most stuck up neigborhoods of Utah. But that's hard to do. Moving is a pain and we like our neighborhood in general.
And IMO, at least where I live it's not really the men. Maybe they're just as ridiculous but don't post, but I think isolating ourselves within our bubble tends to foster it more. Maybe men who live within a large LDS community are more like that, but I think people who actually go out to work and associate with people from many different religious and cultural backgrounds tend to develop a little more charity and tolerance for different people and ideas. I also don't notice it much from those who didn't grow up in the bubble or with the women in the ward who have jobs.