01-19-2007, 05:08 PM | #11 |
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President Packer's institute song is gay by contemporary standards. However, my father, who would have been just a few years younger than Packer, and his friends (all non-LDS including my dad) used to call themselves the "Gopher Boys" and sing a song that went "we're the Gopher boys, and we "gopher" girls, but they don't gopher us" followed by gopher noises. Apparently this was not considered enormously geeky in the 40's and 50's.
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Your children don't relate to the "Lemon Song?" I have always thought of that song as the perfect way to teach about the birds and the bees. IIRC that is the one that talks about the "juice running down..."
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01-19-2007, 05:54 PM | #14 |
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He lacks breeding. Don't overcomplicate this. As with most things the simplest and most common sense explanation is the most likely true. In no other realm is this more true than Mormonism. I bet he hasn't even read Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy or Melville. He may not even be able to tell the difference between Beethoven and Mozart.
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With what contact I've had with church leaders, you'd be surprised just how cultured they really are.
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I quite enjoy Elder Packer's talks and line of thinking with regards to the church and the gospel. He's articulate and certainly not afraid to speak his mind. He strikes me as more concerned with being happy and at peace with himself and his relationship with God as opposed to vexed by the mysteries of the universe. |
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Hence the draconian stances: absolutely no music but classical, no TV except for parents at sports bar, etc. Of course, sometimes his roots come through, like his love of Spielberg movies. |
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Well that and he is a dickhead. Not to the same extent as aaron shaff, but a dickhead nontheless.
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