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How would your opinion change, if it were to come out that Monson took several minority names before the Lord, and he said "no" to all of them?
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If I felt it and believed that would be of comfort.
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You will disagree, but just because a person says something in a certain context doesn't mean a person believes it or means it in another context.
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What a convenient approach. Anytime the prophet says something you don't like, you can just tell yourself he doesn't necessarily mean it.
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I believe he's using Mormonspeak, which is not empirical speech. When he says the Lord has chosen, it includes within that subset, I took a name to the Lord after acquainting myself with persons and considering the possibilities, and he confirming by a burning that such selection was acceptable. I'm merely translating. It's those who accept Mormonspeak at face value who are convenient and in denial. There is nothing empirical in the manner in which Mormons speak, and nothing we say is meant to be taken literally, when we are speaking in that manner.
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If President Monson had wanted to step into empirical speech, he would have pronounced, "I have seen a vision, the Lord appeared to me, and told me, this man is my new apostle."
He did not do that, so it is logical to make the assumption he took the traditional route of pondering it, evaluating it and praying about it to receive a confirmation. Any other permutation is aberational or the least common. Nothing in President Monson's declaration indicates otherwise.
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Which is exactly why you are the faithless shell of a man that you are. When you take parsing to the insane levels that you have, you render virtually everything ever uttered as completely open to interpretation and thereby robbing it of all value and validity.
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It is nice that you have resorted to ad hominem attack when the force of your logic is underwhelming. Nothing is devoid of interpretation.
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