I’m really impressed by the outpour of compassion and condolences.
Hmmm. I know this is the Celestial forum and all, but I think I'm free to find disagreement here. I didn't even feel a twinge of loss nor compassion for any Mormon having just lost their "prophet". In fact, I browsed through the MAD thread on this subject, and all the talk of feeling like a family member had died, voids being left in souls, and 6-year-olds bursting into tears was a little much, and a little weird. My family is ultra-TBM, they don't get any TBMer. It was a day or two after when my mom mentioned it on the phone, "Did you know Pres. Hinckley died"? I mentioned that I'd heard. It was, "he was old and didn't suffer" and on to the next topic which was sorrow over some declining health of a couple family members and then to some very good family news. No hint of sadness over the prophet. None of my TBM siblings has brought it up in conversations either, nor any sadness detected. And they most certainly would bring it up if they were disturbed by it as they typically do not refrain from hiding their sadness from me. I take them as a fair sample. Even Nehor cites happiness.
So I 1) do not believe that most of the MAD participants really feel the loss they claim. I think some of it might even be to bait the critics. I will give them credit though for not making their baiting as obvious. Previously, on an LDS death, Juliann(?) would make a thread for "grieving LDS" and then one or more of the aggressive apologists would say something like, "I think we can expect the critics to...." and they didn't do that this time, I don't think. So I can give some credit. 2) The ones who do feel a deep personal loss here, need a shrink. sorry.