Coggins7 wrote:What's so bigoted about nostalgia?
Last time I was in SLC I found a box of my old Children's Friend and I had a lovely time rambling through them. Sure, I don't believe any of the religious stuff in them, but it was still fun to look at the kind of illustrations they once used and remember what my first take on some of the articles were. And it was fascinating to compare them with later versions and contemporary Mormon publications. They were, I think now, pretty benign compared to more recent iterations.
And the same goes for revisiting this old pamphlet. A censure of "spaghetti straps," provincial and odd as that terminology is, has nothing on the one-hole-per-ear rule.
I parted ways with the One True Church on the cusp of the Correlation Committee: I think that one development accounts for the difference I see between the church now and then. I'm interested in filling in the history, if only for reasons of personal history and nostalgia.
Church standards aren't any different than they were then, only to the extent that they've had to develop to keep pace with the continued deterioration of standards favored by our pop culture and people like Blixa.
Yup. Sort of like how Church standards have "had to develop to keep pace" with the "deterioration" of treatment towards Blacks.
By the way: What say ye about your new avatar? You up for it, old friend? I would really appreciate it! If not, let me know, 'cause I've got another suggestion.