harmony wrote:Wait a minute. Back up a bit. Teased hair = the G&S building? Then half my ward (all over 50) are in trouble. They all tease their hair. They've teased their hair for the last 30 years. They all attend the temple, so teased hair cannot be a criteria for the G&S building.
Oh no, perhaps President Packer was referring to some other practice than teased hair due to unfamiliarity with or lack of inspiration regarding women's hairdos. That is understandable. Learning all that women stuff is like some obscure form of physics to us men. They actually know what words like mauve and taupe mean. Perhaps he was referring to some hippie-beatnik chick style that didn't involve the beloved beehive. He could have simply confused the two hairdos. Hey, if I got a nickle for every time I didn't know what I was talking about, I would have a lot of nickles.
Of course, I wouldn't have made a speech out of it. I would rather display my lack of knowledge here with all of you.
Rollo Tomasi wrote:See link below for article in Provo's Daily Herald about BKP's latest talk to BYU students, particularly the evils of TV and the gall of LDS girls who 'tease' their hair. This is an instant classic!!!
Packer also sang to the students a song from his days at the institute of religion at Weber State: "Root-te-toot, Root-te-toot, we are the boys of the institute, we don't smoke and we don't chew, and we don't go with girls that do."
This reminded me of another old tune:
We are the girls of Norfolk! We don't drink, We don't smoke, Norfolk!
Ray A wrote:This whole external appearance thing is very silly.
Tell that to Packer. He's the one with the iron rod up his spine.
Well I think he has insulted my daughters, who are the most moral human beings I know. If he thinks hairstyle determines morality, then he's living in some kind of extremist fantasy.
Ray A wrote: If he thinks hairstyle determines morality, then he's living in some kind of extremist fantasy.
Maybe he is. His behavior certainly points in that direction.
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
Bond...James Bond wrote:Maybe he is. His behavior certainly points in that direction.
He, and a few million equally delusional people, think he's one of God's chosen mouthpieces. It's a power trip few men could resist, and Packer is not one to miss an opportunity to crack the whip he holds.
harmony wrote:He, and a few million equally delusional people, think he's one of God's chosen mouthpieces. It's a power trip few men could resist, and Packer is not one to miss an opportunity to crack the whip he holds.
I don't see anyone as a "mouthpiece of God". That is equally delusional.
Ray A wrote:I don't see anyone as a "mouthpiece of God". That is equally delusional.
Last week I reread Packer's "unwritten order of things" talk, and at one point, he was going through a laundry list of things that "bother" him; that's really what the "teased hair" thing is about. It's not that God cares how we do our hair, but rather that this one guy is bothered by teased hair and figures he has the power to make it stop.
Runtu wrote: It's not that God cares how we do our hair, but rather that this one guy is bothered by teased hair and figures he has the power to make it stop.
He's a 1950s guy. Ancient. And if he thinks "hairstyle" means anything, then he's just another misguided Pharisee.