A 'Historic' General Conference?

Post by **_moksha** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:04 am

sunstoned wrote:Perhaps they have a new building planned, and that they are going to name it after Hinkley.

The President Gordon B. Hinckley Mall?

Post by **_Mister Scratch** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:50 pm

Coggins7 wrote:
My inactive Mother always said that most active Mormons thought general conference weekend was a weekend off from church. Amazingly my parents who never went to Church listened to a good part of conference. My dad would rant about ETB and his wacko politics.

Benson was a Classical Liberal who believed in limited government and individual liberty, quite unlike the uniform field of political hacks, opportunists, posers, and leftist power mongers who crowed the political field today.

LOL!!!! Holy smokes! Benson was a Classical Liberal!?! Wow.... Thanks for the laugh, Cogmeister. ROFL!!! This really explains a lot about you. I have not laughed this hard in a long time.

Post by **_guy sajer** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:59 pm

Mister Scratch wrote:
Coggins7 wrote:
My inactive Mother always said that most active Mormons thought general conference weekend was a weekend off from church. Amazingly my parents who never went to Church listened to a good part of conference. My dad would rant about ETB and his wacko politics.

Benson was a Classical Liberal who believed in limited government and individual liberty, quite unlike the uniform field of political hacks, opportunists, posers, and leftist power mongers who crowed the political field today.

LOL!!!! Holy smokes! Benson was a Classical Liberal!?! Wow.... Thanks for the laugh, Cogmeister. ROFL!!! This really explains a lot about you. I have not laughed this hard in a long time.

Coggins is like a toy doll. Pull his string, and he spouts unreflective, superficial, grossly stereotypical extreme right wing garbage.

There isn't anything in the world that cannot be fully explained by his narrow, ideological/theoretical world construct.

Post by **_asbestosman** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:04 pm

guy sajer wrote:There isn't anything in the world that cannot be fully explained by his narrow, ideological/theoretical world construct.

Bet it can't explain why hot dogs come in packages of 8 while the buns come in packages of 6.

Post by **_guy sajer** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:07 pm

asbestosman wrote:
guy sajer wrote:There isn't anything in the world that cannot be fully explained by his narrow, ideological/theoretical world construct.

Bet it can't explain why hot dogs come in packages of 8 while the buns come in packages of 6.

I am sure it has something to do with those damned liberals and their agenda to undermine and ruin society.

_rcrocket · Post by **_rcrocket** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:12 pm

Mister Scratch wrote:
Coggins7 wrote:
My inactive Mother always said that most active Mormons thought general conference weekend was a weekend off from church. Amazingly my parents who never went to Church listened to a good part of conference. My dad would rant about ETB and his wacko politics.

Benson was a Classical Liberal who believed in limited government and individual liberty, quite unlike the uniform field of political hacks, opportunists, posers, and leftist power mongers who crowed the political field today.

LOL!!!! Holy smokes! Benson was a Classical Liberal!?! Wow.... Thanks for the laugh, Cogmeister. ROFL!!! This really explains a lot about you. I have not laughed this hard in a long time.

You guys are not very well read. Impressively so, I might add.

A "classic liberal" was a revolutionary either in France or Russia, with a milder version in the U.S. They were called "Republicans" in both France and the United States. They opposed a centrist government. (Jefferson first opposed King George and then the Federalists). They opposed a powerful judiciary. They opposed big government. (Jefferson resisted a military until forced to respond to Neopolitan pirates.) They opposed taxation. They opposed a central banking system. They favored individual rights and personal freedoms. They distrusted religion. They were usually athiests masquerading as Masons. They usually were athiests masquerading as deists. They were usually humanists. Benson probably fit much of the foregoing description, although I was suspicous that his brand of politics loved calling themselves true liberals.

Today, a liberal would likely mirror much of what the Federalists were. Centrist government. Confiscatory taxes to level economic conditions and for public policy. High level of regulation.

I guess Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Paine aren't high on your list.

Plutarch

Post by **_Mephitus** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:39 am

moksha wrote:
sunstoned wrote:Perhaps they have a new building planned, and that they are going to name it after Hinkley.

The President Gordon B. Hinckley Mall?

First off, welcome to the board Sunstoned.

2nd, that wouldn't be too far in my mind. Spinning the purchasing of a mall as a missionary idea and by naming it as such being the rational.

Post by **_moksha** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:49 am

Maybe the historic significance will be the rededication of the Salt Lake Tabernacle with its shiny new dome.

Post by **_moksha** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:56 am

This will be the 160 year anniversary of the Miracle of the Seagulls. Perhaps to celebrate it, Sorenson Research and the now defunct BYU Lamanite Genetic Project will have cloned a flock of giant seagulls to carry off those pesky street preachers at conference. Now that would be truly historic!

Post by **_moksha** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:50 pm

moksha wrote:This will be the 160 year anniversary of the Miracle of the Seagulls. Perhaps to celebrate it, Sorenson Research and the now defunct BYU Lamanite Genetic Project will have cloned a flock of giant seagulls to carry off those pesky street preachers at conference. Now that would be truly historic!

Moksha, while Evangelicals may not "do" science, don't you think it would just be a matter of time till they hired some scientists from a secular laboratory to develop giant street preachers who could not be carried off by these giant seagulls?