From Robert B. Oberson, author of From the Annals of the Turley J. Hinton Institute....
A Great and Dreadful Day A Novel in Seven Parts
When Samuel Younger is visited one day by two LDS missionaries, he wonders if he has at last found an anchor that will provide meaning in his life. But as he delves ever more deeply into the church's doctrines and culture, he finds himself steeped in far more than mysticism and belief. Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, the President of the Church has received a powerful revelation that threatens to tear church leadership apart at the seams....
A sneak preview:
Down the long hallway came the ding of the private elevator, and President Baylor knew that Margaret had arrived to prepare breakfast. He turned and walked down the hallway in order to greet her. Right away, he knew, she would prepare his mug of Milo—a drink he’d developed a taste for during trips to Australia. It wouldn’t be long until the saints in Australia would have a temple of their own, in fact. The carpet in the hallway, which circled all the way around the entire top floor of the Eagle Gate Apartments—the top floor being the home for the President of the Church—was delightfully soft and plush underfoot, tender and forgiving to old and tired feet.
“Oh, hello, President Baylor!” said Margaret. She was a cheery, middle-aged woman with short gray hair and a rotund midsection. She had grown up in Logan, where she’d raised eight children, and where, in her ward, she had gotten to know Regina Moss, the sister of Elder C. Rigdon Pitt, the President of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. It was through this relationship that President Baylor had come to know Margaret. She got along well with Eleanor, she was a terrific cook, and President Baylor felt glad to know that she was the one looking after his meals—at least the meals he was able to take while home. So often these days he seemed to be traveling, overseeing the mission field and helping to make plans for more temples.
“Hello, Margaret,” he said after some time. “A good morning to you. The weather looks frightfully cold out.”
“Oh, it’s not too bad. My mom said it was down in the single digits up in Logan the other night, though.” Her nose was still rosy. She had taken her coat off and tied an apron around her thick waist. She placed a kettle of water onto the stove and busied herself with preparing the Prophet’s cup of Milo.
President Baylor sat down in one of the stools near the counter and rested his hands in his lap. Margaret set out a mug and put a few spoonfuls of Milo into it. Just then, the tea kettle began to whistle, and President Baylor’s eyes shot over to it. Through the lenses of his eyeglasses he saw the flames beneath the kettle, and once again, the images from his dream came screaming back at him.
More to come in January....
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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
I can't believe we have to wait until January to get this going! It's torture!
I'll take this over Star Wars any day.
Lou Midgley 08/20/2020: "...meat wad," and "cockroach" are pithy descriptions of human beings used by gemli? They were not fashioned by Professor Peterson.
LM 11/23/2018: one can explain away the soul of human beings...as...a Meat Unit, to use Professor Peterson's clever derogatory description of gemli's ideology.
Dr. Shades wrote:Bob Bobberson is coming back! Herald the event!
When he does would you please not bury the thread in the Hall of Fame thread?
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Dr. Shades wrote:Bob Bobberson is coming back! Herald the event!
When he does would you please not bury the thread in the Hall of Fame thread?
??? It's never buried in the Hall of Fame thread. The Hall of Fame thead simply contains links to the actual, un-buried threads.
What mechanism did you think was actually in play, if not that?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Meanwhile, in Salt Lake City, the President of the Church has received a powerful revelation that threatens to tear church leadership apart at the seams....
I shall be waiting for the details with bated breath! However, I would tend to believe his dream was triggered by "insider knowledge" rather than by revelation.
Fence Sitter wrote:When he does would you please not bury the thread in the Hall of Fame thread?
Dr. Shades wrote:??? It's never buried in the Hall of Fame thread. The Hall of Fame thead simply contains links to the actual, un-buried threads.
What mechanism did you think was actually in play, if not that?
Please leave the thread on it's own stickied at the top and not buried inside the Hall of Fame thread. It deserves to be by itself on or near the top.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."