TAK wrote:It was an interesting experience but I am glad I left after one year. I would hate to have Brigham Young's name on my resume..
True dat! Especially with more and more of his racist, bizarre, and vile teachings ooze out and onto the internet.
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
that's why I carry proselyting Book of Mormons in my car, in case of moments like this. I usually hand out two or three a year.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
that's why I carry proselyting Book of Mormons in my car, in case of moments like this. I usually hand out two or three a year.
Oh that would be the best thing to do at a friggin job interview.
Especially in the trade that you make a living.
The Book of Mormon story had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING Briggie spouted off. Some of the history about the Book of Mormon but not the story.
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
that's why I carry proselyting Book of Mormons in my car, in case of moments like this. I usually hand out two or three a year.
Oh that would be the best thing to do at a friggin job interview.
Especially in the trade that you make a living.
The Book of Mormon story had NOTHING to do with ANYTHING Briggie spouted off. Some of the history about the Book of Mormon but not the story.
Is it okay if your boss asks you. One of the best bosses I ever had asked a few perfunctory question and we both really knew he was going to hire me and then he suddenly said, "So tell me about this Book of Mormon." Gave him one at the end and kept the job till they let him go for lack of qualifications supposedly. Though in truth he was more qualified than the woman who fired him. I think she was afraid for her job.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics "I admit it; I'm a petty, petty man." -Some Schmo
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
that's why I carry proselyting Book of Mormons in my car, in case of moments like this. I usually hand out two or three a year.
Good for you. If they read the book, they will readily understand the precedent for massacre of women and children and the curse of black skin, and if that's what they are looking for in a religion they'll be as happy as little mud ducks.
Lucretia MacEvil wrote:Good for you. If they read the book, they will readily understand the precedent for massacre of women and children and the curse of black skin, and if that's what they are looking for in a religion they'll be as happy as little mud ducks. .
I've read the Book of Mormon numerous times and I've never seen any precedent for the massacre of women and children. Where in the Book of Mormon does anyone support the killing of Women and children?
Now the "skin of blackness" is mentioned but not to promote the horrific treatment or enslavement of people with darker skin. You''ll find that was encouraged and supported by the mainstream christian traditions.
You must be mixing up the Book of Mormon with the Old Testament--that's where you'll find precedent for killing women and children and the servitute of a particular race.
DonBradley wrote:BYU has for years been turning away most of its applicants. It is difficult--impossible--for me to believe that it can't now find enough students to match its previous enrollment levels. It seems most likely to me that the university has been reducing its admissions all on its own, though I have no idea why this would be happening.
Don
Don's right. If BYU's enrollment is decreasing it's because the school wants fewer students--they turn down a lot these days. The desirability of going to BYU among LDS is just as high as ever. Now though, there are some alternatives. Ricks(BYU Idaho) and UVSC are now four year schools and there is a school back in Virginia as well which is popular among LDS.
Bond wrote:What could this drop in enrollment mean? Are the LDS kids going to different colleges (suggesting "the Y" doesn't have the mystique it once did)? Are the LDS Kids simply drifting away from the church starting with college?
OK...I'm a dinosaur. I'm 43. I attended BYU in 1982-86 time frame. At that point, they were making a big deal about wanting to make BYU the "Harvard of the West".
Since then, they have tightened their admissions requirements considerably. Even if you have an unweighted GPA of 4.0, you're not likely to get in.
What's sad is, it's the LDS students who really want to attend for socialization with other members(which is what the school was established for in the first place) who are being turned down.
TAK wrote:It was an interesting experience but I am glad I left after one year. I would hate to have Brigham Young's name on my resume..
True dat! Especially with more and more of his racist, bizarre, and vile teachings ooze out and onto the internet.
Imagine going to a job interview at a non Mormon company outside of the mo'rridor and being asked by the interviewer if you thought BY was involved in the massacre at Mountain Meadows.. or if you really believed that blacks where cursed... etc etc
I doubt most people would know those things PP suggested, but rather I have had the shear pleasure of reading hundreds of resumes at one time to fill a slot or two. In my experperience the resume should do two things: 1. identify by experiences and education to the specific job in question and 2. avoid any content that betrays something that could be seen as negative. - If 50% of the country would not vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon then what’s to say a significant portion of those who make a choice to hire would not want to hire a Mormon on the false assumption everyone who went to YBU is Mormon. It’s an easy excuse to flip the resume and read the next one in the pile.
I am not suggesting there are valid reasons for not hiring a Mormon, just that some might not for what ever reason they might choose. Just as a person of religion might not hire an Atheist..
TAK wrote: If 50% of the country would not vote for Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon then what’s to say a significant portion of those who make a choice to hire would not want to hire a Mormon on the false assumption everyone who went to YBU is Mormon. It’s an easy excuse to flip the resume and read the next one in the pile.
I am not suggesting there are valid reasons for not hiring a Mormon, just that some might not for what ever reason they might choose. Just as a person of religion might not hire an Atheist..
At one point, a friend of mine told me it was very difficult to get a job outside of Utah, if you had an education degree from any Utah school. I know all the BYU graduates from my home ward have gotten jobs in Utah. I don't know if that's because that's the only places they applied, or if that's the only offer they got, or if some other reasons were present. And I don't know if that's still true or not (that was 5 years ago).