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by hawkgrrrl
04 Aug 2022, 11:46
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Covid Survey
Replies: 16
Views: 1507

Re: Covid Survey

We've all heard the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." My dad used to riff on this by saying, "Absence makes the heart go wander." I think that both of those things are true. Another way to put it is "If you love someone, set them free. If they don't return, they ...
by hawkgrrrl
03 Aug 2022, 15:36
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Covid Survey
Replies: 16
Views: 1507

Covid Survey

There's been a lot of talk in Mormon online spaces and the bloggernacle claiming that church participation has been way down since Covid. I've observed something similar, although I'm not 100% sure. For me, yes, it had a big impact. We run a recurring service cleaning business, and we always warn ou...
by hawkgrrrl
01 Aug 2022, 17:46
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Shout Out from Wheat & Tares today
Replies: 3
Views: 584

Shout Out from Wheat & Tares today

Gospel Tangents published a short post with snippets of an interview he did with John Dehlin, and part of the discussion included this forum which John originally created many years ago. I thought the post was great with a lot of interesting factoids, so I thought I'd link it here: https://wheatandt...
by hawkgrrrl
13 Oct 2021, 13:51
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Funny Post
Replies: 5
Views: 2300

Funny Post

I thought a few of you might get a laugh from a post I pulled together this week from Twitter. There were two prompts in Twitter that had quite a few funny replies: - "I was so Mormon I . . ." (tell a funny thing you used to do when you were a younger Mormon that you now think is ridiculou...
by hawkgrrrl
27 Aug 2021, 20:26
Forum: Support
Topic: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU
Replies: 44
Views: 26011

Re: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU

I actually think Worthen's been pretty great overall, but I have no illusions that the hate speech kid will have any consequences applied to him. A great president < the board of trustees.

Also, minor inconvenience to conservatives > actual death threats and hate speech to liberals.
by hawkgrrrl
27 Aug 2021, 16:54
Forum: Support
Topic: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU
Replies: 44
Views: 26011

Re: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU

DarkJedi: I don't know if you saw this, but within 72 hours, a petition was started up to eliminate the Office of Belonging. Yep, that's right, the Karens are in charge now, and even though they got to speak to the manager, it wasn't enough.
by hawkgrrrl
27 Aug 2021, 11:54
Forum: Support
Topic: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU
Replies: 44
Views: 26011

Re: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU

I don’t know what the end game will be, but it shouldn’t be a whole class of people that can’t hold hands on campus. People that are “othered,” fretted and prayed over as though there is something wrong with them. Here's another way of stating the problem in the Church. Which of these two people (i...
by hawkgrrrl
25 Aug 2021, 17:14
Forum: Support
Topic: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU
Replies: 44
Views: 26011

Re: Jeffrey Holland's recent address to faculty and staff at BYU

I guess I feel like it's time to call a spade a spade. They are bigots. The church is FULL of bigots. They cater to the bigots because they agree with them.
by hawkgrrrl
25 Aug 2021, 12:43
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cognitive Dissonance in Primary
Replies: 6
Views: 3477

Re: Cognitive Dissonance in Primary

Nothing much to add other than a funny coffee thing. My daughter told me in high school that basically ALL the early morning seminary kids developed a post-seminary coffee habit to cope with the lack of sleep, which I found both funny and sad, but mostly funny. Their parents don't know because I'm n...
by hawkgrrrl
25 Aug 2021, 12:28
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Definitions from President Oaks
Replies: 27
Views: 9683

Re: Definitions from President Oaks

Old Timer: I am not sure that is a fair statement, given all of its implications and what I know of what he actually has said in his lifetime (as well as our actual theology about who is saved and who can be exalted, even from the most orthodox perspective). It might or might not be true, but it is ...