Ask a Mormon, Part 3

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Ooh, that's my favorite. We got a copy left on our windshield when I was a missionary; it would have shocked me except of course I am a little more familiar, or perhaps honest, with our doctrine.

Mormons believe in God and believe Christ is his son and the path to salvation. Can't get much more Christian than that, eh?

You'd think that, but some people consider things like acceptance of the Nicene Creed, or belief only in certain scripture, to be the criteria.
 
The Church's website, LDS.org, has old copies of the Ensign (the Church's main magazine), and every May and November issue has all the Conference talks. Just go to the link for Gospel Library, there is a side box that links to Conference talks. Or if you have copies of May and November Ensigns, they usually organize them by topic.
 
I saw this picture on the link you gave, its some online misson scrap book I take it?

I was wondering if the rambler is a favorite for you guys. I ask cuz my friend Kesa had the exact same car and ramblers are suppose to be rare no? It was the familys vehicle and they were practicing mormons. Why take a picture of car like that when your around cool stuff traveling? And why are the only two Ramblers Ive seen both coming from Mormon sources?

Actually photo reminded me ironic dealings with your church. the first time I was ever beacame legally intoxicated was with 2 good Mormon friends(going through Priesthood) and this nice looking girl Kesa a Mormon they had met from their church. We drove in the rambler to a grocery store for some bottles of 'Presidents Choice' all other liquer outlets were closed being it was Sunday


WHere I live I can see massive generational disent in your church. Their parents are devote mormons but ether they move away from the cores the kids go astray or, the kids just go with flow of their peers looking for more exictment.
When one's parents divorced, I helped him move and attended your church in St Charles Misouri. Coming from T Bay, Ontario I noticed huge differnces in amount of teens that stay true to your gospels even passin on soda for Fresca while he was used to his church friends drinkin wine cheap on Sunday.
 
Well, obviously some children of active parents leave the church, but in my experience the majority stay. For instance, my congregation consists of young single adults between the ages of 18 and 30, and there are a lot of us, almost all of whom have left home.

As far as Flickr, that's just an online photo thing, but the only photos I had were from my mission. And the Rambler wasn't mine, just saw it in a parking lot somewhere.
 
As far as Flickr, that's just an online photo thing, but the only photos I had were from my mission. And the Rambler wasn't mine, just saw it in a parking lot somewhere.

Mybe its just Mormon instict to be drawn to the smooth features of the Rambler Hey it not a bad car I figured one you guys designed it thats all. :) Just a coincidence then. I actually saw that link and only only rambler I'd seen before was Mormon's ride . Ive had weider stuff then that happen.

Ya Its nice to hear you talk about you church. I had good times with you guys :) Your dances were awesome! is that why your church has Gyms in it?
Probably more about active healthy living and dances!

Anyway take care
 
We need those gyms to support the best kept NBA development league secret...MORMON BASKETBALL LEAGUES!!!!

:)
 
current? Just 2, and neither are any good.

Did you ever play church basketball Eran? Its much more of a brawl than it is actual basketall.
 
We need those gyms to support the best kept NBA development league secret...MORMON BASKETBALL LEAGUES!!!!

:)

Hey don't forget floor hockey, where do you think Hockey players come from.... I see you also built BYU for football so you are heavy into raising sports stars abroad
 
Well, there was a movie made by BYU that, although not actually directly affiliated with the Church, has become somewhat of an LDS classic, called Johnny Lingo. It is set on some unspecified Polynesian island, where a man named Johnny Lingo has come to get a wife. He is rich and handsome and all that, so of course all the women are all over him. But he ends up going to the father of Mohana, supposedly the ugliest girl on whichever island it is supposed to be, and not only telling her father he wanted to marry her, but offering the unheard-of bride price of eight cows. (The women were very competitive and jealous of how much their husbands had paid for them, and two cows was an extraordinary price.) He explained that he had always liked her, and figured that the high price would be good for her self-esteem. Despite being mocked for it, he went ahead with the transaction and when he and Mohana returned from their honeymoon, she was much happier (and of course, better looking - she had only appeared ugly, by covering her face with her hair, like they always do in movies.)

Of course, this is popular among Mormons not because this is how we get married. However, the idea of treating one's wife like she is worth eight cows is something they stress with us, and women sometimes use it to explain how their husbands make them feel special and what have you.

I mentioned it because last week in FHE, we were talking about it and a girl who is a new convert said she thought it was a little rude talking about how many cows a woman was worth - because she had never seen Johnny Lingo. After we explained the concept, it occurred to me that there is an awful lot of stuff we have in the LDS Church that those of us who have been members for a long time take for granted, that would seem very strange to outsiders or those who are new members. Hence my comment in the other thread. No offense, I hope.
 
Well, there was a movie made by BYU that, although not actually directly affiliated with the Church, has become somewhat of an LDS classic, called Johnny Lingo. It is set on some unspecified Polynesian island, where a man named Johnny Lingo has come to get a wife. He is rich and handsome and all that, so of course all the women are all over him. But he ends up going to the father of Mohana, supposedly the ugliest girl on whichever island it is supposed to be, and not only telling her father he wanted to marry her, but offering the unheard-of bride price of eight cows. (The women were very competitive and jealous of how much their husbands had paid for them, and two cows was an extraordinary price.) He explained that he had always liked her, and figured that the high price would be good for her self-esteem. Despite being mocked for it, he went ahead with the transaction and when he and Mohana returned from their honeymoon, she was much happier (and of course, better looking - she had only appeared ugly, by covering her face with her hair, like they always do in movies.)

Of course, this is popular among Mormons not because this is how we get married. However, the idea of treating one's wife like she is worth eight cows is something they stress with us, and women sometimes use it to explain how their husbands make them feel special and what have you.

I mentioned it because last week in FHE, we were talking about it and a girl who is a new convert said she thought it was a little rude talking about how many cows a woman was worth - because she had never seen Johnny Lingo. After we explained the concept, it occurred to me that there is an awful lot of stuff we have in the LDS Church that those of us who have been members for a long time take for granted, that would seem very strange to outsiders or those who are new members. Hence my comment in the other thread. No offense, I hope.

None taken! I just thought it was rather strange. Thanks for explaining it though. :D
 
The orginial Lingo was a short film, maybe 30 min. For some reasons, somebody did an updated version, and made it much longer.

For the record, I find both films awful, the the "I AM 8 COW WOMAN" is a pretty entrentched inside joke.
 
It's bad, and should be avoided.

(Again, using my definitions of "ethics" and "morality", it is morally bad, not ethically bad. At least in my view, it won't really harm you all thatr much to see it but I have a higher standard. Of course, the church in general takes a somewhat stronger stance against it.)
 
This distinction between moral and ethical behavior is an interesting one, what is the difference between the two in your eyes and is this distinction common among mormans?
 
The way I define it, "ethical" refers to whether an act harms other individuals temporally (ie, in an observable fashion) and morality to whether it harms anyone, including the person doing it, spiritually. It is a distinction I pretty much came up with on my own, but it does fit more or less with LDS teachings. In the sense that immoral things are sins, and unethical things should be illegal.
 
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