Verbatim quote from an actual Patriarchal Blessing...

[Spaz]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Utah members have the same issues that members everywhere else have, except that the sheer numbers of members there make you more keenly aware of their quirks and shortcomings.

I've lived in enough Utah wards and very active non-Utah wards that I don't think there really is any appreciable difference. The biggest difference is that outside of Utah, you generally don't rub elbows with your ward members or other LDS members all that much during the week and in Utah you're around them all the time, so those idiosyncracies are just more noticeable.

I agree with this.

Still, perception is reality, and it's a hell of a lot of fun to irritate those sensitive to the "Utah Mormon" comments.

[malapert]

Originally Posted by Tex

Regardless, whoever shared this with malapert did both of them a disservice.

If the entire text of the blessing was published, I would grant you your point. But, since the recipient is anonymous and the excerpt is just a snippet of the whole, and it truly is representative of a strongly held perception....it is clearly worthy of review and discussion.

Now, since Tex is on such an elevated spiritual plane, he is excused from any further participation in this particular thread. Moreover, his tunnel vision will be noted and revisited when appropriate to demonstrate irony and hypocrisy when his future positions show an inconsistency with the high moral ground assumed here.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by malapert

If the entire text of the blessing was published, I would grant you your point. But, since the recipient is anonymous and the excerpt is just a snippet of the whole, and it truly is representative of a strongly held perception....it is clearly worthy of review and discussion.

Now, since Tex is on such an elevated spiritual plane, he is excused from any further participation in this particular thread. Moreover, his tunnel vision will be noted and revisited when appropriate to demonstrate irony and hypocrisy when his future positions show an inconsistency with the high moral ground assumed here.

Lighten up, Francis.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

I think he meant California.

I think he meant Memphis.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by Indy Coug

Lighten up, Francis.

You need to go back to the avatar that featured a guy's head up his rear end. It was a great branding concept and with your recent behavior, randomly changing avatars, I'm afraid you're losing your way.

[myboynoah]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I think he meant Memphis.

Everything is relative. I am west of Nashville.

[Hazzard]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

Mullah myboynoah speaks.

Assuming it is legit, it has no place here. Such a blessing is for the individual, not the masses. We have no idea of the context and it has obviously been doctored.

I hesitate to disagree with a former member of the BeeGees, but aren't patriarchal blessings made "public" (or at least made available to family members) anyway upon the death of the recipient? Although that might not make blessings available for the masses, it surely doesn't limit them to availability for the individual.

In related news, now seems like a good time to let everyone know that my patriarchal blessing warns me against the "danger" of "the Internets" and "wolves in sheeps clothing" thereon.

[malapert]

Originally Posted by Hazzard

In related news, now seems like a good time to let everyone know that my patriarchal blessing warns me against the "danger" of "the Internets" and "wolves in sheeps clothing" thereon.

Unquestionably a reference to this board.

[Indy Coug]

Originally Posted by YOhio

You need to go back to the avatar that featured a guy's head up his rear end. It was a great branding concept and with your recent behavior, randomly changing avatars, I'm afraid you're losing your way.

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[MikeWaters]

Boy, I am glad I am not a patriarch. I can imagine that every once in a while, I would think to myself, "well, I sure wasn't on my game today. Yikes."

I do have a lot of respect for the office of patriarch. That's why I never want to occupy it.