I got pissed off in GD class this week

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by MudphudCoug

I have always been fascinated by comparisons between Utah and non-Utah Mormons.

I know quite a few of Mormons in the southwest who go to bars and get drunk during the week, and then show up at church or the temple acting completely pious. And I've seen plenty of the same in Utah.

But in Utah, you're more likely to see kids from your neighborhood smoking behind the gas station, or to catch your active LDS neighbor buying beer at the grocery store. In states with fewer Mormons, you're less likely to bump into these folks at your neighborhood store, so little sins are more likely to go unnoticed. That's the difference between Utah and non-Utah Mormons, IMO.

I hated it when my elder quorum president would run into me at the store while I was buying beer. It was very awkward. It was also awkward when I ran into him while playing black jack in wendover. It was even more awkward when he was at the next table over when I was enjoying the lunch buffet at Golden Trails

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

The lesson was going along fine until someone tries to make a point on unrighteous behavior by comparing Utah Mormons to the rest of The Church.

Utah Mormons = complacency = unrighteousness

The guy (who has held many Stake positions) was serious; it was no FM troll job. I express my disillusionment to my wife and get a lecture on not getting offended. That was nice.

This is a common theme that I've heard throughout my experience outside of Utah (from the pulpit, in the halls, from instructors). WTF is this all about?

Still Joe Cool, eh tuff guy?

Tell me that you haven't noticed the serious inferiority complex every mormon not living on the Wasatch Front has of mormons from the Wasatch Front?

It is similar to being mormon and being a Ute fan because it causes you to really believe you are an independent thinker and rebellious. The mormon church is saturated with dumbass ninnies, I think the fact that you are in your uhhhhhhhh twenties plus twenty and just now beginning to notice speaks about either your charity or comatose state. I will let you pick which one, Elder Joe Cool!

Now nobody messes with those of us Mormons leading our way to Fame! Jason Buck is my President!

[pelagius]

On the other hand, it does get annoying when young couples recently moved from Utah bear their testimony for the first time. Their voices seem to always quake with a mixture of fear and relief. Their stories are emotional and poignant and almost invariably involve telling of experiences that are remarkably similar to Hillary Clinton's landing under sniper fire in Bosnia. Apparently Columbus is very scary place but I am always relieved when they tell me how they managed to find their way to Walmart while at the same time avoiding permanent disfigurement. The Horror, The Horror. I am thinking about holding up a sign in these situations: "Ohio is not a third world country." Of course, noah's ward members could not rightly hold up such as sign but I am pretty sure we can get away with it here.

I am not saying that Utah Mormons deserve most of the smack directed their way, but I am afraid that the typical "young couple from Utah" can seem awfully naive and silly. Also, the constant and vocal yearning for zion the first couple years gets old. We get it; You want to finish dental school and get back to Utah. I think Utah's a nice place too. I just don't want to hear about it in every conversation that I have with you. Yes, I think the Mountains are really nice as well, but their absence hasn't made me suicidal.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by pelagius

On the other hand, it does get annoying when young couples recently moved from Utah bear their testimony for the first time. Their voices seem to always quake with a mixture of fear and relief. Their stories are emotional and poignant and almost invariably involve telling of experiences that are remarkably similar to Hillary Clinton's landing under sniper fire in Bosnia. Apparently Columbus is very scary place but I am always relieved when they tell me how they managed to find their way to Walmart while at the same time avoiding permanent disfigurement. The Horror, The Horror. I am thinking about holding up a sign in these situations: "Ohio is not a third world country." Of course, noah's ward members could not rightly hold up such as sign but I am pretty sure we can get away with it here.

lol! Very funny pelagius. I've seen the same thing here, where we actually are a little closer to a third world country.

[MikeWaters]

thank goodness I can't remember the last time a Utahn moving into to my ward.

I do remember a Utahn leaving my ward and saying how it was so scary here but finally she realized (after a number of years) it was a passable place to raise a family after all. How the youth here must be so strong. She was going back to Utah.

and Utah Mormons wonder why they are despised. We have to witness the bubble popping.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by pelagius

Apparently Columbus is very scary place but I am always relieved when they tell me how they managed to find their way to Walmart while at the same time avoiding permanent disfigurement. The Horror, The Horror. I am thinking about holding up a sign in these situations: "

Well, Utah Mormons do just fine at the craps table, and they sure don't miss the buffet lines in Vegas. If it weren't for Utah Mormons, there'd be no Mesquite.

[malapert]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Well, Utah Mormons do just fine at the craps table, and they sure don't miss the buffet lines in Vegas. If it weren't for Utah Mormons, there'd be no Mesquite.

Arch, is this your postulate as to why corpulence seems more epidemic among Utahans than non-Utahans?

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Archaea

If it weren't for Utah Mormons, there'd be no Mesquite.

And that would be a bad thing?

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Goatnapper'96

Still Joe Cool, eh tuff guy?

Tell me that you haven't noticed the serious inferiority complex every mormon not living on the Wasatch Front has of mormons from the Wasatch Front?

It is similar to being mormon and being a Ute fan because it causes you to really believe you are an independent thinker and rebellious. The mormon church is saturated with dumbass ninnies, I think the fact that you are in your uhhhhhhhh twenties plus twenty and just now beginning to notice speaks about either your charity or comatose state. I will let you pick which one, Elder Joe Cool!

Now nobody messes with those of us Mormons leading our way to Fame! Jason Buck is my President!

Mormon Ute fans do know persecution from both sides. Get with the program, would you? Then again, you're one of those California Mormons.

Actually, being a Mormon Ute fans gives me the best of all worlds. I can laugh at the ninny zoobs and the pinhead antis who claim to be Ute fans. And, I can laugh at the silly zoots.

Good times.

[Goatnapper'96]

Originally Posted by il Padrino Ute

Mormon Ute fans do know persecution from both sides. Get with the program, would you? Then again, you're one of those California Mormons.

Actually, being a Mormon Ute fans gives me the best of all worlds. I can laugh at the ninny zoobs and the pinhead antis who claim to be Ute fans. And, I can laugh at the silly zoots.

Good times.

I get to laugh at both sides as well...oh and haven't had the frustration of defeat since the Republican Party controlled Congress.

I thought Solon's categorization of mormons on Cougarguard trying to intellectually reconcile liberal academia with their staunchly held religious convictions is very similar to my percetpion of LDS Utes who would like to think their exposure to the world at the U of U allows them to corner both of the markets known as God and Mammon.

Guys like you and I who have been outside of the entire mormon bubble are trully the superior ones with a leg up..hee hee hee.