We spend a lot of time here. What IS the Bloggernacle, really? In light of our second annual Wheaties & Tareific awards, here’s the ultimate in bloggernacle navel-gazing. This is one insider’s perspective anyway.
- Orthodox, conservative bloggers spoiling for a fight.
Wheat & Tares 
This post Is true.
Great post, Hawkgrrrl! I particularly like the comparisons of actual to imagined audiences.
I’m still trying to figure out the point of the OP but most of the GIFs are pretty funny. Too much “X-Mas”, and I’m keeping a lookout for “Robot Santa” (re: Futurama). Ho Ho Ho….and I’m been extra “naughty” this year.
You’re dumb for telling me the truth about my insignificance.
I decided to post this here because I said I would leave the other thread. I hope you don’t mind.
It is actually not necessarily the case that every single talk we hear in church consists of the philosophies of men mingled with scripture, though if it is the case in your ward, I am sorry for your plight.
One of my favorite non-Joseph Smith quotes runs as follows:
There is such a thing as scripture without interpretation, and that is when men speak by the power of the Holy Ghost:
Conversely:
It is part of a greater principle:
The irony is, in the end, that when we finally take the word of God seriously – even in a literalistic, fundamentalistic, simplistic, narrow, unimaginative way – and obey it, and, through the prayer of faith, receive the Spirit, and the gift of the Holy Ghost, we find out that God was never trying to confuse us, but was actually speaking pretty straightforwardly.
One of the things I have noted is that, from a literalistic, fundamentalistic, simplistic, narrow, unimaginative reading, the scriptures do not support a great many of our teachings and practices, but rather condemn our institutional conceits. It so happens that the Prophet, whom we thank God in hymn for, whose life’s goal was to bring others into the presence of God while yet in the flesh, gave this standard for scriptural readings.
It is therefore little wonder that, as we are warned that there will be many sent who will teach the philosophies of men, mingled with scripture, we are commended for not believing any of them and for seeking light and knowledge directly from the heavens.
Now, you’re free to choose who and what you will believe. If, after doing things one way for a long time, you see no results, maybe it’s time to try something different.
Log, you bore me. Also, this is another example of commenting off point to the post.
This is so true that it makes me sad. When I found out exactly how little traffic my posts get as compared to how much traffic I _thought_ they got I tried to jump from the top of the Salt Lake Temple into the Great Salt Lake.
Hawkgrrrl, I did not know my goal was supposed to be entertaining you, and, given that this navel-gazing post garnered so little comment originally, on its own merits, I imagined you would at the least not mind that I should dump my response to your interesting claim here – my bad; my bad.
Because you would not have been injured in responding cogently to what I said, yet chose not to, if I were to hazard to guess at the intention behind your response, I’d assign a high probability to the possibility that my comment has offended you. It wasn’t intended to offend you.
It offended me with how long it was.
Log, Stick to the topics of the posts. That’s how to engage. I’ve seen you do it before. As to this post, comments don’t always correlate with views. Our top post ever, Mormon Jargon, had relatively few comments and about fifteen thousand views.
If you want to submit a guest post on your hobby horse topic, we are happy to oblige.