Comments on: Yeah. So?

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:12:34 +0000

Rusty: I absolutely love the simile you’ve painted of the temple ceremony-cum-love letter. I will certainly tuck that gem away for discussions about the temple in the future.

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By: Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:48:27 +0000

C'mon folks, I called it back at the season premiere for season 3: "There's gonna be lies, and secrets, and discoveries, and problems. Television!" If you've got 15 seconds to spare, I thought I delivered my (oddly prophetic) take on the upcoming season with a certain panache.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:05:32 +0000

Hey, Vince, nice to see you here.

Bookslinger, it looks to me like they both have cheesy grins. Are you suggesting that people assume that Mormon women don’t enjoy sex, so she must be thinking about something else?

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:47:45 +0000

This cover of the October 2007 Ensign shows a couple, supposedly going to the temple as per the cover story headline "Come to the Temple, p. 18." Those are temple-garment bags they are carrying, but to non-LDS they might look like over-night bags. If you assume those are over-night bags, what might a non-member infer about the big cheesy grin on the man's face?

By: Vince Horiuchi

Vince Horiuchi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:45:13 +0000

My op-ed in today's Salt Lake Trib echoes Rusty's sentiment. It should've been "Yeah. So?" from the get-go.

By: Steve EM

Steve EM — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:45:20 +0000

Given our secrecy on the subject, non-LDS and non-endowed LDS having such thoughts as expressed in comment 8 is perfectly understandable. Personally I long for a modern presentation of the endowment without symbols whose meaning to early Masonic saints has been lost over time. Something like The Matrix movies would be great. We’ll get there someday.

By: Bridget Jack Meyers

Bridget Jack Meyers — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:55:52 +0000

My favorite conversation about the temple happened in high school. An LDS friend was sitting next to me and another non-LDS friend was drilling her on her religion. The non-LDS girl said, “So, when you get married in the temple don’t you have to, like, have sex with the priest or something?”

My LDS friend blinked for a second then said, “Well, in our church all men hold the priesthood and could be called priests, and the bride will be having sex with her husband later that night, so I guess you could say she has to have sex with the priest.”

I thought it was a good answer.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:12:26 +0000

So, what do you say when they ask you about getting your “privates washed”?

I say, “I have never had my privates washed in the temple”.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:38:43 +0000

Matt,
Well, I guess my humor runs a little too sarcastic for some tastes. The way that I would react to anyone approaching me would be “yeah, so”. If an HBO executive approached me I’d have something to say about the way apologies work, but not much to say about the episode. So yeah, I maintain that I am in the “yeah, so” camp.