Everyman's Arsenal

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@WilliamMeservy Being a democrat is a much bigger threat to society than being unvaccinated or undocumented 😂

@joshnaa2gez Elder with a beard?! Preposterous!!! Back in 2011, I was watching a priesthood general session and I swear lighting made Elder Perrys shirt look light blue. I leaned over and asked my friend, "is Elder Perry wearing a light blue shirt?" He replied "blasphemous!!"

Every time I talk to creedal Christians about their god who is somehow 3 persons but 1 god, I feel like we need an LDS version of Matt Walsh to ask the obvious question…

@IronRodWarrior It's me. I'm told I'm "zealous" whatever that means

My ear just started ringing. One of you thinks about me too much and need to settle down.

It has been days of complaining about this for me. This morning, I've really been thinking about the eternal significance of it. The names of these groups is not eternally significant so I'm gonna try and stay away from this. One thing I did learn "Gatherers of Light" translated in Portuguese is a well used nickname for Lucifer so maybe they didn't do enough research on the names.

@dustinharding Is it too much for members to just follow the brethren without complaining? My wife is a young woman’s president and she is so excited. More items she can use to narrow their focus

You may or may not like the names. Regardless, it's a huge improvement from what we had! It's harder for young women to identify with an unnamed class. It also always felt weird setting apart the class presidencies: "I set you apart as the class president of the 11-13 year-old young-women's class." 😂

@Latterdaytruth Following the prophet

If you could be the BEST in the world at one thing, what would it be? And why?

No, I've definitely murmured and even talked about this is really hard for me to wrap my head around. Still is. We had the previous YW names for decades, then inspiration comes in to take those away because we're a global church. Now, new inspiration takes us back to names because we're a global church? What gets me through this is that it's not eternally significant so although I have murmured, I need to repent and be okay with this. Doesn't mean it's gonna happen overnight.

@boyblue How is stating opinion murmuring? I haven’t seen any attacks on faith, gospel principles, or church leaders from literally anyone. 100% ok to share opinion. You are dumb.

For all the murmurers out there - you do realize we’re a global Church now? And people outside the USA generally speak other languages? These new names are translatable and keep their meaning better than Mia Maid and Laurel do. Not only do we need to think Celestial, we need to think Global Church!

@LargeInStature_ Oh, you're one of those weirdos who believes in the moon?!

You don't believe in spaceships? We just flew around the moon, my guy.

@Latterdaytruth No. Then we'd know who the best teacher is and right now we enjoy the mystery of it more.

Wards should do one week a year where the Sisters send their best teacher to teach Elders Quorum, and Vice Versa.

Here's a personal struggle I've had with multiple things over the years. The prophet felt prompted enough to change YW from what it was for decades to whatever the wards need. Then less than 10 years, a new prophet feels prompted to go away from that back to names for the good of the girls? I thought the idea of me having unshakable faith was going to come from outside our church.

People are already trying to shorten the names. Just follow the brethren, ladies.

@AuthorGFAllen Yes, Alamo series by Dana Epperson. Unfortunately the guy hasn't written the third book yet!

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Okay, I’m reading everything this person writes”?

@Latterdaytruth My favorite so far, ward clerk. I had a great relationship with our bishop and he had a tendency to NOT delegate and just talk ad nauseum. During meetings, I would regularly have to say "Bishop, would you like to make an assignment?"

What is the BEST calling in the Church?

It's cultural. If my SP asked, I would ask to be released. While in the Bishopric, a counselor in the SP wouldn't come out and condemn my beard, but heavily hinted that it's not allowed. I asked the SP himself and he said he didn't have a problem with it. We have a new SP now and 2nd counselor has a beard.

@SeanGatton So I think I know your answer to my follow up

Should local Priesthood leaders be clean shaven? Explain your answer 👇 Note: the General Handbook is silent on the issue as far as I can tell.

Just spoke with the Stake YW President about this. Beautiful, but way too long and cumbersome. It'll get shortened to Builders, Messengers, and Gatherers in conversation.

@dantypo My oldest thought flat earth was real. I swore I wouldn't give cell phones to my youngest until they're much older

I’m going to admit that to an extent I failed my oldest child. Not in the traditional sense. He’s a relatively good kid. He’s smart. He has a good job. We’ve been there when he needs us and thankfully he doesn’t rely on us for much at all anymore. All that said, he has in fact been radicalized. It happened slowly. He’d say things. I’d dismiss them a “young and dumb” figuring he’d mature out of your typical high school liberal turns. I’d always say, “l’ll never tell you how to vote, but I’ll never pretend you’re right when you believe stupid things.” Recently he made an anti-Israel statement. I mean, that’s fine if it’s relegated to Israeli policy and politics. Criticize everyone always, when they must be criticized. But then, he said something that was absurd. And I asked him to explain. He said, “When Israel attacked Gaza on October 7th…” I stopped him and said, “I’m sorry, WHAT!?” He had no idea what the truth was. Forget the nuance of every day politics. I mean he had been told online that Israel had attacked Gaza on October 7th. When I corrected him, he was stunned. He then said, “well why did Israel attack our ships?” I said, you mean like recently? He said, “yeah!” I said, “I think you need to seriously consider where you get your information from. Whoever it was didn’t tell you that was back in the 60s.” He looked lost. So I said, “the way it works is they tell you something that is true but out of context so that IF you look it up, you’ll see at some point something like that happened.” My point is that your kids are being radicalized. Whether Left or Right, the algorithm is showing them what they want all the time. It doesn’t care what they believe. It only cares that it captures them. And boring old truth doesn’t keep eyes in an app. Pay close attention. I thought I was. But boy was I wrong.

@VinnysCorner1 @BoJackson

If someone offered you $5 million to watch one players' highlights for 72 hours straight, who would you choose?

@joshnaa2gez Woah woah woah woah...you show me in the standard works where farting at the table is not allowed!!!

I hate naive takes like this. Literally every law or social norm is an attempt to pressure people into behaving a certain way. Farting at the table is frowned upon because it’s gross to fart at the table. Thieves are punished with prison because we don’t like theft. So yes… as with any social group… there are certain ways that good Latter-day Saints believe and behave. And yes, we will exert social pressure to control beliefs and behavior within our community to conform to a reasonable extent. Obviously, still allowing for some diversity of thought. But every group has an “Overton Window.” If you don’t like our Overton Window, find a different community.

@senshi_real Are you in Pennsylvania? If not, you don't need to worry about turning into a vampire

UM MORCEGO ME PICOU O QUE EU FAÇO AGORA

@PeacemakingSt Nope, I like the blanket announcements. Sure the folks in the Marysville area were probably ecstatic. But I've lived in 30+ states and several continents. There's been so many temple announcements in the past where I'm very familiar with at least one of the temples announced

And there we go! An example of the Church’s revised way of announcing new temples. Pretty cool to gather the Saints of Marysville and let them know firsthand! I imagine the Spirit and excitement in that room was off the charts. Do you like this change?

@1SusanEscalante @LDSBoomstick Ahhh, the good ole titty ringer game we all know and love

@EMArsenalHQ @LDSBoomstick 😅 !! One day I texted the EQ Pres about a game called “tootsie ringer” for our Halloween party. He was a stately older gentleman. It autocorrected to “titty”. Oh man. Still embarrassed.😅

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