The Practical Mormon considers the theological implications of cloning for the LDS Church, and says it ought to be outlawed. But, its already too late!
The Practical Mormon considers the theological implications of cloning for the LDS Church, and says it ought to be outlawed. But, its already too late!
Voting is done for the Best & Worst April Fools and the results are pretty predictable:
BCC's impressive effort easily took first place, followed up by MA's spoof of LDSdefect. Those six who voted for T&S as "best", lets see, DKL, SKL, Kaimi and three more T&S permabores would be my guess.
The Worsts were also pretty predictable too, with T&S's weak effort scraping the bottom of the barrel.
T&S's was so, lame....they did it on March 31! Not even an April Fool! And it is clear only Kaimi had anything to do with it.
- Kaimi: Let's do an April Fool.
T&S: But that's conference Saturday and we must have a serious discussion of GenConf. We must have an Open Thread up to ensure that traffic comes our way over the weekend. We cannot sully our Very Serious blog with such silliness.
Kaimi: OK, I'll do something the day before.
T&S: If you must Kaimi, if you must. Sigh.
Tanya Spackman, the token woman at M0, has posted some pics she took at General Conference this past weekend. Among them are some fun pics of dingbat anti-mormons advertising their web sites, one of which doesn't even work as advertised. Sweet. The other one is a half-baked attempt at attacking pretty much any organized church that dares to have some sort of documented theological position. The most damning criticism on their web page is the Mormonism FAQ, which pretty much shattered my testimony into tiny shards. Now John Dehlin can do a podcast of us and how we became post-snarkers.
The best though is this powerful statement. I don't know about you, but that made me cry...with laughter. I mean, the only way it could have been any more damaging to my testimony is if it was "Flase Prpheets", or "Floss Parakeets", or "Folse Parfets". Where did they get their stuff from? Its like FARMS/FAIR/SHEILDS decided to do an April Fools gag and make this stuff up then hire some flacks to sit on the street $10/hour just for laughs.
Hey everybody! Vote for which April Fools was the best and which was the worst:
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We compiled a list of the ones we spotted on the Nacle. If we missed anyone, sorry!
Results up in a couple of days or so, or whenever we get around to it.
John W. Redelfs, the most Iron-Roddy Iron Rodder on the Nacle is not content to feast upon the word received at General Conference. No, this Iron Rod has some words of counsel for GA's pertaining to what he would like to hear at GenConf. Methinks if someone else were griping in similar fashion, the Iron Rod would take them to task for questioning the leaders of the Church.
(So out of character it must be an April Fools...right?)
Preeminent members of T&S, BCC and M* have been in secret back room negotiations to bring the three big blogs into one house of grand Mormon blogging. Their intent is to end all hostilities between the three competing blogs and foment a new and unique consolidated consortium of Mormon blogging that eschews contention in favor of scholarship and brotherly love.
Details that have leaked out of the secret talks indicate the new blog shall be named "The United Order" and all permanent members of the three big blogs will be installed as members of United Order. Further details indicate they plan on having all smaller and solo blogs in the Bloggernacle, except SnarkerNacle, merge and unite into "The Branch", which will act as a "farm team" to United Order. The Branch will serve as a pool of guest bloggers and potential permabloggers, as well as a means of mentoring new bloggers, helping them hone their skills. While The Branch will operate indepenedently of The United Order, any member of the The United Order can exercise editorial control over the content of The Branch.
Negotiations presently revolve around who will exercise administrative control over United Order and who will be "more equal". While there have been no volunteers for actually performing the technical work of setting up the servers and maintaining them, numerous volunteers have made themselves available to promote the project and exercise control over content and submissions. It was resolved to have a rotating three person presidency with terms of office of 1 year with members rotating out every 4 months. Initial order would be alphabetical by last name with FIFO replacing that after each founding member had served. There was one complaint about this, someone who wanted to do reverse alphebetical by last name, but he was largely ignored and the matter dismissed.
There was some initial discussion over whether all posts should be anonymous and peer reviewed so as to ensure quality and eliminate self-promotion and egos, but several people insisted that was unacceptable. When asked why, they balked and ultimately reasoned it was because it would be onerous on whoever was required to review submissions.
Site design was also discussed. General agreement was easily reached on using WordPress. Color schemes rejected outright were brown, or anything like unto it, blue, or anything like unto it, or pink, or anything like unto it, or grey, or anything lke unto it. Latest reports indicate opinions were settling on shades of pale yellows.
An annually rotating topic of the month schedule was recommended so as to discourage repeated unoriginal posts on the same topic. This suggestion was largely rejected on that basis that doing so would result in entirely too infrequent posting.