Comments on: Conference Terms?

By: Moriah Jovan

Moriah Jovan — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:28:36 +0000

Green Jell-O IS torture.

By: Lee Allred

Lee Allred — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:05:44 +0000

Moral Certainty, particularly the variant Moral Certitude, has wide coinage outside the Church in the field of leadership ethics.

“Tender mercies” has wide outside use also, but in the antithetical sense. You do not want to be left to them as they are usually associated with Attila the Hun, the Taliban, or persons of like disposition. I would be willing to promote an LDS adaptation of the term to describe High Councilman Sundays. :) Sort of the Green Jell-O of Torture.

– Lee Allred

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:03:28 +0000

. Here's a link to the Steiner story.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:01:48 +0000

I know that story — it was in those old Especially for Mormons books — each volume in a separate bright color.

It’s like a weird primitive version of the Care Bears.

By: Wm Morris

Wm Morris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:18:21 +0000

Probably not, but that’s interesting background, CB.

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:15:57 +0000

Ha. Yay wikipedia. “A Warm Fuzzy Tale” by Claude Steiner, a specialist in Transactional Analysis, originated the memes Warm Fuzzy and Cold Prickly back in 1969.

Do you think President Monson meant to endorse Transactional Analysis?

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:09:52 +0000

p.s. The warm fuzzies are missing their counterparts: Cold Pricklies.

(Which probably belongs with “Hardened Hearts”. Which definitely seemed to be a theme this time around.)

By: Coffinberry

Coffinberry — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:07:44 +0000

IIRC, my first encounter with “warm fuzzies” was at a YMCA Camp, central Indiana, circa 1984, where I was a counselor. The cliche-ness of the memory made me roll my eyeballs at the mention in Conference. But I suppose it only has that effect on folks of a certain age. Which, I would guess, most members aren’t.

By: Th.

Th. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:54:53 +0000

Amen, even to your comment.

By: S.P. Bailey

S.P. Bailey — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:51:35 +0000

“Even” is a conference term that stands out to me.

As in: “AMV is an awesome blog; ‘even’ the greatest Mormon arts and culture blog ever!”

People who don’t sit in the red velvet chairs every six months just don’t “even” like that!