I posted this elsewhere, but I think it deserves its own thread.

We're told about how the Bishop etc. has the "power of
discernment." I remember home teaching an artist guy who had
some business dealings with Boyd K. Packer. And he stopped in
the middle of telling me the story and said, reverently, "you
know, these guys can look straight through you."

Discernment--it comes straight from the scriptures:

"27 And unto the bishop of the church, and unto such as God
shall appoint and ordain to watch over the church and to be
elders unto the church, are to have it given unto them to
discern all those gifts lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."
--D&C 46:27

See, they can discern "lest there shall be any among you
professing and yet be not of God."

The "Guide to the Scriptures" clearly states, in defining "Gift
of Discernment:

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/discernment-gift-of?lang=eng#

"To understand or know something through the power of the
Spirit. The gift of discernment is one of the gifts of the
Spirit. It includes perceiving the true character of people and
the source and meaning of spiritual manifestations."

See, Church leaders can perceive "the true character of people"
and can tell if people are only claiming to be "of God."

Here are the top church leaders showing their sacred powers of
discernment in action:

http://www.utlm.org/images/newsletters/115/115cover_hofmannchurchleaders.gif

From left to right:

Mark Hofmann (liar and forger and future murderer, and
currently, full-time criminal, secretly atheist since age 14,
while claiming to be a believing Mormon, presenting a forged
document to the leaders of the Church. Hofmann passed all his
priesthood worthiness interviews for advancement through the
priesthood, mission, and temple marriage)

N. Eldon Tanner (member of the First Presidency)

Spencer W. Kimball (prophet, seer and revelator and President
the Church)

Marion G. Romney (member of the First Presidency)

Boyd K. Packer (Apostle)

Gordon B. Hinckley (member of the First Presidency and future
President of the Church who paid $10,000 to Hofmann for a
forged document about Joseph Smith, and who then promptly hid
the document from the rest of the world).

Yeah, these guys really have that discernment mojo.

or is it perhaps the power of deception?

desertman Wrote:
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> or is it perhaps the power of deception?

Well, in this case, deception defeated discernment.

Science put the CERN in discernment.

There may be a particle of truth in what you say.

Yeah, I had a member of the stake presidency at BYU tell me that he could tell if I wanked just from looking in my eyes. Every time he saw me (I had a stake calling) he'd stare into my eyes. About the third time, I glared right back at him.

Obviously, that fucker had something wrong upstairs that he cared so much about a private matter between me and my boner. Add to that--he thought he could tell by looking at someone if they masturbated. What a dirty mind that guy must have had! President Rose's Boner.

The medical community in the latter half of the 1800s came up
with the idea that masturbation caused a host of maladies
including insanity. The turn--of-the-century books on sex
always had a chapter on "the secret sin." One thing they said,
almost without exception, was that you could tell a masturbator
by the "dull look in their eyes."

Your SP member was just 100 years behind the times.

Plus when they shake your hand, they can feel the stubble from the hair you had to shave off the palm of your hand. Left handed masturbators didn't have that problem, lucky stiffs (you should pardon the expression).

Dude, just use Nair for Da Hand--no stubble.

My power of discernment finally revealed that the whole church is B.S.

baura Wrote:
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> I posted this elsewhere, but I think it deserves
> its own thread.

> ... he stopped in the middle of telling me the story and said, reverently, "you know, these guys can look straight through you."

> Mark Hofmann (liar and forger and future murderer,
> and currently, full-time criminal, secretly atheist
> since age 14, while claiming to be a believing Mormon,
> presenting a forged document to the leaders of the Church. Hofmann passed all his priesthood worthiness interviews for advancement through the priesthood, mission, and temple marriage.

> Yeah, these guys really have that discernment
> mojo.

Related Words for "dicernment": acuity, acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, keenness, penetration, percipience, perspicacity, sensitivity, understanding; acuity, acumen, astuteness, clear-sightedness, keenness, penetration, percipience, perspicacity, sensitivity, understanding; appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, grasp; and... brain(s)...

I think the reactions of the brethren listed above by baura (in the Hoffman case) need to be described by the following:

Near Antonyms - - density, dullness, obtuseness; brainlessness, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, mindlessness, silliness, simplemindedness, stupidity, witlessness; lunacy, madness; preposterousness, senselessness, and silliness.

The convicted jailbird is witness against Mormon poobah discernment.