cheezus wrote in the "Monson dead" thread: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wonder what Nelson’s thing will be? Monson > was all about a rescue of sorts. The Church > marketing team probably already has his theme > ready to roll out. My guess is that he will do > something about strengthening and indoctrinating > The Children more. After the apostasy and blood > letting the church has had, they will want to make > primary more militant to up the retention which > will ultimately fail for them.ug
The new President could adopt a goal that every child coming up in the Mormon Church will be helped to develop an airtight, powerful testimony that nothing, (not the CES letter, not writings by the Tanners,) that NOTHING can shake!
commongentile Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cheezus wrote in the "Monson dead" thread: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > The new President could adopt a goal that every > child coming up in the Mormon Church will be > helped to develop an airtight, powerful testimony > that nothing, (not the CES letter, not writings by > the Tanners,) that NOTHING can shake!
1. Temple, Temple, Temple - you need to pay your 10% to get in but demanding money would be crass.
2. Complicate tithing to be more like taxes. You can get a deduction for shopping at City Creek, etc.
3. Make Mormonism Great Again: Bring back polygamy, blood atonement...oh wait I'm an apostate--scratch that.
4. Do nothing. Keep giving stern talks mixed with puffy pablum and a new initiative every once and awhile--maybe a new lesson manual series. Teachings of the anonymous essayists perhaps?
Changing and doing nothing is what they do best. Just talk to the camera twice a year and hope people keep paying their tithing in fear of jesus and the burning.
I hope they finally get around to goosing the missionaries to try harder! I'm suggesting changing P-day to P-hour, to start.
And they need an app on the mission cell phones that allows the MP to surreptitiously turn on the phone's mic, and of course always keep the MP apprised of where they are.
1. Drink more Pepsi. 2. Keep my pants dry all day. 3. Shun more children from gay families than yesterday. 4. Look in the mirror every day and repeat "I like myself" 666 times. 5. Write my own obituary for the NY Times before I die.
Another thought is that he will purge the church of the evils of Pornography. Porn. Pornograghy. Pornography. Anal porn, BJ Porn. Hardcore porn. Porn compilation videos. Pornographic pictures, movies and pornographic actors. Porn. Porn. Porno porn porn porn. porno popping on my apercot tree porn. Rid the world of porn. Pornomatics, porn theatres, porn husks. POrn on the cob. Porn on a rope. Pornucopia. We’re all against it.
1. Make it a commandment to ban all internet searches from unapproved sites. Require this as a temple recommend interview question. 2. Lower the Missionary age to 17 and extend the duration by 6 months. 3. Build 2 new temples w/in the first 6 months to show leadership, and announce 5 new temples every year. 4. Claim to have at least one new revelation within the first month entitled, "Proclamation to the World on Heavenly Father Approved Sexuality." 5. Try to put a positive spin on the gay issue by allowing gay couples over the age of 70 to serve missions. 6. Expand the M questions in youth interviews. 7. Acquire lands for new hunting/vacation retreats in New Zealand.
Here's my guess. From now on, everything's about internal consolidation. They'll find ways to limit the number of families who get indirect distributions from the Morg. They'll quietly stop up the leaks from which they hemorrhage money. In short, they'll prepare for the tithing-reduced, membership-reduced, negative-growth-rate, lose-the-youth, future. They'll still have missions, but those will focus more on "service" and more clearly move away from proselyting and an emphasis on baptisms. Temple rituals will expand to include more ritualistic duties for members to keep them involved. There will still be the constant haranguing of members to convert, tithe, go to the temple, attend church, serve callings, etc. But the leadership's heart won't be in it.
There will be consolidation of wards and stakes to reduce the number of leadership positions--too many overworked, under-committed leaders devalues leadership positions and teaches people that they really don't have to commit their lives to a corporation. Nothing bad happens to them if they just stop. The country-club aspects and the exclusivity of leadership positions will be emphasized so that rather than the members' concerning themselves with expansion of the church, they'll be encouraged even more to social-climb within it. In other words, TSCC will work at keeping and increasing the money in a more and more constrained environment.