Comments on: Fallible Patriarchal Blessings

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:45:22 +0000

Oh, MCQ, you may jest, but you are closer than you think! Why couldn’t I have been a teenager in the 80s instead of the 70s?

By: MCQ

MCQ — Sat, 26 May 2007 06:30:51 +0000

How about a video? The one where you are dancing in a white suit to the BGs would be fine, or the one where you dunk on your buddy with the red white and blue basketball in your knee-length tube socks and short-shorts would be ok as well.

By: A. Nonny Mouse

A. Nonny Mouse — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:05:11 +0000

“Of course you realize that we all now expect you to post a photo.”

I hereby second that motion.

By: CE

CE — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:40:41 +0000

RE: Kevin – #80

. . . as a teenager, I wore an afro (give me a break, this was the 70s), and in the summer I was outside all the time and usually had a dark tan.

Of course you realize that we all now expect you to post a photo.

By: Bro. Jones

Bro. Jones — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:34:13 +0000

I was eager to hear my patriarchal blessing’s declaration of my lineage, because I’m Jewish by descent and my Jewish family are Levites (Kohein/Cohen surname). I figured I’d be a Levite, too–nope, I’m in Ephraim, said the patriarch. People told me I was “adopted” into this generic lineage along with many (if not most?) other Church members by virtue of my conversion.

I was really peeved about it until I received my endowments. Without saying too much, suffice it to say that God seems to have recognized my lineage in a different way than I expected. Bet the guy doing the initiatories didn’t understand why I was all teary-eyed. :)

I’m soft on patriarchal blessings. Reading someone else’s was what originally interested me in the Church.

By: CB

CB — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:28:29 +0000

Here are a couple of early Mormon patriarchal blessings of interest:

Lorenzo Snow:
http://www.lordfam.com/History/Patriarchal%20Blessing%20of%20Lorenzo%20Snow.htm

Joseph Smith Jr.
http://www.xmission.com/~research/about/patb1.htm

By: MCQ

MCQ — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:05:41 +0000

Perhaps you were just calling us all red-necks.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:04:49 +0000

Ha! Ginger complexion? ginger=red hair in my book. I thought you were calling us all red-headed step children. Being of Irish descent I naturally took “umbrage.”

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:42:14 +0000

MCQ, that’s really good.

Actually, I only added the word “ginger” at the last second under the influence of South Park, which devoted an entire episode to the division between kids who were ginger and those who weren’t. BSP (Before South Park) I had never even heard the term “ginger” applied to hair color/complexion, and this was only within the last few years or so.

By: Ronan

Ronan — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:11:27 +0000

amri,
I think a patriarch who counsels a woman that they are “ripe for polygamy” needs to take the Are-You-A-Fundamentalist-Trolling-For-Wives lie detector test.