Comments on: On being peculiar http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/ A Mormon Blog Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: queuno http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93365 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:48:13 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93365 I was talking to a woman at church who was moving to Texas, and she was concerned that there wouldn’t be many church members, and she was used to living in large LDS communities

Stay away from North Texas then. Or Houston. Or even Austin. No Mormons here.

]]> By: dug http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93238 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:48:12 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93238 Why is everyone so hostile toward “The World”? It’s my favorite radio program.

]]> By: Trevor http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93240 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:34:46 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93240 I think Steve must be putting errors in my post before they show up. I meant “that the” not “the the”. Sorry for the mistype.

]]> By: Trevor http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93239 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:33:10 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93239 I was just intrigued that you reviled against the notion the the bloggernacle is not representative of the active church membership. We may end at your pleasure.

]]> By: Martin Willey http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93342 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:01:13 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93342 Trevor: You used the term cosmopolitan, and I was responding to that. Sorry if it was not clear. I think my ward is pretty average for its geographic location, but I don’t really know who the “average mormon” is. That is why I am leery of statements about what the “average mormon” is like. Even in my ward in the center of Mormondom, I see a lot of smart, interesting people.

I think we have exhausted this line of discussion, don’t you?

]]> By: Trevor http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93364 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:20:40 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93364 Martin,

If we don’t know, what was the point of making the list?

Also–do you consider your list representative of the “average mormon”?

]]> By: Thomas Parkin http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93363 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:10:25 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93363 Yeah Margaret – totally get that. I get a really fierce wanderlust. Describe it as homesickness for places I’ve never been. :)

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]]> By: Martin Willey http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93362 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:02:10 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93362 Eric: I was listing people who might be seen as “cosmopolitan.”

Trevor: I thought 98 was kind of silly. See my comment 99.

]]> By: Trevor http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93361 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:54:39 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93361 116:

Do you then take exception to 98 as well?

]]> By: Eric Russell http://bycommonconsent.com/2008/08/14/on-being-peculiar/#comment-93360 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:52:33 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/?p=4063#comment-93360 Martin, when listing people with educational or professional accomplishments, why do you include people who have married foreigners?

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