Lds.net flashback

[pam]

I was going through some old pictures today and found this one. I had forgotten all about this.

[skippy740]

Wow. I must be pretty young to not appear in a picture that's so old!

[pam]

Can anyone remember who they all are? I think I know all but one. I could guess on that one but I would probably be wrong.

[prisonchaplain]

Why do I look suspiciously like a missionary?

[pam]

We wanted you to see what you would look like each Sunday after you are baptized.

[slamjet]

Why do I look suspiciously like a missionary?

If not now then we're aiming for the eternities.

[slamjet]

The one in the middle-front somehow has a great-grandmotherly quality to her

[skippy740]

Why do I look suspiciously like a missionary?

You might've been given a starring role in a rather infamous broadway play?

[pam]

The one in the middle-front somehow has a great-grandmotherly quality to her

Not a nice thing to say about Heather.

[Wingnut]

I think I know all but two of them. The middle back with curly hair, and second from the right in the middle (next to Skahlenfel).

[pam]

The middle back with curly hair is not_ashamed. I can't figure out the one next to Skal either.

[pam]

I've kind of thought the one was bytor but with the head positioned slightly differently.

[Wingnut]

I don't think it's bytor.

Moksha makes me laugh -- a whole penguin instead of just a head. Lol.

[pam]

I like Snow's one eye as a head.

[NightSG]

We wanted you to see what you would look like each Sunday after you are baptized.

Wait; the former Methodist has a thought. Does pouring in sufficient quantity to completely encase the person in water, even if only briefly, count as immersion?

I'm thinking we just need to coordinate a couple folks to ambush PC and say the words while a helicopter with a Bambi Bucket gets in position overhead...

[skippy740]

Well... even if it did... you can't be baptised against your will.

And then my brain went and thought that "waterboarding" could end up being a form of baptism, right? All we need is authority, witnesses and well... a good reason not to keep them under. :)

[prisonchaplain]

Wait; the former Methodist has a thought. Does pouring in sufficient quantity to completely encase the person in water, even if only briefly, count as immersion?

I'm thinking we just need to coordinate a couple folks to ambush PC and say the words while a helicopter with a Bambi Bucket gets in position overhead...

Have I neglected to mention how much I appreciate the LDS doctrine of free agency?

[prisonchaplain]

Well... even if it did... you can't be baptised against your will.

And then my brain went and thought that "waterboarding" could end up being a form of baptism, right? All we need is authority, witnesses and well... a good reason not to keep them under. :)

Something like this happened to me once. I was on this board, titled at an angle, with a blindfold on. However, I thought the chiropractor was trying some sort of hydro therapy. So, when the agent yelled "Convert?" I said, "No, I think I'll stick with the traditional therapy--this kind isn't as comfortable as I hoped."

[NightSG]

Well... even if it did... you can't be baptised against your will.

And then my brain went and thought that "waterboarding" could end up being a form of baptism, right? All we need is authority, witnesses and well... a good reason not to keep them under. :)

Sort of my plan; surely he'd accept baptism by the time the helicopter had refilled for a third run.