April 2025 General Conference Discussion

[HaggisShuu]

On 3/27/2025 at 12:15 AM, SilentOne said:

I predict

- There will be no additions to the canon or changes in meeting schedules at this time

- Somewhere between 10 and 20 new temples will be announced

- Something Easterish and something Restorationish will be sung

- At least one talk focusing on Joseph Smith and his visions/revelations/the coming forth of the Book of Mormon

I would love some additions to the canon as there haven't been any additions since the 70's if I remember. For me the canon in principle is open, but in practice feels closed. 

[LDSGator]

28 minutes ago, HaggisShuu said:

improvement requires effort which is what I think @LDSGator is trying to communicate. 

Effort and desire. 

[estradling75]

I have also heard of people prototyping 1 hour Church.   The church tries out alot of things that never make it to widespread use.  Will 1 hour church become the standard announced at this General Conference?  I do not know.  It might not work out in the testing.  But if they do go for it then the questions we have about it will be addressed, because they will have already tested and gathered the data they need to move forward with it

[Carborendum]

1 hour ago, HaggisShuu said:

I would love some additions to the canon as there haven't been any additions since the 70's if I remember. For me the canon in principle is open, but in practice feels closed. 

I'd really like to see the Proclamation being canonized as OD3.  But I doubt it will happen anytime soon.

[HaggisShuu]

20 minutes ago, estradling75 said:

I have also heard of people prototyping 1 hour Church.   The church tries out alot of things that never make it to widespread use.  Will 1 hour church become the standard announced at this General Conference?  I do not know.  It might not work out in the testing.  But if they do go for it then the questions we have about it will be addressed, because they will have already tested and gathered the data they need to move forward with it

I remember a little while ago a survey was sent round to leaders (in the UK) at least gathering feedback on opinions surrounding sacrament meetings. 
Questions like "How long should sacrament meeting last" and "how many speaking assignments should be in sacrament meeting" questions to that effect among other things like "are you happy with how many meetings are taking place" 

[HaggisShuu]

1 hour ago, Carborendum said:

I'd really like to see the Proclamation being canonized as OD3.  But I doubt it will happen anytime soon.

Which proclamation? There is several, I agree with you if you are talking about "The Family" I feel like canonising it would go a long way in shutting down progmos. 

[Ironhold]

Well folks... looks like I get to spend this Conference on pain meds... 💀

Last Saturday I found the *one* piece in a box of Russel Stover's that had toffee in it, and it was just enough to crack a tooth that had a cavity. 

I saw my dentist on Monday, he confirmed the damage, and said that I would need to have a crown. 

The earliest he could fit me in for the actual procedure would be Friday afternoon, and after my last round of dental work like this it was antibiotics and low-grade pain pills for a few days. 

[mikbone]

9 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

Russel Stover's

Dude that’s the worst.

I stopped trusting randomly assorted chocolate decades ago.

See’s milk chocolate custom mix is the way to go if you want a treat, or to ruin your figure…

[Ironhold]

2 hours ago, Carborendum said:

Many people left the Savior after He said he was not going to just "poof" bread to ease their lives.  He then asked the apostles if they would also leave.  Peter said.

Yes, many leave for the wrong reasons.  But many stay for the right reasons.

Over the past few months I've had some conversations with people as to why folks like the Tate Brothers are resonating with so many young men. 

The long and short of it is that modern Western society has done a rather bang-up job in inadvertently removing male role models from society. Far too many families no longer have a dad kids can rely on, male community leaders are being pressured to step back so women can "have a voice", popular male pop culture figures who in the past would have been a substitute are being discarded in favor of younger and hipper female replacement, and classic social structures like religion are frowned upon by the "elite". As if that wasn't bad enough, far too many "progressive" and "feminist" schools of thought regard men as being flawed & toxic by default. 

Cue a large number of teens and twenty-somethings being completely adrift in society and looking for anyone or anything that will welcome them with open arms. 

This is one of the problems the world is facing today, a lack of positive heroes and role models that people can aspire to. Younger people today don't have a Fred Rogers or a Bob Ross to gently dispense time-tested wisdom while helping to form boundaries of personal conduct; they've got the Tate Brothers and the Paul Brothers encouraging them to seek wealth for the sake of wealth and telling them that anything bad which happens to them must be society's fault. 

...Thus, a big part of why so many younger individuals, particularly young men, have a botched sense of where they belong in the world and how the world should be reacting to them: they're either being told they're worthless, or being told that anyone who doesn't bow to them is worthless. 

It's one of the structures I talked about earlier that needs to be addressed in order to try and fix what's going wrong with the world today. 

[mikbone]

1 hour ago, Ironhold said:

This is one of the problems the world is facing today, a lack of positive heroes and role models that people can aspire to. Younger people today don't have a Fred Rogers or a Bob Ross to gently dispense time-tested wisdom while helping to form boundaries of personal conduct; they've got the Tate Brothers and the Paul Brothers encouraging them to seek wealth for the sake of wealth and telling them that anything bad which happens to them must be society's fault. 

Yup.

One of my favorite books is titled Man of Steel and Velvet.  It’s a male self help book.  Jesus Christ is the exemplary model.  

A man should be steadfast and ready to lead and defend his family and principles - the Steel part.  And supportive and sensitive to his spouse and children - the velvet.

People many times only imagine the velvet part of Jesus.  He was firm and tough as nails as well.

It’s why I love the daguerreotype of Joseph Smith so much.  It displays both the steel and the velvet.

I think many saints prefer the soft portraits of Joseph Smith.

We have to provide our family, friends, saints, and community with real examples of men.

I’m doing my part.

Edited Wednesday at 06:57 PM by mikbone

[Ironhold]

36 minutes ago, mikbone said:

We have to provide our family, friends, saints, and community with real examples of men.

I’m doing my part.

A lot of times, when people champion past eras, what they're actually trying to champion are those things they see as the positive aspects of that era. 

This is one thing from the past that needs to return, the adults in society making it an active point to try and be positive examples for the next generations. 

A *lot* of the people who wind up lost these days wouldn't have been lost if they had some beacon they could hone in on. 

If we fix this, we fix a good chunk of what's wrong with modern society and start bringing people back to where they need to be. 

[MrShorty]

How about this random prediction for conference? With Sunday being Apr. 6, how many references will get for the 195th anniversary of the official organization of the church in 1830? I'm going to predict 3 such references on Sunday alone. I might even suggest that some of your conference bingo cards need a "On this date in 1830, the church was organized" square.

Along the same lines, will any of the speakers follow Elder Bednar's example of 2014 and mention Christ's birthdate?