Posted on 06/21/2009 8:22:13 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
The Angel Moroni atop the LDS Oquirrh Mountain Temple looks a bit worse for wear right now. Last Saturday, he got zapped by lightning.
Witnesses reported a bright flash of light, a single B-flat note ending in a ducklike quack heard as far away as Idaho, followed by the usual self-congratulatory applause of thunder.
A billion volts blasted the gold leaf off Moroni, turning his horn, face and arm black. In a program known as Regilding for the Dead, the LDS Church plans to fix him before the dedication in August.
-SNIP-
Friday evening, I was one of hundreds of LDS Church volunteers helping with the open house.
Because I don't have the proper spirit to be an effective usher inside the temple, or even the patience to help with parking outside, the church found me a portable bathroom to monitor.
The bathroom trailer was in a busy spot. It was almost directly underneath the temple's spire. High above me, Moroni trumpeted salvation to the world -- and an ominous sky.
"Cool angel," I thought. "I hope this place has a lightning rod."
Ping
Party A, responding to this news: But of course, this angel Moroni will have the opportunity to accept OR reject this regilding. No one forces angels to undergo horn, face, and arm conversions.
Party B: Yeah, sure.
The Thunderbird is a legendary creature in North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. It's considered a "supernatural" bird of power and strength. It is especially important, and richly depicted, in the art, songs and oral histories of many Pacific Northwest Coast cultures, but is also found in various forms among the peoples of the American Southwest and Great Plains. Thunderbirds were major components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex of American prehistory.
The Thunderbird's name comes from the common belief that the beating of its enormous wings causes thunder and stirs the wind. The Lakota name for the Thunderbird is Wakį́yą, a word formed from kįyą́, meaning "winged," and wakhą́, "sacred." The Kwakwaka'wakw have many names for the Thunderbird and the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) called him Kw-Uhnx-Wa. The Ojibwa word for a thunderbird that is closely associated with thunder is animikii, while large thunderous birds are known as binesi.
Across many North America indigenous cultures, the Thunderbird carries many of the same characteristics. It is described as a large bird, capable of creating storms and thundering while it flies. Clouds are pulled together by its wingbeats, the sound of thunder made by its wings clapping, sheet lightning the light flashing from its eyes when it blinks, and individual lightning bolts made by the glowing snakes that it carries around with it. In masks, it is depicted as many-colored, with two curling horns, and, often, teeth within its beak.
I think it refers to Mormons being assigned to do things by their minders/ward leaders based on what the spirit “moves” the minder to assign based on the faithfulness/mindless obedience of the assignee. From what I’ve observed in my niece’s husband’s TBM family, such assignments end up being a popularity contest, with the “winners” getting plum assignments and those deemed not quite worthy enough getting the shaft.
LOL!
I told Kirby he needs to wear this hat next time he's anywhere near the trumpet player. Besides someone said that Miles Davis was offended and was only trying to get the trumpeteer to play jazz and needed be more politically correct.
This is what Christianity is really all about...
Listen and watch and be blessed today...
****I have an old Thunderbird...but this isn’t it...***
Do you serve it very cold like NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS?
Actually, I’m still driving it ;)
Disgusting? Do you know much about Kriby? Obviously you don't 'get' his humor.
If Kirby's humor disgusts you, you might want to tone down your disgust-o-meter.
Is that why your post are not humorous except maybe unintentionally?
Oh go ahead and take the velvet off that hammer you’re so fond of swinging. You’re not fooling anyone, hon.
I was speaking in a general sense but anyway...even though you apparently do not intend to be humorous sometimes you unintentionally are funny.
Quite funny in fact.
Are you trying to fool anyone?
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