Donny Walnuts (3/17/09 2:10pm): Apparently Amanda's Uterus decided to take her out for quite some time... or something.
I'm not sure.
I have not seen her on the interwebz recently or heard about her wanderings. So until further notice I think she may be deceased. I'll keep you updated. I would not be concerned though.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Relgious Rant
Donny Walnuts (6:49pm 3/10/09): Look out Mormons here I come.
I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook and commenting on links that people post. Most of the time it's politically oriented stuff, but today I restrained from writing something evil and nasty in a good friends link in an article about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (LDS). A sympathy plea if you will.
Here's the Article
Long story short apparently the heads that be of the LDS church and other mormons are upset about how they're portrayed in shows like South Park, the HBO series Big Love, etc...
Now... I know a lot of mormons and I'm just curious as to what they are doing watching either of those shows. I know a lot of mormons, and I have yet to find one that watches either show.
That aside, I'm wondering why tehir upset about their portrayal. They're not arguing the accuracy of what people are saying on these shows about mormons, they're arguing the portrayal. No one in the mormon church is saying "hey! we didn't ever have any polygamists in relations with our religion" -- no... they're saying "Hey! we had polygamists in our religion but we don't like how you represent them".
Having watched the show Big Love for a season or two, I don't understand how you can make a poor reference towards mormons unless you already have a predispostion towards polygamy before even watching the show.
If you have ever seen the show Big Love, you will know that it's a show about a Mormon polygamist family and their everyday lives of dealing with it. The father is the only one that works, Mom(s) stay home, kids are taken care of by said mom(s) and life goes on (A common mormon household setting minus the pluralism). The point is, is that they're all a family and some of the kids have different mothers and they all go to the same school. You can see where this would be a dillema... and of course it is on the show. They just HAPPEN to be Mormon. Again... where's the loss of plausibility with this one???
The fact that they're Mormon on this show really doesn't really scratch the surface for me when it comes to the character development. Man, 45 years old, Mormon, father of 15, married to 3 wives, owns 3 homes, owns a succesful business, has everyday troubles with wives, kids, bosses, subordinates, how does said man keep people from finding out about extensive family. You can see how quickly Mormon gets lost in the details, and it does.
The article says that they don't want to boycott these networks and cable providers because it'll bring unnecessary attention to the subject. What are you doing writing this article then???
Don't complain about your portrayal, complain about the historical inaccuracies, if there are any!
it's a show! it's someones concept and view of what life must be like for a polygamist family. Mormon just happens to be a convenient outlet of people who at one time (and for all I know still do in some places) practiced Polygamy.
GET. OVER. IT.
You're bound to their association by your religion.
Suck it up.
I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook and commenting on links that people post. Most of the time it's politically oriented stuff, but today I restrained from writing something evil and nasty in a good friends link in an article about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (LDS). A sympathy plea if you will.
Here's the Article
Long story short apparently the heads that be of the LDS church and other mormons are upset about how they're portrayed in shows like South Park, the HBO series Big Love, etc...
Now... I know a lot of mormons and I'm just curious as to what they are doing watching either of those shows. I know a lot of mormons, and I have yet to find one that watches either show.
That aside, I'm wondering why tehir upset about their portrayal. They're not arguing the accuracy of what people are saying on these shows about mormons, they're arguing the portrayal. No one in the mormon church is saying "hey! we didn't ever have any polygamists in relations with our religion" -- no... they're saying "Hey! we had polygamists in our religion but we don't like how you represent them".
Having watched the show Big Love for a season or two, I don't understand how you can make a poor reference towards mormons unless you already have a predispostion towards polygamy before even watching the show.
If you have ever seen the show Big Love, you will know that it's a show about a Mormon polygamist family and their everyday lives of dealing with it. The father is the only one that works, Mom(s) stay home, kids are taken care of by said mom(s) and life goes on (A common mormon household setting minus the pluralism). The point is, is that they're all a family and some of the kids have different mothers and they all go to the same school. You can see where this would be a dillema... and of course it is on the show. They just HAPPEN to be Mormon. Again... where's the loss of plausibility with this one???
The fact that they're Mormon on this show really doesn't really scratch the surface for me when it comes to the character development. Man, 45 years old, Mormon, father of 15, married to 3 wives, owns 3 homes, owns a succesful business, has everyday troubles with wives, kids, bosses, subordinates, how does said man keep people from finding out about extensive family. You can see how quickly Mormon gets lost in the details, and it does.
The article says that they don't want to boycott these networks and cable providers because it'll bring unnecessary attention to the subject. What are you doing writing this article then???
Don't complain about your portrayal, complain about the historical inaccuracies, if there are any!
it's a show! it's someones concept and view of what life must be like for a polygamist family. Mormon just happens to be a convenient outlet of people who at one time (and for all I know still do in some places) practiced Polygamy.
GET. OVER. IT.
You're bound to their association by your religion.
Suck it up.
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