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| E-mail Forward from Sister T. |
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Sep. 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
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Sister T. has been sending me forwards for a while. Most of them I really wouldn’t choose to receive. OK, all of them. Let’s just say they really picked up when a black man started looking like a serious contender in the last political primary season. Today I got one that was a PowerPoint presentation; since it had “Jesus” in the title, I figured (hoped) it wasn’t political, so I looked at it. It was…interesting. I wonder who took the time to put it together and how long it took. Clearly, it was a sincere effort intended to inspire devotion. Like all forwards, it urged the recipient to send it on. But it did it with this slide:
Wouldn’t this be a more effective pitch if it was not accompanied by such a picture so …gory? That is just one thing I would change in this presentation. Truthfully, the next one would be to delete it, but I am certain some people would be touched by it. Do me a favor and examine the picture at the end of the show:
Is it just me or is the angel behind Jesus wearing sunglasses? |
Perhaps the purpose of the PowerPoint presentation is to demonstrate why people should think twice about sending an email about God. You know, an object lesson. Maybe even an object lesson in irony. |
Are you suggesting that gory picture is actually a wink? |
Sure looks like sunglasses. |
Maybe he’s a blind angel? |
Yes, it’s the resurrected Stevie Wonder. |
I generally warn family members and friends of my father that they will be publicly embarrassed if they forward me certain types of emails. (The man who is a temple worker has stopped sending me racist anti-Obama emails, after I threatened to forward them to the temple presidency, but I know he still sends them to my father.) |
Yep. Definitely Stevie. See, he’s all fair and delightsome now. |
Forwards are stupid and guilting me in to forwarding them is even stupider. I don’t care if it’s about Jesus, I’m just not going to continue to let someone harvest email addresses so that more people can win the Joint Microsoft/Yahoo UK lottery. |
Although on most “warning” emails, I have no issues with hitting reply to all and providing the Snopes link. |
the angel kind of looks like the Joker from “The Dark Knight” |
Stevie wonder is dead? |
“Let’s just say they really picked up when a black man started looking like a serious contender in the last political primary season.” In fairness, a whole lot of people were turned off by Al Sharpton. |
Stevie Wonder was twinkled. Actually, I think he was one of the 3 Nephites. No mortal could develop such gifts in a single lifetime. |
DELETE is my standard policy on all forwards. Unless they are the “people of wal-mart” photos. They crack me up, but I still don’t pass them along. As for spiritual/feel-good e-mails, I would rather pick up the phone or pay a visit to touch someone’s life in a meaningful way. Besides, there’s always facebook. |
Ron (#9) said, I did this once last fall on a political email that was full of misinformation and received several scathing (really, really nasty) emails in return. A number of local church members were on that list. Now I think I have been blacklisted by them (a good thing). |
Ooooh. I really, really don’t like that sweet Gethsemane piece. I’ve been looking at Gethsemane artwork to find something that looks anguished but not gory, and definitely not sweet. I’ve come up with a few, but not many. Lots and lots of paintings depict Jesus with children. Brian Kershisnik’s “Nativity” is my favorite Christian painting yet. |
As for Gethsemane pics, Carl Bloch? I’m partial to the William Blake, (I’m partial to everything William Blake, the Blake Room in the Tate is Heaven–I could get that close to the engravings, and no one else was there!) but I suspect it’s more abstract than you want. Does anyone else notice the similarity between the sunglassed angel and “The Dude” from Big Lebowski. It’s him! |
This kind of artwork makes Jesus roll over in his grave. |
He probably resurrected just to stop stuff like this. |
If you can get a priesthood leader to admit they’re wrong, it’s a miracle. In my experience. But in southern Utah, they think their butts are made out of gold. My bishop refused to believe a man in our ward had sexually abused a child for years. He chose to believe the man’s lies and gave him the priesthood and tried to fellowship him into activity. It came back in his face because the man eventually joined a born again Christian church and the man’s brother admitted they’d abused the girl. He has never, not once, admitted that I told the truth, never apologized for his treatment of me over it. I still speak to him, but I don’t respect him. They seem to believe they are infallible and if they’re not, they still think they deserve something akin to worship. |
re: the ‘gory’ picture. I believe it’s a still from the Mel Gibson film, “Passion of the Christ”. |
T-NC–you might be right. I haven’t seen that movie–was out of the country, or something, and my movie list has not ever recovered. |
