After criticizing the lack of content in Mormon meetings, let’s have a look at the things you can learn while wandering around Outer Blogness! Several people have posted about how their own ideas have changed. Probably the biggest change of this week was when the InMOMniac made a very personal…
Category: Sunday in Outer Blogness
Sunday in Outer Blogness: New Year Edition!
The turn of the decade has inspired quite a lot of introspection, retrospection, and prospection throughout Outer Blogness!! Plus, many of us went home for the holidays — and lived to post the tale! Let’s start with how we all fared visiting the folks: How about a family discussion of…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: A Day Late and a Dollar Short Edition!
Well it’s a day late anyway, and it’s short in the sense that my pattern-seeking brain had a little trouble finding a theme to the posts of Outer Blogness this week. I finally found a couple of little themes. The first was people sharing their favorite holiday music. The Urban…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Reason for the Season Edition!
I know it’s only December sixth, but it seems the “War on Christmas” starts earlier and earlier every year! As usual, the Christmas-warriors are trying to ruin everyone’s jolly holiday with their death-worshiping kitsch. Then there’s one of my personal favorite holiday traditions: lamenting how commercial Christmas has become. Rosalynde…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Spirit of Contention Edition!
After last week‘s quiet contemplation of thy neighbor, this week Outer Blogness has been itchin’ to pick a fight! The Gay Dot says it all, in Wanna fight?! And if that’s not enough to get tempers flaring, it looks like Klaus Baer called Hugh Nibley a “crackpot”! Here’s a little…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: It’s All in Your Head Edition!
It seems that Outer Blogness this week has spent quite a lot of time contemplating religious people to figure out what makes them tick! USU Shaft analyzes the latest stats on both happiness and depresssion in bipolar disorder, thy name is Utah. Bull has been reading Krakauer (like many of…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Personal Narratives Edition!
It all started when I read this story from the bizarre-yet-eerily-familiar parallel universe of growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness. Then HH had a nostalgic-weird-coincidence moment. Is it something in the air? Or is it “Talk Thursday” that has folks reminiscing about life-altering memories? And about finding your personal history’s…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Another Day in the Culture Wars Edition!
Via Gen. J. C. Christian comes the plight of the right-wing parent: “I cant even sit my kids in front of ‘Sesame Street’ without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority.” While Sesame Street makes a joke about “Pox News,” Jon Stewart does a full parody…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Religious Diversity Edition!
Religions are so different, yet so full of parallels! Andrew has found his mirror image in the world of Scientology! And speaking of another defector from Scientology, Jim Downey observes: he was willing to go along with their bullshit requirements and commands, including watching his own family suffer from “disconnection,”…
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Media Edition!
This week we’ve seen a bit of the overlap between Outer Blogness and the rest of the media! First off, it turns out that Emily Pearson was involved in the production of 8: The Mormon Proposition (and she recommends this article about it). Also in the media spotlight (or rather…