Comments on: Questions from the Grass Roots, 1948

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:10:32 +0000

Bruce: We need to find Cain/Bigfoot!

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:24:24 +0000

Steve, Cain is Bigfoot! And I have it on good authority – a late, third-hand account – that he lives in Tennessee too!

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:00:38 +0000

I was hired to write a history of a family in Mesquite and Bunkerville. I recall at least one incidence when someone took the olive oil internally. I’ll get to my office in the morning and post the account. I know those who are writing articles and books on healing will have a lot of olive oil taken internally stories.

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:33:00 +0000

That same Bishop’s wive had their children in a wading pool in their living room. It’s not my cup of (herbal) tea, but to each their own. I just have a problem when people say this or that method is doctrinal and this or that method is against the Church based solely on hearsay or rumor or old traditions.

Ardis, you’re teasing us! Cain and Atlantis questions. I cannot wait! Can you give is a hint? Do the Brethren connect Cain with Bigfoot? Inquiring minds want to know.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:39:23 +0000

Wait’ll you read the one asking what the Church has to say about the sunken continent of Atlantis, David.

Is this why the General Authorities keep telling us to talk to our bishops rather than write to Salt Lake? They don’t want to deal with these anymore?

By: David Y.

David Y. — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:29:29 +0000

This post and the comments have been a load of fun. Thanks. I can’t wait for the next in the series.

So, should I feel badly that I laughed aloud at the poor questioner from Preston, Idaho who asked so innocently if the editor could please indicate where the city of Zarahemla was located? I mean, c’mon! Seriously? Well, anyway, it was cute, I thought.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:23:39 +0000

What I like best about the answer to that question, Mark and Researcher, is that it doesn’t just say “no,” it says “no, of course not.” I think I detect an incredulous tone of voice and a “whatever gave you THAT idea?” look on the face of the answerer, whoever he or she might have been.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:16:15 +0000

Burials facing east is a tradition to make it easier for the resurected to see the Savior on Resurrection Morning, and is a fairly longstanding Christian custom (buried so that if you sat up in the coffin, you’d face east.)

The corrolaries are (1) The common etiquette of never walk on the east side of the gravestone, which would be stepping on the dead body and (2) the vast majority of temples face east. On a few, the Angel Moroni faces east even though the main entrance is on some other side of the building.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:08:38 +0000

Wow. I’ve heard the anti-labor medication argument as something in the far-distant past, but never as something that has come up any time recently. That’s simply amazing. There’s nothing like resurrecting incorrect and archaic old notions to justify the oppression of women. (Do these people believe in ultrasounds? vaccines? aspirin? cough drops? toothpaste?)

But now that I think about it, I can imagine someone merging the movement for natural childbirth with that old notion. I wonder if the bishop’s wife is a natural child birth advocate and is getting her medical preferences mixed up with incorrect notions of scripture.

(And perhaps I should disclose here that I had an epidural in two of my five deliveries. I sometimes joke that if I had had an epidural for my first delivery, I might have had more than one child.)

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:01:21 +0000

Some days I’m pretty non-productive. Does that mean I’m exempt?

I’m trying hard to figure out burials “facing east.” Most bodies I’ve seen prepared for burial would be facing up. (I’m not going to make any macabre jokes about someone turning the head in that direction just before burial.)

By that one lady’s reasoning, I suppose that anti-perspirants are taboo too, eh? To say nothing of working in an air-conditioned office! Or during the winter! (Hey, I could live with that!)