Comments on: I’m Fine, How Are You?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:20:00 +0000

Its me! Bur-ee-toe! I haven’t been on this damn thing for so long I can’t even remember my login. I just wanted to say hi and that I hope you appreciate what a spaz I am sending out that picture of me with a giant bear. I’m seriously in heaven at my new job. I love stuffed animals and I’m not afraid to admit it.

By: Übermilf

Übermilf — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:20:00 +0000

Person doing that in any other state of the union = okay

Person doing that in Utah = lazy pandering.

You should write about Oreo Cakesters.

By: Sofi

Sofi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:13:00 +0000

I was almost missing Utah today. After reading this, I don't.

I think your classmate took the way out. Maybe he resurrected a lesson from Priesthood meeting. Did he have that drippy priesthood holder voice? Does he refer to himself as the patriarch of the family?

That said, I'm off to break the word of wisdom with my good friend, cafe con leche.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:36:00 +0000

I think that it’s definitely appropriate…And it’s really neat to learn more about incredible people in history. It is very fascinating.

By: yournamehere

yournamehere — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:55:00 +0000

I wrote a paper on the guy who played “Fleegle the Beagle” on the old TV show The Banana Splits.

By: The Grunt

The Grunt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:22:00 +0000

Did they mention his mad treasure hunting skills?

By: electric boogaloo

electric boogaloo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:05:00 +0000

I guess it’s “appropriate”. However, having been an uber-religions nutjob myself, if I had done that…it would have been more about proselytizing than a subject that truly fascinated me. I grew out of that by college, but I’m sure I did stuff like that in high school.

By: Loralee Choate

Loralee Choate — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Well, IMO, yes. It is perfectly acceptable from the parameters of the paper you outlined. Joseph Smith is fascinating from a historical point of view (Both for the good or the bad. Either way? He’s interesting.)

I can’t say that I would write about religion for a college essay, but I am just not like that.

I’m trying to figure out what aspect of this really bothered you.
Was it that the paper was poorly executed and basically a cut and paste from a wikipedia article? Or would it have bothered you if it was well written and original but still Pro-Joseph Smith?

When you ask people to write about things they are passionate about it, it will resonate poorly with a good many in the room.

If your assignment was to write about a subject that fascinates you, then I am presuming it was not supposed to be an unbiased paper, therefore, I have no problem that the student did not make is so, though I would have given it more weight if they had attempted to address the more controversial aspects of his life. (Like Sra said.)

Obviously, they were an active Mormon and they believe in Joseph Smith. I know that you don’t agree with it and I’m sure there was a lot of eye rolling, but they still had the right to write it. I don’t agree that cows are sacred, but I wouldn’t expect a Hindu to write anything else in their paper, ya know?

Dude. Longest answer ever. Just me being devil’s advocate. I’m like that.

By: Sra

Sra — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:39:00 +0000

I hope you asked her about his reputation as a gold digger who used a magic stone in a hat to find gold buried in the ground during the Q&A section (if there was one, and I hope there was). Or maybe you could have asked about how he “translated” the Book of Abraham from scrolls containing “reformed Egyptian” that later, thanks to the Rosetta Stone, were shown to be portions of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, which makes no mention of Biblical Abraham. (Love how Mormons try to explain that one away.)

By: Noelle

Noelle — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:22:00 +0000

I once wrote a paper about Mary Baker Eddy because I was the only Christian Scientist in the class. In the school, too. I admit I used a lot of materials from my mom’s library to write it. So easy!