Mormons and Deaf people

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-29 06:35pm

Before I started posting here, I learned that the Mormon church has the highest ratio of deaf ppl to hearing ppl than any other church in America, because the Mormons tend to be more active in recruiting more people from different backgrounds into their church. Mormons put a high mark on social events, which deaf people happen to like. Just thought it was interesting...

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2002-12-29 06:42pm

Funny how they avoid recruiting non whites though.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-29 06:46pm

Actually, I went to a Mormon cookie party last October (some guys on my cross-country team are Mormons and they are learning ASL). Two deaf elders were there AND a BLACK ELDER TOO!! Also a girl (another Mormon) I like is from Columbia (she's adopted)

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-12-29 10:02pm

The Mormons in Australia are now it seems exlcusively going after people of Asian background- those wholesome Mormons are walking up to veitnamese/chinese/koreans on the trains and trying to recruit them- often by speaking their own language rather than English- odd.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-29 10:21pm

Mormons in Asia? I thought Moronism was a religion exclusive to North America.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-12-29 10:27pm

jaeger115 wrote:Mormons in Asia? I thought Moronism was a religion exclusive to North America.

Yes we have goddamn mormons. You guys have been exporting them for quite a fucking while.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-29 10:38pm

Strange. I thought in Moronism doctrine there is a piece dictating Morons to convert people from the Lost Tribes of Israel, which were exclusive to North America. Apparently they think that some of the LTOI emigrated to Southeast Asia.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2002-12-29 11:32pm

jaeger115 wrote:Strange. I thought in Moronism doctrine there is a piece dictating Morons to convert people from the Lost Tribes of Israel, which were exclusive to North America. Apparently they think that some of the LTOI emigrated to Southeast Asia.

As long as they are willing to give their 10% tithing to the church, anyone can be the "lost tribe of Israel".

Post by **Vympel** » 2002-12-29 11:39pm

Every Mormon I have ever seen comes from America. I don't think we have 'indigenous' Mormons, though they sure are trying it seems.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-30 01:20am

my AP US History teacher has a copy of the Book of Mormon on his shelf in the classroom, though he's not one of them. I took it out for a little read and saw only Lamanites in New York, Lamanites in Missouri, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-12-31 12:29am

weemadando wrote:
jaeger115 wrote:Mormons in Asia? I thought Moronism was a religion exclusive to North America.
Yes we have goddamn mormons. You guys have been exporting them for quite a fucking while.

If you feel your needs aren't being met I'm sure we could arrange to export some more.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2002-12-31 12:32am

jaeger115 wrote:my AP US History teacher has a copy of the Book of Mormon on his shelf in the classroom, though he's not one of them. I took it out for a little read and saw only Lamanites in New York, Lamanites in Missouri, yadda, yadda, yadda.

When I was in the Navy one of my roommates at school gave each of us a wrapped "Book of Morman" for Christmas. His mom had sent them for his roommates.

Never read it and I don't have it anymore. Still, that's pretty damn ballsy and kind of rude.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-31 01:03pm

You'd better talk some sense into him

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2002-12-31 01:33pm

Vympel wrote:Every Mormon I have ever seen comes from America. I don't think we have 'indigenous' Mormons, though they sure are trying it seems.

I have meet a couple of 'indigenous' mormons, a friend of a friend of mine. ut then we have this crazy mormon temple in Adelaide, they spent heaps on it. Must be alot of mormons her. But then again this is the city of churches.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-31 01:38pm

How big and ornate are moron temples?

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » 2002-12-31 01:45pm

jaeger115 wrote:How big and ornate are moron temples?

Well in Adelaide there is one. They spent about $1 million (Australian, however this figure is off the top of my head coould be higher, $1 million in adelaide will get you a very nice piece of land and a very good place, the BEST homes for the rich here are not much more than $1 mill) It is fairly ornate, caused quite a stir here and they had an open day when they finished building it. I think it may have been the largest mormon temple in Aus or even the Southern hemisphere, or possibly even outside the US, but I am not certain of it, it was the largest of something (but could be just in this state and that is not really much) From what I have seen of the outside it is more ornate than your average Aussie church but less than the cathedrals. But it looks very extravagent. And IMO hideously out of place.

jaeger115 · Post by **jaeger115** » 2002-12-31 02:01pm

And IMO hideously out of place.

Doesn't surprise me. I was at one HUGE house owned by a mormon family. Despite the house's size, the living room couldn't hold more than ten people when packed in like sardines. I have a very low opinion of mormon aesthetics.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2002-12-31 02:07pm

Wicked Pilot wrote:Funny how they avoid recruiting non whites though.

Where did you get this bullshit?

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2002-12-31 02:10pm

jaeger115 wrote:How big and ornate are moron temples?

They vary in size. Some (Salt Lake, Los Angeles, D.C.) are quite large with multiple levels. Others are not much larger than a standard church.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-12-31 02:15pm

Darth Servo wrote:
Wicked Pilot wrote:Funny how they avoid recruiting non whites though.
Where did you get this bullshit?

I believe a while back, the government was cracking down on racist organizations claiming tax-exempt status, and the Mormons had racist practices then.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2002-12-31 02:20pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:
Darth Servo wrote:
Wicked Pilot wrote:Funny how they avoid recruiting non whites though.
Where did you get this bullshit?
I believe a while back, the government was cracking down on racist organizations claiming tax-exempt status, and the Mormons had racist practices then.

And you think that said "racist practice" meant "exclusion of all non-whites" even though their missionaries were being sent to the American Indians from day 1

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2003-01-03 03:27am

Vympel wrote:The Mormons in Australia are now it seems exlcusively going after people of Asian background- those wholesome Mormons are walking up to veitnamese/chinese/koreans on the trains and trying to recruit them- often by speaking their own language rather than English- odd.

Not so odd actually. The Mormons aren't restricted to North America by any means in their evangelistic efforts. As well, when Mormons do go overseas, such as to different Asian countries, they study the local language rigourously. I believe they take some early preparatory classes in Utah before shipping out. Once in the host country the new missionaries study the language as part of their training. Usually a new arrival is paired up with an older and presumably more fluent native speaker.

XPViking