I didn't see much of conference, but I did catch Nelson's temple-announcing talk. A couple of conspicuous things:
1- Multiple cuts, like it took him a lot of takes to get the talk on tape.
2- His appearance definitely seemed heavily altered by AI. Anybody else feel this way?
AI Nelson
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He obviously has health issues/limitations, as any 100+ year old person would.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here but I imagine he worked hard for several hours, possibly over several days to stitch together enough segments to make his prerecorded conference talk. Was all that effort just to have another opportunity to announce more temples? To extend his temple count legacy?
Is there a reason he couldn't delegate temple announcements to someone else? Is there a reason temple announcements always come during the last talk of conference and not during whichever session they do sustainings? Maybe having it last serves as bait to keep people watching until the end. Could the announcements be relegated to a quarterly email?
Maybe there's some tradition associated with it. Prophets always announce them in their last talk of conference or something. We've certainly already broken with tradition by not having a member of the FP conduct all sessions. Maybe it is as people say, something that inflates Nelson's ego.
I do find it funny that before reading the list there's often a disclaimer to be reverent while the list is read (cue Elder Kearon folding his arms and squinching his face as he listens) but at the same time, the placement of the announcements and the forum of the announcements seems designed to elicit the very reaction they're telling people to suppress.
I think they just enjoy coming up with opportunities to get onto people.
What a weird culture.
I'm making a lot of assumptions here but I imagine he worked hard for several hours, possibly over several days to stitch together enough segments to make his prerecorded conference talk. Was all that effort just to have another opportunity to announce more temples? To extend his temple count legacy?
Is there a reason he couldn't delegate temple announcements to someone else? Is there a reason temple announcements always come during the last talk of conference and not during whichever session they do sustainings? Maybe having it last serves as bait to keep people watching until the end. Could the announcements be relegated to a quarterly email?
Maybe there's some tradition associated with it. Prophets always announce them in their last talk of conference or something. We've certainly already broken with tradition by not having a member of the FP conduct all sessions. Maybe it is as people say, something that inflates Nelson's ego.
I do find it funny that before reading the list there's often a disclaimer to be reverent while the list is read (cue Elder Kearon folding his arms and squinching his face as he listens) but at the same time, the placement of the announcements and the forum of the announcements seems designed to elicit the very reaction they're telling people to suppress.
I think they just enjoy coming up with opportunities to get onto people.
What a weird culture.
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anais Nin
– Anais Nin