“The Thinker” by Auguste Rodin, at the Musée Rodin in Paris
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my blog. Huzzah! In honor of that insignificant feat, I have decided that today I am taking a few days off. I am not going to write any inspirational, insightful, hysterical, or clever posts. I’m not going to write one of my regular posts, either.
Today I am going to let you decide what I write about. Yes, it is time for…
MMM Q&A!
Merry early Christmas! You must be living right!
Here are the rules:
1) You can’t ask anything about me that will jeopardize my anonymity. If you do, I will mock you. Publicly.
2) You can ask about any topic, family, church, doctrine, society, favorites, silliness, etc.
3) Multiple submissions welcome.
4) Remember, my advice is worth exactly what you pay for it.
5) Also, remember that I am not your church leader. If you need to talk to a church leader, he is not me – but please hurry.
6) If this works out, I’ll make it a regular feature.
7) Just leave your question in the comments. If there is nothing you want to ask me, or don’t care what I think, or think I’m an idiot, you don’t really need to share that with me.
8) If you want to submit your question privately, use my email: middleagedmormonman@gmail.com. Let me know if you want me to keep your name out of the answer, and I will.
9) I may – or may not – choose to answer your question. If it disappears from the comments, odds are that I’m going to write about it.
10) BONUS: You can ask my EC questions, too. (Sorry honey – probably should have cleared this with you first)
Just to make sure nobody tries any high-tech shenanigans, I already checked with Siri on my iPhone – and I am confident that she won’t be a problem for me.
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How do you have so much time? You post constantly. Are you unemployed, or retired? I can barely find time to post once a week, and that’s only if I can think of a topic.
I personally feel that the NFL and ESPN are controlled by Satan. And now that I have repented, feel they belong in the same class as Glee. How do I help other members of my household to break their habit?
How long before you change your name to SMM? (Senior Mormon Man – get your mind out of the gutter!)
I would love your thoughts on what to do with a 15 year old boy who has decided that the gospel isn’t true. He goes to church and seminary, but plans on dropping it all when he is older. I did like your blog on turning on the switch, but right now he doesn’t have any desire to turn on the switch.
Congrats on the one year mark! Please keep up the clever, inspirational and hilarious posts. I especially love the humor about our Mormon culture. I’ve never thought you were mocking the religion.
I liked your post about music from back in the day. I had many of the same albums. Just wondering what is on your iTunes playlist now?
I also want to know your opinion about teens and iPhones/Internet access.
Also does your EC think you are really funny all the time or does she occasionally roll her eyes at your humor? It used to bother me that my mom wouldn’t laugh at my dad when my sibs and I thought he was hilarious. But now I sometimes feel like I have to take the serious role when my EC is being funny.
Does your EC blog?
Congratulations on your anniversary! My question is: Do you worry (not in a bishop way, but in a fellow ward member way) about others in the ward when you notice their behavior seems to have gone from “everyday mormon” to “Sunday mormon”? I’m never quite sure how to feel when this seems to be happening. Brother’s keeper or mind your own business? Where’s the line?
Congratulations on the auspicious anniversary! It’s been an honor to be along for the ride. Keep up the great work.
if they both wear bags on their heads can I set up my sister with your oldest boy? Just Kidding- kinda- Has any one ever guessed who you were? Did you acknowledge that supposed person or do you know only talk about football and never use the words buffalo wings in front of them, do you feel like a super hero? If i had an awesome anonymous blog I would feel like a super hero
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I’m on the brink of parenting teenagers, so I have a bunch of parenting questions….
At what age do/did you allow your FOYLs to have a Facebook account?
Do you allow them to have their owns ipods, cell phones, etc. With or without internet access? If so, do you have any rules and/or filtering devices to keep them from viewing things that are inappropriate? (intentionally or otherwise)
How do you teach the FOYLs to use the internet responsibly?
(Anon/M) What’s with the paranoia about keeping your name and appearance secret when Passionate Moderate Mormon is pretty much open about his and seems to have no problems resulting from the transparency. Other, of course, than his followers know that he looks like a regular guy, not a dead ringer for George Clooney (but has a youthful-looking, very attractive wife) and, in your case, WE DON’T KNOW. Of course, you could be our Home Teacher or Bishop. So what? We don’t mind if our Church leaders have a great sense of humor.
*Would everyone please just leave sweet, little Siri alone?! It is her dad who has superpowers, not she! (Gotcha there with the proper grammar, huh? I KNEW it! LOL)
I’m still weeding through questions and possibilities for this post. I’ll get back to you.
OK, got another one. What would you do if you ran into one of your followers…you know, once that comments often and you know what they look like. Would you say something to them, or completely forego talking to them to keep your anonymity?
Congratulations on your one year anniversary. I’m not gonna lie. I am a little envious that you have so many followers so fast. I have been blogging for several years and don’t have near the readership you do. What is the trick?
Whose responsibility is it to stop people from teaching false doctrine in classes?
If the person who should have said something doesn’t, then do you just let it go?
Not saying I’m a guru of church doctrine but some things are just incorrect.
My EC is the bishop. So my question is two-fold. What can we do as his family and I do as his spouse to support him? (Yes, I have asked him.) And 2. what can we generally do to support our Priesthood leadership….i.e. one comment my husband continually makes is “you are not tested on whether or not you will support the bishop when you agree with him….you are tested when you disagree with him.”
Have you made a deal with yourself for the time you will change your name from MMM to not as MMM as I used to be? 🙂
Do you ever feel like you’ve “gone to far” when you are writing about religious things and trying to be funny?
Mormons and Beards…
(I’ll be thinking of more)
So…Tell us how you REALLY feel about Glee.