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Well now let's celebrate change. Shall we do some change celebration? All right I'm going

back to the top of the list. Are you guys okay? All right now instead of caffeine

being forbidden, it's being served to be like you. Right? Now instead of general authorities,

now instead of general authorities being proud and confident in their doctrine,

looks like Mormon doctrine are being discontinued. Right? Miracle forgiveness is sort of like

slowly being marginalized and pushed away. Doctors' Association isn't imprint anymore.

Journal of discourses is now sort of forbidden for being used as a resource in church curriculum. Right?

So all these sources of authoritative general authority utterances are now being marginalized

and pushed aside. General authorities now sort of just largely speak general platitudes.

They avoid discussions of doctrine or theology for the most part. Instead of all general authorities

being proud and bold, we have general authorities starting to fray a little bit around the edges.

We all wonder about what Elder Rookdorf really believes and what he doesn't believe. Right?

And we have a former higher level church leaders like Tom Phillips and Hans Mattson starting to be

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