LDS Apostle (also a seer) Prophesies the Internet in 1981

Gordon B. Hinckley prophesied the Internet in 1981. We are now living witnesses of his words coming about, God enabling the advance of technology so that people globally can tune in and hear the words of a living prophet, such as I did this last General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, found at this URL:

http://www.lds.org/conference/languages/0,6353,310-1,00.html

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[8gazebo]

@freestanding1000 He writes his own speeches and gives them precisely in the manner in which he was inspired as he wrote them! Prepared preaching is much more educational and interesting than unprepared, often repetitive babbling!

[freestanding1000]

I didn't hear the word Internet here! If he is prophesying he should at least be a bit more specific. As I said in an earlier post these guys do a lot of prepared preaching. There are teleprompters in front of him. This guy is the "Prophet". Why would he need a teleprompter?

[llewellleo]

Inspired and its happening as he said.

[Ahashdah]

Hinckley said that they could probably not build a MEGANACLE (a large megalithic behemoth) to "hold all the people in one place". Why the hell did they go and try to do that, anyway?

Snafu's and Boondoggles are the "by-words" of the Hinckley-Dinkley nonsense, altogether.

[Ahashdah]

@BauraKale ....Pay Lay Ale! ditto, ditto

[Ahashdah]

At about 0:47, Hinckley says that "communication is the sinew that binds the church [together]..."

Yes. Like with the now-defunct Communism of the former USSR, "communication" came "from the top" and went "down" to the people, as in any non-libertarian form of government.

Hail to glorious bag-of-dirt Hinckley

Hail to Stalin, of Mother Russia

Hail to Adolphus, surnamed Hitler

[tverner]

Thank goodness for Al Gore! You go Al!`

[BauraKale]

Speaking of internet porn, Utah leads the nation in per-capita paid subscriptions to internet porn sites. Is this what President Hinckley had in mind? Was the ability to "converse one with another, according to the needs and circumstances of the time" a prediction of people doing naughty things on webcams?

[BauraKale]

Sorry, I missed any mention of the internet. Not even any mention of computers or computer networks. Everything he "prophesied" (although I heard no claim of prophesying) was already available with television, radio, satellite communication, and telephones. The main impact of the internet has been infinitely greater in making porn available than in getting the message of Mormonism out.

[54v115]

@madmonk - I would suggest his Executive Directorships and their networking at Executive Board level placed him in a position of insider knowledge concerning many of the Nations Corporations. How do you think these guys all get super rich while they're working for free in the LDS church most of their lives?