And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.
there were mormons in shul this shabbos. funny, because i looked over at them in their uncharacteristically small-brimmed and matching black hats and thought "those guys look like mormons," and then they were. kind of odd.
posted by miriam @ 5:46 PM
"Bother!" said Pooh, as he opened it. "All that wet for nothing. What's that bit of paper doing?" He took it out and looked at it. "It's a Missage," he said to himself, "that's what it is. And that letter is a 'P,' and so is that, and so is that, and 'P' means 'Pooh,' so it's a very important Missage to me, and I can't read it. I must find Christopher Robin or Owl or Piglet, one of those Clever Readers who can read things, and they will tell me what this missage means. Only I can't swim. Bother!" Then he had an idea, and I think that for a Bear of Very Little Brain, it was a good idea. He said to himself: "If a bottle can float, then a jar can float, and if a jar floats, I can sit on the top of it, if it's a very big jar." ... "All boats have to have a name," he said, "so I shall call mine The Floating Bear." And with these words he dropped his boat into the water and jumped in after it. For a little while Pooh and The Floating Bear were uncertain as to which of them was meant to be on the top, but after trying one or two different positions, they settled down with The Floating Bear underneath and Pooh triumphantly astride it, paddling vigorously with his feet.
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So, today I was in baltimore at the Jews For Judaism national headquarters (what other people don't hang out in places like this?) and I noticed that in teh library they had an MA thesis written by a student at Brigham Young University about the Mormon mission to the Jews. Did you know that Brigham Young consistently banned proselytization to the Jews because he believed that the tribe of Judah would not convert until after Jesus' second coming? So much so that if a Jew did convert (and about 4 of them did early on) it was enough to convince BY that this person had never actually been truly Jewish, but rather there had been some family mix-up. Crazy, no?
And to this day they dont missionize Jews.
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