You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
Storytelling is what lights my fire.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.
Reading the Book of Mormon is one of the greatest persuaders to get men on missions.
Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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