![]() ![]() They couldn’t capture it in nature, so they concocted it. Disney didn’t create the myth, but they sure legitimized and perpetuated it. ( link) It looks like Disney was trying to capture an existing idiom on film. A great article shows that the idiom was in use as far back as 1930. ![]() ( link)īecause of the film, many credit the birth of the idiom to Disney, but this would be incorrect. ![]() Apparently that footage of the lemmings was fabricated for the Disney movie ‘White Wilderness.” Yes, they forced those little rodents off the cliff to make a movie. News to me! Many would believe that the very film that my kids found in class was responsible for the myth. It turns out that they don’t actually commit mass suicide by running to their deaths. It turns out that there is a bit of controversy surrounding lemmings, and that their tendency to run off of cliffs is actually a myth. I decided to find out more about the idiom. It is well-entrenched in English and other languages. So, I made my best attempt to teach my class that it is best not to live like a lemming. It is especially worthwhile to understand lemming-ness in today’s world, full of loud voices and hype. The idea of “lemmings” has always been in my vernacular. I was even surprised that no one knew the cool computer game “Lemmings.” The second? A metaphor for people following blindly and rushing to destruction, like this: When I got home, I googled it, just to reassure myself that I’m not nuts. I was shocked that an idiom that is so common to me was not familiar to this next crop coming up. On the drive home, I turned to my teenage son and asked him, “Do you know what a lemming is?” I immediately remembered that very video from a Disney Nature film when I was young.Īfter class, I grabbed a handful of kids from a different class and asked them if they knew what a lemming was. It wasn’t a high-point as far as reverence is concerned, but they were suddenly very interested. Out of 11 very smart, capable teenagers, NONE of them knew what a lemming is.Ībout 15 seconds later, someone had already found a YouTube video of lemmings jumping off a cliff into the sea. So I asked the class, “Who knows what a lemming is?” “You know, lemmings marching into the sea, etc.” I saw no hint of recognition in 11 pairs of eyes. “We don’t wan’t to go through life being lemmings.” As a final thought I tossed out the following idea: (Type “acted upon” into the search at LDS.org, and you will find all sorts of stuff – or just click here.)īack to the story. The idea that we are supposed to act for ourselves, and not be acted upon, is a pretty important concept. And because that they are redeemed from the fall they have become free forever, knowing good from evil to act for themselves and not to be acted upon, save it be by the punishment of the law at the great and last day, according to the commandments which God hath given.” ( 2 Nephi 2:26) “And the Messiah cometh in the fulness of time, that he may redeem the children of men from the fall. Then we were discussed the idea of acting vs. We can foolishly, blindly give it away, but it cannot be forcibly taken from us.” ( Boyd. Some doctrine first, ten the story: This past Sunday we were cracking open the concept of agency, and the truth that “Agency is precious. I have the privilege of meeting with some great high school-aged young men and young women every week. For those of you who don’t know, my current calling is that of Sunday School instructor. ![]()
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