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. “It’s a complete urban legend.”-Thomas McDonough, Research Biologist at Alaska Department of Fish and Game.For those of you who don’t know, my current calling is that of Sunday School instructor. In their search for food, they have been seen swimming across lakes en masse, and some have been observed drowning, but this far from mass suicide or intentional cliff-jumping. Depending on climate, predators, and food, a lemming population can increase by ten-fold over the winter season. They sometimes make enormous migrations looking for new food sources. As the thaw of spring comes, all of these lemmings can find themselves above ground, and with too many mouths to feed. While winter rages on, these rodents travel and copulate under the snow, expanding their populations. Lemmings live in the tundra, where they build tunnels underground during long periods of snow. The “ocean” they jumped into was even just a river! The Canadian Broadcast Corporation even found that the lemmings were made to run on a snow-covered lazy-susan to make their numbers look larger for the film. What we don’t see-just off frame-are the filmmakers pushing the lemmings off the cliff. “A kind of compulsion seizes each tiny rodent and, carried along by an unreasoning hysteria, each falls into step for a march that will take them to a strange destiny.”-narration from White Wilderness. In the film, they show hundreds of lemmings spilling off a cliff into the ocean to drown. The film stages these lemmings in their march to death. Rumor has it that the Walt Disney company paid a dollar per lemming to Inuit hunters to provide the rodents. The filming of these Norwegian lemmings, for example, was done in Alberta, Canada.
The film’s depiction of lemmings, however, was steeped in deception.
#YOUTUBE LEMMINGS JUMPING OFF CLIFFS SERIES#
Released in 1958, the film was part of a series of movies showing “true to life” depictions of animals in their natural environments. The lemming myth was popularized by none other than the Walt Disney Company in the Academy Award-winning nature documentary, White Wilderness. This idea of lemming behavior has become so prevalent that it’s fallen into popular jargon, where calling someone a lemming means they are unthinking and prone to join mass movements.
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