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Just curious Smith said the word "Mormon" meant "more good" Wesley P Walters in his Mth said it mean "frightening" based as an adjective for "mormo" means hideus face or mask. or "Mormo (Greek: Μορμώ, Mormō) was a female spirit in Greek folklore, whose name was invoked by mothers and nurses to frigh...

Dan quotes a passage from a book by David Brookes. I regular watch him on Newshour and he comes across as a moderate conservative: "Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you. (61) https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2024/05/how-to-know-a-person.html In ot...

At least there is one Mormon who speaks the truth about Trump, Romney: "You don't pay someone $130,000 not to have sex with you."

The pastor and the prophet: The airwaves have exploded on the internet with a pastor willing to attack the crass commercialism of Trump pushing his Bible with political literature inserted. He needs money, he claims it is his favorite book which he has many. Interview he was asked which was his favo...

We have a crucial decision coming if the US President can be held liable. Some say if approved makes him a King:

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comme ... is_joseph/

Was Smith crowned as king?

Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to have immunity? Imprison Hilary Clinton and anyone else he does not like?

An interesting response by an apologist: iii) In summary, Latter-day Saint scholars freely admit that Joseph Smith’s explanations of the facsimiles don’t match the translations of Egyptologists, but so what? Symbols and icons are fluid and can be recycled and given new meaning; that’s exactly what h...

"Figure 7.... is it the sign of the Holy Ghost unto Abraham in the form of a dove" or "the next figure is Nehebkau who offers the wedjat-eye to the sitting deity before him." See pages 274=275. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VgOxxk8XnSlK-ZfZ-3B__Xz_CazOQ0O7dOj0O6CI9Ko/edit In the sketch it show...

KerryM has uploaded a discussion on the facsimiles on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESx2qtFk2No

And: https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org ... questions/

On Dan's blog he has a paper written by Anne N. Madsen: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2024/04/how-would-i-have-acted.html Makes for interesting reading. She states on page 208 that Hugh Nibley mastered Egyptian. I understand he had some tutoring by Egyptologist Klaus Baer. Robert Ritner ...