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[consolidating this with the post below]

OK, friends. It's late and while there are more intelligent comments I'd like to engage from PhysicsGuy and Sock on the historical methodology thread, I should probably go ahead and lock myself out from the board for a while.

Happy dialoguing!

Don

msnobody wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 15, 2022 1:45 am

Go sleep, get caught up, and come back

Zzzzz. =)

drumdude wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 15, 2022 2:01 am

So glad to have had you around, really great posts in your short time back that I've enjoyed reading. You've been nothing but cordial and gracious and I'm happy to see you've received the same back in return. Hope to see you posting again here soon!

Aw thanks, Drum Dude!

Don

Anyway, what is your take on incorporating into the "historical method" a science of probability? DS, Great question. I'm glad this is an area you're exploring. All of us can use more systematic tools for thinking in our toolkits. In the modern world, we all need such tools. In politics, for instan...

MG,

I am sensing a sudden great reduction in the Mormon-ness of this board, like when Obi-wan Kenobi heard millions of voices suddenly cry out and go silent.

Have a happy break!

Don

Really--how does your model that Smith compared the Kinderhook plates to Nephite script and found they were the same characters and translated from them by revelation predict or account for him identifying them as Jaredite ? Under your model, that's anomalous. Stage One: The twenty-four gold plates...

This thread is the only time I’ve publicly discussed the Kinderhook plates at length and depth so all this is rather groundbreaking for me. I think it has been a wonderful thread so far and the back and forth has been quite pleasant. NOW, Don is going to take a little break and work on other things...

Hey Friends, You'll notice that I tend to post here in spurts. I'll be not on the board for a long time, then I'll post heavily for a number of days, staying up super late to post and so on. Then the lost sleep and reduced goal achievement start weighing on me and I realize I need to leave for a goo...

just taking a quick and dirty look at the probabilities, you have a point here, Shulem. if a model relies specifically on eyewitness statement, it's hard to then justify that another part of the same statement (plural not singular) can't be relied upon to mean what it says. on the other hand, if th...