why me wrote:
Donny did a good job.
......of obfuscation.
Of course, his answer was not comprehensive but Joseph did have a problem with silver mine digging and this was the cause of the trial of 1826. What else should be said to a 13 year old girl?
Naturally, it would not occur to you that the truth should be said to a 13-year old girl. You're so focused on being a mindless cheerleader for the Church that you can't even recognize how you're contradicting yourself. The legal proceeding in 1826 against Joseph Smith happened because Joseph Smith claimed that he could use his peep stone to find the silver at issue for Josiah Stowell. Joseph Smith was the cause of Joseph Smith's problem. Donny Osmond left out this central detail of the episode and made it seem as if some third party conducted the "survey" to find silver. You don't get to acknowledge that Joseph Smith was brought into court for being a glass-looker, but then say Donny Osmond did a "good job" by decidedly leaving out the very facts that are troubling to anyone who doesn't like the idea that Joseph Smith made no distinction between his fraudulent methods for claiming to see buried treasure and his method of allegedly translating the golden plates.
Oh, and that Joseph Smith lied to get money, but we're supposed to take his word for it that the Creator of the Universe told him to start a new church. There's that minor inference to be had from the episode, too.
The 'girl' is the fish. I don't believe that she is 13. It is too 'conventional' and follows a standard storyline.
Yeah, people who speak English as their native language are aware that in the phrase "I smell a rat," the rat refers to a duplicitous person. Explaining what the "fish" means does not in any way address your bizarre portmanteau of "I smell a rat" and "Something's fishy."
Thanks for the new board meme, though.