Went down that way in July, had a geode hunt at Wildcat Park in Hamilton. Been about picked over, only found one small one. Thinking about having a jeweler slice it for a pendant.
Didn't get to Warsaw, the town was loaded with people that weekend. Saw cousins I hadn't seen for years and years.
Huckelberry said: I see the order and harmony to be the very image of God which smiles upon us each morning as we awake.
MCB wrote: Only one river of significance in the USA.
You have to go west to find the one river of significance in the USA.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
MCB wrote:Hancock county raised, but got my BA in Adams county. Stuck cl;ose to the river.. Still do.. Only one river of significance in the USA.
What a beautiful derail on the subject of board anonymity. Shucks!! No mods watching!!
Spent many a weekend camping near the mighty one.
What's up with the June Bugs? I was driving East to Hannibal Missouri and got plastered on my windshield. Is there a time of year when they are out more than other times?
The influence of Joseph Smith on the coming Millennial Age will be huge. Why? Because only then will the Restoration be realized in a living and true Zion.
It would be like Darwin's book was ignored. It would be like Marx and Engels wrote a book but nobody cared. The monumental phenomena of Zion is yet to be realized and the value of Joseph Smith's contribution to humanity awaits.
What ho? A stone cut out of the mountain without hands! No Joseph would have meant no eventual stone.
Nightlion wrote:The influence of Joseph Smith on the coming Millennial Age will be huge. Why? Because only then will the Restoration be realized in a living and true Zion.
It would be like Darwin's book was ignored. It would be like Marx and Engels wrote a book but nobody cared. The monumental phenomena of Zion is yet to be realized and the value of Joseph Smith's contribution to humanity awaits.
What ho? A stone cut out of the mountain without hands! No Joseph would have meant no eventual stone.
As usual, Night, I can't agree with what you've said. I think Joseph Smith's teachings will gradually fade into obscurity. I do really admire your commitment to your beliefs, though.
This, or any other post that I have made or will make in the future, is strictly my own opinion and consequently of little or no value.
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true" Twain.
Nightlion wrote:What's up with the June Bugs? I was driving East to Hannibal Missouri and got plastered on my windshield. Is there a time of year when they are out more than other times?
I think it can vary by area. When they're out, they're out.
MCB wrote:Went down that way in July, had a geode hunt at Wildcat Park in Hamilton. Been about picked over, only found one small one. Thinking about having a jeweler slice it for a pendant.
Didn't get to Warsaw, the town was loaded with people that weekend. Saw cousins I hadn't seen for years and years.
We've been wanting to get over there to look for geodes but things have been conspiring against us.
Nightlion wrote:The influence of Joseph Smith on the coming Millennial Age will be huge. Why? Because only then will the Restoration be realized in a living and true Zion.
It would be like Darwin's book was ignored. It would be like Marx and Engels wrote a book but nobody cared. The monumental phenomena of Zion is yet to be realized and the value of Joseph Smith's contribution to humanity awaits.
What ho? A stone cut out of the mountain without hands! No Joseph would have meant no eventual stone.
As usual, Night, I can't agree with what you've said. I think Joseph Smith's teachings will gradually fade into obscurity. I do really admire your commitment to your beliefs, though.
You may be right Quasi if what we see today is all that Mormonism is. Right now, there is a very corporate conservative Mormonism that teaches that business success as an indication of a person's spiritual and leadership value that has gained control of the mainstream. It isn't interested in real spiritual experiences like Paul or Joseph Smith had, but instead has focused on feelings and urban legends as substitutes. It often adopts fundamentalist Christian concepts such as young Earth and other such non-sense instead of critically thinking about and considering the true nature of the universe as we see in science. If this Joseph Smith's legacy, then he deserves to end up as a footnote in history and to be forgotten.
"You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night.... Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful." -- Judge Doom
Quasimodo wrote: As usual, Night, I can't agree with what you've said. I think Joseph Smith's teachings will gradually fade into obscurity. I do really admire your commitment to your beliefs, though.
Joseph's teachings are not really that important. His importance is founded on the church that he created for the restoration and on the Book of Mormon. This is his foundation. The rest can fall into obscurity.
What kind of church did Joseph found? Today, in the 21st century the church stands for a belief system that many churches do not. To live the commandments to the best of one's ability and repent when one strays from them. That god is a personal god and that not only is he our father but also our friend. Pray often, study the scriptures, live faithfully and choose the right with the holy ghost as the guide.
Not bad really. Such is the church that he founded with god's help.
I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world. Joseph Smith We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all…” Joseph Smith
Only one river of significance in the USA.
