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Re: What Mormon research project is for you?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:36 pm
by _Doctor Steuss
kjones wrote: But do you see Catholics doing this?

You apparently have been fortunate enough to avoid encounters with Why Me on this board.

He is able to blame just about everything on his former faith, and rarely passes up an opportunity to attack it. So much so, that I even made a meme once when he managed to weasel in an attack on Catholicism on a topic that had absolutely nothing to do with it.

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Re: What Mormon research project is for you?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 9:22 pm
by _sock puppet
Fence Sitter wrote:I would be interested in doing a timeline for the Book of Abraham, something I have played around with a bit. It would try to establish as closely as possible such things as when each Egyptian document was written, when each one was excavated, dates for the collection moving to Italy, arrival in New York (or Philadelphia?), when Chandler was given possession, each location and date where he exhibited the collection, the date he arrived in Kirtland, a timeline from when it arrived to when it was purchased, dates for when which parts of the GAEL and KEP were produced, dates for who worked as a scribe on those manuscripts, dates for when individual sections of the Book of Abraham were actually translated, dates for the production of the carvings of the facsimiles, first printings of the Book of Abraham, and dates for different editions of the Book of Abraham.

A lot of this information is out there but it would be very interesting to see it all in one timeline. Especially interesting would be the period from the end of June 1835 to the end of 1835. Many of the claims of how Joseph Smith translated and what he was doing would be clearer if we had a firm timeline for that period.

That would be a great one. I think that Kevin Graham, Paul Osborne (http://web.archive.org/web/200802251058 ... ology.net/), and Kevin Mathie (http://www.bookofabraham.com/boamathie/) would be some great resources from which you could begin, so you would not be redoing leg work they've already done--you could fill in gaps, etc. to accomplish your finished product timeline.

Re: What Mormon research project is for you?

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:56 pm
by _ludwigm
I would make some statistic:

How many members outside of US (or Utah) know DCP, Jenkins, Hamblin, Mitt Romney, Kate Kelly, ( khm khm Bryce Harper, Glenn Beck) and such people.

2/3 of the membership are outside of US.
That means, 2/3 of the membership SHOULD know who that people are.

Three weeks ago, a sunday, I asked some leaders (in the foyer) about that people.

None. Zero. Nil.
I would make some statistic: Is this church international? Or copyrighted of United States?

Re: What Mormon research project is for you?

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 3:37 am
by _hagoth7
ludwigm wrote:I would make some statistic:

How many members outside of US (or Utah) know DCP, Jenkins, Hamblin, Mitt Romney, Kate Kelly, ( khm khm Bryce Harper, Glenn Beck) and such people....?

Why would people outside the US need to know any of them?

Re: What Mormon research project is for you?

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:23 am
by _ludwigm
hagoth7 wrote:
ludwigm wrote:I would make some statistic:

How many members outside of US (or Utah) know DCP, Jenkins, Hamblin, Mitt Romney, Kate Kelly, ( khm khm Bryce Harper, Glenn Beck) and such people....?

Why would people outside the US need to know any of them?

You are true. There are only ten million members outside of US. (according the statistic, minus 80%)

Why should they know anything outside of scriptures...