Comparative Biographies of Warren Aston, Discoverer of Nahom

[_Darth J]

From Meridian Magazine:

Warren Aston is a writer currently based in Brisbane, Australia. He travels extensively pursuing research interests and trying to keep up with his six children and, so far, sixteen grandchildren. His work has been featured in the Ensign, New Era, BYU Studies Quarterly and in CES teachers manuals. Many of his articles have been published by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU . His most recent book is Lehi & Sariah in Arabia: The Old World Setting of the Book of Mormon (due for release this year). Each year he also leads a tour that retraces Lehi’s journey from Jerusalem to Bountiful. He can be reached at astonwarren@hotmail.com.

From the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship:

Warren P. Aston is an independent researcher whose studies at the University of Queensland, Australia focused on Islam, world religions, and archaeology. His ongoing explorations in Yemen and Oman since 1984 have helped lay the foundation for a better understanding of Lehi’s journey across Arabia. He is the author or coauthor of many studies, including In the Footsteps of Lehi (1994) and Lehi and Sariah in Arabia: The Old World Origins of the Book of Mormon (2015)

Book of Mormon Central:

Warren Aston was the archaeologist of Nahom, the purported place where Ishmael was buried.

From Mormon Scholars Testify:

No entry.

From Amazon.com:

Warren Aston is a New Zealand born explorer, researcher and author currently based in Brisbane, Australia. With interests including archaeology, UFOs, world religions, crypto-zoology and photography he travels widely. He has lectured on his findings at universities in the US, UK and Australia.

Warren regularly leads several exclusive tours across the Middle East through his tour company, Bountiful Tours. They include a tour that retraces the journey from Jerusalem to Bountiful (Israel, Jordan, Yemen and Oman) recounted as the primary migration account in the Book of Mormon, and more focused tours to Oman, Saudi Arabia and the island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean.

He is the father of six children.

Warren can be contacted at astonwarren@hotmail.com

[_RockSlider]

Sweeeet, now we can only hope that Everybody Wang Chung has booked a trip!

[_ldsfaqs]

Comparative Biographies of Warren Aston, Discoverer of Nahom

And? Did you have a point?

They all seem like standard statements, perfectly normal, and normal to occur in the real world there be slight differences in writing styles, though mostly saying much of the same information.

Nothing to see here, just normal anti-Mormon ranting about nothing apparently, trying to find any excuse to be critical apparently.
They are quite benign and normal looking.... Nothing different than what you would see with other people across multiple things.

Also, those aren't "Biographies", those are just introduction snippets of information to let people know a bit about a person.
You are so "odd".....

[_DrW]

ldsfaqs,

Perhaps your response to this IQ test type multiple choice question will help us to clear up your confusion as to the point Darth's of OP.

Q. Which one of the following interests listed in the biosketch of Bro. Aston is not like the others:

1. Space Aliens
2. Bigfoot
3. Lehi
4. Yeti
5. None of the above

A___.

[_Ceeboo]

Good morning, W!

ldsfaqs,

Perhaps your response to this IQ test type multiple choice question will help us to clear up your confusion as to the point Darth's of OP.

Q. Which one of the following interests listed in the biosketch of Bro. Aston is not like the others:

1. Space Aliens
2. Bigfoot
3. Lehi
4. Yeti
5. None of the above

A__.

2






Am I right?

[_Lemmie]

ldsfaqs,

Perhaps your response to this IQ test type multiple choice question will help us to clear up your confusion as to the point Darth's of OP.

Q. Which one of the following interests listed in the biosketch of Bro. Aston is not like the others:

1. Space Aliens
2. Bigfoot
3. Lehi
4. Yeti
5. None of the above

A___.

Well-phrased question, DrW!

I must admit, when I was reading about the new dig at Wadi Sayq and looked at Washington's work, I found a lot of surprising fiction, like this one:

And this one, written to 'encourage further discussion [of UFOs] among Mormons':

Confronts the overwhelming evidence that earth is being, and has always been, visited by a variety of extra-terrestrial races, from LDS (Mormon) perspectives.

The author is both LDS and a long-time UFO researcher and lecturer and offers opportunities for the reality of the alien presence on earth to be assessed from a unique vantage point. This collection of papers is intended to encourage greater awareness and further discussion among Mormons.

...The material includes a daytime color image of an alien crew member and the transcrpt of a crew conversation during a flight and landing.

Note: This book is also sold as The Alien Files.https://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Looks-Ali ... 1-4#navbar

He may be on to something. Who's to say Lehi's journey didn't take place in a spaceship!? It would take care of that pesky archeological evidence problem.

Mormon alien stories have apparently come a long way since Joseph Smith's Quakers on the moon.

[_Kishkumen]

For those interested, Aston does have a non-LDs-oriented piece on the ecology and history of his "Bountiful."

See http://www.wmenews.com/newsletters/1366812925wmenews_V6_I4_eng.pdf and search for the name "Aston" in the .pdf.

It is interesting reading.

[_Maksutov]

As the proud owner of A Mormon Looks at Aliens and UFOs, I can confirm that Warren Aston is also the discoverer of what he claims is the first UFO close encounter experience.

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case1032.htm

Udo Wartena was a LDS miner who wrote to Senator John Glenn in 1980 about his 1940 experience.

http://thechurchofufology.blogspot.com/ ... rtena.html

[_Tator]

http://thechurchofufology.blogspot.com/2009/08/udo-wartena.html

"As we got closer to the ship, I noticed that it was round, like two dinner plates, one inverted over the other. It seemed to be made of metal. As I look back and compare, it seemed like stainless steel, though not bright or shiny. The ship appeared to be about 35' thick and well over a hundred feet in diameter."

As I was reading I was expecting to read, "And it was tight, tight as unto a dish."

[_Maksutov]

http://thechurchofufology.blogspot.com/2009/08/udo-wartena.html

"As we got closer to the ship, I noticed that it was round, like two dinner plates, one inverted over the other. It seemed to be made of metal. As I look back and compare, it seemed like stainless steel, though not bright or shiny. The ship appeared to be about 35' thick and well over a hundred feet in diameter."

As I was reading I was expecting to read, "And it was tight, tight as unto a dish."

It had better be, to withstand the vacuum of interstellar space.

Mormons have always had a fondness for the fringe...that's where Joseph got started and spent a lot of his time. Not only is LDS gullibility exploited in marketing investments, nutritional supplements and cleaning products, but also junk pseudoscience of all kinds. And so we will continue to see Mormons espousing Bigfoot, ghosts, aliens, cryptids, vanished continents, crystals, reflexology, naturopathy, visionary and anomalous experiences of any kind that will make you go "oooooooh!"

Mormonism has created a wonderful vehicle for woo marketing. Mormonism was the biggest bundle of 19th century woo up until the time of Madame Blavatsky, Joseph's soul sister.