CaliforniaKid wrote:If/and conditionals are actually one of the single best evidences for the Book of Mormon. I really can't explain why several of them show up in a row in the Book of Mormon O-MS, unless it was serial incompetence on the part of Joseph or his scribe.
If that is about as good as it gets, it should be real cause for concern for those who want it to be ancient.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
There should be a time stamped post floating around on one of these discussion boards(MAD or here), in which I used a "cognate accusative" quite some time ago. In reference to the church's practice of member friendshipping, I used the phrase, " I vomited a strong vomit". Guess I just find the practice of the prostituting of ones friendship for conversion purposes a bit offputting.
Anyway, I also use similar terms at home, such as "I laughed a strong laugh" and many other similar cognative accusatives when I'm playing around with the kids and being light hearted. I wonder if I should hunt down that post of mine I mentioned for DCP. Maybe I've got some Arabic blood in me? Ha ha....
I don't expect to see same-sex marriage in Utah within my lifetime. - Scott Lloyd, Oct 23 2013
I just showed my daughter a couple sentences of the opening post. She laughed when she read "I hit him a great hitting", because she knows that is exactly something I would say. She laughed even more when I told her that some researchers thought they had found some ancient Arabic text because of this peculiar sentence structure. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was the Book of Mormon! Well, that can be a daddy - daughter discussion for another day....
I don't expect to see same-sex marriage in Utah within my lifetime. - Scott Lloyd, Oct 23 2013
I remember the very first "personal message" I got at FAIR. It was from you around November 2006. You wrote that you "laughed a strong laugh" because of something funny I posted.
"And yet another little spot is smoothed out of the echo chamber wall..." Bond