Something Farms/MI could actually prove...

[_collegeterrace]

by the way, CT, the funny thing about this story is that my seminary teachers basically would tell it like you are, except they'd testify that it must mean Joseph Smith was Paul Bunyan.

For extra punch, did your seminary teachers cry while presenting this story like mine did?

[_Neo]

Perhaps a new TV show could be made around this.
It could be called "Mormon Gladiators".
Contestants would have to carry the object through the course while 3 Gladiators try to stop them.
No backpacks allowed though (that would be cheating).

Make it realistic. What are the historic details of this course? The ostensible familiarity with this story is great enough that someone should be able to come up with them pretty quickly.

I was just doing as Joseph Smith would have done.
Make it up as I go along.
Don't worry, though, I can go back and change any of it latter if I need to.

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I was just doing as Joseph Smith would have done.
Make it up as I go along.
Don't worry, though, I can go back and change any of it latter if I need to.

Then once again, the OP is invalidated.

[Guest]

by the way, CT, the funny thing about this story is that my seminary teachers basically would tell it like you are, except they'd testify that it must mean Joseph Smith was Paul Bunyan.

For extra punch, did your seminary teachers cry while presenting this story like mine did?

No, I don't remember that. But, they just seemed to be in awe of the great strength of Joseph Smith.

But come on CT, where are the "historic details" of the account of a guy running through the woods with a golden Bible? You know, one stack of plates out of the thousands that filled up the inside of the Hill Cumorah? Shouldn't you be more forthright concerning the serious, *historic details* of this factual account?

[_sunstoned]

Running through the woods trying to fend off determined attackers without a weapon would be quite a feat in and of itself. Add 50 pounds to the equation and it becomes a silly made up story.

[Guest]

No, I don't remember that. But, they just seemed to be in awe of the great strength of Joseph Smith.

Having hefted similar weight on a regular basis, it doesn't seem implausible that a man (or woman) with a nonsedentary lifestyle could muster the same ability.

Running through the woods trying to fend off determined attackers without a weapon would be quite a feat in and of itself. Add 50 pounds to the equation and it becomes a silly made up story.

What are the details that make this so? Where are your references?

[_collegeterrace]

For extra punch, did your seminary teachers cry while presenting this story like mine did?

No, I don't remember that. But, they just seemed to be in awe of the great strength of Joseph Smith.

But come on CT, where are the "historic details" of the account of a guy running through the woods with a golden Bible? You know, one stack of plates out of the thousands that filled up the inside of the Hill Cumorah? Shouldn't you be more forthright concerning the serious, *historic details* of this factual account.

LOL.

Honestly, this seminary teacher earned the nick name of "cry baby" because it seemed he cried every faacking day in every class.

At the beginning of the year when class assignments were published, we would ask each other, "Did you get cry baby?"

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At the beginning of the year when class assignments were published, we would ask each other, "Did you get cry baby?"

Standard change of subject. Where are your references?

[_collegeterrace]

At the beginning of the year when class assignments were published, we would ask each other, "Did you get cry baby?"

Standard change of subject. Where are your references?

Until the ass hat FARMers from MI perform the exercise, I see no way to gather data. Until then I will take the easy road which is poking fun at idiots who believe this story of a man with a limpy bum leg fighting off bad guys and jumping logs --while holding a dense metal object.

[_bcspace]

Standard change of subject. Where are your references?

Until the ass hat FARMers from MI perform the exercise, I see no way to gather data.

No data gathering is required. Simply reference the story you are referring to so we all can read it. The data will be gathered for you, the student, by others.