Off Topic Comments from Book of Mormon Authorship Thread

[_harmony]

Precisely.

Consider Dorothy Sayers, Charles Williams, and C. S. Lewis. Which of them is the most likely author of The Hobbit?

Your slip is showing.

[_Danna]

Danna,

If that was shaving gel, you get a mega thumbs up from me!

No, that was soggy toilet paper.

[_Jersey Girl]

Danna,

If that was shaving gel, you get a mega thumbs up from me!

No, that was soggy toilet paper.

When you mix toilet paper with water and soap, it's called "clean mud".

Just sayin'.



[/brief derail of my own thread]

[_Daniel Peterson]

Precisely.

Consider Dorothy Sayers, Charles Williams, and C. S. Lewis. Which of them is the most likely author of The Hobbit?

Your slip is showing.

Wow. That was sure a major essay!

[_Daniel Peterson]

I sense, incidentally, that, for several on this thread, the question of Book of Mormon authorship has now been definitively resolved, the only remaining issue being how the irrationalist Latter-day Saints will adjust to the new Reality.

That is an interesting observation, Daniel. Perhaps it has some basis
in fact.

Jersey Girl strenuously disagrees with you and me on that perception.

I plead "guilty" in adding to your
"sense" that some here believe that the essential issue at hand
is how the LDS will adjust themselves to these new findings.

I don't believe that you have Jersey Girl's permission to make that plea.

"Several" is an indefinite measure, and may or may not be
sufficient to project a consensus opinion from.

And, of course, I said nothing whatever about a "consensus opinion," here or anywhere else.

I wonder how the LDS scholars will react to a professional paper
reporting the (relative) probabilities for a Rigdonite authorship of
the Lectures on Faith assessed at 85% and a Smithite origin at
15% -- for all the lectures, save one, where those numbers are
reversed -- and the "controls" all weigh in at under 5%?

I'll be serenely happy (I've never much cared for the Lectures on Faith), and I would imagine that Professor Noel Reynolds, my BYU and Maxwell Institute colleague and friend, will be reasonably pleased:

http://farms.BYU.edu/publications/books ... chapid=274

[_Uncle Dale]

...
I'll be serenely happy (I've never much cared for the Lectures on Faith), and I would imagine that Professor Noel Reynolds, my BYU and Maxwell Institute colleague and friend, will be reasonably pleased:
...

Pardon my stupefaction -- we now and then agree on
some things, and it always takes me by surprise.

As does a stopped clock, when twice a day it agrees
with the other clocks in my house.

Take care, Daniel.

UD

[_harmony]

Wow. That was sure a major essay!

It was an attempt, however obliquely, to get you back on the subject of the thread.

Jersey, do you want me to move all these off-topic comments, mine included?

[_Daniel Peterson]

It was an attempt, however obliquely, to get you back on the subject of the thread.

Jersey, do you want me to move all these off-topic comments, mine included?

Will you also be removing Danna's misleading suggestion that I have commented on the Criddle paper and the Spalding/Rigdon authorship theory in the same fashion as LOAP and Jeff Lindsay have?

Or is there some rule here that I'm obliged to let such insinuations pass without correction?

Please advise.

[_harmony]

Jersey, do you want me to move all these off-topic comments, mine included?

Will you also be removing Danna's misleading suggestion that I have commented on the Criddle paper and the Spalding/Rigdon authorship theory in the same fashion as LOAP and Jeff Lindsay have?

Or is there some rule here that I'm obliged to let such insinuations pass without correction?

Please advise.

I'll move whatever needs moved. You'll find it in another thread in the forum.

This one is being moderated very closely to keep it on track with the subject.

[_Jersey Girl]

harmony,

I just now got finished reading to the end of the thread. I want to look at it again. I won't be back here for a couple of hours but yes, I would like to see a split happen. I'll make the request publicly here on the thread and try to identify what posts should be split off.

You read my mind.

Edit for Daniel: I will show her in a post here what posts I want split off. In fine, it will be her decision as moderator (or the decision of another moderator) which to actually transfer to another thread. For example, my exchanges with Danna about his son's art should probably be split off.