Daniel Peterson wrote:Are you insinuating something sinister or conspiratorial here?
I hope so. I absolutely love the recurrent conspiracy-theorist aspect of this board.
No, nothing sinister or conspiratorial. I'm just wondering why the Meridian-ites and MA&D-ites are having a Morgasm over something that's twenty years old anyway.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
To insinuate that more is less is rather Luddite. I wonder if he owns any books at all.
Shades: If Jesse was "never going to finish," then what are we to make of his finished work that's been in print for the last 20 years, or Faulring's finished work that's also been in print for the last 20 years?
Well, I guess we are to conclude, based upon your question, that they are pieces of garbage and that the new work is also a piece of garbage.
Daniel Peterson wrote:Are you insinuating something sinister or conspiratorial here?
I hope so. I absolutely love the recurrent conspiracy-theorist aspect of this board.
No, nothing sinister or conspiratorial. I'm just wondering why the Meridian-ites and MA&D-ites are having a Morgasm over something that's twenty years old anyway.
I agree. It seems that this is just a reprint of the stuff that Faulring and Jesse already published--and as best as I can tell--new contextualizing foot notes. I was just looking to see if there was any new material, not previously published, in this volume.
I will review it myself, I just haven't ponied up the cash yet. If the volume is full of stuff I already have, I might spend my dollars somewhere else.
Daniel Peterson wrote:This is the first installment of the most important publishing project related to Mormon history to have occurred in our lifetimes.
It does seem fairly significant. So I would assume you would encourage anyone interested in LDS History to acquire it.
One moment in annihilation's waste, one moment, of the well of life to taste- The stars are setting and the caravan starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste! -Omar Khayaam
karl61 wrote:how long until they release comments and writings/journals about polygamy. 1842 and on should be very good reading.
Surely that would be mentioned in the very first journal... the Fanny affair was in 1831, only a year prior to the first journal. It will be good to get Joseph's perspective on the principal, instead just having all those love letters sent to women-not-his-wife (who actually kept them) and all the journal entries from those women and others.
Anticipation is a wonderful thing. Now if I actually had a book budget...
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Daniel Peterson wrote:This is the first installment of the most important publishing project related to Mormon history to have occurred in our lifetimes.
I'm wondering if it contains the lost revelation about the Melch priesthood. No, of course not. The-revelation-that-was-so-unimportant-it-was-never-recorded took place prior to 1832.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
karl61 wrote:how long until they release comments and writings/journals about polygamy. 1842 and on should be very good reading.
Surely that would be mentioned in the very first journal... the Fanny affair was in 1831, only a year prior to the first journal. It will be good to get Joseph's perspective on the principal, instead just having all those love letters sent to women-not-his-wife (who actually kept them) and all the journal entries from those women and others.
Anticipation is a wonderful thing. Now if I actually had a book budget...
It should be noted that Joseph's journals were dictated by him to his secretaries, generally. They are not the kind that are full of intimate, personal details.