"I Hate This Board"

[_gramps]

Unless I'm much mistaken, there was nothing in the exhibit as we designed it and showed it about the Sacred Grove. Perhaps that's been added since Public Affairs assumed responsibility for the exhibit.

The replica of the Gold Plates is probably the same one we used, though. And the writing on it certainly isn't Arabic. If I remember correctly, it was based on the Anthon Transcript.

That is why I asked you for literature. I can't clearly remember everything.

If not Joseph in a grove, then what would it have been? Can you jog my memory?

Boy, I don't think so. Maybe a different replica. In fact, my girlfriend and I had just the night before checked out the Anthon transcript and we both were surprised that it wasn't that at all.

But, really, I could be in total denial here. Who knows, anymore? What was funny was that the missionaries didn't have a clue, either. But, I think I specifically, while looking at the plates, asked them why they hadn't used the Anthon script. It wasn't anything I had seen before, which doesn't mean much really, but...

[_Daniel Peterson]

If not Joseph in a grove, then what would it have been? Can you jog my memory?

It was pretty much just the plates at the end, with the passage from Ezekiel 37.

Boy, I don't think so. Maybe a different replica. In fact, my girlfriend and I had just the night before checked out the Anthon transcript and we both were surprised that it wasn't that at all.

But, really, I could be in total denial here. Who knows, anymore? What was funny was that the missionaries didn't have a clue, either. But, I think I specifically, while looking at the plates, asked them why they hadn't used the Anthon script. It wasn't anything I had seen before, which doesn't mean much really, but...

Well, we didn't produce the replica. We used a pre-existing one. I didn't examine it very closely. I know, though, that it wasn't Arabic. That would have caught my attention.

[_harmony]

It's really ironic that you ask me, in this context, whether I can read.

I agree. What I should have said was: can you write? Phrase A, when connected by a contraction to another Phrase (Phrase B), is usually related to Phrase B. If the two phrases are not related, for clarity and comprehension, it's usual to use a period, not a comma and a conjunction, and not connect the two.

You wouldn't write: Many teachers are women, and the White House is in Washington DC.

[_Daniel Peterson]

It's really ironic that you ask me, in this context, whether I can read.

I agree. What I should have said was: can you write? Phrase A, when connected by a contraction to another Phrase (Phrase B), is usually related to Phrase B. If the two phrases are not related, for clarity and comprehension, it's usual to use a period, not a comma and a conjunction, and not connect the two.

You wouldn't write: Many teachers are women, and the White House is in Washington DC.

You're really straining here, harmony, and it just looks ridiculous.

There was clearly a relationship between the two parts of my sentence, but that relationship doesn't have to be one of identity.

"I see that you're still interested in music, and that your sculpture studio shows signs of recent work" doesn't mean that music=sculpture. The overall link is conceptual. The person still has artistic interests.

You should simply drop this. You misread what I wrote, and that's that. Just let it go, and I promise not to rub it in.

[_gramps]

If not Joseph in a grove, then what would it have been? Can you jog my memory?

It was pretty much just the plates at the end, with the passage from Ezekiel 37.

Boy, I don't think so. Maybe a different replica. In fact, my girlfriend and I had just the night before checked out the Anthon transcript and we both were surprised that it wasn't that at all.

But, really, I could be in total denial here. Who knows, anymore? What was funny was that the missionaries didn't have a clue, either. But, I think I specifically, while looking at the plates, asked them why they hadn't used the Anthon script. It wasn't anything I had seen before, which doesn't mean much really, but...

Well, we didn't produce the replica. We used a pre-existing one. I didn't examine it very closely. I know, though, that it wasn't Arabic. That would have caught my attention.

Maybe it was a picture of Moroni at the hill. That could have been it, rather than the First Vision. I am thinking now that there may have been other pictures of angels visiting prophets or Christ visiting the Americas. that would make sense, actually. Ezekial came before all that.

I am sure you would have known whether it was Arabic or not, assuming it was the same replica, of course. That is why I was glad to corral you here for a bit to figure out my memories of the event.

Still, no figures on success in Germany, or Europe, generally?

[_harmony]

You should simply drop this. You misread what I wrote, and that's that. Just let it go, and I promise not to rub it in.

Of course I misread what you wrote. You need to work on your clarity.

[_Daniel Peterson]

Of course I misread what you wrote. You need to work on your clarity.

One of the corollaries to Murphy's law runs as follows: "It's impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."

[_harmony]

One of the corollaries to Murphy's law runs as follows: "It's impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."

I already like you, so you don't have to be so harsh on yourself.

[_Droopy]

I'm just wondering what the TBMs here find fascinating about Mormon Discussions.com? Why is it that the reverse seems to apply in the case of TBMs? That is, they can leave Mormon Discussions, but they can't leave it alone. What is the attraction?

What TBMs Ray?

[_Some Schmo]

Attempting serious conversation with Some Schmo is pointless. Sort of like trying to dialogue with collegeterrace/PP.

Among this class of MDB poster, you'd have better luck with poor antishock8, say, or TAK or solomarineris.

TRANSLATION: (in typical-DCP-crying tone) I have no answers for Schmo, so I'll pretend he's beneath me.

(...awaiting the inevitable sarcastic nod of agreement, or silence, because that's all he ever has in response to the truth...)

Of course, I could say, "Attempting serious conversation with DCP is pointless" for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is that he's an intellectually dishonest individual, or because he’s rarely serious, or because he doesn’t answer questions directly, or because his over-inflated ego gets in the way… but everyone already knows that (at least, if they'd read anything he ever wrote).