Hi Wade,
wade wrote:I don't know if the decisions by the Maxwell Institute are secret or not. All I know is that their decisions are none of my business, and since it isn't my business I haven't made it my business to learn what their decision was or will be, nor do I presume to weigh in on their conjectured decision. I will leave this kind of in-effectual and presumptuous nosiness to the proverbial busy-bodies here.
Well Wade, I don't believe, you believe, a single word of what you just wrote. If Will's "theory" fails to get published or accepted publicly by MI your kayak will sink. Being a supporter of of LDS apologetics, and an assumed tithe payer, there should be some care as to what they do and don't publish, especially in this case when you have stuck your neck out defending Will's theory before peer review. As far as it being secret...it is, for no other reason than it is a loser to publish Will's theory. If they do, they have to defend it, if they don't, then it is another one of the "foot in the mouth" attempts by a member to make sense of LDS doctrine or History that doesn't. Personally I would like to see it published so the "big boys" can expound on his theory, it would be interesting.
What you're seeing with this... is exactly the same thing we saw when "the church" tried to respond to folks like the Tanners in the 60's and 70's. The GA finally figured out silence is the only real defense, otherwise a can of worms gets opened they can't control.
My prediction, for what it is worth (nothing), is that MI won't touch this with a ten foot poll. I couldn't imagine a DCP trying to defend why Joseph Smith was still translating the Book of Abraham years after it was supposedly already translated, the spin on that would have to be in comparison of a army of millions riding tapirs to war...well maybe not, but it would be interesting.
wade wrote:I appreciate you sticking your former-member nose into LDS apologetic business and expressing your concerns.
LOL...isn't/doesn't LDS apologetics feed and exist partly due to"former-member's noses." I'm only doing my FAIR share Wade...pun intended.
The name-calling wasn't in defense. It was, I believe, an apt description of what is--i.e. my way of putting things into perspective.
LoL...You put things into perspective by calling people names? Okay?????
At any rate Wade don't get bent out of shape, it's not worth it. I appreciate your zeal.
Take care
Mark
Don't take life so seriously in that " sooner or later we are just old men in funny clothes" "Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"