What does Zion mean to you?

[_Quasimodo]

I don't know how Nightlion (or you) might feel about two hundred million year old fossils on Apocolrock.

I feel awesome about it. I used to go fossil hunting as a little tyke with my father. I loved it!

I heard (though I don't know) that the broken-up rocks on the peak(s) of Mt. Olympus were due to lightning. I hope someone can back this up or debunk it. I am no earth scientist.

I spent my youth hunting fossils as well. I still have boxes of rocks in my garage from those days. Some on little stands in my office.

Looking at the top from the satellite views. One can see the layers as bands across the entire mountain (you should do the Google, just for fun). I'm pretty sure those are layers of sediment.

[_Quasimodo]

That place in The Matrix.

You're clever (and funny)! For those not educated in fossil terminology, "matrix" is the surrounding rock holding the fossil.

[_Gadianton]

To me, Zion means one, and only one thing:

The Saints who have survived outside civilization during the reign of the Beast gather in Jackson County Missouri, where they build the New Jerusalem Temple designed by Joseph Smith. The Lost Ten Tribes return from the center of the earth, or from under the "arctic ice" as foretold by Orson Pratt, and offer animal sacrifices in the newly built temple as a "sweet offering" unto the Lord, who shall hear their prayers. As the battle of Armageddon wages on, Christ Shall return to earth and baptize the forlorn planet by fire. All that's left are the gathered Saints and less wicked Gentiles. Christ will then reign for 979 years over Zion, where the Saints live an agrarian lifestyle and focus on temple work.*

Any Mormon who believes very much differently is not a Chapel Mormon. For those LDS who believe Zion is "in your heart" and that the Ten Tribes are among us now and all that kind of BS, what makes you so different from Blixa or Zeezrom? To me, it seems they get all that you have, and for 10% less $ and 3 to 30 hours less a week of boredom; not to mention the "OK" to have a drink now and again.

*Please don't do the math: how many baptisms for the dead etc. can be done in that time

[_moksha]

[_Blixa]

I miss The Blue Dot.

[_Morley]

And here I thought that Zion was just a bank.


Oh, oh, this will make Nightlion mad.

[_madeleine]

Just curious.

Thank you!

The place, where God reunites all the just from the time of Adam, and from which all things of God flows. The source of a river of living water, that makes the whole world fruitful, and in line with the prophets.

This place is called Jerusalem, the mother city. The Kingdom of God (both in Heaven and on earth), Jesus Christ, the Holy Catholic Church and Mary. As, Christianity sings of Mary as the living Zion in whose womb is conceived the Incarnate Word, and consequently the children of God reborn.

"You were for us a house of refuge and our help against the torrents on the days of anguish"