gramps wrote:I thought this was an appropriate list, so I posted it in the comments:
My list: 10 - Sterling McMurrin 09 - George Boyd 08 - Henry Eyring 07 - Harvey Fletcher 06 - Louis Midgley 05 - Mike Ash 04 - Chase Peterson 03 - Lowell Bennion 02 - Daniel Peterson 01 - Joseph Smith
I thought it was a fair assessment and that NAMIRS deserves more credit.
gramps,
Though I know I am talking Holmes out of context, it is funny to see a multi-generational list of LDS scholars followed by, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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gramps wrote:I thought this was an appropriate list, so I posted it in the comments:
My list: 10 - Sterling McMurrin 09 - George Boyd 08 - Henry Eyring 07 - Harvey Fletcher 06 - Louis Midgley 05 - Mike Ash 04 - Chase Peterson 03 - Lowell Bennion 02 - Daniel Peterson 01 - Joseph Smith
I thought it was a fair assessment and that NAMIRS deserves more credit.
gramps,
Though I know I am talking Homes out of context, it is funny to see a multi-generational list of LDS scholars followed by, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
I lol'd
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Kishkumen wrote:I would like to add that I am pretty sick of many of the new Mormon scholars and talking heads of the Bloggernacle and the DAMU.
Oh, and the Podcernacle.
Perhaps they are not intellectual enough?
(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.
Kishkumen wrote:I really don't care for Nate Oman. His letter to Dialogue was boneheaded in its own pseudo-sophisticated way.
I would like to add that I am pretty sick of many of the new Mormon scholars and talking heads of the Bloggernacle and the DAMU.
Oh, and the Podcernacle.
Yeah, but I take that as just an effect of the internet: every pea brain has his own pod(cast), etc.
I've run into a lot of good work lately, but with the exception of Daymon Smith and George Miller, its all older scholars, people whose work I already know, or writers who are not LDS but happen to have written on Utah history. There's still gems to found among dross and that's the way its always been...
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
Blixa wrote:I've run into a lot of good work lately, but with the exception of Daymon Smith and George Miller, its all older scholars, people whose work I already know, or writers who are not LDS but happen to have written on Utah history. There's still gems to found among dross and that's the way its always been...
You must really love Michael Ash's articles then?
"I'm on paid sabbatical from BYU in exchange for my promise to use this time to finish two books."