Scriptures of Ten Tribes Found in Barn Loft Saturday

[_consiglieri]

Thanks, Blixa!

That is awesome!!!

It also links up with a theme in a paper I am working on with Don Bradley involving the structure of the Book of Alma.

I hope Don won't think I am letting the cat out of the bag too much, but the first half of the Book of Mormon deals with missionary work and the last half with catastrophic warfare. The Book of Alma is so large it is easy to overlook the connecting link in the middle--that it was the missionary work itself that led to the warfare.

Mormon interjects his historical asides into the narrative blaming it on the wickedness of the people, but the narrative flow cannot be overcome that easily--the preaching of the word led to destruction by the sword.

The Book of Mormon contains many such challenging stories for those brave enough to confront them.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_Blixa]

Thanks, Blixa!

That is awesome!!!

It also links up with a theme in a paper I am working on with Don Bradley involving the structure of the Book of Alma.

I hope Don won't think I am letting the cat out of the bag too much, but the first half of the Book of Mormon deals with missionary work and the last half with catastrophic warfare. The Book of Alma is so large it is easy to overlook the connecting link in the middle--that it was the missionary work itself that led to the warfare.

Mormon interjects his historical asides into the narrative blaming it on the wickedness of the people, but the narrative flow cannot be overcome that easily--the preaching of the word led to destruction by the sword.

The Book of Mormon contains many such challenging stories for those brave enough to confront them.

All the Best!

Ok...I need to have a talk with you guys because this passage is important to some of my own work...

[_consiglieri]

Ok...I need to have a talk with you guys because this passage is important to some of my own work...

Sounds interesting. Please feel free to PM me any time!

[_zeezrom]

It also links up with a theme in a paper I am working on with Don Bradley involving the structure of the Book of Alma.

I didn't know you were writing a paper with Don. Pretty rad.

[_moksha]

... that it was the missionary work itself that led to the warfare.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

Keeping the LDS Missionaries from tracting on Superbowl Sunday is therefor a very wise peacekeeping decision.

[_consiglieri]

I didn't know you were writing a paper with Don. Pretty rad.

I think so, too.

We started work on this in the summer of 2008 back when Don was not reaffected.

(Did I just coin a new word?)

Even then, he had a great respect for the Book of Mormon as a literary text.


All the Best!

--Consiglieri

[_mfbukowski]

I think what you guys are seeing is chaotic attractors in the way human beings think. The LDS mythology and greek mythology end up crossing paths intellectually not because they are directly related to each other (not that they aren't, but I don't think the point has been demonstrated), but because they both arise from the same tendency of the human mind, and as such would be related similarly to all other such mythological tendencies in other human cultures as well.

Yep

And what's wrong with that? This is what I have always thought and why alleged "historicity" is not an issue for me and never has been.

Just sayin'

Mythology evolves/d just like morality and "truth" in general. It's all cultural

[_mfbukowski]

I do believe that Mormonism was partially constructed on everything that Christianity discarded in its sorting process in the first 300 years. Thus the "apostasy."

Would not the corrolary of this be that Mormonism is in fact a restoration of early "discarded" Christianity?

I'm not trying to play "gotcha" here, but it does sound like the same thing to me.

All the Best!

--Consiglieri

First time in my life I have wholeheartedly agreed with both of you.

[_mfbukowski]

Jeepers.

Nothing like walking into a room and have everybody walk out. I took a shower this morning and everything.

[_MCB]

Here is some recreational reading for you.
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

If there had been no discipline in early Christianity, it would have turned chaotic. The warnings of the book of Revelation were taken seriously.