grindael wrote:So... when Peepstone Jo said this, he was totally serious?
...he turned round to take the Book and it was not there and he was astonished that the Book was gone he that he would look in the place again and see if it had not got back again he had heard people tell of such things and he opened the Box and Behold the Book was there he took hold of it to take it out again and Behold he could not stur the Book any more than he could the mountain he exclaimed why can't I stur this Book and he was answered you have not done rite you should have took the Book and a gone right away you can't have it now. ...
It is ten times better then I expected. Then he went on to the length and width and thickness of the plates and said they appear to be gold But he seemed to think more of the glasses or the urim and thummim then he did of the plates for says he I CAN SEE ANYTHING, THEY ARE MARVELOUS. Now they are written in caricters and I want them translated...
Really? Plates that magically vanish? And reappear again? He could see ANYTHING? C'mon.
Wow, they really had to clean that story up for correlation, right?! What a 2-bit con artist Joseph Smith was.
I wonder what goes through Smart Guy's brain when he accidentally reads something like that...
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
mentalgymnast wrote: You're serious? No links to your sources?
Why?
Tell you what Smart Guy, I'll reveal my source if you tell me what you think of the veracity of the recollection.
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I wonder what goes through Smart Guy's brain when he accidentally reads something like that...
- Doc
I think the Smart Guy's brain has too many filters to do a proper search accidentally or on purpose.
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grindael wrote: I'll reveal my source if you tell me what you think of the veracity of the recollection.
I suppose you are free to disregard my request for a source. I find it interesting that you seem to be unwilling to do so. A while back I think I was taken to task for forgetting to link to a source...which I then did.
I think that it would be well to stick to a standard of linking to sources when we cut and paste. My guess is that, on the whole, others are in agreement...but for some reason aren't chiming in.
mentalgymnast wrote:You're serious? No links to your sources?
Why?
Regards, MG
I can't vouch for the integrity of this so-called "source", but it comes from Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 5 (2013) page 145.
It doesn't come from them, it comes from the CHL. It's an original holograph. And I didn't "forget" to link to a source or name it. I know where it came from, and I know its veracity.
Riding on a speeding train; trapped inside a revolving door; Lost in the riddle of a quatrain; Stuck in an elevator between floors. One focal point in a random world can change your direction: One step where events converge may alter your perception.
Exactly. Smarty Pants can Google everything else. Why not this? Because he would rather make the argument about why I didn't source it instead of the actual account, that's why. He fell right into my trap.
Riding on a speeding train; trapped inside a revolving door; Lost in the riddle of a quatrain; Stuck in an elevator between floors. One focal point in a random world can change your direction: One step where events converge may alter your perception.
