An ancient Australian setting for the historical Book of Mormon

[Shulem]

I’m going to start my own branch of Mormonism with a literal interpretation of this!

And you'll end up like poor Ed Goble and his silly Book of Abraham apologetics -- a one man band with no followers!

[Shulem]

Since the church takes no official position on the matter, I think it’s important to take a look at Australia as a serious contender for the Interpreter Foundation’s next archeological dig.

Of course I recognize your presentation is satire and is designed to make a mockery of Interpreter which is nothing but a poop-house full of crappy papers, run by a lying fat fool.

[drumdude]

Since the church takes no official position on the matter, I think it’s important to take a look at Australia as a serious contender for the Interpreter Foundation’s next archeological dig.

Of course I recognize your presentation is satire and is designed to make a mockery of Interpreter which is nothing but a poop-house full of crappy papers, run by a lying fat fool.

I find Interpreter endlessly amusing, it’s like watching a hamster try to do calculus. Dan really thinks he’s running a credible operation.

[Shulem]

I find Interpreter endlessly amusing, it’s like watching a hamster try to do calculus.

An example of that is how dumbass apologists interpret the geographic boundary described as a "narrow strip of wilderness" and simply don't know what to do with it or how to properly represent it on a map. Brant Gardner is a complete retard. Look at your typical apologetic geography models for the narrow strip of wilderness and you'll see they simply paste the name on their map and brush it up like it's a collection of trees and hills or whatever they want it to be. All of them are retarded idiots! Dumb & stupid apologists can't add or get their directions straight. Mormon dummies!

I see how the tail of Delmarva contains the narrow strip of wilderness:

And it came to pass that the king sent a proclamation throughout all the land, amongst all his people who were in all his land, who were in all the regions round about, which was bordering even to the sea, on the east and on the west, and which was divided from the land of Zarahemla by a narrow strip of wilderness, which ran from the sea east even to the sea west, and round about on the borders of the seashore, and the borders of the wilderness which was on the north by the land of Zarahemla, through the borders of Manti, by the head of the river Sidon, running from the east towards the west—and thus were the Lamanites and the Nephites divided.

[drumdude]

I don’t think there’s a limit to what they could try to defend. The Mark Hoffman debacle showed the world that they just integrate whatever nonsense they have to into a grand unified mess.

If the current prophet says the world is flat, Dan would be a flat earther. That’s just how it works. Obedience is the highest law that trumps everything.

[I Have Questions]

If the current prophet says the world is flat, Dan would be a flat earther. That’s just how it works. Obedience is the highest law that trumps everything.

I don’t think that’s quite right. Dan is obedient only as far as it suits him. For example, the Prophet wants people to serve a senior mission, is Dan showing obedience to that? The Prophet wants members to be kind in their online interactions, is Dan showing obedience to that? The moment something about Mormonism, or something the Prophet says, fails to align with his own personal position, it’s jettisoned. He’s not a “How high?” type of guy.