Proof the Jaredites were real

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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie

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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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I love the Jaredites. They are my principal vocational passion.
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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Quasimodo wrote:If you open a hole in the bottom of a boat it sinks. Water tight is not the same as air tight. Even if you 'batten down the hatches' on a sail boat, a hole in the bottom will sink it.

Really? I am amazed. How earth-shattering. I never knew that. Are you sure?


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I think I have seen too many XXII; G; 3's today (that is my code for JD 4:31 − p.32, Brigham Young, August 17, 1856)
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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MCB wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:If you open a hole in the bottom of a boat it sinks. Water tight is not the same as air tight. Even if you 'batten down the hatches' on a sail boat, a hole in the bottom will sink it.

Really? I am amazed. How earth-shattering. I never knew that. Are you sure?


Image

Image

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I think I have seen too many XXII; G; 3's today (that is my code for JD 4:31 − p.32, Brigham Young, August 17, 1856)


Pretty sure :smile: .
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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Tarski wrote:Time to revisit a classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWhFsDk7L4E

It is not official.

Watch this instead.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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"tight like unto a dish"

OK, this comment will be moved to telestial...
Don't care. :mrgreen:

From "tight" I associate "pussy".
Google image search for "tight like unto a dish"
gives first this picture: Image (coloured pussies... ???)


by the way
that same site wrote:This is one of those paintings that turned out just like I was picturing it. Not the subject matter, necessarily, but the technique. I like this one.
The reference is from religious literature where a traveler is to make boats that are “tight like unto a dish.” This is the shape I always imagined them to be, kind of like a football.
Football, stupid?
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This is a football: Image
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And this is something not ball and can be hold or brought with hands: Image

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And here are footballs of Micaela Schaefer:
12 picture FOR YOU
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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Kishkumen wrote:I love the Jaredites. They are my principal vocational passion.


What do you think happened to all the pooh?
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Drifting wrote:
Kishkumen wrote:I love the Jaredites. They are my principal vocational passion.


What do you think happened to all the pooh?


Since the Jaredites were temporarily translated, they produced no poo.

It is the lost miracle of their voyage.
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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Kishkumen wrote:
Drifting wrote:
What do you think happened to all the pooh?


Since the Jaredites were temporarily translated, they produced no poo.

It is the lost miracle of their voyage.


If they were translated why the need for air holes?
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Re: Proof the Jaredites were real

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Drifting wrote:
If they were translated why the need for air holes?


The Lord wanted to avoid the appearance of asphyxiation.
Zadok:
I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis.
Maksutov:
That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
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