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dafydd said:
How much does it cost and where can I buy one?
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There's a local LDS bookstore not far from me (it's near a small Temple). A few years ago I was able to get a single book with the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines & Covenants for $10.
 
Cleon said:
There's a local LDS bookstore not far from me (it's near a small Temple). A few years ago I was able to get a single book with the Book of Mormon, the Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrines & Covenants for $10.
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Toilet paper is cheaper here.
 
Pup said:
Methinks folks are missing the funny? ;)

Well, at least I thought it was funny, deliberate or not.
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It was deliberate, but Mormons are so serious. I'd rather watch paint drying to a soundtrack of the Osmond Brothers with burning matches under my fingernails than read nonsense Mormon literature.
 
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dafydd said:
It was deliberate, but Mormons are so serious. I'd rather watch paint drying to a soundtrack of the Osmond Brothers with burning matches under my fingernails than read nonsense Mormon literature.
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There's a difference?
 
Pup said:
Methinks folks are missing the funny? ;)

Well, at least I thought it was funny, deliberate or not.
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I missed it. BTW: now that I see things differently the name of the book strikes more as marketing than anything else. It's absurd to think that a story about Abraham would be included in an Egyptian funeral. Oddly enough of all of the copies of the Book of Breathing, Smiths copy is the only one to contain the Abraham story. And it's conveniently lost (by "it's" I mean the Abraham account, the book is largely intact).
 
desertgal said:
There's a difference?
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Not much, but at least the Osmonds never recorded songs like ''Joseph and His Magic Stones'', ''Oh Dem Golden Disappearing Plates'', '' Bonny Moroni'' and '' Guess How many Wives I Have''.
 
dafydd said:
Not much, but at least the Osmonds never recorded songs like ''Joseph and His Magic Stones'', ''Oh Dem Golden Disappearing Plates'', '' Bonny Moroni'' and '' Guess How many Wives I Have''.
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Actually, they did. The album is called "I Have A Temple Recommend And You Don't". On sale at the Deseret bookstore for $11.99. Comes with a free hat.
 
Cat Tale said:
Actually, I was in the kitchen when Pup read it to me. I laughed. FWIW, it's not the first time I heard it, but it's always a good one. :D
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Good on you, you have restored my faith in human nature. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, only a person with a heart of stone could read the BOM without laughing.
 
dafydd said:
Good on you, you have restored my faith in human nature. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, only a person with a heart of stone could read the BOM without laughing.
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I am not sure I would go that far........

Call me a religion non-believer.........

But I make up a small minority. Upwards of 80-90% of Americans believe in religion of one form or another.

As did the ancients. And I love history. And people. Fascinated by it and them.

Certainly not going to write the ancient Egyptians and Greeks off because they believed in sky-gods.

Hardly. They actually were pretty incredible.
 
Sticky Fingers said:
I am not sure I would go that far........

Call me a religion non-believer.........

But I make up a small minority. Upwards of 80-90% of Americans believe in religion of one form or another.

As did the ancients. And I love history. And people. Fascinated by it and them.

Certainly not going to write the ancient Egyptians and Greeks off because they believed in sky-gods.

Hardly. They actually were pretty incredible.
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I agree with you. I love history too, I have shelves full of history books. As for older cultures believing in sky daddies and mommies, you have to take the rough with the smooth.
 
dudalb said:
And Badly written nonsense.

The Bible is full of nonsense, but has considerable literary value. You can't say the same about the Book of Mormon.
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The Modern English bible is hardy deathless literature, but I take your point about older translations. The Cockney Bible is unintentionally very funny.

Hello, Dad, up there in good ol’ Heaven,

Your name is well great and holy, and we respect you, Guv.

We hope we can all ‘ave a butcher’s at Heaven and be there as soon as possible: and we want to make you happy, Guv, and do what you want ‘ere on earth, just like what you do in Heaven.

Guv, please give us some Uncle Fred, and enough grub and stuff to keep us going today, and we hope you’ll forgive us when we cock things up, just like we’re supposed to forgive them who annoy us and do dodgy stuff to us.

There’s a lot of dodgy people around, Guv; please don’t let us get tempted to do bad things.

Help keep us away from all the nasty, evil stuff, and keep that dodgy Satan away from us, ‘cos you’re much stronger than ‘im.

Your the Boss, God, and will be for ever, innit?

Cheers, Amen.


Blimey! Jesus calms a storm
(Matthew 8; 23 - 27, Luke 8; 22 - 25)

ONE evening, Jesus said to his chinas, "Let's go to the other side of this 'ere lake."
So they left all the people, and the disciples got into the nanny and set orf. There were quite a few other nannies there too.
And then, would you Adam and Eve it, a huge wind started to blow up, and the waves got so bloomin' big that they began to spill into the nanny. It got to the stage where the nanny was almost gonna fill up with fisherman's.
Despite all this, Jesus was at the back of the nanny 'aving a feather, lying there with his loaf on a pillow. The disciples woke him up and said, "Teacher, we're about to die. Don't you care?"
Jesus got up from his little feather and shouted at the wind, "Oi, be quiet!" and he said to the waves, "Oi, be still!" The wind suddenly died dahn, and it became really calm. Jesus then said to his chinas, "What is it with you lot? Why were you all so frightened? Do you still not have faith?"
But the disciples were in a right ol' two and eight.
 
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RandFan said:
I love JREF. Thanks. :) Ah the human ego. If there is a god surely he visited my neck of the woods.
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The biggest anachronism of all is the entire BoM because the people in it behave and talk pretty much like 18th century protestants.


2 And it came to pass that the Lord did say unto me: Cry unto this people—Repent ye, and come unto me, and be ye baptized, and build up again my church, and ye shall be aspared.

4 And it came to pass that after this tenth year had passed away, making, in the whole, three hundred and sixty years from the coming of Christ, the king of the Lamanites sent an epistle unto me, which gave unto me to know that they were preparing to come again to battle against us.


21 And also that ye may believe the gospel of Jesus Christ, which ye shall have among you; and also that the Jews, the covenant people of the Lord, shall have other witness besides him whom they saw and heard, that Jesus, whom they slew, was the very Christ and the very God.


Here it is 360 AD and there are Christians in the New World discussing doctrines and ideas that won't become current till many years later.
 
tsig said:
The biggest anachronism of all is the entire BoM because the people in it behave and talk pretty much like 18th century protestants.
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You don't have to be a Sherlock Holmes to work out why that is.
 
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