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That was the headline from yahoo:

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Yes it was illegal to print three dollar bills (anything under five dollars) all regular banks in the North East stopped.. It was also illegal to pretend to see lost treasure; it was illegal to marry another person if you were not divorced, only if you were divorced or your spouse died could you leg...

That standard would require and great deal of sacrifice and discipline. It would be too much for Mormons today to be held to that standard - that might even be called raising the bar. Or better reestablishing the bar. What would happen if they took a persons temple recommend if one remarried after b...

I liked this part. The Anabaptist argued that only adults, who had made a voluntary decision to follow Jesus should be baptized. Adult baptism became the public symbol of the Anabaptist movement, but the deeper issue was one of authority. Should government officials prescribe religious practices, su...

from this site: m "The essential features of the traditional art of memory are that a building is pictured in the mind, the parts of the building are visualized in a certain order, and various images are associated with the parts of the building. The images would remind the practitioner of what...

it seems like in Joseph Smith's time you never knew what he would do or think from week to week. Clearly Walker Lewis was a great man. It seems that maybe all the issues that the Church went through had its beginning in Utah with Brigham Young. Those laws are interesting. I wonder if any one from Ut...

Mercury - Thank you for the information.

Mercury: are there black Masons in your lodge (you might have to keep it secret). I wonder if black males didn't really push the issue because of Prince Hall lodges. I think one difference between LDS church allowing black males to hold the priesthood and the Lodges is each Lodge is sort of independ...

This is very interesting: a band of robbers, living in the hills, coming down a raiding villages, uniting under one leader, creating a secret society, involved in murder. This is ten years before the Book of Mormon. I wonder if the story made the local papers.

the masons were an interesting bunch. I know that in the 1800's that regular lodges did not accept blacks but gradually accepted jews and native americans into the craft. if you say the lds priesthood is the "craft" then surely joseph smith was just following what he witnessed by watching ...