Further complicating the situation is that it is unknown whether any of the terminology and ritual dialogue patterns that are similar in Freemasonry and the temple ordinances were originally part of the endowment as given by Joseph Smith in the Red Brick Store or were introduced later as part of the revisions and standardization that occurred under the direction of Brigham Young.[3]
Of course, there is the little matter of some of that dialogue showing up in an account of the contents of the 116 lost pages.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
Social distancing has likely already begun to flatten the curve...Continue to research good antivirals and vaccine candidates. Make everyone wear masks. -- J.D. Vance
It’s seeming more and more like this is an attempt to rescue Bradshaw’s damaged reputation. But the fact remains that he essentially “stole” material so that he could write his own book. And if memory serves, the accounts from Bruno, Ericsson, and others don’t really square with Bradshaw’s portrayal of what happened.
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
It’s seeming more and more like this is an attempt to rescue Bradshaw’s damaged reputation. But the fact remains that he essentially “stole” material so that he could write his own book. And if memory serves, the accounts from Bruno, Ericsson, and others don’t really square with Bradshaw’s portrayal of what happened.
Yes, if Bradshaw really did give her ample warning that he was using her book to complete his own in time for the publication date of hers, then I can't imagine her or Loyd not being upset about it. It really is so obviously a dick move, as it were. He wants to portray this as a big happy cooperating family when in fact there is good reason to believe that is not the case at all.
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
It’s seeming more and more like this is an attempt to rescue Bradshaw’s damaged reputation. But the fact remains that he essentially “stole” material so that he could write his own book. And if memory serves, the accounts from Bruno, Ericsson, and others don’t really square with Bradshaw’s portrayal of what happened.
Yes, if Bradshaw really did give her ample warning that he was using her book to complete his own in time for the publication date of hers, then I can't imagine her or Loyd not being upset about it. It really is so obviously a dick move, as it were. He wants to portray this as a big happy cooperating family when in fact there is good reason to believe that is not the case at all.
Indeed. It’s fitting that Interpreter’s next film will focus on Brigham Young, who once said, famously:
We have the greatest and smoothest liars in the world, the cunninest and most adroit thieves, and any other shade of character that you can mention.
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14
