Fence Sitter wrote:I wonder if Nelson has tried using the seer stones in the church vault yet, or maybe God is having Nelson practice using a lighted pen first. And, does Wendy read the words back to his to make sure he got them correct?
I bet the words Nelson gets are archaic in nature, perhaps Early Modern English or Middle English. Some say it's hillbilly, backwoods English but it is clearly Old World English for sure. I heard somewhere this is how God speaks to his chosen vessels. He loves to impress them by sounding mysterious and 1611 edition biblical-ish.
Obviously nothing is going to happen if he tries using the seer stone, but according to the Book of Mormon, unauthorized use means death. So when Nelson uses it and nothing happens and he is still alive, he should be able to figure out it is fake. Maybe that's why he is using a lighted pen, it at least has a warranty that does not involve his death or the destruction of his faith.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
Fence Sitter wrote:Is anyone else wondering why God has to wake up His prophet in the middle of the night to talk to him?
God wants to make sure Russell and Wendy don't get enough sleep.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov
Fence Sitter wrote:Is anyone else wondering why God has to wake up His prophet in the middle of the night to talk to him?
What ever happened to the Holy of Holies? The one in Manti got repurposed for a sealing room. Do they still keep the door closed on the one in the Salt Lake City Temple?
I heard it may be a multi-purpose room now, at least with some extra-curricular activities there at night.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov
Thought processes on the edge of sleep tend to differ radically from those of ordinary wakefulness. For example, something that you agreed with in a state of hypnagogia may seem completely ridiculous to you in an awake state. Hypnagogia may involve a "loosening of ego boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment (empathy) and diffuse-absorbed attention."[18] Hypnagogic cognition, in comparison with that of normal, alert wakefulness, is characterized by heightened suggestibility,[19] illogic and a fluid association of ideas. Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent dreams. This receptivity has a physiological parallel; EEG readings show elevated responsiveness to sound around the onset of sleep.[20]
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
Thought processes on the edge of sleep tend to differ radically from those of ordinary wakefulness. For example, something that you agreed with in a state of hypnagogia may seem completely ridiculous to you in an awake state. Hypnagogia may involve a "loosening of ego boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment (empathy) and diffuse-absorbed attention."[18] Hypnagogic cognition, in comparison with that of normal, alert wakefulness, is characterized by heightened suggestibility,[19] illogic and a fluid association of ideas. Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent dreams. This receptivity has a physiological parallel; EEG readings show elevated responsiveness to sound around the onset of sleep.[20]
You and your science popping childish belief bubbles again ....
"Religion is about providing human community in the guise of solving problems that don’t exist or failing to solve problems that do and seeking to reconcile these contradictions and conceal the failures in bogus explanations otherwise known as theology." - Kishkumen
