Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

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_Philo Sofee
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Re: Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

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honorentheos wrote:
Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:12 pm
Physics Guy wrote:
Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:44 pm
I dunno, man. That might not be realistic for an amateur like me. These days you've got to be an expert in Bayesian inference to get into Interpreter.
That's a serious blow to the Interpreter. I guess they'll have to recycle another paper to keep the streak alive.

That said, with your physics credentials I think the Interpreter would be eager to receive a paper from you on the metaphysics of religious artifacts and their parallels in the language, practices and geospatial identity of Middle Eastern and Mesoamerican cultures prior to European colonization of the Americas.
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Re: Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

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what I want to know is when will the Interpreter publish something about the remarkable parallels between Joseph's seer stone and Sauron's Palantir? It's a point that is integral to the limited geography Middle Earth theory that places the Lord of the Rings events entirely in the American Heartland. Don't even get me started on the parallels between cottonwoods and Ents. Did you know the decedents of the Iriqouis down to this very day use a word for certain pests that sounds like "crow," but when spoken backwards by a native Hebrew speaker sounds remarkably like Ork?"
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Re: Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

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honorentheos wrote:
Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:44 pm
They're practically using the Gregorian calendar, for crying out loud.
:lol:

So true!

I mean, it would be one thing if there were a passage similar to the Nephite weights and measures (formerly coins) that points to some semblance of an independent system, but this is about as anachronistic as it gets. Oh, wait, loose translation. There were other figures in the original text, but Joseph translated them according to his own reckoning of time.

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Re: Nephite Daykeepers: Ritual Specialists in Mesoamerica and the Book of Mormon

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Surely it was a tightly controlled loose translation in which God caused figures to appear on the seer stone showing dates that Smith—pardon me, Joseph—would understand. Smith—dang it, Joseph—merely recorded them passively.

So maybe it was the seer stone, and not the liahona, on which Gregorian came installed by default. Even God has trouble changing basic settings.
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