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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/10/2008 : 13:33:52
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My daughter caught this, and did a screen save. By the time I looked it up myself, the article about the history of the word "Mormon" was back to its original, even sillier, form.
Doubtless, this act of defacement has something to do with th LDS Church's active involvement in the Proposition 8 campaign in California, which stripped same-sex couples of their right to be married.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 13:45:51 [Permalink]
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I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Robert Hunter
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 19:38:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Gorgo
Crap! That's how I'll remember that Lovin' Spoonful song now.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/11/2008 : 02:38:47 [Permalink]
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The Mormons are held in something considerably less than high esteem by the mainline, Christian fundamentalists as well. I'd not rule out the possibility that one of them is responsible. But no matter, either way it's still either a futile gesture or a joke, or, really, both. As is Joe Smith's quaint, little hallucination.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 05:56:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
The Mormons are held in something considerably less than high esteem by the mainline, Christian fundamentalists as well. I'd not rule out the possibility that one of them is responsible. But no matter, either way it's still either a futile gesture or a joke, or, really, both. As is Joe Smith's quaint, little hallucination.
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Smith's contemporaries describe his process for finding treasure as placing the stone in a white stovepipe hat, putting his face over the hat to block the light, and then "seeing" the information in the reflections of the stone. His preferred stone, which some said he also used later to translate the golden plates, was chocolate-colored and about the size of an egg, found in a deep well he helped dig for one of his neighbors.
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Chocolate colored stones reflecting light from within a darkened hat? More likely phosphenes. |
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"Mormon" entry in Wiki defaced
