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Posted by: Freevolved ( )
Date: February 12, 2011 02:56PM
"A Study in Scarlet"

Who's read it?

If you haven't, you should.

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Posted by: Charley ( )
Date: February 12, 2011 03:44PM
Re: "A Study in Scarlet"

I read it when I was a kid and thought it was a pack of anti mormon lies. I re-read it last year and believed it could easily have happened.

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Posted by: Freevolved ( )
Date: February 12, 2011 04:45PM
Yeah, he writes very well, and it's believable.

It's not his best book IMO, but it's very good, and is full of "anti-mormon" lies ;)

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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: February 12, 2011 06:43PM
Re: "A Study in Scarlet"

I've read it several times--I'm a big Sherlock Holmes fan.

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Posted by: I believed this once, years ago.. ( )
Date: February 12, 2011 10:00PM
Re: "A Study in Scarlet"

I read it years ago and was very puzzled that Sir Authur Conan Doyle gave Mormons such a bad rap. I was TBM and could not figure it out. Now I know why.

Glad to know that most people thought they were nutters from the very beginning.

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Posted by: Emmas Flaming Sword ( )
Date: February 13, 2011 12:47AM
Yes, that was my reaction

I was young and TBM, and it confused me. Now I totally get it.

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Posted by: Mateo Pastor ( )
Date: February 13, 2011 07:11AM
Yet Sir Arthur was a nutter himself (link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle#Spiritualism

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Posted by: matt ( )
Date: February 13, 2011 05:14PM
Re: Yet Sir Arthur was a nutter himself (link) Not relevant, IMO.

Mateo Pastor Wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyl
> e#Spiritualism

That's hardly relevant though, is it?

You are not attempting to compare apples with oranges, you are attempting to compare apples with turnips.

Why is your post not relevant? Did the Mormon church members murder people? Yes.

Did Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, MD, murder people? No.

He created one of the most enduring characters in literature, worked as a doctor of medicine (as a general practitioner and as a volunteer field hospital doctor in the Boer War) and also used his methods to uncover a number of cases in which great injustice had been done to people. He was, in part, responsible for the creation of the Court of Appeal as a result of him being instrumental in overturning two miscarriages of justice.

So, he was a spiritualist? BFD.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/2011 05:16PM by matt.

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Posted by: Charley ( )
Date: February 13, 2011 12:24AM
Re: "A Study in Scarlet"

If anybody wants to read some more novels about polygamy in early Utah be sure to check out Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail/The Desert Crucible by Zane Grey.

When I was growing up many mormon households had complete sets of Zane Grey novels. Somehow I don't think too many of the TBMs got around to these gems. Or if they did it was just more damn anti lies.

Or maybe they did and that's why I used to see lots of these collections in yard sales when I was young.

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