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I was gonna say:
Did you really just claim that the BofA got relativity right?
It's something I've heard from several people. It doesn't have an ounce of credibility to it. It's not based on anything. Einstein did not derive his theory from Joseph's BofA. Someone very recently noticed a reference to the different rates of the revolutions of Kolob and its Kokaubeam star-planet brethren, decided to ignore the rest of the shit, and use it as a proof text to defend the indefensible. Never mind the weirdass belief that the stars derive their light from greater stars and so on, because Joseph Smith made something up that sounds like relativity.
Did you really just claim that the BofA got relativity right?
It's something I've heard from several people. It doesn't have an ounce of credibility to it. It's not based on anything. Einstein did not derive his theory from Joseph's BofA. Someone very recently noticed a reference to the different rates of the revolutions of Kolob and its Kokaubeam star-planet brethren, decided to ignore the rest of the shit, and use it as a proof text to defend the indefensible. Never mind the weirdass belief that the stars derive their light from greater stars and so on, because Joseph Smith made something up that sounds like relativity.
That was a crazy post.
I never really tried to understand that part of Mormon scripture before (Abraham 3 in the PoGP), but I just spent some time going through the gobbledegook and THINK I understand what JS was trying to say.
However, if you try to use relativity to interpret these verses, it appears to me that JS got it exactly backwards!
I never really tried to understand that part of Mormon scripture before (Abraham 3 in the PoGP), but I just spent some time going through the gobbledegook and THINK I understand what JS was trying to say.
However, if you try to use relativity to interpret these verses, it appears to me that JS got it exactly backwards!
lurking in Wrote:
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> it appears to me that JS got it
> exactly backwards!
Figure 7 on the holy BoA hypocephalus cut (depicting a couple hyper phalluses) shows two Egyptian godlets flaunting their junk in the other's general direction.
"Mormons should look carefully at the two pagan gods facing each other with erect penises, and should decide for themselves if the Figure 7 personages whom Joe Smith says represent the LDS "God" and "Holy Ghost" are the God and Holy Ghost of the Bible, or whether they are a different God and Holy Ghost.
Einstein would have understood this as relativistic exhibitionism.
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> it appears to me that JS got it
> exactly backwards!
Figure 7 on the holy BoA hypocephalus cut (depicting a couple hyper phalluses) shows two Egyptian godlets flaunting their junk in the other's general direction.
"Mormons should look carefully at the two pagan gods facing each other with erect penises, and should decide for themselves if the Figure 7 personages whom Joe Smith says represent the LDS "God" and "Holy Ghost" are the God and Holy Ghost of the Bible, or whether they are a different God and Holy Ghost.
Einstein would have understood this as relativistic exhibitionism.
A polygamist Mormon once asked me, after a special program on
the 100th birth of Einstein, "did you see where they declared
Joseph Smith a prophet?"
"No," I replied, "I don't recall Joseph Smith being mentioned."
He was trying to show that relativistic time dilation was like
"1000 years for man is as a day with the Lord."
"Isn't that in the Bible?" I asked this hyper-religious guy.
"No, it isn't." he confidently replied.
Later I looked it up--
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day."
the 100th birth of Einstein, "did you see where they declared
Joseph Smith a prophet?"
"No," I replied, "I don't recall Joseph Smith being mentioned."
He was trying to show that relativistic time dilation was like
"1000 years for man is as a day with the Lord."
"Isn't that in the Bible?" I asked this hyper-religious guy.
"No, it isn't." he confidently replied.
Later I looked it up--
2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day."