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Posted by: brook ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 11:26AM
12 Tribes of Israel?

Do you learn which tribe your from in a Patriarchal blessing? Is it common that mormons ask what tribe you're from? Why do they care? Just overheard the oddest conversation...

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Posted by: East Coast Exmo ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 11:29AM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Everybody's Ephraim except for Hispanics and Native Americans who are usually from the tribe of Manasseh. That's a Book of Mormon thing.

It's all at the whim of the individual patriarch.

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Posted by: Amyjo ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:28PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Like drawing names out of a hat. All of them the same except for one or two.

;-)

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:34PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

The people who ask you are mostly doing so because they want you to return the favor so that they can brag.

Us poor people from the tribe of Manasseh don't get to live in gated communities. We try to pretend we don't care, but......

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:46PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

I don't have a gate, but you can live in my community anytime...:)
In fact, I'd much prefer you to any white-and-delightsome mormons!

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:33PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

I'll be down after the time change and you can bring some property prospecti to the golf course.

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:35PM
I hail from the Tribe of Sennacherib (n/t)


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Posted by: numbersRus ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:47PM
Does it show up on your 23-and-me profile?

Someone should set up a website where these PB's are gathered and run some comparisons among all of them just to show how generic they are and thus a load of hooie.

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Posted by: ificouldhietokolob ( )
Date: January 16, 2018 05:57PM
Re: Does it show up on your 23-and-me profile?

Someone did :)

http://www.fullerconsideration.com/pbrevelator.php

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Posted by: caffiend ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 02:12AM
Thank you-thank you-thank you, Hie!

You know the activity I'm talking about, and this is a BIG help!

God bless you! (--No offence.)

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Posted by: Anonymous 2 ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 01:22AM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Isn't there a spoof website for Patriarchal blessings!??

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Posted by: baura ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:30PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

My patriarchal blessing said I was from the tribe of Geronimo.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:34PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Congrats, man!!!

That's second only to the Hekawi Tribe!!

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Posted by: baura ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:56PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

I believe the Hekawi tribe is related to the Helawi tribe and the
Fugawai tribe.

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Posted by: pollythinks ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:52PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Remember when it was taught by J.S that the 'lost' ten tribes of Israel lived on the moon, and dressed like pilgrims (with tall black hats, and wide white collars)? (If I remember correctly.)

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Posted by: Shummy ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 03:55PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

Very few people have ever heard of the one and only African-American Indian tribe.

They call themselves the Slapaho.

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Posted by: snowball ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 04:15PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

I was from Ephraim--what a surprise!

One of my religion professors at BYU was obsessed by the tribes of Israel. He got into dramatic explanations of how they had spread to every corner of the earth. Therefore, the gathering of the 12 tribes essentially included everyone.

Like many Mormon things, it felt like an effort to use a sledge hammer to get a square peg to fit into a round hole.

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Posted by: tumwater ( )
Date: January 17, 2018 11:26PM
Re: 12 Tribes of Israel?

I never got a PB, but then I've never been mormon.

However I am a member of the Fugawi tribe.

Thank you Johnny Carson.

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