The Lucy Code

[_Dr. Shades]

Illegal gravediggers (after the burial had already taken place) would snatch the body, . . . I don't know why I used "gravedigger," which isn't the exact term, I guess.

Oh. In that case, did you mean "grave robber?"

[_DoubtingThomas]

Joseph had a long time to prepare. And who knows how they did the KJV passages. Smith could simply have told the scribe that the "rock" says that there is an entire chapter of Isaiah here, etc., etc., and they just copied it out of a KJV. We simply don't know. Why memorize it, when he could just tell the scribe that the "rock" says write down such and such chapters of Isaiah... There are all kinds of scenarios that could have went on...

Interesting. What about the apologists claim that Smith didn't own a Bible during the "translation"?

Mormon apologists like to cite eyewitness accounts of Smith dictating freely without any notes. Smith was hardly under 24-hour hidden camera surveillance, however. Nothing rules out the possibility that he simply took care not to let his notes show when outsiders were looking.

Yes, but like the apologists like to say "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

[_Meadowchik]

Illegal gravediggers (after the burial had already taken place) would snatch the body, . . . I don't know why I used "gravedigger," which isn't the exact term, I guess.

Oh. In that case, did you mean "grave robber?"

Honestly, I don't know the correct term. Perhaps grave robber only means merchandise on the corpse and not bodies.

ETA: I think it's actually "bodysnatcher."

[_RockSlider]

cadaver obtainers

[_Meadowchik]

cadaver obtainers

I kept resisting the term bodysnatcher because of the sci-fi reference it evokes for me, but it actually does mean the illicit obtaining of a body for the purpose of medical dissection. This is what I think the video was referring to in relation to cemetery-watching and Dartmouth, although grave-robbing (for the merchandise buried with the dead) might have also been a thing.