Is This GC Miracle Story a Fake? Naval Expertise Required

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_Gadianton
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Re: Is This General Conference Miracle Story a Fake? Naval

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On the technical points (as brought up): letting the rookie hit the deck with a rope during a typhoon -- and for what expected benefit? is unlikely. A's point that they'd have a tachometer is a good one. If the tach was in the red, the engineers knew the risk and were accepting one tradeoff above another.

And can you gauge that a propeller is "spinning fast" by eyeballing it? Especially when its out of the water and has no resistance? What qualifies as fast -- what reference point? My fountain pumps also seem to work too hard when the water level drops and they're churning dry air.

The narrative: So we're to believe the captain knocked on a junior officer's door to ask him to pray? And then the captain is bound by the narrative to basically do whatever the jr. officer says to -- hey, you asked him to pray, right? And the plain and humble triumph over the wise and learned.

Does anyone think Wilson would ever be as "wise" as his Captain was in a similar situation?

Imagine this: Wilson is on a ski trip with his grandkids. The roads get really bad and the mountain is dangerous. Wilson asks the kids to pray. One of the children doesn't just ask to be taken to safety, but asks what he can do to help. The Holy Ghost tells the child to get out of the car and check out the roads during a blizzard. Wilson asked for the prayer, right, he can't just ask for magic to happen when the Lord wants us to be part of the solution, and so he's going to let the kid go out into the blizzard and check things out -- he'd agree to this, right? The advisory coming over the radio is to put chains on. But the child learned something different, and the HG tells the child not to put chains on. Wilson is going to listen to the kid, right?
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Re: Is This General Conference Miracle Story a Fake? Naval

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Sh*t happens, and so do miracles.
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Re: Is This General Conference Miracle Story a Fake? Naval

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If u know the ship's name it is probably easy enough to
Find the name of the captain during the alleged time period- the Navy loves to keep the history of its ships documented. The captain is probably dead but his career might be chronicled somewhere. I really would like to know if the ensign received a medal or
Citation even though the Navy is the least of the Services to hand out medals- I knew a Vietnam era Navy captain (06) who only had a national defense service medal and a couple of campaign ribbons which everyone gets.
Also maybe the ensign wrote this up in his journal or family history
Which would be fun to perruse.
My take : the saga is highly exaggerated and embellished by Wilson or his ghost writers. TSM embellished the Arthur Patton story- twice!

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