Darth J wrote:
Oh, good. Native Americans are Hebrews. All is well, all is well!
Simon Belmont wrote:
Perhaps you haven't been up-to-date on the latest findings, and are stuck in 2002? Oh yeah, where is the invincible team of Murphy/Metcalfe now? What happened to the "Galileo Event?" Was the Book of Mormon proven untrue because of their "research?"
No. The Book of Mormon had been conclusively proven to be an authentic ancient record of a vast Hebrew civilization that really existed for 1,000 years in the pre-Columbian Americas somewhere.
I'm glad to know that since 2002, the latest findings prove that Native Americans are the descendants of Hebrews.
Darth J wrote:
Simon, really, stop making it worse. That's nobody's mantra, and the posts on which you purport to rely all show that nobody is saying that as a mantra.
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That was a quick search to show you that what I said has truth to it.
"Elvis killed JFK with a weapon recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash."
Come on; that statement "had truth to it." Elvis Presley was a real person. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Something or other happened at Roswell. So it's "true," kind of.
Darth J wrote:
I have said many, many times that I don't have any theory about the KEP, and that I am willing to allow the possibility that Schryver may be right, because even if he is, so what?
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I was never questioning you. I hadn't read any Metcalfe worship from you specifically.
So I don't have my man crush on him anymore?
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So, even if Schryver is wrong, so what?
So nothing. Schryver's thing is interesting as a look at the Mormon apologetics community. The only questions that matter are these:
--Did Joseph Smith repeatedly claim that the Book of Abraham is a translation, by whatever methodology, of what was written on the papyri? Yes.
--Is the Book of Abraham what it says on the papyri? No.
--Even if the Book of Abraham hypothetically were true, would that necessarily mean that the modern LDS Church is the true church? No.
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So stop trying to pull this out of your ass that now I'm some Metcalfe disciple because I'm a Halo fan.
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Remember what harmony said. Metcalfe does not suffer fools lightly!
So what? Judging from the beta, the initials I care about aren't KEP, but
DMR.
Darth J wrote:
You're a Star Trek fan. Gene Roddenberry was an atheist. Therefore, you're an atheist.
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He was also a humanist. And the movies generally have religious overtones to them (although the episodes usually didn't).
Not the movies he was involved with. ST:TMP was about "the creator" being relative--V'Ger thought that the human race was, in effect, its God, and the ending with Deckard is about humans and machines uniting (spoiler alert).