Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

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Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Palerider » Tue Apr 17, 2018 2:11 pm

Thought I'd read this article just for fun. The writer tries pretty hard to make a miracle out of Joseph's seer stone which is to be expected. Funny thing is when a commentor who is obviously a highly informed geologist, in a very matter of fact way just blows this guy's theory on the "prepared" stone right out of the water. Worth reading just for this geologists comment.

https://ldsmag.com/the-surprising-geolo ... eer-stone/
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by slavereeno » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:08 pm

He could not have known how rare it was,

The church is true!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Wait, should I not laugh? Is that too mocking of me?

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Post by Palerider » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:21 pm

slavereeno wrote:
Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:08 pm
He could not have known how rare it was,

The church is true!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Wait, should I not laugh? Is that too mocking of me?
NO LAUGHING... :cry:

That stone rode all the way from Wyoming to New York in a dinosaur's gizzard just so Joseph could find it in New York!!! Just like Moroni carried those plates all the way from Central America to Cumorah!!!

Oh ye of little, itty bitty, tiny faith... :evil:
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by FiveFingerMnemonic » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:23 pm

Wait so the miracle is the stone was inside of a dinosaur's gut, whose bones were placed here on earth by satan himself to deceive us into believing in evolution? Got it!

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Post by Anon70 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 4:08 pm

but but but but if the earth is only 6000 years old, how could this have happened??

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Post by wtfluff » Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:45 pm

FiveFingerMnemonic wrote:
Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:23 pm
Wait so the miracle is the stone was inside of a dinosaur's gut, whose bones were placed here on earth by satan himself to deceive us into believing in evolution? Got it!
It all comes down to space junk!

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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Archimedes » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:59 pm

I think positing a dinosaur gut stone is really a stretch here. Especially since there are simpler explanations and Occam's Razor and all that. Upstate NY has undergone multiple stages of glaciation with meltwater streams, moraines, and other processes creating rounded / subrounded gravels and cobbles. Gravels in Pacific northwest recessional outwash, advance outwash, and even glacial till are commonly rounded to subrounded.

Glaciers did it not dinosaurs.
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Palerider » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:19 pm

Archimedes wrote:
Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:59 pm
I think positing a dinosaur gut stone is really a stretch here. Especially since there are simpler explanations and Occam's Razor and all that. Upstate NY has undergone multiple stages of glaciation with meltwater streams, moraines, and other processes creating rounded / subrounded gravels and cobbles. Gravels in Pacific northwest recessional outwash, advance outwash, and even glacial till are commonly rounded to subrounded.

Glaciers did it not dinosaurs.
Exact same conclusion arrived at by the geologist commentor Kevin Henson in the comment section after the article. Very well documented.
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Post by moksha » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:36 pm

You know this banded jasper stone is true because it would be too easy to believe if the stone had been coprolite.
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Palerider » Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:44 am

moksha wrote:
Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:36 pm
You know this banded jasper stone is true because it would be too easy to believe if the stone had been coprolite.
Well, right, of course.

As Joseph said,

"a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has the power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.”

And the first thing to be sacrificed is the individual's common sense.
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by deacon blues » Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:26 pm

To paraphrase Joseph Smith: Meridian magazine is a polished shaft in the hand of the Almighty. Dinosaurs were created to polish stones. Did I make the right connection? :roll:
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by 2bizE » Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:46 pm

The dinosaur tale is not too much of a stretch if you believe all the other stretches of imagination from JS.
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Palerider » Mon Apr 23, 2018 11:31 am

2bizE wrote:
Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:46 pm
The dinosaur tale is not too much of a stretch if you believe all the other stretches of imagination from JS.
Not only from Joseph but from today's apologists!

I think this story represents so perfectly what TBMS are dealing/suffering with as far as mental gymnastics and psychological enslavement. This poor author is so willing to go beyond reality and into a fantasy land in order to support or prop up the Joseph Smith legend/myth (lie), it's tragically sad.

And there are millions of people, some of them quite intelligent who buy this stuff hook, line and sinker.

I am SO GLAD I got out of this THING. Wish everyone could. But what can you do???
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by wtfluff » Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:37 pm

I'm confused... Didn't dinosaur bones come from "other planets" ???


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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Red Ryder » Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:54 pm

Wouldn't that mean it's a dinosaur turd?
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by wtfluff » Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:06 pm

Red Ryder wrote:
Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:54 pm
Wouldn't that mean it's a dinosaur turd?
Polished turd. It's POLISHED!!!
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by RubinHighlander » Tue Apr 24, 2018 6:49 am

I wanna know what else they have at the COB in that super secret closet.
Ark of the Covenant would be a hell of a lot cooler than a polished turd!
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by 2bizE » Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:05 am

Rumor has it the Q15 vault has the very container used to hold Mrs. Marsh’s milk strippings.
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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Corsair » Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:07 am

2bizE wrote:
Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:05 am
Rumor has it the Q15 vault has the very container used to hold Mrs. Marsh’s milk strippings.
It's a dangerous artifact because, "her milkshake brings all the apostles to the yard".

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Re: Seer Stone takes dinosaur ride???

Post by Archimedes » Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:33 am

Red Ryder wrote:
Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:54 pm
Wouldn't that mean it's a dinosaur turd?
No, those are called caprolites, they are the real lithified (fossilized) remains of digested vegetable and animal matter. The Seer Stone was just an agate that got rolled around during the ice ages and smoothed/polished by normal glacial processes. It is a pretty cool rock, but I would have thought something more crystalline or see-through would have been more appropriate. Talk about "seeing through a glass, darkly."
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