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Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:38 am
by Hagoth
It was post-Adam and pre-Noah, which means it was in North America, right? Have you heard any speculations about this?
The Grand Canyon? Or maybe Vernal, Utah. When the CofE tore loose from the ground it uncovered all of those dinosaur bones that were leftovers from the planet fragments that were used to build the earth.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:04 am
by moksha
Wonder if it could have been in the Yellowstone caldera?
The intergalactic space criminal Brainiac was known to capture whole cities and place them in a bottle to add to his collection. He literally took them up into space after translating them with his shrink ray. Generations of captured inhabitants lived a miniaturized existence in these bottles in his spacecraft.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:38 am
by Hagoth
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:13 am
by dogbite
In their imagination
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:51 pm
by Culper Jr.
My grandmother was adamant that the Gulf of Mexico was the hole left behind from the City of Enoch being taken up to heaven. Not sure where she got that from; Cleon Skousen maybe? Evidently in the last days it will come back down to that spot.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:46 pm
by blazerb
Culper Jr. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:51 pm
My grandmother was adamant that the Gulf of Mexico was the hole left behind from the City of Enoch being taken up to heaven. Not sure where she got that from; Cleon Skousen maybe? Evidently in the last days it will come back down to that spot.
I had a physical science professor my freshman year at BYU who said this. He was a geologist I believe. I think it was a joke, but it was not clear.
When I was in high school, I had a seminary teacher who told us that only the people of the City of Enoch were taken up, no land or animals. However, at least one student brought out the words of the prophets as recorded in the Journal of Discourses to show he was wrong.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:06 pm
by moksha
blazerb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:46 pm
I had a physical science professor my freshman year at BYU who said this.
Professors of fantasy and science fiction at BYU might also be aware of this story.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:55 am
by Hagoth
From Wilford Woodruff's Journal: "Joseph also said that when the City of Enoch fled and was translated, it was where the gulf of Mexico now is; it left that gulf a body of water."
I can't find it, but I remember reading an excerpt from the journal of an early saint who said Joseph Smith pointed to a star near the North Star and told him it was the City of Enoch.
Also, I remember someone from my youth, either a seminary teacher or a fireside speaker, proclaim that the City of Enoch is still in our solar system, somewhere beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
I have a new theory. We now know there was an asteroid impact in the Gulf of Mexico. I propose it was the City of Enoch returning to its original spot, but due to a reentry speed miscalculation due to a failure to convert feet to meters, it came in a bit hot.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 9:45 am
by deacon blues
Hagoth wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:55 am
From Wilford Woodruff's Journal: "Joseph also said that when the City of Enoch fled and was translated, it was where the gulf of Mexico now is; it left that gulf a body of water."
I can't find it, but I remember reading an excerpt from the journal of an early saint who said Joseph Smith pointed to a star near the North Star and told him it was the City of Enoch.
Also, I remember someone from my youth, either a seminary teacher or a fireside speaker, proclaim that the City of Enoch is still in our solar system, somewhere beyond the orbit of Jupiter.
I have a new theory. We now know there was an asteroid impact in the Gulf of Mexico. I propose it was the City of Enoch returning to its original spot, but due to a reentry speed miscalculation due to a failure to convert feet to meters, it came in a bit hot.
I remember hearing the same thing in seminary back in the day, approximately 1970.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:55 am
by wtfluff
Culper Jr. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:51 pm
My grandmother was adamant that the Gulf of Mexico was the hole left behind from the City of Enoch being taken up to heaven. Not sure where she got that from; Cleon Skousen maybe? Evidently in the last days it will come back down to that spot.
I didn't hear this theory until just a few years ago. Weird, because I grew up in the BUBBLE.
It still makes me giggle a bit when I hear it anew...
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:40 pm
by Just This Guy
wtfluff wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 10:55 am
Culper Jr. wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:51 pm
My grandmother was adamant that the Gulf of Mexico was the hole left behind from the City of Enoch being taken up to heaven. Not sure where she got that from; Cleon Skousen maybe? Evidently in the last days it will come back down to that spot.
I didn't hear this theory until just a few years ago. Weird, because I grew up in the BUBBLE.
It still makes me giggle a bit when I hear it anew...
Hey, you are doing better than me. I have not heard
that one before. Mormonism is always good for more crazy.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 1:48 pm
by Hagoth
Here's one. The City of Enoch was actually shrunk to the size of a marble and now it's hanging from the collar of a cat in NYC.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 6:42 pm
by alas
Yup, I heard in seminary that the City of Enoch was where the Gulf of Mexico is now and that it will be returned to the same spot.
Now, considering g that global warming is going to melt all the polar ice and raise sea level by about 6 feet, then on top of that God will plop the City of Enoch down and fill up the whole of the Gulf of Mexico, raising sea level globally another 10 feet, all coastal cities are in big trouble. Glad I am some 6,000 feet above sea level.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 5:14 am
by Just This Guy
alas wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 6:42 pm
Yup, I heard in seminary that the City of Enoch was where the Gulf of Mexico is now and that it will be returned to the same spot.
Now, considering g that global warming is going to melt all the polar ice and raise sea level by about 6 feet, then on top of that God will plop the City of Enoch down and fill up the whole of the Gulf of Mexico, raising sea level globally another 10 feet, all coastal cities are in big trouble. Glad I am some 6,000 feet above sea level.
So the City of Enoch is the Mormon version of Atlantis. Sure. Makes sense.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:05 pm
by moksha
Encyclopedia Galactica wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:04 am
The intergalactic space criminal Brainiac was known to capture whole cities and place them in a bottle to add to his collection. He literally took them up into space after translating them with his shrink ray. Generations of captured inhabitants lived a miniaturized existence in these bottles in his spacecraft.
Subsequently, Brainiac also repeated this translation procedure via the shrink ray on the Kryptonian city of Kandor and took it up to his spaceship. Why? Perhaps Brainiac viewed himself as a covetous God. Perhaps he intended to later reexpand select female inhabitants and propose polygamous marriage.
Re: Where was the City of Enoch?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:21 pm
by Hagoth
moksha wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:05 pm
Encyclopedia Galactica wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 10:04 am
The intergalactic space criminal Brainiac was known to capture whole cities and place them in a bottle to add to his collection. He literally took them up into space after translating them with his shrink ray. Generations of captured inhabitants lived a miniaturized existence in these bottles in his spacecraft.
Subsequently, Brainiac also repeated this translation procedure via the shrink ray on the Kryptonian city of Kandor and took it up to his spaceship. Why? Perhaps Brainiac viewed himself as a covetous God. Perhaps he intended to later reexpand select female inhabitants and propose polygamous marriage.
Another alternative use of "translate."
