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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 6, 2014 at 8:42 pm
Quote:The early Mormons were not nice people.
That's putting it mildly.
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 6, 2014 at 11:42 pm
(August 6, 2014 at 8:33 pm)Jenny A Wrote: (August 6, 2014 at 7:42 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote: He sounds like a peach.
Pretty much. All I have of him are photo-copies of three letters he sent home to Denmark.
Oh shit. My family comes from Danish immigrants, and they're all still a bunch of Mormons. That would be strange if there was some kind of relation here.
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 10:07 am
(August 6, 2014 at 11:42 pm)Bad Writer Wrote: (August 6, 2014 at 8:33 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Pretty much. All I have of him are photo-copies of three letters he sent home to Denmark.
Oh shit. My family comes from Danish immigrants, and they're all still a bunch of Mormons. That would be strange if there was some kind of relation here.
Stranger things have happened, but I doubt it in this case. My mom's folks were born in Denmark, but they have no Mormon connections beyond my great uncle's little foray into Utah. But, the Mormons were pretty successful in Denmark for a while and there are many people of Danish ancestry in Utah.
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 10:38 am
(August 7, 2014 at 10:07 am)Jenny A Wrote: Stranger things have happened, but I doubt it in this case. My mom's folks were born in Denmark, but they have no Mormon connections beyond my great uncle's little foray into Utah. But, the Mormons were pretty successful in Denmark for a while and there are many people of Danish ancestry in Utah.
My family is Dutch.
Sorry. I just wanted to get in on the family history stuff going on...
I also have a German ancestor who beat feet to the US because back in Germany he beat a guy to death with a sapling.
You know, a young tree.
True story.
He wasn't Mormon, though.
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 10:41 am
IS that Alex Skarsgard?
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 10:46 am
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(August 7, 2014 at 10:38 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: he beat a guy to death with a sapling. Guy must have really pissed him off - cause you know that assbeating took some serious time and dedication. I almost wonder if he had to take a break at some point to rest his arm - which, really, would just make your ancestor that much more of a badass.
My grandfather was held and questioned for several days over a string of murders involving a claw hammer (ultimately, they didn't have enough on him and they never closed the case). He went into the klink with money in his pocket - and came out of the klink with money in his pocket, he's a very small man. Apparently, no one wanted to risk it. I have trouble imagining him as the sort of guy who would murder someone with a claw hammer - but I've seen him deliver enough judicious assbeatings with lesser implements and for no discernable reason to realize that ultimately, it's my affection for the man driving my conclusions. He's pretty mum about the subject, except to say that "them fellers had it comin".
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 12:18 pm
Quote: I also have a German ancestor who beat feet to the US because back in Germany he beat a guy to death with a sapling.
Was his last name Meinkraft?
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 3:41 pm
(August 7, 2014 at 10:46 am)Rhythm Wrote: (August 7, 2014 at 10:38 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: he beat a guy to death with a sapling. Guy must have really pissed him off - cause you know that assbeating took some serious time and dedication. I almost wonder if he had to take a break at some point to rest his arm - which, really, would just make your ancestor that much more of a badass.
My grandfather was held and questioned for several days over a string of murders involving a claw hammer (ultimately, they didn't have enough on him and they never closed the case). He went into the klink with money in his pocket - and came out of the klink with money in his pocket, he's a very small man. Apparently, no one wanted to risk it. I have trouble imagining him as the sort of guy who would murder someone with a claw hammer - but I've seen him deliver enough judicious assbeatings with lesser implements and for no discernable reason to realize that ultimately, it's my affection for the man driving my conclusions. He's pretty mum about the subject, except to say that "them fellers had it comin".
There have been two killings in my family, one on each parent's side: my paternal grandmother killed killed her husband when she discovered him cheating, and my maternal great-aunt, who killed her husband when she discovered him cheating. In neither case was the killer prosecuted.
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 4:08 pm
This thread has taken a strange turn. Sorry about that. :p
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RE: Mormon Church Admits J Smith Didn't Translate Book Of Abraham
August 7, 2014 at 5:09 pm
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