Struggling with Joseph Smith

[LookingHard]

MockingJay wrote:

No matter how much I stretch or twist the definition of a prophet, it will never be this in regard to JS! Just not buying it. So where does that leave me?

Conflicted.

[Holy Cow]

MockingJay wrote:

No matter how much I stretch or twist the definition of a prophet, it will never be this in regard to JS! Just not buying it. So where does that leave me?

Yeah, I’m kind of in the same boat here. I’ve been trying to distort my definition of what a ‘prophet’ is, and when I stretch it so far that it would include JS, then I find that it also would include people like Rulon Jeffs. And, I just don’t think I’m comfortable stretching it that far. I’m more comfortable keeping my definition of ‘prophet’, even though it excludes JS, Brigham, and such, rather than changing the definition of ‘prophet’ so much that it would include just about everybody, just so I can say JS is a prophet. Like I’ve said before, I’ve gotten too tired of making special exceptions for JS just to excuse his behavior as being ‘human’ and ‘fallible.’ I think there was a lot more to it than a poor fallen prophet making some simple mistakes.

[Old-Timer]

Disagreeing with the manual.

It’s quite liberating – and not at all uncommon.

[SamBee]

MockingJay wrote:

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Usenet or was it teletext?

I remember usenet, but what was teletext? That must be where David Whitmer posted it. :wave:

Not sure what you’d call it in your part of the world, but Teletext was a service available in the 80s and 90s (and early 2000s?) where you could access news via an ordinary television. Usually involved putting a two or three digit code into your TV remote.

Here’s what it looked like.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Electra_Teletext_sample.jpg[/img]

I think there was a version for computers as well. Very primitive. There was Videotex too.

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