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Possibly the same one Brigham Young had in mind. :D

 

Well given some reports I get from my son at MUST in Rolla, Missouri -- I think we might plausibly argue that Missouri is on another planet.

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Well given some reports I get from my son at MUST in Rolla, Missouri -- I think we might plausibly argue that Missouri is on another planet.

 

Possibly, but then I have heard some argue that very thing for Idaho and a few other places.

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Possibly, but then I have heard some argue that very thing for Idaho and a few other places.

 

Well you know you are right a case could be made for a Rocky Mountain bubble world at that.

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a Rocky Mountain bubble world at that.

I don't know if you think this "bubble" stuff is funny, but it comes across as pure arrogance and is getting very, very old.

Every place has its quirks and ways in which it is 'isolated' from the rest of the world.

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Well you know you are right a case could be made for a Rocky Mountain bubble world at that.

 

Speaking of bubble worlds how about east of the Mississippi River?

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I don't know if you think this is funny, but it comes across as pure arrogance and is getting very, very old.

Every place has its quirks and ways in which it is 'isolated' from the rest of the world.

That's true for most places, but not where I live, which is the center of the universe. :)

Seriously, though, it's interesting that, even in a time when we have instant communication with a large part of the world, we still exist in some respects in our own bubbles. People here speak of the "Washington Bubble" which I generally call somewhere between dysfunction and insanity, and when I was growing up in California, a lot of people I knew thought it was the cultural Mecca of the country.

When I was in Bolivia, I sat down to dinner one p-day with a new missionary, and when I asked, he told me he was from Idaho. He asked where I was from, and I told him. He scowled and said, "Where I come from, we don't like people from California." Here we were, 5,000 miles from home, and he was snubbing me because I came from a different state. Another missionary once expressed shock that I was from California: "But you're not arrogant at all!"

I like meeting people from all over, as we all have such different and interesting perspectives.

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I missed something.  What planet was this, now?

It only happened in the bubble in which Stone Holm lives in.

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It only happened in the bubble in which Stone Holm lives in.

 

Well Mfubowski's original planetary comment was a reference to an exchange concerning a Branch that was in Indiana -- where I used to live.  Course he might have been referring to another "Earth" where Adam first walked...you would have to ask him.

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Well call ME odd I suppose, but I have never seen anyone at church with a tri-cornered hat with bags tied to the corners, or whatever it was you were talking about.

 

I suppose I missed something.

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Well call ME odd I suppose, but I have never seen anyone at church with a tri-cornered hat with bags tied to the corners, or whatever it was you were talking about.

 

I suppose I missed something.

 

Welcome to Stone Holm's world.

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Well Mfubowski's original planetary comment was a reference to an exchange concerning a Branch that was in Indiana -- where I used to live.  Course he might have been referring to another "Earth" where Adam first walked...you would have to ask him.

You should know by now, that I like to tease. And I was most definatly teasing you.

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Well call ME odd I suppose, but I have never seen anyone at church with a tri-cornered hat with bags tied to the corners, or whatever it was you were talking about.

 

I suppose I missed something.

 

Yeah that would probably violate the dress code there.

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:huh:

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My own personal revelation was that Adam and Eve were in the garden for millions of years, since they did not age in the garden. Dinosaurs lived and died all while they were still in a perfect state in the garden. Time is not always specific in the Bible. The earth was created in 6 days, but we have no idea how long in our terms a day is according to God. A day could be billions of cosmic years. We have no idea, and it shouldn't matter.

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My own personal revelation was that Adam and Eve were in the garden for millions of years, since they did not age in the garden. Dinosaurs lived and died all while they were still in a perfect state in the garden. Time is not always specific in the Bible. The earth was created in 6 days, but we have no idea how long in our terms a day is according to God. A day could be billions of cosmic years. We have no idea, and it shouldn't matter.

 

That's a long time to be pruning grapes. 

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My own personal revelation was that Adam and Eve were in the garden for millions of years, since they did not age in the garden. Dinosaurs lived and died all while they were still in a perfect state in the garden. Time is not always specific in the Bible. The earth was created in 6 days, but we have no idea how long in our terms a day is according to God. A day could be billions of cosmic years. We have no idea, and it shouldn't matter.

I agree. I think they spent a very long time in that nudist colony, no reason they immediately jumped to the notion of eating the forbidden fruit no matter how persuasive our repugnant brother Lucifer was.

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I agree. I think they spent a very long time in that nudist colony, no reason they immediately jumped to the notion of eating the forbidden fruit no matter how persuasive our repugnant brother Lucifer was.

 

I agree with you but now we get to argue about how long a long time was. 

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I agree with you but now we get to argue about how long a long time was. 

 

Well given the lack of fossi evidence of man's existence until relatively recently in geologic terms....I would say a very, very long time

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When Adam first walked the earth is a difficult question to answer because like others have pointed out, we don't know how long he was in the garden. Official church doctrine does put time of the fall around 4,000 bc and also states death didn't the world until the fall.

 

I would posit that in this case, like the Global Flood, the Church has adopted Christian tradition as doctrine rather than there being some actual revelation confirming 4000 B.C.  So I think these doctrines are more likely to change.  Having said that, my own hypothesis doesn't necessarily conflict with a 4000 B.C. coming out of the garden date though I much prefer an 8,000 B.C. date.

 

Personally, this is a hard topic for me because of course it isn't hard to look around and see that death has been going on for much longer than that ...I've held artifacts and bones in my hands that are much older than that and I recently saw this article on live science that they have discovered a human jaw bone that is around half a million years old.

 

That's why I go with an hypothesis that matches science as well as doctrine.  We know that pre Adamites are allowed under doctrine (1931 First Presidency statement) and we know that the property of no death is not applied to the unfinished creative state but rather to the finished (garden) state (2 Nephi 2:22).  So I think one is doctrinally consistent in accepting homo sapiens before Adam and Eve along with evolution just a science teaches.

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