Last Podcast on the Left had a series on Mormonism. Funny and informative. Warning! Jr. high school humor part of what makes Last Podcast so endearing.
This story made me go watch an old MadTV skit--Mrs. Leona Campbell calls Miss Cleo. I mean, all of the Mrs. Leona Campbell skits are hilarious, but the Miss Cleo one is the only one appropriate to this story.
(Also a huge fan of the "7AM Condo Report" sketches.)
Shutting down this Nephi shit as early as possible makes sense. You let people believe a millenia-old prophet is doing all the work, Old Nephi's going to want a cut of the grift.
So claiming to have psychic powers is perfectly reasonable but claiming you're receiving messages from a 2600 year old prophet, that’s just ridiculous.
So the Mormon church as officially founded April 6, 1830, in New York State, but they have a prophet from 600 BC. Why the delay in the founding of the church? What was happening in the interim? I bet there's a story there...
They crossed the Atlantic in wooden submarines that were “tight as a dish,” settled in North America, had a bunch of wars, then become Native Americans and erased all evidence of their existence.
"we have somewhere around 10,000 pages of Janet Russon ‘Readings’ as part of the investigator case file" Sure you don't mean 10,000 golden plates?
Last Podcast on the Left had a series on Mormonism. Funny and informative. Warning! Jr. high school humor part of what makes Last Podcast so endearing.
How can there be a Mormon prophet from 600 BC? They didn't even have Mormons then.
How can they have a (insert religion here) prophet from 600 BC when they didn't even have (insert religion's adherents here) then?
Prophet Nephi denies having relaxation with That Woman Janet Russon.
Relations, not relaxation. Thanks autocorrect. Though it kinda works.
I like the idea that Mormon prophets don't have "relations", but they LOVE to "relax" with people.
"...the Book of Mormon deceased prophet Nephi."
Whatever else you want to say about this situation, her use of noun adjectival nouns is grotesque.
This is tru tho:
“There’s no talking to the Book of Mormon deceased prophet Nephi,”
That asshole never helps me find my glasses, even tho losing your glasses is the worst.
Also a scurrilous use of noun modifiers.
Didn't they lose some plates a couple of times?
This story made me go watch an old MadTV skit--Mrs. Leona Campbell calls Miss Cleo. I mean, all of the Mrs. Leona Campbell skits are hilarious, but the Miss Cleo one is the only one appropriate to this story.
(Also a huge fan of the "7AM Condo Report" sketches.)
When Miss Cleo was arrested for fraud, Jay Leno said "Who could have foreseen that?"
Perhaps she should have called her psychic friends?
Shutting down this Nephi shit as early as possible makes sense. You let people believe a millenia-old prophet is doing all the work, Old Nephi's going to want a cut of the grift.
I’ve read this story three times and I’m still confused.
Same. I can only conclude that Davis County Attorney Rawlings is as woo woo as everyone else in this story.
Ta, Robyn. Prophecy, schmophecy. Although The Prophecy was a fine movie, and the sequel was good.
One of my favorites. Angels with wings dipped in blood and such.
It would be pretty obvious if an actual* investigation made up having thousands of pages of material.
*Not a House Republican investigation.
I see it's the ol' "that doesn't exist and they have it illegally" gambit.
"Honey, I never had hot sex at the Motel 6 with your sister, and it meant nothing to me!"
So claiming to have psychic powers is perfectly reasonable but claiming you're receiving messages from a 2600 year old prophet, that’s just ridiculous.
I wondered about that. How can one illegally obtain somethng that never existed?
You Mountains Meadow massacred that argument!
I think it has more to do with prophet -- I mean profit sharing.
I assume Russan is Mormon n and Mormans have strong opinions Nephi.
Dean Obeidallah's Substack post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/it-wasnt-just-giuliani-trump-also?r=ebxy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
So the Mormon church as officially founded April 6, 1830, in New York State, but they have a prophet from 600 BC. Why the delay in the founding of the church? What was happening in the interim? I bet there's a story there...
They crossed the Atlantic in wooden submarines that were “tight as a dish,” settled in North America, had a bunch of wars, then become Native Americans and erased all evidence of their existence.
Far be it from me to disparage anyone's deeply-held religious beliefs, but I'll do it anyway.
The whole thing is preposterous on its face.
Makes as much sense as any other s̶u̶p̶e̶r̶s̶t̶i̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ c̶u̶l̶t̶ religion.
On a level with Scientology.
It's amazing what a century or two will do to make nonsense look more like some kind of ancient wisdom to some folks.
I finally Latinized Robyn's axiom!
ūnus cōnstāns hūmānitās ita est: hōminēs semper crēdunt quōsque sē eōdem mōre agere.