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[StarFish]

Coke is bad for you...

LIVING is bad for you! It causes you to die    So you might as well coke it up while your still here.

[East Coast Hustle]

Coke is bad for you...

LIVING is bad for you! It causes you to die    So you might as well coke it up while your still here.

DAMN GIRL...YOU REALLY ARE COOL SHIT, AREN'T YOU?

[StarFish]

Coke is bad for you...

LIVING is bad for you! It causes you to die    So you might as well coke it up while your still here.

DAMN GIRL...YOU REALLY ARE COOL SHIT, AREN'T YOU?

What, are you 'net stalking me now?

[Anonymous]

hey Goddess mama,is it true that the Book of Mormon was actaully a novel in process written by Solomon Spaulding(died 1816) and that Joseph Smith found the manuscript buried in his fields and used it to create his own religion?
Whats the scope.

Not too far off there, Verthaine.  But, the manuscript was most likely NOT buried.

[Donkeyotay]

[Zurtok Khan]

Ghaa, that Geust was me.

[East Coast Hustle]

Coke is bad for you...

LIVING is bad for you! It causes you to die    So you might as well coke it up while your still here.

DAMN GIRL...YOU REALLY ARE COOL SHIT, AREN'T YOU?

What, are you 'net stalking me now?

NAH, I'M TOO LAZY FOR ALL THAT. I'M JUST CONTINUALLY SURPRISED WHEN I FIND ONE MORE PERSON THAT DOESN'T SUCK AT LIFE.

[Bella]

hey Goddess mama,is it true that the Book of Mormon was actaully a novel in process written by Solomon Spaulding(died 1816) and that Joseph Smith found the manuscript buried in his fields and used it to create his own religion?
Whats the scope.

Not too far off there, Verthaine.  But, the manuscript was most likely NOT buried.

Dear Verthaine,

I think Khan is right here. I'd actually, never heard of Solomon Spaulding until I read your post yesterday. So I did some research on the net. It was really interesting. Spaulding, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was born in 1761 and died in 1816. Several years before his death, he wrote a novel called "The Manuscript Found".  The plotline is that it was "an account of the original people of this continent, their customs, and conflicts between the different tribes." It pretended to be taken from a manuscript that had been discovered in an ancient mound. Mr. Spaulding read this manuscript to some of his friends in 1811-'12, but he was never able to get it published.  

But people remembered Spaulding's novel and when Mormon missionaries began preaching in the area in 1830, they made the connection between the two books. The prevailing theory of the day was that Joseph Smith stole the concept of the Book of Mormon, as well as the idea of "finding" a record buried in the ground, from Spaulding's book. Smith's friend, Sidney Rigdon, worked in a print shop. It's believed that Rigdon stole a copy of the manuscript that had been laying around the shop for years and gave it to Smith.

The two books have so many points in common, that it's hard to believe Smith didn't and Rigdon didn't use Spaulding's manuscript when compiling the Book of Mormon. For instance, many of the names used in both books are the same, and both stories begin in Jerusalem in the year 600 B.C.

http://www.angelfire.com/az2/arizonadry/truth/spalding.html

http://www.yourgoingtohell.com/mormon.html

[StarFish]

Coke is bad for you...

LIVING is bad for you! It causes you to die    So you might as well coke it up while your still here.

DAMN GIRL...YOU REALLY ARE COOL SHIT, AREN'T YOU?

What, are you 'net stalking me now?

NAH, I'M TOO LAZY FOR ALL THAT. I'M JUST CONTINUALLY SURPRISED WHEN I FIND ONE MORE PERSON THAT DOESN'T SUCK AT LIFE.

ah okay, then that's not so bad, and FYI starfishes don't have lips, so we can't suck at anything  :P

[East Coast Hustle]

NO, BUT THE WHOLE "TURNING YOUR STOMACH INSIDE OUT AND DIGESTING THINGS OUTSIDE YOUR BODY" THING IS KIND OF A NEAT TRICK.

[Drunken Monkey Cabal]

uh madam starfish but not being able to suck at anything will just put u down in a guys estimations  

[Donkeyotay]

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

It's the Real Thing?

[Zurtok Khan]

Bella,

How come when I ask you a question, everyone answers but you?

[East Coast Hustle]

BECAUSE THE WORLD IS FULL OF INFIDELS.