Comments for The Monoglot http://monoglot.com There are 7,000 languages in the world that I do not know how to speak. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:54:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 Comment on The South Park Mormon clip by monoglot http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/comment-page-1/#comment-36343 monoglot Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:54:09 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/#comment-36343 Jordan, it's not quite so easy. God's prophets have written stuff down for all of human history, in hieroglyphics and cuneiform and cave paintings, in the Oracle at Delphi, in the palaces of the Mughals, and on the road to Medina. They were poisoned in the fourth century, burned at the stake in the 15th, and ridiculed on the internet in the 21st. There's been an awful lot of people over the millennia who knew with absolute knowledge that they were bring God's inviolate Truth to the world, and all of them were in direct contradiction with almost all of the rest of them. In other words, God and God's messengers have given us an inconceivable number of facts over the years and most of those facts don't agree with most of the other facts. Jordan, it’s not quite so easy. God’s prophets have written stuff down for all of human history, in hieroglyphics and cuneiform and cave paintings, in the Oracle at Delphi, in the palaces of the Mughals, and on the road to Medina. They were poisoned in the fourth century, burned at the stake in the 15th, and ridiculed on the internet in the 21st. There’s been an awful lot of people over the millennia who knew with absolute knowledge that they were bring God’s inviolate Truth to the world, and all of them were in direct contradiction with almost all of the rest of them. In other words, God and God’s messengers have given us an inconceivable number of facts over the years and most of those facts don’t agree with most of the other facts.

]]> Comment on The South Park Mormon clip by jordan http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/comment-page-1/#comment-36340 jordan Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:15:36 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/#comment-36340 Drew, I agree about the whole "telephone" effect skewing stories - people either leave out important parts or they exaggerate to make a better story or they just mix up the facts. So to avoid this problem, God has always (Old Testament times and modern times) had His prophets write stuff down so anyone can get the facts for themselves rather than through the grapevine. Drew,

I agree about the whole “telephone” effect skewing stories – people either leave out important parts or they exaggerate to make a better story or they just mix up the facts.
So to avoid this problem, God has always (Old Testament times and modern times) had His prophets write stuff down so anyone can get the facts for themselves rather than through the grapevine.

]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part IIa. by CM (nee cl) http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/comment-page-1/#comment-36089 CM (nee cl) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:46:17 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/#comment-36089 This dude looks a tiny bit like Ryan http://realestate.aol.com/article/news_a/flipping-for-profit/20080630180209990001?ncid=AOLCOMMre00DYNLprim0001&icid=100214839x1204895833x1200235027 This dude looks a tiny bit like Ryan

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]]> Comment on The South Park Mormon clip by bam22 http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/comment-page-1/#comment-35691 bam22 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:00:05 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2006/07/21/the-south-park-mormon-clip/#comment-35691 You can believe what you want, their is no harm in that. However, don't expect the rest of us to take the same liberties with history the Mormons do. Native Americans were NOT from is Israel !! It has been tested and The museum of Natural Science has given more than one letter to the leaders of LDS asking them to stop teaching such untruths. DNA testing people, we do check that stuff now. Your writings like most religions has also been openly tampered with over time with half truths and misinformation and shared in straight out racism during the 50s saying blacks were would only get into heaven as slaves and claimed polygamy was required because there was more Women then men which is also untrue (you see there is this thing called the census). If you are all so well read I suggest you research that instead of relying on word of mouth from other Mormons. With that said I am glad you have such faith, People do need to take leaps of faith from time to time but don't preach to me about how the world just doesn't get you or your "prophet" Joseph Smith because because like most relig3eons you can't prove anything the difference with yours is it only dates back a couple hundred years and science can disprove most of your historical claims. Like I said before you shouldn't trust just me or your Mormon leaders look up the information for yourself!! It is all out their and plentiful, some of you claim to research things and check information, so do it. Believe what you want that is your choice , however you can't rewrite history to custom fit a religion and refrain from stopping me on the street or knocking on my door I have faith in something and also in truth , we will not share these things in the Mormon religion. You can believe what you want, their is no harm in that. However, don’t expect the rest of us to take the same liberties with history the Mormons do. Native Americans were NOT from is Israel !! It has been tested and The museum of Natural Science has given more than one letter to the leaders of LDS asking them to stop teaching such untruths. DNA testing people, we do check that stuff now. Your writings like most religions has also been openly tampered with over time with half truths and misinformation and shared in straight out racism during the 50s saying blacks were would only get into heaven as slaves and claimed polygamy was required because there was more Women then men which is also untrue (you see there is this thing called the census). If you are all so well read I suggest you research that instead of relying on word of mouth from other Mormons. With that said I am glad you have such faith, People do need to take leaps of faith from time to time but don’t preach to me about how the world just doesn’t get you or your “prophet” Joseph Smith because because like most relig3eons you can’t prove anything the difference with yours is it only dates back a couple hundred years and science can disprove most of your historical claims.
Like I said before you shouldn’t trust just me or your Mormon leaders look up the information for yourself!! It is all out their and plentiful, some of you claim to research things and check information, so do it. Believe what you want that is your choice , however you can’t rewrite history to custom fit a religion and refrain from stopping me on the street or knocking on my door I have faith in something and also in truth , we will not share these things in the Mormon religion.

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]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part IIa. by Diana http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/comment-page-1/#comment-30739 Diana Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:32:40 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/#comment-30739 I think toast is better when you make it yourself because it is hotter. I think foreign accents are more attractive because cultures of certain other countries are sexier than ours. And therefore in the inflections there are more ... subtexts. Like Amye was saying. I think toast is better when you make it yourself because it is hotter. I think foreign accents are more attractive because cultures of certain other countries are sexier than ours. And therefore in the inflections there are more … subtexts. Like Amye was saying.

]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part IIa. by CM (nee cl) http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/comment-page-1/#comment-30255 CM (nee cl) Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:00:20 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/#comment-30255 I think it's best when the French make it. I think it’s best when the French make it.

]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part I. by sarah http://monoglot.com/2008/01/06/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-29927 sarah Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:00:18 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/06/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-i/#comment-29927 Jenny Butts, whatever happened to you? Jenny Butts, whatever happened to you?

]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part I. by sarah http://monoglot.com/2008/01/06/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-i/comment-page-1/#comment-29926 sarah Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:58:42 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/06/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-i/#comment-29926 How do last names like "Butts" get started, and more importantly, not stopped? Do you remember the Butts sisters at Park? How do last names like “Butts” get started, and more importantly, not stopped? Do you remember the Butts sisters at Park?

]]> Comment on The answers to questions that cannot be answered. Part IIa. by sarah http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/comment-page-1/#comment-29924 sarah Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:45:34 +0000 http://monoglot.com/2008/01/07/the-answers-to-questions-that-cannot-be-answered-part-iia/#comment-29924 I must contradict Abby. Whay does toast always taste better when you make it yourself? I know. But do you? I must contradict Abby. Whay does toast always taste better when you make it yourself? I know. But do you?

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