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Link btw: https://nitter.net/zachmolzer/status/1746965501077606552#m

I've seen old brick buildings have this happen to them. Apparently they don't know you're not supposed to paint brick, and that it's dangerous to the structural integrity of the building.

yeah they work but they just take you to the actual nether. Basically you make a new map with "single biome" setting and you set that biome to "nether wastes" so it makes the overworld into a sort of nether/overworld hybrid where the fortresses and mobs spawn but there's still water and grass and stuff. Then if you actually manage to build a portal it takes you to the real nether.

The topic at hand is when political violence is acceptable, not what Biden has done on climate change. So you stick to the topic instead of opening up new points of disagreement.

God this is so difficult for me to do. It takes real talent

there's a setting that makes you have a nether overworld and playing that in hardcore mode is like... the hardest possible way to play minecraft

i gotta say the democratic party is a lot more efficient at ratfucking than the republican party

Smith's reported translation techniques are absolutely fucking ridiculous and invalidates anything he wrote

Right. I brought up that he looked into his hat. He didn't have tablets to translate in the first place. He claims an angel led him to them, and that he gave them back to the angel when he was done with them. There were no techniques of translation. Joseph Smith was illiterate. He claimed to translate the tablets using divination, and he had a loyal church Mormon write down what he dictated while looking into his hat. So not only did Smith not read anything, he didn't write anything either. The Mormon tradition started with the oration of Joseph Smith, which he claimed to be translating tablets that he was led to by an angel by using divine powers. But he never showed anyone the actual tablets. Perhaps he was planning on having some tablets forged eventually but never got around to it and finally gave up and said that he gave them back to the angel. In the 1840s there were some attempts by people to fake Smith's tablets by putting Egyptian hieroglyphs on brass plates, but these were fairly quickly proven to be forged.

They show tablets up here, I saw them in the museum as a kid.

Right, those are artistic reproductions by the church.

Not even the church claims that the tablets they have in the museum are the originals. Because there are no originals. Joseph Smith claimed an angel led him to the tablets, and that he eventually gave the tablets back to the angel, and that nobody else was allowed to see them. I'm sure he would have been shameless enough to steal an indigenous artifact if he had actually found one, but it seems that he didn't actually have any tablets. And the archeological record seems to indicate that most pre-columbian gold metallurgy was done in Central/South America, not in New York where Smith found the tablets. The Nephite tribe that Smith claimed the tablets were from isn't even a real indigenous people group. It's a fictional group of Israelites that he claims fled to the United States in ancient times.

but the modern church definitely has tablets in a museum that I've seen indigenous people claim as their people's tablets.

I'm trying to look into this and I'm finding a lot of controversies between the Mormon church and indigenous peoples, but none of them have to do with the golden plates. Most of them have to do with the church physically and sexually abusing indigenous members. I'm not finding any controversies about the Mormon church stealing an artifact from a tribe. Because there was no artifact to steal in the first place.

I think JS is one of the funniest grifters to ever grift because of how blatantly ridiculous the grift is. The truth of the Mormon church barely even matters because their lies are just so blatantly stupid.

I do think there's an important distinction between him actually stealing an indigenous artifact and no such artifact existing in the first place, but yes, he was a grifter.

While many laypeople believe these gold tablets to be forgeries created by the church, this simply isn't the case. The truth is far worse. The gold tablets are from an indigenous kingdom that had long since disappeared

The way I always heard it is that the plates never existed, not that they were taken from an indigenous kingdom. In fact, it's the Mormons themselves who insist that the plates were created by an man from an indigenous American tribe called the Nephites who were originally from Israel. The full title of the book of Mormon is "The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi," Mormon being the name of the indigenous man who supposedly created the plates.

Smith said that he found the plates on September 22, 1823, on a hill near his home in Manchester, New York, after the angel Moroni directed him to a buried stone box. He said that the angel prevented him from taking the plates but instructed him to return to the same location in a year. He returned to that site every year, but it was not until September 1827 that he recovered the plates on his fourth annual attempt to retrieve them. He returned home with a heavy object wrapped in a frock, which he then put in a box. He allowed others to heft the box but said that the angel had forbidden him to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original "reformed Egyptian" language.

Smith dictated the text of the plates while a scribe wrote down the words which would later become the Book of Mormon. Eyewitnesses to the process said Smith translated the plates, not by looking directly at them, but by looking through a transparent seer stone in the bottom of his hat.

Smith eventually obtained testimonies from 11 men who said that they had seen the plates, known as the Book of Mormon witnesses. After the translation was complete, Smith said that he returned the plates to the angel Moroni; thus, they could never be examined.

It seems to me that he simply filled a random box with heavy objects, wouldn't let anyone look at what was inside, "translated" the plates by looking at a "seer stone" in his hat, and then "gave the plates (which probably never existed) back to the angel Moroni." He curated "witnesses" (loyal Mormons) who would vouch for him.

There doesn't seem to be any evidence that Smith actually found any kind of indigenous artifacts. The evidence points towards him simply insisting that he got plates from an "angel" and then "gave them back" when he was done "translating" them, i.e., dictating his ideas to a loyal fellow Mormon.

I'm not saying that it's impossible that indigenous North Americans could have possibly produced such an object, however:

To date "no one has found evidence that points to the use of melting, smelting and casting in prehistoric eastern North America."

and

Archaeological evidence has not revealed metal smelting or alloying of metals by pre-Columbian native peoples north of the Rio Grande; however, they did use native copper extensively.

Most artifacts of gold come from Central/South America. Could you provide a source for your claims that the tablets were real in the first place? If anything, the Mormon telling of the story doesn't really conflict with your idea anyway, since the Mormon interpretation is that indigenous Americans are a lost tribe Israelites. Joseph Smith never argued that the plates were made by non-indigenous people, but rather that indigenous people are Israelites. That of course comes with its own separate baggage, but he never claimed that his (likely non existent) golden plates were non-indigenous in origin. The book of Mormon claims that the tablets were created by an indigenous American man named Mormon who was a member of a tribe called the Nephites. Joseph Smith of course made all that shit up.

I'll move.

I love to watch a liberal's face melt as I tell them that they uncritically believe in Q-anon-tier conspiracy theories about the DPRK

1. How planned was the economy? Depends on the time period. It was never 100% planned. But it was certainly more planned in the 30s-50s than it was in the 60s-80s.

2. Why did it fail? Hakim has a good video on this. TL;DR: Many reasons.

3. Also depends on the era. Are we talking about in the immediate aftermath of the civil war and world war 1? are we talking about during the rapid industrialization period between ww1 and ww2? are we talking about during ww2? are we talking about after ww2? the standard of living was very different depending on what period of soviet history you're talking about.

capitalists deserve profit because they risk bankruptcy when engaging in enterprise!

but the workers risk getting fired and starving to death just by working for you