Even after those people were wiped out in a religio-genocidal act by some of their own former brethren who had the raging of Satan in their hearts, there would still be shreds of that former culture in the replacement culture who wiped out the former groups. To a degree, we have the same today. We (as the USA), have wiped out a culture mostly using crude bio-warfare weapons (smallpox-infected blankets), direct warfare and the destruction of their means to obtain food and their economies (killing buffalo, confining the group to reserves, etc). I tell you that the same three tactics will be used against the gentiles here in America who have not repented. The variants will be slightly different (bio-engineered weapons, direct warfare against the remnants and the putting of the people in concentration camps). I came to this conclusion after we spent time camping with the people of the Blackfeet Tribe just outside of Glacier National Park. In doing so, we spent many evenings around the campfire and one of the tribal elders shared his views with us. Apparently, with a little wordsmithing of the treaty, the whole Glacier NP was stolen from that group. They had the land up to the Continental Divide in the original treaty, but as usual, gold was found and there was a brief rush. That land is very sacred to the Blackfeet - to the point that during fasting and solitude in those valleys, if they encounter another native, they communicate with hand signals or with whispers, so as to not offend the spirits that are in their sacred mountains....... Hmmmm...... Sounds like what it may have been like up on Ensign Peak in SLC in the years before the Endowment House was built on Temple Square.
Right after we left GNP, we headed as far south as we could towards the Black Hills (another sacred Native land), but I simply powered out on SE Montana and pulled over at the very exit that happened to be the one for the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's last stand) and as soon as we had breakfast, enjoyed that amazing place for most of the morning. Custer was a CWI hero and just plain loved the "thrill of battle" and killing indians..... Well, sometimes if you live by the sword, well - you know..... He found out the hard way. The one big takeaway from that was that the spiritual leader of the tribes that were camped there in the valley had been given a vision whereby he saw them successfully fighting off the white man - and that they would have further success - but they MUST leave the bodies of the US soldiers alone and NOT desecrate them after they had vanquished their foes. Well, the rest of the story is that the young braves stripped, skinned and scalped all but Custer after it was over. When they went to bury their own, it was a brutal scene as the heat and brutality against the corpses was nauseating. That is why I got my degree - to avoid shovel duty......
Back on track..... Later, as we traveled back from the east coast, we again had to pull over and crash and did so in Newark, Ohio, the site of one of the more intact mounds. It is a religious observatory that documents the lunar cycles on their 18.6 year maxiums. If this is a central tenet of your worship, then the use of this observatory would be key in keeping things on track. There are other mounds (thousands, actually) in the Midwest that show a love for and detail the culture of the day, including one which is clearly a mammoth (but the anti's declared there were no mammoths in the Book of Mormon, did they not??).
Here is one that was thankfully documented in the 1840's by a surveyor who took an interest in the amazing things just sitting around from the past Hopewell culture:
This clearly shows a menorah and Jewish lamp. But, nah, there is NO connection there..... (sarcasm).
I am somewhat glad that I was woken up by Rod Meldrum's book on the Heartland Model.
I will post more of what we saw on our tour of the midwest.
I have read … and I don't know if it was on your blog, but John Weasley Powell, the explorer, had lived in the Palmyra area, and who's father had lost many of his flock along with his preacher job to Mormonism. It was Powell who had great influence upon the Smithsonian of which he was a member, who established the credo that the indians were always a backward, primitive culture, with nothing more to see here. Anything that deviates from that scenario such as evidence of foreign cultures from Europe, and the middle east, particularly are fraudulent. Evolution has been added, to reinforce the story which is why stories of giants and other such evidences of anomalies have been hidden and covered up from the publics knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI cannot stand our government, it is plain evil in so manny ways. It makes me spitting mad when they are so compelled to hide so much from us. To reinforce and misfits and losers in the Industrial, academic, government media, complex.
The reason I read this blog and others is to find truth, what ever it might be, no matter how inconvenient, and uncomfortable.
Ooohh, oooh, I found my notes I made about this book to do with Powell's coverups:
ReplyDeleteThe Ancient Giants who Ruled America by Richard J Dewhurst News paper reports from as far back as the 19th century of people 7 and 8 feet tall with metal kettles pipes and others. Information surpressed by Smithsonian Institute to support John Wesley Powell’s assertion that the Indians were primitive and ancestry have always have been in support of darwin’s theories. Powell’s father was a pastor in Palmyra NY who lost his flock to the Mormons and there is the idea that Powell wants to divest the nation of any idea that there were any other people who came here representing some of the Lost Tribes. All this wrapped up with manifest destiny of the superiority of the white race to justify the take over the continent. Many have established carrers and reputaions based upon these
contaminated constructs.
The heartland model is very compelling to be sure. The Bat Cave stone, other objects with Hebrew like language characters, huge city complexes that were fortified with steep embankments, high walls of dirt, and other such things are very interesting indeed. But nothing can replace a spiritual witness as to the divinity of the message and it's literality. Some Mesoamerican theories are okay, but they don't quite hold up to the whole Zion's camp and the march through the land of the Nephites, or the missionary trips to the remnants of the Laminates in Western Missouri.
ReplyDeleteIn the long run does it really matter? Maybe not, but we are seek after truth - not just cultural adaptations to editorial comments in early Nauvoo papers or heroic paintings that are fun to look at but not really grounded in much more than "it looks neat".
The Jaredites were very large people. Joseph Smith mentioned that the breastplate that had the Urim and Thummim attached to it could hold two Joseph Smiths inside it shoulder to shoulder. The Brother of Jared would then be over 7 feet tall and about 500 lbs. All muscle. The Gentiles in the Book of Mormon are members of the church who have not yet allowed Christ to convert them with the baptism of fire and the Holy Ghost. They have one foot in Babylon and the other in Zion that Elder Maxwell spoke of years ago. These "Gentiles" are the future unwise virgins and tares.
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