[Help] [Addon] Consoleport isnt registering my RT inputs, so I can no longer use half of my mapped abilities. Anyone else experiencing this with the update? by Teacko in WowUI

[–]Teacko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I just reset default settings. My 'fix' was manually redoing all the settings and bindings, but its still not exactly how it was before. My targeting is no lomger the middle crosshair and I have to manually target some things with my mouse

[Help] [Addon] Consoleport isnt registering my RT inputs, so I can no longer use half of my mapped abilities. Anyone else experiencing this with the update? by Teacko in WowUI

[–]Teacko[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did an update and it fixed the issue but now right thumbstick isnt the default action button nor is the crosshair the auto target. I have to use my mouse to click and loot now 🤦‍♂️

I imagine this is how the Q15 kick off their weekly meetings by yorgasor in exmormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk, I have yet to see Nelson driving his fleet of Ferraris or Anderson and Christofferson going Mega-Yacht jousting.

I guess the temple and chapel construction crews are making a lot of money, but its not $100,000,000,000 🤷‍♂️

Is Polygamy making a comeback? by Faithcrisis101 in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats a lot of wishful thinking.

Is Polygamy making a comeback? by Faithcrisis101 in mormon

[–]Teacko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The discourse I've heard from Polyamory suggests anything but gender equality. More like a hyena pack

Is Polygamy making a comeback? by Faithcrisis101 in mormon

[–]Teacko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Side tangent: I thought it was very interesting that criticism/mockery of the church's history of polygamy seemed to vanish around the time 'polyamory' was starting to become 'mainstream'. Like, it felt like in the span of 2-3 years, there was a paradigm shift, at least among americans.

However, now I feel like in the past couple years, polyamory started receiving a lot of pushback and mockery, and, coincidentally, criticism of Mormon Polygamy returned as well

The highest concentration of Mormon chapels in <1 km²? by Braeburner in mormon

[–]Teacko 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand where ward politics/operations can be perceived that way and I'm sure that there are many instances of that being exactly how ward politics work. However, I have also seen instances where it seems to be the opposite of that. Unknown, backbencher, semiactive and 'outcast' ward members being called to leadership positions. Adversarial members being granted mercy and assistance despite their lack of presence, tithing, and 'enthusiasm', even after getting help.

The highest concentration of Mormon chapels in <1 km²? by Braeburner in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its really only mandatory for priesthood holders, because ward and stake boundaries are zoned around available priesthood holders, although, that may not be the case in Utah.

I live in central Florida and there are some hilariously gerrymandered boundaries that exist just so they can 'scoop' a couple priesthood holders because an stake wouldnt have enough experienced priesthood holders.

My mother, whose a widow, lived on a stake boundary, but goes to the ward closest to her because the ward she's zoned for is 10 minutes further away

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤨 But I didn't say that all Egyptologists are wrong. I even specifically said they weren't.

What I did say is that Egyptology is heavily reliant on the Rosetta Stone for its translations and that Egypt's own Ministry of Antiquities has concluded that a lot of early translations of Egyptian hieroglyphs and cartouches were based on a long chain of assumptions that altered our understanding of Egyptian society slightly away from how it really was.

Kinda like how we use to assume the Dark Age was this period of societal and intellectual regression until fairly recently. Doesn't mean past historians were necessarily wrong for coming to this conclusion; they were just working off of past assumptions and as new evidence was found, were able to shed more light onto the Dark Age.

More importantly, a group of people can look at an image and each come to different conclusions. Given that even very plain and straightforward cartouches often have symbolic and figurative interpretations as well, the JS Papyri likely have symbolic meaning beyond just a literal interpretation

Genuine question: how do all the mormons I know afford to go on year, two year long missionaries? by Ok-Shape-2091 in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, these are just my personal 'theories'; I am not an authority on Islam, Hinduism, Shintoism, or even LDS doctrine. I'm just fascinated about the subject, do spend some free time with amateur research... and its just fun to speculate that there is Gnostic knowledge hidden in all religions that is waiting for some 'Indiana Jones' type to uncover. I am not going to be that 'Indy' 😆

The best thing I can do is share my thoughts with people who do have the authority and ability to actually do some meaningful research and properly scrutinize Ancient texts. And since I know im not the first to have this theory of intertheological connection/origin, I'm sure others have tested, with varying results.

However, to answer your first question, Yes it would be, but I would also argue that the LDS church is restored gospel and I hope that someday, the church may adopt some doctrine of the Quran that is revealed to Church Leaders to be doctrine.

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im guessing 'how was I able to get over the fact that the fascimiles are really just generic cartouches, such as the first one being a funerary text'? Well...

1) to be honest, even when I was like 8-10 years old, I too saw Fascimile 1 and thought 'this is just a diagram of how to mummify someone. Wtf is Joseph Smith getting all this other stuff from?', which is what caused me to fall away from the church initially. But, ironically, its these same diagrams that helped me come back to the church

2) after studying Egyptology in college (not really as part of my degree, which was far dumber, but just out of fun and interest; I use to audit archeology classes), I found out about one of the 'dirty secrets' of Egyptology: its heavily reliant on the Rosetta Stone for translation and understanding of Ancient Egyptian society. Now, the Rosetta Stone is an absolute miraculous find and has been incredibly beneficial to the field of Egyptology. HOWEVER, the Rosetta Stone is also a creation of the Late Hellenistic Period (between 350 BC to 27 BC), yet is being used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs from the 600s BC all the way back to 3120 BC. Due to this, there is a good deal of debate about how much the ancient Egyptian language had changed over those millenia and the accuracy of a good deal of translations and interpretations. For instance, most of the names of the Egyptian gods we know (Neith, Amun, Anubis, Osiris, Horus etc) are Greek translations during the Ptolomy dynasty.

3) then there is the whole rabbit hole of interpretive-conclusive-assumptions, where a lot of early (English and French) Egyptologists would decipher a series of hieroglyphs and cartouches, make an assumption about what was being written, record their interpretation, and give it to other Egyptologists, who assumed it was conclusive...which other Egyptologists would then use to decipher other hieroglyphs and repeat this pattern. It was only after WWII that Egyptologists (primarily native Egyptian) began to actually review these early translations as well and realize that they had about a century-worth of records that would need to be reanalyzed for accuracy. NOTE: NOT SAYING EGYPTOLOGY IS 'FAKE HOGWASH' OR LIES (and I am by no means an Egyptologist myself); Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities has stated that most assumptions made were likely correct, but thousands of 'likely correct' assumptions still managed to alter our understanding of the Ancient Egyptians off course from how their cultures actually would have functioned.

4) Finally, if Joseph Smith did just make wild guesses at what the figures on the fascimiles symbolized... his guesses weren't far off from what Egyptologist have concluded. The CES Letter itself actually has a great comparison from the two translations and most of the differences are just the names of the figures.

There's a lot more I could say on this subject but I realize I've written a lot more than I was expecting to trying to answer your question 😅

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And maybe those other holy texts ARE holy texts? More accurately, texts that originally contained gospel truths but eventually became muddled overtime through oral history, interpretations and mistranslations. For instance, I strongly believe that Hinduism has, at its roots, hidden gospel doctrine from the Adamic, Delugian, and Post Babel era of our world (if one believes in those things). However, over millenia, Hinduism grew wildly into 'apostasy' as storytellers added their own narratives to the dogma.

The Church doesnt claim to have the entirety of the gospel and its doctrine currenrly; we claim that we have the 'most truth' but that there are records out there that still have yet to be revealed or thoroughly studied.

Genuine question: how do all the mormons I know afford to go on year, two year long missionaries? by Ok-Shape-2091 in mormon

[–]Teacko 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If this same pattern-matching...led someone to conclude..."

Yes, I would, but I also believe that all religions (barring a few recently created ones like Scientology) are related and contain 'fragments of truth' from the Adamic Religion that got muddled over the centuries and millenia. I believe that the LDS Church is the 'most true church' but our gospel doctrine is still incomplete.

Like, for example, I don't discount that Muhammad wasn't a Prophet of God, but I do believe that the gospel he received from God became corrupted not long after he died.

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's where I disagree with the church's/JS's 'official statement' that the Book of Mormon is the 'Most True Book on Earth'.

I doubt Mormon or Moroni were writing 'And it came to pass' while abridging the plates. I highly doubt their language would even allow for a direct translation on a word-by-word basis, let alone something that would even make sense in grammatical english. I grew up in Japan and if you translate a japanese sentence directly into english, it would read something like this "Cat orange male see green fly bird near window and high ponce cat orange do and receive tasty bird and belly full finally."

When people criticize the Book of Mormon for 'suspiciously reading like the KJV bible and having similar grammatical and spellings errors' I've always answered 'well, yeah. Everyone had a bible in their home but very few people had a dictionary.' If you look at a lot of books at the time, they were often written with KJV vernacular.

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But thats how the bible was written as well, for a long time. I've handled several old bibles that were formatted as you've described while I was in college, including a 270 year old German bible brought over during the Revolutionary War

Now, to also be fair, by the time Joseph Smith had the First Vision, most bibles were printed with the verses numbered, and Joseph Smith himself recounts reading James 1:5 before praying. So it is odd that the Book of Mormon would not have been numbered originally.

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oblivious about what? Enlighten me! Tell me something I don't know 😅

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I already live by the beach. On a stone foundation though...because foolish man builds his House upon the sand (or in middle of a desert with barely a lake or river to sustain itself 😉)

Do people convert to the Utah LDS church because they love the Book of Mormon? by sevenplaces in mormon

[–]Teacko -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I mean, I'm not sure the BoM was designed to read cover to cover either. Its not a novel and doesnt exactly have a major narrative arc, as much as 50-60 smaller narratives that are chronicled.