Keep your eye on the planets!

D&C 88 is my text for this post.  It is not my intention to expound the entire section, only to bring to the reader’s attention one very significant theological point that I feel the LDS are generally overlooking: the emphasis on PLANETS.  As a help, I will put in bold all the references to planets.
The [...]

Plasma Rods: A Theoretical Concept

This is for what4anarchy’s benefit, but the general public can read it as well. Perhaps someone out there may want to test the theory. Plasma scientists, in particular, are extended a special invitation, to build this and see what happens.
How to Build a Plasma Rod

Instructions:  Stack up to sixteen inertialess drive rotors, one on top [...]

D&C 87, expounded

This is my understanding of this section.
The section heading
Revelation and prophecy on war, given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, December 25, 1832. HC 1: 301–302. This section was received at a time when the brethren were reflecting and reasoning upon African slavery on the American continent and the slavery of the children of men throughout [...]

Monson and his constipated physics redux; or, how electric gravity makes hollow earthers happy

I’ve mentioned Milton W. Monson and his curious book once before on this blog, but without really explaining its impact on me.  Whatever you think of him, after reading the book, it is hard to get it out of your mind.  A look at the reactions to it by the physics boys who’ve actually read [...]

The Noachian Flood, Part Two: Electrically manufacturing OH

Continued from part one.
There didn’t seem to be a whole lot of interest in The Noachian Flood, Part One: The role of plasma, so I held off on writing and releasing Part Two. In fact, so much did I hold off, that I totally forgot about Part One and the promised Part Two, until [...]

Modern Signs

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Modern Signs
Joseph’s most profound and enlightening sermon on the signs of the last days, given on the temple grounds at Nauvoo in April, 1843, demonstrates his views of the origin and nature of those signs, as well as our ability to recognize them for what they are.
“There will be wars [...]

The Keys to Prophecy XI: Prophecy and the Restored Gospel

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The Keys to Prophecy XI:
Prophecy and the Restored Gospel
This series has identified several keys to prophecy in the restored gospel.
When we let our scriptures speak for themselves, without imposing our own ‘modern,’ ‘scientific’ preconceptions upon them, an entirely different picture of the past emerges than the one we’ve been taught.
It [...]

The Keys to Prophecy VII: A New Heaven, a New Earth

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The Keys to Prophecy VII:
A New Heaven, a New Earth
Our culture knows nothing of the incredible changes wrought in the heavens anciently.  This is so because of our ‘scientific’ view that there have been no significant changes in the solar system’s arrangement during recorded history.
But the scriptures and the prophets [...]

The Keys to Prophecy VI: A Great Star

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The Keys to Prophecy VI:
A Great Star
If we look closely at the images venerated by the ancients from the point of view that they may have been inspired by planets standing in close proximity to the Earth, we see them with new eyes.  And because we adopt this view, we [...]

The Keys to Prophecy II: Joseph Smith’s Marvelous Key

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The Keys To Prophecy II
Joseph Smith’s Marvelous Key
The first and perhaps most crucial key to prophecy was revealed in this dispensation by Joseph Smith when he spoke on the subject of scriptural imagery.
“The prophets do not declare that they saw a beast or beasts, but that they saw the image [...]