Originally posted by indy007
Here's a better one... Which man do you suppose would be more responsible? The man who believes in civil liberties based on the constitution? Or the man who believes the teachings of a treasure hunter passing on the word of a magically invisible alien from some gold plates nobody has ever actually seen?
I saw 'em.
I was hiking one summer afternoon in upstate New York when, fairly close to my car, I passed by a lone tree on a hill. I thought this would be a good place to rest and reflect on the saunter I just took, so I walked over to sit down in the shade of the magnificent hardwood.
Just as I was about to sit, my foot crashed through the surface and I went down to my knee. I pulled out my foot and found that I had stepped into a buried oak box. I dug out the box and found within it a set of impressive gold tablets inscribed with what appeared to be some ancient text and some polished stones about the size of hens eggs.
I put them into the trunk of my car and returned home. I did some research and found that the stones were used in the deciphering of the ancient text, and that I must have stumbled upon the tablets of Joseph Smith.
I lost interest in them for a while after that, and then one day a Mormon friend of mine told me that Smith had them for a short time, and had not translated the whole text before he had to return them to the angel.
It was then I remembered that they were still in the trunk of my car, and I had traded the car for a TV and a hide-a-bed.
I wonder where that car is now.
