long ago ideas

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." - Friedrich Nietzsche. Long ago, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery conquered false claims that the Book of Mormon was fiction or that it came through a stone in a hat. But these old claims have resurfaced in recent years. To conquer them again, we have to return to what Joseph and Oliver taught.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Tragedy in Baalbeck

Apparently the ancient Lebanese city of Baalbek is being attacked now.


The article includes this image:


We all hope that the antiquities there are not destroyed.

When I was in Lebanon years ago, we visited Baalbek. I bought this memento, a curved metal shield that is about 12 inches in diameter:



I still have a piece of shrapnel from an Israeli bomb, along with fossilized seashells that the bomb uncovered, that I collected on the top of a mountain in Lebanon. 

Lebanon is a fabulous place. The people are wonderful. Let's all hope that the scourge of hatred based on the "traditions of the fathers" will vanish with the rising generations.

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