Longest Thread Ever

[PearlWatson]

Of course we could exhaust this subject further by talking of the Black Pearl of Pirates of the Caribbean:

and then that leads us to the beautiful mermaid on the show( Gemma Ward from Australia):

 

[LogGrad98]

To answer your question Pearl, I have no ****ing clue why, I just did. And am somewhat regretting it. Things were so peaceful before.

 

[babe]

Of course we could exhaust this subject further by talking of the Black Pearl of Pirates of the Caribbean:

and then that leads us to the beautiful mermaid on the show( Gemma Ward from Australia):

Just a comment here on the things that drive me crazy.


Women.

So how come a mermaid's hair is always dry and nicely curled? And how come the makeup isn't running streaks all over her face???

 

[babe]

Of course we could exhaust this subject further by talking of the Black Pearl of Pirates of the Caribbean:

and then that leads us to the beautiful mermaid on the show( Gemma Ward from Australia):

One thing you do well, Pearl, is pose starkly opposite images in context right next to each other, , , , ,

 

[babe]

That's just creepy. I just read that book.

I think of the name Pearl as more of old lady with curlers in her hair type of name...but Pearl is just a play on the name Earl which is rather rednecky.

I didn't expect 3 separate tangents to the Pearl questions, but that was a nice surprise.

Where did you get this information? Is it just a tidbit rolling around in that big brain of yours?:

And even soldiers in the Hopewell civilization, living in Ohio or thereabouts, got into a sort of one-upsmanship thing about embedding pearls into their helmets, breastplates, and other wartime gear, not too long before the buffalo-hunting Lamanites came in the do a mass genocide party. Mound-diggers were finding stuff like that when Solomon Spaulding was spinning his yarns.​

I learned a little more about black pearls:

What Makes a Black Pearl Black?

Black pearls are formed when that piece of sand gets stuck in the body of a very specific type of oyster, the Tahitian black-lipped Pinctada margaritifera. The interior shell, called the nacre, of most oysters is usually a glossy white or silver but the Tahitian black-lipped oyster features a thick band of black. If the pearl forms near that band, it will suck up that coloring.

Tahitian black-lipped pearls can be darker if they develop closer to the lips, and can also be a silvery gray color if they get wedged in a lighter portion of the oyster. If an oyster that typically produces white pearls has an unusual black coloring in its nacre, it too can create a blackish pearl. This, however, is rare; it occurs in only one in 10,000 pearls.

The price of a black pearl depends on its size, shape, luster, color and surface quality, which is graded on a scale from A to D. A perfectly round, AAA quality, 10 mm-sized Tahitian black pearl goes for $140, according to pearlparadise.com, while a round, AAA, 10 mm white freshwater pearl costs about $15, according to youpearl.com​

I could do at least fifteen replies to this single post. . . . .

 

[babe]

The Heartland Hypothesis

For Pearl. . . . the answer to your question above. . . .

Where did you get this information? Is it just a tidbit rolling around in that big brain of yours?:

And even soldiers in the Hopewell civilization, living in Ohio or thereabouts, got into a sort of one-upsmanship thing about embedding pearls into their helmets, breastplates, and other wartime gear, not too long before the buffalo-hunting Lamanites came in the do a mass genocide party. Mound-diggers were finding stuff like that when Solomon Spaulding was spinning his yarns.

A more important and relevant question might be. . . . where did Joseph Smith or Sidney Rigdon or Solomon Spaulding get that information????

And how did all that get rolled up in the saga of The Book of Mormon????

I got a DVD set. . . .or more accurately, my wife got me a DVD set. . . . put out by FIRM. . . . the Foundation for Indigeous Research on Mormonism. . . . under the scholarship of Rod Meldrum. . . . which does a pretty nice job in tying all this together to support the historicity and chronology of The Book of Mormon.

But don't take his word on it, or mine. Take a vacation this spring and drive back to the region comprised ob Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and parts of Michigan other states around. . . . after going online to look up archeological museums of the area dealing with the "Mound Builders" or Hopewell Civilization which archaeologists say flourished there between 200 BC and 400 AD.

The museums in Ohio have a lot of artifacts. . . . implements of war like helmets, spears, breastplates and shields. . . . many made of copper. . . . with, in the care of items coming from the later time of that time frame, a lot of pearls embedded in the gear. The Hopewell civilization had trade from the north of Michigan and Wisconsin to the Atlantic, if not the Gulf.

 

[babe]

Ten years ago, the "Christians" who specialize in demonizing all things Mormon were dancing on the grave of Mormonism, with erudite pronouncements about the lack of archaeological evidence supporting the existence of people in America who could reasonably be believed to be the civilization The Book of Mormon describes. . . . . No iron, no cement, no horses. . . . no massive piles of bones or weapons on a scale that could be consistent with the stories in the Book. No DNA links between American Indians and the people of Israel anciently. . . . a lot of stuff like that. . . . . was all made out to "prove" the fiction of Joseph's Smiths tales. . . .

 

[babe]

The critics of Joseph Smith start out by making a lot of his "money digging" work in his very early years. . . . ten to twelve year-old boys, I suppose, who are willing to hire themselves out to dig holes, should never be permitted to live down the shame of their disreputable conduct. . . ., at least not by self-respecting pious Christian folks.

Overlooked is the question of why people in that day and age were hiring people to dig holes. . . . .

 

[babe]

looking for silver in the ground is obviously a proof of the highest calibre against the sobriety of other people. . . . and of their piety. . . .

 

[babe]

Back in those days, a lot of men were digging holes in the ground. . . . in New York of all places.

One such hole was the Erie Canal.

 

[babe]

The stories running through the woods of upstate New York at that time. . . . . workers digging the Erie Canal encountered mass graves ten feet deep in human bones that when exposed to air quickly fell apart into mere powder. . . . In places the forest floor was strewn with spearheads, mauls, and axeheads. . . . the spear shafts, arrow shafts, or even metal gear, left on the surface in that wet region must have quickly gone to soil, but the rock points and weapons didn't. . . .

 

[babe]

Years ago, when studying the subject, I found a New England writer of the seventeenth century holding forth on the similarities of the American Indians with the Bible peoples. . . . who made it his point that therefore the natives must be the lost tribes of Israel. . . .