#book of abraham

[pierranesi]

my old account got banned and I came back weirder and hornier but I missed this being on tumblr bc look at it!!!

[unpackingexmo-blog]

Lies of omission

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Van Helsing & Mina: We're going to defeat Dracula with the power of friendship!

Quincey: And this gun I found!

[characterssaythedarnestthings]

"We are going to defeat Dracula with two things: Garlic, and the ✨Power Of Friendship ✨💕💫😻😽😸🥳🫶🤩🥰🥰. Here, I made crucifix Friendship bracelets! 🥰✝️📿" - Abraham Van Helsing, Dracula

[wasmormon]

I was born and raised into the LDS faith. I paid a full tithing on my gross. At home, I actively prayed, read the scriptures, watched and attended General Conference, held Family Home Evenings with my family, and did everything else a good Mormon should do. I am an avid reader, I study cryptography and mathematics for fun, I love solving puzzles. I was a Mormon.

When the church published a series of 13 Gospel Topics Essays on their website, a friend pointed out to me that the church finally admitted that Joseph Smith was a polygamist. I fought back, because I was raised and taught that he was monogamous, and even went so far as to tell my friend he must be mistaken, or the church had it wrong.

However, I admitted that I didn’t know a lot about the issue, and promised him I would look into it. As an avid reader, and an amateur researcher, I held to my promise. But the deeper I dug into Joseph Smith’s history, the deeper I went down the rabbit hole of LDS church history.

I was soon learning not only about Joseph Smith’s polygamy, but also his folk magic, and the problems with the Book of Abraham, and the Kinderhook Plates, and so much more, to the point that it became very clear to me that the narrative I was learning was not matching the dominant narrative I learned growing up, nor the dominant narrative that is currently being taught.

I tried hard to give space for the historicity of the church claims, but every essay, paper, blog post, podcast episode, and so much more, was lined with mountains and mountains of references and citations, all of which could be verified. The ���anti-mormon” literature I was reading was really the true church history, and it rocked my world.

I was deeply consumed with everything I could get my hands on to try so hard to prove that these “antimormon lies” were just that – lies. But it the exact opposite. After 9 months of intense and exhausting research, I realized that the evidence for the truth claims lied overwhelmingly with the critics of Mormonism, and not the apologetics.

- Aaron

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For months, I dealt with anger and depression, as I tried to wrestle with 40 years of my life essentially being a lie. But, the storm settled, the relationship with my wife grew stronger, and now I have honest conversations with my wife and daughter about real issues, doctrine and policy, that shape our lives and the lives around us. These discussions are healthy, they provide deep reflection and introspection into difficult topics, and we have a space where we are happy, vibrant, and authentic.

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[an-hypnos-dri]

something about eyes and souls

[my-heart-of-heart]

I’ve been waiting for this one…

[elisavi]

dracula is my most recent source of serotonin so here's part of the gang + renfield

[lionofchaeronea]

Abraham and the Three Angels, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1770

[forthegothicheroine]

I flipped through a book at the library (I didn't get it because I already have several checked out and more on hold, but I hope to come back to it) Did Lincoln Own Slaves? : and Other Frequently Asked Questions About Abraham Lincoln. I flipped through it, and came to the title question. The answer, as I already knew, was no, definitively not.

The next question and answer I found interesting- "So why do we keep asking?" The author said that the country used to worship founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson who owned slaves and, in Jefferson's case, fathered children with them, and now that we've reexamined how we should think of and teach about them, we start to be suspicious of our other national heroes.

And that's good, he says! We should never take hagiographies for granted! We should look into who these people actually were rather than unthinkingly calling them saints! Lincoln specifically was flawed and did some things unworthy of idolizing- it's just that on this particular issue, we have a definitive answer.

(I would have added "Also, lost causers want to prove him a hypocrite," but probably for the best, the author was assuming the questions were in good faith.)

[georgiacooked]

It’s hereeee! It has arrived! My hardback proof copy of the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection! My housemate spotted a few text issues to fix on the back cover, but otherwise it looks so gooood! My tiny Art Child!

Hoping to get a paperback proof sorted next, then onto seeing how best to sell them!

[kinginthemask]

~𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑙, 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑~

[the-forest-library]

Dracula by Bram Stoker with illustrations by Edward Gorey

[nando161mando]

[evydraws]

They're hard at work!