Jen Oliver

The weather will clear all this out on its own.

@Local_man2479 That’s cool. I wonder how I can use this in my lectures .

The Oldest Known Book in History Was Written on Gold Plates Most people assume the world’s oldest books were written on paper or animal skins. But history has something even older — and it’s on gold. Archaeologists uncovered what is often called the Etruscan Gold Book. It is a set of six gold plates bound together with metal rings. Some scholars consider it the oldest known multi‑page bound work, or book, in the world, because the gold plates are connected in a manner similar to a codex. The plates are inscribed with Etruscan characters and symbolic figures. Experts explain that this is not a random collection of metal sheets. The gold plates form a structured, continuous record or document, dating back to around 660 BC, long before many of the oldest known paper manuscripts. Here’s what makes this especially fascinating: the Etruscan Gold Book was discovered around 1943 (or possibly 1955) in the Struma River area of Bulgaria, and its existence became publicly known when it was donated to the National Historical Museum in Sofia in 2003. That is remarkable because Joseph Smith described a similar record on gold plates over 100 years earlier, in 1823. At the time Smith made this claim, no archaeologist, historian, or collector had ever found anything like a bound book made of metal plates. In the early 1800s, some people were aware that ancient civilizations sometimes wrote on metal. However, the vast majority of known inscriptions were brief — typically one line or just a few words — rather than extended narratives or bound records. There is no record of anyone in 1823 — scholars, collectors, or the general public — being aware of multi‑plate metal books. Some early books also discussed gold artifacts from ancient American civilizations like the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca, describing jewelry, figurines, and ceremonial objects. However, none mentioned narrative writing on gold plates or bound plate records. Since Joseph Smith’s claim, archaeologists have uncovered other examples of writing on metal plates. The Pyrgi Tablets, three gold plates inscribed in Etruscan and Phoenician, were discovered in 1964 in Italy. Another notable find comes from Persepolis in Iran, where gold and silver foundation plates with inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian, attributed to King Darius I (522–486 BC), were retrieved from stone boxes during excavations in 1933–1934. These plates were intentionally placed in stone boxes as part of a foundation ritual, paralleling Joseph Smith’s description of his plates being buried in a stone box. Only in the mid‑20th century did scholars find a real ancient example of a bound multi-plate record — the Etruscan Gold Book. Scholars describe this artifact not as a loose set of metal objects, but as a structured, book‑like object. Multiple plates are joined by rings in sequence, with inscriptions reflecting organized content. This type of record‑keeping was not part of the known archaeological record in the early 1800s. In other words, Joseph Smith described a bound record on gold plates long before such an artifact was known to historians. Now we know that the format he described really did exist in antiquity, even though it wasn’t discovered until decades after his death. That’s more than coincidence. Written: the bronze serpent #BookOfMormon #JosephSmith #GoldPlates #AncientRecords #EtruscanGoldBook #OldestBookInHistory #BiblicalHistory #AncientArtifacts #HistoricalMysteries #Archaeology

@PenelopeSalem Maybe.

@JenOliverQC These guys take long breaks between 135lb bench reps? They are obviously there to canvass for women, not to work out. The longer they are there, the more chances they have to cross paths with a "hot mom".

Gym bros. Thank you for sitting on the bench press, taking phone calls, and starring at your phone for 5 mins in between your 135 reps. Sincerely, superset folks everywhere.

Anna Paulina Luna: "I have enough evidence to believe both Governor Tim Walz and Keith Ellison were knowingly complicit in a Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota. Therefore I have referred them BOTH to the DOJ for criminal charges. May justice be swift."

@RandPaul Hell no, Rand. Not as long as ICE agents are being harassed.

One compromise/ reform that could end the standoff of DHS funding: ICE agents henceforth won’t wear masks in any situation where other law enforcement officers don’t wear masks, courthouses, the streets of our cites, etc. Masks are reserved for the lawless zone along the border where the cartels dominate.

@jmbrim3 Nothing. You won’t find a better group of human beings anywhere on the planet. Even the cool kids have their annoying quirks too. But we need them.

If you had a magic wand to change one thing about church culture or the attitude of members what would it be?

Divorces......0 Proposals... 1 Marriage......1 Children......4 Surgeries....0 Tattoos........0 Shot a gun.. yes Been on tv.. yes Watch someone die... yes Rode in an ambulance... no Sang karaoke...yes Rode a jet ski... yes Arrested... no

@LDSLaw The werewolf or do I have the wrong Taylor?

I just saw that Taylor Lorenz is out there saying that we're in "Year 6" of a global pandemic.

@Hashboz Back when Twitter was a lot of fun.

The best of times. The worst of times.

Eat them frozen or we aren’t friends.

@NoblestCalling We need old people who have nothing to gain by ignoring stuff.

An older grumpy gentleman in our ward made a post on the ward Facebook this week that was effectively "The sound of little children in Sacrament meeting is wonderful, but you ADULTS are EMBARRASSING and you all need to reread this talk from President Hinckley about reverence!" NGL I chuckled

@PioneerPaperTrl There’s a lot of autism on this app.

Your job as music coordinator is not to be counter-cultural.

It’s a weird thing to assume that privatizing security means amnesia.

@LauraPowellEsq Sounds like things commies do.

A book about the United Farm Workers, which is based on firsthand accounts, shows that when Dolores Huerta was vice president in the late 1970s, she sometimes used personal and sexual allegations to target opponents within the organization. At a tense board meeting, Huerta insisted “the a**holes are trying to sabotage us,” warning that people would even “marry people just to get us.” She suggested that a young volunteer’s romantic interest in her was part of an infiltration plot. When other board members questioned her claims, she responded angrily, “If someone f*cks me, they assume it is my fault.” César Chávez also sometimes promoted the idea that critics were using sex and relationships to manipulate union leadership. When Chávez’s wife found a copy of a love letter from a young woman he had apparently had an affair with, he tried to convince her that he was framed by disgruntled former employees. Huerta remained loyal to Chávez and supported his story by reiterating her “conspiracies” about the ways in which sex and sexual misconduct allegations were used in the organization. These claims carried into personnel decisions. After an employee didn’t invite Huerta to a party, she accused the employee of undermining the union, and an accusation of sexual misconduct against the employee arose. Despite a lack of substantiation, Huerta and César’s brother Richard—who was in a common-law marriage with Huerta at that point—“purged” the woman from the organization. In another case, Huerta spread claims that a UFW employee was gay and a threat to the organization. Despite objections that he was doing strong work, he was forced out. By all accounts, Huerta had frequent conflicts with colleagues, and many point to the use of such allegations to remove perceived opponents as contributing to turmoil in the union during this period.

@extradeadjcb What do you think would happen if the executive branch handed over most all federal executive departments back to the states?

I like Mike a lot, he's one of our best guys But it's going to be devastating when he spends months whipping SAVE across the finish line, & then Amy Coney Barrett says "mmm sorry, someone told me a sad story & now I don't like the way this rule makes me feel"

Ok but Ketanji Brown Jackson & Sonia Sotomayor & Elena Kagan don't believe in the Constitution & aren't going to give you permission to do anything like that under any circumstances So unless you are willing to ignore them none of this matters

Much easier to smuggle those drugs in, I guess.

@OrangeBubb43389 @Manhattva I have no doubt Trump is not as trusting as previous presidents. He’s already faced the corruption.

@JenOliverQC @Manhattva Like all Presidents, he was not an independent decision maker. He was told what to do. Just as our President is now.

Wut?

@LDSLaw If only it were a two way split. I think it starts that way and then ends up with tribalism. Zion will be one of the tribes and too terrible to mess with while the world burns.

There will absolutely be a civil war in the US. A society this fractured is impossible to maintain.