Jason Optional

What do you know about what cognitive science knows about the limits and capacities of the human brain? Do you know who Miller and Cowan are and what their influence is on our understanding of short-term memory? What about Baddeley and Hitch wrt working memory? Or Levelt and Bock? Flower and Hayes? If you don’t know and need to ask an AI or the internet for help, then you probably shouldn’t get involved with any conversation about Joseph Smith’s dictation process, ESPECIALLY on Alma 36.

One of the top reasons why people have been increasingly leaving the LDS church

Oliver Cowdery, an original witness to the BOM and the first councilor to Joseph Smith, stated that Smith was involved in an affair with Fanny Alger who worked for the Smith family as a nanny. She is stated to have been about 16 at the time. Cowdery was excommunicated by the LDS "church" for publicly speaking against Smith's "affair" at the time. LDS excommunication records still exist which list witnesses to Cowdery's statements. Also, there is a copy of Cowdery's letter to his brother describing the dirty, nasty, filthy affair with Fanny Alger in a museum that certain LDS scholars recognize as legitimate because it is in the family book of letters owned by the Cowdery family. Of course, many modern Mormons will hem and haw about the letter, but Oliver's excommunication for the exact same topic confirms the letter as accurate. None this evidence matters to most Mormons because they do not care if Joseph was a false prophet or not. His teachings are what they have decided to follow, the club they are in satisfies them and they will risk their eternity on the church's teachings. It has also been declared by some LDS husbands that even though they have issues with Joseph and the church, they fear the struggle with their wives if they were to start considering the consequences of leaving the "church", so they eat the fruit that is handed to them and accept the eternal consequences.

These are the types of questions that led me here …