@laethcore The spirit doesnt need words though. perfect communication is maybe more like a feeling?
all other (human) ideas are simply "better" or "worse" in how well they prompt us to act
Haha I hated using the word drowning but basically do a deep dive in the small and simple things.
Best advice I can give is (1) read the Book of Mormon but try SPECIFICALLY to avoid focusing on the stories, the primary kid memes.
Look past them and look for patterns and symbols and act like you've never heard songs or seen cartoons. Get that all out of your brain, it's antimemetic poison. Read it like you're Parley in the 1800s.
(2)
It helps to read scholars or podcasts who have mapped the book of mormon language to hebrew roots.
Learn to only see consonants where appropriate.
Mulek son of King Zedekiah...
his name Mulek == Moloch
"I myself was a wicked man" says Omni, who passes it to son Amaron then brother he named Chemish == Chemosh the aries war god
(3) look for patterns and chiasms where concepts reverse. Look for adjacent mappings of ideas. Look where a word is used because the text is often self defining.
I will provide an example below w Bountiful.
Bountiful is a representation of an end of their journey, a celestial room, and of reaching the Tree of Life, and it says so and triple emphasizes the word and mountain ascent being associated.
The text is screaming it!
And then they have to prepare to leave just like the Saints finishing the Nauvoo temple and then having to build handcarts. The temple gift prepares you for a bigger journey, and you get endowed before mission or marriage.
Jesus appeared at the temple in Bountiful and then sent people forth to be missionaries from there in 3rd Nephi, and people labored hard to get there in time to see Jesus, as though along the rod of iron to reach the Tree of Life.
It's all right there, you just have to learn what it means to search, laboring intellectually to pattern match and seek and ask and knock and so forth.
This is false
The method used by Holmes in this specific study (specifically vocab richness) have been disproven as a weak discriminator
Also secular studies agree with the original BYU study, there were definitively multiple voices
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@emuse1955 look into what happens when they test this on the federalist papers?
"the features that drove the clustering should have been strong enough to give rise to at least a few between author clusters"
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