[samtheman]

Maybe the plates were pure gold and Smith didn’t really run at all, but just lugged them the three miles, taking many breaks along the way and fantasizing a story of running for his life which he told when he made it home.

Whatever the truth of the matter is, Smith was surely lying about something.

It couldn’t be the plates themselves, because that would mean that 8 other people would also have had to lie about seeing them. And we all know that it’s impossible to put together a pack of 8 liars. Liars just aren’t that easy to find.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“It couldn’t be the plates themselves, because that would mean that 8 other people would also have had to lie about seeing them. And we all know that it’s impossible to put together a pack of 8 liars. Liars just aren’t that easy to find.”

Surely you wrote that tongue-in-cheek!

The 8 “witnesses” were anything but men of character...

I’ll take it as humor :-)

[pennyfarmer]

Here is where your facts are wrong.

Liars just aren’t that easy to find.

We seem to have them crawling out of the woodwork over there in DC.

[Colofornian]

Whatever the truth of the matter is, Smith was surely lying about something. It couldn’t be the plates themselves, because that would mean that 8 other people would also have had to lie about seeing them. And we all know that it’s impossible to put together a pack of 8 liars. Liars just aren’t that easy to find. [Samtheman]

Surely you wrote that tongue-in-cheek! The 8 “witnesses” were anything but men of character... I’ll take it as humor :-) [aMorePerfectUnion, post #16]

Well, aMorePerfectUnion did a good summary of the "character" of the "witnesses" -- many excommunicated (I believe over half of them); not including others who left the church.

Here, read AMPU's summary: Character of the 11 Witnesses Post #805

[Osage Orange]

There’s over 500 liars in D.C. right now...........