Unusual Salt Lake City Locations- Virgin Mary Image Seen Inside Tree / Gilgal Sculpture Garden Tour
Salt Lake City June 2022
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of this
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thursday june 2nd
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2022 i am in salt lake city the greater
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salt lake city
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area and i will be here for a short
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tenure
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more than a few days in fact
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i might venture around out of salt lake
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and to provo into
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up to ogden and then maybe even into
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other i might kind of venture out but
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i'm using
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salt lake as kind of a central
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central point today
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well i will also be here spending a
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little time with
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family
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my sister her husband are here my mom
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and dad have also
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flown in
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and in between doing family stuff
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i will be showcasing and showing some
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interesting things
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around the slc
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starting right now inviting you
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to join me
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shall you and i have to wonder whoever
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lives at this homestead
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if they have any idea
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that they
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are in the presence
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of something amazing up here in this
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very tree
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is supposedly a carving
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that looks exactly like the virgin mary
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and they have built by the way my dad's
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here
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ryan's here
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now while i was doing the intro you
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both of you had
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no patience to wait so you had to go and
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see it with your own eyes beforehand
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any thoughts
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beautiful
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does it look like her
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sure does it look like her dad no it
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doesn't so you traversed up the stairs i
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made it up the stairs and back again
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without falling
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so let's put a flower did you put the
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flower here
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this is not yours
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you look you look completely
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underwhelmed
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nothing to write home about
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i don't think so okay
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i did take a photo though ryan any other
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thoughts i'm healed
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okay
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now this granted let's give it the
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benefit of the doubt
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this they originally saw this in 1997.
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so it might have morphed a little bit
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since 97.
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okay when they saw it they did not need
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as much imagination as you do today
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okay this is it right here yeah
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if i put my glasses on
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maybe that will like help by the way my
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glasses are kind of i think i sat on
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them or something because they're a
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little bit crooked
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glasses on
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looks like there's a face in there i
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thought you're seeing a tub come up here
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show me the face
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see if you can point it out
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eyes nose okay it looks more like so
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this would be the mouth yeah okay so
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whoever witnessed this is saying that
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it's the face so not i was looking for
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the full body so it's the face
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hmm
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yeah i'm not seeing it either
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but evidently
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this was such a phenomenon that they had
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to build this
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which i am kind of curious
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who saw this
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way up here so this wasn't he it
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obviously i don't i don't know like how
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would you get up here oh you okay
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i do remember reading
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that they ended up cutting this tree off
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so they cut the limb off and then this
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was discovered
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so whoever was cutting the tree down
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or cutting the limb off
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all right well i'm glad we solved that
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mystery oh you know what there's some
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false teeth up here
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there's some false teeth that are stuck
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to the wood
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i'm not kidding
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they're stuck to the wood right there
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they're painted green
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are you okay
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oh they're green huh the green falls
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thief
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and there have been so people have
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etched
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and written their names up here as well
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i think they've left some other things
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behind you
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and when you got up this morning dad i
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told you we were going to go to find
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some riveting spots yes
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are you crying
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are you being are you being moved right
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now moved to tears
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okay you have to admit no matter what it
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is pretty it's a pretty fascinating
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thing though right
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oh someone has painted the side of the
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tree there red
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either that or a lot of ketchup or
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something
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it looks like it just looks like spray
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paint
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so 97
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25 years ago
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so it's the 25th anniversary of us
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not sure why
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i think he's checking my motion
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so that's it i was here probably gosh
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six seven years ago
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and it appears to me that this is in a
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little bit better shape i think that
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this might be relatively new before i
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think i thought it was just
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like a piece of wood that was decaying
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i know you're thinking what's the second
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spot gonna be at this moment
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i am all
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i am
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what's the word
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i am waiting with baited breath
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now before we left
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where we're staying at i thought should
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we ask mom if she would like to head
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over here and see this what do you think
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her thoughts would be i think she
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probably would be glad that she went
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shopping
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all right
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well there it is oh look
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oh this is a different dedication yeah
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that's the guy that the park's named
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after
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oh okay
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so this park was dedicated
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well he passed on in 77
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oh it was dedicated in 79 so two
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two years later justin edward
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carter i think is what that justin
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edward carter if not carter is some
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other word
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oh here it is topper
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it's topper justin edward topper how did
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they get that out of that talper
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t-a-u-p-e-r
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i couldn't figure out what that was
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oh wait it's an f no no it's an f tough
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fur i've always been fascinated by these
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though
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you know just people that will see
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something because there's times like
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i'll look at clouds and i'll see things
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in the clouds i'll look at a wall i'll
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see something in the wall like design of
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a wall but to see something in a tree
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i believe there was also a religious
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figure that was seen in a cheese
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sandwich once there's been all kinds of
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things cheetos cheetos
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chicken nuggets
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there's a there's a virgin mary and
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chicken nugget somewhere okay
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just
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you're getting a kick out of this she's
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getting
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around all right let's move on to the
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next spot well on the way in i was
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saying whoever lives here you think they
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purchased this home because of the
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correlation
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i'm going to say no
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this is an unofficial 25th anniversary
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of the of the tree moment
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on a serious note okay
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it is interesting how
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people are fascinated with signs and
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wonders yes
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when
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we actually have the bible to go by
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we don't really need all these trees and
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chicken nuggets and all that stuff
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but we got what what god says in his
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word okay
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just a thought yeah
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okay the next spot about a couple miles
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away from where we just were
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is located on 749 east 500 south
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gilgal gardens
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these are the hours
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there's a rabbit
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here's a big bunny
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you see the word i don't know if it's
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pronounced gilgal or gilgal that depends
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on whether you say it in english or
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hebrew
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it's a hebrew word yes
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it's the city of the city in the old
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testament
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probably guild ball was the
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proper pronunciation
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and the meaning is circle of stones and
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there's a stone here
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and as a space that is
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that's just a rock up top
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looks almost like a centurion carving it
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does
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so thomas
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battersby
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dedicated the last 18 years of his life
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to creating this in his backyard
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according to the article i was reading
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so evidently his house was somewhere
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over in here
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he passed away in 1963 so this has been
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here a while
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joshua was one of the two spies that
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went into the promised land
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one of the 12 spies but one of the two
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that said we can go in and take it guys
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everybody else said no no no we're not
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going to do that
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the captain of the lord's host said unto
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joshua
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loose thy shoe from off thy foot for the
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place whereupon now standeth is holy
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so this one obviously as you were saying
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dad does not have a face
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so it's up for like i guess artistic
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representation on who this is yeah
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i guess even though this says joshua
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the face was either not finished the
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carving of the face was not done or
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maybe that could be it too
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and he's got joshua inscribed on the
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side down there too
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bc one four five what
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now this one does have a face
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and this is supposed to be or is
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joshua was it joshua smith joseph joseph
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smith neither joseph
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joseph smith
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not joshua smith joseph smith joseph
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smith yes and he wrote the book of
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mormon
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he wrote the book of mormon
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it's cool that it's got
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the temple carved into it
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i didn't notice that the last time oh
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yeah
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how do we know that's what joseph
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smith's looking for her wings are
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furled
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fur f-u-r-l-e-d
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her ear is heavy
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she broads on the world
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who'll tell me her secret the ages have
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kept
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i awaited the seer while i slumbered and
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slept
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he was a poet
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furl to means that they're folded up is
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that what i mean unfurled means
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unfolding
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it is fascinating that someone dedicated
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18 years of their life to creating this
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and i could definitely see how it would
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take a long time to do because there's a
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lot of detail in these
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that big tree house up there
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well that's where you should bury
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you think
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the guy
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that built the other oh maybe nothing
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there
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let's walk over there look
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oh yeah
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next to this
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inscription oh there's hands and a
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couple hearts
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well one heart here would that be a hard
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also
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it might just be like your intestines
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now see i'm seeing a face here and this
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almost looks like a cloud
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like a godlike you know like image
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are you seeing the eyes
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and then the hands reaching down now i'm
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seeing faces and things
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i still i see it it almost looks like
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the hands
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but his mouth is over there
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okay well look at so you got the hair
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so the hairs here you got two eyes one
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two
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a nose here and then the mouth and then
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just reaching down
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to the heart and the
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hearts
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not seeing it huh
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i see two holes in the rocks
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and then there's this thingy over here
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and then there's a bump right there and
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another thingy there so i would clarify
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this as you know artwork so artwork is
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always up for interpretation i don't
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know if you realize it but behind you
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might be
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the person who created this place right
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i don't know
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now ryan's right there the sculpture oh
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i am just going to assume
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that this is the man who built
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this area
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this has the tools of the trade there
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got some brick pants
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oh his pants are made out of brick
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i'm not seeing a name or anything though
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but i mean there's all the tools
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what was that noise
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this does look like his tools of the
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trade
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just was some spikes and
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stuff cameras
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obviously
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do not want to climb on the sculptures
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oh he has a scroll
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on this side and then a book on that
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side
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no explanation as to what it means
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oh this is square
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it's like a level
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well it's got little level things on it
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but that's called a square
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very interesting
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that's pretty interesting you got a
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lever it's probably how we had to pull
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up the rocks up there another
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lever or something or pull away your
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voice
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a pulley
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obviously they are keeping up this
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property it's been you know
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caretaker out here it's been mowed
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kept clean
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psalm 27
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lord is my light and my salvation of
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whom shall i be afraid
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you know what's interesting dad they
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don't have the they don't have the bible
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verse etched on there that
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so are they in the book of mormon are
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there passages like this from the bible
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that are also in the book of mormon
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not exactly but the book of mormon is
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written as if it's the old king james
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bible yeah
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so if you were reading it would it be
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like in the same dialect as the king
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james yeah be the ye and thou and
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this and bettest and yeah those words
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that's that's in the original book of
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mormon i don't know how the new versions
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do it
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probably they
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modernized it
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kind of like the bible
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and they've kind of modernized it a
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little bit yeah
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mainly because we don't talk like that
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anymore
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pressure thing to
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oh they show how they pressure i would
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think wow i thought that was an active
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hose
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but this is just a description of how
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these words were carved in there
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that's interesting
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i would have noticed that i showed that
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a moment ago i just thought it was a
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hose i didn't even think about it either
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until i was just looking at it and
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that does look like that's a lot of
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pressure to indent all these words on
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the side of the rock
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barely the voice of the lord is unto all
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men
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and there is none to
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escape
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and there is no eye that shall see
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neither ear that shall not hear
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neither heart that shall not be
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penetrated
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wherefore i the lord knowing the
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calamity which
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should come
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upon the inhabitants of the earth
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called upon my servant joseph smith jr
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and spake unto him
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from
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the lord from heaven
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and gave him commandments
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that every man might speak in the name
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of the lord
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even the savior of the world
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that faith also might increase in the
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earth
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anyway this is uh
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but it does have joseph smith's name in
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there it does well yeah i mean he was he
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claimed to be a prophet of god look at
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this is interesting june but there's no
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date it's just xxx oh it's junior that's
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the way they used to breathe oh really
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really yeah
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i think that's alpha omega
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so that's greek
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alpha being the first letter in the
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greek alphabet yeah omega being the last
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letter i that's my would be my guess for
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that
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alpha omega beginning in the end
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probably
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i used to know the greek alphabet i've
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stated this many times
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but i'm probably going to fail by saying
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it okay i'm going to mess this up alpha
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omega
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delta epsilon stop
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let me go through it and then you
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correct me all right alpha okay let me
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try it again alpha beta gamma delta
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epsilon
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zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda
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mu nu phi
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psi omega
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no
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omega is the last letter
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phi psi
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omicron
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pyro
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sigma tau i forgot those hoop salon
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uh
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bye
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i screwed it up myself omega so i missed
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about six in there yeah but i got a lot
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of them i'm impressed i'm actually
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impressed that you remember that you
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taught me well that was a hundred years
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ago let's see if i can remember the old
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testament genesis exodus leviticus
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numbers deuteronomy
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help me out joshua joshua judges ruth
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the second first second samuel for
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second peter first secretary kings
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versus kings chronicles for second
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chronicles ezra nehemiah esther
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job psalms proverbs ecclesiastes song of
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solomon
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isaiah isaiah jeremiah lamentations
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ezekiel ezekiel daniel
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deuteronomy
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hosea jose i forgot that one yeah
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ezekiel daniel i see ezekiel daniel
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hosea joel amos obadiah jonah my
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canadian quebec except and i high guy
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zachariah malachi
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wow
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i did oh i got half you did
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i retained some stuff from my youth
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i'm impressed
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i have to say this place is very
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impressive it is impressive i'm
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impressed
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and i like you look under this archway
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here and you get the
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you get kind of the the view through the
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like keyhole
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element yeah
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okay that was daniel again over there in
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the distance with joseph
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joshua joshua joshua with no head joshua
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yeah and then joseph
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smith smith is who the sphinx is
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right
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interesting that they chose a sphinx to
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put his face on but that's beside the
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point that's the egyptians sphinx is
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egyptian mythology
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our egyptian religion
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looks like an angel blowing a trumpet up
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oh up top yeah
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way up there that's pretty symbolic of
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mormonism
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um
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this is uh
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the idea of
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heard in the bible the verse the word
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the cornerstone
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this is what a cornerstone was we think
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of a cornerstone as the corner of a
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building that they built a building
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around right but when you built a
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building like this
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the chief stone was the one they put in
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the top that held everything together
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that is something i never knew because i
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just assumed like you said it would be
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the corner of a building and i've heard
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that term
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hundreds of times in my life of the
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cornerstone
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there's another word that's slipping my
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mind at the moment but that that's what
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that is that's the that's the point of
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that so it's like a more of a center
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point than it is in a corner
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i really wish they'd put some
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explanations with this that would be
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very very helpful especially if you're
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going to teach someone who's not a
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anything about what they're seeing here
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like if they had put
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the scripture references with with the
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scripture passages and which ones came
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from the book of mormon and which once
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came from other sources
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um but anyway
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these books probably represent
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the bible
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the book of mormon
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there's a book called the doctrines and
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covenants
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which is another book of
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the mormon
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theology
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and then they also i don't know what
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that other book would mean would be
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standing for but
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they also their council of elders
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make decisions and those decisions
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become scripture as well
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this is the life
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oh that's that's
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i have no idea what does that say
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he would would have fine guests let him
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have a fine wife
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my guess was right and we were
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discussing a little bit ago if possibly
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he's laid to rest here
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well this no this says root cellar
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this is the roots
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this is the root cellar
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all right then
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garden storage
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there's a little gazebo over here as
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well
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oh here's some photos of them building
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it
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oh
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splitting the rock here
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oh no this is this is that machine
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this is the pressure washing
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where you can well it's extreme pressure
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washing
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riding in the side of the
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rock wow
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these are great these photos are here
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oh hey there's joseph's stone there
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i mean joshua joshua stone the one going
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it's not unfinished on accident so this
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is before it was carved that body was
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carved
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yeah there's nothing carved in there
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but this is the head that's over there
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yeah i love they added all these
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little behind the scenes photos
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did we see this this is
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this is the one we looked at over there
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so that's yeah that's over there in the
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in that little area
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i'm almost certain
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it's kind of different
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so here's the okay yeah so here's the
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brick pants
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here's the hands
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and the cloud-like item that i thought
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had a face in it
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oh and here's here it is when it's
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carved out
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and the building that's in those
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pictures is now a parking garage
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yeah i've noticed as you were saying
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not a lot of info about what certain
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things are but there are a lot of
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passages and whatnot
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but no real info about what you're
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looking at
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as far as the display goes what does
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that say on that right there who
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reads me
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i'm zooming in on it
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who reads me and ashes is my son and
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wishes
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yep
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okay who reads me in ashes is my son and
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i have no idea what that means
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my first thought was that this was like
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the empty tomb of jesus but that's not
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that's it could be it with the stone or
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stone right
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that would be that would have been what
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i would thought too
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the manger where he was born i don't
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know known as the image the image of
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daniel 2 nebuchadnezzar
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what is it the image of nebuchadnezzar
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the head and the shoulders and the body
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where's the body so this is
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nebuchadnezzar or supposed to be
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nebuchadnezzar it was an enemy he had a
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dream
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really and the dream he had this is all
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this huge image the head and the
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shoulders
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some material and then the body part and
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then the legs and the feet
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and it was an image and daniel was given
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inspiration to interpret it from god
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and it was the success successive
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kingdoms that would follow after
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nebuchadnezzar's kingdom
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i am really glad you're here because i
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wouldn't have known any of this
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pretty sure that's daniel 2
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give me a second oh so daniel 2 is a
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passage chapter two oh
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okay i have it like a sequel that's what
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i thought i was thinking it was like the
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sequel to daniel maybe he couldn't spell
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let me see what i find real quick
28:29
i have learned a lot today
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i'm glad my dad wanted to tag a log
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got a little garden over here some
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flowers
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this gentleman must have been a poet
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yeah i'm noticing a lot of poetry
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what does that say
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oh there we go
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different people who's
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this is dedicated to yeah
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livingston's old granny christine
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even a quote from the declaration of
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independence down here
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whoever lives in that apartment up there
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i got a pretty good view of the gardens
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i'll see you in the next video
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thanks for watching the vlog
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is over oh yeah i should mention this
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this particular property
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is
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not only incredible but also
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was voted
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in 2017 best volunteer
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groundskeepers
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in all of utah
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and i can see why
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it is a beautiful place
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if you're ever in the area
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it's worth stopping off
30:35
the vlog
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is over
30:38
bonus footage
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that's where the city gets its name
30:59
plus my mom wanted to see it
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so we drove out
31:02
here can i show you a shirt mom
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what day is it today
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who cares
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i'm retired
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if you look all the way out there
31:20
i can't tell if that's someone walking
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out there or
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what that is but i think someone might
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be walking
31:27
all the way out in the middle
31:32
of the lake it is two people
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because there is water over there
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if you go out on the salt for
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hundreds of yards before you reach the
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water