Today I read the Book of Omni. I think it is
interesting how humans are interested in history and other peoples. What
causes this desire to know more about ancient cultures? Why are we
fascinated with them? When I read about the Jaredites, why is it so
exciting to me? Why were the Nephites so desirous to know more about
them? Was it merely a desire to avoid the same fate as them? Am I
unique that I am intrigued by ancient civilizations and think that finding an
ancient unpeopled city would be truly amazing and awesome? When I hear
stories about Pompei, Troy and even ancient Babylon I want to know what the
lives of those people were like. I want to know more about the
Jaredites. We know about the Nephites because we have their complete
record, or what was left to us by Mormon. But it is enough to know about
them and their lives. What Moroni left to us about the Jaredites is not
much and a bare minimum of knowing what their lives were like. I know I
am jumping ahead several chapters, but what would it have been like to walk
through the ruins of the Jaredite civilization and to find the plates Ether
left behind? It gives me goose bumps just thinking about it! Until
tomorrow.
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