And as to the lost tribes, #13, they’re not on the moon. In the news today is the fact that they’re on Mars

→Age of attending the temple: Current policy says that full temple recommends should not be issued to members in their teens or early twenties (whether 23 or 24 is early twenties or not is undefined) unless they’ve received a mission call or are going to be sealed. Was there a stated age policy before the current handbooks? Clearly, in 1948 the policy was different.

→The question about The Evening and Morning Star seemed very, well, specific. Interesting that the answer given was yes, when the content of the answer means that the answer was actually no.

→The question about whether the Nephites had non-metal records is of a class of scriptural questions that annoy me—questions that assume that something unstated in scriptural accounts must not have occurred. This, of course, is how Cain and Seth had children without any women around.

→You know, given the content of the sealing ceremony, you can understand questions like the one asked about it in this list. Maybe it’s due for a tweaking of the wording?

→I would like to know when the Hill Cumorah was first called that by English speakers, myself.

→I quite appreciate J.A.P.’s willingness to phrase their question about meat in quite that way—nothing like a “Have you stopped beating your wife?” to brighten up our days.

→What exactly counts as “excess of laughter”, though?

→I see that answers to questions about gross vs. net tithing have generally stayed the same, namely “You have to decide for yourself with your bishop, and whatever works for you is good, but if you don’t go for the ‘gross’ approach, you’re a heathen.”

→I may be wrong, but i don’t think that unwitnessed baptisms count as valid anymore.

→What would semi-Hebrew descent be? Someone descended from a Jewish person and a registered member of the Seminole tribe?

<rimshot /> I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your server.

And yes, the chocolate and meat questions just keep coming and coming because someone heard someone who talked to someone who read on e-mail that a general authority claimed these were against the word of wisdom.

Love the Temple quesitons.