Mormons/LDS: Do you think Lehi's family played "Come Sail Away" on the Liahona when they sailed to America?

Question

Since they didn't need it as a compass anymore, why not a radio?

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I wonder why god, in his infinite wisdom, chose to give Lehi a complicated gizmo that worked only on faith instead of a simple lodestone compass, and maybe a primitive sextant? Or, at least show Lehi/Nephi how to construct the damn things. Nephi certainly would've needed one to align up his Mini-Temple correctly.

I wished Laman or Lemuel would've thrown Nephi's whiny butt overboard and gone back home. Maybe they would've become pirates instead. Then none of this silliness would've 'come to pass'.

Answer 2

1. We know that Lehi basically followed the Frankincense Trail (which Joseph Smith, Jr., knew nothing about). Nahom has been found. Plausible sites for the Old World Bountiful have been found. Lehi's party was going east. They apparently set sail in the Arabian Sea or the Gulf of Oman. From there, it's anybody's guess, but going west, they would have had to sail almost all the way around Africa. If they sailed east, then it would have been a longer journey in spite of that. Either way they could have reached Mesoamerica. Either way they could have lived near Maya culture. Either way they could have influenced Hopi and the other Uto-Aztecan languages. Mayan pyramid style temples began around 2,000 years ago. Did they come up with that by themselves, or did cross-cultural borrowing in a time of peace occur? If they didn't, then they would have had to come into contact with Egyptians (which is possible) or with people who knew Egyptian culture (which is also possible). The mounds could have been built by any number of people from Book of Mormon times, but with only the most tenuous connections with the civilization. Enough to remember how to build earthworks, but not enough to remember that we shouldn't sacrifice people. The Book of Mormon records that a large group of dissidents (apostates) went into the "land northward," which at the time was covered by great bodies of water (until the cataclysms attending Christ's crucifixion). They would have been absorbed into local peoples when they arrived. 3. Moroni wrote what he thought would be his last words, buried the plates, etc., and wandered wherever he could for the safety of his life. Years, or decades, later, he came back, dug them up, and carried them with him in his travels. He ended up far from the land of his birth, among people who didn't know him and had no special animosity toward him (not more than usual towards strangers, anyway). He finally buried the plates for the last time in a place that knew nothing of him nor of his culture. There would be no artifacts to find nearby.

Answer 3

The liahona was still needed to point the way towards the Promised Land (have you ever been hundreds of miles out to sea trying to figure which way to go?).

Besides, how would they sing (or listen to) a song that wouldn't be created for another 2000+ years?

Answer 4

This is just another anachronism to add to the rest in the BOM.
Why didn't they need a compass? I know that when they were alleged to travel, it was about 2000 years before one was developed.

Answer 5

No they sang Orinoco Flow

Answer 6

No, i heard that Laman and Lemuel used it as a rectal tourture device on Nephi. Well i guess it was kinda boring sailing all that way!

Answer 7

I highly doubt it. I think they were playing "Let's Get it On" and lighting candles and bending over. After all where do you think the Navy boys got the idea?

Answer 8

Just another thing Joseph Smith made up.

Answer 9

The song?
Yeah I wonder if they had musical instruments...

Answer 10

Probly not, but i suppose its possible