S3E22 Happiness Part 2

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, we continue our discussion of the “Happiness Letter” and how it came to be regarded as an authentic teaching of the prophet Joseph Smith. Gerrit also answers an emailer’s question about a person being sealed to more than one spouse in the most unsatisfying way possible. Link to The Deseret News “Happiness” article published on December 12, 1855 - ⁠https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/desnews1/id/3090/rec/11⁠ Gerrit’s article on the “Happiness Letter” - ⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jmormhist.42.3.0094⁠ ⁠Subscribe to our free newsletter⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com/⁠⁠ Please visit our website at ⁠⁠www.standardoftruth.com⁠⁠ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont and Professor Richard
0:07.8	Luduke explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the
0:13.2	life and teachings of Prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and
0:18.8	provide context for events of the past.
0:21.7	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:41.1	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:46.1	I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend Professor Richard LaDuke.
0:47.1	Hello, Garrett.
0:51.4	When we last left you, we talked about the happiness letter, part one.
0:55.9	So we'll get into happiness letter part two here, but we wanted to start off with the Phoebe Draper Mailbag. This first email comes to us from Graham. Hello, I enjoyed
1:03.8	your most recent episode. I have no idea what episode that was. I'm sure they're all great, Graham.
1:08.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah. I enjoyed all of the episode. Let's just edit it for Graham. Yeah, that's right. I enjoyed Happiness Letter 1. I'm sure they're all great, Graham. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I enjoyed all of the episode.
1:11.0	Let's just edit it for Graham. Yeah, that's right. I enjoyed Happiness Letter One. I'm sure
1:14.8	that's what you meant, even though we're recording this before we've dropped a happiness letter
1:17.9	one. In it, you mentioned a past episode discussing Joseph Smith's alleged statement that people
1:23.1	would kill themselves to get into the Telestual Kingdom. I'm paraphrasing, of course.
1:27.7	Yes, I don't believe that Joseph said it exactly like that.
1:30.2	In which episode would I find that discussion?
1:33.1	Thank you.
1:33.7	Well, you could just go to our readily indexed.
1:37.5	So searchable.
1:38.4	Yeah, I mean, we have painstakingly.
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