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the_ignored
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Posted - 12/13/2004 :  15:38:33  Show Profile Send the_ignored a Private Message
Yep, you can read all about it in this "trustworthy news source" right here.


Of course, they're always another side.

Of course you can imagine what the RR people are making of it...

>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
>
> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
>
> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.

What brought that on? this. Original posting here.

Another example of this guy's lunacy here.

tkster
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Posted - 12/13/2004 :  16:16:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send tkster a Private Message
It really depends on how the Bible codes are done. The ones where they just pick out letters are BS. However, there are the ancient Hebrew codes that they go by the chapter (ie: Genesis 11, they would take every 11 figures and see what happens). Either way, you could do the same with other texts.

tk
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Paulos23
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Posted - 12/13/2004 :  16:31:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Paulos23's Homepage Send Paulos23 a Private Message
I agree there. It is just finding patterns in the chaos to me. The fact you can find simular word groupings in other books conferms it to me.

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. -- Robert A. Heinlein

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley
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furshur
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USA
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Posted - 12/13/2004 :  21:58:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send furshur a Private Message
quote:
Mathematics bombshell:
God 'confirmed in Bible'
Skeptical statistician IDs hidden messages
that 'prove' Scripture's divine authorship

Oh fer crying out loud, somebody slap him.


If I knew then what I know now then I would know more now than I know.
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Ricky
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Posted - 12/13/2004 :  22:29:22   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by tkster

It really depends on how the Bible codes are done. The ones where they just pick out letters are BS. However, there are the ancient Hebrew codes that they go by the chapter (ie: Genesis 11, they would take every 11 figures and see what happens). Either way, you could do the same with other texts.

tk



Post hoc, still BS.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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