Messages Dated January 1994
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URANTIA
Oh goodie! I wondered when someone was going to take Urantia down
to earth, finally. I've only had about an hours worth looking at this
book. From what I read, it was very Sci-Fi and had a real 40's
ring to it. I've had this friend of mine prattling this stuff in the
past, but I've never been able to afford a copy at 60 bucks.
I have this other book called OAHSPE, written about 1850 and published
around 1880.
This should prove interesting
In a msg to David Bloomberg on <Dec 28 09:53>, Fredric Rice of 1:102/890@FidoN
et writes:
That's not exactly the term *I* would have used...
DeBunkers: Archie & Edith
Nah. I just say these puns for the halibut.
Kinda like Bob Hope singing "Tanks... for the manatees...".
Tag: HOLIER_BIBLE was Added.
Maybe someone should start one called "HOLIEST_BIBLE".
It would be a great place to discuss firearms.
...out there.
Those were BELIEFS with no grounding in scientific theory.
Why? Give me one theoretical reason.
It
You obviously don't know what a theory is. It is not simply "an idea".
See the next two messages if you are interested in learning a little bit
about
science.
...out there.
From _The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and Understanding the Reality
of
Science_, by Dr. Milton A. Rothman (former professor of physics at Trenton
State College and former research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics
Laboratory).
P. 93:
If you suggest that stories about faster-than-light travel to distant stars
ar
e
pure fantasy, their stock answer is: "Everything we thought we knew in the
pas
t
has been overturned, so how do we know the theories of today will
...out there.
[This text originally used in discussion of definition of "hypothesis"
vs. "theory" in the UFO echo. D.B. From _College Chemistry_, 8th Edition, by Henry F. Holtzclaw, Jr. and William
R. Robinson (U of Nebraska and Purdue U, respectively), D.C. Heath and Company p. 10 (anything in all caps was boldfaced or italicized in original):
"The Scientific Method
Your study of chemistry will be concerned with the observations, theories,
and
laws that give this science its foundation
Your daily chuckle
I'll bet you can't come up with a Scriptural citation for that.
Bruce
Your daily chuckle
was
Oh? Did he, now? Can you provide some scientific basis for this "tongues"?
You're talking to a linguist here, so make it count. There are some people
here who are considerably more educated than I WRT to Germanic linguistics
(My background is in Latinate languages, with some dabbling in Oscan and
Umbrian.), but your claims are so absurd that anybody with a decent
background in linguistics can address them.
Do you have access to HOLYSMOKE? I would very much
Re: Subliminal brainwashing
we
It'd (hopefully) make their software barf! Once they input the new data
what
would we get? Marketing for Midgets!! All the candy, soda, potato chips,
twinkies, etc. would be displayed at 3 foot or lower.
I suppose that would help remove temptation from my path when shopping!
Dss
They're what I camphor. How much do the tickets sulphur?
No, that was her kissin' cousin. She's dead now. (Polygon)
Her (nun) sister's name was Anita Leigh. She was involved with
those 700 Club televangelists Neil Downe and Buster Hymen.
Idaho once that stated Adam Arkansas her bottomless in her New Jersey.
"Did Tennessee me, too?" she asked. "I dunno. Alaska." he replied.
Mississippi was Hungary, but she spilled hot Greece on her Turkey;
and got Chile when she stripped
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When was Steve Winter ever actually in HolySmoke?
I suspect that the actual text originated elsewhere, and was
imported into our beloved echo.
Ark Continues
The ones that are over 100 years old probably drank from it and
don't know it.
Every man that has found the Amazon Women has not returned.
He becomes a male slave you see.
Mythological boat? What do you mean. I read about it in the
Bible! There is even a VCR tape showing a part of it sticking
out of a mountain in Turkey. The VCR tape is called "Noah's
Ark", available at your local Video store (the better
5 Laws of Quack Science
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Re: Assurance
I suspect the silent majority of Honest Christians would agree with that.
Many
of them, such as Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers of the US, have
sai
d words to that effect.
JBL
Re: Religion of Dan
What do you predict will happen that will 'disprove' Deism? After all, it
mere
ly states that natural laws were invented by a being outside of them, which
is
not exactly something that can be subject to scientific proof under the
scien
tific paridigram.
After all, considering David Hume's disproof of the *absolute* validity
of emp
hirical evidence, to loosly paraphrase it, emphirical evidence is only as
good
as the last reptition of the evidence; one would have to disprove
Real unconvincing evidence
Is that so? Explain then how to detect a gravitron, and how to reconcile
relet
ivistic gravity with quantum physics. Many of the best minds of physics
are wo
rking on this problem today, and have been ever since the 1930's or so.
Likewise, you cannot explain archeological and historical facts, but it
is oft
en due to a similar sort of lack of knowledge, sometimes only because of
a lac
k of reasearch on your part, rather than a
Buddhism
It is, as it does not *worship* gods.
Note "revered by Gods and men", gods in the Buddhist world-view are merely
adv
anced beings who live on a different world of existance, that eventually
run o
ut of their Karmic seed-house points and return to a more lowly plain. The
onl
y way of escaping from the cycle of course is to become "enlightened", which
o
nly men can do. Gods in this view learn from Buddhas how to be
Re: Fact Vs. Faith
No.
Oye vay... So therefore we should worship invisable men on the moon?
I'm a theist (not your variety) but this is absurd. You are scarcely helping
y
our cause, I suspect many intellegent Christians would be embarrassed by
this
sort of thing too.
Think about it...
JBL
Evidence
You are a "literalist", aren't you? Let me know *why* you think the earth
is r
ound, since it contradicts conservative theology throughout history. As
I said
in an earlier message....
Burning people at the stake for claiming that the sun does not revolve around
the earth has been out of style for the last 400 years or so. Gallileo for
ins
tance got off with a simple recanting.
'For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's,
And he