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From: unsettled on 30 Jan 2007 19:33 T Wake wrote: > "unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message > news:a557c$45bfbb21$49ecf90$4084(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... > >>T Wake wrote: >> >> >>>"unsettled" <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote in message >>>news:5eaf0$45bfb26f$49ecf90$3729(a)DIALUPUSA.NET... >>> >>> >>>>T Wake wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message >>>>>news:epnm4l$df5$4(a)blue.rahul.net... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>In article <45BE8D83.976CEBA6(a)hotmail.com>, >>>>>>Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>[.....] >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>>Same question could be asked of Cain and Abel. Although every time I >>>>>>>>try >>>>>>>>asking priest or vicars they get annoyed with me. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I just discovered he lived to be 950 yrs old too ! Maybe he was a >>>>>>>space alien ? >>>>>> >>>>>>If you assume as I do that some confused months and years, he made it >>>>>>to >>>>>>79 which is old enough to get remarked on. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>This is close to special pleading. The holy text is specific enough at >>>>>times, yet for something quite simple like days and nights it gets >>>>>confused? >>>> >>>>How many translations/transcriptions in ~5000 years? >>> >>> >>>That is the special pleading. The plea that Commandment X has survived >>>and is the word of God, but Y has suffered a transcription error. >> >>We don't know that there weren't more or fewer commandments. >>We don't know that today's commandment X is anything like >>the original, if there was one. >> > > > Exactly. The devout will claim that (for example) Homosexuality is the one > sin the Catholic Church can *never* condone (lets ignore the priests for > now). Yet this is based on the transcriptions / translations and > interpretations which have taken place in the last 2000 years. Given that > they get errors in fundamentals (who was Cain's wife? Who was Abel's wife? > etc), why do they assume that the doctrine they are going on about > (homosexuality in this example) is actually what they think it is? Religion, IMO, is designed to answer the unanswerable because there's a common human need for it. We spoke about possible genetic implications earlier. Depending on the particular society the answers deviate from one another perhaps even to the point of being opposites in diverse locations. Given human inconsistency there's no reason to think that religious answers can anything but inconsistent. OTOH it has been pointed out, even by Sagan, that to a space alien human societies (therefore religion as well) would appear indistinguishable. As much as you get into this it seems you have a bug up your butt about this stuff. That's too bad because it means you're not over your upbringing yet. I wish you Godspeed! :-)
From: MassiveProng on 30 Jan 2007 20:00 On Tue, 30 Jan 07 13:24:59 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >No matter how you slice it, thick skins packaging computer innards >costs money. It ain't about thickness. It can be foil thin. Yet more proof that you know not about that which you belcheth forth on.
From: MassiveProng on 30 Jan 2007 20:05 On Tue, 30 Jan 07 13:31:45 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >If you make each system you sell by hand, that, by definition, >is extremely expensive. All PCs are made "by hand". Dell makes EACH custom PC by hand, ON an ASSENBLY LINE. It is STILL THEIR product, even though they buy their motherboards and graphics cards, etc. from other VENDORS, the final product they sell is THEIR PRODUCT. Now GTFU.
From: MassiveProng on 30 Jan 2007 20:21 On Tue, 30 Jan 07 15:34:36 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>Compliance testing is routine these days. > >Not really. I have to unplug my stove to listen to AM radio. What exactly do you attribute that to? Hint: It isn't your radio, and it isn't the stove. If you want to learn something, just ask.
From: MassiveProng on 30 Jan 2007 20:23
On Tue, 30 Jan 07 15:34:36 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> You don't need an anechoic chamber btw. > >How do you measure the EMF in "noisy" environments? >Or don't you need numbers anymore? >> >> Device off, sensors read baseline noise reading. Device on, sensors read local differential. Extrapolations get made, figures get arrived at. Task complete. |