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I am just happy the search engines improved as well as being able to block unwanted finds from a search.

I recall looking for a mechanical hardware fittings and searching for it. The returns were mainly how should I say it........... tools or fittings from S&M sites.

Other than than, the sites that have references, verify the references for confidence. I believe these to be relatively correct.

what would you call that, hypocritical or an oxymoron?

It is delightfully circular, isn't it?

It should read:

87% of all statistics on the web are made up on the spot, 60% of the time, every time.

Also:

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity" - Abraham Lincoln

Source, please?

^{I hope you don't mind if I use that.}

Well 99% of the time you'd be right, but I happen to be quoting a different source....unknown....Oh you may have said it okay, but according to my calculations there is at least a 1% chance that somebody else said it, and I'm quoting them....Now they might have been quoting you, but gave no source, so I attribute the quote now to them, and frankly unless you have copyrights on this quote, then you really are just blowing hot air....and you can quote me....

Should we care about the 2 percent? Well.... those 2 percent are the people that the cyborgs will be acquiring and modeling, to engineer a little fitting for the rest of us... the perfect customer, eh.... bwahahahahaha

Maybe we should rescue them? Or just make formal darwin awards?

Personally I prefer the 'If it fits my agenda its true but if it doesn't its probably made up.' approach myself.

Aw crap I just made that up. Oh well it fits my agenda today so I guess its real now!

That's not scary, what about the 40% that believe FOX "news".

Interesting coincidence? By comparison the number of people who watch MSNBC is 2%...

In true American Tradition, Small+Limp (M$) and NBC have gotten a divorce, and so you may have something there.

Trust me.

Far more worrying is the percentage who believe a literal interpretation of every written word in a book compiled my miscellaneous authors many years after the events and translated hundreds of years later.
Del

Isn't it interesting that although were about 40 different authors, most who didn't know one another, over a period of around 1500 years, all contributed to a book that fits together seamlessly with a central truth? That truth being, who God is and how He interacts with the man He created.

If there is an accident at an intersection and four people observe what happens you will probably get 4 different accounts. No wonder people are skeptical of information they see or hear.

When the Scriptures were compiled from those very diverse time periods and the theme of who God is and how he interacts with man is consistent. There is quite a different dynamic at work. That's because "holy men of God spoke/wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." Second Timothy 3:16 and 17 says, "All Scripture is inspired (God-breathed) ..."

"Isn't it interesting that although were about 40 different authors, most who didn't know one another, over a period of around 1500 years, all contributed to a book that fits together seamlessly with a central truth?"

No, not really.

First let me say I'm not going to be draw into the theological side, as we are all entitled to our views, and I have no quarrel with the theological beliefs.
However...
Corroboration doesn't mean voracity.
Just one tiny example...
Four people tell a story of how a Roman census required people to 'travel back to the town of their birth'.
A detail which we know from Roman records to be incorrect. The census is indeed true (they were avid record keepers) but the bit about travelling to the town of your birth is a complete fabrication, simply designed to make the known facts about Jesus fit the story. This part of the story has been repeated and copied, but that doesn't make it any more true than the stories of King Arthur or Robin Hood!
If you think about the logistics for a moment, it is self evident that you couldn't conduct a census on that basis.
It is self evidently not an accurate factual account, and there is simply no justification to believe it verbatim.
And you certainly shouldn't argue that it should be believed because the writing itself says it's true!
Any ghost story or door to door salesman can use such a ploy.
... indeed using that logic, what I've just written must be true if I simply write 'The cat speaks the truth'!
Del

I don't believe you.........I'll haveta google it.

There is tons of stuff about it.
The wiki article is quite informative, pointing out the discrepancy in biblical accounts which scolars have been trying to 'harmonize' for years which illustrates my point.
The gospels don't agree seamlessly.
Del

I'll take 2% worth.........

^{actually, I agree with you, my humor is hard to convey.......if one would call it humor}

We all choose our beliefs, and I respect yours as something dear to you. Why bring it it to an engineering/science forum ? You must surely know that it will not go down well.

People do go off the topic a bit here on occasion, and you are entitled to as much leeway as others. In the interest of harmony, would it not be better to post such stuff on more apt forums, or at least to chat by way of the CR4 PM system ?

I suspect you may be offended if people entered a religious forum and espoused views that did not fit the bill. Evangelizing will upset people. If you have truth, god will guide people toward your way of thinking.

I didn't bring up the topic, I simply responded to Del the Cat on Post #15.

A cool thing about CR4 is that we all have broad shoulders and there's no need to read each other wrong. Good reply. We all share this journey of life, and it's a pleasure to read posts such as yours.

Try as I might, I can't square that with people who believe in alien abduction. The Venn diagram for that 2% and abductees looks like this;

Problem sorted. #28

He's not crazy,,,,,,just a little high strung.....

Oh we got crazy....

Yeah - 12 feet high and a slap on a mules ass .

The bottom photo

Third world country's version of a parking ramp

LOL
Del