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A picture is worth a 1,000 words again where is Galileo and Copernicus now that we need them?http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=GALILEO+AND+COPERNICUS
alileo, conflicts with the Church - ChristianAnswers.NetGalileo expressed his scientific views
supporting Copernicus as well as his biblical views in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany
which became the ...www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/galileo.html - 26k - Cached - Similar pages
GalileoAll of this convinced Galileo that Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, had been right
70 years earlier in his theory that the Earth and all the planets orbited ...www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/renaissance/University/Galileo/Galileo.html
Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin - Three Men Who Changed the WorldThe lives of the
great men- Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin whose discoveries forever changed the world.
www.atheistfoundation.org.au/threemen.htm -
Galileo & Copernicus - Center of Universe Myth, Ptolemy & Dante ...
But then along came brave scientists like Copernicus and Galileo who challenged that
view by arguing the earth revolves around the sun. ...
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I agree the world could use some awe & perspective and just a little distance from the "I me me my" id/ego thing which might then be a way to reconsider how we live on the tiny speck in a vast vast cosmos.
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BY DAVID C. PACK
You say heaven is the reward of the saved. Are you certain? Have you sought proof? Almost
all professing Christians believe the saved go to heaven upon death. Why? What assurance
do they have? By what authority have countless millions believed that they are bound for heaven when they die? Be honest. You probably consider yourself a Christian. You certainly want to be saved. You have probably also been assured that you will go to heaven some day. Should you not demand proof that heaven is really what you seek—and where you will go?
It is about time you know if you will spend all eternity in heaven!An Easy Formula Romans 10:9 states, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.” Verse 13 adds, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Certain popular verses are routinely cited to validate the simplicity of just believing in Christ to be saved. This makes salvation seem routine and easy. Heaven becomes little more than an assumption in a formula that virtually every professing Christian takes for granted: “Believe in Jesus, go to heaven.”
Yet when a famous evangelist was asked, “What will we do when we get to heaven?” he answered, “I don’t know, but it will be wonderful.” Such ignorance!—and if he does not know, how can he “know” it will be wonderful?
Answers like this are why people assume that they will “Ride clouds in heaven”—“walk the streets of gold in front of the pearly gates”—“play harps”—“grow wings”—or generally “roll around heaven all day.” All of these ideas are man-made, fiction. The Bible teaches none of them—yet almost everyone believes them as fact. Who is in Heaven? The Bible names Everyone in heavenProve it And the list is very Short
TheRCG.org/Heaven http://www.thercg.org/books/dtsgth.html?gclid=CIPSh_iE54gCFRVSVAodnm9NqA
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[I searched out this text above to contrast the astronomical facts presented below aid in the verification and reality of the beliefs still widely held by a majority of Americans , who also believe they are superior for no other reason than they "believe" it to be so and pray or think hard or meditate and follow some rules they were given in the name of a god who gave them the right and obligation to take any thing and every thing they want from the world to the point that 8 out of 10 humans live on less than $3.00 a day although most of the resources rubber coco aluminum chrome and other vital and strategic materials not the least oil where the majority live in poverty and are plundered by debts which disproportionately tax them to the extent they have no resources for infrastructure either medical educational, municipal or industrial ... ED:] I got this as an email: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Forward: THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS. Makes you stop and think. I've never really given his any thought whatsoever, but it's rather dazzling to see it presented this way.
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Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky.
It is more than 1000 light years away.
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So . how significant should we really be feeling, right about now?
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Hrmmmn! 
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/hudf/
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THE END OF THE WARFARE THEORY OF CIVILIZATION!!!!
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Caral Civilization Peru:
4,600 years old 2,600 BC
From 1994 to 1999 the Caral Archaeological Project was dedicated to archaeological ...
Dr. Ruth Shady Sols HEAD Special Archaeological Project Caral-Supe ...
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Delos B McKown Atheistic writer
Those who would seek the truth should take care that they may find it and in finding it be horrified.
-- Delos McKown, quoted from Louis W Cable, "Are the Gospels True?"
The invisible and nonexistent look much alike.
-- Delos B McKown, quoted from Victor J Stenger, Physics And Psychics
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We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 ... but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. ...
www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/sagnframe.htm
The end of Christianity?
http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/2004/06/this-really-happened-at-senate-office.html (1 of 16) [11/27/2006 3:23:39 AM]
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19930601faessay5188/samuel-phuntington/the-clash-of-civilizations.html
The Clash of Civilizations? Samuel P. Huntington From Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 Article preview: first 500 of 9,176 words total.
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http://www.laurasplan.com/
Pillows is a stack of pillows covered in pillowcases. Each pillowcase is sewn out of fabric on which images of skin have been inkjet printed. Each pillowcase possesses unique markings and coloring and is printed from a different image of skin. They evoke our psychological relationship to objects as projection surfaces for comfort and familiarity. The comfortable nature of the soft pillow is undermined by the magnified detail of the skin and even more so by the image of meat-like flesh on the pillow inside the pillowcase.
Reviews:
Bing, Alison, “Meat Show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery”, Artweek, February 2005, Vol. 36, Issue 1, p.29
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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)American poet, social critic, public servant, educator; Librarian of Congress (1939-1944)
 The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he
resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-- Archibald MacLeish, "In Praise of Dissent," in The New York Times (16 December 1956),
quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
-- Archibald MacLeish, "Now Let Us Address the Main Question: Bicentennial of What?," in The New York Times (3 July 1976; repr. in Riders on Earth, as "The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
-- Archibald MacLeish: JB, in JB, quoted from ReligiousTolerance.org, "Why Doesn't God Prevent Terrorist Attacks or
Other Man-Made or Natural Disasters?"
The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority....
-- Archibald MacLeish, quoted by Bergen Evans, regarding his play J B, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years
of Disbelief
Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.-- Archibald MacLeish, from the play J B, quoted from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce
it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
-- Archibald MacLeish, "Apologia," in Harvard Law Review (Cambridge, June 1972; repr. in Riders on Earth, as "Art and Law,"
1978). The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a
man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.-- Archibald MacLeish, Rockefeller University Forum, "Heaven and Earth and the Cage of Form" (Jan.-Feb. 1968; repr. in Riders on Earth, "Return from the Excursion," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience,
that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.
-- Archibald MacLeish, quoted from Laird Wilcox, ed., "The Degeneration of Belief"
We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know.
-- Archibald Macleish, "The Hamlet of A Macleish" (1928), quoted from Encarta Book of Quotations (1999)
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is
to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers.- Archibald MacLeish, commenting on the first pictures
of the earth from the moon, "Riders on Earth Together, Brothers in Eternal Cold," in The New York Times (25 December 1968;
repr. in Riders on Earth, as "Bubble of Blue Air," 1978), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
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BY DAVID C. PACK
You say heaven is the reward of the saved. Are you certain? Have you sought proof? Almost
all professing Christians believe the saved go to heaven upon death. Why? What assurance
do they have? By what authority have countless millions believed that they are bound for heaven when they die? Be honest. You probably consider yourself a Christian. You certainly want to be saved. You have probably also been assured that you will go to heaven some day. Should you not demand proof that heaven is really what you seek—and where you will go?
It is about time you know if you will spend all eternity in heaven!An Easy Formula Romans 10:9 states, “That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.” Verse 13 adds, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Certain popular verses are routinely cited to validate the simplicity of just believing in Christ to be saved. This makes salvation seem routine and easy. Heaven becomes little more than an assumption in a formula that virtually every professing Christian takes for granted: “Believe in Jesus, go to heaven.”
Yet when a famous evangelist was asked, “What will we do when we get to heaven?” he answered, “I don’t know, but it will be wonderful.” Such ignorance!—and if he does not know, how can he “know” it will be wonderful?
Answers like this are why people assume that they will “Ride clouds in heaven”—“walk the streets of gold in front of the pearly gates”—“play harps”—“grow wings”—or generally “roll around heaven all day.” All of these ideas are man-made, fiction. The Bible teaches none of them—yet almost everyone believes them as fact.
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"Who wouldn't want to use it? You lose weight and you have great sex." -- Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Laymon
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Methamphetamine
Hey kids. Crystal meth is created by cooking the ephedrine or pseudoephedrine found in cold medicines or weight loss aids. The pills are crushed into powder, then blended to a steady boil with other solvents like starter fluid or Coleman fuel. This creates a bubbly, sudsy chemical reaction which can be strained through one of your children's diapers and set aside to dry in the basement or living room. The foaming white, crumbly residue can be smoked in a traditional, contemporary American crack pipe made from glass or ceramic [high in 3-5 minutes] -- or placed gently upon a small sheet of tinfoil, heated from below with a cigarette lighter and the vapors inhaled [high in 2-3 minutes]. If the end product looks more like crystals than powder, they can be melted over a spoon, sucked into a communal syringe, and injected into your bloodstream [immediately high]. If you just want to put it in your mouth and swallow, you have to wait fifteen minutes. A single dose of meth lasts for six to eight hours. The identical portion of cocaine would get you high for maybe twenty minutes. |
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RANT INTRO NASA & $$$$$$$?????
Subject: FW:BACK PATTING NASA SELFISH WAISTFUL & THINKING THEY THINK.
When NASA first started sending up
astronauts, they quickly discovered that
ball point pens. would not work in 0 gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists
spent a decade, and $12 billion developing
a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down,
underwater, on almost any surface including
glass and at temperatures ranging from below
freezing to over 300 C.
* The Russians used A pencil.
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NASA Spent $12 Million For a Space Pen While the Russians Just Use Pencils-Fiction!
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Summary of the eRumor
The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts. The pen will write upside down, underwater, on almost any surface and is functional at extremely hot and cold temperatures. The Russians, however, filled the need for a space writing instrument by simply using pencils. |
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For some people, it's sport to point out government waste and bureaucratic stupidity, but this story about the space pen won't provide ammunition for it. The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the Russians consider it desirable to use pencils in space. In fact, both Americans and Russians use the space pen for their flights.
The famous space pen, which is still a popular product today, was developed by Paul Fisher the founder of the Fisher pen company. An engineer who improved ball point technology, he created his "bullet pen" in the 1940's, which became one of the best-selling pens of the Twentieth Century. Later, he perfected a pen that was sealed with pressure inside of the cartridge that made the ink to flow regardless of gravity. It also worked in high and low temperature extremes, underwater, and wrote on many kinds of surfaces. According to the Fisher Pen company, after extensive testing, NASA chose the pen in 1967 for use by Apollo astronauts and it's been a part of space travel ever since. The company says it took Fisher about 2 years and $2 million to develop the space pen. Prior to 1967, there were no pens that worked in space so there were pencils used, but there were concerns about pencil dust floating around the space capsules as well as fears that if the tip of a pencil broke off and drifted into the electronics, there would be problems. |
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When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300C.
When confronted with the same problem, the Russians used a pencil. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/spacepen.htm
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Did it all begin in a cave somewhere?
I've been told more than once that my conservatism makes me a neanderthal. I've always considered it a compliment.
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