On 28 Feb, 18:49, Chade
newsguy.com> wrote:> On 28 Feb, 16:50, "Tom"
comcast.net> wrote:
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>> "Venerated by many Catholics as proof that Christ was resurrected from the
>> grave, the shroud was eventually dismissed as a brilliant, medieval fake
>> twenty years ago. Carbon-14 tests at three reputable laboratories in Oxford,
>> Zurich and Tucson, dated it to between 1260 and 1390. Â After the tests, the
>> Oxford laboratory's founding director, Edward Hall, told journalists:
>> 'Someone just got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it.
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>> But shroud scholars, known as sindonologists, have always argued that no
>> medieval forger could either have produced such an accurate fake or
>> anticipated the invention of photography. Â Speculation about the linen cloth
>> continued as well as debates over the validity of the carbon-14 tests.
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>> 'There is the possibility that new carbon-14 tests today will produce
>> different results.'"
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>> "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
>> expecting different results." Â -- A. Einstein
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> In the pub the other day, a friend of mine was telling me about what
> happened when his very young son came home from school. When asked
> about his school day, the son said he had had lessons all about Easter
> and Maths. "Dad", he went on to say, "I don't think Jesus died on the
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lol.
I was at the pub yesterday celebrating. Wild night. We were sitting
outside in the sunshine enjoying a cold beer and a laugh, when a lady
behind me began to talk in a sort of strangled voice, spitting and
repeating incomprehensible words with occaision mentions of 666 and
Jesus Christ. I glanced around to see she was staring at me so I just
smiled and ignored it. After a few minutes of this however, the
situation had to be given some thought.
Tourettes. I'm not sure if that's how you spell it. Most touretties
just tell you to f*** off. My brother met her last year and had the
same experience, and she explained it to him. He says she's a very
nice lady when you get to know her - and not mad at all. What
impressed me most though was the way she carried herself - confident,
walked with pride and bounce, smiling, and completely untroubled by a
slight bout of spitting 666. :)
