Earl claims to be an engineer yet does not seem to be able to use the
correct word in his question.

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 21:13:57 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:

quib, what a blithering idiot you are.

As usual you make baseless, one sentence assertions which fail to
address the substantive issues that I've raised.

The issue is that you're an idiot,

and trying hard to prove it.

Your avoidance of the
issues and use of unsupportable invectives demonstrate your manifest
incompetence at carrying on normal, intelligent conversation. I've
rather clearly proven myself a far better informed and more intelligent
person than yourself.

My doorknob is laughing at your incompetence

and discussion and comprehension..

But then again pretty much everyone is far
smarter and better informed than you are.

That'll be the day.

Easy to say, but you never say anything more substantial.

In any event you've
thoroughly discredited yourself in the eyes of most people who take the
time to talk to you, and you should feel some measure of shame about
this. You clearly have no intellectual integrity or decency.

If you are an example, none of you can discuss anything.

Describing only one measurement suggests that the bible
author believed the diameter was the same no matter which way it was
measured, which would be true of a circle, but not an ellipse.

Actually he did it to tempt your mind.

LOL. You pretend to know the motive of the scribe writing 1 Kings.
You're making an ***** of yourself again.

Better than an idiot like you suggesting that the bible is saying that pi = 3.

Only the
stupid such as you would even suggest such a silly idea.

He had you specifically in mind in my estimation.

As usual, your estimation is worthless. Of course you've backed it up
with nothing. I would assume you're joking, but it's somewhat hard to
tell, since even your allegedly "serious" comments are usually guffaw
worthy.

Back up what with what, idiot?

A crude circle crudely measured in diameter and
circumference explains everything.

I'm sure that's over your head.

How accurate must a circle be to be a perfect one?.

I didn't make the statement you're asking about. However, a circle must
be infinitely precise. This is no problem, since it's an abstract
geometrical rule.

And the average sheepherder of a few thousand years ago was able to make such a
measurement.........how?

Actually, I see it more as a case of imperfect measuring.

Nobody gives a ***** how you see it because you have not shown that your
opinion merits any attention.

You made a stupid ***** of yourself on this one, quib.

If the measuring was imperfect then it
still results in the bible containing counterfactual and thus errant
statements.

My doorknob is laughing hard at you now, quib.

This, in turn, suggests that we may not be able to rely
upon many other potentially errant assertions contained in the bible.

The only parts inerrant are the revelations of God.

Do you really think that God revealed
pi = 3 in the bible, quib?

Tell the world, quib. This should be fun.

Now that makes much more sense
than your silly ideas.

I proposed nothing silly. I stated that a circle or any other constant
width shape must still have a perimeter of pi*width, which is perfectly
correct.

Right, any high school teenager knows that.

But none but you profess pi = 3 in the bible.

I even cited the appropriate theorem, which is far beyond your
feeble mathematical abilities. If the bible only states one width then
that suggests that the object had a constant width, since otherwise it
would introduce imprecision and inaccuracy into the bible to ignore
this other relevant data. Naturally, you haven't thought about the
implications of your laughably naive proposals.

Wow, you are totally weird.

Especially so when they speared him in the chest after all he had already been thru.

There's no guarantee that it killed him. The bible claimed that jebus
performed many feats, such as fasting for 40 days and nights, which
could kill other men. Therefore, we cannot suppose that a spear thrust
would necessarily kill him either. Certainly other people have been
impaled and lived for considerable lengths of time.

Yeah, and maybe a shotgun blast in the mouth might not kill someone either, quib.

fake botox must be real proud of you.

Once you admit that the bible is vague and
unreliable then we can't place a lot of stock in any of the things it
tells us.

You can in the parts that are the revealed inerrant word of God.

You've shown no evidence that any parts of the bible are the word of God
or that they are inerrant. The fact that there are apparent errors in
passages like 1 Kings 7:23 suggests that many other parts of the bible
are not to be trusted either.

Does the statement that the only guaranteed inerrant parts of the bible are the
revelations of God?

Now measuring a circle
very accurately, he did you a favor by not asking you to do the measuring.

Your nonsensical statement gets you nowhere as usual. The bible is
obligated to be accurate, which it was not, when it suggested that the
ratio of circumference to diameter in this circular object was 3.

You're a certified kid with a child's mind, quib.