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29 Jul 2005 08:43:07 AM |
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OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
The article continues at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4726733.stm
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "Clayton From The Church Of Jesus Christ Youve Got To Be Kidding" |
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29 Jul 2005 06:04:45 PM |
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"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message
news:42EA326B.613F48AB@serv.net...
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
I wonder if it could be the long lost "10th planet" Vulcan. Maybe Urbain
Jean Joseph le Verrier and John Couch Adams were right all along!
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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30 Jul 2005 09:43:58 AM |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:04:45 +1000, "Clayton From The Church Of Jesus
Christ You've Got To Be Kidding" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com>
drained his beer, leaned back in the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly
proclaimed the following
I wonder if it could be the long lost "10th planet" Vulcan. Maybe Urbain
Jean Joseph le Verrier and John Couch Adams were right all along!
If so, it somehow managed to travel a hell of a long way. Verrier and
Adams placed Vulcan inside the orbit of Mercury.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "Clayton From The Church Of Jesus Christ Youve Got To Be Kidding" |
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30 Jul 2005 07:35:05 PM |
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"Douglas Berry" <penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote in message
news:ag4ne15ga990enp7iktu6pqkjb0l3kvh81@4ax.com...
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:04:45 +1000, "Clayton From The Church Of Jesus
Christ You've Got To Be Kidding" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com>
drained his beer, leaned back in the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly
proclaimed the following
I wonder if it could be the long lost "10th planet" Vulcan. Maybe Urbain
Jean Joseph le Verrier and John Couch Adams were right all along!
If so, it somehow managed to travel a hell of a long way. Verrier and
Adams placed Vulcan inside the orbit of Mercury.
Well, ok......I didn't say it was a GOOD theory!!!
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2005 04:00:53 PM |
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In episode <ag4ne15ga990enp7iktu6pqkjb0l3kvh81@4ax.com>, Douglas Berry
burst into the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:04:45 +1000, "Clayton From The Church Of Jesus
Christ You've Got To Be Kidding" <cjfat@SPAMBLOCKphonymails.com> drained
his beer, leaned back in the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed
the following
I wonder if it could be the long lost "10th planet" Vulcan. Maybe Urbain
Jean Joseph le Verrier and John Couch Adams were right all along!
If so, it somehow managed to travel a hell of a long way. Verrier and
Adams placed Vulcan inside the orbit of Mercury.
Well, it's *hot over there!
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 AM |
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"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message
news:42EA326B.613F48AB@serv.net...
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
http://www.ashenempires.com
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| User: "duke" |
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29 Jul 2005 12:59:05 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and then
dismantle the ship.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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29 Jul 2005 01:11:57 PM |
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"duke" <duckgumbo32@cox.net> wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and
then
dismantle the ship.
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
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| User: "Panama Floyd" |
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29 Jul 2005 01:20:14 PM |
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Denis Loubet wrote:
"duke" <duckgumbo32@cox.net> wrote in message
news:0hrke1tmp2929puemskoab01q52rek2b9a@4ax.com...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and
then
dismantle the ship.
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
Oh, y'all are being too harsh with Earl. There's nothing wrong with him
that HIV wouldn't eventually cure...
-Panama Floyd, Atlanta
aa#2015, Member Knights of BAAWA!
"..the prayer cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
-Mark Twain
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| User: "duke" |
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29 Jul 2005 05:11:50 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:11:57 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and
then
dismantle the ship.
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
Go for it, loubert.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
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| User: "Denis Loubet" |
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29 Jul 2005 06:11:27 PM |
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"duke" <duckgumbo32@cox.net> wrote in message
news:kcale1pejgqo5uim9j66prnjoe05583up3@4ax.com...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:11:57 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there,
and
then
dismantle the ship.
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
Go for it, loubert.
What part of the word "almost" don't you understand?
*****, you're a moron.
--
Denis Loubet
dloubet@io.com
http://www.io.com/~dloubet
http://www.ashenempires.com
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| User: "Olrik" |
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30 Jul 2005 12:56:00 AM |
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Denis Loubet wrote:
"duke" <duckgumbo32@cox.net> wrote in message
news:kcale1pejgqo5uim9j66prnjoe05583up3@4ax.com...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:11:57 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there,
and
then
dismantle the ship.
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
Go for it, loubert.
What part of the word "almost" don't you understand?
*****, you're a moron.
"Duke" is a troll. He's no more xian than you. He's a complete impostor.
--
Olrik
aa #1981
Qualified SMASH member
EAC Chief Food Inspector, Bacon Division
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| User: "Uncle Buck" |
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29 Jul 2005 09:59:01 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:11:27 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com>
wrote to duke:
*****, you're a moron.
Dude, did you know the sky is made of air? {=-O
--
L8r,
Uncle Buck
_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=~_o-O=
http://surrenderingtothefall.blogspot.com
~=O-o_~=O-o_~=O-o_~=O-o_~=O-o_~=O-o_~=O-o
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| User: "duke" |
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30 Jul 2005 07:23:57 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:11:27 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Being that far away from things like you is almost worth it.
Go for it, loubert.
What part of the word "almost" don't you understand?
*****, you're a moron.
You misunderstand - I'm trying to get you to go "all the way".
What a moron you are.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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30 Jul 2005 09:41:39 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:59:05 -0500, duke <duckgumbo32@cox.net> drained
his beer, leaned back in the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly
proclaimed the following
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and then
dismantle the ship.
The Meek shall inherit the Earth.
The rest of us are going to the stars!
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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29 Jul 2005 04:23:21 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net)
made the light shine upon us with this:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com>
wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there,
and then dismantle the ship.
But then you'd have nobody but Christians to argue with!
--
Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
http://home.comcast.net/~vickman/
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'03 XVS650A
'04 XVS1100
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| User: "duke" |
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29 Jul 2005 05:14:56 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:23:21 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there,
and then dismantle the ship.
But then you'd have nobody but Christians to argue with!
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other 97.5% are
not all Christian.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2005 04:06:50 PM |
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In episode <tfale1dvff608vnqk3bqb20lr1d2nfvheu@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:23:21 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there,
and then dismantle the ship.
But then you'd have nobody but Christians to argue with!
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other
97.5% are not all Christian.
As usual, you're full of *****. It's more around 15%. Anywhere from about
930 million to 1.1 billion. And that 930 million estimate is from a
*Christian* organization:
http://www.uscwm.org/mobilization_division/pastors_web_folder/global_mission_statistics.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y39F4268B
(It's gonna have to be one *big* ship)
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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29 Jul 2005 10:41:55 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net)
made the light shine upon us with this:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:23:21 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over
there, and then dismantle the ship.
But then you'd have nobody but Christians to argue with!
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other
97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
--
Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
http://home.comcast.net/~vickman/
______________
'03 XVS650A
'04 XVS1100
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| User: "duke" |
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30 Jul 2005 07:39:09 AM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:41:55 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other
97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Cut out 50% of 16% that are nonreligious, and divide the rest by 3, and 2.5
comes up.
That falls in line with other "no longer remembered" links I've seen.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2005 04:07:29 PM |
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In episode <gfsme15snj6oh1lqqml7cnm75qjnl8o9qs@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:41:55 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other
97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Cut out 50% of 16% that are nonreligious, and divide the rest by 3, and
2.5 comes up.
Why do *any of that? Because you want to?
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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30 Jul 2005 12:13:43 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net)
made the light shine upon us with this:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:41:55 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The
other 97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Cut out 50% of 16% that are nonreligious, and divide the rest by 3,
and 2.5 comes up.
That falls in line with other "no longer remembered" links I've seen.
I see. You've redefined it to bolster your opinion. Thou art full of
*****.
--
Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
http://home.comcast.net/~vickman/
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'03 XVS650A
'04 XVS1100
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| User: "duke" |
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30 Jul 2005 01:21:14 PM |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:13:43 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote:
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net)
made the light shine upon us with this:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:41:55 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The
other 97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Cut out 50% of 16% that are nonreligious, and divide the rest by 3,
and 2.5 comes up.
That falls in line with other "no longer remembered" links I've seen.
I see. You've redefined it to bolster your opinion. Thou art full of
*****.
If you have a better number, give it a shot. Otherwise, accept that you are a
great minority.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2005 04:07:54 PM |
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In episode <47hne19m0obclnhvhtc0bqb5id90p91u0c@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:13:43 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet duke (duckgumbo32@cox.net)
made the light shine upon us with this:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:41:55 -0500, Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com>
wrote:
Oh, nooooo. The atheist population of earth is only 2.5%. The other
97.5% are not all Christian.
Duke, I'm going to have to ask you for a cite on that figure you just
pulled out of your *****.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Cut out 50% of 16% that are nonreligious, and divide the rest by 3, and
2.5 comes up.
That falls in line with other "no longer remembered" links I've seen.
I see. You've redefined it to bolster your opinion. Thou art full of
*****.
If you have a better number, give it a shot. Otherwise, accept that you
are a great minority.
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "duke" |
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31 Jul 2005 08:07:17 AM |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster>
wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about that.
duke
*****
"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
*****
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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31 Jul 2005 06:58:27 PM |
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In episode <u5jpe1p6nfftotaj0fldt5c261fevndg70@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about that.
I see, you're going by a note in the pie chart. Well, try this in the text:
"Zuckerman concluded, 'the grand total worldwide number of atheists,
agnostics, and non-believers in God is somewhere between 504,962,830 and
749,247,571. These minimum/maximum numbers are conservative estimates;
were one to factor in a mere .25% of such highly populated countries as
Egypt, Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, Burma, Tanzania, and Iran, as
non-believers in God, estimates would be significantly larger. Also, these
numbers are only for non-believers of God, specifically."
Also, this cuts both ways:
"Many of these people who do not believe in God, deities, or a Higher
Power are nevertheless devout adherents of their various faiths, or even
clergy. They are enumerated in the list above as adherents of those
faiths, and not counted among nonreligious, atheists or agnostics because
their primary religious identity is not atheism or agnosticism. It should
be remembered that not all strains of all religions entail belief in God,
a Higher Power or deities."
So while some portion of the non-religious are theist, some portion of the
religious are atheist.
Further:
http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/atheism.html
"Even in open, democratic societies without pervasive governmental
coercion, individuals often feel that in order to make themselves appear
as decent, upstanding citizens, it is necessary to say that are
religious--or deny being an atheist--simply because such a response is
deemed socially desirable or culturally appropriate. For example, the
designation 'atheist' is highly stigmatized in many societies; even
when people directly claim to not believe in God, they still eschew the
specific self-designation of 'atheist.' Greeley (2003) found that 29%
of Latvians, 41% of Norwegians, 48% of the French, and 54% of Czechs
claimed to not believe in God, but only 9%, 10%, 19%, and 20% of those
respondents self-identified as 'atheist,' respectively."
The NON-believers are bigger than you think. And about half are being
counted in one of the "religious" categories...
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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31 Jul 2005 11:07:18 AM |
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In episode <u5jpe1p6nfftotaj0fldt5c261fevndg70@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about that.
You're nuts. The category is, and I quote,
"Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist." There are no "theists" in that
group.
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "duke" |
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| Title: Re: New planetoid found in our solar system |
31 Jul 2005 03:59:08 PM |
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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:07:18 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster>
wrote:
In episode <u5jpe1p6nfftotaj0fldt5c261fevndg70@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about that.
You're nuts. The category is, and I quote,
"Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist." There are no "theists" in that
group.
Here's the site for you again, if you can't read.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
duke
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"The Mass is the most perfect form of Prayer."
Pope Paul VI
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: New planetoid found in our solar system |
31 Jul 2005 06:37:49 PM |
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In episode <ireqe1dfenpe7onqopnh9o6cfis057vtc2@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:07:18 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In episode <u5jpe1p6nfftotaj0fldt5c261fevndg70@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about that.
You're nuts. The category is, and I quote,
"Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist." There are no "theists" in that
group.
Here's the site for you again, if you can't read.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
I read it. It *still says 16% are non-theist.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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31 Jul 2005 06:52:35 PM |
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In episode <FvKdnVA82qdQ_XDfRVn-2Q@megapath.net>, Mark K. Bilbo burst into
the room and exclaimed:
In episode <ireqe1dfenpe7onqopnh9o6cfis057vtc2@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:07:18 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
In episode <u5jpe1p6nfftotaj0fldt5c261fevndg70@4ax.com>, duke burst into
the room and exclaimed:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:07:54 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
16% was fine before you dishonestly started hacking away at it.
You can read. Half that 16% are theist. Nothing dishonest about
that.
You're nuts. The category is, and I quote,
"Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist." There are no "theists" in that
group.
Here's the site for you again, if you can't read.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
I read it. It *still says 16% are non-theist.
I see what you're talking about. The pie chart note. What the text is
saying, however, is that depends on definitions.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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31 Jul 2005 08:30:28 PM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Mark K. Bilbo
(alt-atheism@org.webmaster) made the light shine upon us with this:
Here's the site for you again, if you can't read.
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
I read it. It *still says 16% are non-theist.
I see what you're talking about. The pie chart note. What the text is
saying, however, is that depends on definitions.
I think their definition had something to do with deism, which is not
really theism.
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Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
http://home.comcast.net/~vickman/
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