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polygon
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response 25 of 46:
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Jun 25 19:28 UTC 2003 |
Re 24. Right, but if you were building a subdivision, and millions of
dollars depended on selling those houses as quickly as possible, would
you name a street "Booger Hollow Drive"? Or even "Bogeyman Circle"?
Responding to social and economic imperatives like that (e.g., skipping
the 13th floor in an office building or hotel) is not itself superstition.
Sorry.
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tod
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response 26 of 46:
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Jun 25 19:33 UTC 2003 |
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mdw
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response 27 of 46:
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Jun 25 20:43 UTC 2003 |
Hm. I can see "Bogeyman Circle" -- probably next to Devil's Crossing
and Satan Lane.
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sabre
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response 28 of 46:
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Jun 25 22:07 UTC 2003 |
It also says that he will cause all both great and small to recieve his mark.
and that without that mark they can't buy or sell.
I don't think that's in Bush's game plan.
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naftee
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response 29 of 46:
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Jun 26 01:28 UTC 2003 |
I was on highway 666 once. Nothing really special.
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jmsaul
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response 30 of 46:
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Jun 26 04:14 UTC 2003 |
Want one of those Highway 666 signs, "legally obtained"? $50:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2181084811&category=1404
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d=1
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klg
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response 31 of 46:
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Jun 26 17:01 UTC 2003 |
re: "#14 (polygon)... In Hebrew, the word for eighteen is "chai",..."
Mr. polygon,
Obviously, you do not speak Hebrew. The letters from which the word
chai is composed (chof yud) are the equivalent of 18 (chof = 8; yud =
10). The word for 18, as you may recall, is sh'mona esrei - an
alternative name for the amidah.
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tod
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response 32 of 46:
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Jun 26 19:35 UTC 2003 |
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slestak
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response 33 of 46:
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Jun 26 22:24 UTC 2003 |
The antichrist and any other mythological being manifesting itself upon earth
must depend upon the belief and fear of others for their power. Dubya has
difficulty speaking, spelling, eating junk food, and standing safely at a
podium. I believe that certain numbers have a seemingly divine significance,
and one can find numbers everywhere if one looks carefully enough. This fact
appears to somehow connect all objects in the universe? I hope that we will
all choose to disempower and turn our backs on any self manifested control
monger. Whether or not Dubya, his father, or his brother are "evil" beings
will be self evident. God save us all from ourselves.
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naftee
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response 34 of 46:
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Jun 27 04:17 UTC 2003 |
slicksteak!
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void
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response 35 of 46:
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Jun 27 05:10 UTC 2003 |
The top floor of the old U of M Hospital was numbered 13.
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tpryan
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response 36 of 46:
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Jun 30 23:20 UTC 2003 |
At the Michigan Inn, in Southfield, MI, I stayed in
room 1313 at a ConTraption convention. Did not get lucky.
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janc
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response 37 of 46:
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Jul 1 02:20 UTC 2003 |
In the original article, two rather bizarre schemes for assigning numbers
to letters are described. The first is supposed to have been "invented
by the Greek philosopher Pythagoras". The second is supposed to have
roots in ancient Babylon and the Hebrew Kabbala.
What I want to know is why either the ancient Greeks, Babylonians or Hebrews
were working with the Roman alphabet. Heck, they even assigned values to
J, U and W. I don't think J was invented until the 15th century.
I like goofball philosphies better when they make internal sense.
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mdw
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response 38 of 46:
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Jul 1 02:46 UTC 2003 |
Can't speak for the babylonians. I think they used cuniform, which
works more like modern Chinese than Latin. The later hebrews knew greek
and used it. The new testament was originally written in greek.
Presumably any educated person who wanted to correspond with friends in
foreign lands used it, much like people use English today even when
they're not necessarily native speakers. The romans, of course, used
greek as well, well sort of. Any educated roman was taught by a greek,
and the romans were quite fond of drawing equivalences between greek
gods and roman, greek words and roman, etc. The roman alphabet was
originally the greek alphabet, and assorted extras were added then, and
like Jan points out, later.
Perhaps the extra letters were actually originally invented to fill
spots in the number space. Even today, ebcdic has big gaps between
various letters in the alphabet.
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tod
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response 39 of 46:
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Jul 1 04:40 UTC 2003 |
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simon999
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response 40 of 46:
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Sep 14 01:59 UTC 2003 |
I think it's bogus simply because the babylonian numbering system was
sexigesmal. Our decimal system requires ten individual signs to represent the
numeral digits 0 to 9. Babylonians couldn't conceive of the number zero.
And using 60 as a base would need 59 different characters for the numerals
within each span of sixty. I think he has 1 to 8. He mentions Kabbala, but
i wouldn't put much stock in a form of mysticism that Madonna practices.
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tod
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response 41 of 46:
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Sep 14 06:35 UTC 2003 |
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simon999
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response 42 of 46:
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Sep 15 02:14 UTC 2003 |
I'll agree to that, but I would probably take it a bit further and say I
wouldn't put much stock into any form of spirituality or religion for that
matter that deviates from the original.
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rcurl
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response 43 of 46:
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Sep 15 05:12 UTC 2003 |
Every form of spirituality and religion has deviated from the "original"
if it is more than five minutes old. So, I guess all your stock has
collapsed.
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tod
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response 44 of 46:
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Sep 15 06:09 UTC 2003 |
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tpryan
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response 45 of 46:
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Sep 15 16:57 UTC 2003 |
Follow The Gourd!
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bru
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response 46 of 46:
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Sep 16 21:54 UTC 2003 |
"the Shoe"
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