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Old January 27th 08, 06:11 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/

American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.
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Old January 27th 08, 06:17 AM posted to sci.space.policy, sci.physics, alt.politics.bush, sci.environment
After all is said and done - there's nothing more to say or do
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On Jan 27, 12:11�am, kT wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/

American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.


The writer of the article told us all ...." There was no
indication ..
whether the dead guy were wear ing seat belts @@@@@@@ !!!!
say what....Do they think seat belts would have done a thing ...for
these brainless dunces...I will pray for them ...maybe this hideous
crash will deter others
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Old January 27th 08, 06:20 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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After all is said and done - there's nothing more to say or do wrote:

On Jan 27, 12:11�am, kT wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/

American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.


The writer of the article told us all ...." There was no
indication ..
whether the dead guy were wear ing seat belts @@@@@@@ !!!!
say what....Do they think seat belts would have done a thing ...for
these brainless dunces...I will pray for them ...maybe this hideous
crash will deter others


Well, we really only have evidence of a single brainless dunce here.

We'll just have to give the others the benefit of doubt.
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Old January 27th 08, 02:03 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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"After all is said and done - there's nothing more to say or do" wrote in message ...
On Jan 27, 12:11�am, kT wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/

American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.


...I will pray for them ...

What an odd thing to do after they are already dead!
Why not pray that these accidents don't happen to begin with.
OOps!! I know the answer... it wont work.

In the history of mankind, nothing has a bigger failure rate than prayer.
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Old January 27th 08, 01:52 PM posted to sci.space.policy, sci.physics, alt.politics.bush, sci.environment
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On Jan 27, 9:03 am, "WG" wrote:
"After all is said and done - there's nothing more to say or do" wrote in ...
On Jan 27, 12:11�am, kT wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/


American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.


...I will pray for them ...

What an odd thing to do after they are already dead!
Why not pray that these accidents don't happen to begin with.
OOps!! I know the answer... it wont work.

In the history of mankind, nothing has a bigger failure rate than prayer.


Hmm, the idea behind prayer is to aid theyr souls, so they´ll be more
inclined to seek admittance to heaven.

I wonder how you measure 'failure rate' Now, really how can you
know that anyone failed to find heaven , or for that prayer has the
highest failure rate of all

Einar
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Old January 27th 08, 04:26 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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"Einar" wrote in message ...
On Jan 27, 9:03 am, "WG" wrote:
"After all is said and done - there's nothing more to say or do" wrote in ...
On Jan 27, 12:11�am, kT wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/26/airstrip.car.crash/


American technological leadership suffers yet another great loss.


...I will pray for them ...


What an odd thing to do after they are already dead!
Why not pray that these accidents don't happen to begin with.
OOps!! I know the answer... it wont work.

In the history of mankind, nothing has a bigger failure rate than prayer.


Hmm, the idea behind prayer is to aid theyr souls, so they´ll be more
inclined to seek admittance to heaven.


An evil sinner is an evil sinner. Why would you expect a recomendation from a mere mortal should or would influence Gods decision? Is God confused about who is naughty or nice?

I wonder how you measure 'failure rate'


Scientific method is the only way we mortals can falsify claims like this.
, and there has never been any evidence of prayer giving a higher sucess rate on anything, and there have been studies. A few years back there was a study that suggested prayer helped those who were seriously ill, but all attempts to reproduce those results failed. [Larger and more stringent studies].

Now, really how can you
know that anyone failed to find heaven


I agree here. This is beyond science and knowing. Blind faith has to be invoked here.

, or for that prayer has the
highest failure rate of all


See follow up Joke..
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Old January 27th 08, 04:34 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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There was this young couple on vacation in Jerusalem. One day they visited the wailing wall. {This is a real wall where the religious come to pray}. They saw this old man in his 80s kneeling and praying. After he finished they asked him how long he had been praying here.
He replied over 70 years and never missed a day.
They then asked what he was praying for.
He replied. Good will towards man, and an end to war, hunger, disease, crime and mans inhumanity to man.
They asked how it has been working for him.

He replied:
Its like talking to a f*cking wall!!!
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Old January 28th 08, 06:45 AM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.physics,alt.politics.bush,sci.environment
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On 27 Jan 2008, WG wrote:

There was this young couple on vacation in Jerusalem. One day they
visited the wailing wall. {This is a real wall where the religious come
to pray}. They saw this old man in his 80s kneeling and praying. After
he finished they asked him how long he had been praying here. He replied
over 70 years and never missed a day. They then asked what he was
praying for. He replied. Good will towards man, and an end to war,
hunger, disease, crime and mans inhumanity to man. They asked how it has
been working for him.

He replied:
Its like talking to a f*cking wall!!!


Har. Dugg.
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Old January 28th 08, 09:38 PM posted to sci.space.policy, sci.physics, alt.politics.bush, sci.environment
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On Jan 27, 8:52 am, Einar wrote:

In the history of mankind, nothing has a bigger failure rate than prayer..


Hmm, the idea behind prayer is to aid theyr souls, so they´ll be more
inclined to seek admittance to heaven.


Hmmm. I'd sure like to be a fly on the wall when the driver of this
car applies to St. Peter for admission to the Pearly Gates!
Clearly some fast talk and help from others is going to be needed! My
guess is that although Peter isn't an "evolutionist" I'll bet winning
a "Darwin" award gets him fingering the lever to the trapdoor down!

I wonder how you measure 'failure rate' Now, really how can you
know that anyone failed to find heaven , or for that prayer has the
highest failure rate of all


Actually a lot more is known about "prayer" than WG implies. "WG"
obviously has a political agenda here and therefore is trying to
"debunk" anything remotely related to what is perceived as religion
(other than atheism, of course).

The truth is that prayer and ALL mental effects (such as the Placebo
effect) have been studied quite a bit and some broad outlines of the
actions have been studied. WG is clearly more into atheism than
science. Science examines data and draws conclusions. Dogma just does
"proof by assertion".



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Old January 28th 08, 11:34 PM posted to sci.space.policy, sci.physics, alt.politics.bush, sci.environment
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On Jan 28, 4:38 pm, Benj wrote:
On Jan 27, 8:52 am, Einar wrote:

In the history of mankind, nothing has a bigger failure rate than prayer.


Hmm, the idea behind prayer is to aid theyr souls, so they´ll be more
inclined to seek admittance to heaven.


Hmmm. I'd sure like to be a fly on the wall when the driver of this
car applies to St. Peter for admission to the Pearly Gates!
Clearly some fast talk and help from others is going to be needed! My
guess is that although Peter isn't an "evolutionist" I'll bet winning
a "Darwin" award gets him fingering the lever to the trapdoor down!

I wonder how you measure 'failure rate' Now, really how can you
know that anyone failed to find heaven , or for that prayer has the
highest failure rate of all


Actually a lot more is known about "prayer" than WG implies. "WG"
obviously has a political agenda here and therefore is trying to
"debunk" anything remotely related to what is perceived as religion
(other than atheism, of course).

The truth is that prayer and ALL mental effects (such as the Placebo
effect) have been studied quite a bit and some broad outlines of the
actions have been studied. WG is clearly more into atheism than
science. Science examines data and draws conclusions. Dogma just does
"proof by assertion".


I wonder if you are familiar with Jewish believes on afterlife. Just
read the OT, but it´s clear that they believe that death means lying
in the grave, cold. But that on the day of judgement those who
believed in him are chosen to live again and then forever. So, the
alternative is to continue to be dead.

They apparently likened death to sleep:

Spalm 7:5 "then let my enemy pursue and overtake me;let him trample my
life to the ground and make me sleep in the dust."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Jeremiah 51:" The punishement of Babylon is sleep/death:"

37 Babylon will be a heap of ruins,
a haunt of jackals,
an object of horror and scorn,
a place where no one lives.

38 Her people all roar like young lions,
they growl like lion cubs.

39 But while they are aroused,
I will set out a feast for them
and make them drunk,
so that they shout with laughter--
then sleep forever and not awake,"
declares the LORD. "
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Daniel 12 - his reward is to be resurrected on the day of judgement,
but untill then he would sleep.

"13 "As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at
the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted
inheritance.""
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, as they believed that death is death, but that those who believe
will be resurrected at the end of times, and as early christians
believed that Jesus had thrown out the gates of heaven so that
believers in him go to heaven at once not on day of judgement meaning
that day of judgement is for others; the alternative to believing in
God or obeying God is then death - if one follows the original Jewish
believes and the early church believes. So hell = death.

Now, since then believes in what happens, have evolved. But these as
far as I can see are the original versions.

Einar
 




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