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[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[J. S. Bach]

Isn't Photoshop wonderful?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Isn't Photoshop wonderful?

Except that it's pretty well known that the drive in in Buffalo really did this for the entire summer of '99.

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Isn't Photoshop wonderful?

http://www.redkid.net/generator/drive-in/

[J. S. Bach]

Except that it's pretty well known that the drive in in Buffalo really did this for the entire summer of '99.

Maybe so but they must have done it all at the same time. note the tree in the backround never changes.

[J. S. Bach]

http://www.redkid.net/generator/drive-in/

I hit the "Submit" button before I added: "similar to http://www.says-it.net/churchsigns/". Then I was too lazy to go back and edit it.

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Except that it's pretty well known that the drive in in Buffalo really did this for the entire summer of '99.

Maybe so but they must have done it all at the same time. note the tree in the backround never changes.

Now, that's a very, very clever, observant, analytical mind!!! Outstanding! I really admire that.
daMurph

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Do not remember the former things, And do not dwell on the past.
--Isaiah 43:18..

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense.
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Forget about the past?!

This is what happens when the selective interpretation of fables and mythology intersects with religion.

Meaning what? I don't get your point. At whom is your ridicule aimed, specifically, please?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Forgive me, but to that I say, Nonsense.
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Forget about the past?!

This is what happens when the selective interpretation of fables and mythology intersects with religion.

Same as when the truth about physical phenomena intersects with academics. This afternoon I will use the "Moon Illusion" as an example. .

Huh? What? Kindly.

[webenda]

This is what happens when the selective interpretation of fables and mythology intersects with religion.

Same as when the truth about physical phenomena intersects with academics. This afternoon I will use the "Moon Illusion" as an example. .

Huh? What? Kindly.

My co-worker, Dick Lavigne, told me the moon looks big at moonrise because of atmospheric refraction magnifying the image.
I told Dick atmospheric refraction only affects the apparent position of the moon at moonrise, not the size. In fact, the moon is smaller at moonrise than straight overhead because it is a half Earth diameter farther away. It looks larger because of an illusion created in the brain.
Dick told me I was wrong, science says atmospheric refraction magnifies the image.
I challenged him to go out with me and measure the angular size at moonrise and overhead.

The next day was a full moon. We went out with a Wild T-16 Theodolite and measured the moon at moonrise, about 6 PM.
Moonrise: 30' 48"

At midnight, the moon was overhead. We measured it again.
Overhead: 31' 3"

The next evening, Dick was talking to a technician at a test set. I overheard him saying, "We measured the moon at moonrise and proved it was larger due to atmospheric refraction.

Back in the Metrology Laboratory, I asked Dick to get out his notes from the night before. He did and said, "See, we measured it larger at moonrise!"
I asked Dick, "Which is larger, 30 or 31?"
He answered, "31." Then he saw it, "I must have transposed the numbers."
I showed him my notes. Dick looked at them and said, "You transposed the numbers too!"

The next night I took Dick outside to observed the Moonrise. He said, "See, it is huge!"
I had a cardboard tube with me, from a paper towel roll. I asked Dick to look at the moon through it.
Dick said, "It looks small." "Look at it without the tube Dick." Dick removed the tube from his eye and exclaimed, "It got big as I watched it!!! That proves the atmosphere magnifies the moon at moonrise."

I gave up. Dick was unable to change his wrong beliefs, even in the face of both measuring and seeing the truth.

People have the same problem with Bible truths. They go through life believing the Bible says what they want it to say.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[J. S. Bach]

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But note that:

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For example:

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And a special event sign:

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And my name in lights:

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[MurphOnMillerAve]

Same as when the truth about physical phenomena intersects with academics. This afternoon I will use the "Moon Illusion" as an example. .

Huh? What? Kindly.

....I gave up. Dick was unable to change his wrong beliefs, even in the face of both measuring and seeing the truth.

People have the same problem with Bible truths. They go through life believing the Bible says what they want it to say.

And sometimes it seems some folks just make stuff up. Why not. Maybe truths are there in the first place, written down by people (who knows how much "poetic license" was taken,) to have us think, maybe even for ourselves.

I had heard, somewhere along the path, that Free Will was a great gift to us. Then, I heard other voices saying Free Will was taken for us, by Eve; yet, put there in the first place. Confusing? Sure. Yes. No. Maybe? Eh, so what.

We interpret everything. That's what we do.

For example, some of us make changes and progress in medicine by exercising free will to take a chance and do things differently, or in a newly modified way, or in a whole new way. Dr. Lister (I think it was he) influenced the entire medical profession to not simply get off their horses at roadside outside a clinic or hospital and rush in and begin an operation (surgery) on a patient, or even on several patients at the same time, one directly after the other, WITHOUT ever considering washing hands and/or becoming sterile. His new belief of what was the right thing to do when opening up a human being was exercised by his freedom to think for himself and affect others. Gradually, other doctors followed his interpretation, his lead, concerning what was the right way to approach helping others, regarding sterile procedures, and mankind benefitted.

We see "preachers" on TV all the time who offer their own interpretation of this and that passage(s) in The Bible, from their own freewill and from their own need to be helpful.

Sometimes, throughout history, some religious zeal and interpretation gets collected into Dogma and becomes rules or simply inspiration for masses of people to follow.

Where is the harm?

I think the harm can be if certain individuals feel they have THE correct interpretation of whatswhat and ridicule or try to punish others for not toeing-the-line. Yet, personal interpretation is simply individual people trying to figure the whole thing out, just like we have been doing for millennia, even when we look at the Moon and decide if it is a god or a lump of rock that appears to change its dimensions because of optical variables between it and our eyes.

Basically, we're scared shitless, not KNOWing for an absolute certainty what comes next, after the coffin lid closes, if anything.

IMHO.
For me, the main truth is, I think, that we were put here to take care of each other. WE are still trying to figure out how to do that best, with kindness and not being a bossy-boots.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We see "preachers" on TV all the time who offer their won interpretation of this and that passage(s) in The Bible, from their own freewill and from their own need to be helpful.

The vast majority have their hands out picking your pockets to fill their own.

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We see "preachers" on TV all the time who offer their won interpretation of this and that passage(s) in The Bible, from their own freewill and from their own need to be helpful.

The vast majority have their hands out picking your pockets to fill their own.

What? [facetious what]

You don't think God gave Joel Osteen (Net Worth $40 Million) that $40,000,000 for doing such a good job preaching the word?

Wasn't Jesus rich? Apparently not. After being baptized he wandered the Earth shekeless. (A shekel was equivalent to a penny.)

“Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head.”
--Luke 9:58

--NOTE-- Jesus never claimed to be God but rather called himself, "the Son of man," because he was born a human.


I moved my conversation with Murph over here:=> viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17858&p=349961#p349961

Has this gargoyle been Seen in Print before?