same as the answer to almost every other elusive question in the universe:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Barnes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Another math question
>
>
> So, what is the answer to this illusive math question?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fred White [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Another math question
>
>
> On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 07:19 AM, Connie Sellitto wrote:
>
> > My thoughts...
> >
> >>
> >> Fred quotes:
> >>
> >>> > "As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of
> Morals and his
> >>> > Religion, as
> >>> > he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is
> likely to
> >>> see;
> >>> > but I
> >>> > apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I
> >>> have, with
> >>> > most of the present Dissenters in England, some
> doubts as to his
> >>> > divinity."
> >>> > --Benjamin Franklin
> >>
> >>
> >> Erik quotes in response:
> >>
> >>> Acts 4
> >>> 10 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel,
> >>> that by
> >>> the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye
> crucified, whom God
> >>> raised
> >>> from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you
> >>> whole.
> >>> 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders,
> >>> which is
> >>> become the head of the corner.
> >>> 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
> >>> other
> >>> name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
> >>> -- Simon Peter speaking to Annas the high priest, and
> Caiaphas, =
> and
> >>> John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the =
> high
> >>> priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
> >>
> >>
> >> To which I might add:
> >>
> >> "Man once surrendering his reason [to religious influence], has no
> >> remaining
> >> guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a
> ship without
> >> rudder,
> >> is the sport of every wind."
> >>
> >> -Thomas Jefferson to James Smith, 1822.
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> Wirt Atmar
> >
> > Interesting, this is similar to what Jude (the apostle) says about
> > NON-believers, see Jude , verse 12 (latter part) plus verse 13:
> > 'clouds they are without water, carried about of winds... <snip>
> > wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness
> > forever. '
> >
> > Thank you, Erik - for your posting.
> > Conn
>
> The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the
> point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. --
> George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
>
> FW
>
> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
> with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
> - Galileo Galilei
>
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