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Old 01-27-2006, 10:35 PM   #71
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I don't understand your answer. Surely the Judas tradition was information obtained by some other person, and it wasn't reliable IYO. Why would the information from a passerby be considered reliable on its own?
Whoops. I had originally worded it differently and changed it but I clearly didn't change it enough.

"Can" should be "cannot".

That which can be identified as information he obtained from the various passersby he apparently enjoyed interviewing cannot be considered reliable on its own.
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Old 01-28-2006, 08:12 AM   #72
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Whoops. I had originally worded it differently and changed it but I clearly didn't change it enough.

"Can" should be "cannot".

That which can be identified as information he obtained from the various passersby he apparently enjoyed interviewing cannot be considered reliable on its own.
I thought that was what you would have said, but you are so careful with your words here that I wasn't at all sure. Thanks for clearing it up.
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Amaleq don't! Next you'll be telling me there ain't no Sandy Claus.
Then who did you mean by "Jesus of Nazareth"?

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It would seem that we have been talking a little at cross purposes.
Was that an intentional pun?

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I thought that was what you would have said, but you are so careful with your words here that I wasn't at all sure.
That's what happens when you try to do too many things at once.
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Then who did you mean by "Jesus of Nazareth"?
I did wonder why we never see them in the same room together.

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Was that an intentional pun?
Damn no. But it should have been.
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