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Old 05-06-2003, 04:27 PM   #31
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Shame on me, I messed up things a bit..
Back in mid 1980s people had signs on or next their computer like: "To error is human, for a really big mess, it takes a ______"[their brand of computer] ; while other people had "Computers don't make mistakes, only people do".

Since my job at that time was "research" ie finding the original paperwork that started the GIGO, my sign read: "People never make mistakes, only computers make mistakes"

The pc did it again
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Dalai Lamma
St. Francis
Buddha
Ghandi
Lao Tzu
Jesus
M. Luther King Jr. a few, just off the top of my head
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Old 05-06-2003, 06:02 PM   #33
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Why, St. Thomas, of course!
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Old 05-06-2003, 06:03 PM   #34
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DoubleDutchy, you are right.

Michael Servetus pissed off Calvin mightily with his letters about Unitarianism and Universalism, so he was enticed to Geneva for a debate. It wasn't a debate, it was a torturous barbecue of the first Unitarian. It took thirty minutes with green wood, so as to increase the suffering and the burning time, as I have read.

As a long time Unitarian, I am quite aware of Calvin barbecuing someone who didn't agree with him.
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Satan

He's fighting the good fight. Never hear any stories of him wiping out millions in floods, plagues and ordered massacres
Who do you think influenced Hitler and Stalin to murder millions of people? Satan hates you, and wants you to burn in Hell. Kinda odd that you would actually respect a being like that. You think Satan is on your side? His sole purpose is to make you reject God ( which he has been quite successful in) and suffer.
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Who do you think influenced Hitler and Stalin to murder millions of people? Satan hates you, and wants you to burn in Hell. Kinda odd that you would actually respect a being like that. You think Satan is on your side? His sole purpose is to make you reject God ( which he has been quite successful in) and suffer.
Let's see...God influenced people to murder millions of people, among them, the Amalekites.

Satan influenced Stalin and Hitler. I'll accept that for the moment, but I thought we had free will? Anyway...

Tie game so far 1 to 1.

Satan wants to be burn in hell. And since I don't believe in God, God wants me to burn in Hell.

notted at 2.

I think we're going into overtime.
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Origen of Alexandria: He merged the helenistic philosophy with christianity in an attempt to make religion rational. Later seen as a heretic.
I never did get on with that Origen chap.
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Old 05-06-2003, 09:04 PM   #38
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I never did get on with that Origen chap.
and quite frankly his name is cool.

Some More:

The current Dalai Lama

Ockham

Zarathustra: interesting ideas, intersting name
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Old 05-06-2003, 09:39 PM   #39
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Who do you think influenced Hitler and Stalin to murder millions of people? Satan hates you, and wants you to burn in Hell. Kinda odd that you would actually respect a being like that. You think Satan is on your side? His sole purpose is to make you reject God ( which he has been quite successful in) and suffer.
If you'd like to comment further, please open your own thread in an appropriate forum for such a topic.
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Old 05-07-2003, 02:22 AM   #40
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Back in mid 1980s people had signs on or next their computer like: "To error is human, for a really big mess, it takes a ______"[their brand of computer] ; while other people had "Computers don't make mistakes, only people do".

Since my job at that time was "research" ie finding the original paperwork that started the GIGO, my sign read: "People never make mistakes, only computers make mistakes"

The pc did it again
Dunno.. I used to write PLI programs back in mid 1980s.
We used to say: 'Programmers call their mistakes bugs because making that number of mistakes would be mentally unsupportable'
My post required some debugging I guess.
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