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To be wrong about prediction of a bank system collapse.
To be wrong about government cover up of facts concerning the attack of 9/11.
To be wrong about the apathy of the American people.
To be wrong about a deep depression in the near future.
To be wrong in thinking Ron Paul has almost no chance to become the next president of the United States.
To be wrong about Bilderburg group and their near completion of a secret agenda to create a One World Order of oppression and population decrease by 1/3.
Please God let me be wrong.
The Lone Bolt
12-26-2007, 06:00 PM
If you are wrong, what then?
L.A. BRONCOS FAN
12-26-2007, 06:54 PM
Gee, W*GS says you're wrong, so I guess that settles everything once and for all. ;)
If you think he's right, LABF, he's most certainly wrong.
If you are wrong, what then?
My life will be great I'll have a great 'off the grid' ranch with lots of fruit trees and a big garden, what is the problem.
cutthemdown
12-26-2007, 08:17 PM
Merry Christmas then Baja you will be very happy.
theAPAOps5
12-26-2007, 08:45 PM
Just remember people were told the Earth is flat and if you sail far enough you will fall off the end of the earth.
Just because times look bleak or are bleak doesn't mean we can't fix things.
Just remember people were told the Earth is flat and if you sail far enough you will fall off the end of the earth.
Just because times look bleak or are bleak doesn't mean we can't fix things.
So you're saying we fixed the flat earth?
Meck77
12-26-2007, 08:47 PM
Every generation seems to think that theirs is the last. Bring it. I have enough spam and left over chips in the bus to last a year or so.
theAPAOps5
12-26-2007, 08:50 PM
So you're saying we fixed the flat earth?
Touche! Actually someone went out and challenged that thought/belief and found the earth was round and found the "new world"
So in essence they did the fix the flat earth as they expelled that misconception.
Every generation seems to think that theirs is the last. Bring it. I have enough spam and left over chips in the bus to last a year or so.
I knew you ate Spam by reading your posts all these years.
;D
Meck77
12-26-2007, 09:08 PM
lol Baja...Ok it's just one random can of spam. I don't know who ditched it but it's been floating around for a couple seasons now.
I'll ship it your way and you can stash it with your gold bullion and canned goat meat.
Bronco Bob
12-26-2007, 09:19 PM
Just remember people were told the Earth is flat and if you sail far enough you will fall off the end of the earth.
Who told them that? Certainly no major scientist or philosopher of any era.
The Greek geographer Strabo reported about 10 BC that sailors knew of the
sphericity of the earth because of the disappearance of the hulls of distant
ships below the horizon and that this idea was known as early as the 7th
or 8th century BC by the poet Homer.
Pythagoras in the 6th century BC held that all the celestial bodies were spherical.
Around 330 BC, Aristotle provided observational evidence for the spherical Earth,
noting that travelers going south see southern constellations rise higher above
the horizon. This is only possible if their horizon is at an angle to northerners'
horizon. Thus the Earth's surface cannot be flat.
The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by
Eratosthenes. Eratosthenes knew that in Syene, in Egypt, the Sun was
directly overhead at the summer solstice, while he estimated that a shadow
cast by the Sun at Alexandria was 1/50th of a circle. He estimated the
distance from Syene to Alexandria as 5,000 stades, and estimated the Earth's
circumference was 250,000 stades and a degree was 700 stades (implying
a circumference of 252,000 stades). Eratosthenes used rough estimates and
round numbers, but depending on the length of the stadion, his result is
within a margin of between 2% and 20% of the actual circumference,
40,008 kilometres.
By the 1st century AD, Pliny the Elder was in a position to claim that
everyone agrees on the spherical shape of Earth.
In the Second century the Alexandrian astronomer Ptolemy advanced many
arguments for the sphericity of the Earth. Among them was the observation
that when sailing towards mountains, they seem to rise from the sea,
indicating that they were hidden by the curved surface of the sea.
In late antiquity such widely read encyclopedists as Macrobius (4th c.) and
Martianus Capella (5th c.) discussed the circumference of the sphere of the
Earth, its central position in the universe, the difference of the seasons in
northern and southern hemispheres, and many other geographical details.
In his commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, Macrobius described the
Earth as a globe of insignificant size in comparison to the remainder of the
cosmos.
From Late Antiquity, and from the beginnings of Christian theology,
knowledge of the sphericity of the Earth had become widespread.
Spider
12-26-2007, 09:31 PM
Just remember people were told the Earth is flat and if you sail far enough you will fall off the end of the earth.
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I wish it was true , there is a **** load of people I would love to push off the edge .........
Spider
12-26-2007, 09:35 PM
Just like Christmas day , me and my mother in law got into a fight over my kids , I told her flat out , look bitch , you just need to shut your pie hole , you are ****ing loon , you have been married 9 ****ing times , the problem is you , you would be doing everyone a favor if you crawled into a hole and die ....... I kinda regret it now , but no one but me or my wife lays their hands on my kids ..... if my mother in law would have been my father in law .......I would have kicked his ass all over the damn place . so yes she is one I would shove off