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10 Sep 2008, 6:48 am

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Interesting. Are you a Catholic?

Nope. As for my interest in Latin, it is from watching the movie Event Horizon which may have been partially responsible for my birth father getting saved before he died. I do NOT recommend you watch the movie as it is horrifying, but it does have value to me.

I've seen that movie already, and yes it is horrifying as well as unnecessarily grotesque. But an awesomely compelling story!

Your birth-father accepted Jesus Christ before he died? That's great.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:14 am

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That's from Fire in the Sky, isn't it?

Yes.

But I'm about as likely to believe in alien abductions from watching that as I am to get 'saved' from watching Event Horizon.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:17 am

Once upon a time, electricity was thought to be the exclusive province of God and not for Man to meddle with. And now I'm typing on a machine powered by electricity. :wink:

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10 Sep 2008, 8:26 am

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Once upon a time, electricity was thought to be the exclusive province of God and not for Man to meddle with. And now I'm typing on a machine powered by electricity. :wink:

Yup, pretty much any form of science was at some time considered a sin, often worthy of being killed over the usage of. Especially so in the field of medicine.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:32 am

It's also been argued that we are a form of electricity.

"Zap"

I just typed from these mechanical hands of mine.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:37 am

I wonder, what do these scientists have in mind? Scientists do not always make the best choices.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:45 am

DNForrest wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Once upon a time, electricity was thought to be the exclusive province of God and not for Man to meddle with. And now I'm typing on a machine powered by electricity. :wink:

Yup, pretty much any form of science was at some time considered a sin, often worthy of being killed over the usage of. Especially so in the field of medicine.

Though commentaries abound, do you have any real historical records to back that claim?

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10 Sep 2008, 8:49 am

Well the method I used when I started life was slightly different but you guys are getting there, slowly but faster than your predecessors did.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:51 am

An entire book of it from the History of Medicine class I took as a bacchore class a few years ago. And I'm not blaming religion in any way, it's mostly the majority of humans are inherently xenophobic.

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10 Sep 2008, 8:52 am

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This was a history book written in the last 150 years or a source text?

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10 Sep 2008, 9:00 am

Well, the class required two books, the first consisted of the original writings/notes of important people in medical history (translated) and the historical texts about them and their discoveries. The second was just a regular textbook of this along with the other information about their discoveries and whatnot. The class also included a massive PDF file of even more writings of the famous figures, but unfortunately I lost that when my laptop's hard drive failed. While those books are admittedly incredibly dense and arduous reads, I consider them to be by and far the most interesting of my collection of reference books.

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10 Sep 2008, 9:09 am

Did the writings include the Principia or Prodromus? Any of the works of Bacon?

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10 Sep 2008, 9:12 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

DNForrest wrote:

slowmutant wrote:

Once upon a time, electricity was thought to be the exclusive province of God and not for Man to meddle with. And now I'm typing on a machine powered by electricity. :wink:

Yup, pretty much any form of science was at some time considered a sin, often worthy of being killed over the usage of. Especially so in the field of medicine.

Though commentaries abound, do you have any real historical records to back that claim?

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/enc ... patia.html

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10 Sep 2008, 9:16 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Did the writings include the Principia or Prodromus? Any of the works of Bacon?

Didn't see any of the Principia or Prodromus, but that may be do to differences in names/translations, my current bleariness, or them being part of the PDF file, but there was stuff on Bacon.

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10 Sep 2008, 9:20 am

DNForrest wrote:

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Did the writings include the Principia or Prodromus? Any of the works of Bacon?

Didn't see any of the Principia or Prodromus, but that may be do to differences in names/translations, my current bleariness, or them being part of the PDF file, but there was stuff on Bacon.

On Bacon or written by Bacon?

Principia was written by Isaac Newton in response to Johannes Kepler,
and the Prodromus was written by Nicholas Steno about stratigraphy.

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10 Sep 2008, 9:23 am

Francis Bacon, and I don't see why it would contain the other two, as these are books on the history of medicine.

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