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Comment on The Location of Jesus by Dale

Dale — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 03:02:21 +0000

cheers mate – i knew you wouldn’t care – just bean polite lemme know if you’re around over the break, and we can do that coffee/beer/catch-up

Comment on The Location of Jesus by Damian

Damian — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:59:12 +0000

Hey fella and sorry for the delay. Of course you can (I assume you already have).

Comment on The Location of Jesus by Dale Campbell

Dale Campbell — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:27:12 +0000

hey mate I’m assuming it’s OK w/ you if I use the pics from the original post tonight for my sermon (if I’m over my chest infection enough to give it!)?

Comment on Safely recover from a freeze in Ubuntu by AskAnAtheist.org

AskAnAtheist.org — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:18:55 +0000

Thanks for posting this! I’ve been running Linux in a production environment for over 10 years, and much longer than that if you start counting from when I first started flirting with Slack way back when… and I never had any idea that you could send sync signals to a locked up system. Linux is stable – really stable. I’ve only had a few lock ups in all the years I’ve been running Linux. I have corrupted the file system twice by forcing a power off. But that’s twice too many, now that I know the trick. Thanks again!

Comment on Do Egg Shells Deter Snails? by Farkimi

Farkimi — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:54:46 +0000

I laugh at the eggshell myth as I to years ago used them as I had chooks, snails ate all my baby veg plants. I have seen snails on cacti, old worn sharp concrete, broken glass etc so why is a so called sharp eggshell gonna put the red flag out??? They laugh at and think were eggs

Comment on Change default Google localisation in Firefox in Ubuntu by bogibik

bogibik — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:42:49 +0000

hmmm… actually it works. You just need to modify file for your current locale.

/usr/lib/firefox-5.0/searchplugins$ ls
common en-AU en-GB en-US en-ZA

Comment on Change default Google localisation in Firefox in Ubuntu by bogibik

bogibik — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:24:35 +0000

This workaround doesn’t seem to work with with FF 5

Comment on Coincidence? by Damian

Damian — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:27:12 +0000

This game makes sense = He’s mistaken message

Comment on Coincidence? by Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:19:44 +0000

This Game Makes No Sense = A Message Methinks Nose
QED

Comment on Camels and Ropes and Eyes of Needles by Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:30:48 +0000

Re: the manuscript tradition, the modern versions don’t necessarily favour the majority reading (i.e. the reading found in the largest number of manuscripts). In fact, some advocates of the “King James Only” position make precisely that point: That modern versions don’t follow the majority, but the King James does (which is why the family of Greek manuscripts used for the King James is now called “the Majority text’), so therefore the King James Bible must be better.

Modern versions strive to seek out the earliest possible readings from older manuscripts. In particular two important manuscripts: Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, are centuries older than any other complete manuscripts available. That being said, modern translations are also informed by smaller finds of part-manuscripts as well, and in my view certainly provide a more reliable guide to the original writings.

Advocates of the Majority text (rather than the oldest available manuscripts) sometimes argue from silence that it’s possible (i.e. not disproven) that there are other, older, now forever lost manuscripts that really would show that the majority text is best. Trouble is, there’s clearly no evidence for this.