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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/27/2004 : 12:52:10
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6753063/
Dent 6000 yet my faith is unshaken. Oh wait I have no faith.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/27/2004 : 15:58:03 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6753063/
Dent 6000 yet my faith is unshaken. Oh wait I have no faith.
Faked antiquies are very common and too seldom caught. The archeoraptor piece-together and Piltdown fraud come to mind. This sort of thing also shows up in Aztec, Inca, and Maya artifacts, not to mention Egyptian.
It was interesting to note that the owner of the 'James' ossuary was busted as a part of a ring.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/29/2004 : 11:35:55 [Permalink]
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Update: 4 including ossuary owner charged on wednesday. At least the Jews really like accuracy in holy items, they really do not like poeple who fake holy relics.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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