@ldo: "Inadvertent crash test: a half-dozen-egg carton fell out of the fridge, hit 
the floor, and the one egg that was left inside rolled out. But it didn't 
crack."
    @dredge: ""John Cawston" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:gp9m53$178$<email_address>
<quote>
...........and the benefit of hard boiling them before placing in the 
fridge. "
    @gotcha: "<quote>
Infinite?
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal
sharing of misery" - Winston Churchill. "
    @ldo: "In message <369adcb1-f422-4c69-bf96-
<quote>
But surely "earlier" and "later" don't make sense without a concept of time, 
which is itself one of the variable factors in the different candidate sets 
of laws of physics?"
    @hlaughland: ""John Cawston" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:gp9m53$178$<email_address>
<quote>
And proof of a dislike of scrambled eggs! "
    @hard: "@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, <email_address> says...
<quote>
Well again - according to the Bible (the biblical scholars) - the Earth 
is 16,000 years old.
Duncan"
    @enkiducom: "<quote>
Probably not. They just imply an ordering. You can apply the terms 
"earlier" and "later" to a row of bricks depending on their relative 
positions left to right, even if you assembled them randomly.
Cheers,
Cliff
The Internet is interesting in that although the nicknames may change,
the same old personalities show through."
    @apteryx: "<quote>
It kind of does actually. As Fred pointed out, ALP's original statement 
does beg the question of God's existence (ie, taking it for granted, 
tongue in cheek, in the course of making an argument for God's 
existence). Fred is to be congratulated on providing a concise example 
of both the correct and incorrect use of "beg the question" in just two 
brief sentences.
Apteryx"
    @hard: "@n33g2000pri.googlegroups.com>, 
<email_address> says...
<quote>
Sorry I stand corrected, I knew it was 6 or 16 - I took the more 
believable :)
Duncan"
    @mrscooter: "On , , Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:29:49 +1300, Re: Egg cartons really work, Dave Doe
<quote>
Where did the material for the universe come from before it spontaneously
started?
-
Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
    @mrscooter: "On , , Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:07:09 +1300, Re: Egg cartons really work, Sailor Sam
<quote>
That assumes anything exists outside of God.
-
Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
    @mrscooter: "On , , Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:07:05 +1300, Re: Egg cartons really work, Dave Doe
<quote>
Where did you hear that?
It isn't even correctly wrong.
Bishop Usher (sp?) worked out that the first day of creation began at nightfall
preceding Sunday October 23, 4004 BC.
It was a common subject. Isaac Newton spent several years devoted to the same
topic.
So it makes the world only 6,000 years old.
I've never ever seen the 16,000 year old figure quoted before.
-
Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
    @Rich80105: "On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:09:54 +1300, Mr. Scooter
<quote>
It is Ussher. See 
<url>
I was amused to see:
"Ussher's proposed date of 4004 BC differed little from other
Biblically-based estimates, such as those of Bede (3952 BC), Ussher's
near-contemporary, Scaliger (3949 BC), Johannes Kepler (3992 BC) or
Sir Isaac Newton (c. 4000 BC).[1] Ussher's specific choice of starting
year may have been influenced by the then-widely-held belief that the
Earth's potential duration was 6,000 years (4,000 before the birth of
Christ and 2,000 after), corresponding to the six days of Creation, on
the grounds that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day" (2 Peter 3:8). This view had been almost
completely abandoned by 1997,[citation needed] six thousand years
after 4004 BC. Some biblical scholars, as well as a number of
evangelical Christians, declare their literal interpretation of the
Bible and a 6000-year-old Earth.[2]"
So the literal Christians went right up to 1997 bewfore realising that
a 1658 calcualtion may just be wrong, and that the Bible may be just a
little allegorical in places. . . ."
    @mrscooter: "On , , Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:08:13 -0700 (PDT), Re: Egg cartons really work, Matty
<quote>
So they occured/were created out of nothing.
Is that any harder to imagine than God creating everything?
Or is it because you refuse to accept that anything (God) could be more powerful
than you are?
-
Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
    @mrscooter: "On , , Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:56 -0700 (PDT), Re: Egg cartons really work, Matty
<quote>
I couldn't find them either, I thought I might have been looking in the wrong
places which is why I bought them up on the chance someone here may know.
Thanks <g> It works for me.
I've experienced His presence occasionally. 
There are worse things in life than cancer, like being held by the ankles and
having your head swung against a solid wall.
I'd take that over cancer any day.
-
Does a dog have Buddha nature?"
{'source': 'USENET', 'other_information': '{"reply_count": 14, "forum_name": "nz.general.20150207.mbox"}', 'file': 'data/output/usenet-nz.general.parquet'}