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To: zimdog

St. John seemed to focus on numbers, a specific number, and that same number appears as the last three digits in a count of verses (again, according to an islamic source) of the Koran. I find that interesting - you are under no obligation to do so.

Pedantry is the proper term to use when you focus on the word used rather than the point being made. Oops, my bad, so sorry, but my point remains the same. Spurious describes your claim that my count was off - unless you want to dispute the islamic website I pulled it from. If that's the case, don't argue with me - send that webmaster an email.

All that said, some of your other responses on this thread have been informative without relying on weak debate tactics, and I appreciate them. But I'm not the debate police, either, so take that however you want.


146 posted on 12/06/2006 10:29:06 AM PST by Liberty Tree Surgeon (Mow your own lawn!)
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
Pedantry is the proper term to use when you focus on the word used rather than the point being made. Oops, my bad, so sorry, but my point remains the same. Spurious describes your claim that my count was off - unless you want to dispute the islamic website I pulled it from. If that's the case, don't argue with me - send that webmaster an email.

The first half of my response was pedantic, the second half was basic math. 6,666 is not a three digit number and it means something very different those of use using Hindu-Arabic decimal numerals than it did to St. John, who rendered the number "chi-xi-sigma".

On a related note, a friend of mine in high school, a great heavy-metal fan, thought it was significant that he logged 333 hours at his summer job at a landscaping company. Maybe it is, but like your 6,666 verses.

And I would like to point out that a quick Google search for "number of verses in the koran" gives 6,346. http://www.kanoonline.com/publications/islam_and_the_internet.htm

147 posted on 12/06/2006 12:06:28 PM PST by zimdog
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To: Liberty Tree Surgeon
And wikipedia gives 6,236.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayah

I have no inclination to count the verses myself, but you should recognize that the 6,666 count looks either subjective or suspicious in light of these other numbers.

148 posted on 12/06/2006 12:09:51 PM PST by zimdog
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