Posted on 03/18/2009 10:27:27 PM PDT by Star Traveler
Thanks ST!
We see prophecy every day coming closer that results to the finish line!
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I remember reading an article from a physicist about this... let me see if I can find it.
FAIT’S ZONG HOW! [MY PIN YIN is only slightly better than my nonexistent characters]
Wo HUN AI NIMEN!
JESUS AI NIMEN!
Wo hun xi hwan gao xin jian dow ni na bien.
[And I have no idea about those tones! LOL]
HA! I just realized I was remembering a different part of the same document you referenced in your post!
I haven’t read it in a few years, thanks for posting it and reminding me!
MUCH AGREE. THX.
INTERESTING. THX.
VERY INTERESTING. THX.
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He's got a good website. He's got a list of links on one section of his website, and then a bunch of articles on the other half of his website.
When one goes there, they'll find a link for (1) Articles and then for (2) Links. There's a ton of good Christian information there.
Lambert Dolphin is a retired physicist and here's what he has to say about himself.
Brief History of this Web Site
by Lambert Dolphin
I was on the staff of SRI International back in the olden days of the ARPA Net. Office work, such as text editing and running programs, was done by our staff from primitive terminals connected at first to a very friendly, beloved, but antiquated DEC KL-10 mainframe. Logging onto the ARPA Net was a bit of trouble back then, and unless we knew where to go and what to request it was no-man's land for most of us. The Net was a novelty, but the potential caused us to discuss setting up a Satellite-based (Library) Bank of Information with the government of Egypt in 1976. It proved to be an idea 20 years ahead of its time.
In 1983 outside gifts from personal friends made it possible for me to get my first Macintosh 128k. (I had met Steve Jobs and become friends some years earlier and was sold from the start on Macintosh). That old Mac 128 eventually became a 512 and then a MacPlus. In 1987 I graduated to a Mac II (running at a speedy 15 MHz) and an expensive Laserwriter Plus weighing a ton. For a long time I thought the state-of-the art could hardly get much better.
An email account at Stanford University and a guest account on a local corporate computer served my modest email needs for a time until I graduated to CompuServe along about 1992.
In April 1995 Carl Gallivan, a close friend for 30 years, suggested I should get an Internet account and put up a web page. He suggested connecting by means of an account with Best Communications, Inc., in nearby Mountain View (only $30 a month with unlimited connect time). Modems were zipping along at 14.4kbps by then!
All this was (for me) far-out leading-edge stuff, but I was eager to try it out. I started from scratch and soon found that writing html files was not difficult -- just tedious. My first modest home page went on line around Easter in April 1995. Soon I discovered that if I put files and essays which had been scattered in heaps around my office on my web pages I could find them more easily. A handy filing system whether anyone else read them or not!
The following month Carl Gallivan and Mark Verber then of Xerox PARC organized a small group of volunteers to put the 800+ sermons of our late pastor and dear friend, Ray C. Stedman, online. I set out to do the HTML file conversions, by hand, during the next few months. Using hot keys on my Mac I found that html tags could be inserted relatively easily. (I tried several early html editors, but found them all deficient and cumbersome).
Fortunately the sermons at PBC, Peninsula Bible Church, (where Ray Stedman was pastor for 40 years), existed in electronic form or could be scanned in from printed versions. After so much practice writing simply html files I was writing 3 or 4 an hour!
February 1996 found me invited to put another 300+ sermons on the PBC on the church's home pages. Out of the blue my friend of many years, Erik Lammerding then called my attention to new Mac software products Adobe Pagemill and Sitemill. Little did I realize the power and usefulness of this new software! Converting library text files to html now was made more efficient for me by a factor of 4! I heartily recommend these packages, though it may mean some of you PC users who are still tied to DOS, the Devil's Operating System, will have to recant and come into the wonderful world of Apple. By the way Pagemill is WYSIWYG and has links, anchors and graphics features that are really dazzling and easy to use. (This was obviously the time good HTML text editors began to become available).
As a matter of web-page philosophy, Mark Verber has provided many helpful comments and tips to this novice. I agree with Mark that library resources such as my home page or the Ray Stedman Library should have minimal graphics and be neat and simple. Many Internet users connect by impossibly slow modems or through antiquated servers. Many web browsers in use are primitive. If the purpose of a web site is to make information available, then what is the need for flashing neon signs, slow-loading gussied-up graphics? Note: The Ray Stedman Library became an independent stand-alone web site in 2005, and all of Ray's books were added online at that time. Everything has remained free of charge since.
My web pages are sort of my working library. My style of writing is to put an idea or Bible class notes into a draft form and revise and update them subsequently. Seldom do I have the time to finish an essay all in one sitting. I hope the unfinished state of many of my online papers won't be too disconcerting. Whenever I find a willing friend who is willing to edit files, I am eager to recruit editorial and writing skills to improve my web page materials. (Guest articles are also welcome, as you have probably noticed already).
As a place for Christian ministry I am enthused about the Internet. I am delighted at the email I receive daily from all over the world. I respond by email to everyone who writes, often with the help of special friends in the Paraclete Forum. In the past few years I have made dozens of great new friendships on Internet. I like working in a medium where there are no denominational walls and boundaries. And, it's as easy to talk to Hungary or Finland or Singapore as it is to talk to a friend down the block here in Silicon Valley. It is easy to enter into deep conversations with a new friend and to drop the discussions when the main points have been covered. Yes, I try to answer my email as promptly as I can.
Thanks for the ping!
Yes that was who I was speaking of! I spent hours at a time there. Haven’t been there in quite awhile! LOTS AND LOTS OF GOOD STUFF!
I specifically remember the temple mount articles. He had indepth information that no one else had.
Yes I figured that out. I am reading through it now.
thanks
Thanks, I saw the article earlier and was looking for where he came up with his stats.
Hard to find it at USGS.
It really depends upon the definitions being used in their numbers. For example, does one include aftershocks?
Would a 0.5 qualify in an area which daily has several 1.1 to 2.5 quakes, if a remote area never experiencing any seismic activity has a 1.0 and is counted?
If only major quakes are recorded, where is the threshold? 5? 6? 7?; If 5.0, then are the 6.0 and 7.0 aftershocks ongoing yesterday in Chile considered separate events from the 8.8?
Lastly, if all quakes are being considered, then what indicators are there of them in the past 2 millennia, especially in areas where little to no recording of such events is known today?
Even with these questions, perhaps we are going about it the wrong way. We know we should address the issue through faith in Christ, so perhaps we can ask the dual of the argument through faith in Him, are earthquakes lessening in frequency? For example, if many years ago we had an established rate of 30 per decade, did they reduce to 3 per decade the following century, then 3 per century, and now to 3 per millennia?
This we can agree is not the case.
The opposite question if they have risen from 3 per century to 30 per century over a millennia, to 30 per decade over another millennia, to now 30 per year in the last decade? This appears to be a reasonable possibility.
The article by Steve Austin, IMHO, asked and assumed some improper positions, if sincerely seeking honest answers to the above questions, using statistical analysis of the available data. I would discern it is better presented than many other articles on the topic, but IMHO has a swayed bias towards asserting no frequency change exists or if anything the frequency is lessening.
When I run the numbers, I tend to find the opposite is occurring, but its hard to tell.
Even the USGS site addressing the question, buffers the query by simply noting they have increased their information gathering network by more than a factor of 20 in the last decade, which could easily sway such calculations unstably.
Thanks for the ping.
The dead in Christ rise first.
That will be a day like no other!
I have it on good authority the the newly formed Sanhedrinshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
are planning a Korban Pesach this coming Pesach.The first since 70 CE
An altar made from uncut stones is being assembled near Jericho.
It was dedicated this past Tisha B'av.
Tisha B'av was auspicious as it was the destruction of the Temple in 70CE.
At some time in the near future the altar will be moved to the temple mount.
The first Korban Pesach was during the Exodus.
Yah'shua presented Himself as the Korban Pesach to cover our sins.
Interesting.
Would you now be willing to spell all that out in English for the special Hebrew terms?
Thx in advance.
The Cohan(priests) are planning to sacrifice passover lambs this coming passover.shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachNot done since 70CE
THX THX.
What will be the approximate date?
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