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To: MarkBsnr
No doubt you will fill us in on the correct history.

It's an impossibility. I'll be long gone, cremated, and my ashes scattered in the ocean, "Filling" you in on hundreds of years of history.

I suspect that the bucket is empty. Nice bluff, though.

The truth is my bucket is not large enough to contain the entire history of the Islam/Christian conquests/Wars/Crusades. I wouldn't pretend to "fill you in on the correct history" simply because I am not knowledgeable enough and, if I were, there isn't enough time to do so even assuming you had a serious interest.

The fact that you were able to distill this history in a two line pop indicates you are using a bottomless bucket or have settled on a drive-by baloney shooting cannon.

6,805 posted on 09/23/2010 9:33:45 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE
The truth is my bucket is not large enough to contain the entire history of the Islam/Christian conquests/Wars/Crusades. I wouldn't pretend to "fill you in on the correct history" simply because I am not knowledgeable enough and, if I were, there isn't enough time to do so even assuming you had a serious interest.

I didn't say anything about the size of your bucket; I just said that I suspect that it is empty. Touching on high points that are correct and do not distort the overall picture is not the same as in depth analysis, however, very few situations are simple enough to express them completely in a sentence or two. Yet that is what the Creeds do for Christianity. One does not have to memorize Shirer to have a grasp of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.

Just because you find yourself unable or unfit to do something does not mean that others cannot. I would, for example, consider myself unable to shoot somebody from a distance of a mile. Yet there are folks that pull extreme distance shots in Afghanistan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7113916.ece says that:

A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than a mile away. Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle...

The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002.

Just because I cannot do it does not mean that it cannot be done.

The fact that you were able to distill this history in a two line pop indicates you are using a bottomless bucket or have settled on a drive-by baloney shooting cannon.

Silliness aside, either show any errors, or continue on with your drive.

6,823 posted on 09/23/2010 1:29:17 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Caholic Church did not move <me to do so.)
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