On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:42:32 +0000, James Hodson <[email hidden]> wrote in message <[email hidden]>:
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There's no doubt in my currently non-believing mind that Jesus existed some 2K years ago. Whether he was Christ, however, is a matter of faith; something I don't have at the moment.
Hard to disagree with this. There is, I am told, less interval between the events an the earliest Biblical textx than there is between, say, the siege of Troy and the first written accounts thereof.
Accounts that weren't regarded as conclusive evidence that Troy existed until archaeological evidence was found.
Hardly comparable to Julius Caesar, your earlier example. The earliest copy we have of his writings might be more distant from the original than the gospels, but we have massive amounts of supporting evidence that he existed and was emperor of Rome. We know the Romans really did occupy Britain for example, not just because someone wrote about it later, but because we find buried Roman stuff (including remains of whole buildings, not just trade goods).
On 19 Mar 2004 16:08:57 +0000 (GMT), [email hidden] (Alan
Braggins) said:
Hardly comparable to Julius Caesar, your earlier example. The earliest copy we have of his writings might be more distant from the original than the gospels, but we have massive amounts of supporting evidence that he existed and was emperor of Rome.
Dictator, yes; emperor no. See bbc.co.ukhistoryOpen ↗ /historic_figures/caesar_julius.shtml
-- Dave...
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live. - Mark Twain
There are also several examples of extreme violence, sometimes
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plague, suspense and a surprise ending.
Its lousy fantasy fiction though. At least 2 beginnings, no consistent plot and implausible throughout.
eh? It's a compendium of sixty six different books. There is some good stuff in there, but also a lot of twaddle. A lot of it lost something in the translation which is a pity.
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:07:19 -0000, "Sky Fly" <[email hidden]> wrote:
🙂Well I don't know... is it really as effective as it is 🙂claimed - will it help the police do a better job? I guess 🙂it's true that it will make them more approachable than 🙂if they were riding in a car, but I'm still somewhat :doubtful. )It would be interesting to have a policeman's :perspective on )this. )
It apparently works better than planned. Not only do the good public find the cycling police more approachable, so do the yoof and has shown to be a way to break down barriers between police and yobs.
...having spoken to a few cycops in Brum. -- Comm again, Mike.
