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If the SQ community finds him... well, I'll get the bucket and you lot get the extra-strength bodily fluids remover.

Finds who?

I don't think you want me to post all 509 avatars currently in my loop, so:
http://www.bpcent.com/avatars.jpg/list.asp

I need a digital camera, not a scanner.

AGS Blue Cup, of course.  Nice one.

voh, what operating system is that? It looks like a windows but... longhorn?

No, but this is:

http://www.bpcent.com/vistadesktop.PNG

Er, Vista actually.

No, they didn't confirm what humanity already had, they added several new psalms that probably haven't been seen in over a millennia and a half.

Well, obviously some of it is apocryphal, but that's because the Essenes had some weird ideas of Judaism anyway.  They were one of the many sects of Jews at that time, and they soon faded into the Pharisees.

They were also written in the time that Jesus supposedly walked the Earth and made no mention of him. Why? Because Jesus was not anything special to them, nor was he the first to claim to be the messiah. Many people before him had claimed that, and many people are still claiming that today. Sure, the bible says he performed miracles..

True.  But there were also a number of proofs evident that Jesus was their Messiah that they refused to see.

but there's also that one part where the Egyptian magician does some pretty wild and "out there" shit too, before being matched up by the great Jesus.

Um...no.  I think you may be confusing the story of Moses and the Exodus with that of Jesus.  Jesus never had any "miracle competitions" with Egyptians.  And even the Egyptians in Moses' time acknowledged that they couldn't do what Moses could do.

You've accounted for less than 100 manuscripts with the Dead Sea Scrolls, and those merely confirmed what we already had.  And we're obviously not considering the ones Constantine got his hands on.

And the exact date of Jesus's birth was never claimed to have any importance; it's extremely likely that if people knew the date, they'd worship it more than considering what Christmas is all about.

and how many revisions of the bible have their been exactly? and are you talking about the old or new testament?

I'm talking about both.  And if you look at the original Hebrew/Aramaic, which is what I'm talking about, there are only a miniscule amount of differences between copies, most of which can be easily attributed to the error of the copyist.

yeh and there are millions of copies of the harry potter books, what's your point?

Harry Potter is a work of fiction mass-produced by a publishers which have printing presses.  The Bible was copied down by hand when only important stuff was written down.  The fact that the Bible has survived all this time not only makes it the biggest classic ever, it also shows what it means to people.

the point i'm trying to make with the santa claus letter reference is that just because a letter is supposedly written by or to somebody doesn't mean that person exists or that the events took place, i could write a series of fictional letters right now and bury them somewhere and in 1000 years time somebody could discover them and jump to the conclusion that because they're dated back 1000 years that they must be real and the events actually happened because they're ignorant as to what actually did happen.

Well, that'd be nice if there was only ONE copy of your letters.  But there are THOUSANDS of ancient copies of books of the Bible, many extremely close to the date of the books' original publication, making it the most historically accredited book in existence.  I mean, we even take the background of the Trojan War in Homer's Odyssey for granted, and there's only a couple of ancient copies of that.  And then we have Josephus and other sources to back up the events of the New Testament, to say nothing of the archaelogical record.

OK...I'll see what I can come up with.

Yes, it's still in production.  And we're moving along swimmingly.  I just wanted to inform you all that we're looking for another composer.  If you'd like to be part of the project, please volunteer.

Thanks.

Oh, ok, guess it's a glitch then.

Erenan: That only counts if you do it inside the Protected zone...

Yeah, it'd be polite to at least get it done, even without voices.

I thought the civilization dedicated to math was interesting...Silly Necroxians.

Yeah, I think that was a bit off, too.

Dude!  Just beat it...great game.

I really liked the Star Trek references.

Woo!  Bloody brilliant, I say.  Great job.

Broken?  Which one's broken?  They all work for me.