[meteorite-list] fake Mars back on ebay
From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat May 13 16:58:43 2006 Message-ID: <42e.d96eab.3197a27e_at_aol.com> If it is a religious justification, science just plain doesn't count. The vision allegedly happened and thus the scientific method is not applicable to a believer. Anyone buying a religious vision simply will have to do it on faith and not look for a relationship of convenience with science, unless the God of that religion instructs the disciples somewhere that science and it are 100% respectfully compatible. However, I's think it would be deceptive advertising not to state the "scientific" interpretation in the description in the meteorite category if the auction had rules which it doesn't, as a matter of truth in disclosure. The auction has no such rules that I am aware of though someone else may know better. Scientific supplementary info wouldn't be necessary should it be advertised in religious relics category where it belongs, instead of the collectibles (includes meteorites) category. As a matter of fact, it belongs in the religious category right now, since "Visions" and their products are not collectables imo, and Corning's obsolete Visions' category only includes borosilicate glass items. Maybe if someone told him that God is waiting for him to hock the divine gift God personally chose him to receive, in that category, so someone can buy it and hack it to pieces. I cross my heart that I just had a beautifully dramatic vision myself of God unleashing a new, way bigger meteorite straight from Heaven to his head for squandering God's gift to the highest bidder, and then being too greedy when setting the price about it to boot. I do think the ministry would benefit from $28,000 just as well. Isn't that what the Virgin Mar?a baloney sandwich sold for to some Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not place? Was that seller cursed, I wonder? En un mensaje con fecha 05/13/2006 2:59:25 PM Mexico Daylight Time, gary_at_webbers.com escribe: << I agree with you Pete. If it is incontrovertibly identified as terrestrial then he can no longer claim it is what his vision showed him as it would then be fraud. JMO Gary On 13 May 2006 at 15:38, Pete Pete wrote: > Hi, Gary and all, > > Once the rock has been positively identified as terrestrial by the lab, I > wonder if it technically could still be advertised as a possible meteorite > on eBay thereafter, simply by the support of the vision. > > Otherwise, everyone with a piece of furnace slag can represent it as > extraterrestrial simply by the "vision" or even hunch they had saying that > it was so, lab tests or not. > > Cheers, > Pete >> Received on Sat 13 May 2006 04:58:38 PM PDT |
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