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The Ten Days of Newton
by Olivia Judson, NY Times
Reposted from:
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/the-ten-days-of-newton/
Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.
Think of the merchandise! Newton is said to have discovered the phenomenon of gravity by watching apples fall in an orchard. (His insight came after pondering why they always fall down, rather than upwards or sideways.) Newton’s Birthday cards could feature the great man discovering gravity by watching a Christmas decoration fall from a tree. (This is a little anachronistic — Christmas trees didn’t come to England until later — but I don’t think we should let that get in the way.)
All very jolly — but then, ’tis the season. Yet things are not so simple. It turns out that the date of Newton’s birthday is a little contentious. Newton was born in England on Christmas Day 1642 according to the Julian calendar — the calendar in use in England at the time. But by the 1640s, much of the rest of Europe was using the Gregorian calendar (the one in general use today); according to this calendar, Newton was born on Jan. 4, 1643.
Rather than bickering about whether Dec. 25 or Jan. 4 is the better date to observe Newton’s Birthday, I think we should embrace the discrepancy and have an extended festival. After all, the festival of Christmas properly continues for a further 12 days, until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6. So the festival of Newton could begin on Christmas Day and then continue for an extra 10 days, representing the interval between the calendars.
The reason the interval became necessary is that the Earth, inconveniently, does not orbit the sun in an exact number of days. Instead, the Earth’s orbit is 365 days and a bit. The “bit” is just under a quarter of a day.
It wasn’t always thus. Some 530 million years ago, when animals like the trilobites were skittering around, days had less time. Back then, a day was only 21 hours, and a year was about 420 days. In another 500 million years, perhaps a day will be 27 hours, and a year fewer than 300 days. Because of the friction exerted by the moon, the Earth is slowing down. Indeed, already the days are a tiny bit longer than they were 100 years ago.
Because the orbit isn’t an exact number of days, our calendars get out of sync with the seasons unless we correct for the fractional day. The Julian calendar, which was put in place by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C., was the Romans’ best effort at making a systematic correction. Before that, the Roman calendar gave 355 days to the basic year, and every other year was supposed to include an extra month of 22 or 23 days.
But over a period of 24 years, that gave too many days; so in some years, the extra month was supposed to be skipped. This didn’t always happen. By the time the Julian calendar was introduced, the Roman calendar was so far out of sync with the seasons that the year before the first Julian year had to include a massive correction; that year, referred to as “the last year of confusion,” was 445 days. Talk about a long year.
The Julian calendar, which is broadly similar to the one we have now, divided the year into 365 days and a quarter. To implement this practically, three out of four years were given 365 days, and the fourth, 366. But this still wasn’t precise enough: by the 16th century, the calendar had fallen 10 days out of sync with the solar year. By introducing a couple of extra fiddles to do with leap years at the ends of centuries, the Gregorian calendar fixed that. Again, however, changing calendars meant introducing a one-off correction to bring the dates back in line with the seasons. Rather than having a year with an extra 90 days like the Romans, Europeans “lost” 10 days as the calendar skipped forward. Hence the interval between the contending dates of Newton’s Birthday.
It’s strangely suitable that the length of the festival should be due to human efforts to describe the orbit of our planet. For planetary orbits were the subject of one of Newton’s key works, “De Motu Corporum in Gyrum,” (”On the Motion of Bodies in an Orbit”), which he sent to the astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley’s comet fame) in November of 1684. The proofs and insights contained here were revolutionary, and allowed the calculation of the orbit of any object, from planet to comet or asteroid, moving through a gravitational field.
Shortly after sending “Motion” to Halley, Newton began work on the treatise for which he is most famous, “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (”Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”) usually known simply as the Principia. This is where, among many other insights and discoveries, he articulated his three laws of motion, which students still learn in high school physics. He explained that gravity causes tides, and that the gravitational force of Jupiter perturbs the orbit of Saturn. The basis of many of his insights rested in a kind of mathematics he had invented as a private tool for himself years before: calculus.
Newton was not merely a thinker of abstract and complex thoughts, however. He had a gift with mechanical objects. As a child, he built a miniature working model of a windmill. As an adult, he built the first reflecting telescope.
He was also an experimenter. For example, his experiments with prisms showed that white light is composed of light of other colors. Although it had been known before Newton that shining a beam of sunlight through a prism would produce a rainbow, no one knew why: it was as though the prism created colors. Newton discovered the real reason: light is composed of different wavelengths that are refracted differently by the glass of the prism. The prism doesn’t create colors, it reveals them.
Physics was only one of his interests. He was deeply religious, though a heretic — he did not believe in the Holy Trinity — and he wrote more about religion than he did about physics, mathematics or his other great interest, alchemy. Though he never managed to turn base metal into gold in an experiment, later in life he became Warden of the Mint — the man in charge of making the country’s money. Here, he oversaw the production of gold and silver coins, and ensured that they were made more exactly than they had ever been made before. He also went after counterfeiters, several of whom were hanged.
Newton does not seem to have been a pleasant man. He feuded with several of his professional colleagues, most famously Robert Hooke and Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz; he was reclusive and secretive and seems to have formed few lasting friendships. But he was also a genius, and his work laid the foundations of our modern understanding of the world. He is a man to celebrate.
In honor of Newton’s Birthday festival, I therefore propose the following song, to be sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” For brevity, I include only the final verse. All together now!
On the tenth day of Newton,
My true love gave to me,
Ten drops of genius,
Nine silver co-oins,
Eight circling planets,
Seven shades of li-ight,
Six counterfeiters,
Cal-Cu-Lus!
Four telescopes,
Three Laws of Motion,
Two awful feuds,
And the discovery of gravity!
Happy Newton, everybody!
NOTES:
I have drawn my account of the Roman calendars from the entry on “calendar” in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. For days having been shorter when the trilobites were about, see Ravilious, K. “Wind-up.” New Scientist: 23 November 2002. The details of Newton’s discoveries and life can be found in any biography; I drew on two, Berlinski, D. 2001. “Newton’s Gift.” Duckworth; and Gleick, J. 2003. “Isaac Newton.” Fourth Estate.
Many thanks to Thomas Levenson for insights, comments and suggestions.
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/the-ten-days-of-newton/
Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.
Think of the merchandise! Newton is said to have discovered the phenomenon of gravity by watching apples fall in an orchard. (His insight came after pondering why they always fall down, rather than upwards or sideways.) Newton’s Birthday cards could feature the great man discovering gravity by watching a Christmas decoration fall from a tree. (This is a little anachronistic — Christmas trees didn’t come to England until later — but I don’t think we should let that get in the way.)
All very jolly — but then, ’tis the season. Yet things are not so simple. It turns out that the date of Newton’s birthday is a little contentious. Newton was born in England on Christmas Day 1642 according to the Julian calendar — the calendar in use in England at the time. But by the 1640s, much of the rest of Europe was using the Gregorian calendar (the one in general use today); according to this calendar, Newton was born on Jan. 4, 1643.
Rather than bickering about whether Dec. 25 or Jan. 4 is the better date to observe Newton’s Birthday, I think we should embrace the discrepancy and have an extended festival. After all, the festival of Christmas properly continues for a further 12 days, until the feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6. So the festival of Newton could begin on Christmas Day and then continue for an extra 10 days, representing the interval between the calendars.
The reason the interval became necessary is that the Earth, inconveniently, does not orbit the sun in an exact number of days. Instead, the Earth’s orbit is 365 days and a bit. The “bit” is just under a quarter of a day.
It wasn’t always thus. Some 530 million years ago, when animals like the trilobites were skittering around, days had less time. Back then, a day was only 21 hours, and a year was about 420 days. In another 500 million years, perhaps a day will be 27 hours, and a year fewer than 300 days. Because of the friction exerted by the moon, the Earth is slowing down. Indeed, already the days are a tiny bit longer than they were 100 years ago.
Because the orbit isn’t an exact number of days, our calendars get out of sync with the seasons unless we correct for the fractional day. The Julian calendar, which was put in place by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C., was the Romans’ best effort at making a systematic correction. Before that, the Roman calendar gave 355 days to the basic year, and every other year was supposed to include an extra month of 22 or 23 days.
But over a period of 24 years, that gave too many days; so in some years, the extra month was supposed to be skipped. This didn’t always happen. By the time the Julian calendar was introduced, the Roman calendar was so far out of sync with the seasons that the year before the first Julian year had to include a massive correction; that year, referred to as “the last year of confusion,” was 445 days. Talk about a long year.
The Julian calendar, which is broadly similar to the one we have now, divided the year into 365 days and a quarter. To implement this practically, three out of four years were given 365 days, and the fourth, 366. But this still wasn’t precise enough: by the 16th century, the calendar had fallen 10 days out of sync with the solar year. By introducing a couple of extra fiddles to do with leap years at the ends of centuries, the Gregorian calendar fixed that. Again, however, changing calendars meant introducing a one-off correction to bring the dates back in line with the seasons. Rather than having a year with an extra 90 days like the Romans, Europeans “lost” 10 days as the calendar skipped forward. Hence the interval between the contending dates of Newton’s Birthday.
It’s strangely suitable that the length of the festival should be due to human efforts to describe the orbit of our planet. For planetary orbits were the subject of one of Newton’s key works, “De Motu Corporum in Gyrum,” (”On the Motion of Bodies in an Orbit”), which he sent to the astronomer Edmond Halley (of Halley’s comet fame) in November of 1684. The proofs and insights contained here were revolutionary, and allowed the calculation of the orbit of any object, from planet to comet or asteroid, moving through a gravitational field.
Shortly after sending “Motion” to Halley, Newton began work on the treatise for which he is most famous, “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica” (”Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”) usually known simply as the Principia. This is where, among many other insights and discoveries, he articulated his three laws of motion, which students still learn in high school physics. He explained that gravity causes tides, and that the gravitational force of Jupiter perturbs the orbit of Saturn. The basis of many of his insights rested in a kind of mathematics he had invented as a private tool for himself years before: calculus.
Newton was not merely a thinker of abstract and complex thoughts, however. He had a gift with mechanical objects. As a child, he built a miniature working model of a windmill. As an adult, he built the first reflecting telescope.
He was also an experimenter. For example, his experiments with prisms showed that white light is composed of light of other colors. Although it had been known before Newton that shining a beam of sunlight through a prism would produce a rainbow, no one knew why: it was as though the prism created colors. Newton discovered the real reason: light is composed of different wavelengths that are refracted differently by the glass of the prism. The prism doesn’t create colors, it reveals them.
Physics was only one of his interests. He was deeply religious, though a heretic — he did not believe in the Holy Trinity — and he wrote more about religion than he did about physics, mathematics or his other great interest, alchemy. Though he never managed to turn base metal into gold in an experiment, later in life he became Warden of the Mint — the man in charge of making the country’s money. Here, he oversaw the production of gold and silver coins, and ensured that they were made more exactly than they had ever been made before. He also went after counterfeiters, several of whom were hanged.
Newton does not seem to have been a pleasant man. He feuded with several of his professional colleagues, most famously Robert Hooke and Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz; he was reclusive and secretive and seems to have formed few lasting friendships. But he was also a genius, and his work laid the foundations of our modern understanding of the world. He is a man to celebrate.
In honor of Newton’s Birthday festival, I therefore propose the following song, to be sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” For brevity, I include only the final verse. All together now!
On the tenth day of Newton,
My true love gave to me,
Ten drops of genius,
Nine silver co-oins,
Eight circling planets,
Seven shades of li-ight,
Six counterfeiters,
Cal-Cu-Lus!
Four telescopes,
Three Laws of Motion,
Two awful feuds,
And the discovery of gravity!
Happy Newton, everybody!
NOTES:
I have drawn my account of the Roman calendars from the entry on “calendar” in the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. For days having been shorter when the trilobites were about, see Ravilious, K. “Wind-up.” New Scientist: 23 November 2002. The details of Newton’s discoveries and life can be found in any biography; I drew on two, Berlinski, D. 2001. “Newton’s Gift.” Duckworth; and Gleick, J. 2003. “Isaac Newton.” Fourth Estate.
Many thanks to Thomas Levenson for insights, comments and suggestions.
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Reload Comments | Back to Top | Page Numbers2. Comment #306293 by Animavore on December 24, 2008 at 11:00 am
Yep she's right.It's nerdy alright.
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3. Comment #306295 by Bluri on December 24, 2008 at 11:07 am
I am using that song, its so goddamn catchy! Other Comments by Bluri
4. Comment #306320 by 8teist on December 24, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Merry Newtons day everyone :) Other Comments by 8teist
5. Comment #306326 by jimbob on December 24, 2008 at 12:22 pm
One of Newtons inventions is missing! If you want to know what it is, and where to read about it, go to: http://www.samosbooks.org/astronomical_minds.htmlThe book is a great Solstice present!
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6. Comment #306328 by MelM on December 24, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I can't get excited about the winter solstice; why celebrate the start of several months of crappy weather? Newton's birthday however, is something I can relate to. And, I came across these Newton Christmas cards recently:http://www.powersmedia.org/cards/
Hmmm, too late for this year, but...
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7. Comment #306333 by amalthea on December 24, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I can't see the name Newton now without remembering Neal Stephenson's fantastic 'Baroque Cycle', entertaining and informative, breathtaking in scope. The kind of book Dan Brown hopes to write when he's all grown up.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quicksilver-Baroque-Cycle/dp/0099410680/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230150937&sr=1-2
Merry NewtonsDay
A
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8. Comment #306335 by d0rkyd00d on December 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I don't understand people who aren't comfortable with saying Merry Christmas....as if Christmas was ever about Christ.It's just part of the vernacular. It's like saying bless you. Roll with it.
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9. Comment #306336 by NewEnglandBob on December 24, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Bah Fig! Other Comments by NewEnglandBob
10. Comment #306344 by MelM on December 24, 2008 at 1:00 pm
On the other hand, we could do away with Chirstmas entirely and move all the nice parts to a beefed up New Years. Party New Year's Eve and open gifts on New Years Day; sounds good to me. The kids could have a ball while mommy and daddy sleep off a hangover. A good deal all around.Other Comments by MelM
11. Comment #306345 by beanson on December 24, 2008 at 1:04 pm
In the UK one of our mindless councils- I think it was Birmingham- wanted to rename it Winterval, all in the intrest of 'Multiculturalism' Other Comments by beanson
12. Comment #306348 by d0rkyd00d on December 24, 2008 at 1:06 pm
MeIM-then we wouldn't get an additional day off work.Other Comments by d0rkyd00d
13. Comment #306350 by bachfiend on December 24, 2008 at 1:10 pm
It's usual in the UK to retain the old calendar Julian date for events that happened before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, so Newton was born on December 25, no argument about that. It's only if you want to transplant him to the North American Colonies that you'll run into problems.This is the reason why the Great Fire of London is said to have started on Sunday, 2nd September, 1666, even though if you put that date into a perpetual calendar (using the Gregorian calendar), you'll get Thursday as the day of the week.
On a slightly related topic, when the UK adopted the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the year was also decreed to be January 1 (we think that the 1st day of the year should always be January 1, but this isn't so, it used to be, I think March 25, which translated to April 5 or 6, which I think is the start of the financial year).
The Church of course manages to get it wrong. In Westminster Abbey, the grave of Handel has his birth date as February 23, 1684 (he was born in 1685), on the basis that to an Englishman of the day, any event before March 25 happened the previous year. But Handel died well after 1752, and the convention is that the year is corrected but not the month or day. Charles the First's date of execution January 30, 1649 in documents of the day is given as 1648.
Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum" (which is only slightly longer and more pointless that this comment) was based on the supposed confusion between the Julian and Gregorian calendars at the time (there wasn't any).
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14. Comment #306353 by MelM on December 24, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Losing a day off work would be worth it although I'd support a 2 day New Years. As I think about this, I'm warming up to the idea. It would be relatively easy for atheist families to do and would get us out of making a big deal of the nutter holiday. We could keep some secular holiday music and Santa (without the outrageous lying to the kids).I like buying gifts for people I care about but don't like participating in a holiday which celebrates something that's barking mad.
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15. Comment #306364 by bluebird on December 24, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Holy Mistletoe, just saw this on the news:
http://www.kctv5.com/news/18354846/detail.html
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16. Comment #306371 by Quine on December 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Hi, bluebird, I went to that link and those people have their seasons all screwed up. The crown of thorns is for Easter; they should be dressing up as the Baby Jebus for xmas. WTF? 
P.S. If there is one thing that gripes me worse than religious people thinking their mythology is actually true, it's the pig stupid (apologies to real pigs) ones who can't even keep their own mythology correct long enough to justify opening their mouths to spew ignorance on what could otherwise be made into a kind and pleasant world. [/rant]
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17. Comment #306375 by Hellene on December 24, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Do we get to crucify all the Jesuses, huh ma?Other Comments by Hellene
18. Comment #306379 by mordacious1 on December 24, 2008 at 2:58 pm
What I like about these church things is that you always get to play two parts.
You can be jesus and an ass.
You can be Mary and an ass.
You can be Joseph...
I wonder if they took a poll to see how many of these goofs think that they ARE jesus.
HAPPY HOLLIDAYS TO ALL...drive safely, the life you save may be mine.
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19. Comment #306429 by MelM on December 24, 2008 at 4:40 pm
The drivelmeister of the Cracker Cult is on CNN (live) video now... Crackers are being passed out to all. Not even Kansas can beat this for pure stupid!Other Comments by MelM
20. Comment #306450 by Johnny O on December 24, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Losing a day off work would be worth it although I'd support a 2 day New YearsWe already do in Scotland. We don't have Boxing Day as a bank holiday, instead we have January 1st AND 2nd off... good times :-)
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21. Comment #306452 by Brian English on December 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm
So what do ordinary people do when the Bank's on holiday? Won't somebody think of the children! Poor parents who want to withdraw money before work can't because the bank isn't working. Now if it were a public holiday, were the people didn't have to work, except those choose to, or whatever, then it would make sense....
(runs away)
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22. Comment #306458 by MelM on December 24, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Found this Christmas message video from the Westboro Babtist Church. It's at the AtheistMedia Blog. Un b lievable.Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell
http://atheistmedia.blogspot.com/
Edit: Pat Condell
The 2nd video down from the WBC video is a Pat Condell Christmas message. Great, great, great! Not a cracker in sight!! Precious.
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23. Comment #306462 by AntonAAK on December 24, 2008 at 6:49 pm
In the UK one of our mindless councils- I think it was Birmingham- wanted to rename it Winterval, all in the intrest of 'Multiculturalism'
Er.. No they didn't. I think you might have been reading The Daily Mail a bit too much.
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24. Comment #306471 by xmd on December 24, 2008 at 7:44 pm
what leibniz has to say about that?
Not that i care...
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25. Comment #306487 by 8teist on December 24, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Stupidity never sleepshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3699565/Muslim-lawyer-Anjem-Choudary-brands-Christmas-evil.html
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26. Comment #306507 by beanson on December 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Winterval is a portmanteau word coined by Mike Chubb[1] (former Head of Events at Birmingham City Council) to describe all festivities taking place around the end of the year (the winter in the Northern Hemisphere). It is a fusion of the words winter and festival and was intended to be an alternative description that encompasses the Neopagan (Winter solstice, Yule), Jewish (Hanukkah), Muslim (Ramadan and Eid; when they occur in that season), Hindu (Diwali) and secular holidays such as New Year's Day that take place during the last months of the year, rather than only encompassing the Christian festivals of Christmas, Advent and Boxing Day.
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27. Comment #306516 by Tumara Baap on December 24, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Good article. But what delights me most is Richard's name nicely plopped in the very first sentence. Like most on this site I'm naturally a fan. But the point I'm making is the persona of the fountainhead of a movement or school of thought has greater social impact than the pith of what he spearheads. Pele did something for soccer. Likewise Richard does something for reason. There are a lot of lay clever people out there who will now google and probe further and will consequently be energized. Olivia does us a great service. Thank you.Other Comments by Tumara Baap
28. Comment #306537 by AntonAAK on December 25, 2008 at 4:34 am
Winterval is a portmanteau word coined by Mike Chubb[1] (former Head of Events at Birmingham City Council) to describe all festivities taking place around the end of the year (the winter in the Northern Hemisphere). It is a fusion of the words winter and festival and was intended to be an alternative description that encompasses the Neopagan (Winter solstice, Yule), Jewish (Hanukkah), Muslim (Ramadan and Eid; when they occur in that season), Hindu (Diwali) and secular holidays such as New Year's Day that take place during the last months of the year, rather than only encompassing the Christian festivals of Christmas, Advent and Boxing Day.
Exactly. In what way is that replacing or renaming Christmas?
Merry Christmas to you.
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29. Comment #306539 by beanson on December 25, 2008 at 5:26 am
Dunno,I.m a little bit drunk now
merry x-mas
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30. Comment #306544 by lbq on December 25, 2008 at 6:19 am
Do we need an excuse? Yule to our Anglosaxon and Norse forebears was a winter solstitial festival, celebrating the turning of the year. Up where I live close to 60 degrees N, where we have measly seven hours of daylight at this time, this seems reason enough.Besides, what's wrong with Hogswatch?
It is true that the Roman Church tried to hijack the occasion, even moving the official birthday of Yehoshua Ben Yusuf (who seems to have been born in March), but up here they never really succeeded. Now of course the Christian content of the festival is negligible. It is celebrated to the greater glory of the deity of out present Established Religion, Mammon. Is there anybody here who dares declare himself or herself an amammonist?
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31. Comment #306545 by EraserGirl on December 25, 2008 at 6:25 am
I have already planned out my festivities..10 days of APPLE dishes - pies, dumplings etc..
decorations of Prisms hanging in every window and yards and yards of rainbow streamers.... not to mention the activities with Tops and Hula Hoops...but my favorite will be the dropping of objects off the roof!! i have some pumpkins and winter squash just waiting.
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32. Comment #306546 by Rawhard Dickins on December 25, 2008 at 7:26 am
The christmas/new year period a celebration of the passing of the solstice and a time to look forward to the spring. It's a way of getting through the winter.
It always has been and always will, no matter what religious spin is attached to it.
And I don't need to be told to remember the true meaning of Christnas by Christians!
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33. Comment #306547 by luna_lck on December 25, 2008 at 7:58 am
All my support to Richard Dawkins
from Italy.
Thanks for fighting for the Truth!
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34. Comment #306555 by j.mills on December 25, 2008 at 9:27 am
Terrible scansion in that carol. Still, at last a journalist who cites her sources! For that alone, a seasonal Hallelujah!(Though obviously that's a Leonard Hallelujah, not an X-Factor one...)
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35. Comment #306575 by NormanDoering on December 25, 2008 at 3:17 pm
8teist wrote:Merry Newtons day everyone :)
And a happy Squidmas to you!
http://normdoering.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-christmas-gift.html
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36. Comment #306709 by Colwyn Abernathy on December 26, 2008 at 7:01 am
"I brought some gifts for you, they're up in my buuummmmmm."
-Peter Griffin
Happy Newton's Day, everybody!
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37. Comment #306747 by xmd on December 26, 2008 at 8:57 am
Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.
What's wrong with Jesus?
I thought atheists were for Jesus. Dawkins wears that shirt...
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38. Comment #306768 by j.mills on December 26, 2008 at 9:45 am
xmd said:What's wrong with Jesus?He was 3 days dead. Bit, ya know. Smelly.
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39. Comment #306932 by Lucas on December 26, 2008 at 4:27 pm
On the first day of New-tonMy true love gave to me...
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40. Comment #307319 by Colwyn Abernathy on December 27, 2008 at 3:51 pm
A frontal labotomy?
A monkey in an apple tree?
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41. Comment #314196 by 97pz7ag2x on January 7, 2009 at 12:22 am
I think that Chinese people like dogs. I will appear in Jerusalem. I am a hero. If you want to know what is "Armageddon", it is necessary to look at the following. I am Isaac Newton."Cities of Babylon" refers to China. From January 2007 to 2008 in October on Radio Free Asia, I am forced China to become a country ruled by law, I half-way to terminate a third world war, the Chinese government Immediately wanted to kill me. The first time I listen to Radio Free Asia in 1999. If you doubt my identity, please turn to "Revelation of Ezra".
http://groups.google.com/group/the-divine-word/files
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/zhuanlan/tingzhongrexian
Moderator: Hello hotline listeners, I am linked Wei
I am: I am Mr. Guangzhou
Moderator: Mr. Guangzhou, please
I: Israel during the nation with the Western European nation
This should be my last time in the voice of Radio Free Asia, the following information than the "Dead Sea Scrolls" found that the more important, I have no doubt that the existence of a harbinger, allow me to get well prepared for the rapidly after the finish. My birth to death as early as 500 years ago was full of prophecy, I do not think I have the ability to say here's a lie. Prophet predicted that the major Israeli history has occurred, they have all been in me all come true, I really Really Is that all Jews have been waiting for the Messiah, Jesus the son of evil aliens to take my name came to the use of high technology to deceive all the people, so that the Jewish nation cast a unredressed injustice, which as early as before Christ Written on "secondary scripture" in the. I have never been a Christian, I do not believe in Jesus has always been, I am not a Muslim, I never Jiubu Xin Mohammed. I was discriminated against Jews because they A Offended God, God abandoned the law in the near future to become the king of the Jews and I certainly will be in accordance with God's will you come back to correct. I like the psychological and moral England with a person exactly the same, but it is in the soul On the cause of this is entirely in religious beliefs other than. Jesus, Muhammad two big liar distorts the image of God and humanity and the contract, God is never to use intermediaries, God is there is no body of Since the ultra - However, with the power of a miracle. Likely in the near future I am going to be a prophet, a great scholar and the king. I really was, "the Hebrew Bible" and "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" and "Revelation of St John" and "secondary scripture" The prediction , Also a prophet to predict that the future since ancient times, no one's reputation can be compared with me. Israel's many prophets have long predicted that the metaphorical to my life, the people of Israel, and so I had more than 3000 years, from the I In the end who up to now, four in this book to be able to predict, for my safety, I can only tell you all come true in me, and I was "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" predicted that into the grave to another person , As a result of It must be said that my life is totally your year. Prophets of Israel is usually around things metaphorical familiar with the way God communicated to us in the "the Hebrew Bible" by the book to see what All Is metaphorical. "Dead Sea Scrolls" predicted that the Messiah is a very strong power of the Messiah, the facts have proven that Jesus is only so-called alien made out of a God, is the so-called non-alien According to Jia Sisuo According to the literal interpretation created a big liar, by the so- called Virgin born and the bar is a serious departure from the hands and feet, "the Dead Sea Scrolls", the so-called Christ's true, "the Dead Sea Scrolls" and predicted that actually metaphor to point to me I will explain to you to listen to; in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" predicted that will lead to all of the Jewish king was referring to me, "Ma predicted to spend" is the so-called alien masterpiece, "Revelation of St John" Author and we will never know his true identity, but he must not believe Jesus was a Jewish prophet, he is not written in Jesus before. In addition to the "Revelation of St John", "New" is not credible It Repeat of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" a lot of content, should be "Revelation of St John" and "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" and "Juan Paul Valdez" into the "Dead Sea Scrolls" will be composed of books that they can Known as the saint After. Maya from the books, I think the so-called ancient alien is subject to the punishment of God, fled to the vicinity of the Earth, large-scale can not breed, can not re-adapt to the environments of the Earth's ancient humans, they must be separated for some To be back at the time of the earth to supply requirements, the Earth is the only supplies they needed, the extinction of species on Earth, they can not survive; it is not so-called human-made is. Darwin once said , Found that as long as there is a kind of biological evolution in the body can not get the small parts, then his theory of evolution completely bankrupt, modern science has proven that the theory of evolution is wrong. Indeed, human beings by God Created by God has no physical strength and the supernatural miracle, because God promised in the universe formed a protein component, to land on Earth, to have had a wonderful variety of biological machine, and then a miracle Have had a variety of species like the DNA, culminating in a variety of species; As this is miraculous, I can assure you that life on Earth in the universe is indeed unique. Reference from the Falun Gong cult "Toru save the world poem". "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" in a poem:"For five hundred years more one will keep count of him, Who was the ornament of his time. Then suddenly great light will he give, He who for this century will take them back very satisfied. "As in I do not know completely in any predictions that I said to you in the end who, while a few months later I found that as early as in a long time ago and I have long predicted would be his own regeneration, and my life as early as On the whole in mind I have set out in the definition of the "Bible". Appearance from the point of view, I would definitely not a personal copy, I met the teachings of Judaism, I was absolutely out at the so-called alien unexpected. I advocate "Fate By day, into the subject, "predicted the existence of what I did not constitute any impact. I just did not say what, in a long time ago I spent more than 50 years, to break the "the Hebrew Bible" and all the prophets Predicted, I lost To the memory of the past, now I really do not know what I wrote, I finally know that I was his, which took place from me as a miracle, a miracle and this has long been hidden in the writing My Under the definition of the "Bible", I will explain to you listen to, any person who is not better qualified than I to see the former in the end I wrote what, I think, in fact did not dare open a large number of these books, The Vatican Gang Holy See's religious leaders have long known but Jesus was a liar and who I am. There is no doubt that faith in God is my whole life, in accordance with the "the Hebrew Bible" as provided for in the book of God, the Jews must paste I legislation for the king of the Jews, I have to be in accordance with God to the people of Israel to come back to correct; I am really looking forward to is that the Jews have been the Messiah, I must abide by God's strong Israel, all Mu Gosling is not a place to stay out of Palestine, to lead you to the upcoming terrorist deal with a major disaster.
Moderator: President of Guangzhou, the time has come
I: Good-bye
Moderator: Good-bye
I: Good-bye
4.56
After the victory of the raving tongue,
The spirit tempered in tranquillity and repose:
Throughout the conflict the bloody victor makes orations,
Roasting the tongue and the flesh and the bones.
2.46
After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared,
The Great Mover renews the ages.
Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.
10.42
The humane realm of Angelican offspring,
It will cause its realm to hold to peace and union.
War half-captive in its enclosure,
For long will it cause them to maintain peace.
2.27
The divine word will be struck from the sky，
One who cannot proceed any further.
The secret closed up with the revelation，
Such that they will march over and ahead.
3.92
The world near the last period，
Saturn will come back again late.
Empire transferred towards the Dusky nation，
The eye plucked out by the Goshawk at Narbonne.
5.32
Where all is good, the Sun all beneficial and the Moon
Is abundant, its ruin approaches:
From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
In the same state as the seventh rock.
1.16
A scythe joined with a pond in Sagittarius，
at its highest ascendant.
Plague, famine, death from military hands，
the century approaches its renewal.
10.74
The great seventh number’s revolution,
It will appear a time of the year for hecatomb.
Not far from the great millennial age,
When those can enter will leave the tomb.
5.84
He will be born of the gulf and unmeasured city,
Born of obscure and dark family.
He who the revered power of the great King,
Will want to destroy through Rouen and Evreux.
10.72
The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror.
To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
4.31
The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain,
The new sage with a lone brain sees it.
By his disciples invited to be immortal,
Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.
10.70
Long awaited he will never return,
In Europe, he will appear in Asia.
One of the league issued from the great Hermes,
And he will grow over all the Kings of the East.
3.94
For five hundred years more one will keep count of him,
Who was the ornament of his time.
Then suddenly great light will he give,
He who for this century will take them back very satisfied.
8.27
The auxiliary way, one arch upon the other，
Many deserted except for the brave one and his genet.
The writing of the Phoenix Emperor，
seen by him which is (shown) to no other.
2.29
The Easterner will leave his seat，
To pass the Apennine mountains to see Gaul.
He will transpire the sky, the waters and the snow，
And everyone will be struck with his rod.
5.79
The sacred pomp will come to lower its aisles，
Through the coming of the great legislator.
He will raise the humble, he will vex the rebels，
There is no emulator on the earth.
7.17
The prince who has rare pity and clemency，
After peace his great water barrels.
Will come to change by great jurisdiction of dead，
By great recreating, reign exquisitely.
10.73
The present time together with the past,
Will be judged by the great Jovialist.
The world too late will be tired of him,
And through the clergy oath-taker disloyal.
2.13
The body without soul no longer to be sacrificed，
Day of death put for birthday.
The divine spirit will make the soul happy，
Seeing the word in its eternity.
10.71
The earth and air will freeze a very great sea，
When they will come to venerate Thursday.
That which will be never stuffed and filled so much，
From the four parts they will come to honor it.
7.14
He will come to topography to expose the falseness，
The （water）urns of historic significant will be opened
Sect and holy philosophy to thrive,
black for white and the new for the old.
2.41
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will cause two suns to appear:
The big mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff will change country.
3.4
When they will be close the lunar ones will fail,
From one another not greatly distant,
Cold, dryness, danger towards the frontiers,
Even where the oracle has had its beginning.
8.11
A multitude of people will appear at Vicenza
without force, fire to burn the Basilica.
Near Luna age, the great one of Valenza defeated:
at a time when Venice takes up the quarrel through custom.
...
1.50
From the three water signs will be born a man，
who will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.
His renown, praise, rule and power will grow，
on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.
4.99
The valiant elder son of the King’s daughter，
He will hurl back the Celts very far.
Such that he will cast thunderbolts, so many in such an array，
Few and distant, then deep into the Hesperias.
3.60
Throughout all Asia great proscription,
Even in Mysia, Lycia and Pamphilia.
Blood will be shed because of the absolution
Of a young evil one filled with felony.
...
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation' for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 53:9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
...
My birth to death as early as 500 years ago was full of prophecy, now you understand why "on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East". This proves that An Anglo-person who grew up in China is a very painful. When I was a baby, "he wants to eat me". I think that Chinese people like dogs. "Mr. Hitler", it should be a means to deal with these evil race. Sychological and moral, I am an "Angolmois"(Anglo). I think I will become a second Hitler. I was writing a book, it is called "Mein Kampf". It describes the object is the yellow people, the black people, Arabs, Celtic, Slavs...
Isaac Newton
From 25 December 2008 to 6 January 2009
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42. Comment #320189 by 97pz7ag2x on January 15, 2009 at 12:24 am
The last time spam. I am Isaac Newton. I will appear in Jerusalem. According to "the Hebrew Bible", my date of birth can be calculated. I am a hero. I will tell you what is "Armageddon". I think that Chinese people like dogs. I will take the yellow people and the black people into concentration camps. When you see me, I will make you feel Speechless. I will take Barack Obama and Condoleezza Rice into concentration camps, I think that the black people and Latino like dogs."Cities of Babylon" refers to China. From January 2007 to October 2008 on Radio Free Asia, I am forced China to become a country ruled by law, I half-way to terminate a third world war, the Chinese government Immediately wanted to kill me. The first time I listen to Radio Free Asia in 1999. If you doubt my identity, please look at "secondary scripture". The Chinese government wanted to kill me, I am sorry for my safety, I do not have so much time to play in English, Chinese writing the article far faster than the English, written Chinese characters dragged into a google translation to English made up of. The first time I listen to Radio Free Asia in 1999. When I listen to Radio Free Asia again, I do not have so much time to play in English. I want to kill these dogs.
http://groups.google.com/group/the-divine-word/files
2.27
The divine word will be struck from the sky，
One who cannot proceed any further.
The secret closed up with the revelation，
Such that they will march over and ahead.
4.56
After the victory of the raving tongue,
The spirit tempered in tranquillity and repose:
Throughout the conflict the bloody victor makes orations,
Roasting the tongue and the flesh and the bones.
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/zhuanlan/tingzhongrexian
Moderator: Hello hotline listeners, I am linked Wei
I am: I am Mr. Guangzhou
Moderator: Mr. Guangzhou, please
I: Israel during the nation with the Western European nation
This should be my last time in the voice of Radio Free Asia, the following information than the "Dead Sea Scrolls" found that the more important, I have no doubt that the existence of a harbinger, allow me to get well prepared for the rapidly after the finish. My birth to death as early as 500 years ago was full of prophecy, I do not think I have the ability to say here's a lie. Prophet predicted that the major Israeli history has occurred, they have all been in me all come true, I really Really Is that all Jews have been waiting for the Messiah, Jesus the son of evil aliens to take my name came to the use of high technology to deceive all the people, so that the Jewish nation cast a unredressed injustice, which as early as before Christ Written on "secondary scripture" in the. I have never been a Christian, I do not believe in Jesus has always been, I am not a Muslim, I never Jiubu Xin Mohammed. I was discriminated against Jews because they A Offended God, God abandoned the law in the near future to become the king of the Jews and I certainly will be in accordance with God's will you come back to correct. I like the psychological and moral England with a person exactly the same, but it is in the soul On the cause of this is entirely in religious beliefs other than. Jesus, Muhammad two big liar distorts the image of God and humanity and the contract, God is never to use intermediaries, God is there is no body of Since the ultra - However, with the power of a miracle. Likely in the near future I am going to be a prophet, a great scholar and the king. I really was, "the Hebrew Bible" and "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" and "Revelation of St John" and "secondary scripture" The prediction , Also a prophet to predict that the future since ancient times, no one's reputation can be compared with me. Israel's many prophets have long predicted that the metaphorical to my life, the people of Israel, and so I had more than 3000 years, from the I In the end who up to now, four in this book to be able to predict, for my safety, I can only tell you all come true in me, and I was "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" predicted that into the grave to another person , As a result of It must be said that my life is totally your year. Prophets of Israel is usually around things metaphorical familiar with the way God communicated to us in the "the Hebrew Bible" by the book to see what All Is metaphorical. "Dead Sea Scrolls" predicted that the Messiah is a very strong power of the Messiah, the facts have proven that Jesus is only so-called alien made out of a God, is the so-called non-alien According to Jia Sisuo According to the literal interpretation created a big liar, by the so- called Virgin born and the bar is a serious departure from the hands and feet, "the Dead Sea Scrolls", the so-called Christ's true, "the Dead Sea Scrolls" and predicted that actually metaphor to point to me I will explain to you to listen to; in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" predicted that will lead to all of the Jewish king was referring to me, "The Message of Fatima" is the so-called alien masterpiece, "Revelation of St John" Author and we will never know his true identity, but he must not believe Jesus was a Jewish prophet, he is not written in Jesus before. In addition to the "Revelation of St John", "New" is not credible It Repeat of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" a lot of content, should be "Revelation of St John" and "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" and "Juan Paul Valdez" into the "Dead Sea Scrolls" will be composed of books that they can Known as the saint After. Maya from the books, I think the so-called ancient alien is subject to the punishment of God, fled to the vicinity of the Earth, large-scale can not breed, can not re-adapt to the environments of the Earth's ancient humans, they must be separated for some To be back at the time of the earth to supply requirements, the Earth is the only supplies they needed, the extinction of species on Earth, they can not survive; it is not so-called human-made is. Darwin once said , Found that as long as there is a kind of biological evolution in the body can not get the small parts, then his theory of evolution completely bankrupt, modern science has proven that the theory of evolution is wrong. Indeed, human beings by God Created by God has no physical strength and the supernatural miracle, because God promised in the universe formed a protein component, to land on Earth, to have had a wonderful variety of biological machine, and then a miracle Have had a variety of species like the DNA, culminating in a variety of species; As this is miraculous, I can assure you that life on Earth in the universe is indeed unique. Reference from the Falun Gong cult "Toru save the world poem". "Nostradamus Prophecy And Prediction" in a poem:"For five hundred years more one will keep count of him, Who was the ornament of his time. Then suddenly great light will he give, He who for this century will take them back very satisfied. "As in I do not know completely in any predictions that I said to you in the end who, while a few months later I found that as early as in a long time ago and I have long predicted would be his own regeneration, and my life as early as On the whole in mind I have set out in the definition of the "Bible". Appearance from the point of view, I would definitely not a personal copy, I met the teachings of Judaism, I was absolutely out at the so-called alien unexpected. I advocate "Fate By day, into the subject, "predicted the existence of what I did not constitute any impact. I just did not say what, in a long time ago I spent more than 50 years, to break the "the Hebrew Bible" and all the prophets Predicted, I lost To the memory of the past, now I really do not know what I wrote, I finally know that I was his, which took place from me as a miracle, a miracle and this has long been hidden in the writing My Under the definition of the "Bible", I will explain to you listen to, any person who is not better qualified than I to see the former in the end I wrote what, I think, in fact did not dare open a large number of these books, The Vatican Gang Holy See's religious leaders have long known but Jesus was a liar and who I am. There is no doubt that faith in God is my whole life, in accordance with the "the Hebrew Bible" as provided for in the book of God, the Jews must paste I legislation for the king of the Jews, I have to be in accordance with God to the people of Israel to come back to correct; I am really looking forward to is that the Jews have been the Messiah, I must abide by God's strong Israel, all Mu Gosling is not a place to stay out of Palestine, to lead you to the upcoming terrorist deal with a major disaster.
Moderator: President of Guangzhou, the time has come
I: Good-bye
Moderator: Good-bye
I: Good-bye
2.46
After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared,
The Great Mover renews the ages.
Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.
10.42
The humane realm of Angelican offspring,
It will cause its realm to hold to peace and union.
War half-captive in its enclosure,
For long will it cause them to maintain peace.
3.92
The world near the last period，
Saturn will come back again late.
Empire transferred towards the Dusky nation，
The eye plucked out by the Goshawk at Narbonne.
5.32
Where all is good, the Sun all beneficial and the Moon
Is abundant, its ruin approaches:
From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
In the same state as the seventh rock.
1.16
A scythe joined with a pond in Sagittarius，
at its highest ascendant.
Plague, famine, death from military hands，
the century approaches its renewal.
10.74
The great seventh number’s revolution,
It will appear a time of the year for hecatomb.
Not far from the great millennial age,
When those can enter will leave the tomb.
5.84
He will be born of the gulf and unmeasured city,
Born of obscure and dark family.
He who the revered power of the great King,
Will want to destroy through Rouen and Evreux.
10.72
The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror.
To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
4.31
The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain,
The new sage with a lone brain sees it.
By his disciples invited to be immortal,
Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.
10.70
Long awaited he will never return,
In Europe, he will appear in Asia.
One of the league issued from the great Hermes,
And he will grow over all the Kings of the East.
3.94
For five hundred years more one will keep count of him,
Who was the ornament of his time.
Then suddenly great light will he give,
He who for this century will take them back very satisfied.
8.27
The auxiliary way, one arch upon the other，
Many deserted except for the brave one and his genet.
The writing of the Phoenix Emperor，
seen by him which is (shown) to no other.
2.29
The Easterner will leave his seat，
To pass the Apennine mountains to see Gaul.
He will transpire the sky, the waters and the snow，
And everyone will be struck with his rod.
5.79
The sacred pomp will come to lower its aisles，
Through the coming of the great legislator.
He will raise the humble, he will vex the rebels，
There is no emulator on the earth.
7.17
The prince who has rare pity and clemency，
After peace his great water barrels.
Will come to change by great jurisdiction of dead，
By great recreating, reign exquisitely.
10.73
The present time together with the past,
Will be judged by the great Jovialist.
The world too late will be tired of him,
And through the clergy oath-taker disloyal.
2.13
The body without soul no longer to be sacrificed，
Day of death put for birthday.
The divine spirit will make the soul happy，
Seeing the word in its eternity.
10.71
The earth and air will freeze a very great sea，
When they will come to venerate Thursday.
That which will be never stuffed and filled so much，
From the four parts they will come to honor it.
7.14
He will come to topography to expose the falseness，
The （water）urns of historic significant will be opened
Sect and holy philosophy to thrive,
black for white and the new for the old.
2.41
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will cause two suns to appear:
The big mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff will change country.
3.4
When they will be close the lunar ones will fail,
From one another not greatly distant,
Cold, dryness, danger towards the frontiers,
Even where the oracle has had its beginning.
8.11
A multitude of people will appear at Vicenza
without force, fire to burn the Basilica.
Near Luna age, the great one of Valenza defeated:
at a time when Venice takes up the quarrel through custom.
...
1.50
From the three water signs will be born a man，
who will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.
His renown, praise, rule and power will grow，
on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.
4.99
The valiant elder son of the King’s daughter，
He will hurl back the Celts very far.
Such that he will cast thunderbolts, so many in such an array，
Few and distant, then deep into the Hesperias.
3.60
Throughout all Asia great proscription,
Even in Mysia, Lycia and Pamphilia.
Blood will be shed because of the absolution
Of a young evil one filled with felony.
...
Isaiah 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Isaiah 53:4
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isaiah 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Isaiah 53:9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
Isaiah 53:11
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
...
My birth to death as early as 500 years ago was full of prophecy, now you understand why "on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East". This proves that An Anglo-person who grew up in China is a very painful. When I was a baby, "he wants to eat me". I think that Chinese people like dogs. "Mr. Hitler", it should be a means to deal with these evil race. Sychological and moral, I am an "Angolmois"(Anglo). I think I will become a second Hitler. I was writing a book, it is called "Mein Kampf". It describes the object is the yellow people, the black people, Arabs, Celtic, Slavs...
I am sorry for my safety, I do not have so much time to play in English, Chinese writing the article far faster than the English, written Chinese characters dragged into a google
translation to English made up of. When I listen to Radio Free Asia again, I do not have so much time to play in English. When I was still a baby, I look down upon Chinese. I think that Chinese people like dogs! One day, I will pass on these dogs locked up in concentration camps!
9.53
The young Nero in the three chimneys
Will cause live pages to be thrown to burn:
Happy those who will be far away from such practices,
Three will watch out nervily for his blood will be death.
If you want to know what is "Armageddon", it is necessary to look at the following. I hope it was translated into English, I am learning Hebrew.
More:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/bc9bde46b7856bfd
Isaac Newton
From 25 December 2008 to 6 January 2009
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43. Comment #339044 by 97pz7ag2x on February 11, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I am Isaac Newton. The Third World War is already underway without me. So I am greater than Jesus?End of the world in 2017 because of the Third World War, why I return as the Messiah in China? The fuse of the third world war is the war in the Taiwan Strait in February 2008. I just want to tell you, there is a great plague coming, more than two thirds of humanity will be died. The upcoming terrorist deal with a major disaster, So I spam again and again.
I am the protagonist in "esdras II". According to "Esdras II", you will not doubt my identity. What is "Esdras II" ? "Secondary Scripture"("Deuterocanon"), "Esdras II".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books
The Chinese government has been completely controlled by the United States and the European Union because of me. China will soon implement the two-party system.
3.4
When they will be close the lunar ones will fail,
From one another not greatly distant,
Cold, dryness, danger towards the frontiers,
Even where the oracle has had its beginning.
According to "Isaiah 53", I was very hard to grow up in China . I am an "Angolmois"(Anglo), When I was a baby, I thought that Chinese people liked dogs! When I was a baby, "It wanted to eat me".
I am a Judaist, I want to be the new Nero, I want to do away with the Royal Family of English and the Vatican. Nuns and monks will be able to get married. According to the prophecy, I will be the coming of the great legislator. According to "He will hurl back the Celts very far", you will not lose your job. According to "The new sage with a lone brain sees it", I will be the only one who can able to solve the Economic Crisis.
Tax evasion is very very serious in China. Where did China's tax revenues come from?
In China, high school approximately enroll new students a total of 300 at County-Level City, more than 99% high school students payed money to high school, "pull the string"! College Entrance Examination is false in Chia. All the Chinese students are fake commodity in Europe or America...
1727 "the great seventh number’s revolution"=the year of birth I returned.
Jesus was born in April and I was born on 25 December, 4 January 1643 is Thursday. I was born and returned on Thursday. According to "the Hebrew Bible", the day of birth I returned can be calculated.
10.74
The great seventh number’s revolution,
It will appear a time of the year for hecatomb.
Not far from the great millennial age,
When those can enter will leave the tomb.
1.50
From the three water signs will be born a man，
who will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.
His renown, praise, rule and power will grow，
on land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.
This is evidence, If you can speak Mandarin, you will not doubt my identity.
http://groups.google.com/group/the-divine-word/files
2.27
The divine word will be struck from the sky，
One who cannot proceed any further.
The secret closed up with the revelation，
Such that they will march over and ahead.
4.56
After the victory of the raving tongue,
The spirit tempered in tranquillity and repose:
Throughout the conflict the bloody victor makes orations,
Roasting the tongue and the flesh and the bones.
4.31
The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain,
The new sage with a lone brain sees it.
By his disciples invited to be immortal,
Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.
2.30
One who the infernal gods of Hannibal
Will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind.
Never more horror and never more worse of Journals
His audio will come to Romans through Babel.
http://www.rfa.org/mandarin/zhuanlan/tingzhongrexian
2.46
After great trouble for humanity, a greater one is prepared,
The Great Mover renews the ages.
Rain, blood, milk, famine, steel and plague,
Is the heavens fire seen, a long spark running.
5.32
Where all is good, the Sun all beneficial and the Moon
Is abundant, its ruin approaches:
From the sky it advances to change your fortune.
In the same state as the seventh rock.
10.42
The humane realm of Angelican offspring,
It will cause its realm to hold to peace and union.
War half-captive in its enclosure,
For long will it cause them to maintain peace.
3.92
The world near the last period，
Saturn will come back again late.
Empire transferred towards the Dusky nation，
The eye plucked out by the Goshawk at Narbonne.
2.41
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will cause two suns to appear:
The big mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff will change country.
Read more:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/bc9bde46b7856bfd
Isaac Newton
From 25 December 2008 to 6 January 2009
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1. Comment #306267 by Paine on December 24, 2008 at 9:15 am
Nice article, she seems to be a popular writer at the NY times. I did not know she knew Prof. Dawkins.Why did she reference that fraud Berlinski? I have a hard time believing that anything written by that con man is any good.
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