moldyoldy

They only put dead bodies in the refrigerated trucks.

moldyoldy

No contemporary
Egyptian sources mention Moses, or the events of Exodus–Deuteronomy, nor has any archaeological evidence been discovered in Egypt or the Sinai wilderness to support the story in which he is the central figure.
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Moses - Wikipedia


Very unlikely that two of every animal could fit in the space of the ark.

AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Is there some reason you are unable to post your religious oriented threads in the appropriate OPP area which would be Faith Religion Spirituality.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

Because it's in the news silly.

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

inerrant (adjective)
Incapable of erring; infallible.Containing no errors. Of or pertaining to inerrancy. Without error, particularly used in reference to the Bible.

inerrancy (noun)
Freedom from error or untruths; infallibility.The quality of being inerrant; freedom from error. Exemption from error.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.


According to Guinness World Records (Jan., 2022), the Bible is the bestselling book of all time. An estimated 5 to 7 billion copies have been printed over approximately 1,500 years, since it was standardized, according to the British and Foreign Bible Society. The full Bible has been translated into more than 700 languages.

Because it was written by our supernatural Creator, it appeals to the heart and head of man in a way that no other book ever will.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

So what? Quantity has no bearing on truth.

Mao's little red book
Publication number
The Little Red Book has produced a wide array of sales and distribution figures. Some sources claim that over 6.5 billion printed volumes have been distributed in total,[2] others contend that the distribution ran into the "billions",[3] and others cite "over a billion" official volumes between 1966 and 1969 alone as well as "untold numbers of unofficial local reprints and unofficial translations."

Rose42

Because he’s trolling and wants more people to see it

Zemirah Loc: Sojourner En Route...

For about a generation, in China, the most populous nation on Earth, there was only one source of quotations that mattered, because the words of only one person mattered—until they didn’t.

It is indeed a little red book, an unimposing little thing, barely 5” high, bound in red vinyl; it sits very comfortably in your hand. What it lacks in size it more than made up for in sheer numbers. There’s no way to know how many copies were printed, since the work was done in multiple places; a more or less official count puts the total number at just over a billion, including multiple editions in Chinese, in dozens of other languages, in recordings, even in Braille. It is undoubtedly one of the most printed and widely distributed books of all time. It contains 427 quotations in 33 chapters, covering such broad topics such as “War and Peace,” “Unity,” “Discipline,” “Criticism and Self-Criticism,” along with old favorites like “Imperialism and All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers,” and “Correcting Mistaken Ideas.”

Mao didn’t write this book; it’s a compilation of quotations drawn from his writings and speeches over almost 40 years, reaching back to 1926, conceived by Defense Minister General Lin Biao and emerging from a daily feature in the People’s Liberation Army newspaper.

Lin Biao wrote an endorsement, in calligraphy, exhorting the people to “study Chairman Mao’s writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.” Promoting the Little Red Book added to his luster and prestige, and by 1969 he was named Mao’s successor. Then the rumors and character assassination started, and by 1971 he was dead in a mysterious plane crash, disgraced, and the people were instructed to tear out his endorsement page from all copies. Today, in an odd twist of fate, intact and undefaced copies can fetch many thousands of dollars on the collectibles market.

The goal was for 99% of the population of China to read it; it was an unofficial requirement to own, read, and carry it at all times during the Cultural Revolution. It was often given as gift on auspicious occasions. Studying the Quotations was required in schools and workplaces; it was also used as reading tool in the army, and a simpler, primer form was also printed.

The production of this work on such a massive scale was an enormous undertaking; hundreds of new printing houses had to be built specifically for this purpose and sufficient resources and printing presses had to be procured. This pushed the limits of the Chinese printing industry, disrupting plans for other ideological works. By one estimate, over 650,000 tons of paper was used to print this one work over a 5-year period.

The quotation that’s likely the most widely known and cited, “let a hundred flowers bloom” is, as is so often the case with quotations, incorrect. In a 1957 speech, Mao said “Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.” Whether or not that was intended to encourage dissenting heads to pop up, so they could be more easily lopped off, isn’t clear, but the strategy did work.

Mao dies in September of 1976, and by the late ‘70s the Cultural Revolution is ending. The Little Red Book falls out of favor; the government discourages it, ceasing printing in 1979, and millions are later destroyed, though printing does resume in 1993 for the centennial of Mao’s birth. Today, it’s more of an object of nostalgia and mild curiosity, certainly no longer the force it once was.

The point of all of this, it seems obvious, was indoctrination and control. If everybody in your country is, literally, reading from the same page, then managing what and how they think is made considerably easier, and for about a decade or so, that worked. Although this is one of the clearest examples of the use of a text to reinforce an authoritarian regime, it’s by no means the only one; Mein Kampf was distributed free to all newlywed couples and soldiers on the front during the Nazi government years.

Now, of course, things are more complicated. What’s a tyrannical government to do if they want to control what their people read and think? Would Mao have a Twitter feed? There are parts of the Quotations that read that way, though many go on at considerably greater length, and hashtags like #dowhatisay would quickly grow tiresome, I’d imagine. The one- way world of publication and distribution has yielded to a more complicated, two-way world of social networking, which fosters and prizes participation, discussion, engagement, and sharing rather than consistency, enforcement, and control.

Unless, that is, you control the pipelines. Social networking only works if you’ve got access to a network to be social on, and are free to use it as you want. A number of governments have decided their best option is to keep a firm hand on the tap, and restrict what the Internet is within their borders. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Cuba, Belarus, and Burma are among the countries with such policies, along with, of course, China. While it’s understandably difficult to know the exact extent of their grip on Internet use, it’s likely there are many thousands of people employing techniques such as blocking specific Internet addresses or web pages, scanning discussion groups, blogs, email and Twitter feeds for forbidden topics, and filtering results on search engines in response to certain query words. A robust and innovative set of tactics to circumvent these measures goes on, leading to a cat-and-mouse game of intellectual freedom and repression.

Compared to this Great Firewall of China, as it’s popularly known, the Little Red Book seems somehow quaint and toothless. The resolute and forthright people clutching and brandishing them proudly in propaganda posters of the time would have had no idea that within 50 years their revolutionary handiwork would evolve from turning the pages of a book to tapping on a computer mouse, clicking away freedom of expression for over a billion people.

martsiva

You avoided my question!! How do you know they died of Covid??

336Robin Loc: North Carolina

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moldyoldy

The doctors made the call and the coroner confirmed it. I’m sure that’s not good enough for you though.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Let me see... should I believe a man or should I believe God? Take a guess on which one I do.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

What did God say to you?

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Hw told me not to believe your father.