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- aereaus, on 10/12/2008, -2/+45I heard a rumor that Dinosaurs played hockey on the North American ice cap 4,000 years ago.
- MCA2142, on 10/13/2008, -5/+29Heard a rumor that McCain voted with Bush 95% of the time.
Also, a rumor that Palin abused her powers as governor.
Also, that McCain crashed three planes, and finished 5th from the bottom at his academy.
wait... those are facts. - nontoxyc, on 10/12/2008, -2/+19Banks are all closing for at least a week soon!
- StarExtreme, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17I heard a rumor that McCain was a coach for one of the teams.
- MCA2142, on 10/13/2008, -0/+15Step away from Digg?
- rjc5056, on 10/13/2008, -2/+16I heard a rumor from a quintuple forwarded email that Obama's a terrorist. How can it NOT be true?
- MCA2142, on 10/13/2008, -0/+13McCain's so old, he DJ'd at the Boston Tea Party!
- Slackersrule, on 10/13/2008, -1/+12Aliens are coming on Tuesday.
- str1fe, on 10/13/2008, -3/+12Gas is about to run out!
Although I guess that one became self-fulfilling. - TheMachine1, on 10/13/2008, -1/+10I heard a rumor that there is a new holy shark that will save the world?
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -3/+10Speaking of ancient rumors,
One of the main reasons I denounced my Christian faith is because I can't find one single shred of evidence for the Jesus of the Bible. Not one artifact or eyewitness account. Not even in the Bible. It all seems to be a rumor.
Amazingly, we have not one Jewish, Greek, or Roman writer, even those who lived in the Middle East, much less anywhere else on the earth, who ever mentions him during his supposed life time. This appears quite extraordinary, and you will find few Christian apologists who dare mention this embarrassing fact.
After confronting a few Church members with this new knowledge for lack of evidence, it became painfully obvious that these people seems to have NO interest whatsoever in scientific debate. It seems all they care about is re-affirming their superstitious beliefs of disturbing stories of hell and damnation and devils and eternal suffering and ramming them down the throats of unsuspecting children.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong about this. But so far I haven't been.
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm - darkciti2, on 10/13/2008, -0/+6Look - if you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted...
Would you capture it or just let it slip? - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4----------I think Jesus was a historical figure-------------
Then why don't you present what you feel is the best piece of evidence for the biblical jesus?
No more debates filled with fancy semantics, just back up your statements with actual scientific evidence. - Aurabolt, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4Dugg for "*****"
- liuite, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4refer your friends and family to snopes.com every time they send you a chain mail
- zephc, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4No, but Alien vs Predator Total Destruction collection is coming to DVD on Tuesday.
http://www.amazon.com/Alien-Predator-Total-Destruc ... - Mujokan, on 10/13/2008, -0/+4My parents believed that one.
- Jayphen, on 10/13/2008, -1/+5So the surprising truth is that to counter rumours, you should make sure that as many people as possible who had heard those rumours see what the truth is, and where/why the rumours originated.
Is it just me or is that common ***** sense? - Skooma714, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3Yeah, you would think someone besides the Bible people might find it worth noting someone CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD. Also there was an earthquake supposedly after he was crucified.
I never understood that. - mattmcegg, on 10/13/2008, -0/+3without rumors, would digg exist?
- darkciti2, on 10/13/2008, -1/+4I heard that Microsoft is tracking my email and I should forward the message along...
Oh wait. - iloveazngurlzs, on 10/13/2008, -2/+5you dont need evolution, math, or some crazy scientific method to explain it. Its simple logic. People are bored.
- disappointed, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2No, they spread rumors to make themselves seem more important and boost their social standing. Read the article. It's good.
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3yeah it's called meme theory
- sekhui, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2your irritation is comical
- sekhui, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2neither of you are "effected" with anything.
- casey148, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3It even saved the cheerleader
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3Yeah but you could see Russia from there.
- Suricou, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2They went for the non-political via equal time route. Each party gets exactly the same mention of it's example rumors.
- Corte, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2I would, but she's just too damn hot to stop thinking about.
- Lula87, on 10/13/2008, -3/+5I heard a rumor that your mom is a whore.
- Mujokan, on 10/13/2008, -2/+4I don't think it's that big a deal. He was a pretty small-time leader of a subversive apocalyptic cult. He didn't get famous until his disciples used him as an excuse for a new religion that undercut the restrictive aspects of Judaism and focused more on the afterlife. The miracle stuff was tacked on to bolster their cause.
I think Jesus was a historical figure (but I'm an atheist because there's no evidence for anything that could be called a god). I think if they were going to make up some totally new figurehead for their religion, they wouldn't have put a lot of the strange stuff into the Gospels that you find there. It reads to me like a history of a particular individual, that's later on been edited and manipulated for propaganda purposes. - AManWithNoName, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Tuesday is coming. Did you bring your coat?
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2LOL at any of those, he's a bad pilot no matter how you excuse it. Preoccupation in the cockpit and a power setting too low to maintain flight? That has noob written all over it.
- duggdowncatisad, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2How would you feel if you got into a cab and the cabbie said don't worry, I've "only" crashed 4 taxis?
- Endit, on 10/13/2008, -4/+6Am I the only one sick of the Obama/McCain/Palin 24/7 on Digg? I thought this would be a cool article about rumors, but they had to throw Obama into it.
- kingfoot, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3i heard digg is shutting down!
- sarog, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2and....block user
- OliveStreet, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2With fricken laser beams ....
- Suricou, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1What about the rumor statistics? Numbers that may be fabricated or may be true, but are probably distortions. Plenty of those in circulation.
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1"like the one where obama refuses to prove hes a native born american citizen"
Why would you believe that? He wouldn't even be able to run for president if he didn't prove it already.
STFU - NoozeHound, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1I hate that, and the mis-spelling of rumour.
- sarog, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1I'm effected with a lot of diseases
- NoozeHound, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Self-fulfilling prophecy dept. now fully operational.
- Mujokan, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1I don't think there is any evidence beyond the Gospels, as far as I know. (But there are more Gospels than are found in the Bible, which was a "censored" collection.)
I base my opinion on two things: the impression that I get from the Gospels that there are parts of a real story in there, and my feeling that if you were going to build a religion upon a fake founder, you wouldn't create the character of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels. Note that this is just my feeling, I certainly don't care whether you agree with me.
I don't think it's surprising that there's no independent record of Jesus' life. Probably not even a hundred thousand people had heard of him during the time that he lived. As a religious leader, there's nothing particularly unusual about him for the time and place. So I don't feel compelled by the lack of independent evidence to state baldly that he didn't exist.
This is my version of the story.
Jesus wasn't the product of a virgin birth. This is a misunderstanding based on a bad translation of the Old Testament. The Gospel authors put this myth in there to make his birth accord with what they thought was a prophecy. Babylonian astronomers didn't attend his birth. That was put in for political reasons.
Jesus fell into the mystical apocalyptic ascetic faction of Judaism at some point. Judaism has many factions, even now. This was a group who believed in the imminent end of the world, and downplayed Mosaic law in favor of mystical experiences.
He became a charismatic leader within this group. He was intelligent, a good speaker, and very clever at justifying deviations from Mosaic law. He built a following of several thousand people. He was said to be capable of miracles, and he may have believed himself that he could perform them.
Jesus was crucified, and faced his death with a certain degree of equanimity, based on his belief that the world would soon end in any case. (He didn't rise from the dead.)
This provided an opening for Jews who wanted to get away from the onerous restrictions of the Mosaic law, and broaden Judaism's scope. There were two big advantages to this. Socially it's a very inclusive position, because it breaks down established power hierarchies. Also it's very comforting because it focuses on the end of the world and the end to worldly troubles, with everyone who believes being accepted into the Kingdom of God. Also you could say it fitted with the times, with the coming of the modern world in the form of the Roman Empire, and the end of the old order.
People from Jesus' faction used him as a figurehead, liberally embellishing his story with miracles, and spread this modern Judaism around the Mediterranean. It also quickly became bound up with Greek philosophy, and absorbed ideas from all sorts of places to become a kind of pan-cultural mish-mash. It really took off when the Roman Empire itself started getting into difficulties, and people were looking for a comforting, inclusive, mystical, modern religion.
That is my impression from my own reading of the Gospels. Like I say, accept it or not, but maybe if you read the Gospels with this in mind you may find it convincing. - liuite, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1or by some ignoramous McCain/KKK supporter
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1he hasnt proved it, hes stalled, and stalled and stalled again even though there is a court case over it
he refuses to prove it, you obviously didnt even check the link - Jayphen, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Am I missing something or is toggness a word that you just made up?
- mahadiga, on 10/13/2008, -1/+2Human beings are suffering from a disease called sarcasm and hypocrisy.
No other living beings are effected with this disease. - disappointed, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1RTFA
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