Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery • Hacker News Board

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by MartinCron » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 8:17 PM UTC

interstitial wrote: post #24

Shivetya wrote: post #16

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Go read the original story, there is a link above. Someone even went as far to parse out one version of the Bible to determine if the first letter combinations matched. Even know what the basic thread of her thoughts, its the discovery and how to further that discovery that is the fascination. That is was prayers actually made it easier and leads to other methods to work it out.

So do you think God lets you pray in index form? I mean, if he's the grand super dude, can't we just recite the index?

I'm not a theologian, but I'm going to guess that compressed prayers are just as effective as uncompressed prayers.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by work_account_1 » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 8:33 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #38

jlgaddis wrote: post #34

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Plus you don't have to create an account.

Sorry, but that's wrong. Here are the rules for how to sign up: http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi

I believe he meant that you don't have to create an account just to view the answers.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by tbirdz » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 8:34 PM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #38

jlgaddis wrote: post #34

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Plus you don't have to create an account.

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On Quora you have to sign up just to view the answers, although I believe there is some kind of hack to get around it with a cookie or something.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by rpedela » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 8:58 PM UTC

tbirdz wrote: post #43

teraflop wrote: post #38

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On Quora you have to sign up just to view the answers, although I believe there is some kind of hack to get around it with a cookie or something.

Add "?share=1" to the end of the URL.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by thehme » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 9:11 PM UTC

The title of this article does not reflect what the article is actually talking about. Also, while a nice gesture of the family member to write, as I read the article I was building up excitement and really wanted to know if she had written some interesting/secret information for the kids, but then found she was just praying. Nothing wrong or against that, just that my curiosity was sparked but ultimately my interest went unfulfilled.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by protomyth » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 10:02 PM UTC

jccalhoun wrote: post #4

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

If it was one of my relatives, it would have been that or some geo coordinates to an almost impossible to get to place resulting in nothing (or a sign that said "gotcha").

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by teraflop » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 10:20 PM UTC

work_account_1 wrote: post #42

teraflop wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, but that's wrong. Here are the rules for how to sign up: http://www.metafilter.com/newuser.mefi

I believe he meant that you don't have to create an account just to view the answers.

Whoops, in retrospect that should have been obvious.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by notahacker » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

zaphar wrote: post #33

interstitial wrote: post #24

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So do you think God lets you pray in index form? I mean, if he's the grand super dude, can't we just recite the index?

I don't usually discuss matters of faith in this forum since it's pretty far off topic. However since you asked. Most christian faiths would say yes. The form is less important than the intended meaning for a prayer. And God would be perfectly capable of understanding the index form since He is considered to be Omniscient. QED: index form is perfectly fine. Other religions may differ as to whether the form is less or…

I like the Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels for transmitting the perceived substance of a religious text with an almost industrial efficiency.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by joeframbach » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 10:39 PM UTC

rpedela wrote: post #44

tbirdz wrote: post #43

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On Quora you have to sign up just to view the answers, although I believe there is some kind of hack to get around it with a cookie or something.

Add "?share=1" to the end of the URL.

Too late, I've already blocked it from my google results, just after expertsexchange.

Re: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery

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Post by mcguire » Tue, Jan 21, 2014, 11:01 PM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #2

Actual link is http://ask.metafilter.com/255675/Decoding-cancer-addled-ramb...

From the second compilation, by gingerest:

"{OR Please see that we all have blood pressure in the normal range & see that none of the rest of us have to take blood pressure medication}"

Now, there's a prayer.

(The alternative was: "Please see that we all have bodily perfection in the next realm, see that none of the rest of us have to bear painful memories." Which is more likely, I suspect.)