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To: Rambi who wrote (66074)	12/5/2004 9:39:35 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Finally I gave up, convinced that yet again you guys were just awesomely well-read, and I could but sit back and admire. Well, I was thinking much the same. Perhaps not that they were more well-read, but that they are "differently-read" to anything that I happen to read -- which tends to have to do almost entirely with natural history, species accounts, environmental survey reports, and the like. No God or Jesus to be found anywhere in those -- well, perhaps in some pre-Darwinian species accounts. <g> Now I learn that it was a typo. Ah.. but isn't that a case in point of how easily the meaning of "documents" can be changed by one teensy-weensy typo -- the addition of a "g" where one should not have been? Documents are full of such things, and the more times they are transcribed or transliterated, the more they generally contain, until the original meaning becomes something of a source for discussion and debate. I shall leave matters having to do with the spiritual world to others. My own concerns are more mundane -- counting birds, clams, fish and insects and trying to figure out what they are, where they've been, where they're going, and why there are getting to be more or less. (o: croc

To: Rambi who wrote (66074)	12/5/2004 3:21:59 PM
From: Justin C	Respond to of 71178

I contemplated for the longest time ... "finger points of myrrh and incense" ... Apparently I wasn't comtemplative as I read the phrase, but rather lazy of eye, as I initially read "finger paints of myrrh and incense". Obviously a word-association glitch with "finger paint", although no aroma comes to mind from using (smearing) that medium more that 50 years ago.

To: Rambi who wrote (66074)	12/5/2004 4:10:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

It made me think of a book I had read, could not remember the name, thought it might be "An Instance of the Fingerpoint," but upon googling, turned out to be "An Instance of the Fingerpost." Good book. amazon.com fingerpost n : a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger [syn: fingerboard] (The quote comes from the philosopher Bacon, who, while asserting that all evidence is ultimately fallible, allows for "one instance of a fingerpost that points in one direction only, and allows of no other possibility.") Frankincense and myrrh are probably too fallible as evidence to act as fingerposts, but they do suggest that if there is a heaven, it smells sublime.

To: Rambi who wrote (66074)	12/5/2004 5:58:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 71178

Rambi, maybe the "finger points" was a bit more than a typo. Rattling around in our heads are swarms of words forming and reforming into galaxies of broad themes and solar systems of finer details, all linked together with gravitational attractions and photon communications between systems. When dredging around in my head while I was ranting, maybe there was a Freudian association with typing, or you playing those left-handed chords, or guilt, or accusation, [finger-pointing] or something. The words associate, stick, mingle and reassociate in any possible form, like H5N1 and influenza genes looking for expression in reality in a form which will work and form part of the gigantic logic chain of the universe. So, perhaps finger points was more significant than finer points. But I didn't know. Or maybe it was just a typo. Let's hope it's not a random butterfly taking off in a forest which leads to a hurricane somewhere else. To make a mountain out of a molehill. Maybe somebody could do a PhD on "Finger points and the psychic association with finer points". It seems that finger points got people going enough to ask the arbiter of logic, Google, what was going on. Or maybe it was the obvious lack of logic shown, which was a discordant note in a looked-for logical symphony. Mqurice