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Old 01-22-2004   #11
Carrie
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Joe if you want undisputed I think you need to take a look around, lol.
You can never get 10 people to agree on anything!

Right now, for example. We've got a little vehicle on Mars. Cool 'nuff. It's sending back pictures. Double cool.
But wait a minute... the color in these pictures is off. The most pressing evidence of this is the color wheel itself welded onto the side of the vehicle to provide accurate color representation which to base the photos against.
The photos have been so oversaturated and color-corrected with red that the color wheel itself is screwed up!

Compare the pictures sent back from Mars with the pictures of the module just before it launched. You can clearly see the difference in the color wheel. Before launch, without color correction, all of the colors are true and in their proper spots.
But in the phots coming back from Mars, the colors are all skewed so badly that blues are coming out as reds!

But can you get folks to agree that someone is tampering with the color corrections? Nope...

Add to it that back in the 70's when the first little module went up to Mars, noted authors, scientists, and high-achieving high school students (interns really) were invited over to Nasa to take part. Carl Sagan himself writes about the first image showing up line by line, a huge hush over the crowd, and then a roar of elated joy as the picture was revealed and the expansive BLUE sky of Mars shone before them. And then his anger and confusion over why the same picture that was released to the paper showed a RED sky.
A high school student (at the time) tells of watching technicians skirting around the viewing room turning up the color on all of the television monitors so that everything literally glowed red and the Martian sky no longer appeared blue. Confused about this, the student went around and turned all of the settings back to where they were supposed to be... and summarily was called into an office with his overseeing teacher and a few Nasa officials and was told if he changed the colors back to normal again, he'd be escorted off of the property and not invited back.

With this, even today, there is proof. Is it disputed? Hell yeah... there will always be detractors on both sides of an issue and certainly folks with an agenda or a career to worry about. You could look up at the sky tomorrow morning and declare "the sky is blue" and someone to your left will say "no it's not, it's teal" while a color-blind person will say "that's blue? It looks green to me"...
The key is keeping your mind open to possibilities and not shutting down simply because it's something that you don't WANT to hear/read/see.

Personally I think there are dozens, if not hundreds, of documents regarding Jesus and God and all sorts of other things that only a few "exalted" eyes ever get to see; stored in the catacombs of the Vatican. Goodness knows that the assembly there makes judgements on what it feels "the people" are "ready" to see and know, and they have a vested interest in hiding anything that would even hint at shaking the foundation of Christianity - and for a long, long time, they had the power and the reach to find these documents (and even the people who wrote them) and make them just "disappear".
Does that make me a detractor? Yeah. Does it make me a non-Christian? Yes, to some. Do I give a good shit? Nope.

I look at it this way... it doesn't hurt to keep an open mind. I'll learn some really cool things along the way. And if there *is* a God, I'm definitely sure that when it comes my time to meet him, he won't mind me using my power of free will to ask questions and explore everything I possibly could have. I don't even think He will mind me calling him by other names. Surely someone(?) who came up with this screwy human race has to have a sense of humor, at least.

And if it's all wrong and we just fade off into the blackness when it's all over, well then, it still did me no harm to question and learn, did it? Learning is never a waste of time and everyone enjoys a good story.
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