Comments on: The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff

By: jffgrdn24

jffgrdn24 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:24:32 +0000

Happy April Fools Day!!

By: DJ-Anakin

DJ-Anakin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:36 +0000

Someone please remind me why the mining company just left without cleaning up? And why they’re not being made to clean it up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Mining_Company
“The Anaconda Company was purchased by Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) on January 12, 1977. At present (2007), Anaconda exists only as an environmental liability for BP, the current owner of ARCO.”

Fine, have ARCO clean it up, they bought Anaconda and all it’s problems.

By: mysticgirl

mysticgirl — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:31:47 +0000

Ooooh better watch out for Isaac Bickerstaff.. I think thats the name of my long lost neighbour.

By: USATODAY

USATODAY — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:42:29 +0000

[quote]Josh Sincer said: “hehe, manipulations are have always been there and always will be, the question is, do we understand that someone tries to direct us ? came across an article recently, where authors of ICDL language claim that creating free-access search databases will open a new era in Web technology. Can Google sometimes be biased? – sure! At omfica.org thay say that every single user can make a change …creating independent information databases is the clue to our independent future…maybe they’re going to be Swift our our days!?”[/quote]

I dont believe that a website can truly remain unbiased as peoples conflicting opinions will prevent that. Yes swift did a great thing for society by showing people’s true opinions on the man, almost in an “Emperor’s New clothes way,” but peoples opinons did all shift over at once. From this article we get one single opinion about partridge, and if he was so influencial ( even if his predictions were wrong) who’s really to blame? Partirdge himself, or the people who followed him? I believe that the londoners got themselves into a rut by believing this man, and that by targeting only him it only woke them up from believing everything they heard, almost in the sazme way that people are ignorant to the influences of the media.

By: Rachelita

Rachelita — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:35:33 +0000

Absolutely hilarious!

By: Hoekstes

Hoekstes — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:34:03 +0000

So let me get this straight… Partridge is that guy with the black robe and the sickle right? The one featured in amongst others Terry Pratchett’s Soul Music?

By: SisterGirl

SisterGirl — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:56 +0000

Bouquets! A rose to the author of this piece (who was it again?) and a bow to one of my favorite people, Jonathon Swift.

By: Inti

Inti — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:39:45 +0000

Good for John Partridge. Pseudoscience and superstition should pay their lies in generous quantities. There are few things so harmful to humanity than superstition and the belief in surreal entities that govern our lives and destinies. We are alone, and our lives are just a brief flash of consciousness after which there is nothing else.

By: Erasure

Erasure — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:37:39 +0000

That is one nasty April fools prank. I’d hate to have gotten on the wrong side of Jonathan Swift, he is one nasty piece of work.

Erasure

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By: FixedFrequency

FixedFrequency — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:44:06 +0000

No worries, I’m not in the US actually, but if I do decide to fake my own death for tax purposes, I’ll be sure to acquire US citizenship first and “die” there! Useful info!