Consider that the Lord’s Prayer contains 69 words; the Ten Commandments 297 words, the American Declaration of Independence 310 words.
The EU Directive on the exportation of duck eggs contains.....
.... 28,922 words
Word!!
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Bicycle Bill
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Re: Word!!
The American version goes like this:
Either way, Snopes has busted the hell out of it.
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Interesting how they can't agree on the number of words in the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, or the Declaration of Independence, but the number of words in both the EU and the US regulations is almost identical.Pythagorean theorem: 24 words
The Lord's Prayer: 66 words
Archimedes' Principle: 67 words
The Ten Commandments: 179 words
The Gettysburg Address: 286 words
The Declaration of Independence: 1,300 words
The US government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words
Either way, Snopes has busted the hell out of it.
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Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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regulation is killing us.
it has gone waaay to far .
time to shake up the snow globe...
it has gone waaay to far .
time to shake up the snow globe...
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Word!!
A lot depends upon the translation (KJV vs ESV vs all of 'em) but the Lord's prayer (so-called) in Matthew is about 51 words in English (57 in Greek; 49 in Latin).
Luke has a shorter version of only 36 words. All counts depend upon the translation - not that they indicate different meanings but (for example) is it: "as we forgive those who trespass against us" - or "as we also are forgiving those who trespass against us" - or "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" - or "as we also are forgiving of debts" and so forth.
The bigger word counts given above are for the "popular" versions (in Protestant circles anyway) that include the non-Biblical addition to prayers "...for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, amen"
Duck eggs are vastly more complicated.
Luke has a shorter version of only 36 words. All counts depend upon the translation - not that they indicate different meanings but (for example) is it: "as we forgive those who trespass against us" - or "as we also are forgiving those who trespass against us" - or "forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" - or "as we also are forgiving of debts" and so forth.
The bigger word counts given above are for the "popular" versions (in Protestant circles anyway) that include the non-Biblical addition to prayers "...for thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, amen"
Duck eggs are vastly more complicated.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts