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purim 1946 article Bekerman, Vidal Mar 25, 2004

BS"D

Mr. Rubin,

I was doing some research on this purim 1946 topic, and came across your article on the net and found it very interesting. i would like to correspond with you a little, as i have some issues with things that you have written, and would like to know some more about information you make claims about, but don't cite. but i will leave that to later. i would like to begin with taking issue with your assertion that there is nothing odd about hanging the nazis. it should be pointed out that Firing was (and still is) the standard form of military execution and was employed during and after World War II. That the convicted war criminals at Nurmberg were hanged is indeed odd. In fact, Goring specifically asked
to be executed by firing squad "as would befit a military man" (he was not just head of the Luftwaffe but had been a fighting ace in WWI), and only when he was
refused this "honor" did he take his own life with a smuggled cyanide capsule.

The decision to hang was one suggested by Nitichenko, the Soviet prosecutor, who refused to recognize the accused as anything more than common criminals
and lobbied successfully (over primarily French suggestion) that they be
shot.

you appear to me to be an honest guy who is interested in pursuing the truth via reason. that is why i am pursuing a correspondence with you. i am not sure if you are an orhtodox Jew - i get the sense that you are no, but it is hard to tell. i also get the sense that you might admit if you are wrong on a point. you don't appear to me to be one who thinks his opinions are infallible, especially after he has already put them to writing.

i would be interested to hear a response from you as it appears to me that you might be willing to reconsider that point you make in the article.

you can reach me at vbekerman@yahoo.com

kind regards,
Vidal Bekerman

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Positive Feedback Mark Feb 14, 2004

Yay!! What a good site. Thank you, and good luck.

Mark

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question on example Spencer , Steven Feb 08, 2004

Hi TalkReason,

Improbable Probabilities

Assorted comments on some uses and misuses of probability theory

First posted on June 22, 1999; last update September 2001.

By Mark Perakh

http://www.talkreason.org/articles/probabilities.cfm
The first problem is as follows. Imagine that you watch buses arriving at a certain stop. After watching them for a long time, you have determined that the interval between the arrivals of any two sequential buses is, on the average, one minute. The question you ask is: How long should you expect to wait for the next bus if you start waiting at an arbitrary moment of time? Many people asked to answer that question would confidently assert that the average time of waiting is 30 sec. This answer is wrong. It would be correct if all the buses arrived at exactly the same interval of 1 min. However, the situation is different in that 1 min is just the average interval between any two consecutive bus arrivals. This number 1 min, is a mean of a distribution wherein the interval varies between zero and a certain maximum which is larger than 1 min. Therefore, the average waiting time, regardless of when you start waiting, is 1 min rather than 30 sec.

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Ok, I have a problem with this.
I am going to switch to a daily watch rather than each minute, for thinking simplicity.

Take a train that leaves daily.. 7AM time is planned, but it varies a bit, leaving an average interval of 24 hours even though sometimes it is 22 other times 23, 24, 25.... but it generally leaves around 7AM.

You observe if for a few weeks and say, look the average interval is 24 hours.

Now I can mosey over at anytime of day..
Let's take 24 points, from midnight to 12PM to midnight.

At Midnight we have approximately a 7hr wait, then 6-5-4-3-2-1-0- then 24-23-22- etc.

Leading to the 12 hours, 1/2 day average.

(moving around a couple of hours won't make a big difference.. 6AM 7AM 8AM.

How do you get that the average time of waiting would be 24 hours ???????

Thanks.

Shalom,
Steven Spencer
Queens, NY

Schmuel@bigfoot.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Messianic_Apologetic/

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Just wondering... Pehnec, Steve Feb 07, 2004

In your "Call for Papers", you write:

"Papers whose goal is to promote creationism, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, the compatibility of the Bible with science, and religious apologetics, exegesis or papers arguing against established scientific theories such as the evolution theory will not be accepted."

So I was wondering, is it permissable to submit a paper that explores the limits of science as defined by science itself; one that explores the
reasons why science cannot disprove the existence of a god? Is your forum open to agnostics, or is it the case that only athiests need apply?

Just wondering...

Steve

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The Bible as History Jay Feb 02, 2004

I recently saw a copy of the book "The Bible as History." I believe the author is Werner Keller (or some name similar to that). Do any of the authors on your site plan to write a criticism of this book in the future?
Thank you,
-Jay

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