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	<title>Comments on: The Extraordinary Astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff</title>
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		<title>By: jffgrdn24</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-24207</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy April Fools Day!!</description>
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		<title>By: DJ-Anakin</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-22035</link>
		<dc:creator>DJ-Anakin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Someone please remind me why the mining company just left without cleaning up? And why they&#039;re not being made to clean it up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Mining_Company
&quot;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.&quot;

Fine, have ARCO clean it up, they bought Anaconda and all it&#039;s problems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Someone please remind me why the mining company just left without cleaning up? And why they&#8217;re not being made to clean it up?</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Mining_Company" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Mining_Company</a><br />
&#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fine, have ARCO clean it up, they bought Anaconda and all it&#8217;s problems.</p>
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		<title>By: mysticgirl</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-21683</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooooh better watch out for Isaac Bickerstaff.. I think thats the name of my long lost neighbour.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooooh better watch out for Isaac Bickerstaff.. I think thats the name of my long lost neighbour.</p>
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		<title>By: USATODAY</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-21405</link>
		<dc:creator>USATODAY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[quote]Josh Sincer said: &quot;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&#039;re going to be Swift our our days!?&quot;[/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&#039;s true opinions on the man, almost in an &quot;Emperor&#039;s New clothes way,&quot; 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&#039;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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[quote]Josh Sincer said: &#8220;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? &#8211; 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&#8217;re going to be Swift our our days!?&#8221;[/quote]</p>
<p>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&#8217;s true opinions on the man, almost in an &#8220;Emperor&#8217;s New clothes way,&#8221; 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&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>By: Rachelita</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-21244</link>
		<dc:creator>Rachelita</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 17:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Absolutely hilarious!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Absolutely hilarious!</p>
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		<title>By: Hoekstes</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-20970</link>
		<dc:creator>Hoekstes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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&#039;s Soul Music?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So let me get this straight&#8230; Partridge is that guy with the black robe and the sickle right?  The one featured in amongst others Terry Pratchett&#8217;s Soul Music?</p>
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		<title>By: SisterGirl</title>
		<link>http://www.damninteresting.com/the-extraordinary-astrologer-isaac-bickerstaff#comment-20937</link>
		<dc:creator>SisterGirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bouquets!  A rose to the author of this piece (who was it again?) and a bow to one of my favorite people, Jonathon Swift.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bouquets!  A rose to the author of this piece (who was it again?) and a bow to one of my favorite people, Jonathon Swift.</p>
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		<title>By: Inti</title>
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		<dc:creator>Inti</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>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.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
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