• Repetitive arguments (was: Re: The Debate Has Been Settled - Creationism Has Won

    From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to talk-origins on Sun May 10 21:42:11 2026
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    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    [47k deleted]


    Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right;
    but it's all got too personal.

    Please let it go.

    Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion.
    The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I
    doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have
    walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away"
    show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims
    once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I
    have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    I do promise not to post any 47k messages!

    Thanks!




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    Ron Okimoto



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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon May 11 16:22:07 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    [47k deleted]


    Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right;
    but it's all got too personal.

    Please let it go.

    Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion.
    The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I
    doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have
    walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away"
    show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims
    once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I
    have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet
    again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he
    thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(


    I do promise not to post any 47k messages!

    Thanks!




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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon May 11 17:44:28 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read >>> >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right; >>> >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion.
    The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I
    doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have
    walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away"
    show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims
    once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I
    have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet
    again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he
    thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    Second Harran Repost that Harran can't get himself to even snip and run
    from:

    Second Harran repost:

    On 4/21/2026 10:38 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:43 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:


    On 4/20/2026 4:08 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:06:53 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:


    On 4/18/2026 6:24 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:31:27 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:


    On 4/15/2026 11:36 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:59:56 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    [rCa]


    No one is going to convince an opponent by stating that "they are lying".
    and probably not by constant repetition of the same arguments (no matter
    how valid) that failed to get through the first 50 times.

    Tell that to RonO, he's the one who keeps calling everyone who
    disagrees with him a liar.

    Who got caught lying and quote mining? You need to deal with reality,
    and quit lying about it. Lying about me is just so stupid that it is
    pretty much insane. You have always lied about the sources that you
    could not deal honestly with. Who's sources have always come up short?
    Look at what you are doing now. Is there any excuse for you not dealing
    with your own stupid dishonest behavior?

    The tiresomeness of you continually claiming that my sources were
    caught lying and that I have been lying and quote mining is matched by
    the tiresomeness of your inability to ever identify what lie my
    sources were caught in, what lies I have told or where I have quote
    mined.

    [... more big snip ...]

    Why keep lying about what your sources did and what you did? That is
    just stupid and dishonest. Just look up your past posts to determine
    for yourself what went down. You tried to lie about my sources being
    deficient when your sources had always come up short or even supported
    my sources by putting up the lame lie that heliocentrism had never been condemned other then by the inquisition. It was stupid because it did
    not negate what you and your sources had been wrong about. It turned
    out that your source was lying and you ran. You ran twice from the same evidence that your source was lying. You tried to come back with your
    lame quote mining efforts and trying to distract the argument from what
    it had been. You did that, and your source was demonstrated to have
    lied about the issue. You need to go back and deal with what you did.
    An appology for your disgraceful behavior would be in order. Just try
    not to do it again. Continuing to lie about what happened is just
    adding to how low you needed to go.

    Yet again, you make all sorts of accusations without a single example
    of something to support them.

    What I cannot figure out is whether you just can't grasp that your
    failure to produce a single example of supporting evidence portrays
    *you* as the one telling lies; or whether you do grasp it and just
    don't care; or whether, like a certain President, you think that if
    you repeat a lie enough times that someone will eventually believe it.

    You should apologize for what you have been doing and stop doing it. I
    found the posts where you ran from your source having been caught lying,
    you then snipped the evidence out of your response to your running.

    The thread: There is no legitimate scientific support for the ID scam.

    I can post your quote mining attempts and other stupid behavior that you resorted to to defend your running and defense of your bogus source.

    So why don't you instead of talking about it?

    Specific examples, please, not reams and reams of obfuscatory cut'n
    paste.




    You should not continue to add to your own dishonest stupidity.
    Trusting your source was obviously a stupid thing to do, and trying to
    continue to support that source was just stupid and dishonest.

    Ron Okimoto



    This the other thread string that was in the "Chimp to human evolution-Sandwalk perspective" thread. This posts demonstrates that
    Harran tried to quote mine the condemnation. If you go to other posts
    in this thread string you will find Harran having memory lapse of his
    running from the Vatican observatory link. This was his attempt to try
    to claim that he did not have to run. He literally tried to quote mine
    the document so that it would not have been considered to be a
    condemnation of heliocentrism by only quoting a bit of what was being condemned.

    REPOST:
    On 2/23/2026 7:03 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:40:10 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/22/2026 10:18 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:44:57 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 2/21/2026 11:59 AM, Martin Harran wrote:

    What documents are you talking about that you keep saying the Jesuits
    put up?


    You can keep lying about what has been discussed, but you know
    what you
    did. You need to be the one that finds it and satisfy yourself with
    what you did.

    You put up your source lying about heliocentrism never being condemned
    by anyone but the Inquisition. You claimed that the Inquisition
    was not
    the Church. I put up the Jesuit Observatory claim that the Papal
    offices had condemned heliocentrism and this condemnation was
    ordered by
    the Pope. They put up the relevant document and stated what the Pope
    did. Your source was caught lying and you ran. Go find it. It is
    something that you should do because you will uncover all your other
    evasions on this issue while doing it. Your quotes of your
    sources have
    always come up short. The sources that you claim are unreliable, have
    repeatedly been shown to be more reliable than what you come up with.

    Oh, you mean the link you gave back in November, this one:

    https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    The one where they posted the full 1616 decree on it's 400th
    anniversary and commented:

    <quote>
    The formulation here is much milder than the one found in the working
    document of February 24. The Decree talks about the "false Pythagorean
    doctrine" and declare it "altogether contrary to the Holy Scripture".
    This is not nearly as harsh as "foolish and absurd" philosophically,
    and "formally heretical" because contrary to Scripture.
    </quote>

    How fucking dense can you be? It doesn't get much stupider than
    posting something that contradicts what you are claiming.


    If I am the dense one why did you run from what they admitted about the
    document?

    LOL, you post something that you think supports your claim but
    actually rejects it and the best defence you can offer is to accuse me
    of running away from it.

    You did run, twice in that thread. You would not address your source
    getting caught lying.



    The Pope did condemn heliocentrism.

    Beats me why you keep repeating this. The Pope did not personally
    condemn heliocentrism, he allowed the Inquisition's condemnation of it
    to be made public - that did not make it a heresy.

    He did more than allow, he directed that it should be published. Why
    deny what the source claimed? The source admits that it was a Papal condemnation. They just claim that it was a toned down condemnation
    compared to the first draft of the document that still exists.

    There is no reason to try to weasel out of the fact that you ran and
    would not even try to lie about the situation the first time you were
    given this link. It did just what I claimed at the time. Your source
    was found to have lied about the situation, and could not be trusted.
    You can't say that about any of my sources. You just keep lying about
    those sources being unreliable when it has always been your sources that
    came up short.


    That is what your side was lying
    about.

    The only one telling lies here is you. For example, when you keep
    insisting that all the "anti-geocentrists" in the Catholic
    Encyclopaedia article agree with you that heliocentrism was a heresy
    when they all say explicitly that it wasn't. Your lie is underlined by
    the fact that you can't produce identify any source that agrees that heliocentrism was a heresy except your geocentrist mentors.

    Your source lied about the Inquisition being the only church arm to have condemned heliocentrism. It was a false statement and should have been
    known to be a false statement. Lying about the Pope only allowing the publication when he wanted it to be published, and directed that it
    should be written up and published. The Jesuits are pretty matter of
    fact that it was a Papal condemnation of heliocentrism. They note that
    it is the only instance of any Pope directly condemning heliocentrism.


    It doesn't matter that the final wording was milder than the
    initial draft. They admit that the Pope condemned heliocentrism, and
    supported using the Council of Trent's scriptural interpretation on the
    matter. It doesn't matter what it was called because the authors and
    books are named. You ran from this link because your source was found
    to have lied about heliocentrism never having been condemned except by
    the Inquisition. The Pope obviously represents the Church and condemned
    heliocentrism. He supported the Inquisition in 1616, and their
    additions to the Index in order to protect against heresy. The books
    would not have been added to the Index if they were not considered to be
    heretical. The document even talks about the heretical parts of the
    books, and indicates that after one of them is rewritten, so that it is
    not against scripture, that it can be removed from the Index.

    Keep lying to yourself about the issue. It isn't going to change
    reality.

    The Inquisition made heliocentrism a formal heresy in 1615-1616.

    The decree is given in full on the Vatican Observatory site that you
    tried to claim supports you and the word 'heresy' or 'heretical' does
    not even appear in it.

    It was not put up to claim heresy even though that is what it did. That document condemned heliocentrism and supported heliocentric writings
    being added to the Index. Those writings were deemed to be heretical
    and against scripture. Lying about something else does not change the
    fact that your source was caught lying. You know what condemning means
    so why try to lie about the situation in this way? What was your source trying to lie about by claiming that heliocentrism had only been
    condemned by the Inquisition? You know why your source told that lie,
    so why try to weasel out of the fact that they lied?


    They
    did this because of their interpretation of scripture as the Council of
    Trent had decided.

    The decree doesn't make any reference whatsoever to Trent regarding interpretation of scripture; the one and only reference is to the *punishment* under Trent for disobeying the decree.

    The decree doesn't need to reference Trent in terms of scriptural interpretation because that had already been decided by the Inquisition
    when it added the writings to the Index. Those writings would not have
    been added to the Index if it were not for the Council of Trents
    determination about scriptural interpretation. The Pope agreed with
    those additions to the Index, so he must have agreed with the
    Inquisitions scriptural interpretation.


    They added heliocentric writings to the Index,

    They declare that "the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the
    Revolutions of Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended
    until corrected".

    The Books by Copernicus were never corrected and republished, so his
    writings were banned until removed from the index centuries later. I
    see that you left out the book that could not be corrected and would be permanently banned. Why did you do that? Isn't this quote mining? Heliocentrism was condemned and heliocentric writings were added to the
    Index. End of that story.

    QUOTE:
    Decree
    of the Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy
    Roman Church especially charged by Our Holy Lord Pope Paul V and by the
    Holy Apostolic See with the Index of books and their licensing,
    prohibition, correction, and printing in all of Christendom, to be
    published everywhere.
    In regard to several books containing various heresies and errors, to
    prevent the emergence of more serious harm throughout Christendom, the
    Sacred Congregation of the Most Illustrious Cardinals of the Holy Roman
    Church in charge of the Index has decided that they should be altogether condemned and prohibited, as indeed with the present decree it condemns
    and prohibits them, wherever and in whatever language they are printed
    or about to be printed.
    END QUOTE:

    This is no quote mine, but you can find your quote in the following
    paragraph:

    QUOTE:
    This Holy Congregation has also learned about the spreading and
    acceptance by many of the false Pythagorean doctrine, altogether
    contrary to the Holy Scripture, that the earth moves and the sun is motionless, which is also taught by Nicolaus CopernicusrCOs On the
    Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres and by Diego de Zu|#igarCOs On Job.
    This may be seen from a certain letter published by a certain Carmelite
    Father whose title is Letter of the Reverend Father Paolo Antonio
    Foscarini on the Pythagorean and Copernican Opinion of the EarthrCOs
    Motion and SunrCOs Rest and on the New Pythagorean World System (Naples: Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1615), in which the said Father tries to show that
    the above-4mentioned doctrine of the sunrCOs rest at the center of the
    world and of the earthrCOs motion is consonant with the truth and does not contradict Holy Scripture. Therefore, in order that this opinion may not advance any further to the prejudice of Catholic truth, the Congregation
    has decided that the books by Nicolaus Copernicus (On the Revolutions of Spheres) and by Diego de Zu|#iga (On Job) be suspended until corrected;
    but that the book of the Carmelite Father Paolo Antonio Foscarini be completely prohibited and condemned; and that all other books which
    teach the same be likewise prohibited, according to whether with the
    present Decree it prohibits, condemns, and suspends them respectively.
    END QUOTE:

    It looks like you tried to quote mine what had been quoted on the site.

    There is no reason to try to weasel out of why you ran from this link
    before.


    I've given details of the required corrections to Revolutions in a
    different post to Harshman and they are all minor edits - not one of
    them makes any change to the core principle of heliocentrism. A rather
    weird declaration of heresy that allows Copernicus's book supporting
    it to be published with minor edits that don't undermine his
    proposition.

    So what? Copernicus' writings remained on the Index for centuries, and
    the heliocentric writings of Father Paolo Antonio Foscarini was
    "completely prohibited and condemned" for the same period of time.


    and
    had their first encounter with Galileo. The Pope agreed with them and
    condemned heliocentrism, and agreed with their additions to the Index of
    banned writings.

    Before your source lied about "never being condemned" the Pope's
    involvement in 1616 was not an issue between the geocentric and
    anti-geocentric Catholics in terms of what you were lying about at the
    time. Both sides agreed that it was a formal heresy charge faced by
    Galileo in 1615-1616. They disagreed about it being a formal heresy
    charge the second time because it was only written up as "heresy" and
    not formal heresy in the sentencing. It remained a heresy charge.

    You obviously struggle with grasping that a *charge* does not make
    someone guilty. I hope I'm never on trial for something I didn't do
    with you on the jury.

    Galileo was not found guilty in 1616, but he was facing a formal heresy charge. The Inquisition's condemnation was backed up by the Pope in
    1616. That is what you are currently waffling about. Your source lied.


    The
    Pope had the Galileo case, sentencing, and punishment published and
    distributed throughout the Church in order to quash the heliocentric
    heresy, but the guys that want to maintain Papal infallibility claim
    that that was not an official Papal action. They admitted that there
    was an issue with helicentrism at the time, but they do not want the
    Pope to have been on the wrong side of the issue.

    You need to deal with reality.

    I think it's very clear who has the problem with accepting reality and
    it's not me.

    I think that it is clear that your sources are as unreliable as you are.
    You clearly quote mined above, so why lie about who has an issue with dealing with reality?

    Ron Okimoto


    It is well understood that the Bible is
    just wrong about a lot of things that we can figure out for ourselves.
    Your own quotes from Pope Francis makes that claim. The Bible can be
    misinterpreted because the author's understanding of the creation was
    faulty. Francis knows that the universe was not created in 6 magic
    episodes. Only those in complete denial do not understand that the
    order of creation described in the Bible is wrong. There are still
    young earth, old earth day for agers, geocentric, and flat earth
    Biblical creationists because they are in the same type of denial that
    you are in. There are just different levels of denial.

    Ron Okimoto


    END REPOST:

    Harran should apologize and stop lying about the past.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Mon May 11 17:42:02 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
    wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read >>> >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right; >>> >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion.
    The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I
    doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have
    walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away"
    show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims
    once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I
    have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet
    again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he
    thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    What a nut job. You are the one that keeps coming back to claim that my sources were deficient, and when it turns out that they were not, you
    run again. How many times has that happened? Who is the one, at this
    very moment, that is running from his sources coming up short? Your
    stupid lies were just so lame this time that it should be the end, and
    what do you continue to do? You now know what will happen when you post
    your stupid crap to me, and you keep doing it. Your harassment has to
    end. All that you have ever accomplished is demonstrating that you have always been wrong about the issue. Just look at how you failed this
    time. You started lying about running from your source coming up short,
    and when the claim was demonstrated to be a lie you tried to quote mine
    the document demonstrating that your source had lied about the
    situation. That is just so lame that you need to just apologize and
    quit doing it. It was definitely over years ago when your own trusted
    source backed up my sources. The lame quote that you came up with to
    counter your own source did not do that, and just supported the claim
    that it was a heresy charge the second time Galileo faced the
    Inquisition. My sources had already confirmed that it was claimed to be
    a heresy and not a formal heresy the second time. All you accomplished
    was to support my sources. You ran, and have been coming back in vain
    to lie about the past since then, and that effort came after your first failure. You are the one that has been harassing me with your lies
    about the past. Reality is never going to change. Your sources failed
    you years ago. Just as your current sources have done.

    Why are you snipping and running from what you have done?

    First Harran REPOST:
    Harran REPOST 1:

    SNIP:
    There seems to be a limit on post length, so Harran will get two posts
    from now on. The REPOST that he is currently snipping out, running from
    and lying about the posts existing, and the Quote mining REPOST that he
    can't bring himself to even address by snipping out the material.

    First REPOST:
    On 5/1/2026 8:14 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:49:48 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/30/2026 5:44 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:41:58 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/29/2026 1:13 PM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:43:53 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    [...]

    Snipping and lying about what you have done is just stupid and
    insane.

    Not as stupid and insane as making a claim you can't support. C'mon,
    Ron, give the link to the Wiki article that says Galileo faced a
    heresy charge in 1616 rCa surely it can't be that difficult.

    [snip desperation attempt to avoid issue]


    What a lying asshole. This is the second time that you have
    snipped and
    run from what you have lied about as being handwaving.

    C'mon Ron, no need to repost 7000 words that nobody wants to read. All
    that's needed to show me to be the lying asshole, not you, is a simple
    quote from the Wiki article that says what you insist it says. A dozen
    or so words should cover it or even a simple URL. Can't be that hard
    can it?


    [...]


    You need to stop harassing me with your stupid lies about the past.

    I'll gladly stop harassing you when you either give a specific example
    of a lie told by either me or those I cited in support. Or else
    withdraw your own stupid lies.

    All that you will get are the reposts demonstrating that you have
    consistently lied about this topic, gotten caught lying, and added to
    your stupid dishonest behavior by quote mining in order to deny that it
    has always been your sources that have come up short in this manner.
    Your continued stupid and assoholic behavior of continuing to lie about
    what you have done is just insane.

    I am going to add the quote mining repost and this is all the response
    that you will ever get from me on this topic until you apologize for
    your lying harassment and stop doing it.

    REPOST that you are going to get from now on:
    It contains what you have lied about doing in your current bout of lying
    about what you could never deal honestly with. Your source came up short
    and lied about the topic. You ran and would not deal with the reality of
    your source coming up short yet again. You snipped and ran from it when
    I put it up again. You lied about doing that, and when you had to face
    what you had done you tried to quote mine the document that demonstrated
    that your source had lied. It is just what you did, and you have
    continued to lie about not quote mining and snipping and running even as
    you have been snipping and running in this series of posts.

    REPOST of material that you just snipped out demonstrating that you are
    just a lying harassing asshole:

    Third time for you. Can you possibly be worse than Nyikos?
    REPOST of the REPOST:
    REPOST:

    It has already been countered. Look what bogus and dishonest tactics
    that you have had to employ to put up the additional stupidity. You have consistently lied about your past exploits. You can't deal with what you
    are currently lying about. Trying to further obfuscate the issue is
    never going to undo what you have already done. Your sources have always
    been found to be deficient. You have had to run from the deficiencies.
    In this latest example of you lying about the past you have not only
    snipped and run from dealing honestly with how your sources have come up short, but you have resorted to quote mining the document that
    demonstrated that your source had lied about the situation.

    What you are doing is just stupid and dishonest. You need to apologize
    and quit doing it. You are currently running from posts that you lied
    about ever existing, and you can't face your own quote mining fiasco.
    There is nothing that I need to do, but make you face what you have
    already done.

    Apologize and quit doing what you are doing. That is the only sane and
    honest thing that you can do at this time. What possible excuse could
    you have for snipping out and running from the reposts that you lied
    about never existing? They show your source coming up short. They show
    you running from reality, and show you snipping out the evidence and
    running again when I put up the material again. You can't even face the
    repost that demonstrates that in order to justify your lies about not
    running from the material you tried to quote mine the document that demonstrated that your source was wrong and had lied about the
    situation. Your stupidity and dishonesty have resulted in what you are
    doing now. You should stop doing it. You can't deal with the reposts of
    what you have done, so why keep adding to the stupidity?

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST:

    Everything that you lie about being handwaving can be documented by what
    you are currently running from. You just have to go up the thread and
    see what you did. Lying about what you have done is just stupid and insane.

    This is the post that started this thread string. You had to snip out
    the reposts that you had lied about not existing in order to continue to
    lie about the past as you are currently doing. Your dishonest behavior
    is just insane.

    REPOST
    On 4/21/2026 10:38 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:40:43 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/20/2026 4:08 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:06:53 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/18/2026 6:24 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:31:27 -0500, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 4/15/2026 11:36 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:59:56 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    [rCa]

    No one is going to convince an opponent by stating that "they
    are lying".
    and probably not by constant repetition of the same arguments
    (no matter
    how valid) that failed to get through the first 50 times.

    Tell that to RonO, he's the one who keeps calling everyone who
    disagrees with him a liar.

    Who got caught lying and quote mining? You need to deal with
    reality,
    and quit lying about it. Lying about me is just so stupid that it is
    pretty much insane. You have always lied about the sources that you
    could not deal honestly with. Who's sources have always come up
    short?
    Look at what you are doing now. Is there any excuse for you not dealing
    with your own stupid dishonest behavior?

    The tiresomeness of you continually claiming that my sources were
    caught lying and that I have been lying and quote mining is
    matched by
    the tiresomeness of your inability to ever identify what lie my
    sources were caught in, what lies I have told or where I have quote
    mined.

    [... more big snip ...]


    Why keep lying about what your sources did and what you did? That is
    just stupid and dishonest. Just look up your past posts to determine
    for yourself what went down. You tried to lie about my sources being
    deficient when your sources had always come up short or even supported
    my sources by putting up the lame lie that heliocentrism had never
    been
    condemned other then by the inquisition. It was stupid because it did
    not negate what you and your sources had been wrong about. It turned
    out that your source was lying and you ran. You ran twice from the
    same
    evidence that your source was lying. You tried to come back with your
    lame quote mining efforts and trying to distract the argument from
    what
    it had been. You did that, and your source was demonstrated to have
    lied about the issue. You need to go back and deal with what you did.
    An appology for your disgraceful behavior would be in order. Just try
    not to do it again. Continuing to lie about what happened is just
    adding to how low you needed to go.

    Yet again, you make all sorts of accusations without a single example
    of something to support them.

    What I cannot figure out is whether you just can't grasp that your
    failure to produce a single example of supporting evidence portrays
    *you* as the one telling lies; or whether you do grasp it and just
    don't care; or whether, like a certain President, you think that if
    you repeat a lie enough times that someone will eventually believe it.


    You should apologize for what you have been doing and stop doing it. I
    found the posts where you ran from your source having been caught lying,
    you then snipped the evidence out of your response to your running.

    The thread: There is no legitimate scientific support for the ID scam.

    I can post your quote mining attempts and other stupid behavior that you
    resorted to to defend your running and defense of your bogus source.

    So why don't you instead of talking about it?

    Specific examples, please, not reams and reams of obfuscatory cut'n
    paste.

    I was giving you a chance to demonstrate that you had some sense of
    moral integrity, but you do not.

    Here is the entire posts that resulted from you initially running from
    the link that demonstrated that your source had lied about heliocentrism
    never being condemned other than by the inquisition.

    This is the post that I demonstrated that your source was wrong. You ran
    from this evidence and did not acknowledge it.

    REPOST 1:
    On 11/17/2025 6:52 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:25:18 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/16/2025 4:40 PM, Martin Harran wrote:
    [rCa]

    The links that I put up were from the Catholics that continue to be
    geocentric creationists, and the Catholics that are trying to refute
    them. Both sides do not agree with you. What does your continued
    denial of reality tell you?

    You gave no such links. All you have to do to prove me wrong is give
    them again.

    Do you not see how stupid you are making yourself look by
    claiming you
    gave links but cannot repeat them?

    Why lie about something so stupid. One of the links was your own
    trusted Catholic site, and you initially gave that link.

    That was this site:
    https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342b.htm

    The one where the Catholic Church states:

    " In thus acting, it is undeniable that the ecclesiastical authorities
    committed a grave and deplorable error, and sanctioned an altogether
    false principle as to the proper use of Scripture."

    The one that cites Professor Augustus De Morgan (Budget of Paradoxes)
    declaring

    "It is clear that the absurdity was the act of the Italian
    Inquisition, for the private and personal pleasure of the pope - who
    knew that the course he took could not convict him as pope - and not
    of the body which calls itself the Church."

    The one that cites von Gebler ("Galileo Galilei"):

    "The Church never condemned it (the Copernican system) at all, for the
    Qualifiers of the Holy Office never mean the Church."

    It beats me how you figure out that site and the people referred to in
    it somehow back your claim that heliocentrism really was a heresy. I
    guess you have to convince yourself in order to maintain your delusion
    as you clearly can't find a reputable source that actually does back
    you up.

    Yes, everyone admits that they were wrong about geocentrism except for
    the Catholics that are still geocentrics. This source called what
    Galileo faced both times a charge of heresy. They did not make a
    distinction between formal heresy and heresy like the anti geocentric
    site, but it was still a heresy.

    What part of "The Church never condemned it (the Copernican system) at
    all" did you not understand?

    It was true until it became a lie after the Council of Trent. The
    Inquisition based their condemnation on the church claims stated in
    their publications. Both geocentric and anti geocentric Catholics claim
    that this is true. You have known this for a very long time so why do
    you persist on putting up an obvious lie about "never" when it only
    applies to the period of time before the Council of Trent made their
    claims. The Inquisition made it into a formal heresy charge against
    Galileo and banned Copernican writings after the Council of Trent. That
    is agreed upon by both sides of the Catholic argument and they support
    what was claimed in the Wiki about the Inquistion making it a formal
    heresy case. It is just nuts that you want to try to deny what cannot be denied. Catholics that want to preserve papal infallibility by special pleading and lying are wasting their time. What could possibly be
    scripturally sound about any pope being infallible when any such
    position is never mentioned in scripture? The Pope was just wrong about
    this issue, just because it should never have been the issue that it
    was, doesn't matter. It was the issue that it was, and the Pope along
    with the rest of the church was wrong about it. Even if they could make
    such an argument from scripture the reliance on the church fathers for scriptural interpretation was found to be erroneous when it turned out
    that the chruch fathers were wrong about geocentrism.

    The geocentrists claim that the decree by the Pope in the 19th century
    did not recind the influence of the church fathers on scriptural
    matters, and that heliocentrism remains a heresy in the Catholic church.
    The geocentrics claim that the Pope only made it OK to publish
    heliocentrism for the purposes of telling time and planetary motions.
    They claim that he did not recind the restrictions on using
    heliocentrism to challenge the beliefs of the church fathers. The anti geocentrists published the entire decree and noted that the Pope did not
    state what restrictions were left in place only that authors had to ask
    the church to determine if what they wanted to publish was OK. The Pope
    only noted what could be published. So that question is still open. They
    know that the Council of Trent is a sticking point, but my guess is that
    there are no publications that can resolve the issue. My guess is that somewhere there is a document that has the information on what
    restrictions still held after 1820.

    Vatican Observatory on the issue:https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    Your source seems to be wrong about "never".


    The only place that formal comes into all this is in the judgement
    issued after Galileo's first trial where the verdict stated that the proposition that the Sun is stationary at the centre of the universe
    is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture".

    That, however, is t the Catholic Encyclopaedia refers to where it
    says:

    "it is undeniable that the ecclesiastical authorities committed a
    grave and deplorable error, and sanctioned an altogether false
    principle as to the proper use of Scripture."

    Note also that the words "formally heretical" are wrong - I'm not sure whether it was the Inquisition using weasel words or whether it was a
    bad translation from the Latin.

    The word "heresy" can be used in two ways; it can apply to the
    rejection of a specific doctrine of the Church or it can refer to the
    act of committing heresy. The word "formal" applies to the latter -
    the act of committing heresy - and is used to categorise the degree of
    guilt of the person committing the heresy. "Formal heresy" means they
    knew they were going against doctrine and are therefore guilty of
    mortal sin; "material heresy" means they did not know they were going against doctrine so they are not guilty sin.

    It's a bit like first degree versus second degree murder and Galileo's
    trial was like him being charged with first-degree murder without a
    murder being established in the first place.

    Both Catholic sides of the issue acknowledge that Galileo faced a charge
    of formal heresy in 1616. You were given the links, and they supported
    the Wiki claims.




    The Inquisition made it into a formal heresy after the Council of Trent.
    They were supposedly wrong, and a couple centuries later things got
    reversed to what they had been at the time that the findings of the
    Council of Trent were published.

    The holy office (the inquisition) had Galileo facing a formal heresy
    charge in his first encounter. When the pope got involved they just did
    not call it a formal heresy in the sentencing. Galileo's views were
    still condemned. They claimed that Galileo was facing a charge of
    heresy. His heliocentric notions were still considered to be heresy and
    the heresy that he was guilty of was clearly defined in the sentencing.
    The anti geocentrics admitted that the pope had the Galileo case
    published and disseminated throughout the church in order to quash the
    heliocentric notions that were becoming an issue for the church. They
    just want to claim that, that was not an official act. That is just
    stupid. The pope did it for known reasons, and who cares if they want
    to plead that he was not acting as pope?

    There is no doubt that the actors were wrong, and that is the issue.
    They do not want it to reflect on papal infallibility. That in itself
    should be considered to be a non scriptural unjustifiable claim.

    The Inquisition had Copernican writings banned and made heliocentrism
    into a formal heresy because all the church fathers were geocentrics,
    and that meant that Copernicans were in conflict with the beliefs of the
    church fathers. Both the geocentric Catholics and the anti geocentric
    Catholics claim that the Inquisition did this because of what the church
    came up with at the Council of Trent where they made the beliefs of the
    church fathers as a legitimate and necessary authority for interpreting
    scripture. Both Catholic sides of the geocentric issue understand this
    to be true.

    QUOTE:
    Council of Trent
    Session IV, April 8, 1546, Decree Concerning the Edition and the Use of
    the Sacred Books:

    ... "Furthermore, in order to restrain petulant spirits, it [the Council
    of Trent] decrees that no one, relying on his own skill, shall,-in
    matters of faith, and of morals pertaining to the edification of
    Christian doctrine,-wresting the sacred Scriptures to his own senses,
    presume to interpret the said sacred Scripture contrary to that sense
    which holy Mother Church-to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense
    and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures-hath held and doth hold; or
    even contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers; even though such
    interpretations were never (intended) to be at any time published.
    Contraveners shall be made known by their Ordinaries and be punished
    with the penalties by law established."
    END QUOTE:

    https://www.biblelightinfo.com/unanimous-consent.htm

    Both Catholic sides of the issue claim that the Council of Trent caused
    the Inquisition to ban Copernican writings and start treating
    heliocentrism as a formal heresy because it went against the geocentric
    beliefs of the church fathers.

    You are taking all that crap from your geocentric hero; if you want to persist in taking his opinion against that of the Church's own
    theologians then that is you just acting like Spikes rejecting the
    opinion of scientists in favour of people who play to his confirmation
    bias.

    The anti-geocentrics acknowledged that the formal heresy charge was due
    to what had been decided during the Council of Trent. They agreed with
    the geocentrists. The anti geocentrists did not what the formal heresy
    charge to have been adopted by the later case when the Pope was
    involved. Even though the heresy was clearly defined in the sentencing
    it was only called a heresy and not a formal heresy. Lying about reality
    just does not change reality. Even the guys against the geocentrists
    have to admit that the facts are just what they are.



    It was a mistake and the actors were in error only because of our
    current understanding of nature. The Pope was wrong about it. He was
    one of the mistaken actors.

    The Pope was not a "mistaken actor", he was pissed off with Galileo presenting the Pope's views as those of a simpleton and misused his
    powers to hit back at Galileo. Again, the Catholic Encyclopaedia
    spells that explicitly:

    It doesn't matter why the Pope did what he did, he did it and was in error.


    "It is clear that the absurdity was the act of the Italian
    Inquisition, for the private and personal pleasure of the pope - who
    knew that the course he took could not convict him as pope - and not
    of the body which calls itself the Church."

    The Galileo affair was a shameful episode in the Church's history but
    was all about the animosity between the Pope and Galileo, it had
    nothing to do with heliocentrism being a heresy, that was just the
    vehicle that the Pope used to attack Galileo.

    Oops, the Pope was not infallible.

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST 1:





    You eventually snipped out the evidence and I had to put it back in to
    make you deal with it.

    REPOST 2:
    On 11/19/2025 12:01 PM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:40:05 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/17/2025 11:45 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:57:31 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    [...]

    Oops, the Pope was not infallible.


    So papal infallibility is another thing you don't understand.

    I am just repeating what the anti geocentrist want to claim about it.

    The "anti-geocentrists" of whom you cannot identify even one. Mind
    you, when you first brought in the website of your geocentrist mentor,
    it was anonymous and you didn't even know who the author was until I
    figured out; the fact that he is a declared geocentrist and you knew
    nothing about him didn't stop you placing high value on his opinions
    and continuing to do so.

    Weird to say the least.


    [...]


    You were given the links before, so stop lying about it. Why should I
    look up that junk again. You just denied that it was valid and kept
    lying. Even your own trusted source backed up the anti geocentric site.
    The anti geocentrists were on your side in terms of denying that it was
    a formal heresy that Galileo faced the second time, but they agreed with
    the geocentrists that the Inquisition had made it a formal heresy charge
    the first time Galileo faced it and agreed with the Wiki. The Vatican Observatory article that you have run from and snipped out of this post
    backs up the geocentrists and anti geocentrists.

    Just stop lying about the issue.

    https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    They admit that helicentrism was condemned 400 years ago. 1616 is when
    Galileo faced the formal heresy charge.

    They do not consider the heresy cases, but they were based upon the Inquisitions opinion of the topic.

    Your claim of "never" having been condemned seems to be a lie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

    QUOTE:
    In February 1616, an Inquisitorial commission declared heliocentrism to
    be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture".
    END QUOTE:

    Both the geocentrists that you don't like, and the anti geocentric
    catholics that do not agree with geocentric beliefs agreed that it was a formal heresy charge the first time that Galileo faced the issue.

    You can't just keep refusing to deal with reality and expect anything to change.

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST 2





    You at first tried to deny that you had put up the bogus quote, but I
    just had to tell you that you were the one that put up the claim. The
    first REPOST above has you doing just that.

    REPOST 3
    On 11/20/2025 4:47 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:52 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/19/2025 12:01 PM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:40:05 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/17/2025 11:45 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:57:31 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    [...]

    Oops, the Pope was not infallible.


    So papal infallibility is another thing you don't understand.

    I am just repeating what the anti geocentrist want to claim about it.

    The "anti-geocentrists" of whom you cannot identify even one. Mind
    you, when you first brought in the website of your geocentrist mentor,
    it was anonymous and you didn't even know who the author was until I
    figured out; the fact that he is a declared geocentrist and you knew
    nothing about him didn't stop you placing high value on his opinions
    and continuing to do so.

    Weird to say the least.


    [...]


    You were given the links before,

    Nope

    Your ability to keep lying is just lame and should be beneath anything
    worth you attempting.


    so stop lying about it. Why should I
    look up that junk again.

    So you can prove I'm lying. But you can't because I'm not lying, you
    gave no links except to the geocentrist idiot whose opinion you value
    so highly.

    So you can just lie about it again. Those links were the second round of
    your stupid denial of reality. Your denial of what has been put up this
    round should count as three strikes against you.


    You just denied that it was valid and kept
    lying. Even your own trusted source backed up the anti geocentric site.
    The anti geocentrists were on your side in terms of denying that it
    was a formal heresy that Galileo faced the second time, but they agreed
    with the geocentrists that the Inquisition had made it a formal heresy
    charge the first time Galileo faced it and agreed with the Wiki. The
    Vatican Observatory article that you have run from and snipped out of
    this post backs up the geocentrists and anti geocentrists.

    Just stop lying about the issue.

    https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    They admit that helicentrism was condemned 400 years ago. 1616 is when
    Galileo faced the formal heresy charge.

    They do not consider the heresy cases, but they were based upon the
    Inquisitions opinion of the topic.

    Your claim of "never" having been condemned seems to be a lie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

    QUOTE:
    In February 1616, an Inquisitorial commission declared heliocentrism to
    be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it
    explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture".
    END QUOTE:

    Now YOU are the one lying about me. I never said it was never
    condemned; on the contrary, I gave that exact same quote. What I did
    was to point out that what it said was a FALSE CLAIM and it wasn't me
    who came to that conclusion, it was the Catholic Church who came to
    it, supported by every historian I know of who investigated it, people
    like De Morgan and von Gebler. The only person I have ever known to
    say there actually was a heresy is the geocentrist idiot whose opinion
    you value so highly.

    You put up the quote that said it had never been condemned. Go back up
    and check. It was your quote.

    The Vatican observatory and the wiki are just supporting the links that
    you got last time.



    Both the geocentrists that you don't like, and the anti geocentric
    catholics that do not agree with geocentric beliefs agreed that it was a
    formal heresy charge the first time that Galileo faced the issue.

    Now you seem to be trying to worm your way out of it by admitting
    there was a *charge* without retracting that there was an actual
    heresy which is what you have been claiming all long.

    What does this matter. It was the Inquisition's treatment of Galileo.
    What do you think that they charged him with? The Inquisition had made heliocentrism into a formal heresy, and that is the charge that Galileo
    faced, probably both times. The first time the Inquisition called it a
    formal heresy, and the second time it was only put up as a heresy, but
    the heresy was clearly defined, and it was the same as the formal heresy
    of the previous incident. The anti geocentric Catholics want it not to
    be a formal heresy conviction because the Pope was involved, but they
    admit that it was obviously a conviction of heresy. Some of them want to
    claim that the sentencing was poorly written, and that Galileo was not convicted of heresy, but of breaking his oath to the Inquisition, but
    that oath was to not commit the formal heresy in the future, so like you
    are doing they have to shoot themselves in the head to try to get around
    the heresy conviction.



    You can't just keep refusing to deal with reality and expect anything to
    change.

    You can't keep claiming support from "anti-geocentrists" about
    heliocentrism having been an actual heresy without being able to
    identify even one and expect people to take you seriously.


    They had a whole web site to combat the geocentrists. It had multiple
    sections that included the relevant documents. They cited the same
    sources cited by the geocentrists. They had the full Papal decree
    removing Copernican writings from the banned list and removing
    restrictions on publishing Copernican notions concerning telling time or planetary motions, but as the geocentrists contended restrictions were
    still in place, they were not stated in the document. All that was
    stated was that authors had to consult the church offices to see if what
    they wanted to publish was right with the church. The geocentrists
    contended that heliocentrism remained a heresy, and that the beliefs of
    the church fathers could not be challenged, but no one could put up any documents that could support what remained restricted. My guess is that
    there is a document with the continued restrictions, otherwise, the
    decree would not have mentioned that they existed. I doubt that it would
    have been transmitted verbally to the church offices.

    You just got the Council of Trent quote that allowed the Inquisition to condemn the heresy and make heliocentrism into a formal heresy charge.
    You ran from it, but the quote just supports both the geocentrists, the
    anti geocentrists, and the wiki accounts.

    You just need to stop lying and face reality. The church fathers were
    all geocentrists, and that is the way that the Inquisition wanted to
    interpret scripture.

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST 3





    You snipped out the evidence that your source had lied. You admitted
    what you had done, but tried to weasel out of your source lying about
    the issue. This is my response to what you did, and it contains your
    entire post. You should note what you snipped out. I just put what you
    had snipped out back in, so you would fully understand what you had done.


    REPOST 4:
    On 11/20/2025 10:56 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:38:56 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/20/2025 4:47 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:55:52 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    [snip for focus]

    Your claim of "never" having been condemned seems to be a lie.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

    QUOTE:
    In February 1616, an Inquisitorial commission declared
    heliocentrism to
    be "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it
    explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture".
    END QUOTE:

    Now YOU are the one lying about me. I never said it was never
    condemned; on the contrary, I gave that exact same quote. What I did
    was to point out that what it said was a FALSE CLAIM and it wasn't me
    who came to that conclusion, it was the Catholic Church who came to
    it, supported by every historian I know of who investigated it, people
    like De Morgan and von Gebler. The only person I have ever known to
    say there actually was a heresy is the geocentrist idiot whose opinion
    you value so highly.

    You put up the quote that said it had never been condemned. Go back up
    and check. It was your quote.

    Here is verbatim what I quoted:

    Message-ID: 2gkkhk9bvctolude5jf6b6e0kothd5723d@4ax.com ========================================
    <quote>

    The [site] that cites von Gebler ("Galileo Galilei"):

    "The Church never condemned it (the Copernican system) at all, for the Qualifiers of the Holy Office never mean the Church."

    ==========================================

    Guess what the Vatican Observatory claims otherwise.

    What you ran from originally and snipped out of this post. https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    This if from that link.
    QUOTE:
    Four hundred years ago, on Saturday March 5, 1616, Father Giacinto
    Petroni, O.P., Master of the Sacred Palace, as instructed by Paul V on Thursday March 3, published the following decree containing the censure
    of CopernicusrCOs De Revolutionibus. Considering that this is RomerCOs one
    and only public act against heliocentrism in 1616, let us quote it here
    in extenso:
    END QUOTE:

    So the Pope obviously sanctioned the Inquisition's banning of Copernican writings and condemning the heresy. The Holy Office (Inquisition) banned
    the Copernican writings before Galileo was brought before the
    Inquisition, and faced the charge of formal heresy in 1615. This decree
    came after that and supported the Inquisition.

    Your reference lied.


    #1: it was von Gebler who said rCLnever condemnedrCY, not me as you
    claimed two posts ago.

    You put up the lie.


    #2 he did not say it was never condemned, he said *the Church* never condemned it.

    And he obviously lied.


    Why do you post lies that are so easily shown to be lies?


    Why did you post the lie to begin with? Just running from the Vatican Observatory link and snipping it out doesn't mean that you did not post
    a lie.

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST 4:



    You continued to lie about the situation and in this thread string you eventually ran continuing to lie about the situation. I note just what
    you have done. In part of the response I am giving an account of another thread string that was going on about this subject where you were trying
    to deny what the Vatican observatory article had claimed. You resorted
    two quote mining the condemnation. The quote mine did not change the
    fact that it was called a condemnation, and was directed to be published
    by the Pope. Your dishonest attempt did not change the fact that your
    source had lied about heliocentrism never having been condemned other
    than by the inquisition. The Jesuits were very matter of fact about what
    the Pope had done.

    REPOST 5:
    On 11/22/2025 3:09 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:33:49 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On 11/21/2025 12:29 PM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:04:37 -0600, RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    [rCa]

    Let's cut to the chase here.


    No lies to retract. You lied.

    What lie are you claiming I told? Please quote exactly what I said
    that you regard as a lie.

    The ones that you keep telling.

    "Never condemned"

    I'm out of here. George Bernard Shaw warned that you shouldn't wrestle
    with a pig as you get dirty and the pig enjoys it. I'm not going to
    waste any more time trying to have a sensible discussion with someone
    who thinks it's ok to take two words out of what somebody else said to
    give a completely different meaning and then attribute those two words
    to me. It doesn't even reach the level of quote-mining.

    You are the one that has quote mined. You have always lied about what
    you have been given. The original source was found to be trustworthy and
    spot on in their interpretation. They were backed up by their anti
    geocentric Catholic opponents because those opponents had to deal with
    the same material and historical events and agreed with the
    geocentrists. It turned out that they disagreed about Galileo facing a
    formal heresy charge the second time, but agreed that it had been a
    formal heresy charge the first time. They both agreed that the
    Inquisition had made it into a formal heresy due to the findings of the Council of Trent with respect to the beliefs of the Church fathers and scriptural interpretation. They disagreed about the issue having been
    resolved before the Papal apology in the 1990's. The geocentrists
    claimed that heliocentrism remained a heresy after the Papal decree in
    1820 only removed the prohibition for telling time and things like
    planetary motions because there remained restrictions on what topics heliocentrism could be applied to. The anti geocentrics countered that
    the remaining restrictions were never stated in the decree and they
    quoted the entire decree, and all that was said was that authors had to
    check with the church offices to determine if what they wanted to
    publish was allowed. Such was the efforts against the geocentrists.

    You ran from the links and you lied about the sources and went into
    denial. It turned out that you were the one that had quote mined your
    trusted source because I was able to demonstrate that they were actually
    OK with claiming that Galileo had faced the heresy charge both times.
    They just did not make a distinction between formal heresy and heresy.
    You tried to counter with a stupid quote about the sentencing not
    calling it a formal heresy, but that didn't matter for what your site
    had claimed. The sentencing called it a heresy and clearly defined the
    heresy that Galileo was guilty of.

    Running from what I put up in this thread that just supported what you
    had been given years ago was stupid. Putting up your stupid "never been condemned" quote to counter what you could not deal with was just a
    stupid move. It turned out that your sources were the ones that you
    could not depend on.

    These are just the facts, and anyone can go up and see what you did.



    What beggars belief is that you do it where the exact quote from von
    Gerber [1] and what I said about it are preserved just a couple of
    posts above for all to see. As I noted earlier, it is really sad to
    see this sort of behaviour from someone whose ability as a scientist I respect so much EfOU

    ===========================================

    [1] "The Church never condemned it (the Copernican system) at all, for
    the Qualifiers of the Holy Office never mean the Church."

    [von Gebler ("Galileo Galilei")]


    [..]


    The Vatican Observatory demonstrated that quote to be a lie when they
    noted that the condemnation came from Rome and was issued by the
    intruction of the Pope. That is why you initially ran from the Vatican Observatory link. It was not just the Holy Office that condemned the Copernican system, and your quote doesn't even demonstrate that Galileo
    did not face a charge of formal heresy the first time, nor that he was convicted of heresy the second time. Your quote was only lying about the Inquisition being the only bad boys. The Pope agreed with the
    Inquisition in 1616. Another Pope had the Galileo case, sentencing and punishment published and disseminated throughout the church. The anti geocentric Catholics admitted that the Pope did this to quash the
    Copernican issue that was festering in the church, but they claimed that
    it was not an official Papal act.

    The Vatican Observatory link is the link that you snipped out of this
    post. Your source could not be trusted. My sources have always been
    verified. You have just run and denied what you were given, and lying
    about the trustworthiness of the sources when you could not deal with
    reality. The Vatican observatory quoted the entire decree. It turned out
    that your source was not trustworthy.

    https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/heliocentrism-condemned-400-years-ago-on-march-5-2/

    You should reflect on what has happened. It should not happen again. The
    next time that you want to start lying about the issue, you should go
    back through how it has always ended up for you. You just keep getting
    more evidence that you were wrong the first time. You represent a third
    party of Catholics that just want the issue to have never been an issue.
    The geocentrists and anti geocentrists have to deal with what actually happened.

    Ron Okimoto
    END REPOST 5:

    In this round you were never able to accept the reality that your source
    lied, and you wanted to continue to believe that the stupid lie was
    relevant to your continued lies about my sources not being adequate when
    it was your source that had been found to be far less than adequate. You
    ended by snipping out what you could not deal with and running from reality.

    You should stop lying about what happened years ago, and you should
    apologize for being such an assoholic liar on this issue in order to
    keep harassing me about something that you have never been able to deal honestly with. My original sources were never found to be deficient.
    Your own trusted source backed them up and you tried to deny this by
    putting up a stupid quote about Galileo only being convicted of a heresy instead of formal heresy. This had already been established by my
    sources, and in no way was anything worth putting up to counter what
    your own trusted source had agreed with. Your source in this round lied
    about heliocentrism never being condemned other than by the Inquisition.
    The Jesuits were matter of fact about this not being true. They did not
    bother to try to claim whether the condemnation was an official Papal
    act, they just stated what the Pope had done in 1616.

    Ron Okimoto




    You should not continue to add to your own dishonest stupidity.
    Trusting your source was obviously a stupid thing to do, and trying to
    continue to support that source was just stupid and dishonest.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to talk-origins on Tue May 12 13:50:59 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:02 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> >>> wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right; >>> >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion.
    The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I
    doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have
    walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away" >>> show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims
    once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I
    have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    What a nut job. You are the one that keeps coming back to claim that my sources were deficient, and when it turns out that they were not, you


    Ah well, keep on bickering then.


    END REPOST:
    END REPOST of the REPOST:

    END of first of two REPOSTS:

    Ron Okimoto



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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Tue May 12 11:25:09 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 5/12/2026 7:50 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:02 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> >>>>> wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right;
    >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion. >>>>> The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I >>>>> doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have >>>>> walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away" >>>>> show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims >>>>> once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I >>>>> have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said
    Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to
    desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet
    again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he
    thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    What a nut job. You are the one that keeps coming back to claim that my
    sources were deficient, and when it turns out that they were not, you


    Ah well, keep on bickering then.

    It isn't bickering at this time. It has been prolonged harassment by
    Harran, and it has just gotten worse, and he has resorted to more
    dishonest and stupid ways to lie about the past. If you were interested enough to do more than butt in with your worthless harassment, you would
    be able to determine that the issue progressed just as it has for years.
    Harran starts off lying about what happened in the past. He claims
    that my sources were inadequate or bogus, but what has always occurred
    is that Harran's sources were found to always come up short and even
    support my original sources when he first made a big issue of my sources
    not being trustworthy. He usually tries to put up more lame
    prevarication on the topic, and when his sources come up short he runs.
    He might keep up the prevarication, but he always has to run from those prevarications being demonstrated to not affect what had already been established. It ends with Harran running from what he can't deal with,
    only to return sometime later to try again. This time his source was
    found to have lied about heliocentrism never being condemned except by
    the Inquisition, when it had been condemned by the Papal offices in 1616
    when Galileo had first faced the heresy charge. Harran initially ran
    like usual, but for some stupid reason he started to lie about running
    when it was obvious that he hadn't just run, but when the material had
    been reintroduced after he ran he snipped it out and ran. There was no
    doubt that he was running. Having been caught he did not admit to what
    he had done, but tried to demonstrate that he did not have to run by
    quote mining the document ordered to be produced by the Pope. That
    dishonest behavior spawned his current stupidity, so all that I do is
    repost his stupid and dishonest deeds so that he has to snip and run
    from what he has done in order to continue his stupid harassment.

    This round could have ended just like all the other episodes of
    harassment, but for some stupid reason Harran decided to start lying
    about what he was doing, and resorting to quote mining in order to
    continue his harassment. It is just nuts. Right after I started the
    REPOSTS Harran snipped and ran from the REPOSTS, and he tried to
    continue his stupid harassment by quote mining the wiki source that he
    had run from years ago. The Wiki continued to clearly state that it was
    a formal heresy charge the first time that Galileo faced the issue in
    1616, but Harran quote mined part of the Wiki in order to try to
    prevaricate about that fact. It was just as dishonest and boneheaded as
    his attempt to quote mine the Papal condemnation of heliocentrism.

    All that I need to do is put up the REPOSTS because Harran can't deal
    with them and needs to snip them out and run from reality. Harran
    hasn't even been able to get himself to snip and run from the second
    repost where he resorts to quote mining to defend his stupid and
    dishonest behavior. He can't seem to bring himself to pretend to
    address that second repost, so he has some dishonesty limit, but that
    limit far exceeds anything that I have encountered on TO. When Harran harasses me on this subject, from now on, he will get the REPOSTS. I've
    saved them as word documents on my computer, but at this time it is very
    easy to copy and past them from the posts that Harran snips and runs from.

    Ron Okimoto


    >
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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@admin@127.0.0.1 to talk-origins on Tue May 12 21:51:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:25:09 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 7:50 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:02 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> >>>>> wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right;
    >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion. >>>>> The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I >>>>> doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have >>>>> walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron
    brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away" >>>>> show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims >>>>> once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I >>>>> have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said >>>>> Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite.

    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to >>>> desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in?
    He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet
    again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he >>> thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    What a nut job. You are the one that keeps coming back to claim that my >> sources were deficient, and when it turns out that they were not, you


    Ah well, keep on bickering then.

    It isn't bickering at this time. It has been prolonged harassment by
    []


    All that I need to do is put up the REPOSTS because Harran can't deal

    []
    It annoys everyone and no-one is going to bother reading them, especially,
    I suspect, Martin Harran.

    I despair.
    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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  • From Martin Harran@martinharran@gmail.com to talk-origins on Wed May 13 13:13:21 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 21:51:12 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:25:09 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    [rCa]


    It isn't bickering at this time. It has been prolonged harassment by
    []

    Restore snipped text:

    If you were interested
    enough to do more than butt in with your worthless harassment, you
    would be able to determine that the issue progressed just as it has for years.

    LOL, I was wondering how long it would take Ron to accuse you too of
    harassing him!

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  • From RonO@rokimoto557@gmail.com to talk-origins on Wed May 13 15:49:12 2026
    From Newsgroup: talk.origins

    On 5/12/2026 3:51 PM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Tue, 12 May 2026 11:25:09 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/12/2026 7:50 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
    On Mon, 11 May 2026 17:42:02 -0500
    RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 5/11/2026 10:22 AM, Martin Harran wrote:
    On Sun, 10 May 2026 21:42:11 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
    <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 May 2026 14:16:33 +0100
    Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 5 May 2026 12:49:14 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> >>>>>>> wrote:

    >On Mon, 4 May 2026 09:40:07 -0500
    >RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    >[47k deleted]
    >
    >
    >Please don't do this, no-one; especially you opponent, is going to read
    >all that.

    I've got a brick wall you can borrow if you like.

    > Also it's not about origins any more, it's about what
    >catholic orthodoxy was several centuries ago. You might even be right;
    >but it's all got too personal.
    >
    >Please let it go.
    >
    >Or keep going nowhere. Both of you.


    I don't care who has told any /the most lies, and after all this
    repetitive to-and-fro what the facts are even. No one wins here.

    Believe me, I take no pleasure whatsoever in this stupid discussion. >>>>>>> The problem is that I have a thing about people calling me a liar. I >>>>>>> doubt if anyone takes Ron's claims seriously at this stage but I have >>>>>>> walked away from this several times but what happens is that Ron >>>>>>> brings it up again a few weeks later and claims that my "running away" >>>>>>> show that he was right about me telling lies :(

    The only way around this seems to be to go through his stupid claims >>>>>>> once more, one by one, and show exactly how they are wrong, just as I >>>>>>> have done with his categoric insistence that the Wiki article said >>>>>>> Galileo was charged with heresy in 1616 when it said the opposite. >>>>>>
    I don't think you have a chance of convincing RonO, so I urge you to >>>>>> desist.

    Do you seriously think that if I desist that RonO will pack this in? >>>>> He will just start again in a few weeks time and claim I ran away yet >>>>> again. Chances are he will include his 47k rubbish then again as if he >>>>> thinks it proves something so nothing will be gained :(

    What a nut job. You are the one that keeps coming back to claim that my >>>> sources were deficient, and when it turns out that they were not, you


    Ah well, keep on bickering then.

    It isn't bickering at this time. It has been prolonged harassment by
    []


    All that I need to do is put up the REPOSTS because Harran can't deal

    []
    It annoys everyone and no-one is going to bother reading them, especially,
    I suspect, Martin Harran.

    I despair.



    You might despair, but why are you harassing me instead of Harran?
    Beats me why demonstrating that Harran can't deal with what he has
    already done should bother anyone else. No one is forced to read
    Harran's posts, nor any response to them. It is Harran that can't deal honestly with what he has already done. No one else but Harran should
    care that Harran has to be that stupid and dishonest. Why should you
    care that Harran has to repeatedly demonstrate how stupid and dishonest
    his activities have been? You don't see him addressing his bogus
    behavior. You only observe him continuing to do what has resulted in
    his stupid and dishonest behavior for years.

    Ron Okimoto

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