I have it from re-lie-able sources that most democrats and other primitive religeons will eat pork, possum, raccoon and other disgusting 'white meats' including rattlesnake. I have also heard that most Republicans favor top-prime-cut-of-beef-I'm-you're-choice steaks and Christian fish. For me, leave out the possum and raccoon! Is that a lobster? Are you gonna eat that?!!

Is a Christian fish one of those silly things people stick on their trunklids??

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The fish is an early symbol of Christianity and has a long and storied history. While it may seem silly to the unbeliever be thankful that the ridicule of it doesn't inspire rioting and the killing of innocents. Or guilties for that matter.

I cannot speak to its accuracy but this is interesting.

http://www.nisbett.com/symbols/fish.htm

Then why post it? Are you CNN or CBS now?

Somehow you must have missed reading the second part of the sentence I wrote because you didn't quote it. That second part is the answer to your question.

It's "...interesting."

What's interesting about speculation intended to disclaim truth?

Callin' me an unbeliever? During Roman times the secret fish handshake made sense. Today it's just plain silly to stick one on your trunklid.

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I think the author's lines of reasoning are interesting. Apparently a sentiment not shared by you.

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And by that same reasoning you would believe that the Muslim "kook-de-jour" 's belief that the Holocaust is fiction would be "interesting" simply because someone questions it?

Not necessarily. For me the questioning alone is insufficient. It is the types of questions or the way the problem is attacked that might interest me.

It's like the discussions of homosexuality that occasionally arise here. I am not interested in homosexuality, per se but I find the discussions surrounding sexuality intriguing. Sometimes I disagree with a certain perspective but find the argument presented interesting and I enjoy seeing where it goes.

So the fish symbol is not especially interesting to me in and of itself. But the surrounding sociological issues do intrigue me.

A colleague of mine proposed a field sampling method to study the fish symbols and their analogues on vehicles. He wondered whether one could derive rules from what was displayed and how rigorous the rules would be. I thought that was interesting, but not enough to devote anything more than speculation. We were thinking it would be a bayesian problem. Maybe someday we'll return to it.

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You just used a lot of words to say nothing.

If you are starving............ the pork chop is your friend

From a Chris Rock comedy routine.

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You used a few words to reveal a lack of reading comprehension.

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I understand that you are posting things as fact that you admittedly cannot verify. Things that question a religeous symbol. I suspect it more an attempt at post whoreing than an actual awareness raising.