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Biblical Error Message
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Started conversation Nov 19, 2014
This is not a Freebie Film Tip. But I happened to be doing some research on the Wycliffe Bible Translators, and hit a broken link.
Instead of a 'Page Not Found' message, I got this:
“What is missing cannot be recovered.”
—Eccles. 1:15b (NLT)
Now, that is the BEST error message E-vah!
Biblical Error Message
KB Posted Nov 19, 2014
You could *really* annoy people by using Bible quotes like that! 
I'd like to use really cryptic ones from Revelations that have no relevance at all, just for surrealism value.
Biblical Error Message
cactuscafe Posted Nov 19, 2014
heheh. Deep. Quotable. Error Message is my new guru. 
Biblical Error Message
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Nov 19, 2014
Heh-heh. The best one would be the time travel quote. A friend of mine got that on his theology final.
'That which hath been is now, that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is past.' 
It's in Ecclesiastes somewhere, but I can't remember the chapter and verse. As William Least Heat Moon said, I don't know the Bible by the numbers. 
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Icy North Posted Nov 19, 2014
I think we should reserve these messages for programming errors of biblical proportions.
(You reading this, Pastey? )
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Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. Posted Nov 19, 2014
“What is missing cannot be recovered”
tell the telegraph pole that got in the way of my head
Biblical Error Message
Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Nov 19, 2014
Seek somewhere else and maybe you will find anyway 
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Nov 21, 2014
I once read a book on algorithms which started each chapter with a somewhat appropriate biblical quotation. 'Twas fun.
TRiG.
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Icy North Posted Nov 22, 2014
I remember books which did that, Trig. I think the early Oracle manuals did, but I may be wrong.
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Nov 23, 2014
Ah. Found it. http://isbn.nu/0321117840.
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KB Posted Nov 23, 2014
That looks like it could be pretty interesting, actually!
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- 1: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Nov 19, 2014)
- 2: KB (Nov 19, 2014)
- 3: cactuscafe (Nov 19, 2014)
- 4: ITIWBS (Nov 19, 2014)
- 5: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Nov 19, 2014)
- 6: Icy North (Nov 19, 2014)
- 7: Pastey (Nov 19, 2014)
- 8: Prof Animal Chaos.C.E.O..err! C.E.Idiot of H2G2 Fools Guild (Official).... A recipient of S.F.L and S.S.J.A.D.D...plus...S.N.A.F.U. (Nov 19, 2014)
- 9: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Nov 19, 2014)
- 10: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor (Nov 20, 2014)
- 11: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Nov 21, 2014)
- 12: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Nov 21, 2014)
- 13: Icy North (Nov 22, 2014)
- 14: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Nov 23, 2014)
- 15: KB (Nov 23, 2014)
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