Plagiarizing!
The relation between Meru and Anita caught my interest and I thought I would look into her posts a little bit.
In post message 43 Anita writes:
No I did not do my research on the 'Internet'. The 'Internet' is not a place to gather 'proper' research.Anita proclaims she discovered it herself. She also says in post 43 her main source was the qabalah, bible, and the library.I had discovered something 'revolutionary' that I’m sure all of you here will appreciate
Post 6:
And now take a look at this:Well there are a lot of things in gamatria that can equate to this, but what I find is that Pi (3.14) is a derivative of 153 since the shape which forms when you draw two circles with the centers on each other - looks a bit like a fish (it can even look like an 'eye'). One curious thing about it is that it was mentioned in the Bible by the 153 fishes Jesus caught with his disciples, the shape of a "vesica piscis" being 153:265, this is known as the ''measure of the fish". It is a powerful mathematical tool, being the nearest whole number approximation of the square root of three. those skilled in mathematics would have immediately recognized the story of the 153 fish in the net as a geometrical "story problem". All of this is telling us that it is the perfect ratio - which works around the Golden Mean Spiral (Phi).
Source: http://www.weborix.com/index.php?opt...&id=50:numbersWell there are a lot of things in gamatria that can equate to this, but what I find is that Pi (3.14) is a derivative of 153 since the shape which forms when you draw two circles with the centers on each other - looks a bit like a fish (it can even look like an 'eye'). One curious thing about it is that it was mentioned in the Bible by the 153 fishes Jesus caught with his disciples, the shape of a "vesica piscis" being 153:265, this is known as the ''measure of the fish". It is a powerful mathematical tool, being the nearest whole number approximation of the square root of three. those skilled in mathematics would have immediately recognized the story of the 153 fish in the net as a geometrical "story problem". All of this is telling us that it is the perfect ratio - which works around the Golden Mean Spiral (Phi).
Now, if I was caught in such similarity at university without providing sources and quote my text (if we look apart the fact that it is probably a very weak source) that would be called plagiarizing.
Conclusion: plagiarizing
I looked at some other pages. On the www.evcforum.net they closed Anita Meyers thread because she violated the forum rules several time (plagiarizing). Here she was also caught in plagiarizing. I will provide the example a member found and some other I investigated myself:
Source: http://www.gardeningbythemoon.com/phases.html By Caren CatterallThe moon has four phases or quarters lasting about seven days each. The first two quarters are during the waxing or increasing light, between the new and the full moon. The third and fourth quarters are after the full moon when the light is waning, or decreasing.
Anita post post message 42:
It seems to me that she is trying to conceal her plagiarizing by adding parentheses and stuff like that.The moon has four phases (or quarters) lasting about seven days each. The first two quarters are during the waxing (or increasing light), between the new and the full moon. The third and fourth quarters are after the full moon when the light is waning, (or decreasing).
Caught (in this case not that important, but the problem is Anita did not admit it)
Next one:
Anita post message 43:
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.c...479&mpp=15&p=3It has to do with Pi (3.14), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which state the ratio of 3:1, a very rough estimate of Pi which is partially calculated as 3.14159. (The digits keep going forever without any known pattern). It's a given that the ancients did not use the number symbols we use, called 'Arabic numerals', these symbols didn't become popular until the 10th Century. But the Hebrews had words for numbers and used the letters of the Aleph-Bet in place of numbers. And of course they were no strangers to the concept of infinity.
And now take a look at this
Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Pi-and-Spi...ity&id=3890999 article Pi and Spirituality by Rabbi Max WeimanFascination with Pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, has occupied mathematicians for a long time, and math history buffs are familiar with a verses from the Book of Kings I Chapter 7 that describe a pool that King Solomon had built which state the ratio of 3:1, a very rough estimate of Pi which is partially calculated as 3.14159. (The digits keep going forever without any known pattern.) It's a given that the ancients did not use the number symbols we use, called Hindu-Arabic numerals; these symbols didn't become popular until the 10th Century. But the Hebrews had words for numbers and used the letters of the Aleph-Bet in place of numbers. And of course they were no strangers to the concept of infinity.
Caught
Next one:
Source: http://www.answersingenesis.org/arti...-flood-and-arkFor this they willingly forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water (2 Peter 3:5–6).
Evidence of Noah’s Flood can be seen all over the earth, from seabeds to mountaintops. Whether you travel by car, train, or plane, the physical features of the earth’s terrain clearly indicate a catastrophic past, from canyons and craters to coal beds and caverns. Some layersof strata extend across continents, revealing the effects of a huge catastrophe.
The earth’s crust has massive amounts of layered sedimentary rock, sometimes miles (kilometers) deep! These layers of sand, soil, and material—mostly laid down by water—were once soft like mud, but they are now hard stone. Encased in these sedimentary layers are billions of dead things (fossils of plants and animals) buried very quickly. The evidence all over the earth is staring everyone in the face.
Anita wrote in post message 49
CaughtEvidence of Noah’s Flood can be seen all over the earth, from seabed’s to mountaintops. The Earths terrain clearly indicates a catastrophic past, from canyons and craters to coal beds and caverns. Some layers of strata extend across continents, revealing the effects of a huge catastrophe. The earth’s crust has massive amounts of layered sedimentary rock, sometimes miles (kilometers) deep! These layers of sand, soil, and material - mostly laid down by water - were once soft like mud, but they are now hard stone. Encased in these sedimentary layers are billions of dead things (fossils of plants and animals) buried very quickly! The evidence is EVERYWHERE!
The one where she is really busted in post message 91 by Catholic Scientist as he call himself:
Source: everywhere, copy it all and searchEach year, water and winds erode about 20 billion tons of dirt and rock from the continents and deposit it in the ocean. This material accumulates as loose sediment on the hard basaltic (lava-formed) rock of the ocean floor. The average depth of all the sediment in the whole ocean is less than 400 meters. The main way known to remove the sediment from the ocean floor is by plate tectonic subduction. That is, sea floor slides slowly (a few cm/year) beneath the continents, taking some sediment with it. According to secular scientific literature, that process presently removes only 1 billion tons per year. As far as anyone knows, the other 19 billion tons per year simply accumulate. At that rate, erosion would deposit the present mass of sediment in less than 12 million years. Yet according to evolutionary theory, erosion and plate subduction have been going on as long as the oceans have existed, an alleged 3 billion years. If that were so, the rates above imply that the oceans would have massive amounts of sediment dozens of kilometers deep.
Caught
Next one
Copy paste into googleNow the CM meteorite from Murchison, Victoria has over 70 amino acids and other compounds including carboxylic acids, hydroxy carboxylic acids, sulphonic and phosphonic acids, aliphatic, aromatic and polar hydrocarbons, fullerenes, heterocycles, carbonyl compounds, alcohols, amines and amides, which are all common on the Earth
Caught
Anita also tries to impress a scientific forum: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=99186
There are 536 post in that thread. The thread goes somehow like this:
Anita (A): here is my book and evidence
Forum (F): Mathematic patterns does not prove divine design. You assume the book of Enoch and Bible are true. Not impressed.
A: Giraffe are bad examples of Evolution – proves a designer!
F: Giraffes are excellent examples of evolution: here is some arguments and examples
A: not impressed. The transitional forms are other species not related to Giraffes
F: Ehm, yes they are.
Heidi (new user): Hi, Anita is awesome. I bought her book
F: Heidi banned: same IP address.
A: Rage, Kenosha public library computer! They had my book there!
F: (half hour later), no, Kenosha library did not have the book, ms suckpuppet, liar.
A: Rage, Heidi is innocent!
F: Sigh, no, you’re not innocent
A: Discrimination!
Admin: moved to pseudoscience because of extreme claims without supporting evidence or sources (Laplace’s law).
A: My math is correct
F: Hmm, nope, your math is incorrect!
Quite fascinating.
I did not check for plagiarizing, but it would surprise me if there was nothing to be found.
To clarify, I am not trying to disprove anything she said or plagiarized. Personally I think such patterns are quite interesting and fun to observe, but not a prove of divine design. I just do not like when people who plagiarize and lie about it and therefore I like to point it out. Some might say that this is irrelevant, and if you think it is irrelevant then it is also fine with me. I am probably satisfied if people just recognize what Anita posts is not novel ideas.
God bless




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