On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:47:51 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

I skipped the meeting, but the Memos showed that Gunner Asch
wrote on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:56:56 -0800
in rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:06:33 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
[on on-topic reply]

--
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other
men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
--Jesse Lee Bennett

I saw a TV documentary once, about the introduction of the printing
press. What stuck with me was that the printing press made what had
been closely-held information widely distributed. In fact, initially
the predominant genre was how-to books. Knowledge that only guild
members had previously had access to was now available to the public.

Fast forward 300 years, or however long it's been. Today the Internet
has trumped books in that regard. Not only is the information
available, it's easily found. That was/is the Achilles heel of books -
the knowledge may be in a book /somewhere/, but finding it was something
else. The Internet is changing the world as much as the printing press did.

Bob


The printing press made Bibles and religious tracts readily available to
the masses. The flock could now read what only the priests had
previously had a lock on.

It really hurt the control the Church had over the masses and was
considered the Devils Tool by some of the Church hierarchy...some.

But don't forget, a lot of clergy were real adamant about getting
the Word of God into the hands of every poughboy and Christian. Luther
cranked out what became The Standard German Translation in a rather
short time. Being in 'protective custody' gave him time to write.
Now we've got between 9,000 and 38,000 (and growing) Protestant
denominations because each reader has become their own pope.

tschus
pyotr


Indeed..that was one of the big schisms between the Church and the
splinters


"If the printing press wasn't invented then the cultural and industrial
revolutions wouldn't have taken place. The introduction of the printing
press also changed the way the church operated. For the first time many
people could read the bible by theirself, in their native language. This
meant a dramatic downturn in the numbers of people that went to church.

Also people began to question the authority of the church, as there was
nothing in the bible about having to pay the church taxes, which was
common at that time.Also the spread of words and other people's idea
began to spread a lot faster after the invention of the printing press.
Also more people could read the availability of books and documents. It
marked Western culture's first viable method of disseminating ideas and
information from a single source to a large and far-ranging audience.'


Rather interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_of...he_Reformation


Gunner


"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.

This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost