Let me see if I can net out a bit of information that may or may not be important to you. From USA Today on Friday:
Google’s stock jumped $122.61, or 14%, to $1,011.41 Friday . . . Google is now the fourth company trading on a major exchange to have a stock price of $1,000 or more.
The reason behind Google’s stock’s latest move higher came late Thursday when the online advertising company reported a profit of nearly $3 billion during the third quarter, up 36% from a year earlier and exceeding estimates.
And in another story, also in USA Today, we learn:
The reason is a surge in mobile ads, which cost less per unit and have lower click rates than those served onto desktop computers.
So if you are searching for material about the Shroud of Turin on your regular computer you are not seeing the ads I’m seeing when I search on my iPhone. And who is advertising on my iPhone?
The first ad reads, “Distortion in Shroud image cleaned up, reveals clearest picture ever.” You want to click in and watch the movie (any computer will do) for at least one and a half minutes. You will be doing so on the Urantia Book website. But before you click on the Donate button or buy the book, you might want to read some (just some) of the Shroud of Turin Report from this website. They have a somewhat different understanding of what happened:
The name Michael is used to designate Jesus in his status before incarnating on this planet and after his resurrection. The name of our Local Universe is Nebadon. The most senior “angel” in the administration of Nebadon (after Michael) is known as Gabriel. So, with regard to the spiritual beings that are involved in the spiritual administration of Nebadon, Gabriel was left in charge when Michael incarnated as Jesus.
[ . . . ]
At ten minutes past three o’clock, . . . the chief of archangels—the angels of the resurrection—approached Gabriel and asked for the mortal body of Jesus. Said the chief of the archangels: “We may not participate in the morontia resurrection of the bestowal experience of Michael our sovereign, but we would have his mortal remains put in our custody for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time. It is enough that we have seen the Sovereign live and die on Urantia; the hosts of heaven would be spared the memory of enduring the sight of the slow decay of the human form of the Creator and Upholder of a universe. In the name of the celestial intelligences of all Nebadon, I ask for a mandate giving me the custody of the mortal body of Jesus of Nazareth and empowering us to proceed with its immediate dissolution.
The long and short of it is this is how the Urantia Book folks believe the shroud image was formed. I don’t think I’ll donate.
As for the second ad, I think the odious description says it all: “A Forged Image of a Fake Jesus from the False Church.” I say click on it a few times and waste their money. Every time you click they have to pay Google a fee. Oh, go ahead, click again.
It is a bit late to buy the stock. I laughed at the idea of Google when it was $85.