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A Savant Explains His Abilities
numLocked writes "Of the few hundred autistic savants in the world, none have been able to explain their incredible mental abilities. Until now, that is. It seems that Daniel Tammet, a mathematical savant who holds the record for the most digits of pi recited from memory, is able to explain exactly how he intuits answers to mathematical problems. Tammet is quite articulate and speaks seven languages, including one he invented. The Guardian is running an article about his amazing abilities."
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time is a perception of a being's consciousness
time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
Unless he's the guy who made up Klingon. :D
She could be a jigsaw tester to make sure a puzzle works right!
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that he's gay.... his love of his life Neil. I have nothing against gays i just find it interesting. Do think he counts the number of times his lover plows him in the butt?
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
You can be a Christian and a Homosexual.
You just can't be a member of a church that views that as a sin.
By the teachings of the Bible the only judgement a Christian should give is expulsion from the church. (After a few attempts to get the person to mend their ways.) Many tend to forget this.
My position is if a homosexual does not profess to be a believer then there is no reason for me to say anything to him about it. If someone professes to be a Christian, and a homosexual then I am to have nothing to do with him until such time as he repents.
My personal view of sin is that it comes in two forms.
1. The things God hates
2. Things that are harmful to you
The only things that I see that fall under the first category are Blasphemy, Idolatry, and doing harm to others.
Homosexuality falls under the second category. It disrupts the nuclear family which is proven as the most stable arrangement for raising children. Also it is a prime vector of disease spread. Seventy five percent of the spread of AIDS is caused by ten percent of the the population who have sex with multible partners. A large portion of that ten percent are homosexuals.
I can go to confession and get away with it.
Too bad you just said you couldn't just instantly decide to ask forgiveness and get away with it...
In Virtually Normal, Andrew Sullivan writes that the Story of Soddom and Gamorrah was a tale about lack of hospitality rather than sex. Biblical scholars such as John Boswell, et al., have drawn similar conclusions after studying the original texts.
If God is infallible, then everything he makes must be good. God created homosexuals.
The primary biblical argument used today against homosexuality is that such a union cannot procreate. Yet we do not condemn male/female couples who are unable to produce children or those who have no desire. This singles out one group against all others. The Old Testament goes as far as condemning masturbation yet 97% of you males out there practice it regularly. That too is a mortal sin.
So we enter moral relativism where we humans rank the various sins against one another. As others have argued, Christians can pretty much ignore Leviticus because that comes from the Old Testament. Yet Jesus makes no mention of homosexuals in the four Gospels. He does spend a lot of time with the outcasts and chastises those who want to throw stones. He chastises the Rabbis who openly preach on the street corners. He has nothing to say about homosexuality.
In my conversations with Christians, I have found that nearly all believe it is more important to take the oath of accepting Jesus Christ than to live a "Christian life." In other words, what I say is more important than what I do. What a strange way to live one's life.
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