Justin [Martyr] Narrates the Manner of His Conversion (translated from Greek)
"And while I was thus disposed, when I wished at one period to be filled with great quietness, and to shun the path of men, I used to go into a certain field not far from the sea. And when I was near that spot one day, which having reached I purposed to be by myself, a certain old man, by no means contemptible in appearance, exhibiting meek and venerable manners, followed me at a little distance. And when I turned round to him, having halted, I fixed my eyes rather keenly on him.
"And he said, 'Do you know me?'
"I replied in the negative.
"'Why, then,' said he to me, 'do you so look at me?'
"'I am astonished,' I said, 'because you have chanced to be in my company in the same place; for I had not expected to see any man here.'
"And he says to me, 'I am concerned about some of my household. These are gone away from me; and therefore have I come to make personal search for them, if, perhaps, they shall make their appearance somewhere. But why are you here?' said he to me.
"'I delight,' said I, 'in such walks, where my attention is not distracted, for converse with myself is uninterrupted; and such places are most fit for philology (the exercise of reason).'
"'Are you, then, a philologian (an exerciser of speech),' said he, 'but no lover of deeds or of truth? and do you not aim at being a practical man so much as being a sophist?'
"'What greater work,' said I, 'could one accomplish than this, to show the reason which governs all, and having laid hold of it, and being mounted upon it, to look down on the errors of others, and their pursuits? But without philosophy and right reason, prudence would not be present to any man. Wherefore it is necessary for every man to philosophize, and to esteem this the greatest and most honourable work; but other things only of second-rate or third-rate importance, though, indeed, if they be made to depend on philosophy, they are of moderate value, and worthy of acceptance; but deprived of it, and not accompanying it, they are vulgar and coarse to those who pursue them.'
"'Does philosophy, then, make happiness?' said he, interrupting.
"'Assuredly,' I said, 'and it alone.'
"'What, then, is philosophy?' he says; 'and what is happiness? Pray tell me, unless something hinders you from saying.'
"'Philosophy, then,' said I, 'is the knowledge of that which really exists, and a clear perception of the truth; and happiness is the reward of such knowledge and wisdom.'
"'But what do you call God?' said he.
"'That which always maintains the same nature, and in the same manner, and is the cause of all other things -- that, indeed, is God.' So I answered him; and he listened to me with pleasure, and thus again interrogated me: --
"'Is not knowledge a term common to different matters? For in arts of all kinds, he who knows any one of them is called a skilful man in the art of generalship, or of ruling, or of healing equally. But in divine and human affairs it is not so. Is there a knowledge which affords understanding of human and divine things, and then a thorough acquaintance with the divinity and the righteousness of them?'
"'Assuredly,' I replied.
"'What, then? Is it in the same way we know man and God, as we know music, and arithmetic, and astronomy, or any other similar branch?'
"'By no means,' I replied.
"'You have not answered me correctly, then,' he said; 'for some [branches of knowledge] come to us by learning, or by some employment, while of others we have knowledge by sight. Now, if one were to tell you that there exists in India an animal with a nature unlike all others, but of such and such a kind, multiform and various, you would not know it before you saw it; but neither would you be competent to give any account of it, unless you should hear from one who had seen it.'
"'Certainly not,' I said.
"'How then,' he said, 'should the philosophers judge correc
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I want to say one thing to the American bourgeoisie. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. The People's Free Software does not have statist relations with that ideology, Communism. Not a single time, never. These allegations are false. According to the Second Chief Directorate of the GNU/KGB, they are propaganda of the vast, right-wing, bourgeois conspiracy against the kopyleft revolution.
... the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, which will attempt a controlled landing on a comet, but not until 2014.
Deep Impact, by contrast, will provide "instant gratification," says Grammier. The entire $330 million mission should be wrapped up a month after impact.
So, the Europeans are going to geeeently land their little rover (Beagle III?), putter around, and delicately inspect rocks and dust. Boooriiiinng!:-)
This is one spacecraft NASA wants to smash and trash. "It would be like it's standing in the middle of the road and this huge semi coming down at it at 23,000 mph (37,015 kph), you know, just bam!" Grammier says.... "We expect to provide great fireworks for all our observatories," Grammier says, "and that's exciting to do it on July Fourth."
KA-BLOOIEE! Blow it up! Blow it up! I'm so glad I'm an American. This is a country that combines science, space explosions, and patriotism into one very cool bundle. And we can take pictures of it from Mars.
I. Love. This. Countryyy! Yeeeeeeaaah! *does Bush/Ballmer monkey dance*
God never gave any names for the days and months. They were simply referred to by their ordinal numbers.
Nearly all calendars, including our Gregorian calendar, are not of Biblical origin. Here is the real Biblical calendar, with the exception of the names of the months.
Plugins are DLLs (in Windows; EXEs when downloaded) that import functionality from other programs on your computer. Examples: Flash, Shockwave, Java, Real Player, QuickTime
Extensions are XPIs, which add functionality into the browser's own code, much of which is simply XUL (XML) and JavaScript.
Firefox has an extension manager, not a plugin manager
Supporting paragraph (bold is in original; look familiar?):
So anyway, Flash installs and I can view the Ocean's 12 website OK. But now what if there's a security bug found in Flash and I want to disable it? With Internet Explorer, I can simply set the Internet Zone to "High" security mode (to block all ActiveX controls), or I could go to the
Tools -> Manage Add-Ons dialog if I just wanted to disable Flash until an update was available. How do I disable Flash inside Firefox? Good question. I don't see any menu items or Tools -> Options settings, the Tools -> Extensions dialog doesn't help, and Flash isn't even listed in Add / Remove Programs.
The 7-Zip message is an error from the decompresser that the blogger is using.
I don't claim to know what caused his problems since I have not experienced them, but they were not due to the blogger using the wrong decompresser. He downloaded the exe, not the zip.
The files inside the.exe installer are compressed in the 7-Zip format, so the Firefox installer is responsible for the decompression. In earlier Firefox installations, I think "7-Zip" was actually displayed in the title bar of one of the dialog boxes. A third-party 7-Zip program could not be used even if you wanted to use it.
And why would signing the code make it more secure?
Yes, somewhat, but also, it would give comfort to half-clueful users who noticed that Firefox was inexplicably being downloaded from mozilla.trust-us-its-the-real-thing.cx. If a certificate would prevent even a small percentage of users from aborting the installation due to fear, it would be worth it.
I would consider donating to the ACLU because it helps the oppressed.
When I speak of oppression, I'm mostly thinking about the slaves in Africa and the worldwide sex slave trade. There are human rights organizations (mostly Christian) buying people out of slavery in Africa and rescuing women and children from the sex slave trade.
The ACLU has a skewed perspective as to who is "oppressing" whom. They say that a person engaged in homosexuality has a "right" to join the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that requires belief in and respect for the God of the Bible. The ACLU thus attacks (oppresses?) the BSA in order to force an unqualified person into its organization. The ACLU acts to destroy the BSA and other organizations that have rules for membership. In cases like this, homosexuals and the ACLU are ones trying to take away rights - the rights of everyone else to make their own rules for private institutions.
Organizations are defined by their membership qualifications. Boys can't join the Girl Scouts. Catholics can't join a synagogue. People who don't drink alcohol can't join Alcoholics Anonymous. Hunters can't join PETA. Pro-lifers can't join Planned Parenthood.
If you force an organization to violate its raison d'être in order to let someone in, that organization is being harmed. You are contaminating its membership and diluting its mission. The individual wanting to join an organization that is incompatible with his own beliefs and lifestyle is the one perpetrating harm. He wants to force a group to violate its own rules and spoil the nature of the fellowship that all the other members had a right to expect would continue. If the ACLU wins, one greedy, self-absorbed person gets his way, and everybody else loses. One aggressor wins, and a whole institution (one that is legal, peaceful, and beneficial to society) is made void as others follow through the illegitimate gate that has been busted open.
The ACLU serves as an anti-rights battering ram for hateful individuals who want to destroy Christian organizations and to eradicate Biblical religion and tradition from public view. The ACLU pushes the militant atheist/communist agenda and does not constitute a charity.
These are NOT charities! What you listed are highly partisan political organizations.
I'm seeing people list a lot of special interest, activist organizations pushing political agendas. Instead of relief organizations like Samaritan's Purse and Operation Blessing, I'm seeing Mozilla and Pacifica Radio?? (I just reloaded the comments, and there are more real charities listed now.) Look, I'm a member of SpreadFirefox.com, and I'm glad there is alternative media, but give me a break! What about the sick, the poor, the hungry? What about the oppressed, the persecuted, the abused? How about some priorities? There are a lot of people in the world who need your donations more than the lawyers at the ACLU and Stallman's cronies at the EFF.
It does need a major overhaul. It's been run by the liberals for the last 50 years. Time to throw the bums out.
Liberals don't hold students accountable because they don't want to "hurt their feelings." They say it's better for children to be affirmed when they give incorrect answers than to be told they are wrong. Yeah, like letting them live the rest of their lives as illiterates on welfare (i.e. perpetual poverty) is somehow "compassionate."
You mean like a plummeting dollar, a failing economy, a losing war, an unprecedented transfer of money to the wealthiest few, thousands of war deaths, and a dismantling of civil rights and our constitution?
The dollar is falling; it will rise again. Yes, we will get through it. The economy is not failing. We are winning the war. Here's a lesson on tax cuts. War deaths - deaths in a volunteer military, fighting for our freedom and security. The only loss of civil rights is from the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance "Reform" Act, which prohibits paid political speech 30 days before an election (or something close to that). The Constitution is being upheld strictly (*cough*) by the administration.
*sigh* All that new freedom out there. *sigh* Suicide bombers' funding cut. *sigh* Millions of people liberated. *sigh* A new democracy in the Middle East. *sigh* Mass graves, torture chambers, and rape rooms closed for business. *sigh* No more $billions of illegal OIL MONEY for Europe and China through abuse of the UN Oil for Food program. *sigh* Fascist dictator with WMD imprisoned. *sigh* Part of Axis of Evil defeated. *sigh* Other rogue states see the light and start to reform. *sigh* Terrorists on the run. *sigh* Most of Al-Qaida leadership killed. *sigh* America is safer. *sigh*
To put it another way, there are quotes in the Bible that state that the Sun "rises" and "sets". Does this mean that a geocentric solar system is the correct interpretation of the Bible?
Whoa! The National Weather Service has "sunrise" and "sunset" on its web site. I think you should send them an email with the correct information right away! They obviously believe in a geocentric solar system.;-)
Could anyone tell me exactly how Genesis and the theory of evolution are incompatible?
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"And while I was thus disposed, when I wished at one period to be filled with great quietness, and to shun the path of men, I used to go into a certain field not far from the sea. And when I was near that spot one day, which having reached I purposed to be by myself, a certain old man, by no means contemptible in appearance, exhibiting meek and venerable manners, followed me at a little distance. And when I turned round to him, having halted, I fixed my eyes rather keenly on him.
"And he said, 'Do you know me?'
"I replied in the negative.
"'Why, then,' said he to me, 'do you so look at me?'
"'I am astonished,' I said, 'because you have chanced to be in my company in the same place; for I had not expected to see any man here.'
"And he says to me, 'I am concerned about some of my household. These are gone away from me; and therefore have I come to make personal search for them, if, perhaps, they shall make their appearance somewhere. But why are you here?' said he to me.
"'I delight,' said I, 'in such walks, where my attention is not distracted, for converse with myself is uninterrupted; and such places are most fit for philology (the exercise of reason).'
"'Are you, then, a philologian (an exerciser of speech),' said he, 'but no lover of deeds or of truth? and do you not aim at being a practical man so much as being a sophist?'
"'What greater work,' said I, 'could one accomplish than this, to show the reason which governs all, and having laid hold of it, and being mounted upon it, to look down on the errors of others, and their pursuits? But without philosophy and right reason, prudence would not be present to any man. Wherefore it is necessary for every man to philosophize, and to esteem this the greatest and most honourable work; but other things only of second-rate or third-rate importance, though, indeed, if they be made to depend on philosophy, they are of moderate value, and worthy of acceptance; but deprived of it, and not accompanying it, they are vulgar and coarse to those who pursue them.'
"'Does philosophy, then, make happiness?' said he, interrupting.
"'Assuredly,' I said, 'and it alone.'
"'What, then, is philosophy?' he says; 'and what is happiness? Pray tell me, unless something hinders you from saying.'
"'Philosophy, then,' said I, 'is the knowledge of that which really exists, and a clear perception of the truth; and happiness is the reward of such knowledge and wisdom.'
"'But what do you call God?' said he.
"'That which always maintains the same nature, and in the same manner, and is the cause of all other things -- that, indeed, is God.' So I answered him; and he listened to me with pleasure, and thus again interrogated me: --
"'Is not knowledge a term common to different matters? For in arts of all kinds, he who knows any one of them is called a skilful man in the art of generalship, or of ruling, or of healing equally. But in divine and human affairs it is not so. Is there a knowledge which affords understanding of human and divine things, and then a thorough acquaintance with the divinity and the righteousness of them?'
"'Assuredly,' I replied.
"'What, then? Is it in the same way we know man and God, as we know music, and arithmetic, and astronomy, or any other similar branch?'
"'By no means,' I replied.
"'You have not answered me correctly, then,' he said; 'for some [branches of knowledge] come to us by learning, or by some employment, while of others we have knowledge by sight. Now, if one were to tell you that there exists in India an animal with a nature unlike all others, but of such and such a kind, multiform and various, you would not know it before you saw it; but neither would you be competent to give any account of it, unless you should hear from one who had seen it.'
"'Certainly not,' I said.
"'How then,' he said, 'should the philosophers judge correc
If Slashdot had a relationship with the investors listed in the article, they wouldn't have posted the article. Why do something that arouses suspicion unnecessarily?
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- Spybot S & D
- HijackThis
- MS AntiSpyware (Giant)
- MS Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
It would be helpful to have a meta-scanner to run all of these at once.I want to say one thing to the American bourgeoisie. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. The People's Free Software does not have statist relations with that ideology, Communism. Not a single time, never. These allegations are false. According to the Second Chief Directorate of the GNU/KGB, they are propaganda of the vast, right-wing, bourgeois conspiracy against the kopyleft revolution.
I just checked... It works in Canada, too. Google is working on expanding the service.
I use Google Local (U.S. only; based on ZIP code). It's better than the phone book.
My solution is to make the account a member of "Power Users." Or make a special Power User account and "Run As" Firefox as that user.
Oh, it's called the Rosetta. Sorry. I even quoted that. Doh!
But the Beagle jab was said in jest anyway.
Deep Impact, by contrast, will provide "instant gratification," says Grammier. The entire $330 million mission should be wrapped up a month after impact.
So, the Europeans are going to geeeently land their little rover (Beagle III?), putter around, and delicately inspect rocks and dust. Boooriiiinng! :-)
NASA, in typical American fashion...
KA-BLOOIEE! Blow it up! Blow it up! I'm so glad I'm an American. This is a country that combines science, space explosions, and patriotism into one very cool bundle. And we can take pictures of it from Mars.I. Love. This. Countryyy! Yeeeeeeaaah! *does Bush/Ballmer monkey dance*
Nearly all calendars, including our Gregorian calendar, are not of Biblical origin. Here is the real Biblical calendar, with the exception of the names of the months.
- The complaint was about Flash
- Flash is a plugin
- Plugins are DLLs (in Windows; EXEs when downloaded) that import functionality from other programs on your computer. Examples: Flash, Shockwave, Java, Real Player, QuickTime
- Extensions are XPIs, which add functionality into the browser's own code, much of which is simply XUL (XML) and JavaScript.
- Firefox has an extension manager, not a plugin manager
Supporting paragraph (bold is in original; look familiar?):I don't claim to know what caused his problems since I have not experienced them, but they were not due to the blogger using the wrong decompresser. He downloaded the exe, not the zip.
The files inside the .exe installer are compressed in the 7-Zip format, so the Firefox installer is responsible for the decompression. In earlier Firefox installations, I think "7-Zip" was actually displayed in the title bar of one of the dialog boxes. A third-party 7-Zip program could not be used even if you wanted to use it.
Yes, somewhat, but also, it would give comfort to half-clueful users who noticed that Firefox was inexplicably being downloaded from mozilla.trust-us-its-the-real-thing.cx. If a certificate would prevent even a small percentage of users from aborting the installation due to fear, it would be worth it.
$30 got your name in the ad. Some people contributed multiple times. I heard that one person is listed ten times.
When I speak of oppression, I'm mostly thinking about the slaves in Africa and the worldwide sex slave trade. There are human rights organizations (mostly Christian) buying people out of slavery in Africa and rescuing women and children from the sex slave trade.
The ACLU has a skewed perspective as to who is "oppressing" whom. They say that a person engaged in homosexuality has a "right" to join the Boy Scouts of America, an organization that requires belief in and respect for the God of the Bible. The ACLU thus attacks (oppresses?) the BSA in order to force an unqualified person into its organization. The ACLU acts to destroy the BSA and other organizations that have rules for membership. In cases like this, homosexuals and the ACLU are ones trying to take away rights - the rights of everyone else to make their own rules for private institutions.
Organizations are defined by their membership qualifications. Boys can't join the Girl Scouts. Catholics can't join a synagogue. People who don't drink alcohol can't join Alcoholics Anonymous. Hunters can't join PETA. Pro-lifers can't join Planned Parenthood.
If you force an organization to violate its raison d'être in order to let someone in, that organization is being harmed. You are contaminating its membership and diluting its mission. The individual wanting to join an organization that is incompatible with his own beliefs and lifestyle is the one perpetrating harm. He wants to force a group to violate its own rules and spoil the nature of the fellowship that all the other members had a right to expect would continue. If the ACLU wins, one greedy, self-absorbed person gets his way, and everybody else loses. One aggressor wins, and a whole institution (one that is legal, peaceful, and beneficial to society) is made void as others follow through the illegitimate gate that has been busted open.
The ACLU serves as an anti-rights battering ram for hateful individuals who want to destroy Christian organizations and to eradicate Biblical religion and tradition from public view. The ACLU pushes the militant atheist/communist agenda and does not constitute a charity.
I'm seeing people list a lot of special interest, activist organizations pushing political agendas. Instead of relief organizations like Samaritan's Purse and Operation Blessing, I'm seeing Mozilla and Pacifica Radio?? (I just reloaded the comments, and there are more real charities listed now.) Look, I'm a member of SpreadFirefox.com, and I'm glad there is alternative media, but give me a break! What about the sick, the poor, the hungry? What about the oppressed, the persecuted, the abused? How about some priorities? There are a lot of people in the world who need your donations more than the lawyers at the ACLU and Stallman's cronies at the EFF.
Maybe you're doing something wrong.
(To your credit, perhaps, someone here claims that the Mac version of Ff is unstable.)
Liberals don't hold students accountable because they don't want to "hurt their feelings." They say it's better for children to be affirmed when they give incorrect answers than to be told they are wrong. Yeah, like letting them live the rest of their lives as illiterates on welfare (i.e. perpetual poverty) is somehow "compassionate."
Think about this.
The dollar is falling; it will rise again. Yes, we will get through it. The economy is not failing. We are winning the war. Here's a lesson on tax cuts. War deaths - deaths in a volunteer military, fighting for our freedom and security. The only loss of civil rights is from the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance "Reform" Act, which prohibits paid political speech 30 days before an election (or something close to that). The Constitution is being upheld strictly (*cough*) by the administration.
It is money well spent.
Whoa! The National Weather Service has "sunrise" and "sunset" on its web site. I think you should send them an email with the correct information right away! They obviously believe in a geocentric solar system. ;-)
Could anyone tell me exactly how Genesis and the theory of evolution are incompatible?
Yes.
You just quoted Karl Marx in your condemnation of public control.
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