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There is not as much difference as you think.
James 2:14-26
Faith and Actions
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is such "faith" able to save him? 15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food, 16 and someone says to him, "Shalom! Keep warm and eat hearty!" without giving him what he needs, what good does it do? 17 Thus, faith by itself, unaccompanied by actions, is dead.
18 But someone will say that you have faith and I have actions. Show me this faith of yours without the actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions! 19 You believe that "God is one." [Deut. 6:4] Good for you! The demons believe it too -- the thought makes them shudder with fear!
20 But, foolish fellow, do you want to be shown that such "faith" apart from actions is barren? 21 Wasn't Avraham avinu declared righteous because of actions when he offered up his son Yitz'chak on the altar? 22 You see that his faith worked with his actions; by the actons the faith was made complete; 23 and the passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled which says, "Avraham had faith in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness." [Gen. 15:6] He was even called God's friend. [Isa. 41:8, 2; 2 Chron. 20:7] 24 You see that a person is declared righteous because of actions and not because of faith alone.
25 Likewise, wasn't Rachav the prostitute declared righteous because of actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route? 26 Indeed, just as the body without a spirit is dead, so too faith without actions is dead.
We'll use public transportation when it provides people with the autonomy (exact desired departure time, choice of route, etc.), availability (time-wise, geography covered, boarding locations, etc.), reliability/predictability, luggage capacity, *stationary* storage, privacy and safety (personal or multi-person locked compartments), cleanness, comfort, amenities/environment controllability, and 360-degree view to allow seeing landmarks, pedestrians, and weather conditions while travelling that cars do.
I agree with your assessment. The focus on confession and acknowledgement of forgiveness (in truth, all sins, past and future, are automatically forgiven upon initial trust in Christ) to the exclusion of other remedial action is bad. Confession is a crucial first step, but it is worthless without repentance thereafter. Repentance is turning away from something. In this context, it is changing your innermost desires to hate what is evil and love what is good. Over and over, God says, "Be holy for I am holy." God doesn't want your crocodile tears of guilt, ultimately, although this can be a spiritually healthy experience for a short time. He has forgiven the Believer of his sin. He wants you to stop sinning.
This idea is immoral in my view and leads to many immoral acts.
This doctrine and tradition taken in isolation, yes. However, the overall Biblical teaching and objective for Christians is to live as righteously as possible. Being forgiven for our moral failures is beneficial so that we don't wallow in guilt our whole lives. By disassociating our past offenses to God from ourselves, we are always free to see ourselves as worthy of pursuing holiness once again. The idea that we can be cleansed from dirty deeds is very liberating. For some people, they feel that this gives them license to do whatever they want, no matter how bad. To others, they feel purified and able to serve God as a clean vessel.
Your gripe is not so much about Christianity as it is about free will. Let's compare to secular amoralism. Going through life without any moral paradigm at all gives total license. You're not just liberated from guilt; since you don't believe in a moral law in the first place, there can be no violations of morality, and thus, no subsequent guilt. At least with Christianity, you have a high bar to aim for -- so high that you can't make it -- which helps you to live the best life possible.
It comes as no surprise to me that you are following Fox news very closely
That's awfully presumptuous of you. I don't even have cable TV. I listen to Israel National Radio. I also follow the Jerusalem Post and various other sources.
If you denounce UN resolutions and claim they have no credibility, what right do you think Israelis have to claim land in Palestine?
The Bible is the title deed. The U.N. merely served as a terrestrial instrument to establish the modern state.
There are a lot of othodox Jews claiming the that the current state of Israel has no foundation in the bible.
Yeah, and there are some "Christians" who hold the views of the Ku Klux Klan. Many Greek Orthodox "Christians" supported Saddam Hussein. There are crackpots in every group. That site says, "We see Zionism as a violation of the Creator's decree that we remain in Exile." This is 100% balderdash. God commands Jews to live on the land. It is promised to the children of Israel forever. These people are illiterate. Read Genesis.
adj 1: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: self-evident, taken for granted]
Yes, I assume conclusions that are self-evident without need for intellectual persuasion or empirical proof. And if you're honest with yourself, you'll find that you do too.
We couldn't function in life if we had to prove every belief that governs our decision-making and influences our ranking of priorities and values. Maybe you're not dogmatic about many beliefs (*cough*; BTW, your title is misspelled), but it is impossible not have them in some kind of order of acceptance in your mind. This matrix of beliefs dictates your every decision. You can change your matrix, but you can't opt out. Being atheist or agnostic doesn't mean that you're an independent bystander on the sidelines watching all of religion go by. You have chosen some beliefs either actively or passively, and thus, you have chosen a path for your life and for the direction of your eternal destiny.
Choose wisely, because when your earth suit expires, your being within is going either to a place of everlasting bliss or to a place of everlasting torture, and the window of opportunity to decide will be shut forever. Matt, you are not guaranteed your next breath! The Holy Father above loves you. He is waiting for you with open arms to send His Spirit into your heart, who will give you a joy that no can conceive of while still in rebellious rejection of Him.
You'll never know what's inside a room unless you open the door. I promise you, Matt, you won't regret opening this door. Investigation leads to knowledge, but spiritual things must be sought by spiritual means. Pray -- even if you don't understand who you're praying to. That's understandable; your relationship with God has been dormant since you were born. Immerse yourself in the Bible. Accept and believe the Gospel. Repent of sin. Then, your slate of transgressions and guilt will be wiped clean. Accept the Messiah's ransom for you, and His righteousness will be credited to you on account of your faith! The superabundant love of the Lord God will overwhelm your heart like a cool, invigorating ocean wave, and you will know the goodness and glory of our gracious Prince of Peace! Join the rest of us saved sinners, and we will weep with joy together over your salvation. 8-D
I assume you are referring to the existence of God. To me and to most other Earthlings, He is simply axiomatic. His very name in Hebrew essentially means "I am that I am, and I cause what is."
The evidence that God exists is that anything exists at all. Nothing could exist without Him. I can't make sense of existence itself without believing in the God who created all things and makes sentient, soulful beings out of inanimate matter. I don't have enough faith to believe in utter meaninglessness and purposelessness of life and the universe. I see great meaning and purpose in the events of history, whether turbulent or pleasant.
I was afraid I wasn't completely correct about that. Since I don't know a lot of French, I had to do some detective work.
Here's where this all began. The Snopes piece reads:
For example, the fourth day's gift is four "colly birds," not four "calling birds." (The word "colly" literally means "black as coal," and thus "colly birds" would be blackbirds.)
I checked some French dictionaries and couldn't find any French word spelled "colly" or anything close to it. Houiller was the closest thing I could find that made sense. Is Snopes wrong? Maybe colly is a Medieval word that's no longer in modern dictionaries.
My misjudgment is due to that fact that I've been studying Hebrew, in which words that begin with h (transliterated) are sometimes pronounced with a gutteral sound. That's why you see both Chanuka and Hanukah. Neither is perfectly correct.
The French dictionary had a ' before the word. Was it an apostrophe, some kind of accent I'm not familiar with, or a typo? The ' can be a transliteration of a Hebrew letter that has a gutteral sound. I thought French might have the same thing. I forgot that the h in French is silent. I was mixed up.
Also, french doesn't have a gutteral sound.
French does have sort of a gutteral-sounding r though (as does Hebrew). Unfortunately, that's not exactly the sound I was thinking of. It's a lighter sound produced more in the back of the throat. And it's not the right letter either.:-)
First link: Amnesty is using a tortured definition of torture to call those acts torture. The people being interrogated are not exactly jaywalkers or petty shoplifters; those kinds of people were caught trying to blow up innocent Israelis. I know because I follow the news over there very closely. Israel is at WAR for its very existence, and if subjecting prisoners to annoying music helps Israel to acquire intelligence and save lives, it's more than worth it. Even if those acts were torture, it shouldn't be an issue with the U.S., because the U.S. does the same things.
Second link: I didn't read it. I don't care what the U.N. says. It has no credibility.
Claim 1: the US government makes a dedicated effort to importing stuff from Israel
Claim 2: pouring millions and millions of dollars into the country every day
Can you provide any evidence to support these claims? I am genuinely interested.
it seems like a bit of a slap in the face that the Israelis decided to go away from american corporation Microsoft's software.
I doubt it. Everybody knows that Israel's economy is suffering badly. Unless the U.S. government has reason to believe that the decision was politically motivated, and I don't see how this can be the case, they shouldn't be offended that the Israeli government is trying to cut costs. It's not like they switched from expensive American software to expensive French software. Mandrake is cheap and is one of the most popular and user-friendly Linux distributions out there. It's a reasonable and practical decision for many people to switch to it.
This guy is a troll and obviously not Jewish. See his previous posts.
The sad thing is that the real Ariel Sharon does not fight for the Promised Land. He is giving up Gaza to the terrorists and has begun to cleanse Jews from Judea and Samaria.
Note: In the linked articles above, Yesha is an acronym for Yehuda (Judea; southern "West Bank"), Shomron (Samaria; northern "West Bank"), and Azah (Gaza).
That doesn't make any sense. Here is a complete list of the 12 symbols with their meanings:
Partridge in a pear tree = The One true God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ
Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity
Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch" which contain the law condemning us of our sins.
Geese A-laying = the six days of Creation
Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith
Maids A-milking = the eight Beatitudes
Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Spirit
Lords A-leaping = the Ten Commandments
Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
None of those beliefs is particular to Roman Catholicism. The Anglican Church and all other major Protestant denominations embrace every single one of the doctrines supposedly related to the song. And tell me how in the world Ten Lords A-leaping was supposed to help people remember the Ten Commandments. The imagery is just silly.
Efforts have been made to bridge the symbols to the doctrines they supposedly represent. Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists. You can easily deduce the explanation for this one. The calling birds are spreading the Gospel; they are telling the Good News to others. The problem is that in the original song, there were no calling birds. The song began as a French song. The fourth day was about 'houiller birds. Houiller, pronounced sort of like "colly," (I think the first consonant is a gutteral sound) is the word for coal used as an adjective. In this context, it means "black as coal." They were black birds, not calling birds.
Now, how do you explain the connection? And when in history were French Catholics being repressed by the Anglican Church so that they would have made this song?
There are many sites like this one that debunk this urban legend. See Snopes also.
When we Christians hold on to legends like this, it only serves to discredit everything else we claim to be true, including the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Catholics, pleasestop spreading rumors! Where is your source? You have none. It is true that Christians used to celebrate Christmas for the twelve days from Advent to Epiphany, but there is no evidence of religious doctrine being embedded in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" or of a connection to Protestant banning of Catholicism.
Preemptive strike on trolls: Yes, I know that Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25, pagan influences, yadda yadda, etc, but tradition and doctrine are not the same thing. The bottom line is that we don't (shouldn't) claim something to be true that isn't, and we disavow the evil sources that have affected our traditions.
XSL Transformations can transform a well-formed XML document into another well-formed XML document using DOM manipulation. Since these aren't binary files (i.e. they are scripts interpreted by the browser, not code independently executed by the OS) and IE is embedded in Windows, a transformation wouldn't spawn a separate process that could be detected by an anti-virus program. Your browser would pick up the XSL virus file from a web site and interpret it itself.
I'm not a security expert, but wouldn't it be easy for a script kiddie to replace a standard Windows XAML GUI file to switch the OK and Cancel buttons in a dialog box or to make them both perform as the same button?
Internet Explorer dialog box:
Do you give permission to install Bonzi H4X0r plugin?
[OK] [Cancel] (Both act as OK)
I suppose Windows could run a checksum against every OS file on access to make sure it hasn't been altered or replaced, but then you'd have to have a backup of the whole OS including the updated versions of files updated by patches on a hard drive to continue what you were doing without a period of hassle.
Can XSL files interpreted from web sites even do transformations on local XML files? Hopefully there would at least be a security prompt (dialog box from XAML file? Ha!), but it would be a nifty ability for legitimate web applications.
"We are
uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam's involvement with al-Qaida," said Dr Ayad Allawi, a member of Iraq's ruling seven-man presidential committee, according to the London paper.
"But this is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far," he said. "It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaida, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks."
Official Iraqi documents recovered after the fall of Saddam's regime suggest a staggering
5 million executions were made during Ba'ath era alone. Over 10 million were also imprisoned.
The strength of the Earth's magnetic field has decreased 10 percent over the past 150 years... At that rate of decline, the field could vanish altogether in 1,500 to 2,000 years
I just excreted.25 kg (just a wild guess; rounding to a fourth) into the toilet in the last 5 minutes, i.e., my body mass has decreased.15% over the past 5 minutes. At that rate of loss, my body could vanish altogether in 25 hours!
(I may not have done the math right (it's almost 4am), but you get the point.)
Kill the Jews! No, that's not racist. The Jews are a gang. I mean.. uh.. it's just some people we're calling "Jews", maybe not actually Jews. Err, okay they are, but it's just referring to some bad apples. Yeah, that's it.
Kill the Africans! Death to Americans! Come on, that's evil. What's going through a game designer's mind when he names a gang after the people of a nation? Kill the Poles! Gas the Kurds! Just because the Haitians don't have a well-renowned history of being persecuted or enslaved (I don't know their history) doesn't mean the statement isn't wrong.
Having said all that, I am extremely wary of "hate speech" laws. I dread them, but speech that explicitly encourages genocide probably should be illegal.
It's interesting what issues get people into trouble these days and what things don't. It seems to me that the more obvious complaints against GTA would be that it promotes... *cough*... Grand Theft... and prostitution, both of which are illegal and cruel -- and the latter, deadly.
Go here and scroll down to the post by jasonb (a moderator).
Elsewhere on MozillaZine, somebody (sounding authoritative) said that the transition would occur in the first half of 2004. Nobody really knows. I would guess that it will be at least two more versions after 1.6, but I am not a Mozilla developer.
Cranium is a team board game that is like trivial pursuit, word puzzles, pictionary, and charades rolled up into one game. But it puts new twists on the old ways -- blind drawing, play-doh pictionary, humming/whistling tunes for charades, etc. Each category is suited to different personalities and mental strengths, so it's good to have a diverse group.
Bohnanza is a German card game. You have to plant fields of beans and try to make the most coins. The best part is the funny bean pictures on the cards.:-) The coffee bean is hilarious.
And of course, UNO is as good as ever. For the regular deck: spades, hearts, rummy.
If it's got to be electronic, I'd suggest video game tournaments. Racing games are good for this.
There is more than one temp folder (C:\Windows\Temp) if you have Windows 2000 or XP. If your user account is, for instance, "Anthony", go to C:\Documents and Settings\Anthony\Local Settings\Temp. There is a temp folder for every user account.
For people who use other mail apps that don't have the feature, here is a work around. If you're using the popular, free ZoneAlarm firewall, just right-click on the task tray icon and Engage Internet Lock whenever you are going to open an e-mail that looks suspicious. Obviously, no other app will be able to access the Internet at the time, so you can't have certain things like streaming media running. Also, I'm not sure if it would work with IMAP mail if your client has downloaded only the headers of your messages from the mail server.
Having achieved unprecedented progress in the field of communications during the past half century, we now have to pause to think of social, cultural and intellectual implications of what we have created.
I'm so glad that we didn't put the cart before the horse.:-/
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James 2:14-26
Faith and Actions
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but has no actions to prove it? Is such "faith" able to save him? 15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food, 16 and someone says to him, "Shalom! Keep warm and eat hearty!" without giving him what he needs, what good does it do? 17 Thus, faith by itself, unaccompanied by actions, is dead.
18 But someone will say that you have faith and I have actions. Show me this faith of yours without the actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions! 19 You believe that "God is one." [Deut. 6:4] Good for you! The demons believe it too -- the thought makes them shudder with fear!
20 But, foolish fellow, do you want to be shown that such "faith" apart from actions is barren? 21 Wasn't Avraham avinu declared righteous because of actions when he offered up his son Yitz'chak on the altar? 22 You see that his faith worked with his actions; by the actons the faith was made complete; 23 and the passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled which says, "Avraham had faith in God, and it was credited to his account as righteousness." [Gen. 15:6] He was even called God's friend. [Isa. 41:8, 2; 2 Chron. 20:7] 24 You see that a person is declared righteous because of actions and not because of faith alone.
25 Likewise, wasn't Rachav the prostitute declared righteous because of actions when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by another route? 26 Indeed, just as the body without a spirit is dead, so too faith without actions is dead.
We'll use public transportation when it provides people with the autonomy (exact desired departure time, choice of route, etc.), availability (time-wise, geography covered, boarding locations, etc.), reliability/predictability, luggage capacity, *stationary* storage, privacy and safety (personal or multi-person locked compartments), cleanness, comfort, amenities/environment controllability, and 360-degree view to allow seeing landmarks, pedestrians, and weather conditions while travelling that cars do.
This idea is immoral in my view and leads to many immoral acts.
This doctrine and tradition taken in isolation, yes. However, the overall Biblical teaching and objective for Christians is to live as righteously as possible. Being forgiven for our moral failures is beneficial so that we don't wallow in guilt our whole lives. By disassociating our past offenses to God from ourselves, we are always free to see ourselves as worthy of pursuing holiness once again. The idea that we can be cleansed from dirty deeds is very liberating. For some people, they feel that this gives them license to do whatever they want, no matter how bad. To others, they feel purified and able to serve God as a clean vessel.
Your gripe is not so much about Christianity as it is about free will. Let's compare to secular amoralism. Going through life without any moral paradigm at all gives total license. You're not just liberated from guilt; since you don't believe in a moral law in the first place, there can be no violations of morality, and thus, no subsequent guilt. At least with Christianity, you have a high bar to aim for -- so high that you can't make it -- which helps you to live the best life possible.
That's awfully presumptuous of you. I don't even have cable TV. I listen to Israel National Radio. I also follow the Jerusalem Post and various other sources.
If you denounce UN resolutions and claim they have no credibility, what right do you think Israelis have to claim land in Palestine?
The Bible is the title deed. The U.N. merely served as a terrestrial instrument to establish the modern state.
There are a lot of othodox Jews claiming the that the current state of Israel has no foundation in the bible.
Yeah, and there are some "Christians" who hold the views of the Ku Klux Klan. Many Greek Orthodox "Christians" supported Saddam Hussein. There are crackpots in every group. That site says, "We see Zionism as a violation of the Creator's decree that we remain in Exile." This is 100% balderdash. God commands Jews to live on the land. It is promised to the children of Israel forever. These people are illiterate. Read Genesis.
I reiterate: God is axiomatic.
adj 1: evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: self-evident, taken for granted]
Yes, I assume conclusions that are self-evident without need for intellectual persuasion or empirical proof. And if you're honest with yourself, you'll find that you do too.
We couldn't function in life if we had to prove every belief that governs our decision-making and influences our ranking of priorities and values. Maybe you're not dogmatic about many beliefs (*cough*; BTW, your title is misspelled), but it is impossible not have them in some kind of order of acceptance in your mind. This matrix of beliefs dictates your every decision. You can change your matrix, but you can't opt out. Being atheist or agnostic doesn't mean that you're an independent bystander on the sidelines watching all of religion go by. You have chosen some beliefs either actively or passively, and thus, you have chosen a path for your life and for the direction of your eternal destiny.
Choose wisely, because when your earth suit expires, your being within is going either to a place of everlasting bliss or to a place of everlasting torture, and the window of opportunity to decide will be shut forever. Matt, you are not guaranteed your next breath! The Holy Father above loves you. He is waiting for you with open arms to send His Spirit into your heart, who will give you a joy that no can conceive of while still in rebellious rejection of Him.
You'll never know what's inside a room unless you open the door. I promise you, Matt, you won't regret opening this door. Investigation leads to knowledge, but spiritual things must be sought by spiritual means. Pray -- even if you don't understand who you're praying to. That's understandable; your relationship with God has been dormant since you were born. Immerse yourself in the Bible. Accept and believe the Gospel. Repent of sin. Then, your slate of transgressions and guilt will be wiped clean. Accept the Messiah's ransom for you, and His righteousness will be credited to you on account of your faith! The superabundant love of the Lord God will overwhelm your heart like a cool, invigorating ocean wave, and you will know the goodness and glory of our gracious Prince of Peace! Join the rest of us saved sinners, and we will weep with joy together over your salvation. 8-D
The evidence that God exists is that anything exists at all. Nothing could exist without Him. I can't make sense of existence itself without believing in the God who created all things and makes sentient, soulful beings out of inanimate matter. I don't have enough faith to believe in utter meaninglessness and purposelessness of life and the universe. I see great meaning and purpose in the events of history, whether turbulent or pleasant.
Here's where this all began. The Snopes piece reads:
I checked some French dictionaries and couldn't find any French word spelled "colly" or anything close to it. Houiller was the closest thing I could find that made sense. Is Snopes wrong? Maybe colly is a Medieval word that's no longer in modern dictionaries.My misjudgment is due to that fact that I've been studying Hebrew, in which words that begin with h (transliterated) are sometimes pronounced with a gutteral sound. That's why you see both Chanuka and Hanukah. Neither is perfectly correct.
The French dictionary had a ' before the word. Was it an apostrophe, some kind of accent I'm not familiar with, or a typo? The ' can be a transliteration of a Hebrew letter that has a gutteral sound. I thought French might have the same thing. I forgot that the h in French is silent. I was mixed up.
Also, french doesn't have a gutteral sound.
French does have sort of a gutteral-sounding r though (as does Hebrew). Unfortunately, that's not exactly the sound I was thinking of. It's a lighter sound produced more in the back of the throat. And it's not the right letter either. :-)
Second link: I didn't read it. I don't care what the U.N. says. It has no credibility.
Claim 2: pouring millions and millions of dollars into the country every day
Can you provide any evidence to support these claims? I am genuinely interested.
it seems like a bit of a slap in the face that the Israelis decided to go away from american corporation Microsoft's software.
I doubt it. Everybody knows that Israel's economy is suffering badly. Unless the U.S. government has reason to believe that the decision was politically motivated, and I don't see how this can be the case, they shouldn't be offended that the Israeli government is trying to cut costs. It's not like they switched from expensive American software to expensive French software. Mandrake is cheap and is one of the most popular and user-friendly Linux distributions out there. It's a reasonable and practical decision for many people to switch to it.
You would think so, but Israel is having trouble getting loans from the U.S. government (which it has a perfect record of repaying), much less gifts.
The sad thing is that the real Ariel Sharon does not fight for the Promised Land. He is giving up Gaza to the terrorists and has begun to cleanse Jews from Judea and Samaria.
Note: In the linked articles above, Yesha is an acronym for Yehuda (Judea; southern "West Bank"), Shomron (Samaria; northern "West Bank"), and Azah (Gaza).
- Partridge in a pear tree = The One true God revealed in the person of Jesus Christ
- Turtle Doves = The Old and New Testaments
- French Hens = Faith, Hope and Charity
- Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
- Golden Rings = The first Five Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch" which contain the law condemning us of our sins.
- Geese A-laying = the six days of Creation
- Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments of the Catholic faith
- Maids A-milking = the eight Beatitudes
- Ladies Dancing = the nine Fruits of the Spirit
- Lords A-leaping = the Ten Commandments
- Pipers Piping = the eleven faithful apostles
- Drummers Drumming = the twelve points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed
None of those beliefs is particular to Roman Catholicism. The Anglican Church and all other major Protestant denominations embrace every single one of the doctrines supposedly related to the song. And tell me how in the world Ten Lords A-leaping was supposed to help people remember the Ten Commandments. The imagery is just silly.Efforts have been made to bridge the symbols to the doctrines they supposedly represent. Calling Birds = the Four Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists. You can easily deduce the explanation for this one. The calling birds are spreading the Gospel; they are telling the Good News to others. The problem is that in the original song, there were no calling birds. The song began as a French song. The fourth day was about 'houiller birds. Houiller, pronounced sort of like "colly," (I think the first consonant is a gutteral sound) is the word for coal used as an adjective. In this context, it means "black as coal." They were black birds, not calling birds.
Now, how do you explain the connection? And when in history were French Catholics being repressed by the Anglican Church so that they would have made this song?
There are many sites like this one that debunk this urban legend. See Snopes also.
When we Christians hold on to legends like this, it only serves to discredit everything else we claim to be true, including the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Catholics, please stop spreading rumors! Where is your source? You have none. It is true that Christians used to celebrate Christmas for the twelve days from Advent to Epiphany, but there is no evidence of religious doctrine being embedded in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" or of a connection to Protestant banning of Catholicism.
Preemptive strike on trolls: Yes, I know that Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25, pagan influences, yadda yadda, etc, but tradition and doctrine are not the same thing. The bottom line is that we don't (shouldn't) claim something to be true that isn't, and we disavow the evil sources that have affected our traditions.
I'm not a security expert, but wouldn't it be easy for a script kiddie to replace a standard Windows XAML GUI file to switch the OK and Cancel buttons in a dialog box or to make them both perform as the same button?
I suppose Windows could run a checksum against every OS file on access to make sure it hasn't been altered or replaced, but then you'd have to have a backup of the whole OS including the updated versions of files updated by patches on a hard drive to continue what you were doing without a period of hassle.
Can XSL files interpreted from web sites even do transformations on local XML files? Hopefully there would at least be a security prompt (dialog box from XAML file? Ha!), but it would be a nifty ability for legitimate web applications.
- Coalition forces attacked with Saddam's WMD (well of course, there weren't WMD, right?)
- thousands of U.S. troops killed
- refugee crisis
- ecological disaster
- seizure of Iraqi oil
- destruction of Islamic "holy" sites by Americans
- destruction of historical artifacts by Americans
- terrorist attacks in America after invasion
Here is the non-vaporware in Iraq.Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
Other highlights:
I just excreted .25 kg (just a wild guess; rounding to a fourth) into the toilet in the last 5 minutes, i.e., my body mass has decreased .15% over the past 5 minutes. At that rate of loss, my body could vanish altogether in 25 hours!
(I may not have done the math right (it's almost 4am), but you get the point.)
Kill the Jews! No, that's not racist. The Jews are a gang. I mean.. uh.. it's just some people we're calling "Jews", maybe not actually Jews. Err, okay they are, but it's just referring to some bad apples. Yeah, that's it.
Kill the Africans! Death to Americans! Come on, that's evil. What's going through a game designer's mind when he names a gang after the people of a nation? Kill the Poles! Gas the Kurds! Just because the Haitians don't have a well-renowned history of being persecuted or enslaved (I don't know their history) doesn't mean the statement isn't wrong.
Having said all that, I am extremely wary of "hate speech" laws. I dread them, but speech that explicitly encourages genocide probably should be illegal.
It's interesting what issues get people into trouble these days and what things don't. It seems to me that the more obvious complaints against GTA would be that it promotes... *cough*... Grand Theft... and prostitution, both of which are illegal and cruel -- and the latter, deadly.
I agree, it's a good game. But it requires quick thinking and reflexes, so alcohol would dash your competitiveness.
1.5.1 exists only for Mac OS X. The latest stable version for all other platforms is 1.5.
Elsewhere on MozillaZine, somebody (sounding authoritative) said that the transition would occur in the first half of 2004. Nobody really knows. I would guess that it will be at least two more versions after 1.6, but I am not a Mozilla developer.
Bohnanza is a German card game. You have to plant fields of beans and try to make the most coins. The best part is the funny bean pictures on the cards. :-) The coffee bean is hilarious.
And of course, UNO is as good as ever. For the regular deck: spades, hearts, rummy.
If it's got to be electronic, I'd suggest video game tournaments. Racing games are good for this.
There is more than one temp folder (C:\Windows\Temp) if you have Windows 2000 or XP. If your user account is, for instance, "Anthony", go to C:\Documents and Settings\Anthony\Local Settings\Temp. There is a temp folder for every user account.
For people who use other mail apps that don't have the feature, here is a work around. If you're using the popular, free ZoneAlarm firewall, just right-click on the task tray icon and Engage Internet Lock whenever you are going to open an e-mail that looks suspicious. Obviously, no other app will be able to access the Internet at the time, so you can't have certain things like streaming media running. Also, I'm not sure if it would work with IMAP mail if your client has downloaded only the headers of your messages from the mail server.
I'm so glad that we didn't put the cart before the horse. :-/