molecules-to-man evolution - the 150-year orthodoxy of fundamentalist materialism
(It's actually a lot older than 150 years. The idea is at least as old as Mayan religion, but Charles Darwin helped to revive it in the mid 1800s by telling fanciful tales as though they might be true.)
Science is not a religion, but it has been hijacked by a religion -- materialists who [mis]define the accepted realm and scope of "real" science and wield it to propagate their atheist/humanist worldview. It exists mostly as a heterodoxy of Biblical orthodoxy, in the hopes that humanists can have a similar bedrock foundation to provide legitimacy to atheism and licentiousness.
There is an Inquisition of sorts going on. Convert, conform, assimilate to the "scientific" orthodoxy, or be persecuted.
Not just any headphones. You need the over-the-ear kind that actually seals over the ears. A lot of headphones produce almost as much second-hand noise as regular speakers.
Headphones that cover the ears provide some benefits:
They keep the sound inside, reducing the noise that others might hear.
They block out external noises, so you don't have to turn up the volume as much.
This also reduces the noise that others might hear.
It allows you to hear your music more clearly.
It helps to prevent you from incurring hearing loss (not total loss, but partial loss; a serious and common result of using headphones)
If you intend to use them often, I recommend buying a high-quality pair. Don't consider anything under $40.
Yeah, its kinda hypocritical of us to say its okay to bomb a people into the stone age, but you can't say the word "Fuck".
People don't spend enough time thinking and meditating about politics. They just want to react.
Would you please try to recognize some distinctions? We bombed the enemies of peace. And the lovers of peace rejoiced. Life in Afghanistan is blooming. The same will soon occur in Iraq. Quite frankly, the main problem in Iraq is that our bombs didn't kill enough people. The enemies of peace still live. They are murdering, stealing, and are destroying the infrastructure that we had already repaired.
We seem to care more about political correctness and money than we do human life or eachother.
No, no. One of the main pillars of political correctness is the derision of Biblical mores. This whole pro-obscenity story is politically correct. If I say "f--k" is bad, I am being politically incorrect.
Thanks to Bill Maher for turning the definition of "politically incorrect" completely upside down.
There is a culture that regards certain words (e.g., s--t, f--k) as foul, a culture that thinks those words are okay but is sensitive to the former culture, and a culture that revels in using those words to offend the first culture. Political correctness goes with the third culture. It believes in being culturally sensitive except when it comes to ideas based on the Bible. Then, tolerance goes out the door. It's Taliban Time! Topple their erected commandments. Use their holy words as though they were foul words. Etc.
First, Slashdot is an American website. Deal with it. Tragedies happen all the time that get little or no coverage here. 20 Israelis killed in a terrorist attack, 5000 French dead from the heat wave, etc. Want to make a BrasilDot.org? Go ahead! There are many Slash sites. The Slash code is free.
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The Columbia mission was an international affair. The Columbia carried more than 80 experiments sponsored by space agencies, universities, and organizations from around the world. When the shuttle disintegrated, five Americans were killed, but also an Indian (Kalpana Chawla) and an Israeli (Ilan Ramon). The world mourned together because it was an international loss.
Furthermore, a tragedy for NASA potentially boded badly for the ISS, since the U.S. is by far the largest sponsor. A setback for the American space program is truly a setback for the whole world. The loss of life in Brazil is very sad, but as to the progress of space exploration as a whole, the world will hardly notice. That is not an insult. It's simply a fact that Brazil has a relatively small, fledgeling space program, which is not nearly as consequential as more mature space programs of other nations. I express my condolences and do wish them the best.
Yes, they were living there in 1967, but not in 1948 when the modern state of Israel was created. They moved into Israel after a huge influx Jews had come in and made the desert bloom. The growing Jewish civilization brought unprecedented prosperity to the Middle East, and the Arabs wanted a piece of it. After the Six-Day War, the mythical history of an ancient Arab nation called Palestine was concocted in a pan-Arab political maneuver to wrest the land away from their new, unwanted neighbors.
Notice how Muslims had not recognized any holy sites in the land of Israel until Israel was formed. Over 1300 years had passed since Mohammad, but all of a sudden the "third holiest site" of Islam appears ex post facto coinciding in both time and place with the re-established Jewish state. Then, they smack a mosque dome on top of the Jewish Temple Mount, the first holiest site of Judaism, which is a structure that predates Islam by over a millennium.
The agenda of the Arabs is clear: Destroy Israel and murder the Jews. The issue of ownership of the land is just a means to an end. The Arabs couldn't care less about the land itself. They already have 22 countries on 11,796,381 sq km. What's 20k more? It's a tiny strip of desert barren of natural resources, and they hadn't touched it in thousands of years.
Riiight. If I were an Arab, I would so want to live under an aparthied where Isralies could sieze my property or bulldoze it down, keeping the best land and water resources for themselves.
Okay, you are clearly ignorant of the day-to-day goings-on in Israel. Many, many "Palestinians" work in Israel. They work in restaurants, clothing shops, and other places. Hordes of Arabs living in Azah and Judea cross over the borders every day to commute to their jobs. The IDF lets them file through.
Did you know that most of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth are now occupied by Muslims? The IDF isn't tearing down their houses. In fact, they just handed over the city of Nazareth to them. Most Arabs in (U.N.-recognized) Israel are legal citizens of Israel (over 1,000,000; 20% of the population), they vote in elections, and they have protected rights.
Did you know that there are "Palestinians" in the Israeli Knesset? (The Knesset is like a parliament or congress.) How can you say there is apartheid? There is no basis for that claim. Moreover, I reiterate, nor is there basis for the existence of an Arab Palestinian state in the Promised Land.
The fact remains that Isreal was created without any reguard for the people who were already living there
The evidence clearly indicates that no Arabs were living there. It is not even debatable that the Arabs living there now, or at least their parents, came from other countries. Most of them came to Israel because there are more jobs there than in their home countries.
That man is Zahir Muhsein, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee (i.e. the government), which was the former incarnation of the Palestinian Authority.
What he said is validated by history. "Palestine" had always referred to Israel. Classic usage of the term "Palestinian" was synonomous with "Jew." Go read some old newspapers or books. At first, Arabs were extremely offended when called Palestinians, because that was a name for Jews. Only when they were convinced by Muslim leaders that Palestinian nationalism could be a tool to occupy and conquer Israel did they embrace their new-found political identity. The modern "Palestinians" have no common national heritage. They are being forced to occupy parts of Israel in refugee camps by the Arab nations they came from. They are being used in the Arabs' grand anti-Israel scheme.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity... In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism. It has also been a 'conceptual' war for the ownership of the term 'Palestinian' which has been transferred over to the Arabs, whereas before 1967, 'Palestine' has always been synonomous with the land of Israel."
- Zahir Muhsein, PLO Executive Committee member, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 31, 1977
Israel is a nation, and large parts of it are under Arab occupation.
I'm thinking the 20 dead Israelis broke the cease-fire.
52 is the latest murder count I've heard.
I can't stand it when the news talks about the "fragile cease-fire." Umm, if guns are blazing, bombs exploding, and missiles firing, it's simply NOT a cease-fire. The firing has not ceased. Even more maddening, this morning the terrorists were threatening to cut short their cease-fire because the IDF killed a terrorist leader. LOL, whatever.
There already IS a Palestine, and it's called Jordan.
Sorry, friend, I have to disagree. We need to keep our terms true to history. (I know it gets confusing with so many competing definitions.) All of the land from Azah, undisputed Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Jordan comprises Biblical Palestine -- the Promised Land. Jordan is the eastern half of the true Palestine, which was given to the Jews by God.
Palestine has been recognized by the UN as an occupied territory, with Israel as the occupying power.
"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity... In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. It has also been a "conceptual" war for the ownership of the term "Palestinian" which has been transferred over to the Arabs, whereas before 1967, 'Palestine' has always been synonomous with the land of Israel."
- Zahir Muhsein, PLO Executive Committee member, to Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 31, 1977
It's too late to attempt to pay off the deficit by taxing the rich... unless you happen to have a flux capacitor we don't know about.
(I say "attempt" because it wouldn't work. Tax rates above a certain threshold result in less government revenue, not more. The curve on a graph inclines upward, peaks, then declines. At the current rates, the higher they are pushed, the less money the government will receive. Ever heard the fable about killing the golden goose?)
Millions of Californians have already fled! And been replaced with poor immigrants. Californians who can only fill jobs have replaced the Californians who had been offering jobs. This is precisely California's problem. Well, it's one of them.
Scoff at the rich all you want, but if the current trends were to continue indefinitely (and they won't, because America will wake up and not allow it), eventually there would not be one single job left in the state's private sector. Then, you would sheepishly fall into the comforting arms of Big Brother. Without Big Brother, you would have no job and could not survive.
Many of the rich have already taken their businesses (and employment opportunities for others), along with their huge amounts of taxable assets and transactions to freer states. Now, California has to make up the difference by ratcheting up the tax demands on the middle class (the new "rich").
The solution is not to raise taxes, i.e. cut consumer spending, but to cut government spending. Get rid of the programs! The multitudes of liberal/socialist programs are suffocating the budget. They are sucking California dry, and the smart people are getting out of Dodge before a Karl Marx clone is elected governor.
Let me say it one more time, stately differently. Want employment? You have two choices: Big Brother or the Rich. Poor people can't hire you. Shed the rich from your population, and the state becomes Communist by default. The government would hold all responsibility for production and services. Since the government is packed full of socialists, they would probably go ahead and assume ownership of everything. It stands to reason that that is what California wants.
"G-d" is a perfectly good word. That is not a good translitteration of the four letter name of G-d into english
[Zachary, I'm talking mainly to my fellow Gentiles. I know you know all of this. I hope you're not too offended at all my uses of the Almighty's name. My only intention here is to promote interest in and knowledge of the Father among the goyim.]
The name of God, which is not the same thing as "God," appears in the original Scripture as the Hebrew letters: yud heh vav heh. These are all consonants, as the Hebrew alphabet does not have vowels. The vowels are implied. As Zachary alluded to, nobody remembers what the vowels are supposed to be.
Therefore, transliteration is really not the best way to derive a pronounceable word for God's name. If you insist, Yahveh, not Yahweh, would be the best guess. Word substitution has been much more popular throughout the ages. Christians use "the LORD," while Jews use Adonai ("to be" in Hebrew, I think) or HaShem ("the Name"). I'm surprised Zachary didn't suggest Adonai since it's used in both Jewish and Christian circles.
As I touched on before... The word "God" does not linguistically derive from YHVH (Yahweh/Jehovah/Lord/Adonai/HaShem), but from Elohim (pronounced Elo-HEEM). But yes, semantically, we can say that Yahweh = God, since Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad -- the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.
I assume you're talking about Bush. He was elected by the Electoral votes of the states per Article 2, Section 1, Paragraphs 2, 3 (changed by Amendment 12), and 4 of the U.S. Constitution. The court upheld the law. Most of the recounts favored Bush anyway.
Does anybody know of a program that can clean up deleted info in Word docs? I'm thinking of something like Ad-Aware that scans for certain files, shows you possible security issues (supposedly deleted text, metadata in document properties, etc.), and asks you what action it should take (wipe out/edit text, delete file, etc.).
The only reason Niagra Mohawk's grid is in the news is that black smoke was seen coming from it. It was misreported that it was on fire. Many regional grids are affected. The focus on Niagra Mohawk is unwarranted. For all we know, the source problem could be in Canada. It will take much time to figure it out. Maybe weeks or months.
Conserve water! According to CBS, Cleveland will have water for only two more hours if the power is not restored. And that estimate was made half an hour ago. The water system apparently needs electricity to pump the water.
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Here's a trick you may not know about, so you don't have to uninstall some things manually. WinXP will let you uninstall more components than it reveals by default in the Add/Remove Windows Components section of the Control Panel.
Open the file C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf in Notepad. Each line is a Windows component (not Program) that could appear in the Add/Remove list in the Control Panel. Delete the word "hide" for each component you want to show up. Now go back to Add/Remove Windows Components, and look at all the stuff Windows will uninstall for you.
Of course, if you're really serious about purging as much junk as you can, most of the deleting will still have to be done manually.
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molecules-to-man evolution - the 150-year orthodoxy of fundamentalist materialism
(It's actually a lot older than 150 years. The idea is at least as old as Mayan religion, but Charles Darwin helped to revive it in the mid 1800s by telling fanciful tales as though they might be true.)
Science is not a religion, but it has been hijacked by a religion -- materialists who [mis]define the accepted realm and scope of "real" science and wield it to propagate their atheist/humanist worldview. It exists mostly as a heterodoxy of Biblical orthodoxy, in the hopes that humanists can have a similar bedrock foundation to provide legitimacy to atheism and licentiousness.
There is an Inquisition of sorts going on. Convert, conform, assimilate to the "scientific" orthodoxy, or be persecuted.
The funny thing is, terrorism is now blamed on the Jews (by the terrorists).
If we could teleport network packets, we wouldn't need an Internet at all. Just teleport bytes from hard drive to hard drive.
better !pout !cry
/etc/passwd > list
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus town
cat
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty > nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice > giftlist
santa claus town
who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | grep bad || good
for (goodness sake) {
be good
}
Not just any headphones. You need the over-the-ear kind that actually seals over the ears. A lot of headphones produce almost as much second-hand noise as regular speakers.
Headphones that cover the ears provide some benefits:
- They keep the sound inside, reducing the noise that others might hear.
- They block out external noises, so you don't have to turn up the volume as much.
- This also reduces the noise that others might hear.
- It allows you to hear your music more clearly.
- It helps to prevent you from incurring hearing loss (not total loss, but partial loss; a serious and common result of using headphones)
If you intend to use them often, I recommend buying a high-quality pair. Don't consider anything under $40.Every time the government taxes someone, they have to pay royalties to you.
More than you can expect from the state that elected a guy named "Gray".
People don't spend enough time thinking and meditating about politics. They just want to react.
Would you please try to recognize some distinctions? We bombed the enemies of peace. And the lovers of peace rejoiced. Life in Afghanistan is blooming. The same will soon occur in Iraq. Quite frankly, the main problem in Iraq is that our bombs didn't kill enough people. The enemies of peace still live. They are murdering, stealing, and are destroying the infrastructure that we had already repaired.
We seem to care more about political correctness and money than we do human life or eachother.
No, no. One of the main pillars of political correctness is the derision of Biblical mores. This whole pro-obscenity story is politically correct. If I say "f--k" is bad, I am being politically in correct.
Thanks to Bill Maher for turning the definition of "politically incorrect" completely upside down.
There is a culture that regards certain words (e.g., s--t, f--k) as foul, a culture that thinks those words are okay but is sensitive to the former culture, and a culture that revels in using those words to offend the first culture. Political correctness goes with the third culture. It believes in being culturally sensitive except when it comes to ideas based on the Bible. Then, tolerance goes out the door. It's Taliban Time! Topple their erected commandments. Use their holy words as though they were foul words. Etc.
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The Columbia mission was an international affair. The Columbia carried more than 80 experiments sponsored by space agencies, universities, and organizations from around the world. When the shuttle disintegrated, five Americans were killed, but also an Indian (Kalpana Chawla) and an Israeli (Ilan Ramon). The world mourned together because it was an international loss.
Furthermore, a tragedy for NASA potentially boded badly for the ISS, since the U.S. is by far the largest sponsor. A setback for the American space program is truly a setback for the whole world. The loss of life in Brazil is very sad, but as to the progress of space exploration as a whole, the world will hardly notice. That is not an insult. It's simply a fact that Brazil has a relatively small, fledgeling space program, which is not nearly as consequential as more mature space programs of other nations. I express my condolences and do wish them the best.
Yes, they were living there in 1967, but not in 1948 when the modern state of Israel was created. They moved into Israel after a huge influx Jews had come in and made the desert bloom. The growing Jewish civilization brought unprecedented prosperity to the Middle East, and the Arabs wanted a piece of it. After the Six-Day War, the mythical history of an ancient Arab nation called Palestine was concocted in a pan-Arab political maneuver to wrest the land away from their new, unwanted neighbors.
Notice how Muslims had not recognized any holy sites in the land of Israel until Israel was formed. Over 1300 years had passed since Mohammad, but all of a sudden the "third holiest site" of Islam appears ex post facto coinciding in both time and place with the re-established Jewish state. Then, they smack a mosque dome on top of the Jewish Temple Mount, the first holiest site of Judaism, which is a structure that predates Islam by over a millennium.
The agenda of the Arabs is clear: Destroy Israel and murder the Jews. The issue of ownership of the land is just a means to an end. The Arabs couldn't care less about the land itself. They already have 22 countries on 11,796,381 sq km. What's 20k more? It's a tiny strip of desert barren of natural resources, and they hadn't touched it in thousands of years.
Riiight. If I were an Arab, I would so want to live under an aparthied where Isralies could sieze my property or bulldoze it down, keeping the best land and water resources for themselves.
Okay, you are clearly ignorant of the day-to-day goings-on in Israel. Many, many "Palestinians" work in Israel. They work in restaurants, clothing shops, and other places. Hordes of Arabs living in Azah and Judea cross over the borders every day to commute to their jobs. The IDF lets them file through.
Did you know that most of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth are now occupied by Muslims? The IDF isn't tearing down their houses. In fact, they just handed over the city of Nazareth to them. Most Arabs in (U.N.-recognized) Israel are legal citizens of Israel (over 1,000,000; 20% of the population), they vote in elections, and they have protected rights.
Did you know that there are "Palestinians" in the Israeli Knesset? (The Knesset is like a parliament or congress.) How can you say there is apartheid? There is no basis for that claim. Moreover, I reiterate, nor is there basis for the existence of an Arab Palestinian state in the Promised Land.
The evidence clearly indicates that no Arabs were living there. It is not even debatable that the Arabs living there now, or at least their parents, came from other countries. Most of them came to Israel because there are more jobs there than in their home countries.
What he said is validated by history. "Palestine" had always referred to Israel. Classic usage of the term "Palestinian" was synonomous with "Jew." Go read some old newspapers or books. At first, Arabs were extremely offended when called Palestinians, because that was a name for Jews. Only when they were convinced by Muslim leaders that Palestinian nationalism could be a tool to occupy and conquer Israel did they embrace their new-found political identity. The modern "Palestinians" have no common national heritage. They are being forced to occupy parts of Israel in refugee camps by the Arab nations they came from. They are being used in the Arabs' grand anti-Israel scheme.
You're right on that point.
Israel is a nation, and large parts of it are under Arab occupation.52 is the latest murder count I've heard.
I can't stand it when the news talks about the "fragile cease-fire." Umm, if guns are blazing, bombs exploding, and missiles firing, it's simply NOT a cease-fire. The firing has not ceased. Even more maddening, this morning the terrorists were threatening to cut short their cease-fire because the IDF killed a terrorist leader. LOL, whatever.
Sorry, friend, I have to disagree. We need to keep our terms true to history. (I know it gets confusing with so many competing definitions.) All of the land from Azah, undisputed Israel, Judea, Samaria, and Jordan comprises Biblical Palestine -- the Promised Land. Jordan is the eastern half of the true Palestine, which was given to the Jews by God.
(I say "attempt" because it wouldn't work. Tax rates above a certain threshold result in less government revenue, not more. The curve on a graph inclines upward, peaks, then declines. At the current rates, the higher they are pushed, the less money the government will receive. Ever heard the fable about killing the golden goose?)
Millions of Californians have already fled! And been replaced with poor immigrants. Californians who can only fill jobs have replaced the Californians who had been offering jobs. This is precisely California's problem. Well, it's one of them.
Scoff at the rich all you want, but if the current trends were to continue indefinitely (and they won't, because America will wake up and not allow it), eventually there would not be one single job left in the state's private sector. Then, you would sheepishly fall into the comforting arms of Big Brother. Without Big Brother, you would have no job and could not survive.
Many of the rich have already taken their businesses (and employment opportunities for others), along with their huge amounts of taxable assets and transactions to freer states. Now, California has to make up the difference by ratcheting up the tax demands on the middle class (the new "rich").
The solution is not to raise taxes, i.e. cut consumer spending, but to cut government spending. Get rid of the programs! The multitudes of liberal/socialist programs are suffocating the budget. They are sucking California dry, and the smart people are getting out of Dodge before a Karl Marx clone is elected governor.
Let me say it one more time, stately differently. Want employment? You have two choices: Big Brother or the Rich. Poor people can't hire you. Shed the rich from your population, and the state becomes Communist by default. The government would hold all responsibility for production and services. Since the government is packed full of socialists, they would probably go ahead and assume ownership of everything. It stands to reason that that is what California wants.
[Zachary, I'm talking mainly to my fellow Gentiles. I know you know all of this. I hope you're not too offended at all my uses of the Almighty's name. My only intention here is to promote interest in and knowledge of the Father among the goyim.]
The name of God, which is not the same thing as "God," appears in the original Scripture as the Hebrew letters: yud heh vav heh. These are all consonants, as the Hebrew alphabet does not have vowels. The vowels are implied. As Zachary alluded to, nobody remembers what the vowels are supposed to be.
Therefore, transliteration is really not the best way to derive a pronounceable word for God's name. If you insist, Yahveh, not Yahweh, would be the best guess. Word substitution has been much more popular throughout the ages. Christians use "the LORD," while Jews use Adonai ("to be" in Hebrew, I think) or HaShem ("the Name"). I'm surprised Zachary didn't suggest Adonai since it's used in both Jewish and Christian circles.
As I touched on before... The word "God" does not linguistically derive from YHVH (Yahweh/Jehovah/Lord/Adonai/HaShem), but from Elohim (pronounced Elo-HEEM). But yes, semantically, we can say that Yahweh = God, since Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad -- the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.
I assume you're talking about Bush. He was elected by the Electoral votes of the states per Article 2, Section 1, Paragraphs 2, 3 (changed by Amendment 12), and 4 of the U.S. Constitution. The court upheld the law. Most of the recounts favored Bush anyway.
Bah. Let them fight their own battles.
Suddenly, the rich people flee California.
Does anybody know of a program that can clean up deleted info in Word docs? I'm thinking of something like Ad-Aware that scans for certain files, shows you possible security issues (supposedly deleted text, metadata in document properties, etc.), and asks you what action it should take (wipe out/edit text, delete file, etc.).
The only reason Niagra Mohawk's grid is in the news is that black smoke was seen coming from it. It was misreported that it was on fire. Many regional grids are affected. The focus on Niagra Mohawk is unwarranted. For all we know, the source problem could be in Canada. It will take much time to figure it out. Maybe weeks or months.
Conserve water! According to CBS, Cleveland will have water for only two more hours if the power is not restored. And that estimate was made half an hour ago. The water system apparently needs electricity to pump the water.
Open the file C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf in Notepad. Each line is a Windows component (not Program) that could appear in the Add/Remove list in the Control Panel. Delete the word "hide" for each component you want to show up. Now go back to Add/Remove Windows Components, and look at all the stuff Windows will uninstall for you.
Of course, if you're really serious about purging as much junk as you can, most of the deleting will still have to be done manually.