I would like to enlighten you on the subject of Israel vs the rest of the arabic world, and inform you that the aggressor in this conflict is not Libanon, it is not Palestine, it is Israel.
Aggressor? What a joke. Not only is Israel passive, it's obsessive-passive. It puts doormats to shame. Israel has surrendered everything (every kind of thing, that is) in hopes of attaining peace, but received only scorn and bloodshed as thanks, followed by more demands and threats against it. Over eighty percent of the current Israeli political spectrum adheres to pacifism of Islamic terror to a large degree. That doesn't mean they won't eventually retaliate against terrorists, but that doesn't make them aggressors.
"If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery."
- Albert Einstein, letter to a pacifist, 1941
"We admire the development of the peace movement around the world in the last few years. We pray to Allah to empower all those working against war."
- Saddam Hussein, February 2003
Voting for non popular party doesn't turn civilian to a legimite target of war.
Voting for terrorists makes you a legitimate target.
If it was true, then you could argue that attacing the civilians of Israel (or US) would be allowed, as they have voted for example Bush or Sharon/Olmert.
Bush and Olmert are not terrorists. The Party of Allah (Hezballah) is.
And Israel has often claimed that ambulances has been used as a method of warfare, but at least many in many cases of these claims have been later proved to be lies.
I don't know that any claims have been proven false, but thanks anyway for agreeing with my position: Islamists in the Mediterranean region have in fact used UN ambulances for terror operations. As for mere "claims," how about watching some videos?
3) In any event, they voted for terrorists in the last election (Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, etc.); they supported terrorists.
I was thinking of Gaza, not Lebanon, but Hezballah is much the same as those terrorist groups. If you're living in the Hezballah region, you support them.
like civilian airports ? power stations ? sewage works ?
You must recognize that Hezbollah is like a geographical province, in addition to an ideological organization, with its own quasi-government and all. Those targets, and also notably, main roads and bridges, were indeed targets. That bombing was intentional. It was necessary to prevent Hezballah from being resupplied by Iran and Syria. Probably also to crush morale. That helps to make for a short[er] war.
And then killed them when they flee their homes in response to those warnings.
1) They waited too long to evacuate? 2) They were terrorists? 3) In any event, they voted for terrorists in the last election (Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, etc.); they supported terrorists.
And then attacked red cross ambulances evacuating the wounded.
Red Cross/UN ambulances are used as terrorist attack vehicles in the Gaza strip, and, therefore, are a legitimate target. Google for some of the videos. I just watched a new one today, but I don't have time to find the link. (Shabbat coming)
And attacked the UN convoys taking aid to those too frightened to move.
If you walk out onto a battlefield, you just might get shot. Shocking.
And the unarmed UN observers (in a bunker, apparently destroyed by precision guided weapon, after repeated requests from the UN not to hit those coordinates).
Those four UN observers were in a building that was adjacent to a Hezballah command post. The only question is whether they were intentionally being human shields for the terrorists or if they were just plain stupid. (Actually, the latter is a given, in any case.)
And then shelled the UN rescue effort for the observers.
I didn't hear about that. Accidents happen in war. Guaranteed. Hezballah accidentally killed two Israeli Arabs; they apologized and called them "shahids" (martyrs) in the war against Israel. Both sides kill people they didn't intend to kill.
The Israeli military's radio station in south Lebanon today warned that the army "will totally destroy any village from which missiles are fired toward Israel".
Meanwhile, Hezballah attacks Israeli cities that did not fire missiles toward Lebanon. Haifa? Ashkelon? Nazareth? The Arabs are even attacking the Galilee region, which is mostly Muslim! (since they drove out the Jews and Christians) They attack every Israeli city that their missiles can possibly reach. That is their only limitation on violence.
"It is better for a Lebanese family to hear that Israelis saved their lives rather than for them to teach their children that they should kill Israelis. Our humanitarian care shows the difference between us and them.... We treat Arab and Palestinian children all year round, especially those who need heart surgery and treatment for cancer; all the costs are paid by donors..."
The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female
Even in the case of marital sex, only the couple should be privy to the activity. Sexual intercourse is the ultimate act of intimacy, the consummation of marriage in which two persons become "one flesh" (Genesis 1:24).
No need to worry about youngsters being sexually stunted or confused. Puberty alone will do its job, as it has for thousands of years.
Of course they have [people] next door insted who kill 3 times as many palestinians than the Palestinians kill them
That's exactly what the Palestinists hope for. Makes for great PA-sympathizing headlines, doesn't it? The Europeans eat this stuff up. You have fallen for the Palestinists' PR game. They intentionally attack from densely populated areas. They have been known to shoot their own people (sometimes intentionally, sometimes accidently) and blame it on Israel.
Israel, in contrast, values human life. Israel does not set up military headquarters in homes, places of worship, or any civilian gathering places. Also, it is common policy for the IDF to drop leaflets warning Palestinist civilians to evacuate an area before they attack. Of course, this jeopardizes the military mission, but Israel values the lives of its enemy civilians more than achieving its own victory.
Probably not, but the Earth does make a great laboratory for learning about the universe.
You come from a position of regarding the Earth as insignificant, but I can see that you are closer to recognizing what inspired the documentary The Privileged Planet.
Before the first neuron fires, a fetus is just a collection of cells with only the potential for becoming a person; it is no more a "sentient human being" than a hair on my head
It has no more sentience, but it has more purpose. A hair will never have a soul.
Anyhow, the issue is not the sentience of the creation-in-process but the intent of the One creating it.
Psalms 139:13 (NASB): For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother's womb.
14 I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret [in sexual intercourse],
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth [womb];
16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance ("embryo" - MKJV, CJB, OJB, LITV; "fetus" - GW; "from conception to birth" - MSG)
And in Your book were all written
The days that were ordained for me,
When as yet there was not one of them.
"just a collection of cells"?
From the Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary on Psalms 139:16:
The embryo folded up in the shape of an egg is here [derived from a Hebrew word meaning] to roll or wrap together (cf. glomus, a ball), in the Talmud said of any kind of unshapen mass and raw material, e.g., of the wood or metal that is to be formed into a vessel. [...] [C]ompare similar retrospective glances into the embryonic state in Job 10:8-12, 2 Macc. 7:22f.
Word already does pretty much anything you want it to do: tables, image drawing, web design, blogging... Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor yet.
Yeah, I know, emacs called and wants its joke back.
The word "Easter" in the KJV is "translated" (*cough*) from the Greek pascha. All other Bible versions I've seen, except for William Tyndale's, translate what is obvious: that the word is Passover (from the Hebrew Pesach).
However, to be specific, Christ's empty tomb does not symbolize Passover/"Easter." Christ was crucified at the onset of Passover (or what has come into the New Testament as "Easter"). Therefore, the crucifix should be the symbol of "Easter."
The empty tomb of Christ came three days later. It, therefore, symbolizes not Passover/"Easter,"* but the beginning of the harvest, the firstfruits of those who have died (1 Corinthians 15:20). Jesus was the first fruit of the resurrection. Subsequently, all who trust in Him will be resurrected; that is, will be part of the spiritual harvest.
In agricultural terms, the spring harvest season begins with the ripening of the barley, so maybe barley fields should be the symbol of Jesus' resurrection.
* The seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread was still in progress, but Passover was over. Despite what modern Jewish calendars indicate, Passover is only one day, not seven.
Is it too much to ask for a story that just says, "Hey look, we found this cool fossil that seems to coincide properly with the theory of evolution in a way that we haven't seen before" without bringing up how stupid intelligent design is?
Better yet, is it too much to ask for a story that just says, "Hey look, we found this new fossil."? Just the facts, ma'am. Got an opinion on the implications of the facts? That's what the op-ed page is for.
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Perhaps he's quoting the groups.
I would like to enlighten you on the subject of Israel vs the rest of the arabic world, and inform you that the aggressor in this conflict is not Libanon, it is not Palestine, it is Israel.
Aggressor? What a joke. Not only is Israel passive, it's obsessive-passive. It puts doormats to shame. Israel has surrendered everything (every kind of thing, that is) in hopes of attaining peace, but received only scorn and bloodshed as thanks, followed by more demands and threats against it. Over eighty percent of the current Israeli political spectrum adheres to pacifism of Islamic terror to a large degree. That doesn't mean they won't eventually retaliate against terrorists, but that doesn't make them aggressors.
All Israel's fighting has been purely defensive. Read up on some facts before you go spilling your ignorance again in a public place. Or watch History in a Nutshell.
Pacifism doesn't "work" even then.
"If all the young people in America were to act as you intend to act, the country would be defenseless and easily delivered into slavery."
- Albert Einstein, letter to a pacifist, 1941
"We admire the development of the peace movement around the world in the last few years. We pray to Allah to empower all those working against war."
- Saddam Hussein, February 2003
I call this GPL the General Pacifist License
Or how about General Public Limitation (as DRM, Digital Rights Management, came to be called Digital Restrictions Management)
NGOs that take sides ... Enjoying what is know as the "halo effect," few if any journalists or diplomats bother to check the details, biases or credibility of NGO claims.
The perversity of today's international outcry lies in the fact that there is indeed a disproportion in this war, a radical moral asymmetry between Hezbollah and Israel: Hezbollah is deliberately trying to create civilian casualties on both sides while Israel is deliberately trying to minimize civilian casualties, also on both sides. ... Lebanese innocents must also die in order for Israel to be demonized, which is why Hezbollah hides its fighters, its rockets, its launchers, its entire infrastructure among civilians.
'Civilian Casualty'? It Depends
But there's something to be said for encouraging common sense and preventive action.
Voting for non popular party doesn't turn civilian to a legimite target of war.
Voting for terrorists makes you a legitimate target.
If it was true, then you could argue that attacing the civilians of Israel (or US) would be allowed, as they have voted for example Bush or Sharon/Olmert.
Bush and Olmert are not terrorists. The Party of Allah (Hezballah) is.
And Israel has often claimed that ambulances has been used as a method of warfare, but at least many in many cases of these claims have been later proved to be lies.
I don't know that any claims have been proven false, but thanks anyway for agreeing with my position: Islamists in the Mediterranean region have in fact used UN ambulances for terror operations. As for mere "claims," how about watching some videos?
like civilian airports ? power stations ? sewage works ?
You must recognize that Hezbollah is like a geographical province, in addition to an ideological organization, with its own quasi-government and all. Those targets, and also notably, main roads and bridges, were indeed targets. That bombing was intentional. It was necessary to prevent Hezballah from being resupplied by Iran and Syria. Probably also to crush morale. That helps to make for a short[er] war.
And then killed them when they flee their homes in response to those warnings.
1) They waited too long to evacuate? 2) They were terrorists? 3) In any event, they voted for terrorists in the last election (Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, etc.); they supported terrorists.
And then attacked red cross ambulances evacuating the wounded.
Red Cross/UN ambulances are used as terrorist attack vehicles in the Gaza strip, and, therefore, are a legitimate target. Google for some of the videos. I just watched a new one today, but I don't have time to find the link. (Shabbat coming)
And attacked the UN convoys taking aid to those too frightened to move.
If you walk out onto a battlefield, you just might get shot. Shocking.
And the unarmed UN observers (in a bunker, apparently destroyed by precision guided weapon, after repeated requests from the UN not to hit those coordinates).
Those four UN observers were in a building that was adjacent to a Hezballah command post. The only question is whether they were intentionally being human shields for the terrorists or if they were just plain stupid. (Actually, the latter is a given, in any case.)
And then shelled the UN rescue effort for the observers.
I didn't hear about that. Accidents happen in war. Guaranteed. Hezballah accidentally killed two Israeli Arabs; they apologized and called them "shahids" (martyrs) in the war against Israel. Both sides kill people they didn't intend to kill.
The Israeli military's radio station in south Lebanon today warned that the army "will totally destroy any village from which missiles are fired toward Israel".
Meanwhile, Hezballah attacks Israeli cities that did not fire missiles toward Lebanon. Haifa? Ashkelon? Nazareth? The Arabs are even attacking the Galilee region, which is mostly Muslim! (since they drove out the Jews and Christians) They attack every Israeli city that their missiles can possibly reach. That is their only limitation on violence.
Fact is neither side cares about civilian lives.
Sheba Medical Center to treat Lebanese for free
Those four UN observers were stationed in a building adjacent to a Hezballah command post.
The real question is: Why didn't any of the four unarmed UN observers killed in the attack have enough sense to evacuate from an active war zone?
The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female
Even in the case of marital sex, only the couple should be privy to the activity. Sexual intercourse is the ultimate act of intimacy, the consummation of marriage in which two persons become "one flesh" (Genesis 1:24).
No need to worry about youngsters being sexually stunted or confused. Puberty alone will do its job, as it has for thousands of years.
Of course they have [people] next door insted who kill 3 times as many palestinians than the Palestinians kill them
That's exactly what the Palestinists hope for. Makes for great PA-sympathizing headlines, doesn't it? The Europeans eat this stuff up. You have fallen for the Palestinists' PR game. They intentionally attack from densely populated areas. They have been known to shoot their own people (sometimes intentionally, sometimes accidently) and blame it on Israel.
Israel, in contrast, values human life. Israel does not set up military headquarters in homes, places of worship, or any civilian gathering places. Also, it is common policy for the IDF to drop leaflets warning Palestinist civilians to evacuate an area before they attack. Of course, this jeopardizes the military mission, but Israel values the lives of its enemy civilians more than achieving its own victory.
Brakes not detected. Abort, Retry, Fail?
Uncle Sam :-D
That is not the mainstream opinion of Bill Gates. Far from it. Most people view Gates as a glorious role model. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, Gates ties for second in the "Most Admired List In U.S." An Esquire poll of men that was published a few days ago rates Gates tying for second in "Most Popular Celebrity Dinner Companions." Gates ranks #1 in World's Most Admired CEOs of 2005.
Hey, that's really good! I've been following CmdrTaco's journal and looking at many of the submitted designs, and this is one of the best I've seen.
You come from a position of regarding the Earth as insignificant, but I can see that you are closer to recognizing what inspired the documentary The Privileged Planet.
It has no more sentience, but it has more purpose. A hair will never have a soul.
Anyhow, the issue is not the sentience of the creation-in-process but the intent of the One creating it.
"just a collection of cells"?From the Keil & Delitzsch Old Testament Commentary on Psalms 139:16:
Word already does pretty much anything you want it to do: tables, image drawing, web design, blogging... Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor yet.
Yeah, I know, emacs called and wants its joke back.
However, to be specific, Christ's empty tomb does not symbolize Passover/"Easter." Christ was crucified at the onset of Passover (or what has come into the New Testament as "Easter"). Therefore, the crucifix should be the symbol of "Easter."
The empty tomb of Christ came three days later. It, therefore, symbolizes not Passover/"Easter,"* but the beginning of the harvest, the firstfruits of those who have died (1 Corinthians 15:20). Jesus was the first fruit of the resurrection. Subsequently, all who trust in Him will be resurrected; that is, will be part of the spiritual harvest.
In agricultural terms, the spring harvest season begins with the ripening of the barley, so maybe barley fields should be the symbol of Jesus' resurrection.
* The seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread was still in progress, but Passover was over. Despite what modern Jewish calendars indicate, Passover is only one day, not seven.
Better yet, is it too much to ask for a story that just says, "Hey look, we found this new fossil."? Just the facts, ma'am. Got an opinion on the implications of the facts? That's what the op-ed page is for.
The reason for security concerns is not because China is communist.
It's because China is Communist.
It was just a few hours ago that "infidel" homes and Jews were being rocketed and shot for the cause of Islam.
You have it backwards. That route brought us science.
Or are we just supposed to accept the evolutionist indoctrination without justification? This is not a public school, you know.
Apparently so.
"Prisoners here are in paradise." -- guest at Club G'itmo