My wife and I were just in Walmart the other day and my wife struck up a conversation with the checker. The checker stated that Walmart was a pretty good place to work because she made more money per hour than most other stores pay, she gets full benefits and since she's a college student she gets very flexible hours. She thought that maybe there were a minority of stores out there that had problems but that the whole of Walmart is getting painted with that brush.
I disagree. God can be perfectly merciful and allow hell to exist without a problem. He gives us freewill and a choice to make to avoid spending eternity in hell. It all comes down to free will, He puts the destinations and conditions for choosing our destination in place then lets us choose. He says that if we seek Him with all our heart, mind, and soul we'll find Him. I did that 12 years ago because I wanted resolution one way or the other and found Him. Once I found Him I had a choice to make, I chose for Him and in doing so chose my destination. It's both a very simple yet very difficult choice, and we are given our free will to do so. It's simple in that we're given the choice to stop struggling with trying to earn our way to heaven and just trust that He's already done everything needed or not continue to fall short.
Also, to quote Rush (not Limbaugh) "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice".
I agree with everything except the ability to determine whether free will exists. Here's a simple test: 1) Dish out a serving of your favorite food. 2) Dish out a serving of food that is far from your favorite but something you can still eat. 3) Eat the non-favorite food. 4) Throw the favorite food in the garbage.
I submit that if you can do steps 1..4 then you've got free will.
When I was first married (1985) I really loved video games. We had our first child a year later and I remember playing a flight simulator on my Amiga 500 praying that my child would like to play video games with me. Now, 18 years (and soon to be 5 children) later, things have certainly changed a bit. My older two boys (18 & 15) would spend every moment of their waking lives in front of the PC, xbox, or Wii. My oldest daughter (9) spends a lot of her time playing kid internet games. My 2 year old tries to bang on the computer every chance she gets. It's gotten to the point that seeing them play games non-stop has virtually taken all the fun out of video gaming. But alas, there are the Valve games that I enjoy so much (now the Wii too, but I need a shoulder surgery before I can really get into it:)
The kids have cured me of the obsessive/compulsive computer gaming I used to do but I still do game a bit. I make sure all the chores around the house are taken care of, my wife and kids are taken care of, our animals are taken care of, and then I have about 1 hour per night, if I like, to play whatever I like. Fortunately for me I'm stuck on Valve's games and am waiting for the HL2 episode 2, Portals, and Team Fortress 2 to come out. Until then I'm learning some new programming languages and paradigms
"And please,/.ers, stop knee-jerking. That's not what geeks do."
I beg to differ. Maybe not the left-knee nor the right-knee, but certainly the wee-knee!
I built one of those too out in my shop. I was one 40 year old geek who new nothing about biodiesel but wanted to "stick it to the man". It took me about 2 weeks to build a complete system using information off the internet. I didn't tell my wife of the hazards and risks so I didn't need a safety system:) This think worked great and produced several tanks of biodiesel for my 1 ton truck. One day the cows broke into my shop and one of them thinks of rubber hose as licorice so she ate all the tubing work going from the sodium methoxide mixing vessel to the reaction vessel and took me out of production! "Do you still have the cow?" you might ask? In a manner of speaking, I waited several months to allow her to reach full size and now she's "camping" in my freezer. She's a good cow, especially when marinated in kikoman and grilled on the barbeque:)
My wife and I own a minivan and she drives it mostly. We have 4 kids, 1 more on the way, and we specifically bought a minivan to hold all of us. When I'm at work it's typically my wife and her youngest daughter in the van, but after work we do run errands where there are 4+ in the car and a couple of times per week there's all 6 of us in the van (church, sporting events, etc). An acura wouldn't cut it, and I don't like SUV's, especially the one's big enough to hold us all, get very poor gas mileage. My minivan is a 1993 plymouth GV and I think it is just wonderful (extremely reliable, gets ~22mpg around town, low maintenance). When our #5 child comes around we're going to purchase another one with two sliders so we can get our infant and toddler in/out easily plus we're so impressed with the utility, reliability, and mileage. If someone came out with a hybrid minivan we would definitly be interested (Toyota supposedly has one in Japan, but it's not here yet).
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My wife and I were just in Walmart the other day and my wife struck up a conversation with the checker. The checker stated that Walmart was a pretty good place to work because she made more money per hour than most other stores pay, she gets full benefits and since she's a college student she gets very flexible hours. She thought that maybe there were a minority of stores out there that had problems but that the whole of Walmart is getting painted with that brush.
I disagree. God can be perfectly merciful and allow hell to exist without a problem. He gives us freewill and a choice to make to avoid spending eternity in hell. It all comes down to free will, He puts the destinations and conditions for choosing our destination in place then lets us choose. He says that if we seek Him with all our heart, mind, and soul we'll find Him. I did that 12 years ago because I wanted resolution one way or the other and found Him. Once I found Him I had a choice to make, I chose for Him and in doing so chose my destination. It's both a very simple yet very difficult choice, and we are given our free will to do so. It's simple in that we're given the choice to stop struggling with trying to earn our way to heaven and just trust that He's already done everything needed or not continue to fall short.
Also, to quote Rush (not Limbaugh) "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice".
I agree with everything except the ability to determine whether free will exists. Here's a simple test:
1) Dish out a serving of your favorite food.
2) Dish out a serving of food that is far from your favorite but something you can still eat.
3) Eat the non-favorite food.
4) Throw the favorite food in the garbage.
I submit that if you can do steps 1..4 then you've got free will.
When I was first married (1985) I really loved video games. We had our first child a year later and I remember playing a flight simulator on my Amiga 500 praying that my child would like to play video games with me. Now, 18 years (and soon to be 5 children) later, things have certainly changed a bit. My older two boys (18 & 15) would spend every moment of their waking lives in front of the PC, xbox, or Wii. My oldest daughter (9) spends a lot of her time playing kid internet games. My 2 year old tries to bang on the computer every chance she gets. It's gotten to the point that seeing them play games non-stop has virtually taken all the fun out of video gaming. But alas, there are the Valve games that I enjoy so much (now the Wii too, but I need a shoulder surgery before I can really get into it:) The kids have cured me of the obsessive/compulsive computer gaming I used to do but I still do game a bit. I make sure all the chores around the house are taken care of, my wife and kids are taken care of, our animals are taken care of, and then I have about 1 hour per night, if I like, to play whatever I like. Fortunately for me I'm stuck on Valve's games and am waiting for the HL2 episode 2, Portals, and Team Fortress 2 to come out. Until then I'm learning some new programming languages and paradigms
"And please, /.ers, stop knee-jerking. That's not what geeks do."
I beg to differ. Maybe not the left-knee nor the right-knee, but certainly the wee-knee!
I built one of those too out in my shop. I was one 40 year old geek who new nothing about biodiesel but wanted to "stick it to the man". It took me about 2 weeks to build a complete system using information off the internet. I didn't tell my wife of the hazards and risks so I didn't need a safety system :) This think worked great and produced several tanks of biodiesel for my 1 ton truck. One day the cows broke into my shop and one of them thinks of rubber hose as licorice so she ate all the tubing work going from the sodium methoxide mixing vessel to the reaction vessel and took me out of production! "Do you still have the cow?" you might ask? In a manner of speaking, I waited several months to allow her to reach full size and now she's "camping" in my freezer. She's a good cow, especially when marinated in kikoman and grilled on the barbeque:)
My wife and I own a minivan and she drives it mostly. We have 4 kids, 1 more on the way, and we specifically bought a minivan to hold all of us. When I'm at work it's typically my wife and her youngest daughter in the van, but after work we do run errands where there are 4+ in the car and a couple of times per week there's all 6 of us in the van (church, sporting events, etc). An acura wouldn't cut it, and I don't like SUV's, especially the one's big enough to hold us all, get very poor gas mileage. My minivan is a 1993 plymouth GV and I think it is just wonderful (extremely reliable, gets ~22mpg around town, low maintenance). When our #5 child comes around we're going to purchase another one with two sliders so we can get our infant and toddler in/out easily plus we're so impressed with the utility, reliability, and mileage. If someone came out with a hybrid minivan we would definitly be interested (Toyota supposedly has one in Japan, but it's not here yet).