When I was asked to make this address I wondered what I had to say to you boys who are graduating. And I think I have one thing to say. If you wish to be useful, never take a course that will silence you. Refuse to learn anything that implies collusion, whether it be a clerkship or a curacy, a legal fee or a post in a university. Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose. If you can take this course, and in so far as you take it, you will bless this country. In so far as you depart from this course, you become dampers, mutes, and hooded executioners.
As a practical matter, a mere failure to speak out upon occassions where no statement is asked or expect from you, and when the utterance of an uncalled for suspicion is odious, will often hold you to a concurrence in palpable iniquity. Try to raise a voice that will be heard from here to Albany and watch what comes forward to shut off the sound. It is not a German sergeant, nor a Russian officer of the precinct. It is a note from a friend of your father's, offering you a place at his office. This is your warning from the secret police. Why, if you any of young gentleman have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations, and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.
I have seen ten years of young men who rush out into the world with their messages, and when they find how deaf the world is, they think they must save their strength and wait. They believe that after a while they will be able to get up on some little eminence from which they can make themselves heard. "In a few years," reasons one of them, "I shall have gained a standing, and then I shall use my powers for good." Next year comes and with it a strange discovery. The man has lost his horizon of thought, his ambition has evaporated; he has nothing to say. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don't be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time.
-- John J. Chapman, Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900
Well they needed someone to "look to the future" instead of hanging the war criminals that ought to be hanged, he took the wind out of the impending revolution, so he was put in office.
Fuck that, and fuck you. OP is correct. Feel free to show otherwise. One single example would not even suffice if it DID show what you seem to think it shows (which it doesn't, Obama was a triumph of the PR industry, "the first black president" hahahah)
Don't just say "it can be made", then leave that as homework to the reader
Re-read my original post
sure:
You might want to look into why the USA provides material support to Egypt.
which is exactly what I said it is.
Srawman.
I'm not arguing for or against anything, I'm just guessing because you're not spilling the beans if you will..
Since the CDA has provided the framework for US attempts to guide the Arab Israeli negotiations for over 30 years, the idea of altering the terms of the agreement might be difficult at best.
and what has this to do with the original post about supporting an oppressive regime? what is CDA? I give up, I tried.
Did I actually need to write out a short history lesson to reply to MrSteveSD's post?
Nobody asked to you reply. But IF you want to make an argument, make it. Don't just say "it can be made", then leave that as homework to the reader, and *then* instantly pile on the insults while refering to "kindergarten level" when you're called on it.
Which, as I said, doesn't surprise, since I guess your implied argument for supporting a tyranny is "otherwise, worse would happen", since it usually is, and people who fall for that bullshit often exhibit the exact same bully style of "argument", like you did. So, no surprise there. I just asked you, what the good reasons are, and instantly you pout/attack. So I'll have to assume there simply isn't anything worthwhile there.
But of course, feel free to post what you should have posted in the first place, your argument. But save me your patronizing antics. They're hilarious but ultimately boring and off-topic. Shit or get off the pot.
It's impossible to look at journal pages, much less use them for discussion. I don't mind the rest as much but this bit is just flat out broken. Maybe it was missed in the redesign? I guess (HOPE) this is still work in progress then...
No, I just call 126918 the user id, and 35044590 the comment id =P But yes, if you must know, any UID below a million seems weird to me in combination with such a stupid comment. (would you call that comment "not stupid", by the way? ^^)... which means *I* would be fine to make it, but all you guys should be held up to higher standards. (haha)
Actually, he doesn't say "trust hyperlinks", he asked you to read it. It's you who is judging a book by its cover (or even just the patterns of mud on your windshield, to use a car analogy haha).
Lol, that tired old thing... has that ever been taken seriously haha?
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
No, he's just not our nanny/callboy. There is worlds of difference between line between WANTING evil (malevolence), and reserving the right to let it go on for a while, then punish the perpretrators and restore the victims, while warning all along the way. If you call the later "evil" that just shows you call anything evil you don't particulary like. What we are doing is way more malevolent than anyone deciding not to step in, that should be obvious for starters.
Some people believe in Aliens and that there are friendly ones that watch us but don't help us (against the Evil Aliens and/or ourselves, etc.), and how they want us to ask them to reveal themselves tralalala. Now, this might not concern many people and I'm not very aquainted with that whole, uh, scene... but I NEVER, not ONCE heard someone suggest that they're *evil* for not stepping in.
No, that's how the elves do it, isn't it... as long as they don't WANT anything from us, as long as they don't criticize us, or only mildly... then we admire that. It's even amongst the prime directives of Star Trek haha, to not interfere, and quite a few people criticize the USA for (allegedly) bringing democracy to others. What gives? I mean hey, if you can stop someone from being unfriendly to their child and you don't do it, you're EVIL, right? You WANT that child to grow up unloved. If you don't invade people who treat their women badly, it's like you are treating those women badly yourselves... right? Just to make sure I got it correctly...
Seriously, why does this shitty set of "witty questions" resurface all the time, and does anyone out of puberty ponder it for more than 10 minutes?? haha.
And what if we WERE in a situation were God "prevented evil" by telling is what (not) to do, and our current one is a result in OUR not heeding that? Sure, you would want God to FORCE us, but the opinions differ on that, and there are pretty good arguments against that (as in, there is no value or merit in good if evil isn't even an option, no joy without pain etc...) And there is also the aspect of Judgmenent. Which of course gets conveniently ignored. NEWSFLASH: YOUR CURRENT EXISTANCE IS TEMPORARY AND 100% DUST IN THE WIND IN ANY CASE. (people need to know, they have a right to, and it would save us a lot of shitty sophistry like this little "gem" of history you so kindly brought up)
And hey, you know what, at worst you'd just have to accept that God created stuff for Himself and for those who like the danger of the situation we're in, period and "haha, fuck you" if you don't like it. YOU may call that evil, that would be very understandable - but without any absolute measure that's just another opinion. Others would call it being a sore loser, or worse, a murderer calling the police corrupt to avoid or dilute the murder charges.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
IF there is eternity, it's a silly waste of time to judge anything right now.
If there is NO eternity (yet God created this and is responsible for what we do etc. blah blah), then God prevented both good and evil (from having any meaning in the big picture). You see, all suffering ends. At some point there will be no suffering and you could then say "that's because how God made it, and any suffering that did take place isn't remembered by anyone but God (and maybe not even that), so it's as if it never happened in the first place".
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Simple enough: because that "role" is perfectly fitting for the Most High That IS, and doesn't take second place to The Most High That Someone Can Imagine (Based On Faulty Premises And Crappy Logic). Before demanding something better, try to see the good in what's already there... plus a few looks in the mirror, the fabric of reality and at others, and sometimes make such demands simply dissappear like the foolishness they are.
Wait, what? You mean the one that is a more inconvenient version of the aeons old unix method of middle clicking in the browser window to open the url primary cutbuffer? The one that has been in Mozilla browsers as Middlemouse.contentLoadURL setting for at least five years, but probably forever. That one?
How could I possibly mean the one 5 people on this planet including you are using? No, I mean the context menu. Usually it just had "paste", then Opera added "paste & go", then Chrome had it, and now Firefox has it, too. Apparently they forgot about "Middlemouse.contentLoadURL"?
Opera innovation. Uhhuh.
Sure, calling it an "innovation" is a bit rich. However, Opera had it first: An entry in the context menu labeled "paste and go". The others followed suit.
Middlemouse.contentLoadURL. Uhhuh.... well not even the FF devs agree with you, or they wouldn't have put it in the context menu:P
And tabbed browsing, sorry, but no dice. Read the wikipedia article on tabs for example.
Same thing again... you're technically correct, sure, however not when it comes to anything that matters:
"Four years later, in 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser. That same year, a text editor called UltraEdit also appeared with a modern multi-row tabbed interface. The tabbed interface approach was then followed by the Internet Explorer shell NetCaptor in 1997. These were followed by a number of others like IBrowse in 1999, and Opera in 2000 (with the release of version 4 - although a MDI interface was supported before then), MultiViews October 2000, which changed its name into MultiZilla on 1 April 2001 (an extension for the Mozilla Application Suite[7]), Mozilla 0.9.5 in October 2001, Phoenix 0.3 (now Mozilla Firefox) in October 2002, Konqueror 3.1 in January 2003, and Safari in 2003. With the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface."
Now, you may not rememeber how Firefox was hailed as bringing tabbed browsing to the masses, but I do. Yet when it comes to usable browser, Opera was the first that made it viable, all the obscure stuff that came before it nonwithstanding:
InternetWorks
NetCaptor
IBrowse
Opera
MultiViews/MultiZilla
Mozilla Firefox
Konqueror
Safari
Internet Explorer 7
(Chrome)
Notice how there is no browser on that list still in use today that comes before Opera.
I'm not claiming that any part of my mind, whether you call it a soul or whatever, will be around to see it once I'm dead. You seem to be claiming that
You said God is evil. The God we're talking about however implies afterlife. And without such an afterlife, the likeliest prospect seems to be "eternal nothingness", or rather, approaching but never reaching total zero, without any awareness, right?
So that which you say makes God evil, because he lets others do evil to us, or allows earthquakes etc, is inconsequential either way: Either it's just a finite amount of "whatever it is" compared to an eternity of "basically nothing" --- OR it doesn't matter because there is an afterlife which isn't based on how wealthy or healthy you were, but on the state of your heart (which is why I said, in that case the only real harm that can come to you is the evil you DO, not the evil that is DONE to you).
Which is my whole point, and I regard your shifting this on what I believe and what a person that makes me as a mere distraction. Your claims about God being evil are baseless (I say that as someone who tried real hard to find fault with just about any religious text and about any believer, not to mention God).
Our lives may be inconsequential to the universe, but they aren't inconsequential to us.
Sure, you think that now. But in XYZ years it will have made NO difference if you have lived, not to the universe, not to you, right?
what the hell could the point of this life possibly be?
What could the point of ANY life possibly be? That's the arrogance I don't get, even though I suffer from it myself. It could be better, it could be worse, there could be nothing. What makes us think we're entitled to anything? Does anyone still sometimes stop and just look at their hand or the clouds in UTTER BEFUDDLEMENT and think "why is ANYTHING? what IS this? who ARE we?"... and just giggle and shake their heads until it passes?
Why does love exist? Where does it come from? I don't mean erotic affection, I mean LOVE. Even if we fall short of it all the time, why do we even KNOW about ideals like humbleness and forgiveness? "it must have had an evolutionary advantage" is an explanation requiring just as much faith as "God is the source".
A being willing to reward some and condemn others for all eternity based on what they do in a span of time so utterly insignificant, and filled with so much chaos and conflicting information and views? That's your God? Really? And you're good with that?
Actually it scares me shitless sometimes. How does that jive with your idea that I simply believe what makes me comfortable because I'm not that bright? I mean hey, I may be not that bright, but I'm not gleeful about any of this. When I really think of it, of God and our condition, it makes me solemn.
For the first 25 years of my life I was SURE God was just a crutch for not very intelligent people. And when I started to believe, finding out how it could all be a sinister trick was the FIRST thing I searched for. I didn't just distrust God, I hunted him and everybody who claimed to be somewhat at ease with him. I still tend to do that. However, I have to say, right now the score is still X to zero for God.... I'm not so much refuting your claim of God being evil because I cannot handle that with my feeble believer-mind, it's because I've been there and done that. I'm trying to save you time.
And no, I don't think there'll be "conflicting information and views". I wish I could believe that, but I can't. When I read the Bible I feel convicted at every corner. When I look into the world and into myself I find what it says to be true. Which does not excite me, to say the least.
It also doesn't matter wether I'm good with that, it matters wether it's good with me.
There's no real explanation of what it means, only guesses derived from interpretations of books that represent other's guesses.
Oh, but that of course doesn't apply when you declare God evil because of a story about a torture victim burning in hell because of suicide. LOL! next.
Because there's no evidence of a long-run.
There's definately "the next trillion years"? Or do you not believe tomorrow exists until it's there? Huh?
That you can claim that the only form of existence that we know of is inconsequential because you happen to think that there's something else that comes after and lasts for all eternity, but have not the slightest shred of evidence for, just shows how out of touch with reality you are.
Heh, an ad-hominem plus again actively misreading what I actually said doesn't really help.
You see, our existence is inconsequential even if there is no afterlife/eternity/whatever. Of course I can't KNOW that, but right now either heat death seems most likely, right? So while you can't even follow this simple discussion, I suggest you reserve judgement about how in touch with reality. It just makes you seem desperate to put a label on me to get this over with.
Besides, since you haven't offered a single argument yet why our existence IS consequential, why would I need to prove it otherwise? Our existance is meaningless by default, scientifically speaking.
And yes, IF you start speaking about the Christian image of God, then you can't just pick one part and say "hah! so evil!", but outright refuse to acknowledge the rest that goes along with it. That's just daft, but then so is this whole article so I figure it goes with the territory.
Of course to believe in the sort of God that you believe in, being out of touch with reality is pretty much a requirement.
You have no idea what I believe in, but of course, if you want to be able to spout such BS and then not own up to it like a kid going "lalala", you need every little petty lame thing you can get, right? Whatever makes you feel superior to that God that is evil without even existing and the stupid stupid people who believe in that.
it's configurable. right click on the UI, select customize appearance, and off you go.
about the name... well, that's just you, and no big loss for anyone really.
No, it definitely doesn't imply action. If I saw such a thing happening, and did nothing to intervene, but made a judgement that the perpetrator was a horrible person, would any sane person consider that taking action?
Then read up on what "judging" means in *this* context.
Allowing a child, or anyone, to suffer such things is evil.
Why? If you know that in the long run they will not suffer, why does it matter? If you don't even begin to take "eternity blah blah" seriously, then this discussion really has no point.
Doesn't surprise me you feel that way, seeing how come up with..
letting a child be raped or tortured to death isn't letting that child do evil things.
.. which is nowhere close of anything I said.
you surely agree that DOING that is evil?
Torturing that child yourself for eternity to punish them for commiting suicide to escape from the aforementioned raped and torture only makes it worse.
Yeah, but you're just taking a piece of "Christian dogma" and running with it. To me suicide is "throwing your life away out of spite", I am pretty sure being tortured until you just can't take it anymore does NOT fall under that. But hey, it's not like there is ONE story in the bible which mentions someone being sent to hell because they committed suicide, is there?
You're basically using made up stories of tortured children who commit suicide, who are tortured by HUMANS, as argument for God being evil. Bleh.
Lots of things can harm you other than the evil you do yourself. someone with a red hot poker, [..]
Again, you do not take judgement and eternity into account. Compared to eternity, none of this matters, only how you spend eternity does.
If there is no eternity, none of this matters period, the Universe will die the heat death either way and all bliss and all pain will cease, and compared to the eternity of nothing it will be like it never was. So I don't get what the boo-hoo is about...
I'm saying God chose not to stop it, but instead judge it... which kind of is the same IF you take eternity into account and not just "what happens here".
Find me ONE post in the whole intarwebs that says the status bar made the code "bloated".
"They can't win, can they?"
In the scenarios you so conveniently pull out of your ass they can not, no... in the real world however, they could just produce efficient code with good set of default features AND the ability to extend that via plugins.
People complain about FF bloat because it used to eat resources like candy for no good reason. 4 seems to be much better in that regard, but not even 0.0000001% of the performance improvements came from removing the status bar, I bet ya.
As for "screen estate bloat", make it toggleable, done.
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-- John J. Chapman, Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of Hobart College, 1900
wait, what? you watch downloaded movies in your browser?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Jbnq5V_1s
Fuck that, and fuck you. OP is correct. Feel free to show otherwise. One single example would not even suffice if it DID show what you seem to think it shows (which it doesn't, Obama was a triumph of the PR industry, "the first black president" hahahah)
sure:
which is exactly what I said it is.
I'm not arguing for or against anything, I'm just guessing because you're not spilling the beans if you will..
and what has this to do with the original post about supporting an oppressive regime? what is CDA? I give up, I tried.
Nobody asked to you reply. But IF you want to make an argument, make it. Don't just say "it can be made", then leave that as homework to the reader, and *then* instantly pile on the insults while refering to "kindergarten level" when you're called on it.
Which, as I said, doesn't surprise, since I guess your implied argument for supporting a tyranny is "otherwise, worse would happen", since it usually is, and people who fall for that bullshit often exhibit the exact same bully style of "argument", like you did. So, no surprise there. I just asked you, what the good reasons are, and instantly you pout/attack. So I'll have to assume there simply isn't anything worthwhile there.
But of course, feel free to post what you should have posted in the first place, your argument. But save me your patronizing antics. They're hilarious but ultimately boring and off-topic. Shit or get off the pot.
It does "ring a bell", but that's far cry from you actually *saying* what you're beating around the bush about. Not that this surprises me...
and why does it?
But surely only someone with an UID above, say, 1.5 million would take this whole UID thing seriously? Oh, wait...
It's impossible to look at journal pages, much less use them for discussion. I don't mind the rest as much but this bit is just flat out broken. Maybe it was missed in the redesign? I guess (HOPE) this is still work in progress then...
No, I just call 126918 the user id, and 35044590 the comment id =P But yes, if you must know, any UID below a million seems weird to me in combination with such a stupid comment. (would you call that comment "not stupid", by the way? ^^)... which means *I* would be fine to make it, but all you guys should be held up to higher standards. (haha)
that's not the user id, that's the comment id ^^
How so?
Browsing naughty sites in Lynx? o_O
Actually, he doesn't say "trust hyperlinks", he asked you to read it. It's you who is judging a book by its cover (or even just the patterns of mud on your windshield, to use a car analogy haha).
No, he's just not our nanny/callboy. There is worlds of difference between line between WANTING evil (malevolence), and reserving the right to let it go on for a while, then punish the perpretrators and restore the victims, while warning all along the way. If you call the later "evil" that just shows you call anything evil you don't particulary like. What we are doing is way more malevolent than anyone deciding not to step in, that should be obvious for starters.
Some people believe in Aliens and that there are friendly ones that watch us but don't help us (against the Evil Aliens and/or ourselves, etc.), and how they want us to ask them to reveal themselves tralalala. Now, this might not concern many people and I'm not very aquainted with that whole, uh, scene... but I NEVER, not ONCE heard someone suggest that they're *evil* for not stepping in.
No, that's how the elves do it, isn't it... as long as they don't WANT anything from us, as long as they don't criticize us, or only mildly... then we admire that. It's even amongst the prime directives of Star Trek haha, to not interfere, and quite a few people criticize the USA for (allegedly) bringing democracy to others. What gives? I mean hey, if you can stop someone from being unfriendly to their child and you don't do it, you're EVIL, right? You WANT that child to grow up unloved. If you don't invade people who treat their women badly, it's like you are treating those women badly yourselves... right? Just to make sure I got it correctly...
Seriously, why does this shitty set of "witty questions" resurface all the time, and does anyone out of puberty ponder it for more than 10 minutes?? haha.
And what if we WERE in a situation were God "prevented evil" by telling is what (not) to do, and our current one is a result in OUR not heeding that? Sure, you would want God to FORCE us, but the opinions differ on that, and there are pretty good arguments against that (as in, there is no value or merit in good if evil isn't even an option, no joy without pain etc...) And there is also the aspect of Judgmenent. Which of course gets conveniently ignored. NEWSFLASH: YOUR CURRENT EXISTANCE IS TEMPORARY AND 100% DUST IN THE WIND IN ANY CASE. (people need to know, they have a right to, and it would save us a lot of shitty sophistry like this little "gem" of history you so kindly brought up)
And hey, you know what, at worst you'd just have to accept that God created stuff for Himself and for those who like the danger of the situation we're in, period and "haha, fuck you" if you don't like it. YOU may call that evil, that would be very understandable - but without any absolute measure that's just another opinion. Others would call it being a sore loser, or worse, a murderer calling the police corrupt to avoid or dilute the murder charges.
IF there is eternity, it's a silly waste of time to judge anything right now.
If there is NO eternity (yet God created this and is responsible for what we do etc. blah blah), then God prevented both good and evil (from having any meaning in the big picture). You see, all suffering ends. At some point there will be no suffering and you could then say "that's because how God made it, and any suffering that did take place isn't remembered by anyone but God (and maybe not even that), so it's as if it never happened in the first place".
Simple enough: because that "role" is perfectly fitting for the Most High That IS, and doesn't take second place to The Most High That Someone Can Imagine (Based On Faulty Premises And Crappy Logic). Before demanding something better, try to see the good in what's already there... plus a few looks in the mirror, the fabric of reality and at others, and sometimes make such demands simply dissappear like the foolishness they are.
How could I possibly mean the one 5 people on this planet including you are using? No, I mean the context menu. Usually it just had "paste", then Opera added "paste & go", then Chrome had it, and now Firefox has it, too. Apparently they forgot about "Middlemouse.contentLoadURL"?
Sure, calling it an "innovation" is a bit rich. However, Opera had it first: An entry in the context menu labeled "paste and go". The others followed suit.
:P
Middlemouse.contentLoadURL. Uhhuh.... well not even the FF devs agree with you, or they wouldn't have put it in the context menu
Same thing again... you're technically correct, sure, however not when it comes to anything that matters:
"Four years later, in 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser. That same year, a text editor called UltraEdit also appeared with a modern multi-row tabbed interface. The tabbed interface approach was then followed by the Internet Explorer shell NetCaptor in 1997. These were followed by a number of others like IBrowse in 1999, and Opera in 2000 (with the release of version 4 - although a MDI interface was supported before then), MultiViews October 2000, which changed its name into MultiZilla on 1 April 2001 (an extension for the Mozilla Application Suite[7]), Mozilla 0.9.5 in October 2001, Phoenix 0.3 (now Mozilla Firefox) in October 2002, Konqueror 3.1 in January 2003, and Safari in 2003. With the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006, all major web browsers featured a tabbed interface."
Now, you may not rememeber how Firefox was hailed as bringing tabbed browsing to the masses, but I do. Yet when it comes to usable browser, Opera was the first that made it viable, all the obscure stuff that came before it nonwithstanding:
InternetWorks
NetCaptor
IBrowse
Opera
MultiViews/MultiZilla
Mozilla Firefox
Konqueror
Safari
Internet Explorer 7
(Chrome)
Notice how there is no browser on that list still in use today that comes before Opera.
You said God is evil. The God we're talking about however implies afterlife. And without such an afterlife, the likeliest prospect seems to be "eternal nothingness", or rather, approaching but never reaching total zero, without any awareness, right?
So that which you say makes God evil, because he lets others do evil to us, or allows earthquakes etc, is inconsequential either way: Either it's just a finite amount of "whatever it is" compared to an eternity of "basically nothing" --- OR it doesn't matter because there is an afterlife which isn't based on how wealthy or healthy you were, but on the state of your heart (which is why I said, in that case the only real harm that can come to you is the evil you DO, not the evil that is DONE to you).
Which is my whole point, and I regard your shifting this on what I believe and what a person that makes me as a mere distraction. Your claims about God being evil are baseless (I say that as someone who tried real hard to find fault with just about any religious text and about any believer, not to mention God).
Sure, you think that now. But in XYZ years it will have made NO difference if you have lived, not to the universe, not to you, right?
What could the point of ANY life possibly be? That's the arrogance I don't get, even though I suffer from it myself. It could be better, it could be worse, there could be nothing. What makes us think we're entitled to anything? Does anyone still sometimes stop and just look at their hand or the clouds in UTTER BEFUDDLEMENT and think "why is ANYTHING? what IS this? who ARE we?"... and just giggle and shake their heads until it passes?
Why does love exist? Where does it come from? I don't mean erotic affection, I mean LOVE. Even if we fall short of it all the time, why do we even KNOW about ideals like humbleness and forgiveness? "it must have had an evolutionary advantage" is an explanation requiring just as much faith as "God is the source".
Actually it scares me shitless sometimes. How does that jive with your idea that I simply believe what makes me comfortable because I'm not that bright? I mean hey, I may be not that bright, but I'm not gleeful about any of this. When I really think of it, of God and our condition, it makes me solemn.
For the first 25 years of my life I was SURE God was just a crutch for not very intelligent people. And when I started to believe, finding out how it could all be a sinister trick was the FIRST thing I searched for. I didn't just distrust God, I hunted him and everybody who claimed to be somewhat at ease with him. I still tend to do that. However, I have to say, right now the score is still X to zero for God.... I'm not so much refuting your claim of God being evil because I cannot handle that with my feeble believer-mind, it's because I've been there and done that. I'm trying to save you time.
And no, I don't think there'll be "conflicting information and views". I wish I could believe that, but I can't. When I read the Bible I feel convicted at every corner. When I look into the world and into myself I find what it says to be true. Which does not excite me, to say the least.
It also doesn't matter wether I'm good with that, it matters wether it's good with me.
Oh, but that of course doesn't apply when you declare God evil because of a story about a torture victim burning in hell because of suicide. LOL! next.
There's definately "the next trillion years"? Or do you not believe tomorrow exists until it's there? Huh?
Heh, an ad-hominem plus again actively misreading what I actually said doesn't really help. You see, our existence is inconsequential even if there is no afterlife/eternity/whatever. Of course I can't KNOW that, but right now either heat death seems most likely, right? So while you can't even follow this simple discussion, I suggest you reserve judgement about how in touch with reality. It just makes you seem desperate to put a label on me to get this over with. Besides, since you haven't offered a single argument yet why our existence IS consequential, why would I need to prove it otherwise? Our existance is meaningless by default, scientifically speaking. And yes, IF you start speaking about the Christian image of God, then you can't just pick one part and say "hah! so evil!", but outright refuse to acknowledge the rest that goes along with it. That's just daft, but then so is this whole article so I figure it goes with the territory.
You have no idea what I believe in, but of course, if you want to be able to spout such BS and then not own up to it like a kid going "lalala", you need every little petty lame thing you can get, right? Whatever makes you feel superior to that God that is evil without even existing and the stupid stupid people who believe in that.
it's configurable. right click on the UI, select customize appearance, and off you go. about the name... well, that's just you, and no big loss for anyone really.
who said it was? but "paste & go" was, for example. now they all have it. not to mention, uhhh, tabbed browsing :P
Then read up on what "judging" means in *this* context.
Why? If you know that in the long run they will not suffer, why does it matter? If you don't even begin to take "eternity blah blah" seriously, then this discussion really has no point.
Well, "judging" kinda implies action, you know? And yes, compared to eternity suffering a few ills here is *nothing*.
Doesn't surprise me you feel that way, seeing how come up with..
you surely agree that DOING that is evil?
Yeah, but you're just taking a piece of "Christian dogma" and running with it. To me suicide is "throwing your life away out of spite", I am pretty sure being tortured until you just can't take it anymore does NOT fall under that. But hey, it's not like there is ONE story in the bible which mentions someone being sent to hell because they committed suicide, is there?
You're basically using made up stories of tortured children who commit suicide, who are tortured by HUMANS, as argument for God being evil. Bleh.
Again, you do not take judgement and eternity into account. Compared to eternity, none of this matters, only how you spend eternity does.
If there is no eternity, none of this matters period, the Universe will die the heat death either way and all bliss and all pain will cease, and compared to the eternity of nothing it will be like it never was. So I don't get what the boo-hoo is about...
I'm saying God chose not to stop it, but instead judge it... which kind of is the same IF you take eternity into account and not just "what happens here".
Find me ONE post in the whole intarwebs that says the status bar made the code "bloated".
"They can't win, can they?"
In the scenarios you so conveniently pull out of your ass they can not, no... in the real world however, they could just produce efficient code with good set of default features AND the ability to extend that via plugins.
People complain about FF bloat because it used to eat resources like candy for no good reason. 4 seems to be much better in that regard, but not even 0.0000001% of the performance improvements came from removing the status bar, I bet ya.
As for "screen estate bloat", make it toggleable, done.