Check out this article. It should be quite accessible for you. I agree with most of it, except for the bit in the beginning about macroevolution (I have no problem with macroevolution).
Because we're imperfect humans, we can't perfectly implement anything Jesus taught or lived. The early Church described in Acts 2 is a pretty good example though.
Give me a second to recover from my surprise about finding another Christian on slashdot...
I totally agree. Perhaps I should have said "Part of the Christian life/walk is about..." The difference between salvation and sanctification is important.
You're also totally right about staying humble. Sometimes it is so frustrating to see nominal Christians like those I mentioned, and it becomes so easy to say "I'm so glad I'm not like those Christians." Exactly the attitude Jesus condemned when describing the Pharisee praying in public and looking emaciated when fasting. The reality as that no matter how "good" we are, we're all sinners, dead in our sins. (I'm a Calvinist as well).
A major doctrine of Christianity is that no one measures up to the holiness of God anyway, which is why Christ, God incarnate, came and took the sins of the world upon himself. Christianity isn't about being a bunch of holier-than-thou religious people who live in middle class suburbia, go to church once a week, and try not to sin a lot. If you read any one of the four Gospels, those are the types of people which Jesus condemned most frequently (the Pharisees). Christianity is about self-sacrifice, living as Christ lived, and loving as Christ loved. Unfortunately Western Christianity currently looks a lot more like the former than the latter. I'm not asking you to believe it or even find it rational, I'm just asking you to at least give an accurate portrayal of something before you critique it.
How about per capita GDP by zip/area code? Maybe the CPI? The GDP Deflator?
Those are all good measures for economic well-being because they measure, you know, economic well-being. (Actually the GDP itself doesn't measure well being because it doesn't take into account inflation - that's what the CPI and the GDP Deflator attempt to do).
Housing prices are way too volatile to be used as a measure of overall economic well being. We might as well use the price of gasoline or milk. Another reason using specific products is not a good way to measure economic well-being is that people don't spend all of their money on milk, gasoline, or housing. Just because gas went up $.10 doesn't mean most people are significantly poorer than they were last week. The GDP deflator and CPI take into account overall price levels (inflation). People are all worse off when inflation rises 10% in a year because all of their dollars are worth 10% less.
Obama will will double capital gains tax, raise Social Security taxes, income taxes, and most likely tons of other taxes (gasoline?) which affect everyone, (especially the poor) not just the rich.
Truly, a downtrodden people, crying out for the better way of life enjoyed by their fellow men in Mississippi.
I'm sure all the middle class people in California giving thirty percent of their income to the government (soon to be more if we become an Obamanation) are really happy about it and wish the government would take more of their money.
#1 GDP of US states
Surprise! The US State with the largest population has the largest GDP.
That MUST be the reason why mp3s haven't completely replaced physic media! Everyone knows that the highest quality products always sell the best! Just look at Microsoft!
It's not unusual. I don't even know my password for most websites because I generate random >20 character passwords using keepass and store them on my flash drive on my keychain.
If he had written "That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from," that, I believe, would be ending a sentence in a preposition.
That's exactly what he did. From the GP's post:
That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from.
I was making a joke about the GP's use of "from" at the end of his fixed sentence. The joke was that I was grammatically fixing his "fixed" sentence. Perhaps you just misread the posts, and maybe I shouldn't have used the quote tags when fixing his sentence.
For a non-native speaker, you type pretty well. Most native speakers can't even correctly spell the word "grammar!"
The reason you can't find a "logical" English grammar book is that grammar rules English are violated so often that there is essentially no logic, system, or method behind any of it. Punctuation is probably the most "logical" part. Spelling? Forget it. "I before E, except after C?" What a joke.
Who uses caps lock apart from people who have remapped it to control?
Not sure. I have it totally disabled to prevent hitting it by accident, which used to happen a lot because of my elite typing speed skills. But seriously, I used to hit it accidentally all the time and it was really annoying.
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Check out this article. It should be quite accessible for you. I agree with most of it, except for the bit in the beginning about macroevolution (I have no problem with macroevolution).
http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/other_papers/animal_death_before_the_fall.shtml
Because we're imperfect humans, we can't perfectly implement anything Jesus taught or lived. The early Church described in Acts 2 is a pretty good example though.
Give me a second to recover from my surprise about finding another Christian on slashdot...
I totally agree. Perhaps I should have said "Part of the Christian life/walk is about..." The difference between salvation and sanctification is important.
You're also totally right about staying humble. Sometimes it is so frustrating to see nominal Christians like those I mentioned, and it becomes so easy to say "I'm so glad I'm not like those Christians." Exactly the attitude Jesus condemned when describing the Pharisee praying in public and looking emaciated when fasting. The reality as that no matter how "good" we are, we're all sinners, dead in our sins. (I'm a Calvinist as well).
A major doctrine of Christianity is that no one measures up to the holiness of God anyway, which is why Christ, God incarnate, came and took the sins of the world upon himself. Christianity isn't about being a bunch of holier-than-thou religious people who live in middle class suburbia, go to church once a week, and try not to sin a lot. If you read any one of the four Gospels, those are the types of people which Jesus condemned most frequently (the Pharisees). Christianity is about self-sacrifice, living as Christ lived, and loving as Christ loved. Unfortunately Western Christianity currently looks a lot more like the former than the latter. I'm not asking you to believe it or even find it rational, I'm just asking you to at least give an accurate portrayal of something before you critique it.
Not all Christians believe in a literal six-day creation story (I am one of them): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_interpretation_(Genesis)
How about per capita GDP by zip/area code? Maybe the CPI? The GDP Deflator?
Those are all good measures for economic well-being because they measure, you know, economic well-being. (Actually the GDP itself doesn't measure well being because it doesn't take into account inflation - that's what the CPI and the GDP Deflator attempt to do).
Housing prices are way too volatile to be used as a measure of overall economic well being. We might as well use the price of gasoline or milk. Another reason using specific products is not a good way to measure economic well-being is that people don't spend all of their money on milk, gasoline, or housing. Just because gas went up $.10 doesn't mean most people are significantly poorer than they were last week. The GDP deflator and CPI take into account overall price levels (inflation). People are all worse off when inflation rises 10% in a year because all of their dollars are worth 10% less.
I hope you meant to reply to timeOday...
Obama will will double capital gains tax, raise Social Security taxes, income taxes, and most likely tons of other taxes (gasoline?) which affect everyone, (especially the poor) not just the rich.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hv559EfDVQDOVDVYhGxB2xcwCveQD92ORLP00
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/11/obama-i-deserve-a-tax-increase/
http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/24/editorial/hz_standspeak.20080824.c.pg2.hz21let_skuba_s1.1892436_edi.txt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301848.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4597395.ece
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20080822
Enough news sources for you, or should I go to the second page of google results? Obama simply believes in the old-fashioned "tax the rich" nonsense.
Everyone knows higher taxes promote economic growth an lower taxes only help evil businessmen, right?
Truly, a downtrodden people, crying out for the better way of life enjoyed by their fellow men in Mississippi.
I'm sure all the middle class people in California giving thirty percent of their income to the government (soon to be more if we become an Obamanation) are really happy about it and wish the government would take more of their money.
#1 GDP of US states
Surprise! The US State with the largest population has the largest GDP.
Sorry, I really don't know. Personally, I love the AwesomeBar. =\
You could just disable having FF store your browser history, couldn't you?
This is my last winter in Chicago before graduation :(
I think you're mixing Wayne Newton and Steve Wynn, both of which are big deals in Las Vegas.
That MUST be the reason why mp3s haven't completely replaced physic media! Everyone knows that the highest quality products always sell the best! Just look at Microsoft!
It's not unusual. I don't even know my password for most websites because I generate random >20 character passwords using keepass and store them on my flash drive on my keychain.
If he had written "That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from," that, I believe, would be ending a sentence in a preposition.
That's exactly what he did. From the GP's post:
That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from.
I was making a joke about the GP's use of "from" at the end of his fixed sentence. The joke was that I was grammatically fixing his "fixed" sentence. Perhaps you just misread the posts, and maybe I shouldn't have used the quote tags when fixing his sentence.
Come on man, it was a joke (the grammar advice is, however, true). That's why there was a smiley face emoticon at the end!
For a non-native speaker, you type pretty well. Most native speakers can't even correctly spell the word "grammar!"
The reason you can't find a "logical" English grammar book is that grammar rules English are violated so often that there is essentially no logic, system, or method behind any of it. Punctuation is probably the most "logical" part. Spelling? Forget it. "I before E, except after C?" What a joke.
Good luck to you!
That's such a tiny percentage of the people from whom I took money.
How do you expect a judge to listen to you when you don't speak correctly!? Silly... :)
There's no SUBstitute for sarcasm!
You could just remap the useless Caps Lock key to meta.
101? What is this, 1999? Everyone knows all those extra keys are really useful.
Who uses caps lock apart from people who have remapped it to control?
Not sure. I have it totally disabled to prevent hitting it by accident, which used to happen a lot because of my elite typing speed skills. But seriously, I used to hit it accidentally all the time and it was really annoying.
I think you got yourself in over your head this time.