My fellow being. The bible is, if anything, a very important piece of history. All religious books from the days of lore are a deeply rooted part of our history and they most certainly should be respected for that fact alone.
Should they been taught in schools? For what they are as a part of history yes. Their doctrine should not be taught, that is what Church is for.
Just because they mention God, does not mean we can not educate our children about what they are, why they are and what role they play in our culture.
To not do so would be for us to become as cold and Godless as the Soviets.
They are a part of who and what we are, where we came from and what the ancients believed would happen. Everything you said above shows an ignorance of someone who has not really read the Bible and tried to understand how it came to be and what it meant to them people who penned the letters and transcribed the scrolls that the Church later bound as a book.
I believe deeply that we are all part of the same great thing, one soul looking back on itself in a million different ways. You know the silly old saying, 'Be One with the Universe".
'The least you do unto your fellow man is the least you do unto me'
J.C.
Wow, if there's still IT people using Blackberries, then we do need a union.
iPhones for All!!! (But not the 3G one's, we want 16gig version 1 phones....with unlimited Voice AND DATA packages!!!!)
And we want them on something other than AT&T!
and mountain dew, lots of mountain dew...
So we spent billions in tax dollars in bad attempts to create reliable government software for facial recognition and Google did it because my wife clicks all the Google Ads?
Hey, maybe the government should make an agreement with Google to have every Tax payer click on 'x' number of ads everyday to cover our tax bills. We could even help the government set up the link farms to spam the other search engines....
There is little doubt in my mind that the Universe itself is endless, with no beginning and no end. Every conceivable idea exists somewhere, somehow.
The realm of philosophy is just now beating again at the door of science. Our understanding of the Quantum nature of our existence shows truth in this statement.
Not all things can be measured in a test tube, not all things can be plotted on a map. There are an endless supply of Solar Systems exactly like ours, all the way down to where only one quark is out of place.
I believe the real question, the important one, isn't how common our setup is, but how many are near us, in this region and arm of the Milky Way. There is little doubt the Universe is teeming with everything the minds conceives, what we really want to know is how far away and can we go there (or can they come here).
Given time our physicists will stop looking at things through eyes clouded by the forth dimension and will realize the past, present and future combine to make the fifth measurement that defines the object. When our math is adjusted correctly to compensate for the speed at which all mass is shrinking and then factored into the fifth dimensional view of the object we'll arrive at a better understanding of how to manipulate space and matter around us.
You guys still reading this? I would have stopped at the philosophy part and gone back to the thread about Google Chrome (which rocks btw, using it now), you're a trooper if you made it this far.
So you think there has never been a company in the US, that didn't make a crappy product that might have harmed people?
No one said we should get rid of the government. Why is everyone so excited by extremes. I said 'less government intervention', i didn't say no government.
However, good old fashioned Free Economy does work. The Soviet Empire fell for a reason, micromanagement doesn't work.
You seriously believe that government intervention was key to the birth and growth of the Web? Honestly, I understand what you're trying to articulate, but it makes as much sense as breaking up AT&T.
The theory is good, if you're a socialist or one of those people who thinks we really need Big Brother to watch over everything.
I think if you looked at the big picture you might find that with less government intervention things would roll a lot smoother.
We never had to worry about things like CAPTCHA. The Internet was such a free place back then. We never had to worry about losing our ISP or trying to come up some unique algorithim to overcome barriers.
Of course this was in 1993 when there were only about eight people surfing the web and Mr. T eating balls was as high tech as it got.
Back then everyone loved spam, it was about the only email we got.
In fact we didn't even call it spam back then, we called it spurkey.
The only problem we had was trying to figure out how to use the key to get the lid off.
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My fellow being. The bible is, if anything, a very important piece of history. All religious books from the days of lore are a deeply rooted part of our history and they most certainly should be respected for that fact alone.
Should they been taught in schools? For what they are as a part of history yes. Their doctrine should not be taught, that is what Church is for.
Just because they mention God, does not mean we can not educate our children about what they are, why they are and what role they play in our culture.
To not do so would be for us to become as cold and Godless as the Soviets.
They are a part of who and what we are, where we came from and what the ancients believed would happen. Everything you said above shows an ignorance of someone who has not really read the Bible and tried to understand how it came to be and what it meant to them people who penned the letters and transcribed the scrolls that the Church later bound as a book.
I believe deeply that we are all part of the same great thing, one soul looking back on itself in a million different ways. You know the silly old saying, 'Be One with the Universe".
'The least you do unto your fellow man is the least you do unto me' J.C.
Wow, if there's still IT people using Blackberries, then we do need a union. iPhones for All!!! (But not the 3G one's, we want 16gig version 1 phones....with unlimited Voice AND DATA packages!!!!) And we want them on something other than AT&T! and mountain dew, lots of mountain dew...
So we spent billions in tax dollars in bad attempts to create reliable government software for facial recognition and Google did it because my wife clicks all the Google Ads? Hey, maybe the government should make an agreement with Google to have every Tax payer click on 'x' number of ads everyday to cover our tax bills. We could even help the government set up the link farms to spam the other search engines....
There is little doubt in my mind that the Universe itself is endless, with no beginning and no end. Every conceivable idea exists somewhere, somehow. The realm of philosophy is just now beating again at the door of science. Our understanding of the Quantum nature of our existence shows truth in this statement. Not all things can be measured in a test tube, not all things can be plotted on a map. There are an endless supply of Solar Systems exactly like ours, all the way down to where only one quark is out of place. I believe the real question, the important one, isn't how common our setup is, but how many are near us, in this region and arm of the Milky Way. There is little doubt the Universe is teeming with everything the minds conceives, what we really want to know is how far away and can we go there (or can they come here). Given time our physicists will stop looking at things through eyes clouded by the forth dimension and will realize the past, present and future combine to make the fifth measurement that defines the object. When our math is adjusted correctly to compensate for the speed at which all mass is shrinking and then factored into the fifth dimensional view of the object we'll arrive at a better understanding of how to manipulate space and matter around us. You guys still reading this? I would have stopped at the philosophy part and gone back to the thread about Google Chrome (which rocks btw, using it now), you're a trooper if you made it this far.
So you think there has never been a company in the US, that didn't make a crappy product that might have harmed people? No one said we should get rid of the government. Why is everyone so excited by extremes. I said 'less government intervention', i didn't say no government. However, good old fashioned Free Economy does work. The Soviet Empire fell for a reason, micromanagement doesn't work.
You seriously believe that government intervention was key to the birth and growth of the Web? Honestly, I understand what you're trying to articulate, but it makes as much sense as breaking up AT&T. The theory is good, if you're a socialist or one of those people who thinks we really need Big Brother to watch over everything. I think if you looked at the big picture you might find that with less government intervention things would roll a lot smoother.
We never had to worry about things like CAPTCHA. The Internet was such a free place back then. We never had to worry about losing our ISP or trying to come up some unique algorithim to overcome barriers. Of course this was in 1993 when there were only about eight people surfing the web and Mr. T eating balls was as high tech as it got. Back then everyone loved spam, it was about the only email we got. In fact we didn't even call it spam back then, we called it spurkey. The only problem we had was trying to figure out how to use the key to get the lid off.