Quoting a book does nothing to prove if things occurred or not. I can have a chat with my neighbor right now and we can write corroborating stories about how I levitated to the top of the telephone pole to save his grandma who was put there by aliens from outer space. That doesn't mean it happened. What I'm trying to say is that you believe what you read in the bible because you already believe to begin with. What makes those stories more true than greek, roman, or norse
mythology, or scientology and rastafarians in more modern days even? I will never believe that a person was resurrected from the dead because scientifically it can't happen. Can I believe that Jesus existed and walked around and spread some kind words around? Sure I can. Do I believe he fed masses of starving people with a loaf of bread and a few fish? No, huge difference.
Not to be a total jerk but, the entire premise of religion isn't exactly based on fact. Yes, you can find documents stating that certain historical persons existed at one time or another, and you can debate what they may or may not have done. At the end of the day it still comes down to faith, do you believe or don't you? Authors have started religions/cults before. Maybe he wants proceeds from his next book to be tax free?
I'm not at all religious and have not read the books so I can't really argue with you on this, but I can see that it would annoy you as a minister. He's messing with the minds of your flock. Many novels are written as to make it seem it could have happened in a certain time period. Think of the zillions of war movies for example. I think it's just the topic that angers you rather than the idea of pseudo fiction itself.
Seems you're getting a bit worked up over a work of fiction. Historical books about what the catholic church has actually done throughout the ages are much scarier.
The poster is not elitist for disagreeing with the majority but for insinuating that reading Stephen King is for people who read at a third grade level.
Off topic, but at what grade level do you learn subjunctive mood? Presumably one the poster hasn't reached yet. And, I think an e.g. would have fit better than an ie. See, I too can be elitist and arrogant.
/. as a whole thrives on disliking what's mainstream and popular, the Matrix and LotR notable exceptions. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much, not everything mainstream is bad.
Cuba is easy to boycott as they don't offer a heck of a lot of things we need/want except good cigars and tourist destinations (both of which you can get elsewhere). If they found oil or developed a booming tech industry overnight the boycott would end faster than you can say Fidel.
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All the pirated games.
I think I bought roughly 1% of the games I played. Copies of tapes full of games spread faster than chicken pox through my middle school.
I don't know about the rest of the world but I am not into reading books written as if I was reading at a third grade level (ie Stephen King's latest works).
Seeing that Stephen King is one of the most popular authors of our time I'd say most of the world disagree with you. All in all a pretty elitist thing to say. I'm not a huge fan but some of his books are really excellent in my opinion. But, I guess it's not cool to like a popular author.
I disagree, I'm all about fact retention.
People can only gain my respect by beating me at Trivial Pursuit or shouting out answers before me while watching Jeopardy. I won't vote for someone whom I don't think can stand chance against me at TP which is why Bush is out in 04. That, and the fact I'm not a US citizen yet.
most companies are using DB2, Oracle, MySql, or something that is ANSI-SQL compatible...not M$ SQL
What are you basing that statement on? This Gartner study released earlier this year has Oracle as no1 followed by DB2 but both of them losing marketshare, while Microsoft in the no3 spot increased revenues for 2002. And, MS SQL is the number 1 db for Windows.
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Quoting a book does nothing to prove if things occurred or not. I can have a chat with my neighbor right now and we can write corroborating stories about how I levitated to the top of the telephone pole to save his grandma who was put there by aliens from outer space. That doesn't mean it happened.
What I'm trying to say is that you believe what you read in the bible because you already believe to begin with. What makes those stories more true than greek, roman, or norse mythology, or scientology and rastafarians in more modern days even?
I will never believe that a person was resurrected from the dead because scientifically it can't happen. Can I believe that Jesus existed and walked around and spread some kind words around? Sure I can. Do I believe he fed masses of starving people with a loaf of bread and a few fish? No, huge difference.
where is this place? sounds too good to be true
I'm not at all religious and have not read the books so I can't really argue with you on this, but I can see that it would annoy you as a minister. He's messing with the minds of your flock.
Many novels are written as to make it seem it could have happened in a certain time period. Think of the zillions of war movies for example. I think it's just the topic that angers you rather than the idea of pseudo fiction itself.
Seems you're getting a bit worked up over a work of fiction. Historical books about what the catholic church has actually done throughout the ages are much scarier.
speaking of sickness, I liked the link from your blog to the infectious wearables ties.
Having never seen this term in print before I decided to look it up. Straightdope.com reckons it's probably dead.
English isn't my native language so I may have had an unfair advantage.
Off topic, but at what grade level do you learn subjunctive mood? Presumably one the poster hasn't reached yet. And, I think an e.g. would have fit better than an ie.
See, I too can be elitist and arrogant.
/. as a whole thrives on disliking what's mainstream and popular, the Matrix and LotR notable exceptions. Sometimes it gets to be a bit much, not everything mainstream is bad.
This sounds interesting, tell me more. I may want to invest with you.
Cuba is easy to boycott as they don't offer a heck of a lot of things we need/want except good cigars and tourist destinations (both of which you can get elsewhere). If they found oil or developed a booming tech industry overnight the boycott would end faster than you can say Fidel.
I think I bought roughly 1% of the games I played. Copies of tapes full of games spread faster than chicken pox through my middle school.
my bad, too much blood in the alcohol stream
We've known this about Guiness for years
Seeing that Stephen King is one of the most popular authors of our time I'd say most of the world disagree with you. All in all a pretty elitist thing to say. I'm not a huge fan but some of his books are really excellent in my opinion. But, I guess it's not cool to like a popular author.
Are other countries daring them to create jobs?
It's not a bad idea. Every bit as valid as whomever spends the most money wins which is what happens 90% of the time nowadays.
I disagree, I'm all about fact retention.
People can only gain my respect by beating me at Trivial Pursuit or shouting out answers before me while watching Jeopardy. I won't vote for someone whom I don't think can stand chance against me at TP which is why Bush is out in 04. That, and the fact I'm not a US citizen yet.
FEMA SOOL, ISP's BPL TKOs FNAR.
What are you basing that statement on? This Gartner study released earlier this year has Oracle as no1 followed by DB2 but both of them losing marketshare, while Microsoft in the no3 spot increased revenues for 2002. And, MS SQL is the number 1 db for Windows.
I think all vendors can safely ignore the undiscovered ones. It's the discovered holes and problems that are causes for concern.
Think he meant: "Don't nobody link to nothing,"
Not their expected salaries, $160,000 is the rough cost of an MIT computer science degree.
so just what is the apostrophe for in your '50s example? 19?
50% less risk of a flat tire?
yup