The first commandment basically says that a faithful Jew (and Christian for that matter) should have one god, and only one god. It gets expanded into "and don't you dare not to" in some other parts. Deuteronomy 17 expands this to basically the requirement to kill anyone who dares to turn his back to this god. Deuteronomy 13 requires the same concerning the worship of other gods. And in Numbers 31 a town gets sacked because someone from that town came and tried to convert people.
How exactly would you make this go along with "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"?
I have zero EQ. I'm the guy that goes to a convention for Kurdish diabetics and orders Turkish Honey as a snack.
The point is just that it does not affect me if they wish Merry Christmas. Why shouldn't I wish them the same? I neither care for Christmas nor does it affect me negatively, but it might just be important to them, so what's my loss by wishing them a Merry Christmas, or what is my gain in refusing?
Actually, not doing it has a chance of pissing them off and them going out of their way to piss me off in retaliation. Now why the fuck would I want that?
Odd. That would deserve some closer examination. All the trans people I know are doing WAY better after than before. Sure, anecdotes are no proof but I'd really want to see some research done in that area.
The problem is it is probably impossible by now to determine his birthday, provided he existed altogether. The whole part about his birth in the Bible is useless because it most likely never happened that way.
A census taking place would probably make sense from the perspective of the ruler because that way he'd know what taxes to expect from the different provinces of his empire. People traveling back to their ancestral lands for this makes zero sense whatsoever, though. First it's a logistical nightmare. We're talking about a time when traveling was a huge endeavor and even small distances took weeks if not months. What would happen in such a scenario is that the whole country de facto shuts down for months because people have to travel across it twice. Imagine Thanksgiving in the US without airplanes and cars, and you HAVE TO go to your parents, even if they don't live anymore. This might give you a faint idea what that would be like.
And for what? What exactly would the ruler who orders something like this gain? For tax purposes it's worthless because the people will go back to where they came from afterwards. Why would the Romans, who ruled that area at that time, give a fuck about some Jews' lineage? Hell, even a Jewish ruler most likely wouldn't.
And even if, even if you actually give a shit about where someone came from, why not simply ask them (because you don't have anything besides someone's word anyway, it's not like people had birth certificates back then) where they are living, note it down and send the documents?
The whole story makes exactly ZERO sense. Unless of course you have to fulfill some prophecy in Isaiah talking about where the saviour of the Jews will be born. And since Jesus fits none of the other traits this saviour should have, from name to behaviour to knowledge to... anything, at least his birthplace should be correct. That was probably the easiest to fake.
So no, we don't have much to pinpoint the birthday of Jesus, provided he ever existed. It would be a curious coincidence if it was the 25th of December, though, when most pagan religions celebrate the return of the sun after the longest night in Winter. And the Christian faith has never been shy when it came to redefining feast, turning gods into saints or building churches on places of pagan worship. So it's more likely that this is another one of these "refurnished" festivities.
Sorry, no. The "verifiably false" part of the definition does not apply. I cannot look into the head of a transgender person and determine whether they are really feeling in the "wrong" body or whether it's false. That they generally are more happy with their body and their gender after the transition would point towards them actually being right.
Do you have proof that there is no invisible dwarf living under your house? If not, then why don't you leave out milk and cookies on the porch, because else he might damage your foundation. Should you ever have a damaged foundation, this is proof that there is a dwarf living under your house. Don't say I didn't warn you.
That's just one of the things I could come up with in the 2 minutes of writing this. Give me an hour and I have a ton of things you cannot prove wrong and an equally large amount of things you should do "just in case", you'll be busy your whole life.
Or you could do the sensible thing and brush them all aside, saying that you can dismiss without an argument assertions made without any proof.
I'd probably ask them about their religious customs. Mostly 'cause I don't know anyone personally who celebrates either and I'd sure want to know more about them.
Such a wish would probably start a conversation about their custom, actually, provided they're willing to talk about it with someone who will certainly not incorporate it into his life but only wants to know about it out of curiosity.
If the programmers becomes personally responsible, you shift the problem one step over because all you accomplish that way is that nobody would want to be a programmer anymore.
The programmers are tossed into a project with insane milestones and without any training concerning security whatsoever. What kind of code do you expect to get out of them?
Where would this magical land be? I don't know a single country or company for that matter that isn't looking for IT-security and can't find any experienced security people.
You don't get it, do you? Blacklisting an itsec worker actually willing to work for you hurts you, not them.
There is a BIG shortage of experienced IT security personnel. The very last thing you need is that word gets around that your country treats them like shit, as some countries in the middle east had to learn the hard way recently.
Another reason you want to hire autists. They don't subscribe to strange, deranged ideas like national pride, religious ideas or other bull like this. I work for whoever pays me. I'm not loyal to my home country, there is no logic in such behaviour. I'm loyal to my employer. My employer exchanges money for the work I provide. It is sensible to be loyal to someone like this, as long as this arrangement continues.
It's also pretty hard to bribe me. It's been tried before, usually with money. I have enough money. More than I need, actually. I get it as wage. Legally. No need to break a law (and very likely end my career) for something as trivial as this. Blackmail? How? There is nothing you could threaten me with. Friendship? What's that again? Being part of a group? I am part of a group. I have 6 coworkers. That's about 5 more people than I want to be in a group with. Sometimes 6 more than I do.
Some people cannot be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some people just want to get their work done.
Actually no. The very first amendment flies right in the face of any "Christian principle". The first amendment and the first commandment are fundamentally incompatible.
Provided the reports are accurate, the Romans killed Jesus. The Jews could not have killed him. Even if they wanted. Judea was a province of the Roman empire at that time and even though the Romans made it a habit to install puppet regimes that nominally kept the local nobility in place, the true power was in the hands of their governors, which were invariably Romans. And only they could hand out capital punishment.
If the Jews had killed Jesus, he would've been stoned to death. And, let's be honest here, do you think a pile of rubble in every church would look as cool as a cross?
I'm an atheist. And to me the difference between a delusion and a religion is basically the amount of people who share the delusion. Look up the textbook definition of delusion an tell me with a straight face that if it wasn't for the explicit exemption of religions from the definition that it would not fully, 100% describe basically any religion out there.
Still, if someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I wish them the same. Not because or despite any religion but because I know how they mean it. It is a happy wish from someone who wishes you to be happy. And the very last thing I could think of in that moment is how offended I could possibly be because he assumes that I share his delusion.
At some point you just have to understand what people mean when they say something and not assume the worst. This is one of the occasions when it would be wrong to do so.
What makes the whole shit even more hilarious is that of all the things celebrated at this day, the birth of Jesus is the only one that certainly didn't happen at this day.
My family fortunately doesn't even know what Facebook is. And even if they did, I couldn't give them my Facebook account. Well, I could, if they really enjoy looking at an empty page, because that's all that's there.
My professional accounts are for exactly that: Professional life. You will hear about my professional exploits on there, and I honestly couldn't think of a way I could "reboot" this... There is a track record of my employment, and no way I could hide any of the jobs I did. I will not put anything private on there, because it does not belong there.
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Promise me to never go to Bavaria or Austria. Their "good day" is basically "Gruess Gott".
And yes, that's still in use. You'd probably be offended whenever you enter a store.
The first commandment basically says that a faithful Jew (and Christian for that matter) should have one god, and only one god. It gets expanded into "and don't you dare not to" in some other parts. Deuteronomy 17 expands this to basically the requirement to kill anyone who dares to turn his back to this god. Deuteronomy 13 requires the same concerning the worship of other gods. And in Numbers 31 a town gets sacked because someone from that town came and tried to convert people.
How exactly would you make this go along with "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"?
I have zero EQ. I'm the guy that goes to a convention for Kurdish diabetics and orders Turkish Honey as a snack.
The point is just that it does not affect me if they wish Merry Christmas. Why shouldn't I wish them the same? I neither care for Christmas nor does it affect me negatively, but it might just be important to them, so what's my loss by wishing them a Merry Christmas, or what is my gain in refusing?
Actually, not doing it has a chance of pissing them off and them going out of their way to piss me off in retaliation. Now why the fuck would I want that?
Odd. That would deserve some closer examination. All the trans people I know are doing WAY better after than before. Sure, anecdotes are no proof but I'd really want to see some research done in that area.
So the spouse has to use Google to know that "Fluffy Kittens and Bunnies Inc" is actually a titty bar?
Pretty much this. Offer to pay in cash and, especially with sizable sums, you'll see them being a lot more approachable for discounts.
The problem is it is probably impossible by now to determine his birthday, provided he existed altogether. The whole part about his birth in the Bible is useless because it most likely never happened that way.
A census taking place would probably make sense from the perspective of the ruler because that way he'd know what taxes to expect from the different provinces of his empire. People traveling back to their ancestral lands for this makes zero sense whatsoever, though. First it's a logistical nightmare. We're talking about a time when traveling was a huge endeavor and even small distances took weeks if not months. What would happen in such a scenario is that the whole country de facto shuts down for months because people have to travel across it twice. Imagine Thanksgiving in the US without airplanes and cars, and you HAVE TO go to your parents, even if they don't live anymore. This might give you a faint idea what that would be like.
And for what? What exactly would the ruler who orders something like this gain? For tax purposes it's worthless because the people will go back to where they came from afterwards. Why would the Romans, who ruled that area at that time, give a fuck about some Jews' lineage? Hell, even a Jewish ruler most likely wouldn't.
And even if, even if you actually give a shit about where someone came from, why not simply ask them (because you don't have anything besides someone's word anyway, it's not like people had birth certificates back then) where they are living, note it down and send the documents?
The whole story makes exactly ZERO sense. Unless of course you have to fulfill some prophecy in Isaiah talking about where the saviour of the Jews will be born. And since Jesus fits none of the other traits this saviour should have, from name to behaviour to knowledge to ... anything, at least his birthplace should be correct. That was probably the easiest to fake.
So no, we don't have much to pinpoint the birthday of Jesus, provided he ever existed. It would be a curious coincidence if it was the 25th of December, though, when most pagan religions celebrate the return of the sun after the longest night in Winter. And the Christian faith has never been shy when it came to redefining feast, turning gods into saints or building churches on places of pagan worship. So it's more likely that this is another one of these "refurnished" festivities.
Sorry, no. The "verifiably false" part of the definition does not apply. I cannot look into the head of a transgender person and determine whether they are really feeling in the "wrong" body or whether it's false. That they generally are more happy with their body and their gender after the transition would point towards them actually being right.
Do you have proof that there is no invisible dwarf living under your house? If not, then why don't you leave out milk and cookies on the porch, because else he might damage your foundation. Should you ever have a damaged foundation, this is proof that there is a dwarf living under your house. Don't say I didn't warn you.
That's just one of the things I could come up with in the 2 minutes of writing this. Give me an hour and I have a ton of things you cannot prove wrong and an equally large amount of things you should do "just in case", you'll be busy your whole life.
Or you could do the sensible thing and brush them all aside, saying that you can dismiss without an argument assertions made without any proof.
I'd probably ask them about their religious customs. Mostly 'cause I don't know anyone personally who celebrates either and I'd sure want to know more about them.
Such a wish would probably start a conversation about their custom, actually, provided they're willing to talk about it with someone who will certainly not incorporate it into his life but only wants to know about it out of curiosity.
If the programmers becomes personally responsible, you shift the problem one step over because all you accomplish that way is that nobody would want to be a programmer anymore.
The programmers are tossed into a project with insane milestones and without any training concerning security whatsoever. What kind of code do you expect to get out of them?
Where would this magical land be? I don't know a single country or company for that matter that isn't looking for IT-security and can't find any experienced security people.
So you're neither animal nor plant? What is it? Fungus? Bacterium? there aren't many kingdoms left, so which one is it?
You don't get it, do you? Blacklisting an itsec worker actually willing to work for you hurts you, not them.
There is a BIG shortage of experienced IT security personnel. The very last thing you need is that word gets around that your country treats them like shit, as some countries in the middle east had to learn the hard way recently.
Another reason you want to hire autists. They don't subscribe to strange, deranged ideas like national pride, religious ideas or other bull like this. I work for whoever pays me. I'm not loyal to my home country, there is no logic in such behaviour. I'm loyal to my employer. My employer exchanges money for the work I provide. It is sensible to be loyal to someone like this, as long as this arrangement continues.
It's also pretty hard to bribe me. It's been tried before, usually with money. I have enough money. More than I need, actually. I get it as wage. Legally. No need to break a law (and very likely end my career) for something as trivial as this. Blackmail? How? There is nothing you could threaten me with. Friendship? What's that again? Being part of a group? I am part of a group. I have 6 coworkers. That's about 5 more people than I want to be in a group with. Sometimes 6 more than I do.
Some people cannot be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some people just want to get their work done.
But it's at least a honest, happy wish.
Merry Spendmess to you too.
Actually no. The very first amendment flies right in the face of any "Christian principle". The first amendment and the first commandment are fundamentally incompatible.
For one thing, the mere idolization of Santa is an abomination that reflects poorly on the true sanctity of the spirit.
Wait, wait, wait, are you fat-shaming?
Provided the reports are accurate, the Romans killed Jesus. The Jews could not have killed him. Even if they wanted. Judea was a province of the Roman empire at that time and even though the Romans made it a habit to install puppet regimes that nominally kept the local nobility in place, the true power was in the hands of their governors, which were invariably Romans. And only they could hand out capital punishment.
If the Jews had killed Jesus, he would've been stoned to death. And, let's be honest here, do you think a pile of rubble in every church would look as cool as a cross?
That's what you get when you create a leader so peaceful that he overflows.
I'm an atheist. And to me the difference between a delusion and a religion is basically the amount of people who share the delusion. Look up the textbook definition of delusion an tell me with a straight face that if it wasn't for the explicit exemption of religions from the definition that it would not fully, 100% describe basically any religion out there.
Still, if someone wishes me a Merry Christmas, I wish them the same. Not because or despite any religion but because I know how they mean it. It is a happy wish from someone who wishes you to be happy. And the very last thing I could think of in that moment is how offended I could possibly be because he assumes that I share his delusion.
At some point you just have to understand what people mean when they say something and not assume the worst. This is one of the occasions when it would be wrong to do so.
What makes the whole shit even more hilarious is that of all the things celebrated at this day, the birth of Jesus is the only one that certainly didn't happen at this day.
Ah yes, Christmas, the day when people of all religions come together to celebrate collecting gifts.
Maybe the constant begging and ringing of the damn bell caused that person to flip. I sure can sympathize.
My family fortunately doesn't even know what Facebook is. And even if they did, I couldn't give them my Facebook account. Well, I could, if they really enjoy looking at an empty page, because that's all that's there.
My professional accounts are for exactly that: Professional life. You will hear about my professional exploits on there, and I honestly couldn't think of a way I could "reboot" this... There is a track record of my employment, and no way I could hide any of the jobs I did. I will not put anything private on there, because it does not belong there.