I know I'm late to this thread an no one will read this but...that's the story of my life; I think too slowly. Anyway I have a few observations about the topic.
There is a neat paradox: "that which is everywhere is nowhere" and "that which is everything is nothing". So atheism is the more rational position. At least they try to look at things in a cold clear light instead of imagining miracles, incarnations, apparitions, and such nonesense.
To attempt to prove the existence of God scientifically is obviously futile and not desirable. If someone could prove the existence of God the way we prove the existence of the polio virus or vitamin C then life would surely be pointless. Everyone would go over to God's side and the whole human drama would colapse. The point of life, the thrill of life, the leavening in the loaf of life is the leap of faith. Take the leap of faith out of life and you really have a pointless existence.
But for those who are looking for God I will give you a clue. Look for that which is everywhere and nowhere...that which is everything and nothing. That is of course conciousness. God is conciousness.
The limitless arrogance of modern man has sunk us so low that we demand that God show himself to us in microscopes, telescopes and mathmatical formulae. Even the mystics of old told us that you cannot see God. Even if you take the leap of faith and realize that God is conciousness and devote your entire life to purifying your conciousness through prayer, meditation and self-denial you cannot see God. The meaning is that the ego, the self must die before you can see God and of course when that happens you are not you anymore. You are someone else. Someone else reaps the rewards of your lifetime of sacrifice.
Have a peaceful day oh lovers of paradoxes and sweet subtle understanding.
One advantage that Slashdot has over CNN Wired MSNBC et al is that the newsmakers of the Open Source/Freeware community are often online revealing insights, decisions etc in real time, or reacting to breaking stories without waiting to be interviewed by journalists. a lot of journalists do a reverse slashdot by getting their stories here much like Rob links to their stories.
My suggestion for Slashdot is to print posts from these movers and shakers of the Open Source community (RMS, ESR, Alan Cox, Rasterman, Bruce Perens etc) in a different color (maybe red) to make them easy to spot among the hundreds of posts form anonymous cowards and unknowns of the/. community. I have no idea how the list of red-letter posters would be compiled or how one qualified, but it would be nice to be able to see instantly an interesting thread involving real import instead of adolescent posturing and idle speculation.
I was very excited about PHP when I first came across it. It was easier and faster then Perl for CGI stuff. But then I kept coming to spots where I really needed a function or language contruct that PHP just didn't have. In the end I went back tp Perl full time. it's a much more full-featured and mature language. I'm still watching PHP development closely though and may use it for other projects in the future.
Actually there is a perl module called Apache::ASP that mimics all of the facilities of Microsoft's ASP. They use.asp as the default extention so hotmail might be using this. More likely that Microsoft just wants to use an ASP extention so that people think the server is IIS.
People who set themselves up as judges tend to become arrogant SOBs with no sense of humor.
I'm looking for a way to invert the ratings scheme that I only see post that have a 0 or less rating. I get tired of high-falutin long winded garbage and like short humorous posts better.
Humor seems to be that last thing these self-appointed 'moderators' understand. They're too busy hiding the kids (Linux Loonies) so as not to offend the suits (don't ask me why).
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I know I'm late to this thread an no one will read this but...that's the story of my life; I think too slowly. Anyway I have a few observations about the topic.
There is a neat paradox: "that which is everywhere is nowhere" and "that which is everything is nothing". So atheism is the more rational position. At least they try to look at things in a cold clear light instead of imagining miracles, incarnations, apparitions, and such nonesense.
To attempt to prove the existence of God scientifically is obviously futile and not desirable. If someone could prove the existence of God the way we prove the existence of the polio virus or vitamin C then life would surely be pointless. Everyone would go over to God's side and the whole human drama would colapse. The point of life, the thrill of life, the leavening in the loaf of life is the leap of faith. Take the leap of faith out of life and you really have a pointless existence.
But for those who are looking for God I will give you a clue. Look for that which is everywhere and nowhere...that which is everything and nothing. That is of course conciousness. God is conciousness.
The limitless arrogance of modern man has sunk us so low that we demand that God show himself to us in microscopes, telescopes and mathmatical formulae. Even the mystics of old told us that you cannot see God. Even if you take the leap of faith and realize that God is conciousness and devote your entire life to purifying your conciousness through prayer, meditation and self-denial you cannot see God. The meaning is that the ego, the self must die before you can see God and of course when that happens you are not you anymore. You are someone else. Someone else reaps the rewards of your lifetime of sacrifice.
Have a peaceful day oh lovers of paradoxes and sweet subtle understanding.
One advantage that Slashdot has over CNN Wired MSNBC et al is that the newsmakers of the Open Source/Freeware community are often online revealing insights, decisions etc in real time, or reacting to breaking stories without waiting to be interviewed by journalists. a lot of journalists do a reverse slashdot by getting their stories here much like Rob links to their stories.
/. community. I have no idea how the list of red-letter posters would be compiled or how one qualified, but it would be nice to be able to see instantly an interesting thread involving real import instead of adolescent posturing and idle speculation.
My suggestion for Slashdot is to print posts from these movers and shakers of the Open Source community (RMS, ESR, Alan Cox, Rasterman, Bruce Perens etc) in a different color (maybe red) to make them easy to spot among the hundreds of posts form anonymous cowards and unknowns of the
I was very excited about PHP when I first came across it. It was easier and faster then Perl for CGI stuff. But then I kept coming to spots where I really needed a function or language contruct that PHP just didn't have. In the end I went back tp Perl full time. it's a much more full-featured and mature language. I'm still watching PHP development closely though and may use it for other projects in the future.
Actually there is a perl module called Apache::ASP .asp as the default extention so hotmail might be using this. More likely that Microsoft just wants to use an ASP extention so that people think the server is IIS.
that mimics all of the facilities of Microsoft's ASP. They use
Hang in there Ellis.
People who set themselves up as judges tend to become arrogant SOBs with no sense of humor.
I'm looking for a way to invert the ratings scheme that I only see post that have a 0 or less rating. I get tired of high-falutin long winded garbage and like short humorous posts better.
Humor seems to be that last thing these self-appointed 'moderators' understand. They're too busy hiding the kids (Linux Loonies) so as not to offend the suits (don't ask me why).