That is a wonderful and beautiful story. Unfortunately, the catchall that is free will seems to cast a rather wide net. People have natural tendencies to do all sorts of things, presumably designed by god. Omniscient? Apparently god knows we're all going to sin, so where does free will fit into that? Or is it a sort of restricted part time free will we only have partial control over? Omnipotent? Maybe. But what is he so worried about with the whole sovereignty issue? Why would god have to prove anything to anyone? I think his own existence might be a good start. And loving? He's 'personally' responsible for intentionally killing nearly everyone on the planet. By his own texts, he's jealous, hateful, intolerant and vengeful. Murderous. A father that actually follows through with the adage 'I brought you into this world and I can take you out.' Yet he sends his son down to teach us how we should be. So we can kill him, and by doing that we're cleansed of sin?! Maybe Jesus died for god's sins, since he seems to have mellowed out since then. It's really too bad that Christianity can only go so far when you think it through. I would like to know the reality about how things came about, but my need to believe is overpowered by my intent to avoid self delusion. I hope you find your happiness, if that is what you seek.
Personal responsibility exists whether or not 'everyone' around you is making bad choices. A person chooses his or her role models. If that person chooses a role model that does drugs and is constantly in and out of jail and follows that model, it's hardly suprising if that person ends up doing many of the same things. Choose and follow a role model that doesn't lead down a path of self-destruction, if that's what you need. People make their choices and live with the consequences. Even if you have made bad choices in life, what's wrong with deciding to make good ones?
What I meant by 'felt that way' was the schools' eventual willingness to take it to court to fight for the students and their privacy. I was rather unclear about that.
No, I'm not kidding you. I also fail to see your need to be an apologist for these type of people. I'm not saying I know how to fix the problem, but denying that it happens certainly isn't the first step.
A few dumbasses? They came from 5 different jurisdictions. I'm not sure it's an isolated case. People in an unchecked position of power tend to abuse it. The rant may have been over the top, but it's not without its seed of truth.
True enough, but we almost definitely have, by several orders of magnitude, a much larger variety of organisms interacting with each other. The battle between microbe and host has been fought for a long time here and anything from Mars would be fighting us on OUR turf. We've built up excellent general defenses against microorganisms over the years.
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Let's call it 'embrace and extend.'
That's possible...
Ice cream?
Howdy, neighbor!
Your receipt and items you've just purchased ARE your posessions.
It happens. Cops don't have to make sense.
portable machines
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
That is a wonderful and beautiful story. Unfortunately, the catchall that is free will seems to cast a rather wide net. People have natural tendencies to do all sorts of things, presumably designed by god. Omniscient? Apparently god knows we're all going to sin, so where does free will fit into that? Or is it a sort of restricted part time free will we only have partial control over? Omnipotent? Maybe. But what is he so worried about with the whole sovereignty issue? Why would god have to prove anything to anyone? I think his own existence might be a good start. And loving? He's 'personally' responsible for intentionally killing nearly everyone on the planet. By his own texts, he's jealous, hateful, intolerant and vengeful. Murderous. A father that actually follows through with the adage 'I brought you into this world and I can take you out.' Yet he sends his son down to teach us how we should be. So we can kill him, and by doing that we're cleansed of sin?! Maybe Jesus died for god's sins, since he seems to have mellowed out since then.
It's really too bad that Christianity can only go so far when you think it through. I would like to know the reality about how things came about, but my need to believe is overpowered by my intent to avoid self delusion.
I hope you find your happiness, if that is what you seek.
It was Western Union that delivered the letter.
A user that freaks out and shuts down his system?
Personal responsibility exists whether or not 'everyone' around you is making bad choices. A person chooses his or her role models. If that person chooses a role model that does drugs and is constantly in and out of jail and follows that model, it's hardly suprising if that person ends up doing many of the same things. Choose and follow a role model that doesn't lead down a path of self-destruction, if that's what you need. People make their choices and live with the consequences. Even if you have made bad choices in life, what's wrong with deciding to make good ones?
Ignoring it got us here in the first place.
Genesis 19, verses 30-38.
One receiver in three different locations fits the requirement.
While we're at it, let's find out which one runs faster.
Office runs under WINE too.
The files are gone for the files containing the digits past 10000. Point made, however.
Can you assign the right mouse button to command- lick on OSX?
Troll.5 9534.30 / 14
Quartz 2D Extreme has been a long time in the making. It's more likely you clean the toilets at Apple than it is that you do any programming or OS design work.
You're trying to convince us that Adobe doesn't use Quartz 2D at all? Very funny.
http://kb.indiana.edu/data/ajeb.html?cust=760016.
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars
What I meant by 'felt that way' was the schools' eventual willingness to take it to court to fight for the students and their privacy. I was rather unclear about that.
Now only if ISP's felt the same way . . .
No, I'm not kidding you. I also fail to see your need to be an apologist for these type of people. I'm not saying I know how to fix the problem, but denying that it happens certainly isn't the first step.
A few dumbasses? They came from 5 different jurisdictions. I'm not sure it's an isolated case. People in an unchecked position of power tend to abuse it. The rant may have been over the top, but it's not without its seed of truth.
True enough, but we almost definitely have, by several orders of magnitude, a much larger variety of organisms interacting with each other. The battle between microbe and host has been fought for a long time here and anything from Mars would be fighting us on OUR turf. We've built up excellent general defenses against microorganisms over the years.