Yet, God comes around, lives a life of suffering, restraint, goodness, and then ultimate dies a horrible death while being scored by many... Because he loves us. The result is we can get to Heaven and live forever in peace. If this doesn't make sense, read my article, Why Christianity Makes Sense
Now if you agree finite suffering is less than infinite suffering, God could do anything basically anything he wants in order to let us avoid infinite suffering right? Many people with immature theology can't see this. Maybe this was part of his plan to confuse his spiritual enemies too. There are all sorts of things that might have been headfakes to accomplish the Gospel. Create all the stars in the sky, and even if we don't get there, his opponents need to strategize,"What if humans get to the stars?" Are the stars useless if we never get there then? I mean they give us something to spark our imagination of exploration. God can create infinite universes in Heaven, so if we wanted, we could own a Starship and explore our own personal universe, populated with more intrigue, action and life than Gene Roddenberry could come up with. I can guarantee Heaven will be better than anything you can even imagine. But who wants to listen to me, you know.
My Christian video games boss would probably want to talk to you. The corporate document our company runs on is that you need to express yourself logically. Christianity worships truth. Logic is a tool for truth.
You can call it a coincidence, but God seems to only really work in noticeable ways in my life when it is super important. As for this first book, this was the official prayer on the book. You might think my prayer doesn't sound great and glorious as something God would treat seriously. I said,"God I hope everything is cool." I guess it makes me sound like a surfer dude, and I can understand if people think it is funny:) But I know the Holy Spirit translates prayers to God for him to know exactly what you mean. If you read the things I write in this book, it stretches the very bounds by which one interprets the Bible like the "Long Day Theory" article. If you teach people something that goes against how God wants us to live(Peace and Love), it can have dire consequences for your own soul! So I was seriously worried upon publishing this book that I was going outside the bounds by which God allows you to interpret scripture. Because God worked in my life to let me know the book is approved by God it gives me great confidence by which I can share it with others. The only other book I know that is approved by God is the Bible. As such, you might even be able to say the book that Victor and I wrote is holy.
And if you think that is a coincidence:
God only ever spoke to me once that I know of,"Good News" then my dad hands me a Good News Bible. People have called me names on forums for saying the voice of God has spoken to me. And people have called it a coincidence. But neither really makes sense alone, and the miracle happened with two pieces.
Do you know nothing of Christianity? God says,"Love everyone and try to live in peace with everyone." If you think that is a pretty cool philosophy, read my book and read the Bible.
I would like to see this debate. It should not be censored. Even if dude lost the debate, that doesn't mean much except he should analyze his theology. Let us analyze the outcome and create better theories. I think we should have more public talks and awareness of this. People with bad theology are coming to bad conclusions that is bad for the souls of men.
So far, I haven't found a better theory than the "Long Day Theory" which lets evolution fit perfect with a literal interpretation of Genesis.
Here is my old take on it. God himself actually approved of this article and my book. I prayed over the publishing of this book if what I said was theologically sound,"I pray everything is cool" and instantly my coauthor IMs me,"Everything is cool." That was the second time I know God interacted in my life in a way he wanted me to know. You can get a copy of my book for free or you can read my articles online for free.
In the past you hang em high if the crime is particularly hard to prosecute. For example, it is a felony to mess with someone's mail even though mail is typically not valuable.
But in the present, it seems you hang em high if they threaten your business model. Downloading a song might make the RIAA lose pennies on the dollar on average as there is a good chance you wouldn't buy to begin with. Yet they want thousands or millions in compensation?
1) You should not be able to legally bribe a politician. Buying a vote is illegal. It should be illegal for a lobbyist to drop a suitcase full of cash with legislation attached.
2) Paper trails on voting machines.
3) Tort Reform. The reason this nation does not have skate parks, or dirt bike tracks is because liability is out of control. Someone gets hurt, brings drugs or a gun to private property, the owner of the property loses it. This is also why car insurance is too expensive. A person could be paying 10% of their income into car insurance just because of out of control liability laws.
4) A very small tax on capital gains directly, and redo the tax code, trying to remove loop holes until they pop up again.
5) A 10% tax on real estate selling to prevent real estate to be hoarded like a stock commodity.
6) Nationalized Health Care done correctly.
7) Nationalized college tuition for students that keep up a high grade average.
Education is a public good. The government should pay for it through taxes. My neighbor could be the guy who cures cancer, lowers food prices, or educates others!
The government should pay for everyone's education as long as they want to go provided they are getting grades which show they are indeed learning.
Also, who's looking forward to the education revolution on the horizon: Digitization of books. K-12 books can cost 100$ for a computer instead of $10,000 for books. You can then export it to 3rd world countries. Expand it to collegiate level education and you'll have kids who have nothing better to do than learn becoming doctors, scientists, and teachers in places they can barely afford food.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. We will not even tell you what crime you are committing. Maybe you didn't break any law, but now you're resisting arrest by verbally arguing with an officer.
Thanks guy. I appreciate you reading and commenting on this. I just want people talking about it.
I agree people should not game the system, but property taxes need to be done correctly. If you simply increase them, it crushes the lower class and hurts the middle class. For example, I live on a 12 acre farm with a house built like in the early 1800s or late 1700s. Yet, we paid $5,000 in property taxes!!! When you only make $10,000 a year, $5,000 in property taxes really keeps you down.
It doesn't matter what you choose in education now. It doesn't matter how good you are at what you do. The fact is everyone is having trouble finding jobs. Sure being an Art major is less likely to get you a job than Engineering, but there is no sure thing now. It is just the state of the economy.
Make a MMORPG world like Asheron's Call. Encourage people to bot. See what happens.
To me it was fun to see how far my PVP bot could get around the world, just running around randomly and fighting anything that got close to him.
It should also be designed to be an enjoyable screensaver if you click an option to turn off the hud.
Another game I thought of would have been a First Person Shooter, where you get a variety of different bots, and you need to write the AI for the bots that fight along side you.
>>>That's true everywhere. Writing a good, fast code in C and assembly is in no way related to smooth-talking a client into signing a contract to develop the abovementioned code. Many programmers who are capable of the former in their sleep can't do the latter if their life depended on it.
Exactly. Take a quality coder, a guy who spend all his time in his mom's basement making new projects, and introduce him to HR. It is a culture clash. One guy spends all his time working with people, the other spends next to none of his time working with people. HR knows nothing about coding and has been known to toss out programmers resumes because they don't explicitly specify they know Microsoft Word on them. At the same time, HR that does know stuff about coding might throw your resume out if you put Microsoft Word on it:P
In all this, there is a push to outsource programming jobs overseas, so while a company may be looking for American Workers, it is just a smoke screen, they won't hire you no matter how badly you crush their programming task they assign you. They tell Congress,"There is a shortage of quality workers in the US, so let us have more Visas." There is no shortage of programming talent in the US, just a shortage of jobs since the Dot Com bust.
Yes, you know something is wrong when educated people can't find a job coming out of college. It is one thing to go,"Get an education so you don't work at Mcdonalds." And quite another thing to go,"Get an education, but work at Mcdonalds anyway, and maybe by the time you're 50 you can finally pay off your student loans and move out of your parents house."
I didn't realize it was that bleak to make the monies on youtube. Your youtube channel could link to your main review site, which have ads. Or you could embed Youtube videos into your main site.
Be a Programmer, find an artist, make 2d games in Flash. As a game developer myself, I think 3d came too quickly. There is a lot of 2d video gaming that has yet to be explored.
And if you're innovative, make games for iphone/android. I don't like the medium myself, too confined of a screen and no d-pad.
And if you're not a programmer, you can be a professional game reviewer. Just play games, and write review articles or Youtube reviews. It takes some time to get rolling, but if you're charismatic, you can be getting some money through ad revenue.
There is much to be said for being a progamer, especially Starcraft2. If you get thousands watching your stream, you can make like 50$/hr. I used to sell items on MMORPGS for 10$/hr until the Chinese came in. I still get a couple hundred bucks on new MMORPGS before China sets up shop.
I think in the current era, there is a good balance between free information, and paid content. We're not quite to Star Trek where everyone gets their needs taken care of as long as they do their ship duty, but we can work towards that. On that note, has anyone been paying attention to Occupy Wall Street? My only thing I think should be changed is real estate reform so wealthy people can't just 'invest' in real estate. You know a bunch of people buy up all the property, so it inflates the price. Land is a constant supply, but demand is always increasing(more people in the world). So people just buy land like gold as a safe place to put their money. I don't know the best solution, but I was thinking something like a 30% tax on sales could prevent people from just buying up all the land as an investment as their return isn't going to be as high. Sure this would hurt land developers, but they can switch to contract work and build houses when someone else buys the property. The gain would be immeasurable though: People might finally be able to afford land and rent on their 40 hour a week hardware store job. Maybe the game is too far advanced to fix things.
Between Xbox live online forcing you to pay yearly, and now PS3 wanting you to pay extra for used games, there simply is not a free online solution like you get with PC. So as much as my friends want me to play online with them. I'll just tell them no, and wait for the next generation of consoles.
Mostly because the search for files function in Vista no longer works. How do you ship an OS when search works in the previous version, but no longer works in the 'upgraded version'. We upgraded your car. You can no longer shift into reverse.
You guys see me post frequently. I don't normally get to talk about God often, but you can see in my signature that is the core of my life. If I was to talk about God in posts that are not related, my speech would be as the scripture says,"Like a clanging gong." If you do not understand Jesus, he teaches,"Love everyone and forgive everyone anything they do to you."
There are a few things I want to address which I hope you find interesting.
First, Evolution and Creation can coexist if you have the proper theology. You can take my word on it, or read my article on it.
Next, God says not to put him to the test. Science likes to test and analyze things. Then the engineers come and make devices. God is not trying to "elude detection", but think about the implications of science and engineering. God does protect people's children that are prayed for. But let us say God never let babies get injured by any weapon known to man 100% of the time when they're prayed for. The scientist would quickly find out babies can't be injured in any way when prayer is used. Then the engineer would then fashion armor for tanks by strapping prayer imbued babies to the outside of it:P You see: It is simply better for God to not be tested, than for him to be scientifically determined what 'god in the box' would do. This also is a good explanation of why God doesn't do tons of showy miracles. If people could see when God acted, they'd try and force his hand.
Finally, Christianity is the religion of truth. Isn't truth what a scientist is ultimately seeking?
Thank you for reading. I don't often get to talk on Slashdot about the thing I care about most: Jesus Christ, Lord of all.
Slashdot Mirror
I have an article exploring the book of Job The book of Job teaches us why we should not judge God: Because we do not have the infinite knowledge he has.
They're not to be found in the biggest rivers we explored because that's the mainstream.
Yet, God comes around, lives a life of suffering, restraint, goodness, and then ultimate dies a horrible death while being scored by many... Because he loves us. The result is we can get to Heaven and live forever in peace. If this doesn't make sense, read my article, Why Christianity Makes Sense
Now if you agree finite suffering is less than infinite suffering, God could do anything basically anything he wants in order to let us avoid infinite suffering right? Many people with immature theology can't see this. Maybe this was part of his plan to confuse his spiritual enemies too. There are all sorts of things that might have been headfakes to accomplish the Gospel. Create all the stars in the sky, and even if we don't get there, his opponents need to strategize,"What if humans get to the stars?" Are the stars useless if we never get there then? I mean they give us something to spark our imagination of exploration. God can create infinite universes in Heaven, so if we wanted, we could own a Starship and explore our own personal universe, populated with more intrigue, action and life than Gene Roddenberry could come up with. I can guarantee Heaven will be better than anything you can even imagine. But who wants to listen to me, you know.
My Christian video games boss would probably want to talk to you. The corporate document our company runs on is that you need to express yourself logically. Christianity worships truth. Logic is a tool for truth.
You can call it a coincidence, but God seems to only really work in noticeable ways in my life when it is super important. As for this first book, this was the official prayer on the book. You might think my prayer doesn't sound great and glorious as something God would treat seriously. I said,"God I hope everything is cool." I guess it makes me sound like a surfer dude, and I can understand if people think it is funny :) But I know the Holy Spirit translates prayers to God for him to know exactly what you mean. If you read the things I write in this book, it stretches the very bounds by which one interprets the Bible like the "Long Day Theory" article. If you teach people something that goes against how God wants us to live(Peace and Love), it can have dire consequences for your own soul! So I was seriously worried upon publishing this book that I was going outside the bounds by which God allows you to interpret scripture. Because God worked in my life to let me know the book is approved by God it gives me great confidence by which I can share it with others. The only other book I know that is approved by God is the Bible. As such, you might even be able to say the book that Victor and I wrote is holy.
And if you think that is a coincidence:
God only ever spoke to me once that I know of,"Good News" then my dad hands me a Good News Bible. People have called me names on forums for saying the voice of God has spoken to me. And people have called it a coincidence. But neither really makes sense alone, and the miracle happened with two pieces.
Do you know nothing of Christianity? God says,"Love everyone and try to live in peace with everyone." If you think that is a pretty cool philosophy, read my book and read the Bible.
I would like to see this debate. It should not be censored. Even if dude lost the debate, that doesn't mean much except he should analyze his theology. Let us analyze the outcome and create better theories. I think we should have more public talks and awareness of this. People with bad theology are coming to bad conclusions that is bad for the souls of men.
So far, I haven't found a better theory than the "Long Day Theory" which lets evolution fit perfect with a literal interpretation of Genesis. Here is my old take on it. God himself actually approved of this article and my book. I prayed over the publishing of this book if what I said was theologically sound,"I pray everything is cool" and instantly my coauthor IMs me,"Everything is cool." That was the second time I know God interacted in my life in a way he wanted me to know. You can get a copy of my book for free or you can read my articles online for free.
In the past you hang em high if the crime is particularly hard to prosecute. For example, it is a felony to mess with someone's mail even though mail is typically not valuable.
But in the present, it seems you hang em high if they threaten your business model. Downloading a song might make the RIAA lose pennies on the dollar on average as there is a good chance you wouldn't buy to begin with. Yet they want thousands or millions in compensation?
Provide a paper trail that each voter verifies. You can then count by hand to loosely verify the vote in case of fraud.
I even voted "Protest E-vote" in the 2008 election
1) You should not be able to legally bribe a politician. Buying a vote is illegal. It should be illegal for a lobbyist to drop a suitcase full of cash with legislation attached.
2) Paper trails on voting machines.
3) Tort Reform. The reason this nation does not have skate parks, or dirt bike tracks is because liability is out of control. Someone gets hurt, brings drugs or a gun to private property, the owner of the property loses it. This is also why car insurance is too expensive. A person could be paying 10% of their income into car insurance just because of out of control liability laws.
4) A very small tax on capital gains directly, and redo the tax code, trying to remove loop holes until they pop up again.
5) A 10% tax on real estate selling to prevent real estate to be hoarded like a stock commodity.
6) Nationalized Health Care done correctly.
7) Nationalized college tuition for students that keep up a high grade average.
Education is a public good. The government should pay for it through taxes. My neighbor could be the guy who cures cancer, lowers food prices, or educates others!
The government should pay for everyone's education as long as they want to go provided they are getting grades which show they are indeed learning.
Also, who's looking forward to the education revolution on the horizon: Digitization of books. K-12 books can cost 100$ for a computer instead of $10,000 for books. You can then export it to 3rd world countries. Expand it to collegiate level education and you'll have kids who have nothing better to do than learn becoming doctors, scientists, and teachers in places they can barely afford food.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it. We will not even tell you what crime you are committing. Maybe you didn't break any law, but now you're resisting arrest by verbally arguing with an officer.
Thanks guy. I appreciate you reading and commenting on this. I just want people talking about it.
I agree people should not game the system, but property taxes need to be done correctly. If you simply increase them, it crushes the lower class and hurts the middle class. For example, I live on a 12 acre farm with a house built like in the early 1800s or late 1700s. Yet, we paid $5,000 in property taxes!!! When you only make $10,000 a year, $5,000 in property taxes really keeps you down.
My article is kinda long, just focus on Chapter 1: Real-Estate hoarding.
A Young Educated Poor's article
Just save them on your hard drive, and use Vista's built in search. /joke
It doesn't matter what you choose in education now. It doesn't matter how good you are at what you do. The fact is everyone is having trouble finding jobs. Sure being an Art major is less likely to get you a job than Engineering, but there is no sure thing now. It is just the state of the economy.
Make a MMORPG world like Asheron's Call. Encourage people to bot. See what happens.
To me it was fun to see how far my PVP bot could get around the world, just running around randomly and fighting anything that got close to him.
It should also be designed to be an enjoyable screensaver if you click an option to turn off the hud.
Another game I thought of would have been a First Person Shooter, where you get a variety of different bots, and you need to write the AI for the bots that fight along side you.
Come on dude, Angband isn't that bad.
>>>That's true everywhere. Writing a good, fast code in C and assembly is in no way related to smooth-talking a client into signing a contract to develop the abovementioned code. Many programmers who are capable of the former in their sleep can't do the latter if their life depended on it.
:P
Exactly. Take a quality coder, a guy who spend all his time in his mom's basement making new projects, and introduce him to HR. It is a culture clash. One guy spends all his time working with people, the other spends next to none of his time working with people. HR knows nothing about coding and has been known to toss out programmers resumes because they don't explicitly specify they know Microsoft Word on them. At the same time, HR that does know stuff about coding might throw your resume out if you put Microsoft Word on it
In all this, there is a push to outsource programming jobs overseas, so while a company may be looking for American Workers, it is just a smoke screen, they won't hire you no matter how badly you crush their programming task they assign you. They tell Congress,"There is a shortage of quality workers in the US, so let us have more Visas." There is no shortage of programming talent in the US, just a shortage of jobs since the Dot Com bust.
Yes it is a soundblaster driver in C++
Yes, you know something is wrong when educated people can't find a job coming out of college. It is one thing to go,"Get an education so you don't work at Mcdonalds." And quite another thing to go,"Get an education, but work at Mcdonalds anyway, and maybe by the time you're 50 you can finally pay off your student loans and move out of your parents house."
I didn't realize it was that bleak to make the monies on youtube. Your youtube channel could link to your main review site, which have ads. Or you could embed Youtube videos into your main site.
Be a Programmer, find an artist, make 2d games in Flash. As a game developer myself, I think 3d came too quickly. There is a lot of 2d video gaming that has yet to be explored.
And if you're innovative, make games for iphone/android. I don't like the medium myself, too confined of a screen and no d-pad.
And if you're not a programmer, you can be a professional game reviewer. Just play games, and write review articles or Youtube reviews. It takes some time to get rolling, but if you're charismatic, you can be getting some money through ad revenue.
There is much to be said for being a progamer, especially Starcraft2. If you get thousands watching your stream, you can make like 50$/hr. I used to sell items on MMORPGS for 10$/hr until the Chinese came in. I still get a couple hundred bucks on new MMORPGS before China sets up shop.
I think in the current era, there is a good balance between free information, and paid content. We're not quite to Star Trek where everyone gets their needs taken care of as long as they do their ship duty, but we can work towards that. On that note, has anyone been paying attention to Occupy Wall Street? My only thing I think should be changed is real estate reform so wealthy people can't just 'invest' in real estate. You know a bunch of people buy up all the property, so it inflates the price. Land is a constant supply, but demand is always increasing(more people in the world). So people just buy land like gold as a safe place to put their money. I don't know the best solution, but I was thinking something like a 30% tax on sales could prevent people from just buying up all the land as an investment as their return isn't going to be as high. Sure this would hurt land developers, but they can switch to contract work and build houses when someone else buys the property. The gain would be immeasurable though: People might finally be able to afford land and rent on their 40 hour a week hardware store job. Maybe the game is too far advanced to fix things.
Between Xbox live online forcing you to pay yearly, and now PS3 wanting you to pay extra for used games, there simply is not a free online solution like you get with PC. So as much as my friends want me to play online with them. I'll just tell them no, and wait for the next generation of consoles.
Mostly because the search for files function in Vista no longer works. How do you ship an OS when search works in the previous version, but no longer works in the 'upgraded version'. We upgraded your car. You can no longer shift into reverse.
Hello,
:P You see: It is simply better for God to not be tested, than for him to be scientifically determined what 'god in the box' would do. This also is a good explanation of why God doesn't do tons of showy miracles. If people could see when God acted, they'd try and force his hand.
You guys see me post frequently. I don't normally get to talk about God often, but you can see in my signature that is the core of my life. If I was to talk about God in posts that are not related, my speech would be as the scripture says,"Like a clanging gong." If you do not understand Jesus, he teaches,"Love everyone and forgive everyone anything they do to you."
There are a few things I want to address which I hope you find interesting.
First, Evolution and Creation can coexist if you have the proper theology. You can take my word on it, or read my article on it.
Next, God says not to put him to the test. Science likes to test and analyze things. Then the engineers come and make devices. God is not trying to "elude detection", but think about the implications of science and engineering. God does protect people's children that are prayed for. But let us say God never let babies get injured by any weapon known to man 100% of the time when they're prayed for. The scientist would quickly find out babies can't be injured in any way when prayer is used. Then the engineer would then fashion armor for tanks by strapping prayer imbued babies to the outside of it
Finally, Christianity is the religion of truth. Isn't truth what a scientist is ultimately seeking?
Thank you for reading. I don't often get to talk on Slashdot about the thing I care about most: Jesus Christ, Lord of all.