It's not making one follow a single doctrine...its about the truth. Christianity says "this is how it is...no strings, no rules, just believe this...".
This isn't just how it is. God made it that way. God's rule on how to get into heaven is unjust.
The Lord is simply asking that you believe he exists and created you. And if you can't do that, then you have no need to be with him for eternity.
Your logic is bad. How does it follow that since I don't believe in him, I don't need him? Or is he just a spoiled brat. Just because I don't believe in Jesus, it doesn't mean I'd rather not go to hell, yet Jesus would refuse to help me? Doesn't sound like the Jesus I know.
"Larry is correct that beliefs are a function of background and environment, but.."
..but your different. Yes, we know. Most people start with their parents religion, including yourself, but somehow yours has a monopoly on the truth and must be spread through the land.
Many religious people don't hold their beliefs to be absolute truth. Perhaps the reason that you do is that your religion says it is. If noone had told you, and the bible never said that the bible was truth, than would you ever have believed it?
He didn't *allow* evil to exist in the world, he created evil. Therefore, if God exists, he is evil. He had no moral quandary. He was not forced, say, to make either tuberculosis or nuclear-tipped unicorns. He's God, he could easily have done without both.
Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden of eden. By God. For learning about evil. Seems he didn't like them to find out he created evil.
Desease fire, drought, flood, earthquakes, who causes these? A man dies of virulent skin cancer in the prime of his life. Happens all the time. Why did God set it up that way? There is noone else to blame...
Ahh, God has a perfect plan for his creation, and sees all ends, but we still have free will!
You morons, we don't have free will unless we can do something, and God says, "wait a minute...".
And why, exactly, is it important to love or believe in God, even if he exists? Why does he care?
Don't get me started about Jesus. God *sacrifices* his own son. To whom does he make the sacrifice? to himself or what? Human sacrifice makes me sick, but this one sounds like deitic masturbation.
By the way, if you believe God is talking to you, there is another explanation, which is that you are mildly schizophrenic. Which is O.K., alot of people are, and they have drugs that can help.
The IQ of the planet, if by "collective" you mean "median," "mean," or "mode," is 100. But automated cars may have only a limited arena of use, like on interstate highways, where your car and freight-hauling trucks might function more like a railway. Giving up control on city streets is not likely to happen anytime soon.
You lack vision, Chuck. City streets will be the perfect place for automated traffic. Your car will communicate with city grid, which will authorize a certain path to your destination.
There isn't a real boundary because the terms aren't real biological terms. Microevolution is a term used by creationists to dismiss observed evolution as irrelevent, and Macroevolution is a term used by creationist to paint unobserved evolution as impossible.
Example. Evolving an eye from nothing would be called Macro evolution, and it would be hard to see how that could happen.
But evolving a light sensative spot on your skin would be micro evolution. (mildly light sensitive materials spring up all over the place, even in completely blind creatures).
Having the light spot form in a concavity to sharpen the image would be micro.
having the concavity shape into a sphere for even sharper images would be micro
having the aperture narrow for yet still sharper images would be micro.
evolving mechanisms to cover the eye for protection would be micro
evolving ever more tranparent mechanisms, that could permenantly cover the eye would be micro.
evolving the covering to form a particular shape to focus light would be micro
evolving the ability to reshape this covering would be micro
etc... add it all up over thousands of generations, you get something that looks pretty macro.
Someone posted above that the actual size of input, grows as log(n), so the actuall speed of the algorithm is sqrt(2^i) or 2^(i/2), where i is the number of bits in the input.
Alas, not the dinner parties. A sophisticated Alice might do well here, but the so called filler still has meaning to the actual people involved. (If only they are pleasently surprised by the absence of serious discussion.)
Your point is well understood, your intentions were not. I believed that you were trying to contradict the parent post assertion that U.S. cars have a reputation for guzzling gass. Clearly that's not what you were trying to do, you were demonstrating that the reputation is undeserved.
Fish orders himself a beer, drinks it, gets up to leave.
He asks the bartender "How much do I owe?"
"Ten bucks"
The fish does a little double take, but pays up. While he's paying, the bartender leans over and says, "You know, we don't see too many walking fish coming in here."
The fish says, "At thes prices you won't see too many more."
All you're saying is that European cars have the same reputation over here (it's news to me, btw). How does that contradict the poster's point about *American* cars?
Or was it the Conservatives' obbession with Clinton's prick that cost those lives? Maybe if Ken Star's budget had been spent investigating Al Qaeda, or if you prudish rightwing assholes had let him get blown, he could have brought the hammer down on bin-Laden.
Save a little blame for Bush, who pulled the FBI off his Saudi buddies, and was playing footsy with Taliban in hopes of a little oil deal and some help in the "War on" drugs.
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"It just happened" is a cop out, but "God did it" is antropomorphizing.
The appropriate response is..."I don't know"
yet.
This isn't just how it is. God made it that way. God's rule on how to get into heaven is unjust.
The Lord is simply asking that you believe he exists and created you. And if you can't do that, then you have no need to be with him for eternity.
Your logic is bad. How does it follow that since I don't believe in him, I don't need him? Or is he just a spoiled brat. Just because I don't believe in Jesus, it doesn't mean I'd rather not go to hell, yet Jesus would refuse to help me? Doesn't sound like the Jesus I know.
Many religious people don't hold their beliefs to be absolute truth. Perhaps the reason that you do is that your religion says it is. If noone had told you, and the bible never said that the bible was truth, than would you ever have believed it?
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Adam and Eve were evicted from the garden of eden. By God. For learning about evil. Seems he didn't like them to find out he created evil.
Desease fire, drought, flood, earthquakes, who causes these? A man dies of virulent skin cancer in the prime of his life. Happens all the time. Why did God set it up that way? There is noone else to blame...
This is only hard evidence of your ignorance and lack of imagination.
You morons, we don't have free will unless we can do something, and God says, "wait a minute...".
And why, exactly, is it important to love or believe in God, even if he exists? Why does he care?
Don't get me started about Jesus. God *sacrifices* his own son. To whom does he make the sacrifice? to himself or what? Human sacrifice makes me sick, but this one sounds like deitic masturbation.
By the way, if you believe God is talking to you, there is another explanation, which is that you are mildly schizophrenic. Which is O.K., alot of people are, and they have drugs that can help.
It comes from the work it took to make the sun disappear.
You lack vision, Chuck. City streets will be the perfect place for automated traffic. Your car will communicate with city grid, which will authorize a certain path to your destination.
They probably do prove the earth is spherical, since the shadow is round even when the moon is not directly over head.
Your sig, I mean.
What sort of malformed funny bone were you born with?
There's no problem with bad grammar as long as he gets his meaning through.
When it comes to slovenly language or slang usage, it's best just to give in.
Carry on.
Example. Evolving an eye from nothing would be called Macro evolution, and it would be hard to see how that could happen.
But evolving a light sensative spot on your skin would be micro evolution. (mildly light sensitive materials spring up all over the place, even in completely blind creatures).
Having the light spot form in a concavity to sharpen the image would be micro.
having the concavity shape into a sphere for even sharper images would be micro
having the aperture narrow for yet still sharper images would be micro.
evolving mechanisms to cover the eye for protection would be micro
evolving ever more tranparent mechanisms, that could permenantly cover the eye would be micro.
evolving the covering to form a particular shape to focus light would be micro
evolving the ability to reshape this covering would be micro
etc... add it all up over thousands of generations, you get something that looks pretty macro.
Someone posted above that the actual size of input, grows as log(n), so the actuall speed of the algorithm is sqrt(2^i) or 2^(i/2), where i is the number of bits in the input.
Hehe, Great story. Mod parent up.
How do the russians launch an ICBM from a sub without making U.S. defense crap their pants? Was America notified in advance?
Alas, not the dinner parties. A sophisticated Alice might do well here, but the so called filler still has meaning to the actual people involved. (If only they are pleasently surprised by the absence of serious discussion.)
Your point is well understood, your intentions were not. I believed that you were trying to contradict the parent post assertion that U.S. cars have a reputation for guzzling gass. Clearly that's not what you were trying to do, you were demonstrating that the reputation is undeserved.
Human conversation may be mostly useless filler, but actually fills something. It is rarely filler for filler's sake.
Mod Parent up (Eliza ref.)
Mongo like candy...
Fish orders himself a beer, drinks it, gets up to leave.
He asks the bartender "How much do I owe?"
"Ten bucks"
The fish does a little double take, but pays up. While he's paying, the bartender leans over and says, "You know, we don't see too many walking fish coming in here."
The fish says, "At thes prices you won't see too many more."
All you're saying is that European cars have the same reputation over here (it's news to me, btw). How does that contradict the poster's point about *American* cars?
Save a little blame for Bush, who pulled the FBI off his Saudi buddies, and was playing footsy with Taliban in hopes of a little oil deal and some help in the "War on" drugs.