Growing up in the 1970s, there were many books by reputable scientists who were absolutely sure that the Earth will have mega-famines and enter an Ice Age by the year 2000. They were absolutely certain that no economic growth will ever occur in China or India, the Cold War will last a thousand years, and air pollution will require everyone to wear oxygen masks at all times.
That IS the reality. That reminds me, do you want the red pill, or the blue pill? I forget what they're for, and they may have fuzz on them from the length of time they've been in my pocket.
Just look at the loving way in which the residents of "free" public housing maintain their residences out of gratitude to the all-caring government.
Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
Well, the crime rate might go down if the perp is too busy surfing blackdicksinwhitechicks.com to pickpocket somebody.
The Bible teaches that sin is the reason for death and that Jesus offers eternal life through the redemption by the Holy Spirit. The theory of evolution teaches that there was billions of years of death before human beings came on the scene. So if evolution is true, then Jesus can't save us from death because death exists as a natural event separate from sin, making Jesus' sacrifice meaningless.
So Pope Francis is either delusional or a liar, because one of the basic tenets of Christianity REQUIRES death to be something caused by sin in order to have any meaning at all.
Either Christianity is true, or evolutionary theory is true, or maybe neither is true. But Christianity and evolutionary theory are most certainly NOT compatible.
I suggest Catholics renounce Catholicism and start looking for a new church to attend, because this Pope is obviously unreliable.
but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up
I looked it up on Wikipedia, but I am non-the-wiser.
Can you explain what it is?
Basically, when Jesus died, the way God the Father interacts with changed, He became a more personal God. Old Testament is God the authoritarian, New Testament is God the advocate. So you get verses like "everything is permitted, but not everything is beneficial." Jesus death represents God making an all out effort to seek us out and fellowship with us. The new covenant, otherwise known as the New Testament, was created to express this change. The Old Testament is useful for teaching life lessons, but it's still the "old" covenant, so a lot of things are out-dated, like the pork and clothing rules I believe you may have mentioned.
The money's gone. It was given to the previous generation. How do you stop a pension system where each generation pays for the previous one, without one generation getting a raw deal (they paid for the previous generation, but don't get anything themselves)?
Give the higher ups in the IRS the death penalty and I think most of us will be willing to move on from there.
Once again proving how easy it is to troll libertardians. Libertardian queen Ayn Rand also whined and complained about socialism and welfare but then had no qualms pulling social security when she got older.
It's not hypocritical of her at all. If I can benefit from a government program, then I will, but that doesn't mean I approve of it's existence. It would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'm guessing at what you're talking about, but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up. It's the whole reason the Bible is divided into the Old and New Testament.
To me, the historical accuracy is irrelevant. Does it matter whether Socrates actually had the Socratic dialogs that Plato wrote? Does it matter whether Socrates even existed (of course, we know he did, as independent authors mention him, generally to mock him as a pedo)? The philosophy espoused can still be evaluated on its own merits, and if you loathe religious hypocrites, you might find the story entertaining as well.
Don't discount a moral argument just because it's being made from a religious perspective. There's quite good advice to be found in religious texts, both on morality and on how to be happy with life as you find it.
I'm not sure you understand what you're advocating here. Jesus wasn't simply a philosopher, he claimed to be God and encouraged others to worship him as God. Would you be debating the philosophical merits of a modern day person claiming to be God and encouraging people to worship him?
Just to be clear, I AM a christian. But I'd rather embarrass someone who claims to be like me than allow them to water down Christ's message.
Eh, technically they're not lying. I have unlimited data, but unlimited to the point of the bandwidth they assign me(as is always the case with any unlimited service). I don't have a guaranteed speed in my 10-15 year old AT&T unlimited contract.
That only counts as honest if you live in the land of salesman morality. Everyone else calls that lying.
Then why don't they offer a per gigabyte plan for the power users? Same speeds as everyone else, but after the cap you owe a certain amount per gigabyte. I've never heard of this offered anywhere, even though it seems to be an obvious solution to the problem.
What, exactly, does unlimited mean to you, and why is it different from everyone else's definition? I think for most sane people it means the most bandwidth possible for the time period without taking advantage of other people on the network.
Yeah, that's so successful. Learn some history, the more abused the Christian church, the more solid the church that still exists is. Helps to get rid of the riffraff who only called themselves Christians to be popular. It's like a controlled burn.
Wazzamatter, you scared that they're finally getting organized? If it's all made up, why are the people at the university freaking out about it? OMG, they're challenging the idea of evolution wtf are we gonna do?
If nothing else they're going to hit the same brick wall that displays did when they stalled at 1080p ten years ago: Good Enough Syndrome...
1080p is far, FAR from good enough when you're talking about working on a monitor. Double or triple it and maybe give us more monitor space and we'll maybe agree that it's good enough.
If we really switched to base-10 like you say, how long would the typical drama be? Although, now that I think about it, making it.04 days long is close to what we have now anyway.
Pedantry is only cool in small doses, and sometimes not even then is it cool. Unless someone in the conversation has Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, please stfu.
"Inbreeding (ie., breeding between closely related individuals) may on the one hand result in more recessive deleterious traits manifesting themselves, because the genomes of pair-mates are more similar: recessive traits can only occur in offspring if present in both parents' genomes, and the more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring.
I find it hilarious that Nazi scientists were teaching people the exact opposite of what was healthy for a population when they tried to purify the white race through genocide of Jews. What's true for genetics is true for most things, if there's no one perfect solution for something, then variation is the spice of life.
So, basically, the best thing for the human race is to reproduce with people as different from us as they possibly can be. So all you white college preppies need to find yourselves a ghetto wife to devote your life to. It's literally for the children. I'm kidding, but only kind of.
I don't have a tablet that's connected to cellular, but if AT&T did this to me without me realizing, I'd go to their stores and complain until they either fixed the problem or called the police on me.
It's one thing to be evil, but this is the type of thing that makes me wish the cruel and unusual punishment restriction didn't exist in US law. Fucking bastards.
The thing that freaks me out is what happens if a huge chunk of dark matter comes barreling through our solar system. It might only affect normal matter through gravity, but that alone could totally screw up the earth's orbit and kill the whole planet simply by passing through nearby.
Yes, I know, I'm an idiot for scaring myself, but doesn't the concept sound horrendous? I mean, how could we fight that? We wouldn't have a chance.
I like the Ell Donsaii theory of dark matter(Ell Donsaii is the latest scifi phenomenon for the unwashed masses, including myself) which is that it's tied into the 5th dimension where she does all her quantum entanglement stuff, which the stories are based around. The idea is at the end of the last book to come out was that there was a quantum entanglement limit when it came to traveling long distances, and this somehow affected gravity at galactic distances. The end of the book had the line,"Huh, so that totally explains dark matter."
I forgot most of the scifi explanation, but the books are a pretty good read if you're looking to kill time. It's medium scifi, in between the hard Asimov stuff and the softer scifi stuff. Definitely not fantasy, though.
You can't tell the difference between Jesus and Hitler? That's like not being able to define the difference between a generic black person and a generic white person.
Oh, wait, I get it, your definition of Jesus has to do with the liars preaching on tv, right? So you're shooting from the hip about a topic you know nothing about. Maybe you should try actually attending an evangelical church to see what it's all about. Tell them you're thinking about joining but would rather not be put on a mailing list.
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Growing up in the 1970s, there were many books by reputable scientists who were absolutely sure that the Earth will have mega-famines and enter an Ice Age by the year 2000. They were absolutely certain that no economic growth will ever occur in China or India, the Cold War will last a thousand years, and air pollution will require everyone to wear oxygen masks at all times.
That IS the reality. That reminds me, do you want the red pill, or the blue pill? I forget what they're for, and they may have fuzz on them from the length of time they've been in my pocket.
Just look at the loving way in which the residents of "free" public housing maintain their residences out of gratitude to the all-caring government.
Truly, public housing solved poverty to exactly the same degree that free broadband will "solve" the digital divide. I'm sure that the upstanding U.S. citizens who live in public housing will take it upon themselves to learn how to code and contribute Open Source software to the world in complete gratitude for this benevolent entitlement.
Well, the crime rate might go down if the perp is too busy surfing blackdicksinwhitechicks.com to pickpocket somebody.
The Bible teaches that sin is the reason for death and that Jesus offers eternal life through the redemption by the Holy Spirit. The theory of evolution teaches that there was billions of years of death before human beings came on the scene. So if evolution is true, then Jesus can't save us from death because death exists as a natural event separate from sin, making Jesus' sacrifice meaningless.
So Pope Francis is either delusional or a liar, because one of the basic tenets of Christianity REQUIRES death to be something caused by sin in order to have any meaning at all.
Either Christianity is true, or evolutionary theory is true, or maybe neither is true. But Christianity and evolutionary theory are most certainly NOT compatible.
I suggest Catholics renounce Catholicism and start looking for a new church to attend, because this Pope is obviously unreliable.
but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up
I looked it up on Wikipedia, but I am non-the-wiser.
Can you explain what it is?
Basically, when Jesus died, the way God the Father interacts with changed, He became a more personal God. Old Testament is God the authoritarian, New Testament is God the advocate. So you get verses like "everything is permitted, but not everything is beneficial." Jesus death represents God making an all out effort to seek us out and fellowship with us. The new covenant, otherwise known as the New Testament, was created to express this change. The Old Testament is useful for teaching life lessons, but it's still the "old" covenant, so a lot of things are out-dated, like the pork and clothing rules I believe you may have mentioned.
The money's gone. It was given to the previous generation. How do you stop a pension system where each generation pays for the previous one, without one generation getting a raw deal (they paid for the previous generation, but don't get anything themselves)?
Give the higher ups in the IRS the death penalty and I think most of us will be willing to move on from there.
Once again proving how easy it is to troll libertardians. Libertardian queen Ayn Rand also whined and complained about socialism and welfare but then had no qualms pulling social security when she got older.
It's not hypocritical of her at all. If I can benefit from a government program, then I will, but that doesn't mean I approve of it's existence. It would be like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'm guessing at what you're talking about, but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up. It's the whole reason the Bible is divided into the Old and New Testament.
To me, the historical accuracy is irrelevant. Does it matter whether Socrates actually had the Socratic dialogs that Plato wrote? Does it matter whether Socrates even existed (of course, we know he did, as independent authors mention him, generally to mock him as a pedo)? The philosophy espoused can still be evaluated on its own merits, and if you loathe religious hypocrites, you might find the story entertaining as well.
Don't discount a moral argument just because it's being made from a religious perspective. There's quite good advice to be found in religious texts, both on morality and on how to be happy with life as you find it.
I'm not sure you understand what you're advocating here. Jesus wasn't simply a philosopher, he claimed to be God and encouraged others to worship him as God. Would you be debating the philosophical merits of a modern day person claiming to be God and encouraging people to worship him?
Just to be clear, I AM a christian. But I'd rather embarrass someone who claims to be like me than allow them to water down Christ's message.
Eh, technically they're not lying. I have unlimited data, but unlimited to the point of the bandwidth they assign me(as is always the case with any unlimited service). I don't have a guaranteed speed in my 10-15 year old AT&T unlimited contract.
That only counts as honest if you live in the land of salesman morality. Everyone else calls that lying.
Then why don't they offer a per gigabyte plan for the power users? Same speeds as everyone else, but after the cap you owe a certain amount per gigabyte. I've never heard of this offered anywhere, even though it seems to be an obvious solution to the problem.
What, exactly, does unlimited mean to you, and why is it different from everyone else's definition? I think for most sane people it means the most bandwidth possible for the time period without taking advantage of other people on the network.
Teaching religion to a child is child abuse.
If paedophiles had a conference would you not throw some tomatoes?
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Yeah, that's so successful. Learn some history, the more abused the Christian church, the more solid the church that still exists is. Helps to get rid of the riffraff who only called themselves Christians to be popular. It's like a controlled burn.
Wazzamatter, you scared that they're finally getting organized? If it's all made up, why are the people at the university freaking out about it? OMG, they're challenging the idea of evolution wtf are we gonna do?
If nothing else they're going to hit the same brick wall that displays did when they stalled at 1080p ten years ago: Good Enough Syndrome...
1080p is far, FAR from good enough when you're talking about working on a monitor. Double or triple it and maybe give us more monitor space and we'll maybe agree that it's good enough.
If we really switched to base-10 like you say, how long would the typical drama be? Although, now that I think about it, making it .04 days long is close to what we have now anyway.
(57min36 is how long .04 days is)
Does David Hassellhoff have any insightful blog posts on this subject? It sounds like his insight on burning man line queues could be beneficial here.
Dear God, the memes are reproducing like rabbits, soon we'll be overrun.
Pedantry is only cool in small doses, and sometimes not even then is it cool. Unless someone in the conversation has Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, please stfu.
"Inbreeding (ie., breeding between closely related individuals) may on the one hand result in more recessive deleterious traits manifesting themselves, because the genomes of pair-mates are more similar: recessive traits can only occur in offspring if present in both parents' genomes, and the more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring.
I find it hilarious that Nazi scientists were teaching people the exact opposite of what was healthy for a population when they tried to purify the white race through genocide of Jews. What's true for genetics is true for most things, if there's no one perfect solution for something, then variation is the spice of life.
So, basically, the best thing for the human race is to reproduce with people as different from us as they possibly can be. So all you white college preppies need to find yourselves a ghetto wife to devote your life to. It's literally for the children. I'm kidding, but only kind of.
I don't have a tablet that's connected to cellular, but if AT&T did this to me without me realizing, I'd go to their stores and complain until they either fixed the problem or called the police on me.
It's one thing to be evil, but this is the type of thing that makes me wish the cruel and unusual punishment restriction didn't exist in US law. Fucking bastards.
The thing that freaks me out is what happens if a huge chunk of dark matter comes barreling through our solar system. It might only affect normal matter through gravity, but that alone could totally screw up the earth's orbit and kill the whole planet simply by passing through nearby.
Yes, I know, I'm an idiot for scaring myself, but doesn't the concept sound horrendous? I mean, how could we fight that? We wouldn't have a chance.
I like the Ell Donsaii theory of dark matter(Ell Donsaii is the latest scifi phenomenon for the unwashed masses, including myself) which is that it's tied into the 5th dimension where she does all her quantum entanglement stuff, which the stories are based around. The idea is at the end of the last book to come out was that there was a quantum entanglement limit when it came to traveling long distances, and this somehow affected gravity at galactic distances. The end of the book had the line,"Huh, so that totally explains dark matter."
I forgot most of the scifi explanation, but the books are a pretty good read if you're looking to kill time. It's medium scifi, in between the hard Asimov stuff and the softer scifi stuff. Definitely not fantasy, though.
You can't tell the difference between Jesus and Hitler? That's like not being able to define the difference between a generic black person and a generic white person.
Oh, wait, I get it, your definition of Jesus has to do with the liars preaching on tv, right? So you're shooting from the hip about a topic you know nothing about. Maybe you should try actually attending an evangelical church to see what it's all about. Tell them you're thinking about joining but would rather not be put on a mailing list.
Like, you know, that nasty foreign company Intel? The one that's generally considered to have the best chip technology in the world?
I'm still hoping for another come from behind win by AMD. They're my favorite underdog since I don't watch sports.
Yeah, you don't want the military vehicle running over people, then the soldiers wouldn't have the fun of shooting them.