I'm talking about how people are willing to ignore that Christmas is being attacked. In fact, not just Christmas, but Christendom.
I'll illustrate for you: During the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity, the Palestinian militants inside drank the communion wine (even though they were Muslims!), stole gold crucifixes, used the Bible as toliet paper... Yet we hear little about this, and we don't complain about this desecration. Now, imagine American's even allowing themselves to be besieged in a Mosque. Now, this says two things: 1) Christianity is sleeping, 2) Christianity is more mature than Islam (which isn't saying much, we're still in our infancy too).
I'm torn about your post, because on the one hand I'd LOVE it if Christmas were a bit more sedate. One thing that pisses me off about Christians in general is their attitude as a group that I have to respect it. I'm sorry, but stupid is stupid and I will not respect it. Christmas belongs in the dark ages, let's put it back there.
First off, when you think of Christians as a group, you're thinking of Fundamentalist Christians. Who, in my opinion, betrays Christianity, and most certainly doesn't represent the fundamentals of the Faith. Christmas doesn't belong in the Dark Ages, it's underlying message will continue to live.
On the other hand, I want to see Christmas fade away as part of society's natural evolution forward. If Christmas is made illegal in any form because of some nut calling it racist or any of the other things you mentioned in your post, then society will not have moved forward, and may have taken (yet another) step back.
Actually, you've made me think here. Maybe Christmas fading away would be beneficiary. It would strip the fluff off and leave only it's reason for existing- that we chose a day to celebrate the birth of our King. I admit it'd be a step back to ban it (or any other holiday), because that harkens back to the bad old days of cultural exclusivism.
I am quite serious, though I'm exaggerating for effect (and maybe humor too...). I seriously think the majority of "Christendom" would be willing to ignore (and is ignoring) attempts to marginalize the celebration of Christmas.
That's the sad part, many Christians are content to sit down and watch their traditions be derided. It's one thing to respect other cultures. It's another to stand aside while people try to destroy yours. Look in NYC, you can have Ramadan and Hanukkah celebrations in school, but not Christmas. That's endorsement of religion, and an instance where the Christian majority sits down and takes it.
Christmas will be replaced by a generic winter holiday after lawsuits charge it with Eurocentricism and racist undertones (why isn't Santa black?). "Christian" preachers will tell their congregations to embrace the new holiday, as to not offend their atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Pagan, Hindu, and Buddhist brethe--- er, fellow human beings.
Underground real Christians will continue to celebrate, while having what nativity scenes they dare display be subjected to fines and arson.
"O! Beautiful for spacious skies..."
Don't see this as offtopic. Sadly, I'm partly serious about this. I'm willing to wager that Christmas WILL be less evident in 40 years if things keep up this way.
I'm wondering what's going to happen the first time a woman is home while her husband is out and a predator rapes her, knowing she can't fire her husband's gun...
Honestly, though I have no great love for Microsoft (having suffered through WinMe, and being raised on Macs and IBM DOS will do that to ya)- I'm glad the government is at least keeping it's nose out of something in a day where it wants it's nose in everything.
I mean, let's face it, for even your intelligent computer user, Linux is no solution. I went through the process of partitioning, and installing Red Hat and only came out dissapointed. I could never get a PPP protocol to sign me onto the internet, and even though the computer didn't crash, I couldn't use my CD-ROM either. Until Linux is as intuitive as Windows (or even better, Mac's OS X) it's doomed to be for businesses and hobbyists.
I'm a music g33k. I'll freely admit it. I carry a backpack with me where ever I go, and out side the Game Boy Advance, the only tech item I carry around is a Sony Walkman and a big CD wallet, along with HUGE, ungodly headphones.
But you won't find many CD's in there that have artists with a large presence on the radio (97.7fm near Cincinnati is probably the only real underground commercial station left, you can check out their webcast at www.woxy.com), outside the rare instance where one of these bands has a minor radio hit.
Music died on MTV a while ago. Moby changed music from being, well music, to being a sidenote (no pun intended) to commercial transactions. But, because of people's disenchantment with corporate music, there has been a recent rise in real music. Music might be small, live, and like books. But, like books, the good content will get more exposure when there is less uber-hyped content out there.
Common Complaints:
1) It looks more High tech than the TOS Enterprise!
~ So did the Star Trek I-III Enterprises even though they were the same "serial" number (NCC-1701). Also, this ISN'T a factual account it's TV, special effects get better, we can just pretend that primitive 1960's FX couldn't accurately potray TOS generation tech. Sheez.
2) It might be "historically" incorrect!
This is fiction and open for change. Pretend this is an alternate universe if you have to. I mean you very well call it history because if I'm correct according to the original timeline Khan should have already come and gone... The timeline has been changed before.
All in all I'm excited about this new series, I love the Trek shows and I'm open for any non-rediculous changes the writers want to make, if they make the Romulans appear a few decades earlier- big deal. It'll be cool to have a Romulan-Earth(Federation) war.
~kyle
Yes, it is odd how that has never really been explained now isn't it? Maybe the data from the first one wasn't sufficient... after all, a single datum isn't good statistics
Excuse me but, the reason for the second bomb has always been explained by this. After the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima(remember, Truman signed these orders, it wasn't just some fanatical general). The Japanese were given a chance to issue unconditional surrender after Hiroshima. When the "warning period" expired they dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Note, if the military was interested in simple destruction they would have dropped the bomb on Tokyo and dismantled Japan's goverment completely.
Nagasaki was a target since it was located on Kyushu(sp?) the island where the American mainland invasion of Japan was scheduled to take place. It had already been put off to try the atomic bombing strategy. After Hiroshima there was a fear that no matter what we would have to invade Japan. And winning the war IS required, look what happpens when we don't finish our wars(Korea, Persian Gulf). Bombing targets on Kyushu were supposed to make the invasion easier.
In the end we treated the Japanese much better and saved lives. Remember, at Okinawa the Japanese plan was to kill as many people- their own civilians included(!) to make the U.S. hesitant to ever invade the home islands. The generals invisioned a "death zone" on the beaches of Kyushu with women, men, and children alike fighting the Americans. In the end we prevented what might have become a self-imposed genocide by the Japanese.
The essential debate here is the excess of a symbol-searcher verus the logic of geek-aesthetics. It is easy to interpert anything the way you want it to be. I could sit down and link 2001 to William Blake's pantheon of Urizen(HAL?), Orc(Bowman?), Los(the monolith race?), and others. You can always make simple rebuttals to the point of saying Bowman cannot be Zarathustra since he was not HAL's creator, or that Kubrick's notes don't support this interpertation.
But, on the same side the literary among us will argue that 2001 is an allegorical tale, we are bound to be annoyed by saying this of the precious "critic's-choice" sci-fi movie by being/.ers, much as Tolkienites HATE allegorical interpertations of his works.
In the end, you will probably ALWAYS find these connections between truly great works, in many ways the themes in Zarathustra, the Oddysey and such are embedded in the so-called "European Collective Sub-Consciousness"(sometimes
even "Northern European"). Sigmund Freud could make so much related to sex since everything is infinetley linked.
In this argument: everything is the reason for everything. So, we have no reason.(?)
My question is how can you run another OS on Dreamcast? I mean it lacks a large hard drive of any sort.. But, then again this is one are where I'm a tad uninitiated.
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I'm talking about how people are willing to ignore that Christmas is being attacked. In fact, not just Christmas, but Christendom.
I'll illustrate for you: During the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity, the Palestinian militants inside drank the communion wine (even though they were Muslims!), stole gold crucifixes, used the Bible as toliet paper... Yet we hear little about this, and we don't complain about this desecration. Now, imagine American's even allowing themselves to be besieged in a Mosque. Now, this says two things: 1) Christianity is sleeping, 2) Christianity is more mature than Islam (which isn't saying much, we're still in our infancy too).
I'm torn about your post, because on the one hand I'd LOVE it if Christmas were a bit more sedate. One thing that pisses me off about Christians in general is their attitude as a group that I have to respect it. I'm sorry, but stupid is stupid and I will not respect it. Christmas belongs in the dark ages, let's put it back there.
First off, when you think of Christians as a group, you're thinking of Fundamentalist Christians. Who, in my opinion, betrays Christianity, and most certainly doesn't represent the fundamentals of the Faith. Christmas doesn't belong in the Dark Ages, it's underlying message will continue to live.
On the other hand, I want to see Christmas fade away as part of society's natural evolution forward. If Christmas is made illegal in any form because of some nut calling it racist or any of the other things you mentioned in your post, then society will not have moved forward, and may have taken (yet another) step back.
Actually, you've made me think here. Maybe Christmas fading away would be beneficiary. It would strip the fluff off and leave only it's reason for existing- that we chose a day to celebrate the birth of our King. I admit it'd be a step back to ban it (or any other holiday), because that harkens back to the bad old days of cultural exclusivism.
I am quite serious, though I'm exaggerating for effect (and maybe humor too...). I seriously think the majority of "Christendom" would be willing to ignore (and is ignoring) attempts to marginalize the celebration of Christmas.
That's the sad part, many Christians are content to sit down and watch their traditions be derided. It's one thing to respect other cultures. It's another to stand aside while people try to destroy yours. Look in NYC, you can have Ramadan and Hanukkah celebrations in school, but not Christmas. That's endorsement of religion, and an instance where the Christian majority sits down and takes it.
Christmas will be replaced by a generic winter holiday after lawsuits charge it with Eurocentricism and racist undertones (why isn't Santa black?). "Christian" preachers will tell their congregations to embrace the new holiday, as to not offend their atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Pagan, Hindu, and Buddhist brethe--- er, fellow human beings.
Underground real Christians will continue to celebrate, while having what nativity scenes they dare display be subjected to fines and arson.
"O! Beautiful for spacious skies..."
Don't see this as offtopic. Sadly, I'm partly serious about this. I'm willing to wager that Christmas WILL be less evident in 40 years if things keep up this way.
It's probably the fastest growth area since it's a new market, duh.
"I made two videophone vidi-rings for Tool! It's their fastest growing market!"
I'm wondering what's going to happen the first time a woman is home while her husband is out and a predator rapes her, knowing she can't fire her husband's gun...
Some would also say that Ultima VIII would have been better off unfinished...
"Secret of Vulcan Fury" sounds like a Trekker-made porno.
Honestly, though I have no great love for Microsoft (having suffered through WinMe, and being raised on Macs and IBM DOS will do that to ya)- I'm glad the government is at least keeping it's nose out of something in a day where it wants it's nose in everything.
I mean, let's face it, for even your intelligent computer user, Linux is no solution. I went through the process of partitioning, and installing Red Hat and only came out dissapointed. I could never get a PPP protocol to sign me onto the internet, and even though the computer didn't crash, I couldn't use my CD-ROM either. Until Linux is as intuitive as Windows (or even better, Mac's OS X) it's doomed to be for businesses and hobbyists.
Scott Adams once said that he wished he was clever enough to have come up with Dilbert's mouthlessness as a symbol of his lack of power.
"All I can say is I like him drawn that way"
Stop reading so much into the innocuous and go see a movie or a play.
What you learned from rap aside, incorrect spelling doesn't make you original.
You're just mad because I had sex with your mom on your night.
It must be uncomfortable when your mom makes you live in a wrecked Aerostar because she doesn't have a basement.
I did, then the pot wore off.
I'm a music g33k. I'll freely admit it. I carry a backpack with me where ever I go, and out side the Game Boy Advance, the only tech item I carry around is a Sony Walkman and a big CD wallet, along with HUGE, ungodly headphones.
But you won't find many CD's in there that have artists with a large presence on the radio (97.7fm near Cincinnati is probably the only real underground commercial station left, you can check out their webcast at www.woxy.com), outside the rare instance where one of these bands has a minor radio hit.
Music died on MTV a while ago. Moby changed music from being, well music, to being a sidenote (no pun intended) to commercial transactions. But, because of people's disenchantment with corporate music, there has been a recent rise in real music.
Music might be small, live, and like books. But, like books, the good content will get more exposure when there is less uber-hyped content out there.
For the indie music fan, this is a great thing.
Nah, I'm 16 and I don't care
Common Complaints: 1) It looks more High tech than the TOS Enterprise! ~ So did the Star Trek I-III Enterprises even though they were the same "serial" number (NCC-1701). Also, this ISN'T a factual account it's TV, special effects get better, we can just pretend that primitive 1960's FX couldn't accurately potray TOS generation tech. Sheez. 2) It might be "historically" incorrect! This is fiction and open for change. Pretend this is an alternate universe if you have to. I mean you very well call it history because if I'm correct according to the original timeline Khan should have already come and gone... The timeline has been changed before. All in all I'm excited about this new series, I love the Trek shows and I'm open for any non-rediculous changes the writers want to make, if they make the Romulans appear a few decades earlier- big deal. It'll be cool to have a Romulan-Earth(Federation) war. ~kyle
Yes, it is odd how that has never really been explained now isn't it? Maybe the data from the first one wasn't sufficient... after all, a single datum isn't good statistics Excuse me but, the reason for the second bomb has always been explained by this. After the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima(remember, Truman signed these orders, it wasn't just some fanatical general). The Japanese were given a chance to issue unconditional surrender after Hiroshima. When the "warning period" expired they dropped a bomb on Nagasaki. Note, if the military was interested in simple destruction they would have dropped the bomb on Tokyo and dismantled Japan's goverment completely. Nagasaki was a target since it was located on Kyushu(sp?) the island where the American mainland invasion of Japan was scheduled to take place. It had already been put off to try the atomic bombing strategy. After Hiroshima there was a fear that no matter what we would have to invade Japan. And winning the war IS required, look what happpens when we don't finish our wars(Korea, Persian Gulf). Bombing targets on Kyushu were supposed to make the invasion easier. In the end we treated the Japanese much better and saved lives. Remember, at Okinawa the Japanese plan was to kill as many people- their own civilians included(!) to make the U.S. hesitant to ever invade the home islands. The generals invisioned a "death zone" on the beaches of Kyushu with women, men, and children alike fighting the Americans. In the end we prevented what might have become a self-imposed genocide by the Japanese.
The essential debate here is the excess of a symbol-searcher verus the logic of geek-aesthetics. It is easy to interpert anything the way you want it to be. I could sit down and link 2001 to William Blake's pantheon of Urizen(HAL?), Orc(Bowman?), Los(the monolith race?), and others. You can always make simple rebuttals to the point of saying Bowman cannot be Zarathustra since he was not HAL's creator, or that Kubrick's notes don't support this interpertation. But, on the same side the literary among us will argue that 2001 is an allegorical tale, we are bound to be annoyed by saying this of the precious "critic's-choice" sci-fi movie by being /.ers, much as Tolkienites HATE allegorical interpertations of his works.
In the end, you will probably ALWAYS find these connections between truly great works, in many ways the themes in Zarathustra, the Oddysey and such are embedded in the so-called "European Collective Sub-Consciousness"(sometimes
even "Northern European"). Sigmund Freud could make so much related to sex since everything is infinetley linked.
In this argument: everything is the reason for everything. So, we have no reason.(?)
My question is how can you run another OS on Dreamcast? I mean it lacks a large hard drive of any sort.. But, then again this is one are where I'm a tad uninitiated.