Oooh, yeay. Another joyride that contributes absolutely nothing to space exploration.
If you disagree with this statement, go ahead -- explain why you feel that a vehicle with this low delta-V, horrible ISP, and proportionally high mass that faces bare minimal reentry heating -- advances the state of the art. No, because the reason to disagree with your statement is that it implies that advancing the state of the art is absolutely everything to space exploration.
This will contribute to establishing a routine of space exploration. They're expecting weekly launches. Who else is capable of weekly launches? When the R&D team has passed this project onto the exploit and maintain team, they can start working on weekly orbital launches. They can offer a 'round the world trip in a single day. Take THAT, Jules Verne!
and he specifically names other gods when telling people to worship only him Yes, and the clear implication is that those "other gods" are "false gods." Meaning they are not real gods. Meaning they don't exist. Exodus 20:3-5 "You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
No indication that the other gods are false, in fact, he wouldn't be jealous if they there was no competition.
Deuteronomy 7:4 for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
You were seeing clear implications?
Judges 3:5-8 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. 8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, [b] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
Judges 6:7-10 When the Israelites cried to the LORD because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, 'I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me."
still talking about them as other gods, not false gods. In fact, if you jump to the new testament, there's even toned-down language to show that there are other beings at the level of that god...
2 Peter 2 Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; 11yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
Calling these celestial beings "nonexistent" is slander in the eyes of your lord, you know.
You think people are stalking you? One guy is, he actually bragged about having been at it for one whole year when he'd been at it for about a year. Check out the comments in my journal, he posted shit in most of them and his username is a dead giveaway. But the end result of his obsessive actions are that his stalker account went from posting at 2 when he started it to posting at one (below my threshold, which means that I don't see his posts, making his stalking hilariously pointless), and my karma remained excellent. He bragged about using sockpuppets, so he probably karma whores his way into some mod points to misuse, or it's any of the the other lower intellects that I insult around here, whatever.
I point out aberrant moderations to give any metamoderators that check out the context some info, in case the system works. There's a few idiots putting some effort into breaking the system, but they're outnumbered by decent folk.
you never offered any of the actual content of the book either. You paraphrased it, sure. But if you want to claim the book is right, then present arguments from the book, and we can talk those arguments. I say, and this book I haven't read agrees, that before the bit with the Egyptians, the Hebrews weren't monotheists, and that they worshiped a goddess right along the god who threw all those frogs.
I say this because in the bible (much easier to find than that other book), that god doesn't claim to be the only god, and he specifically names other gods when telling people to worship only him. In fact I think at one point Moses gets annoyed because people keep putting up Ashera poles next to his Yaveh shrines even though he told them not to do it already.
That, my friend, is evidence that modern monotheist theology is a made up theo/ry/logy.
you are comparing banned books to a panned one. That makes no sense. When you can't ban, you pan. So? The question is whether everyone who pans, would ban.
Would you ban the Bible? Not anyone, but one group (Christians) in particular who has a history (past and current) of banning and burning books.
The question is not "does did book piss off influential Christians" but "is this book based on facts or fiction". And the reason why I say religion is a bad thing is that religious people tend to look to their shepherd's emotional response to a book rather than to the facts discussed within. You, for instance, haven't told me anything about the actual content of the book. All you've done is tell that it's bullshit because people (with a stake in the matter) have said so.
And no, I wouldn't ban the bible, in fact I quote it to people often.
a book that has been widely rejected due to being a made-up theory with no serious evidence behind it whatsoever. I've heard that before: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
Are there any theories that are not made-up? He exclusively lists humorous evidence? You can offer better evidence for the bible than any of his evidence of the pre-egyptian-slavery religious practises of the hebrew people?
Why would the FBI have to steal nuclear secrets from anyone? If we Who's "we"? You know these nuclear secrets? Everyone in the FBI knows them?
wouldn't messing with other countries and stealing secrets fall under the CIA's realm anyway? The FBI plays an essential role in the U.S. Government's counterintelligence efforts and has the responsibility to produce domestic foreign intelligence in support of other members of the Intelligence Community.
There are things going on in the government that absolutely should not be made available to the public. There are tons of things that would harm us overall as a country if we just released them for public disemination. Like what goes on in those secret CIA prisons out of the judicial jurisdiction of the US legal system, the list of dictators installed by the US to replace democratically elected representatives, stuff like that?
What I was referring to is the fact that most everyone -- including you -- is "indoctrinated" into the idea that if they harm others, they will be punished. That is not remotely the same as saying that the only reason to not harm others is to avoid punishment. Lets see:
But if I was indoctrinated into a system of belief that said I would be separated from mom forever, then so are most humans throughout history indoctrinated into a similar system of belief, including yourself. Unless you weren't taught that harming others -- stealing, killing, etc. -- could land you in a ton of trouble... ? It's a damned shame you were forced into believing that! A damned shame.
There is evidence that the god of the ancient jewish people was at first only the husband of the dominant deity, which was later displaced and eventually banned. No, in fact, there is no evidence of this at all. It's a common view among anti-religious folks, but it's a made-up theory with no serious evidence behind it whatsoever. The Hebrew Goddess is a 1967 book by Jewish historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai.
What is painfully ironic here is that you reject this history on the basis of a supposed (but erroneous) complete lack of evidence, but you reject the idea of questioning your theology for lack of evidence. You've begun to contradict yourself quite a bit:(
And it chills my blood whenever a religious person implies that the only reason they don't rape and murder all the live long day is that they're afraid of getting caught and punished. I know very few religious people who claim that. Yet you just implied it. You might be careful not to spell it out, but it slipped.
Though since people like that do exist, I can see why someone made up an invisible watcher You have absoultely no evidence he was "made up." There is plenty of evidence of the progression of the myth, from polytheistic origins towards simplification of the pantheon on to assimilation of competing gods and their attributes and eventually leading to monotheism. There is evidence that the god of the ancient jewish people was at first only the husband of the dominant deity, which was later displaced and eventually banned.
Also, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Why should you believe in that god and not in another? There is as much faith in their believers as there is in your peers and as much proof of the existence of any of them (none).
But if I was indoctrinated into a system of belief that said I would be separated from mom forever, then so are most humans throughout history indoctrinated into a similar system of belief, including yourself. Yup. I became aware of that at a young age, when my elementary education included the repeated claim that humans were the only animal that killed for fun or for sports. Had these people never had a cat? Don't they watch animal documentaries?
Unless you weren't taught that harming others -- stealing, killing, etc. -- could land you in a ton of trouble... ? It's a damned shame you were forced into believing that! When I was a kid, I was certain I could never hurt anyone. Didn't understand how anyone COULD, or why they would want to! Until this kid in second grade bugged me when I was hungry, and I punched him in the head. I felt really bad about it after I ate. It was empathy that got it my head that harming others was a bad idea, because hurting others hurts me. Others had hurt me on purpose, and I hated them for it, I was not going to join their ranks.
And it chills my blood whenever a religious person implies that the only reason they don't rape and murder all the live long day is that they're afraid of getting caught and punished. Though since people like that do exist, I can see why someone made up an invisible watcher that would see any bad things they did and punish them worse than anything you could imagine. That keeps some people paranoid and docile, it serves a purpose in society.
Or they thought your joke wasn't funny.. They need to read the faq then. But you see, "overrated" doesn't get metamoderated, so I get sporadic bursts of un-metamoderable downmods lasting no more than 3 days and never exceeding 5 in a row. Considering that there are losers pathetic enough to stalk me here for years with their unrequited homosexual advances, it is not surprising that one or some of them would extend their petty obsession beyond the comment system and onto the moderation system.
He liked to think that the police robot had deliberately misfired its tear gas canisters in an effort to save him "Maybe robots do have feelings," he later mused.
Is Astrobiology Magazine slumming with the astrophysicists while waiting for someone to find life outside of Earth's biosphere? Nah... in fact, I think it was founded in Roswell some time ago by a very pale midget.
there's no way for a cell to control where some cromosome will change. Are you sure? Maybe cells that express specific portions of their chromosomes have a feedback mechanism to let the organism know if they're doing well or not, and maybe the organism isn't as careful in the replication process of that part of it's genome when the feedback is negative.
Indoctrinating children into a system of belief that says they can either stay and be with mom forever or reject it and be tortured forever is forcing the issue. OK, even if that's true, what's that got to do with me? I'll need your complete curriculum vitae...
I missed the part where you showed that I was forced to be a Christian. Were you routinely exposed to judeo-christian influences at a young age?
Had you been taught that your choice was Christianity or eternal hellfire by the time you first learned about death? OK, let me be more explicit, since you appear to not have understood what I said.
Please show me where I was forced to be a Christian. None of what you said addressed that. Indoctrinating children into a system of belief that says they can either stay and be with mom forever or reject it and be tortured forever is forcing the issue.
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If you disagree with this statement, go ahead -- explain why you feel that a vehicle with this low delta-V, horrible ISP, and proportionally high mass that faces bare minimal reentry heating -- advances the state of the art. No, because the reason to disagree with your statement is that it implies that advancing the state of the art is absolutely everything to space exploration.
This will contribute to establishing a routine of space exploration. They're expecting weekly launches. Who else is capable of weekly launches?
When the R&D team has passed this project onto the exploit and maintain team, they can start working on weekly orbital launches. They can offer a 'round the world trip in a single day. Take THAT, Jules Verne!
"You shall have no other gods before me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
No indication that the other gods are false, in fact, he wouldn't be jealous if they there was no competition.
Deuteronomy 7:4
for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD's anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.
Exodus 34:14
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
You were seeing clear implications?
Judges 3:5-8
The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 6 They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. 8 The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, [b] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
Judges 6:7-10
When the Israelites cried to the LORD because of Midian, 8 he sent them a prophet, who said, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 9 I snatched you from the power of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors. I drove them from before you and gave you their land. 10 I said to you, 'I am the LORD your God; do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live.' But you have not listened to me."
still talking about them as other gods, not false gods. In fact, if you jump to the new testament, there's even toned-down language to show that there are other beings at the level of that god...
2 Peter 2
Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; 11yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
Calling these celestial beings "nonexistent" is slander in the eyes of your lord, you know.
"There were only 156 actual burners, but some run at very high speeds: some as high as 40x. This is well above the average speed,"
I point out aberrant moderations to give any metamoderators that check out the context some info, in case the system works.
There's a few idiots putting some effort into breaking the system, but they're outnumbered by decent folk.
I say this because in the bible (much easier to find than that other book), that god doesn't claim to be the only god, and he specifically names other gods when telling people to worship only him. In fact I think at one point Moses gets annoyed because people keep putting up Ashera poles next to his Yaveh shrines even though he told them not to do it already.
That, my friend, is evidence that modern monotheist theology is a made up theo/ry/logy.
Would you ban the Bible? Not anyone, but one group (Christians) in particular who has a history (past and current) of banning and burning books.
The question is not "does did book piss off influential Christians" but "is this book based on facts or fiction".
And the reason why I say religion is a bad thing is that religious people tend to look to their shepherd's emotional response to a book rather than to the facts discussed within.
You, for instance, haven't told me anything about the actual content of the book. All you've done is tell that it's bullshit because people (with a stake in the matter) have said so.
And no, I wouldn't ban the bible, in fact I quote it to people often.
So Charles Darwin, born in the 1809, predates the Kabbalah? That's cosmology, not biology.
Are there any theories that are not made-up?
He exclusively lists humorous evidence?
You can offer better evidence for the bible than any of his evidence of the pre-egyptian-slavery religious practises of the hebrew people?
You know these nuclear secrets? Everyone in the FBI knows them? wouldn't messing with other countries and stealing secrets fall under the CIA's realm anyway? The FBI plays an essential role in the U.S. Government's counterintelligence efforts and has the responsibility to produce domestic foreign intelligence in support of other members of the Intelligence Community.
What is painfully ironic here is that you reject this history on the basis of a supposed (but erroneous) complete lack of evidence, but you reject the idea of questioning your theology for lack of evidence.
You've begun to contradict yourself quite a bit
There is evidence that the god of the ancient jewish people was at first only the husband of the dominant deity, which was later displaced and eventually banned.
Also, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Why should you believe in that god and not in another? There is as much faith in their believers as there is in your peers and as much proof of the existence of any of them (none).
I became aware of that at a young age, when my elementary education included the repeated claim that humans were the only animal that killed for fun or for sports.
Had these people never had a cat? Don't they watch animal documentaries? Unless you weren't taught that harming others -- stealing, killing, etc. -- could land you in a ton of trouble
It was empathy that got it my head that harming others was a bad idea, because hurting others hurts me. Others had hurt me on purpose, and I hated them for it, I was not going to join their ranks.
And it chills my blood whenever a religious person implies that the only reason they don't rape and murder all the live long day is that they're afraid of getting caught and punished.
Though since people like that do exist, I can see why someone made up an invisible watcher that would see any bad things they did and punish them worse than anything you could imagine. That keeps some people paranoid and docile, it serves a purpose in society.
Considering that there are losers pathetic enough to stalk me here for years with their unrequited homosexual advances, it is not surprising that one or some of them would extend their petty obsession beyond the comment system and onto the moderation system.
I mean... that's inspiring.
Inspiring... batshit crazy... either/or.
Hmmm, 2 "overrated" mods in a row, for posts that were not otherwise rated. Sounds like someone has modpoints and a grudge!
Maybe cells that express specific portions of their chromosomes have a feedback mechanism to let the organism know if they're doing well or not, and maybe the organism isn't as careful in the replication process of that part of it's genome when the feedback is negative.
Had you been taught that your choice was Christianity or eternal hellfire by the time you first learned about death? OK, let me be more explicit, since you appear to not have understood what I said.
Please show me where I was forced to be a Christian. None of what you said addressed that. Indoctrinating children into a system of belief that says they can either stay and be with mom forever or reject it and be tortured forever is forcing the issue.