The answers to those questions given by Christianity are only satisfactory if one doesn't question them. If we ask "How do we know these answers are correct", then the answer "Because it says it in an old book that we arbitrarily choose to believe" is not so satisfactory.
You can fully believe all of the currently accepted science of evolution while still believing that god directed the course of evolution and gave humans a soul when he deemed it appropriate. Many Christians and Catholics do believe this and they have no need to invoke ID either. Pope John Paul II himself believed this.
Their is no reason for a conflict save for the fact that fundamentalists want conflict. One of the problems with fundamentalists is that they believe what they want free from the constraints of what is true.
Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are (or were originally) philosophies, that is true. However there are many many local religions throughout Asia. Because those big three religions aren't exclusivistic the local religions and deities have been continuously worshiped right along side them or merged together with them. Mahayana Buddhism, probably the school of Buddhist thought with the largest number of practitioners, contains many of these ideas of gods and heaven and hell. The Buddha never spoke of those things but they are indisputably a part of Buddhism. Because of that I don't think you can really say that Asia has been without religious beliefs for any part of it's history.
In Australia everyone is legally required to vote in elections. The US could very well do the same thing if we wanted to get more people to the polls, but we don't for whatever reason.
I agree that the first thing we should do is repeal everything done in the past 7 years. I'm not sure how we repeal all the people killed and money wasted in the war, but that's for the politicians to figure out.
I like what Paul says about the Iraq war, but that's about the extent of his appeal. Kucinich is by far the better candidate, Paul is way to far to the right. It's bad enough that he's a libertarian (as they are hopelessly self serving in their policies) but he's also got a little too much religious-right mixed in (anti gay rights, anti abortion, pro intelligent design).
I'm sure Paul wouldn't scrap popular federal programs without replacing them with free market alternatives. Why is that necessarily a good thing? Look how well privatization of the military has gone in Iraq. Do we want Black Water taking over for our local Police and Fire departments too? I sure don't. And health insurance is another area where privatization doesn't work. When we have company's who profit by keeping money away from sick people that's a sure sign the free market has gone to far.
The solution to poorly managed government programs is not necessarily privatization. Much of the time all we need is someone in charge who doesn't hate government and want to make it look terrible and ineffectual. In other words, we don't need more Republicans.
It does mean that they are willing to believe firmly in things despite having any evidence to support it, or even in the face of evidence to the contrary. They believe what they are told to believe by clergy and the writings in an ancient book instead of based on observation of the world around them.
In some technical sense that may not be stupid, but it does demonstrate that the leadership and decisions making skills that would make for a good president are lacking.
There are many reasons not to vote for Ron Paul. His support for intelligent design and the fact that he would scrap many popular programs along with the universally loathed IRS are the first two that come to mind but they are by no means the only reasons.
That doesn't make any sense to me. The only reason why sleep feels so good to us is because we need it. If you didn't need it anymore you wouldn't be missing anything.
Even if everyone in the project is suddenly killed by ninjas, you still have the original offline installer that can keep you going for quite some time. And take my chances with the roving bands of anti-OSS ninjas? No thank you!
What do you mean driving SUVs is none of our business? Ever hear the saying "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins"? If the SUVs are emitting pollutants that everyone has to pay for then it sure as hell is our business. If SUV owners want people to mind their own business then they should stick to truly harmless pastimes, like sodomy.
There are two simple ways of entering a password. Cut and paste from another file, or type it in. So, if you're using cut and paste to prevent potential key loggers from reading your key strokes, the screen captures will show the file that you copied from.
If you were crazy, I guess you could write something that would pull a password from a database on a flash drive in such a fashion as to enter the password to the corresponding field but not display the password on the screen.... A much easier solution would be a simple script like this:
dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents passwd
Just run the script when you need the password, no keys to log or screens to capture. Then again, if you've got a keylogger on your machine your copy buffer may also be compromised.
You really want a society where anybody can paw through your stuff at anytime looking for a 'crime'? That is an obvious straw man argument. Illegal search and seizure laws don't even begin to apply here because the guy granted the techs unattended access to his computer. Don't want strangers looking around on your computer, don't let strangers use it.
Also you have not shown that the techs were looking for illegal files, it's this douchebag's fault for having illegal files lying around to be found.
Stop trying to defend the indefensible and worry about the abundant real threats to our rights from our government.
Funny? Mods starting the weekend a little early I see. Anyway the evolution craziness can't all be blamed on the Baptists, it's fundamentalists of all sorts that are the trouble. Baptists, yes, but also Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, and plenty of other evangelical churches. There are also many creationists that are actually Catholics despite the previous pope being on the record as supporting the idea of evolution.
Demos: Greek for "common people" or "lower class" Kratia: Greek for the word "rule". Thus the word demos-krates; democracy. You're right. By those definitions we are unquestionably a democracy. The politicians that rule us are about as low a class as they come.
First of all, Dodd is running for President. Shouldn't someone so gung-ho for a candidate at least be aware of the alternatives? That's seems a bit off to me.
Secondly RP is still undecided on the issue of evolution. Sorry, my vote will never be won by someone with such an obvious mental defect.
Find your local alternative weekly paper. It will be free. Look at their listing of local shows, pick one that sounds interesting and go. Also read their album reviews.
For less local stuff I like Arthur Magazine (web and print, also free if you can find it) and Pitchfork Media (on the web).
Their best interest is defined by them so the propaganda has defined their best interest. Are you serious? Do you also think that it's in a heroin junkies best interest to score some smack? It must be since that's what their addiction tells them is in their best interest right? If only there was some objective way to know if getting AIDS from a needle is in a person's best interest, but no I guess we'll just have to go with what the H tells them.
Seriously dude, that's the most ridiculous of a long line of ridiculous assertions on your part.
As for government propaganda? Of course you don't, Dick Cheney says it's in your best interest so it must be.
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How about from an objective point of view.
The answers to those questions given by Christianity are only satisfactory if one doesn't question them. If we ask "How do we know these answers are correct", then the answer "Because it says it in an old book that we arbitrarily choose to believe" is not so satisfactory.
You can fully believe all of the currently accepted science of evolution while still believing that god directed the course of evolution and gave humans a soul when he deemed it appropriate. Many Christians and Catholics do believe this and they have no need to invoke ID either. Pope John Paul II himself believed this.
Their is no reason for a conflict save for the fact that fundamentalists want conflict. One of the problems with fundamentalists is that they believe what they want free from the constraints of what is true.
Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are (or were originally) philosophies, that is true. However there are many many local religions throughout Asia. Because those big three religions aren't exclusivistic the local religions and deities have been continuously worshiped right along side them or merged together with them. Mahayana Buddhism, probably the school of Buddhist thought with the largest number of practitioners, contains many of these ideas of gods and heaven and hell. The Buddha never spoke of those things but they are indisputably a part of Buddhism. Because of that I don't think you can really say that Asia has been without religious beliefs for any part of it's history.
Fidelity is not exclusive to humans, however in humans it is especially useful considering how long children are dependent on their parents.
In Australia everyone is legally required to vote in elections. The US could very well do the same thing if we wanted to get more people to the polls, but we don't for whatever reason.
I agree that the first thing we should do is repeal everything done in the past 7 years. I'm not sure how we repeal all the people killed and money wasted in the war, but that's for the politicians to figure out.
I like what Paul says about the Iraq war, but that's about the extent of his appeal. Kucinich is by far the better candidate, Paul is way to far to the right. It's bad enough that he's a libertarian (as they are hopelessly self serving in their policies) but he's also got a little too much religious-right mixed in (anti gay rights, anti abortion, pro intelligent design).
I'm sure Paul wouldn't scrap popular federal programs without replacing them with free market alternatives. Why is that necessarily a good thing? Look how well privatization of the military has gone in Iraq. Do we want Black Water taking over for our local Police and Fire departments too? I sure don't. And health insurance is another area where privatization doesn't work. When we have company's who profit by keeping money away from sick people that's a sure sign the free market has gone to far.
The solution to poorly managed government programs is not necessarily privatization. Much of the time all we need is someone in charge who doesn't hate government and want to make it look terrible and ineffectual. In other words, we don't need more Republicans.
It does mean that they are willing to believe firmly in things despite having any evidence to support it, or even in the face of evidence to the contrary. They believe what they are told to believe by clergy and the writings in an ancient book instead of based on observation of the world around them.
In some technical sense that may not be stupid, but it does demonstrate that the leadership and decisions making skills that would make for a good president are lacking.
There are many reasons not to vote for Ron Paul. His support for intelligent design and the fact that he would scrap many popular programs along with the universally loathed IRS are the first two that come to mind but they are by no means the only reasons.
TV card dude. It's cheap, takes up no additional space and lets you use your computer monitor which I'm betting is larger than 13".
That doesn't make any sense to me. The only reason why sleep feels so good to us is because we need it. If you didn't need it anymore you wouldn't be missing anything.
What do you mean driving SUVs is none of our business? Ever hear the saying "Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins"? If the SUVs are emitting pollutants that everyone has to pay for then it sure as hell is our business. If SUV owners want people to mind their own business then they should stick to truly harmless pastimes, like sodomy.
If you were crazy, I guess you could write something that would pull a password from a database on a flash drive in such a fashion as to enter the password to the corresponding field but not display the password on the screen.... A much easier solution would be a simple script like this:
dcop klipper klipper setClipboardContents passwd
Just run the script when you need the password, no keys to log or screens to capture. Then again, if you've got a keylogger on your machine your copy buffer may also be compromised.
What's the business use of holding meetings under virtual water?
Also you have not shown that the techs were looking for illegal files, it's this douchebag's fault for having illegal files lying around to be found.
Stop trying to defend the indefensible and worry about the abundant real threats to our rights from our government.
What does Javascript have to do with the whole web browser freezing up while a java applet loads?
Funny? Mods starting the weekend a little early I see. Anyway the evolution craziness can't all be blamed on the Baptists, it's fundamentalists of all sorts that are the trouble. Baptists, yes, but also Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, and plenty of other evangelical churches. There are also many creationists that are actually Catholics despite the previous pope being on the record as supporting the idea of evolution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4af9Q0Fa4Q
3 minutes and 7 seconds into the video.
I'm guessing it means they can't expand into any new markets.
Kratia: Greek for the word "rule".
Thus the word demos-krates; democracy. You're right. By those definitions we are unquestionably a democracy. The politicians that rule us are about as low a class as they come.
First of all, Dodd is running for President. Shouldn't someone so gung-ho for a candidate at least be aware of the alternatives? That's seems a bit off to me.
Secondly RP is still undecided on the issue of evolution. Sorry, my vote will never be won by someone with such an obvious mental defect.
Find your local alternative weekly paper. It will be free. Look at their listing of local shows, pick one that sounds interesting and go. Also read their album reviews.
For less local stuff I like Arthur Magazine (web and print, also free if you can find it) and Pitchfork Media (on the web).
Seriously dude, that's the most ridiculous of a long line of ridiculous assertions on your part. As for government propaganda? Of course you don't, Dick Cheney says it's in your best interest so it must be.