No, Wicca is a modern recreation of pre-Christian pagan belief. Satanism is a Christian heresy--it accepts the Christian supernatural entities, but differs in the form of devotion.
Which doesn't contadict my statement that Wicca doesn't feature Satan as a character...
It's questionable the degree to which Satanism (as formulated by LeVay) accepts the Christian supernatural entities, versus using them as a trapping or considering the teachings as a form of conditioning that they're rebelling against. Indeed, the FAQ at the "First Church of Satan" website says:
"Satanists may argue over the existence of Satan as an entity. There is no right answer to this question in the First Church of Satan."
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"Devil worshippers are nothing more than wannabe renegade Christians still drowning in the belief that to be a Satanist they must use dogma that is the reverse of Christian belief. Satanists are free thinkers, moving forward spiritually through self-exploration and spiritual stimulation. Strictly speaking, a devil worshipper is someone who worships evil as a moral absolute. Satanists, on the other hand, view Satanism as a religion and a philosophy."
"And the Lord spake to Moses face to face, as a man speaketh to his friend." (Ex. 33:11) versus "No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)
"with God all things are possible" says Matthew 19:26, but "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron." (Judges 1:19)
"I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy." (Jer. 13:14) versus "The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works." (Ps. 145:9)
contradictory accounts of Judas's death: "And he cast down the pieces of silver into the temple and departed, and went out and hanged himself." (Matt. 27:5) versus "And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all of his bowels gushed out." (Acts 1:18)
In my mind those are two entirely different religions
It's not just in your mind. Wicca just doesn't feature Satan as a character.
And Satanism itself isn't really what people think it is, it's just a sophmoric power philosophy. It actuall seems to me to be more closely related to Objectism and "libertarian capitalistism" than to Wicca...
my best guess would be that the ban list must include books that are not "banned" so much as "excluded by policy,"
It's not a "banned" list, it's a "challenged" list; books the libraries included on their collection (presumably by some previously-crafted policy) and that someone got their panties in a bunch about.
I learned that no matter how good a driver YOU are, and how few mistakes you make, that still makes it so you cant avoid getting hit by someone else.
Yeah...in the space of a year, I had two incidents (in different locations) where drivers coming the other way on a divided highway lost control and crossed a grassy median into my lane.
There are entirely too many goofballs behind the wheel.
No, but we can conclude that high velocity bullet impacts don't cause cancer, because they can't corrupt DNA in the way required.
Directly, yes. But we couldn't conclude that that people who are shot wouldn't be at an increased cancer risk from indirect means.
(Which is not to say that such a link exists. But, given somepossible
links between physical trauma and and increased risk of breast cancer, it's not an unreasonable hypothesis to explore. Of course, others claim such a link is a myth. The body is complicated, and statistical evidence can take decades to accumulate.)
It's the commonly accepted understanding...So being homosexual is a choice
That's ridiculous. If being homosexual is a choice, then so is being hetero. But I never chose to find Sandra Bullock more attractive than Tom Cruise.
I've made many choices in my life, and changed my mind on many things. I've gone from being a hamburger-lover to a vegan; pro-life to pro-choice; Catholic to Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian; gun banner to gun owner; drug prohibitionist to pro-legalization.
But I've always liked girls.
Had that one figured out around the age of five. Never had any doubt, weighed any arguements, made any choice.
Indeed, if sexual orientation was a conscious choice, rationally we'd all have to choose to be bisexual - thus increasing our chances of a date.
But nope, I don't have a choice. I just like girls.
Why is it that they are not arresting any of the people that they flag as terrorists (or likely to be)?
To arrest you, there has to be actual evidence. (Disregarding the potential to just declare you an "enemy combatant" and disappear you...) But it seems you can be put on a no-fly list at a whim.
In general, the blackout most likely wouldn't have happened if NIMBY syndrome hadn't caused multiple (nuclear AND non-nuclear) plants to have their plans for construction scrapped, resulting in the Northeastern power grid running dangerously close to maximum capacity with little to no margin.
Deregulation of the electric industry was a much more direct cause. And rather than building more power plants (of any sort), reducing consumption via greater efficiency would be much smarter. Take the money to build a plant and use it for incentives for people to upgrade to energy-efficient applicance.
(all the waste is recycleable so I oppose plans to dump it into the ground)
Uh, no. Spent fuel can be reprocessed, but high level waste remains from the process. There's also ow-level waste, which ranges from spent protective gear, to decommissioned reactor vessels. Neither is in no way "recyclable".
Neither fossil fuels nor nuclear fission is suitable for a long-term general-ues energy source.
Fusion may or may not prove practical, however we do have a large fusion reactor located just 93 million miles away. We should make better use of it (including not just photovoltaic but passive solar, wind, possibly OTEC) and also direct efforts greater efficiency.
One entry found for censor.
Main Entry: 2censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring/'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
Microsoft Office isn't preloaded into memory on bootup. This is yet another false Slashdot meme that gets regurgitated over and over until it becomes "fact."
The Osa.exe file initializes the shared code that is used by the Office 2003 programs. When you use the Osa.exe file to initialize shared code, the Office 2003 programs start faster. If the Office programs, instead of Osa.exe, initialize the shared code, the programs take longer to start.
We can skin test for almost every known allergic substance to man.
Problem being, new substances are being released into our environment all them time, and their actions on the body - especially in combination - aren't fully "known to man".
(Which is not to say anything about this persons complaints, or the isssue of MCS in general.)
I have some people in here every single week for the same sniffles that they had last week.
Minor symptoms that persist are a legitimate complaint that should be investigated. (Allergies? Infection?) This doctor was an incompetant ass.
allah forbid what would 300 million non-military folks would do to our medical system if anyone could see a doctor at any time, for any reason, with all services free...
If the local trauma center started treating bullet wounds for free, would you shoot yourself?
Of course there are wackos that die 'defending their compound'. Nobody sides with them because they are nuts. ( If you have a 'compound' you ARE nuts. )
Well, that's the point. Once you've been declared a nutso coo-coo enemy of the people by the government and the media, your backyard suddenly become a "compound", your Slashdot post become a "manifesto", your church becomes a "cult"...
Could you please explain to me where your consitutional right to privacy comes from? I don't remember the word privacy anywhere in the constitution.
The fact that a right isn't directly enumerated doesn't mean it doesn't exist:
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
A better question is, where the federal government's power to snoop come from:
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Actually, you are. In a nation with as many laws as ours, every citizen is a criminal - a speeder or other sort of traffic scofflaw, a sex criminal (check your local laws), a copyright violator, a tax cheat (didn't report that $20 Grandma sent you for your birthday), we're all criminals.
2. It makes it slightly harder to get away with something.
Including things that are perfectly right for you to do but that the current government doesn't like. Surveillance has one hell of a chilling effect on the exercise of basic freedoms.
3. There are more important things to worry about.
Keeping the government from sliding into dictatorship is pretty high on my personal list.
Really, do you travel on a plane enough to really give a shit?
Having to show my papers to get on a plane is only a small symptom, not the whole problem.
Not really, because you could still guess what the pad is on your first shot. It's not likely, but its not "impossible".
The beauty of the OTP is that it doesn't matter if you guess what the pad is - you can't tell you've got it rigbt.
Given a cyphertext of length 9, there are keys that will decrypt it to read "Kill Bush", "Save Bush", "FuckOsama", "Bomb Iraq", "Love Boat", "qwertyuio", "!@#3fst9$-", and every other 9 character string. Since the OTP is random, all these keys have equal probability of being the correct one.
As one research scientist said, the waves coming out of a cellular phone are simply too big to knock out individual parts of a DNA sequence and cause bodily harm, the way UV radiation from the sun does over time.
A bullet is also too big to knock out individual parts of a DNA sequence. Can we therefore conclude that bullets impacting the body at high velocity are not harmful? Of course not. The body is very complex, and there are many many ways to mess with it. Fortunately, it is also very homeostatic, well able to withstand the thousand little insults we subject it to each week.
Look how many people use their cellphones for hours every day, and have done so for years.
Not many people are using their cellphones for hours each day, I hope. (If so, their most urgent health need is to hang up and get an effing life.) And it hasn't been many years since cellphones becamse popular. It may (or may not) be the case that, like other environmental factors like smoking or diet, it takes years of use for effects to manifest.
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Context does not modify the contradictory assertations made in these biblical passages.
Which doesn't contadict my statement that Wicca doesn't feature Satan as a character...
It's questionable the degree to which Satanism (as formulated by LeVay) accepts the Christian supernatural entities, versus using them as a trapping or considering the teachings as a form of conditioning that they're rebelling against. Indeed, the FAQ at the "First Church of Satan" website says:
Well, here you go. And here's some more.
Some favorites:
It's not just in your mind. Wicca just doesn't feature Satan as a character.
And Satanism itself isn't really what people think it is, it's just a sophmoric power philosophy. It actuall seems to me to be more closely related to Objectism and "libertarian capitalistism" than to Wicca...
It's not a "banned" list, it's a "challenged" list; books the libraries included on their collection (presumably by some previously-crafted policy) and that someone got their panties in a bunch about.
Yeah...in the space of a year, I had two incidents (in different locations) where drivers coming the other way on a divided highway lost control and crossed a grassy median into my lane.
There are entirely too many goofballs behind the wheel.
Directly, yes. But we couldn't conclude that that people who are shot wouldn't be at an increased cancer risk from indirect means.
(Which is not to say that such a link exists. But, given some possible links between physical trauma and and increased risk of breast cancer, it's not an unreasonable hypothesis to explore. Of course, others claim such a link is a myth. The body is complicated, and statistical evidence can take decades to accumulate.)
"Real good" programming teams use code reviews to catch all sorts of mistakes, and memory debuggers to check for leaks.
The issue of object ownership is independant of language. "Real good" programming teams fully document APIs.
That's ridiculous. If being homosexual is a choice, then so is being hetero. But I never chose to find Sandra Bullock more attractive than Tom Cruise.
I've made many choices in my life, and changed my mind on many things. I've gone from being a hamburger-lover to a vegan; pro-life to pro-choice; Catholic to Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian; gun banner to gun owner; drug prohibitionist to pro-legalization.
But I've always liked girls.
Had that one figured out around the age of five. Never had any doubt, weighed any arguements, made any choice.
Indeed, if sexual orientation was a conscious choice, rationally we'd all have to choose to be bisexual - thus increasing our chances of a date.
But nope, I don't have a choice. I just like girls.
To arrest you, there has to be actual evidence. (Disregarding the potential to just declare you an "enemy combatant" and disappear you...) But it seems you can be put on a no-fly list at a whim.
Deregulation of the electric industry was a much more direct cause. And rather than building more power plants (of any sort), reducing consumption via greater efficiency would be much smarter. Take the money to build a plant and use it for incentives for people to upgrade to energy-efficient applicance.
Uh, no. Spent fuel can be reprocessed, but high level waste remains from the process. There's also ow-level waste, which ranges from spent protective gear, to decommissioned reactor vessels. Neither is in no way "recyclable".
Neither fossil fuels nor nuclear fission is suitable for a long-term general-ues energy source.
Fusion may or may not prove practical, however we do have a large fusion reactor located just 93 million miles away. We should make better use of it (including not just photovoltaic but passive solar, wind, possibly OTEC) and also direct efforts greater efficiency.
Am I missing something here? How in the hell is this a legitimate basis for a lawsuit?
No.
One entry found for censor. /'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
Main Entry: 2censor
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable
Apparently it was still there as of Office XP. I suppose other jiggery-pokery is used with Office 2003.
Sorry, but Microsoft says you're wrong:
And end up getting very very dead. Like this Baltimore family.
Assuming that's true, and that by "mental" you mean having mental health difficulties, it could suggest:
Actually, there are many other, better and more precise ways, of putting it; ways I would expect a health care professional to use.
Problem being, new substances are being released into our environment all them time, and their actions on the body - especially in combination - aren't fully "known to man". (Which is not to say anything about this persons complaints, or the isssue of MCS in general.)
Minor symptoms that persist are a legitimate complaint that should be investigated. (Allergies? Infection?) This doctor was an incompetant ass.
If the local trauma center started treating bullet wounds for free, would you shoot yourself?
Well, that's the point. Once you've been declared a nutso coo-coo enemy of the people by the government and the media, your backyard suddenly become a "compound", your Slashdot post become a "manifesto", your church becomes a "cult"...
The fact that a right isn't directly enumerated doesn't mean it doesn't exist:
Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
A better question is, where the federal government's power to snoop come from:
Amendment X: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Actually, you are. In a nation with as many laws as ours, every citizen is a criminal - a speeder or other sort of traffic scofflaw, a sex criminal (check your local laws), a copyright violator, a tax cheat (didn't report that $20 Grandma sent you for your birthday), we're all criminals.
Including things that are perfectly right for you to do but that the current government doesn't like. Surveillance has one hell of a chilling effect on the exercise of basic freedoms.
Keeping the government from sliding into dictatorship is pretty high on my personal list.
Having to show my papers to get on a plane is only a small symptom, not the whole problem.
The beauty of the OTP is that it doesn't matter if you guess what the pad is - you can't tell you've got it rigbt.
Given a cyphertext of length 9, there are keys that will decrypt it to read "Kill Bush", "Save Bush", "FuckOsama", "Bomb Iraq", "Love Boat", "qwertyuio", "!@#3fst9$-", and every other 9 character string. Since the OTP is random, all these keys have equal probability of being the correct one.
A bullet is also too big to knock out individual parts of a DNA sequence. Can we therefore conclude that bullets impacting the body at high velocity are not harmful? Of course not. The body is very complex, and there are many many ways to mess with it. Fortunately, it is also very homeostatic, well able to withstand the thousand little insults we subject it to each week.
Not many people are using their cellphones for hours each day, I hope. (If so, their most urgent health need is to hang up and get an effing life.) And it hasn't been many years since cellphones becamse popular. It may (or may not) be the case that, like other environmental factors like smoking or diet, it takes years of use for effects to manifest.