Yeah, I don't think you could pay me enough money to go to Ciudad Juarez:(
As a resident of Los Angeles, reading about the tragedy's occurring south of the border and how the war on drugs has spiraled out of control is quite disheartening.
Point taken, I was using a broad brush but Christianity most certainly is under the umbrella of myth. I do not view the Bible as a historically valid and cogent source of material. It's, as you said, a collection of myths, story retelling (oh wait, those fall under the category of myth as well), other historical accounts (oh wait, that too falls under the umbrella of myth), census results (wtf? ok) and "books of poetry" which also would be under myth. The bibles historical accounts have no validity for telling us true history. It can be a pointer to events that occurred but it is not the event as it happened historically.
If you disagree, explain to me why each Gospel portrays a different Jesus? Different writers, with different messages about the Life of Christ and as such, the mythologization process begins! Thanks for coming out.
Please, go read Joseph Campbell. I am not painting Christianity with a derogatory brush, yet Christians tend to get quite uppity on this issue.
It's outside of our scope of experience, various cultures will have various stories that are unique to them. People get so uppity when you call their religion a myth yet seem not to have many problems when you do it for others...strange.
When I use the word Myth, I'm use it in the same way that Joseph Campbell uses the word.
Evolution is not a myth. Evolution is a theory.
Theory's explain the observable world. Myths explain more, but only as a "form of truth" not the ultimate truth.
Genesis is a creation a story. There are literally, MILLIONS of creation stories in the collective human mythology. All creation stories, born from mythology, by their nature are ALLEGORICAL. To accept mythological texts, as anything but allegorical is quite dangerous.
Christianity = MYTH people.
And that is not in a derogatory sense (anymore then saying that the Hindu creation story is another myth). In other words, it's an attempt to explain that which cannot be explained but why is it necessary for it to be anything more than one attempt at explaining that which is out of scope of our experience.
I concur that this was a political decision made to prevent people from being able to attack him for being weak on national security. I also thought it was quite funny that although a huge supporter of the bill Senator McCain didn't show up to vote on the bill, so technically he never voted for it. Funny how one bill can be used against one politician one way and could be used against another in a different way...
My source on this is a NYTimes article so if I'm misinformed, please let me know. Also, I may have a poor understanding of how not showing up to the votes work...
The GP's point is a valid one; had he voted against it he would have been reamed by Republicans as being weak on national security. Politics is about compromises as has been said a few times already.
The flow of money will find a way; for instance were we to set hard caps on campaign money and level the playing field the money (incentives) would just find another way from the constituency to the politician. It's the sickness that is democracy...ironically there's a sense in which it's democracy's greatest strength.
Seriously, Obama had an opportunity to set himself apart when Telco immunity came to the floor but he joined with rank and file on this issue. Government, on both sides of the isle, has no desire to ever give power up.
An individual seeing the world for themselves has little to do with institutionalized education. Some people are capable of thinking for themselves, but most seem unwilling/unable to do so. This is not caused by education that has been institutionalized, this is caused by human beings too afraid to think on their own.
How this gets modded insightful is beyond me. Going in to Iraq was not the correct move, but that isn't a point worth debating at this point because we are there. An exit strategy needs to be created, and quickly but to just pick and leave would just create an environment ripe for the next Saddam. We've made a terrible bed, and now have to sleep in it.
Well outside the fact that you can have a semantic argument about "beaten" the GP's statement is spot on; the cold war fundamentally was ended by the Star Wars program. Not because we managed to get it working, but because the Soviets felt that if we got a working star wars program the whole mutually assured destruction doctrine would go out the window thus they bankrupted themselves trying to make it happen.
You don't prove anything with this hombre...just that you're looking for a reason to knock the product. This individual is as entitled to their beliefs as you and I are. I certainly don't agree with the comment, but there's nothing vicious or implying bigotry in the statement. If they were attempting to get Guitar Hero taken off the market, I'd have a problem but as long as they keep to their insular little world and don't tell me how to live my life, I'll pay them the same respect.
Uh, welcome to capitalism buddy. I'm not a big fan of the Christian Conglomerate at the moment, particularly being a resident of California. All that being said, Guitar Praise is a cheap rip off but cheap rip offs are everywhere in a free market. They have every right to produce this game.
Isn't Rock Band just a stupid guitar hero knock off as well?
Which is more likely - the brain has a protection mechanism that is designed to protect itself from the very real toll that grief has on the body (my understanding being that some nasty chemicals can be produced and released during grief though I could be off base on this count) or we leave some sort of energy that causes our loved ones to see us?
I'm going to take the brain having a protection mechanism...seems like the most simple explanation for the event to me.
And current scientific research backs up the second notion - we do in fact rewrite history in our own memories. They did a study where they put an individual who was not at an event such as a wedding in a wedding picture and suddenly people had stories about that individual being at the party. It was on slashdot I believe.
At least what it wasn't lost on every one. I didn't thoroughly articulate some of my points but it's amazing how some people decided to read one sentence and then launch an attack. Thanks for clarifying my obfuscated point.
Your experience and mine are different. If it's due to my hardware, then Steam is the only thing that causes these on my two separate machines. More over, I know of another four machines that have the exact same problems.
They all happen to be Dell's and they're all running McAfee's corporate anti virus software so it could be in some way related to that but otherwise my system more than meets any specifications and all four systems are set up properly with all the latest updates and the latest version of Steam etc.
I didn't just make a statement based off my experience on one computer, this is multiple computers with different a combination of video cards, memory etc.
Direct2Drive limits installs but if you call them up/email them they're pretty easy to work with; I've had two PC's stolen from my apartment (being robbed three times in 18 months is an experience to be had, I suggest everyone try it some time!) and when it does happen I just call Direct2Drive up and tell them what happened. They give me more activations and I'm on my way...it isn't the easiest thing in the world but at least I don't have the overhead of Steam...
I hate Steam and its memory leaks....leave it on for the weekend....hey wait why is my computer so slow? Oh I know, because Steam is using 500 MB of memory! POWNED!
To add to your statement, I also think they're protected by the fact that if you're taking the time to right a piece of malicious code you generally want it to have the greatest impact possible. Why cut out 80% of the market by finding something to exploit on the mac? Seems like a lot of work to get oneself in to a niche market.
I don't know why you want to wait, it will happen in time. This is not meant as a critique of Apple in anyway, I am of the belief that over a long enough time frame, with enough market penetration, Mac viruses will become more common. It's not that Macs are inherently that much more stable, rather the market penetration is such that it makes more sense for people creating malicious viruses to focus on the PC instead. Why create a virus that only hits 7% of computers when you can hit one that hits 85% of computers?
I also would wager that the Mac OS is probably a bit more secure than Windows, because well, it's Windows...that being said if there's enough code there will be mistakes that can be exploited that's the nature of the human element.
Dell's corporate support is actually quite good. Usually, I'll just have to give them an error message from the tests that they'd have me run and the tech goes "Well then, would you like us to send someone out to replace the motherboard or would you like to do it yourself?" and poof I'm off the phone moving on to other things!:)
That's outside of property and those opportunities aren't always there. When you have a 50% or 75% weapons sale, sure it's worth doing that but that situation doesn't happen all the time. I suppose you can make increments if you so please but I'm too lazy for that...rather run around chopping things to bits and blowing them away with a blunderbuss;)
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Yeah, I don't think you could pay me enough money to go to Ciudad Juarez :(
As a resident of Los Angeles, reading about the tragedy's occurring south of the border and how the war on drugs has spiraled out of control is quite disheartening.
Point taken, I was using a broad brush but Christianity most certainly is under the umbrella of myth. I do not view the Bible as a historically valid and cogent source of material. It's, as you said, a collection of myths, story retelling (oh wait, those fall under the category of myth as well), other historical accounts (oh wait, that too falls under the umbrella of myth), census results (wtf? ok) and "books of poetry" which also would be under myth. The bibles historical accounts have no validity for telling us true history. It can be a pointer to events that occurred but it is not the event as it happened historically.
If you disagree, explain to me why each Gospel portrays a different Jesus? Different writers, with different messages about the Life of Christ and as such, the mythologization process begins! Thanks for coming out.
Please, go read Joseph Campbell. I am not painting Christianity with a derogatory brush, yet Christians tend to get quite uppity on this issue.
It's outside of our scope of experience, various cultures will have various stories that are unique to them. People get so uppity when you call their religion a myth yet seem not to have many problems when you do it for others...strange.
When I use the word Myth, I'm use it in the same way that Joseph Campbell uses the word.
Evolution is not a myth. Evolution is a theory.
Theory's explain the observable world. Myths explain more, but only as a "form of truth" not the ultimate truth.
Genesis is a creation a story. There are literally, MILLIONS of creation stories in the collective human mythology. All creation stories, born from mythology, by their nature are ALLEGORICAL. To accept mythological texts, as anything but allegorical is quite dangerous.
Christianity = MYTH people.
And that is not in a derogatory sense (anymore then saying that the Hindu creation story is another myth). In other words, it's an attempt to explain that which cannot be explained but why is it necessary for it to be anything more than one attempt at explaining that which is out of scope of our experience.
I concur that this was a political decision made to prevent people from being able to attack him for being weak on national security. I also thought it was quite funny that although a huge supporter of the bill Senator McCain didn't show up to vote on the bill, so technically he never voted for it. Funny how one bill can be used against one politician one way and could be used against another in a different way...
My source on this is a NYTimes article so if I'm misinformed, please let me know. Also, I may have a poor understanding of how not showing up to the votes work...
The GP's point is a valid one; had he voted against it he would have been reamed by Republicans as being weak on national security. Politics is about compromises as has been said a few times already.
The flow of money will find a way; for instance were we to set hard caps on campaign money and level the playing field the money (incentives) would just find another way from the constituency to the politician. It's the sickness that is democracy...ironically there's a sense in which it's democracy's greatest strength.
The best of a bunch of bad options :)
But being an ideologue is so much fun!
Seriously, Obama had an opportunity to set himself apart when Telco immunity came to the floor but he joined with rank and file on this issue. Government, on both sides of the isle, has no desire to ever give power up.
An individual seeing the world for themselves has little to do with institutionalized education. Some people are capable of thinking for themselves, but most seem unwilling/unable to do so. This is not caused by education that has been institutionalized, this is caused by human beings too afraid to think on their own.
How this gets modded insightful is beyond me. Going in to Iraq was not the correct move, but that isn't a point worth debating at this point because we are there. An exit strategy needs to be created, and quickly but to just pick and leave would just create an environment ripe for the next Saddam. We've made a terrible bed, and now have to sleep in it.
Well outside the fact that you can have a semantic argument about "beaten" the GP's statement is spot on; the cold war fundamentally was ended by the Star Wars program. Not because we managed to get it working, but because the Soviets felt that if we got a working star wars program the whole mutually assured destruction doctrine would go out the window thus they bankrupted themselves trying to make it happen.
That's got to be just about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Oh wait, then I read your signature.
Uh huh, and that brings me to my next point kids, DON'T SMOKE CRACK!
You don't prove anything with this hombre...just that you're looking for a reason to knock the product. This individual is as entitled to their beliefs as you and I are. I certainly don't agree with the comment, but there's nothing vicious or implying bigotry in the statement. If they were attempting to get Guitar Hero taken off the market, I'd have a problem but as long as they keep to their insular little world and don't tell me how to live my life, I'll pay them the same respect.
Uh, welcome to capitalism buddy. I'm not a big fan of the Christian Conglomerate at the moment, particularly being a resident of California. All that being said, Guitar Praise is a cheap rip off but cheap rip offs are everywhere in a free market. They have every right to produce this game.
Isn't Rock Band just a stupid guitar hero knock off as well?
Don't lose the forest for the trees my friend...
Occams Razor.
Which is more likely - the brain has a protection mechanism that is designed to protect itself from the very real toll that grief has on the body (my understanding being that some nasty chemicals can be produced and released during grief though I could be off base on this count) or we leave some sort of energy that causes our loved ones to see us?
I'm going to take the brain having a protection mechanism...seems like the most simple explanation for the event to me.
And current scientific research backs up the second notion - we do in fact rewrite history in our own memories. They did a study where they put an individual who was not at an event such as a wedding in a wedding picture and suddenly people had stories about that individual being at the party. It was on slashdot I believe.
At least what it wasn't lost on every one. I didn't thoroughly articulate some of my points but it's amazing how some people decided to read one sentence and then launch an attack. Thanks for clarifying my obfuscated point.
Your experience and mine are different. If it's due to my hardware, then Steam is the only thing that causes these on my two separate machines. More over, I know of another four machines that have the exact same problems.
They all happen to be Dell's and they're all running McAfee's corporate anti virus software so it could be in some way related to that but otherwise my system more than meets any specifications and all four systems are set up properly with all the latest updates and the latest version of Steam etc.
I didn't just make a statement based off my experience on one computer, this is multiple computers with different a combination of video cards, memory etc.
You sir, are lucky.
I love riling Mac fan boys, they get so uppity, especially early in the morning.
Direct2Drive limits installs but if you call them up/email them they're pretty easy to work with; I've had two PC's stolen from my apartment (being robbed three times in 18 months is an experience to be had, I suggest everyone try it some time!) and when it does happen I just call Direct2Drive up and tell them what happened. They give me more activations and I'm on my way...it isn't the easiest thing in the world but at least I don't have the overhead of Steam...
I hate Steam and its memory leaks....leave it on for the weekend....hey wait why is my computer so slow? Oh I know, because Steam is using 500 MB of memory! POWNED!
To add to your statement, I also think they're protected by the fact that if you're taking the time to right a piece of malicious code you generally want it to have the greatest impact possible. Why cut out 80% of the market by finding something to exploit on the mac? Seems like a lot of work to get oneself in to a niche market.
I don't know why you want to wait, it will happen in time. This is not meant as a critique of Apple in anyway, I am of the belief that over a long enough time frame, with enough market penetration, Mac viruses will become more common. It's not that Macs are inherently that much more stable, rather the market penetration is such that it makes more sense for people creating malicious viruses to focus on the PC instead. Why create a virus that only hits 7% of computers when you can hit one that hits 85% of computers?
I also would wager that the Mac OS is probably a bit more secure than Windows, because well, it's Windows...that being said if there's enough code there will be mistakes that can be exploited that's the nature of the human element.
Dell's corporate support is actually quite good. Usually, I'll just have to give them an error message from the tests that they'd have me run and the tech goes "Well then, would you like us to send someone out to replace the motherboard or would you like to do it yourself?" and poof I'm off the phone moving on to other things! :)
Don't be so logical! Intelligent pricing? Who'd of thunk it!
That's outside of property and those opportunities aren't always there. When you have a 50% or 75% weapons sale, sure it's worth doing that but that situation doesn't happen all the time. I suppose you can make increments if you so please but I'm too lazy for that...rather run around chopping things to bits and blowing them away with a blunderbuss ;)