I sent one to my girlfriend's email this morning and it arrived in seconds. I received confirmation that her account had been created not long after that.
I need faith now because that will PREVENT me from getting my just due, which is death. This is the basic premise for Christianity. For all your studying and church attendance, you missed the most basic point. Since you have already labeled me a hypocrit in your mind, I know you will not pay any attention to anything I write, and indeed you are telling me not to be quick to judge while already labelling me. So, who is in fact the hypocrit. I never claimed to know anything about you, I was responding to your post, not attacking you. Don't be so defensive. When you learn how to carry on an adult conversation (i.e. no namecalling), let me know and we can continue this.
Sorry, that should have said "faith negates the need for evidence". My apologies.
The Bible is not subject to such scrutiny and is not based in "TRUTH" whatsoever and thus is flawed. The BIble "may" be suggested to be inspired by god, but in fact was written by a man.If I wrote a text today and said "God inspired me", I would be considered a blashphemer, and a nut. What makes something old less worthless? I do understand that it is frivolous to argue with a person of faith.
The Bible is the most scrutinized book in history. I don't understand how you can believe otherwise. The fact that you can not PROVE what is in it doesn't mean it isn't the truth, and certainly doesn't mean it is flawed. That is ignorance.
Also, the Bible was not written by a men, it was written by several men, who many believe were inspired by God.
I know many people who have written texts that say they were inspired by God, and many people agree. It depends on whether or not it agrees with scripture. If I wrote a book who's message was love and said God inspired it, many people would accept that. If I wrote a book that said left handed people can't go to heaven and said God inspired me, people would reject it.
As for whether or not it is frivilous to argue with a person of faith, that depends on your goal. I like to discuss my beliefs because it makes me question them and myself, and I hope it causes the other person to do the same. If your goal is to get me to lose my faith, it won't happen. If your goal is to get me angry, it is very unlikely, because if you start saying inflammatory things, I will ignore you. Since you are giving up on the "conversation" after one post by me, I will make the assumption your goal is to get people to believe as you do, and you are not interested in exploring your own and other people's beliefs. That is unfortunate, because that's the best way to know yourself.
the hope of some grand entity giving us our just due in the end.
If you knew anything about Christianity, you would know that we believe Jesus died so that we DO NOT get our "just due in the end."
If you had evidence it wouldn't be faith it would be fact. As for your questions about translation errors, etc. If one believes that the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, then how could one not also believe that He had His hand in it's translation. Most Christians the say the Bible isn't literal or isn't relevant today do so in order to pick out the parts they don't want to follow, and still feel all warm and fuzzy when the sit on a pew Sunday.
I agree, being ancient does not prove its truth, but as I said, faith negates the need for truth.
Oh, no! They're on to us! I confess. I work for Microsoft and this is all a ploy. The code is actually a very subtle virus that will send a message to us everytime someone installs a piece of open source software with this shared code. This will then open a back door and we will lauch DDOS attacks against SCO from this zombie box. It was supposed to make it look like Linux is insecure and everyone would buy our products. Too bad you figured us out.
That's why when you get your ABC license, you have to learn how to notice people who are intoxicated when they come in, and most restaurants have a maximum number of drinks they will serve someone.
I saw a guy selling those! Does it have "Authentic NASA Space Pen" written in Sharpie down the side and a NASA logo pasted about where the Bic logo would be on a cheap pen?;-)
In exchange for shorter attention spans, we've gained the ability to process lots of information quickly.
That's true, and let's look at the attention span idea as well. Think about how long it used to take to load 3 pages at 14.4kbps, and think of how fast I can load 12 pages on my 1.4Mbps DSL. I can scan through several more pages to get where I want in less time. Is it maybe a time thing more than a click thing?
Do you think that if religions were to teach faith in humanity first that it would result in a more tolerent society insofar as others' beliefs?
No. My religion teaches love of all people regardless of faith, race, creed, religion, Operation System, etc. However, there are WAY TOO MANY Christians that go around judging everyone, never looking at what is wrong in their own lives. Unfortunately, there will always be people who are intolerant, racist, hateful, or just plain mean.
There is not a correlation between heart surgery success rate and prayer, when the circumstances are extra people praying for randomly chosen patients.
From a scientific perspective, there are WAY too many variables to do a concluesive study. From a Christian perspective, the Bible says, "The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." I would question the fervency of the people praying. They are praying for people they don't know, and maybe have never met. Were they paid to do this? Were they told it was for a study? You aren't going to pray as hard for someone you don't know as you will for a family member. Also, as was mentioned, God may be trying to get their attention, and the illness is the only way to do that.
On a personal note, my grandmother had non-hodgkins lymphoma. After many months of prayer, she was healed. The doctors were shocked and said it was a miracle. Can I prove the prayer did it? No. If I could, we wouldn't need faith anymore. I've seen prayer change things, but you can explain away anything if you put your mind to it. The mind is the most powerful tool we have, and also the most dangerous weapon.
Concerning these parents, however, I think they need an education on exposure to electromagnetic fields.
I wonder how many of these parents sat in front of a CRT monitor while typing up these complaints. IF you want to have some REAL fun, tell them how much emission you get from a television or microwave.
I wrote a java servlet that runs on our intranet web server. If someone wants to request work, they load a web page, which shows the last (unresolved) reported problem. This is to prevent multiple people submitting the same request. The program logs the NetBIOS name of the machine, and the user enters their name, the name of the machine with the problem (if it isn't the one they are submitting from), and a requested completion date. The user then chooses their problem category, chooses a priority, and enters a description of the problem. This goes into a database and sends an email to them, their manager, and IT staff. We have a seperate servlet that we access to maintain the requests. We can set them as complete, in progress, on hold, etc. We can type a resolution description, so if the problem arises again, we can see how it was resolved. When we mark it complete, it sends an email to the person and their manager asking them to follow a link to a comment servlet, where they mark their level of satisfaction with the work, and enter any comments they want to.
It works well, and we have a seperate reporting servlet that will pull up any kind of customized report the IT department or Senior leadership wants.
as long as you stick to the more travelled areas
Not neccessarily. On my first trip to Pittsburg, Mapquest had me take "Tower Rd" out of the airport and get on a road that went right to my hotel. The only problem was Tower Rd was no longer there. I could see where it used to be, but I couldn't get there from where I was. I had to drive around and ask for directions.
so at least one copy of this bloody thing is forging my address when it tries to reproduce.
Our secretary came in to my office yesterday and told me she received an email from a guy who said she needed to resend her email that he couldn't open the attachment, but she never sent him anything. Then she started saying, "He said... and I asked... and he told me..." and I questioned that and it turned out SHE CALLED HIM! They had a pleasant little conversation about where the mail came from. Neither one of them are computer experts, so I'd have loved to have heard the theories. Anyway it appears his system removed it (hence why he couldn't open it) and all our incoming and outgoing mail is scanned, as well as up to date virus scanners on every PC, so I know she isn't infected, it was just forging her address. Then she started worrying that she would get in trouble because "it's illegal to send out viruses."
I sincerly hope that the people who write these things get bombarded by all the stupid questions I get about them. That's one reason I'd never write a worm or a virus, because I'd have to answer all my friends and coworkers stupid questions about it.
And if you know anything about tires, the stickier they are, the sooner they wear out. Of course, this is because the "sticky" tires are softer rubber, but I have to think that all those microfibers will rip off pretty quickly at 70 MPH.
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She has a hotmail account, BTW. I should have specified that in the first comment.
I sent one to my girlfriend's email this morning and it arrived in seconds. I received confirmation that her account had been created not long after that.
Who's Citizen Kane?
I'll just rip it and burn a copy before I watch it.
I need faith now because that will PREVENT me from getting my just due, which is death. This is the basic premise for Christianity. For all your studying and church attendance, you missed the most basic point. Since you have already labeled me a hypocrit in your mind, I know you will not pay any attention to anything I write, and indeed you are telling me not to be quick to judge while already labelling me. So, who is in fact the hypocrit. I never claimed to know anything about you, I was responding to your post, not attacking you. Don't be so defensive. When you learn how to carry on an adult conversation (i.e. no namecalling), let me know and we can continue this.
The Bible is not subject to such scrutiny and is not based in "TRUTH" whatsoever and thus is flawed. The BIble "may" be suggested to be inspired by god, but in fact was written by a man.If I wrote a text today and said "God inspired me", I would be considered a blashphemer, and a nut. What makes something old less worthless? I do understand that it is frivolous to argue with a person of faith.
The Bible is the most scrutinized book in history. I don't understand how you can believe otherwise. The fact that you can not PROVE what is in it doesn't mean it isn't the truth, and certainly doesn't mean it is flawed. That is ignorance.
Also, the Bible was not written by a men, it was written by several men, who many believe were inspired by God.
I know many people who have written texts that say they were inspired by God, and many people agree. It depends on whether or not it agrees with scripture. If I wrote a book who's message was love and said God inspired it, many people would accept that. If I wrote a book that said left handed people can't go to heaven and said God inspired me, people would reject it.
As for whether or not it is frivilous to argue with a person of faith, that depends on your goal. I like to discuss my beliefs because it makes me question them and myself, and I hope it causes the other person to do the same. If your goal is to get me to lose my faith, it won't happen. If your goal is to get me angry, it is very unlikely, because if you start saying inflammatory things, I will ignore you. Since you are giving up on the "conversation" after one post by me, I will make the assumption your goal is to get people to believe as you do, and you are not interested in exploring your own and other people's beliefs. That is unfortunate, because that's the best way to know yourself.
the hope of some grand entity giving us our just due in the end.
If you knew anything about Christianity, you would know that we believe Jesus died so that we DO NOT get our "just due in the end."
I agree, being ancient does not prove its truth, but as I said, faith negates the need for truth.
Oh, no! They're on to us! I confess. I work for Microsoft and this is all a ploy. The code is actually a very subtle virus that will send a message to us everytime someone installs a piece of open source software with this shared code. This will then open a back door and we will lauch DDOS attacks against SCO from this zombie box. It was supposed to make it look like Linux is insecure and everyone would buy our products. Too bad you figured us out.
That's why when you get your ABC license, you have to learn how to notice people who are intoxicated when they come in, and most restaurants have a maximum number of drinks they will serve someone.
I saw a guy selling those! Does it have "Authentic NASA Space Pen" written in Sharpie down the side and a NASA logo pasted about where the Bic logo would be on a cheap pen? ;-)
In exchange for shorter attention spans, we've gained the ability to process lots of information quickly.
That's true, and let's look at the attention span idea as well. Think about how long it used to take to load 3 pages at 14.4kbps, and think of how fast I can load 12 pages on my 1.4Mbps DSL. I can scan through several more pages to get where I want in less time. Is it maybe a time thing more than a click thing?
So this is really a whole hell of a lot of adieu about nothing. ;-)
That's the best summation of the internet I've heard in a long time.
What government could survive if the people didn't want for anything? ;-)
The Federation... duh!
True.
Do you think that if religions were to teach faith in humanity first that it would result in a more tolerent society insofar as others' beliefs?
No. My religion teaches love of all people regardless of faith, race, creed, religion, Operation System, etc. However, there are WAY TOO MANY Christians that go around judging everyone, never looking at what is wrong in their own lives. Unfortunately, there will always be people who are intolerant, racist, hateful, or just plain mean.
Great minds think alike... ;-)
From a scientific perspective, there are WAY too many variables to do a concluesive study. From a Christian perspective, the Bible says, "The fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." I would question the fervency of the people praying. They are praying for people they don't know, and maybe have never met. Were they paid to do this? Were they told it was for a study? You aren't going to pray as hard for someone you don't know as you will for a family member. Also, as was mentioned, God may be trying to get their attention, and the illness is the only way to do that.
On a personal note, my grandmother had non-hodgkins lymphoma. After many months of prayer, she was healed. The doctors were shocked and said it was a miracle. Can I prove the prayer did it? No. If I could, we wouldn't need faith anymore. I've seen prayer change things, but you can explain away anything if you put your mind to it. The mind is the most powerful tool we have, and also the most dangerous weapon.
Concerning these parents, however, I think they need an education on exposure to electromagnetic fields.
I wonder how many of these parents sat in front of a CRT monitor while typing up these complaints. IF you want to have some REAL fun, tell them how much emission you get from a television or microwave.
It works well, and we have a seperate reporting servlet that will pull up any kind of customized report the IT department or Senior leadership wants.
as long as you stick to the more travelled areas
Not neccessarily. On my first trip to Pittsburg, Mapquest had me take "Tower Rd" out of the airport and get on a road that went right to my hotel. The only problem was Tower Rd was no longer there. I could see where it used to be, but I couldn't get there from where I was. I had to drive around and ask for directions.
Our secretary came in to my office yesterday and told me she received an email from a guy who said she needed to resend her email that he couldn't open the attachment, but she never sent him anything. Then she started saying, "He said... and I asked... and he told me..." and I questioned that and it turned out SHE CALLED HIM! They had a pleasant little conversation about where the mail came from. Neither one of them are computer experts, so I'd have loved to have heard the theories. Anyway it appears his system removed it (hence why he couldn't open it) and all our incoming and outgoing mail is scanned, as well as up to date virus scanners on every PC, so I know she isn't infected, it was just forging her address. Then she started worrying that she would get in trouble because "it's illegal to send out viruses."
I sincerly hope that the people who write these things get bombarded by all the stupid questions I get about them. That's one reason I'd never write a worm or a virus, because I'd have to answer all my friends and coworkers stupid questions about it.
Just kidding. I never played Everquest. I had a roommate in college that played for 20 hours straight one time.
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And if you know anything about tires, the stickier they are, the sooner they wear out. Of course, this is because the "sticky" tires are softer rubber, but I have to think that all those microfibers will rip off pretty quickly at 70 MPH.