The only dogma about Purgatory is that prayers for the dead are beneficial.
Since it is also dogma that souls in Hell cannot be helped by prayer, and those in Heaven have no need of prayer, the dogma that prayers for the dead are beneficial demands that another state exist. This state is what the Church calls Purgatory. The exact nature of Purgatory is not defined by the Church.
You may have been thinking of Limbo - the state of deceased unbaptized infants - which a few years ago was, with great fanfare, declared abolished by the press. In fact, the existence of Limbo was never a dogma of the Church, and the theological commission which studied the question of Limbo a few years ago did not conclude that there is no Limbo. It concluded that the Church does not know the fate of deceased unbaptized infants.
Personally I don't think North American countries, founded on the obliteration of native cultures have any such right. Europeans do, in my opinion, but if they choose to allow mass immigration, that is also their right.
... You've simply assumed without argument that the homogenous, xenophobic culture of Japan is superior to everything outside it, by some standard. I am left wondering what that standard is.
Not at all. I personally don't prefer Japanese culture, but most Japanese people do prefer Japanese culture and, to them, it is superior. Everyone has cultural preferences, and each culture has the right to maintain itself. There is nothing objectively wrong with the Japanese preference for cultural and racial homogeneity. Maybe it doesn't appeal to you. That's fine. Solution: Don't live in Japan.
They could always lift the xenophobic near-total ban on foreigners working in their country but that would be preposterous!
Why should they? The Japanese people have a right to maintain their culture free from outside corruption to whatever degree they desire. How utterly sad it would be (almost certainly will be) when the entire world is just one big lowest common denominator average of everything that came before. Just think how many unique customs, words, ways of thinking, talking, creating, and living will be lost forever.
Actually, they just didn't have enough makeup money in the original series to try anything with movie prop prosthetics. And, well, there's no such thing as Klingons really, they're all just made up actors. Sorry about that.
by Archangel Michael (180766) on Tuesday December 14, @05:55PM You suffer from the same problem Microsoft does. Your basic assumption is that Microsoft is a WINDOWS company, not a Technology Company.
by Archangel Michael (180766) on Tuesday December 14, @05:51PM Microsoft is not a technology company. Microsoft is a Windows company.
Microsoft still has the chance to beat Apple to market with a pc/tablet hybrid that acts like a regular windows desktop computer when plugged into a docking station and morphs into a touch-based tablet when undocked. If they can solve the UI-switching problem, rewrite their big office apps to play along, and get to market before Apple does something similar, then they'll have a good chance of capturing a lot of the market.
Apple gets to use the name without compensation and no one will remember Cisco's "IPhone" next year. I guess Cisco's trademark must really have lapsed for them to have given up with nothing more than a "promise" to explore interoperability.
It seems to me that, even with a house majority, the democrats won't be able to change much in the next two years. They won't be able to override vetos and may not even be able to pass much of their dream legislation in the first place because of the number of conservative democrats who were recruited and elected.
The one thing that will certainly happen though, is a minimum wage increase. Most republicans will not dare to vote against that, even though they were happy to prevent it through the ploy of never bringing up legislation in the first place.
I'd like some evidence to back up your assertion please.
Exactly when and in which county in Georgia did anyone try to prohibit the teaching of foreign languages?
Take CNN, they have an advitiser (big car maker) that is in bed with big oil, big oil does not want you to know that they are making $2 million a week in proffit. So when CNN is about to air the story of how much big oil is making, big oil calls big car maker and big car maker calls cnn and says "You air that and I will pull my $35 million ad campaign." now we the public never here that story.
This is an positive example of press freedom. CNN chooses to air stories based on criteria of its own choosing. The fact that the criterion used was money makes no difference. CNN airs what it wants to, and doesn't air what it doesn't want to.
You have dirt that will rock the Nation, now you go to your boss with the story, he says run with it but you be be reassigned to the South Pole next week. You cant go anywhere else with your story do to no compete clause in your contract. Thus it is never told.
Freedom of the press belongs to the publisher, not to the reporter. If you, as a reporter, are in this situation, you can simply post the story on your blog or print flyers if you want to. Even if you get fired afterwards, freedom of the press has not been affected. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to force a newspaper owner to print whatever you want them to. It is the freedom of the newspaper owner to print whatever he wants to.
We can say things like Damn and God but not God Damn We are not allowed to say "Mohammad is the Devil" (i don't believe that he is). We can say Ass, as he got shot in the ass. We can say hole but not ass hole
On the contrary, you can say any of those things. You can even print them.
Yes indeed. Racing engines, aftermarket parts, and trim.
So basically U.S. Designers got to pick the paint scheme and the design the tail fin for my Corolla. Hooray for diversity!
but nowadays you need extremely large groups of people working in concert. When all of these people have the same background, you stifle innovation.
Do you have any proof of this unlikely assertion, or have you simply been brainwashed by diversity ideologists?
I, for one, have not noticed that Toyota cars are crap, even though they are designed in Japan by a monocultural group of japanese engineers. Likewise, I have been unable to ascertain that Samsung has problems selling their products around the world even though they are designed by monocultural teams of koreans.
A food company's subsidiary... capitulated to Wal-Mart on pricing for one of their premium product lines a few years ago, meaning Wal-Mart's prices were FAR lower than every grocery store's prices across the country.... Don't be mistaken - Wal-Mart tries to controls their suppliers with an iron fist.
So what? Suppliers try to dictate prices to customers too. Will your local kebap stand allow you to negotiate a lower price for your Döner? Are they evil if they don't?
In other words, you have no clue what you are talking about.
Human beings are incapable of doing anything that isn't natural since humans are part of nature and everything we do is subject to the constraints of natural law.
People modified plants by breeding long before genetic engineering techniques were available. Species are also drastically modified by evolutionary processes. So how does "modifying vegetables" kill the earth?
In the past, there was no artic ice at all. Then later, there was a lot more arctic ice than today. So how does "melting artic ice" kill the earth?
Before human beings existed, spontaneous uncontrolled fission reactions lasting thousands of years occurred in uranium ore deposits. So how is "playing with nuclear power" going to kill the earth?
Pay attention now: 'oe' is entirely contemporary, as is 'ae' and 'ue'. The fact that abbreviations exist in the form of Umlaute doesn't make the unabbreviated spelling wrong. Here are someexamples
of real live Germans writing without Umlaute.
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The only dogma about Purgatory is that prayers for the dead are beneficial.
Since it is also dogma that souls in Hell cannot be helped by prayer, and those in Heaven have no need of prayer, the dogma that prayers for the dead are beneficial demands that another state exist. This state is what the Church calls Purgatory. The exact nature of Purgatory is not defined by the Church.
You may have been thinking of Limbo - the state of deceased unbaptized infants - which a few years ago was, with great fanfare, declared abolished by the press. In fact, the existence of Limbo was never a dogma of the Church, and the theological commission which studied the question of Limbo a few years ago did not conclude that there is no Limbo. It concluded that the Church does not know the fate of deceased unbaptized infants.
There's no donation box by the confessional in the church either.
Personally I don't think North American countries, founded on the obliteration of native cultures have any such right. Europeans do, in my opinion, but if they choose to allow mass immigration, that is also their right.
outside corruption
... You've simply assumed without argument that the homogenous, xenophobic culture of Japan is superior to everything outside it, by some standard. I am left wondering what that standard is.
Not at all. I personally don't prefer Japanese culture, but most Japanese people do prefer Japanese culture and, to them, it is superior. Everyone has cultural preferences, and each culture has the right to maintain itself. There is nothing objectively wrong with the Japanese preference for cultural and racial homogeneity. Maybe it doesn't appeal to you. That's fine. Solution: Don't live in Japan.
They could always lift the xenophobic near-total ban on foreigners working in their country but that would be preposterous!
Why should they? The Japanese people have a right to maintain their culture free from outside corruption to whatever degree they desire. How utterly sad it would be (almost certainly will be) when the entire world is just one big lowest common denominator average of everything that came before. Just think how many unique customs, words, ways of thinking, talking, creating, and living will be lost forever.
Actually, they just didn't have enough makeup money in the original series to try anything with movie prop prosthetics. And, well, there's no such thing as Klingons really, they're all just made up actors. Sorry about that.
Yeah, 8GB of RAM seems like it's probably just about sufficient for OpenOffice to run halfway decently. But what do you do with the other three cores?
by Archangel Michael (180766) on Tuesday December 14, @05:55PM
You suffer from the same problem Microsoft does. Your basic assumption is that Microsoft is a WINDOWS company, not a Technology Company.
by Archangel Michael (180766) on Tuesday December 14, @05:51PM
Microsoft is not a technology company. Microsoft is a Windows company.
Say what?
Microsoft still has the chance to beat Apple to market with a pc/tablet hybrid that acts like a regular windows desktop computer when plugged into a docking station and morphs into a touch-based tablet when undocked. If they can solve the UI-switching problem, rewrite their big office apps to play along, and get to market before Apple does something similar, then they'll have a good chance of capturing a lot of the market.
So you say, but go buy an apartment in Seoul and see how they measure area there. (Not sq. m)
I wish we had that kind of GPS navigation in the US. *sigh*
Office Suite: Appleworks
IDE: Merlin Pro
Desktop Publishing: The Print Shop
Media Player: Music Construction Set
Entertainment: Wavy Navy
Total Victory for Apple.
Apple gets to use the name without compensation and no one will remember Cisco's "IPhone" next year.
I guess Cisco's trademark must really have lapsed for them to have given up with nothing more than a "promise" to explore interoperability.
New England is way too cold anyway, and think of the convenience of being able to freely navigate the arctic. I love global warming.
It seems to me that, even with a house majority, the democrats won't be able to change much in the next two years. They won't be able to override vetos and may not even be able to pass much of their dream legislation in the first place because of the number of conservative democrats who were recruited and elected. The one thing that will certainly happen though, is a minimum wage increase. Most republicans will not dare to vote against that, even though they were happy to prevent it through the ploy of never bringing up legislation in the first place.
I'd like some evidence to back up your assertion please. Exactly when and in which county in Georgia did anyone try to prohibit the teaching of foreign languages?
This is an positive example of press freedom. CNN chooses to air stories based on criteria of its own choosing. The fact that the criterion used was money makes no difference. CNN airs what it wants to, and doesn't air what it doesn't want to.
Freedom of the press belongs to the publisher, not to the reporter. If you, as a reporter, are in this situation, you can simply post the story on your blog or print flyers if you want to. Even if you get fired afterwards, freedom of the press has not been affected. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to force a newspaper owner to print whatever you want them to. It is the freedom of the newspaper owner to print whatever he wants to.
On the contrary, you can say any of those things. You can even print them.
Yes indeed. Racing engines, aftermarket parts, and trim. So basically U.S. Designers got to pick the paint scheme and the design the tail fin for my Corolla. Hooray for diversity!
I, for one, have not noticed that Toyota cars are crap, even though they are designed in Japan by a monocultural group of japanese engineers. Likewise, I have been unable to ascertain that Samsung has problems selling their products around the world even though they are designed by monocultural teams of koreans.
A food company's subsidiary ... capitulated to Wal-Mart on pricing for one of their premium product lines a few years ago, meaning Wal-Mart's prices were FAR lower than every grocery store's prices across the country. ... Don't be mistaken - Wal-Mart tries to controls their suppliers with an iron fist.
So what? Suppliers try to dictate prices to customers too. Will your local kebap stand allow you to negotiate a lower price for your Döner? Are they evil if they don't?
Why? Is 80F hotter in some countries than in others?
In other words, you have no clue what you are talking about. Human beings are incapable of doing anything that isn't natural since humans are part of nature and everything we do is subject to the constraints of natural law. People modified plants by breeding long before genetic engineering techniques were available. Species are also drastically modified by evolutionary processes. So how does "modifying vegetables" kill the earth? In the past, there was no artic ice at all. Then later, there was a lot more arctic ice than today. So how does "melting artic ice" kill the earth? Before human beings existed, spontaneous uncontrolled fission reactions lasting thousands of years occurred in uranium ore deposits. So how is "playing with nuclear power" going to kill the earth?
Pay attention now: 'oe' is entirely contemporary, as is 'ae' and 'ue'. The fact that abbreviations exist in the form of Umlaute doesn't make the unabbreviated spelling wrong. Here are some examples of real live Germans writing without Umlaute.
But then since 'ö' is simply an abbreviation for 'oe' you were correct in the first place...
At least he died happy.