...what you think it means. Perhaps you meant coincidental, or even if you felt it was a fortunate coincidence you could call it fortuitous. But I see nothing that qualifies it as ironic, much less apparently so.
Irony (from the Ancient Greek Îá¼ÏÏνÎÎα eirÅneÃa, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience.
There is some argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens, "when the literal truth is in direct discordance to the perceived truth."
From the Jargon Dictionary: "FUD/fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon."
I just thought I'd share, since when I read the article I thought WTF is FUD?
Ok - honestly. Metamoderators - mod this unfair. I DO believe that Redundant means someone else already said it or that it was already implied. Off-topic, maybe. But realistically - that's rediculous. The "Imagine a beowulf cluster of.." jokes are (in?)famous around the slashdot dark alley. Really, I would have honestly thought I deserved a 1, Funny. I didn't think it was 5, funny, material, but I would have thought at least a 1. Let's take the mod points away from the new kids who don't really know what's going on around here.
We use Remedy Action Request System here at Western Carolina University's IT Services. It offers multi-tier user accounts so that our Techs, Consultants, and IT Dept heads have different access levels. It includes the ability to incorporate a profile for every call, email, walk-in, even complete system re-works for faculty and staff. There is an ability to include priority levels and mark a ticket as resolved once it has been passed on to the proper department and solved. It also contains a bulletin board system that contains system wide messages so we don't have to ask around when we get calls like "Is VMS down? What about email?"
It also emails us when tickets come in that pertain to our particular staff position, so that we don't have to sort through the ticket list looking for pertinent tickets.
When God said "our" it is referring to the Trinity - God in three persons - The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
I agree - you can twist the Bible's words anyway you want to, but as Paul said, if you're preaching anything other than the truth, then you are a deciever and God takes care of them, it's not our job.
The third thing is, if that little 6 year old kid doesn't see the sacrifice of Jesus when He took our places on the cross, then yah, he will spend eternity separated from God. The sad thing is, we all fall short. We all can't make it on our own, we need Him. But don't be forlorn, everyone gets a chance to accept Him. The bible says "Even the rocks and the trees will cry out" if we don't go out and be His witnesses.
This kid, who has lived a perfect life as any other human being, has sinned. So have we. We can't judge, it's not our job. We're in the same lot with that kid. The bible also says we can't get into Heaven by works alone. If we could get into Heaven by following the laws of God, then Christ would have died in vain, and preaching and witnessing would all be pointless, because God came down to Earth, put limits on his perfection and unbounded strength and power to be one of us, so we would trust Him.
On one weekend, what we now celebrate as Easter, Christ was beaten, spit upon, speared, pierced with a crown of thorns, and then finally nailed to a cross on the place called Calvary. There, He recieved shame and guilt, though he was sinless. He lived through everything we lived through, and never sinned - because the sacrifice needed to pay for our sins had to be pure.
Back in the days of the Law of Moses, when people sinned they went to the altar and burned the best animals they owned in place of them as a sacrifice, because The Sacrifice had yet to come. Why? Because God said "The wages of sin is death," and in this case death means "eternal separation from God." God came down as God the Son, in human form, to be the sinless ultimate sacrifice.
When Jesus was hanging on the cross, he felt the pain and agony, but also the shame and guilt of every pedophile, murderer, rapist, liar, bigot, you, me, our families, our christian and non-christian friends and enemies alike. All of us. Every sin ever committed or ever will be committed. All of that, all at once. He lifted his head and said "Father, why have you rejected me!?", then He says "It is finished," and he dies. And He did it all for you. And me too.
Now Satan is throwing a party, the battle is over, he's got it in the bag now, Jesus is dead!
A couple days later, the stone blocking the tomb is rolled away, Jesus folds the graveclothes up all nice and neat, and then He walks out of the tomb and looks at Satan and says "Is that all you got?"
That's my faith. That's my religion. It's not a list of dos and don'ts, it's a personal relationship with the only God who was big enough to conquer death and my shortcomings; the God who forgives - the God who died for me and by whom I am able to be dead to the world and through Him have life.
The world tells you things like going to church religiously (no pun intended) and praying, caring for others, believing in God and trusting Him to lead my life according to His will, and standing up for what I believe without becoming an obstacle for someone else by arguing, are all ways that I am in bondage because of my faith. But surely today, I am telling you the truth when I say that I do not do these things to buy my way into Heaven, and I am in no prison. On the contrary, in Him I have my freedom from the things of this world that would tempt me to separate myself from God: sexual immorality, vulgarity, lust, lying, violence, getting angry and saying things I don't mean, cheating, any other number of things the rest of the world doesn't even usually give much of a second thought to. The things that separate us from God are what we call sin, that's what it means. Any of you ever had a question of what defines a sin, then there's your answer. If something separates you from God and His will, then it's a sin. And because God is perfect, He can't hang out with sin.
So comin down to earth as one of us, to take our places, was the only way He could keep His own standards of perfection that He demands of us (ie, the wages of sin are death) was to take our places.
But God is bigger than death, and that's why He rose again and why Easter is not just for kids or "devout Christians", it's for everyone. It's victory day.
I celebrate my renewal, my redemption from myself that I am ashamed of, that even though I'm no saint He walks and talks with me everyday, and because He wore my clothes of shame and guilt for all the things I've done, I can wear His coat of righteousness and Holiness. God's love is for everyone, not just the good kids, not just the bad kids, not just the fat kids or kids who climb on rocks. Everybody. All you have to do is come to Him and you don't even have to use pretty words or include "Thee's and Thou's" or even "Thy's", just say in your own words, however you say them or in whatever language you speak or think comfortably:
Dear God, I know I'm not perfect, none of us are. I know the only way I'm going to be whole and pure again is something I can't do on my own. I don't want to live this life where I feel ashamed of what I am, unsure and uncertain about just about everything. Lord please, I need you in my life, to help close the gap between my shortcomings and your perfection. Come into my life Lord, and I'll let you take the wheel. Thank you Father for taking my place, for wiping my slate clean, and I ask that for the rest of my days my eyes stay on you. Amen. (Or you can even say "bye", God doesn't mind, it's like I said before, you don't need fancy words, God wants you to be personal with Him.)
Anyway, that's my.02 - If you said that prayer just now, and you have asked God to do that for you, then guess what, you've just been saved. Being a Christian means you're saved and you *want* to be Christ-like. E-mail me if you made this decision, and I'll do my best to point you in the right direction. I don't have all the answers, and I don't pretend to, but I will search with you so that we both can grow in Him.
Matthew 28:19-20 "Therefore go and make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." - Holy Bible, NIV
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...what you think it means. Perhaps you meant coincidental, or even if you felt it was a fortunate coincidence you could call it fortuitous. But I see nothing that qualifies it as ironic, much less apparently so. Irony (from the Ancient Greek Îá¼ÏÏνÎÎα eirÅneÃa, meaning hypocrisy, deception, or feigned ignorance) is a literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what one says or does and what one means or what is generally understood. Irony is a mode of expression that calls attention to the character's knowledge and that of the audience. There is some argument about what qualifies as ironic, but all senses of irony revolve around the perceived notion of an incongruity between what is said and what is meant, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens, "when the literal truth is in direct discordance to the perceived truth."
He'd walk up and down the aisles of cubes saying "When are we gonna get some G.D. GIF support!?!"
And now he has his GD GIF support. It's about time.
From the Jargon Dictionary: "FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon."
I just thought I'd share, since when I read the article I thought WTF is FUD?
Ok - honestly. Metamoderators - mod this unfair. I DO believe that Redundant means someone else already said it or that it was already implied. Off-topic, maybe. But realistically - that's rediculous. The "Imagine a beowulf cluster of.." jokes are (in?)famous around the slashdot dark alley. Really, I would have honestly thought I deserved a 1, Funny. I didn't think it was 5, funny, material, but I would have thought at least a 1. Let's take the mod points away from the new kids who don't really know what's going on around here.
Imagine a beowulf cluster...
(well, there goes my karma).
GWU is Without Unix!
1. Create incredible community and commonwealth of information and news for nerds.
2. Shut down server to fix botched code.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!111One
We use Remedy Action Request System here at Western Carolina University's IT Services. It offers multi-tier user accounts so that our Techs, Consultants, and IT Dept heads have different access levels. It includes the ability to incorporate a profile for every call, email, walk-in, even complete system re-works for faculty and staff. There is an ability to include priority levels and mark a ticket as resolved once it has been passed on to the proper department and solved. It also contains a bulletin board system that contains system wide messages so we don't have to ask around when we get calls like "Is VMS down? What about email?" It also emails us when tickets come in that pertain to our particular staff position, so that we don't have to sort through the ticket list looking for pertinent tickets.
In related news, I just registered Microsoft.la
Heh. I couldn't resist. I know it's a hundred bucks. But think of what I could get for it on ebay!
When God said "our" it is referring to the Trinity - God in three persons - The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
.02 - If you said that prayer just now, and you have asked God to do that for you, then guess what, you've just been saved. Being a Christian means you're saved and you *want* to be Christ-like. E-mail me if you made this decision, and I'll do my best to point you in the right direction. I don't have all the answers, and I don't pretend to, but I will search with you so that we both can grow in Him.
I agree - you can twist the Bible's words anyway you want to, but as Paul said, if you're preaching anything other than the truth, then you are a deciever and God takes care of them, it's not our job.
The third thing is, if that little 6 year old kid doesn't see the sacrifice of Jesus when He took our places on the cross, then yah, he will spend eternity separated from God. The sad thing is, we all fall short. We all can't make it on our own, we need Him. But don't be forlorn, everyone gets a chance to accept Him. The bible says "Even the rocks and the trees will cry out" if we don't go out and be His witnesses.
This kid, who has lived a perfect life as any other human being, has sinned. So have we. We can't judge, it's not our job. We're in the same lot with that kid. The bible also says we can't get into Heaven by works alone. If we could get into Heaven by following the laws of God, then Christ would have died in vain, and preaching and witnessing would all be pointless, because God came down to Earth, put limits on his perfection and unbounded strength and power to be one of us, so we would trust Him.
On one weekend, what we now celebrate as Easter, Christ was beaten, spit upon, speared, pierced with a crown of thorns, and then finally nailed to a cross on the place called Calvary. There, He recieved shame and guilt, though he was sinless. He lived through everything we lived through, and never sinned - because the sacrifice needed to pay for our sins had to be pure.
Back in the days of the Law of Moses, when people sinned they went to the altar and burned the best animals they owned in place of them as a sacrifice, because The Sacrifice had yet to come. Why? Because God said "The wages of sin is death," and in this case death means "eternal separation from God." God came down as God the Son, in human form, to be the sinless ultimate sacrifice.
When Jesus was hanging on the cross, he felt the pain and agony, but also the shame and guilt of every pedophile, murderer, rapist, liar, bigot, you, me, our families, our christian and non-christian friends and enemies alike. All of us. Every sin ever committed or ever will be committed. All of that, all at once. He lifted his head and said "Father, why have you rejected me!?", then He says "It is finished," and he dies. And He did it all for you. And me too.
Now Satan is throwing a party, the battle is over, he's got it in the bag now, Jesus is dead!
A couple days later, the stone blocking the tomb is rolled away, Jesus folds the graveclothes up all nice and neat, and then He walks out of the tomb and looks at Satan and says "Is that all you got?"
That's my faith. That's my religion. It's not a list of dos and don'ts, it's a personal relationship with the only God who was big enough to conquer death and my shortcomings; the God who forgives - the God who died for me and by whom I am able to be dead to the world and through Him have life.
The world tells you things like going to church religiously (no pun intended) and praying, caring for others, believing in God and trusting Him to lead my life according to His will, and standing up for what I believe without becoming an obstacle for someone else by arguing, are all ways that I am in bondage because of my faith. But surely today, I am telling you the truth when I say that I do not do these things to buy my way into Heaven, and I am in no prison. On the contrary, in Him I have my freedom from the things of this world that would tempt me to separate myself from God: sexual immorality, vulgarity, lust, lying, violence, getting angry and saying things I don't mean, cheating, any other number of things the rest of the world doesn't even usually give much of a second thought to. The things that separate us from God are what we call sin, that's what it means. Any of you ever had a question of what defines a sin, then there's your answer. If something separates you from God and His will, then it's a sin. And because God is perfect, He can't hang out with sin.
So comin down to earth as one of us, to take our places, was the only way He could keep His own standards of perfection that He demands of us (ie, the wages of sin are death) was to take our places.
But God is bigger than death, and that's why He rose again and why Easter is not just for kids or "devout Christians", it's for everyone. It's victory day.
I celebrate my renewal, my redemption from myself that I am ashamed of, that even though I'm no saint He walks and talks with me everyday, and because He wore my clothes of shame and guilt for all the things I've done, I can wear His coat of righteousness and Holiness. God's love is for everyone, not just the good kids, not just the bad kids, not just the fat kids or kids who climb on rocks. Everybody. All you have to do is come to Him and you don't even have to use pretty words or include "Thee's and Thou's" or even "Thy's", just say in your own words, however you say them or in whatever language you speak or think comfortably:
Dear God, I know I'm not perfect, none of us are. I know the only way I'm going to be whole and pure again is something I can't do on my own. I don't want to live this life where I feel ashamed of what I am, unsure and uncertain about just about everything. Lord please, I need you in my life, to help close the gap between my shortcomings and your perfection. Come into my life Lord, and I'll let you take the wheel. Thank you Father for taking my place, for wiping my slate clean, and I ask that for the rest of my days my eyes stay on you. Amen. (Or you can even say "bye", God doesn't mind, it's like I said before, you don't need fancy words, God wants you to be personal with Him.)
Anyway, that's my
Matthew 28:19-20 "Therefore go and make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." - Holy Bible, NIV