Personally, I believe someone from a reputable college, where they were forced to take a few Russian History courses, is worth much, much more than someone that has only learned how to code C++.
I think a lot of employees know russian all too well when the companies are always russian to get their latest release out the door w/o fixing everything.
Gee thats what I did wrong I gave 3 years of results to a company that not only made the company sucsessfull but very profitable. and I got nothing not even a paycheck. But then again I was fucking the owner.
Is that why Ballmer is always yelling and jumping around, because he is jealous deep down inside?
The see The Cause and its effects but think nothing of the effects of their solution once its implemented Causing problems again that are usually worse..
Tell the caller you will call them back to save them on long distance. Tell them to first stick the bare phone cord wire on their tongue to make sure it works and you will call them to test it. End of story.
I'm not condoning same sex marriages but if the person who called you was a male just like yourself you could have just married him and bypassed the woman. People do that all the time now- Bypass the opposite sex that is...doesn't seem to phase them one bit, for some reason.
A standard of decency never hurt anyone, except for those who don't want a standard to exist for the very reason they don't have one and don't want the rest of society to have one either.
I'm a Christian. I'm also an American who still believes that being offended is a part of life but when the *minorities* can claim being offended and somehow change whole laws because of their whining then something is wrong so I made fun of it because it's the least I can do.
I'm offended everytime someone takes religion out of the public eye when they call themselves offended. Fine, they are offended and now I'm offended, but they are also a minority and shouldn't be able to change whole laws because of it. Political correctness is going to be the downfall of this country. Walky talkies in E.T anyone?
You can't tell me that atheists and the ACLU won't do their damndest to remove every hint of religion from this country with the defense that they are offended (Christians being offended must not count anymore) and so my comment isn't too far from the truth.
Even if they use it for their benefit it isn't theft, its denial b/c they arent getting your service instead, they are just preventing you from getting it.
My wife and I are always talking about getting a cell phone, but she doesn't want to be reached anywhere she goes, and I don't like the idea of a GPS tracked number associated with me.
I think they have cell phones now that come with OFF buttons. As far as GPS goes, my phone has the option of turning that off too. It's a Samsung AH460 or something like that, used with Sprint.
but even here in the Bible Belt people eventually ignore it
We actually still have one of those in the US? You better not say that too loud, the atheists and the ACLU may find you and say that you are offending them.
I never said I need to be told what to think. But just as there are laws of the gov't there are laws to live by from God. In some cases the 2 sets of laws are similar. I do not really fear death myself. I fear the pain but not death itself. And having a "my principles" approach is why there isn't any "bad" in society anymore. WHen you can make up your own rules everything is peachy. We have laws for a reason: to subdue chaos and to keep society at a reasonable level of decency. When you have absolutes there is no questioning as to what's right and wrong and just so you know, no absolutes come from a human being.
YOu also seem to be someone, like many others, that think someone speaking out on their religion is a fanatic just because they speak. Maybe for once you should shutup and listen? I think you have a bad view of religion. Someone who speaks out for their football team isn't a fanatic. They are passionate about their football team and enjoy sharing the knowledge with their friends. Someone who kills for their religion is a fanatic, one who thinks their God wants them to kill. God does not leave it up to me to judge people and to do his bidding. He judges them when they die. Anyone who says otherwise IS a fanatic as God just doesn't work that way.
There is no reason to think GOd has to be more complex than the universe. I'm not saying it's right or wrong but you obviously haven't ever thought that your logic that a creator has to be more complex than its creation could be false. There can be only one creator. There is no reason to think there was a chain of them. You may think that the universe always has existed based on the steady state universe theory, why is it so hard to think that God has always existed?
You seem intent to apply the same rules of complexity to the universe as to its creator when it may not necessarily work that way. If an almighty creator created everything out of nothing and did not need created himself it does not mean that the universe was not in need of a creator. Just as our physics stop working correctly a few milliseconds after the big bang that should tip you off that maybe your logic may fail when talking about something as great as God. And by the way, your logic is circular because as I said there can only be 1 creator. No need to have more than one. Even if there was, nothing says that the top most creator wouldn't still end up being God.
1/ Because we don't currently understand something, doesn't mean we cannot understand it, and furthermore, that those things momentarily beyond our comprehension MUST imply the existence of a creator.
But we won't ever be able to know everything because we were not there to witness the creation. We can only speculate and interpret the evidence we have. We are fallible and biased and could either interpret wrong on accident and arrive at a totally incorrect conclusion even though it may seem plausible or we may do it on purpose b/c we have an agenda.
2/ so-called complexity found in nature doesn't prove the hand of an intelligent designer. The eye is another example of this contention. It is claimed to be a perfect example of an organ perfectly designed for its function, thus proving the existance of a grand designer
Just b/c the eye is claimed by an imperfect person to be the perfect example of a perfect organ designed for its function does not mean anything. People can have their opinions on what the eye is. And just b/c there is a designer/creator does not imply we should be perfect. In fact, we are imperfect by design. Why do you think our bodies age and are capable of receiving damage? They are not perfect and they aren't meant to be.
3/ complex systems can be evolved out of simple ones in simulations. Thus the necessity of a designer is dispensed with.
Since when does "can be" imply a "must"? Thus a designer is still possible.
And they may be simplistic arguments but (and I don't know your defintion of simplistic) yours don't seem to be any better.
Why assume that the big ball of matter at the beginning of the universe needed one then ?
Well w/o saying where it came from then scientists aren't exactly telling us the beginning of the universe are they? If the ball of matter that was the universe was there then obviously the questions haven't stopped yet even though you may think they have. The question would still remain as to when the beginning is and where it all came from.
And when you go to Hell because you deny God maybe you will grow a clue, but by then your soul is already lost. Too bad you won't be able to tell the rest of us.
If you think everything in this universe happened by accident then I guess you don't understand just what is contained in this universe to know it's too complicated to not be planned. And evolution is a good scapegoat for the explanation of humans on planet earth despite the precise conditions that God gave us in order to live on this particular planet. Those conditions were for our existence; we aren't here *because* of those conditions. Oh well. You can't teach someone who won't listen.
It is human nature to "know" how or why things are the way they are. You choose your explanation to be God. It is a nice and easy way to go about life, believing that everything has a purpose, but you do not need know what that is because you have God.
Yes we strive to know where we came from, why we are here, etc. but to deny the existence of God in any of that is to deny your existence. I wouldn't call God being the explanation an easy way to go about life. I still wonder how the universe is made, why it works the way it does, but I also know that to answer all those questions means knowing as much as God does and I'll never know that while on this planet. Humans do not know everything contrary to what some of them believe. Knowing everything and I mean everything could very well be something that a human mind and psyche could not understand nor could deal with mentally.
Trying to learn everything may not inherently mean trying to disprove the existence of God but I haven't seen anyone attempt to Prove the existence of God. I see the Big Bang theory try to be proven. I see evolution trying to be proven. I see any and all explanations possible to attempt to explain why we are here but none of them deal with the possibility that GOd had a hand in it. If they are not trying to disprove his existence why do they not mention him?
What I find funny and sad is that for those who don't believe in God and yet come to a dead end as how to explain something (like where did the ball of matter come from that became the universe?) they can't come to terms with just maybe a higher power was involved that we don't/can't understand.
And that means we either didn't understand something we thought we understood, or that we hadn't explored our understanding fully. Either way, there is likely something else that will be affected...
Since humans did not make the universe we could very well be wrong on everything we think is right because we can only guess based upon the evidence we see. Humans are fallible and biased and can twist the evidence to their liking or can just interpret the evidence incorrectly. We may do our best to figure out the secrets of the universe but we will never know everything as we did not create it and we did not exist when it was created.
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Personally, I believe someone from a reputable college, where they were forced to take a few Russian History courses, is worth much, much more than someone that has only learned how to code C++.
I think a lot of employees know russian all too well when the companies are always russian to get their latest release out the door w/o fixing everything.
Gee thats what I did wrong I gave 3 years of results to a company that not only made the company sucsessfull but very profitable. and I got nothing not even a paycheck. But then again I was fucking the owner.
Is that why Ballmer is always yelling and jumping around, because he is jealous deep down inside?
The see The Cause and its effects but think nothing of the effects of their solution once its implemented Causing problems again that are usually worse..
I hear this is how Windows patches are tested.
Tell the caller you will call them back to save them on long distance. Tell them to first stick the bare phone cord wire on their tongue to make sure it works and you will call them to test it. End of story.
for the love of God man.....did it work? Dont leave us hanging. geez.
I'm not condoning same sex marriages but if the person who called you was a male just like yourself you could have just married him and bypassed the woman. People do that all the time now- Bypass the opposite sex that is...doesn't seem to phase them one bit, for some reason.
This why Hawking says black holes aren't really black, because they do emit energy.
A standard of decency never hurt anyone, except for those who don't want a standard to exist for the very reason they don't have one and don't want the rest of society to have one either.
I'm a Christian. I'm also an American who still believes that being offended is a part of life but when the *minorities* can claim being offended and somehow change whole laws because of their whining then something is wrong so I made fun of it because it's the least I can do.
I'm offended everytime someone takes religion out of the public eye when they call themselves offended. Fine, they are offended and now I'm offended, but they are also a minority and shouldn't be able to change whole laws because of it. Political correctness is going to be the downfall of this country. Walky talkies in E.T anyone?
You can't tell me that atheists and the ACLU won't do their damndest to remove every hint of religion from this country with the defense that they are offended (Christians being offended must not count anymore) and so my comment isn't too far from the truth.
Even if they use it for their benefit it isn't theft, its denial b/c they arent getting your service instead, they are just preventing you from getting it.
blocking someone's service is theft, plain and simple.
No its not. They aren't using it for their benefit while you pay for it. It's a DoS, plain and simple.
My wife and I are always talking about getting a cell phone, but she doesn't want to be reached anywhere she goes, and I don't like the idea of a GPS tracked number associated with me.
I think they have cell phones now that come with OFF buttons. As far as GPS goes, my phone has the option of turning that off too. It's a Samsung AH460 or something like that, used with Sprint.
but even here in the Bible Belt people eventually ignore it
We actually still have one of those in the US? You better not say that too loud, the atheists and the ACLU may find you and say that you are offending them.
I feel your pain. The wife and I have been happily blowing each other away for a couple of months
Lucky bastard.
If it were me who did it, accidentally or on purpose, I'd be on a jet to some foreign country right now.
Two things, 1) You aren't too smart posting as yourself (not AC), and 2) you are using your laptop right now with a aircraft phone attached right? :)
I never said I need to be told what to think. But just as there are laws of the gov't there are laws to live by from God. In some cases the 2 sets of laws are similar. I do not really fear death myself. I fear the pain but not death itself. And having a "my principles" approach is why there isn't any "bad" in society anymore. WHen you can make up your own rules everything is peachy. We have laws for a reason: to subdue chaos and to keep society at a reasonable level of decency. When you have absolutes there is no questioning as to what's right and wrong and just so you know, no absolutes come from a human being.
YOu also seem to be someone, like many others, that think someone speaking out on their religion is a fanatic just because they speak. Maybe for once you should shutup and listen? I think you have a bad view of religion. Someone who speaks out for their football team isn't a fanatic. They are passionate about their football team and enjoy sharing the knowledge with their friends. Someone who kills for their religion is a fanatic, one who thinks their God wants them to kill. God does not leave it up to me to judge people and to do his bidding. He judges them when they die. Anyone who says otherwise IS a fanatic as God just doesn't work that way.
There is no reason to think GOd has to be more complex than the universe. I'm not saying it's right or wrong but you obviously haven't ever thought that your logic that a creator has to be more complex than its creation could be false. There can be only one creator. There is no reason to think there was a chain of them. You may think that the universe always has existed based on the steady state universe theory, why is it so hard to think that God has always existed?
You seem intent to apply the same rules of complexity to the universe as to its creator when it may not necessarily work that way. If an almighty creator created everything out of nothing and did not need created himself it does not mean that the universe was not in need of a creator. Just as our physics stop working correctly a few milliseconds after the big bang that should tip you off that maybe your logic may fail when talking about something as great as God. And by the way, your logic is circular because as I said there can only be 1 creator. No need to have more than one. Even if there was, nothing says that the top most creator wouldn't still end up being God.
1/ Because we don't currently understand something, doesn't mean we cannot understand it, and furthermore, that those things momentarily beyond our comprehension MUST imply the existence of a creator.
But we won't ever be able to know everything because we were not there to witness the creation. We can only speculate and interpret the evidence we have. We are fallible and biased and could either interpret wrong on accident and arrive at a totally incorrect conclusion even though it may seem plausible or we may do it on purpose b/c we have an agenda.
2/ so-called complexity found in nature doesn't prove the hand of an intelligent designer. The eye is another example of this contention. It is claimed to be a perfect example of an organ perfectly designed for its function, thus proving the existance of a grand designer
Just b/c the eye is claimed by an imperfect person to be the perfect example of a perfect organ designed for its function does not mean anything. People can have their opinions on what the eye is. And just b/c there is a designer/creator does not imply we should be perfect. In fact, we are imperfect by design. Why do you think our bodies age and are capable of receiving damage? They are not perfect and they aren't meant to be.
3/ complex systems can be evolved out of simple ones in simulations. Thus the necessity of a designer is dispensed with.
Since when does "can be" imply a "must"? Thus a designer is still possible.
And they may be simplistic arguments but (and I don't know your defintion of simplistic) yours don't seem to be any better.
Why assume that the big ball of matter at the beginning of the universe needed one then ?
Well w/o saying where it came from then scientists aren't exactly telling us the beginning of the universe are they? If the ball of matter that was the universe was there then obviously the questions haven't stopped yet even though you may think they have. The question would still remain as to when the beginning is and where it all came from.
And when you go to Hell because you deny God maybe you will grow a clue, but by then your soul is already lost. Too bad you won't be able to tell the rest of us.
Go figure, never would have guessed that one. Good thing there is google.
If you think everything in this universe happened by accident then I guess you don't understand just what is contained in this universe to know it's too complicated to not be planned. And evolution is a good scapegoat for the explanation of humans on planet earth despite the precise conditions that God gave us in order to live on this particular planet. Those conditions were for our existence; we aren't here *because* of those conditions. Oh well. You can't teach someone who won't listen.
This makes it impossible for me to take any religion literally.
I feel sorry for you.
It is human nature to "know" how or why things are the way they are. You choose your explanation to be God. It is a nice and easy way to go about life, believing that everything has a purpose, but you do not need know what that is because you have God.
Yes we strive to know where we came from, why we are here, etc. but to deny the existence of God in any of that is to deny your existence. I wouldn't call God being the explanation an easy way to go about life. I still wonder how the universe is made, why it works the way it does, but I also know that to answer all those questions means knowing as much as God does and I'll never know that while on this planet. Humans do not know everything contrary to what some of them believe. Knowing everything and I mean everything could very well be something that a human mind and psyche could not understand nor could deal with mentally.
Trying to learn everything may not inherently mean trying to disprove the existence of God but I haven't seen anyone attempt to Prove the existence of God. I see the Big Bang theory try to be proven. I see evolution trying to be proven. I see any and all explanations possible to attempt to explain why we are here but none of them deal with the possibility that GOd had a hand in it. If they are not trying to disprove his existence why do they not mention him?
What I find funny and sad is that for those who don't believe in God and yet come to a dead end as how to explain something (like where did the ball of matter come from that became the universe?) they can't come to terms with just maybe a higher power was involved that we don't/can't understand.
And that means we either didn't understand something we thought we understood, or that we hadn't explored our understanding fully. Either way, there is likely something else that will be affected...
Since humans did not make the universe we could very well be wrong on everything we think is right because we can only guess based upon the evidence we see. Humans are fallible and biased and can twist the evidence to their liking or can just interpret the evidence incorrectly. We may do our best to figure out the secrets of the universe but we will never know everything as we did not create it and we did not exist when it was created.
throne + laptop + book = hours in the bathroom away from family