"a consistent set of statements which are derived from one another" sounds quite like what the word 'logic' refers to...
"Faith" is believing in something that you yourself have not proven. If you do not know how an airplane stays in the air, your belief that it will is faith.
"Faith" is often simply used as a term for ones set of beliefs. Existence of God, along with many (if not all) of the Catholic Church's teachings can be proven through logic and evidence. Faith (in the sense of blind belief) is necessary simply because no one man can practically prove all these Truths without devoting his entire life to it (and maybe not even then).
Catholics do not believe in three gods. We believe in one comprised of three persons. God has designed so many things parallel to His reality that it is quite clear how logical it is. There are three persons within one marriage-- the husband, the wife, and God. Is that really three marriages? No, it's one comprised of three persons.
So (presuming, without confirmation, that your claims of order are accurate) what gave Luther, a heretic, somehow more authority than God's Church to decide what was or was not God's Word? It would make much more sense to allow God's representative determine God's writings rather than to take the word of someone who denies important truths about God and modifies what he is about to call scripture.
Yes, Martin Luther created the heresy of sola scriptura which is unbiblical. According the the Bible itself, scripture alone is insufficient. Kind of ironic, also, that Luther came up with sola scriptura while at the same time modifying and removing Books from the Bible
None of the Catholic teachings conflict with the Bible and many--including those often rejected by protestants-- can be proven or at least backed using the Bible. Also, note that Jesus told his apostles to preach, not to write: Protestants are in effect saying "We are going to ignore the 8 or so apostles who only taught orally". Also note that in one of the epistles, the writer states that he is writing only because he cannot teach them orally, in person.
The canonisation of the Bible and the Mass was simply putting the existing truths to written text. Just as the assumption of Our Lady into Heaven (which is Biblical) was believed by Christians until protestants began to question it-- at which point it was necessary for an official statement of a sort.
Protestants believe/practice many heresies that are quite unbiblical. For example:
- Sola Scriptura
- Not the Papacy/Apostolic Succession
- Divorce and remarriage
- Contraception
- (in some cases) Homesexuality
- disbelief in the True Presence of the Eucharist
- dishonouring of Mary, Mother of God and "full of grace" (hint: that's from the Bible)
- disbelief in purgatory
- Sola Fide ("faith alone") -- how anyone can believe this totally confuses me; after all, Satanists have faith.
- (in some cases) a lack of divinity of Jesus Christ
- not confessing sins to a priest
Since your sentence didn't parse properly, I'll have to guess you meant to say "Catholics believe in three gods."
Incorrect, because Catholics believe in the one, true God which is comprised of three persons: the Father, the Son, and their love-- the Holy Ghost.
You have it backwards: The Protestant heretics removed the Apocrypha from their copies of the Bible because those books interfered with their agenda. The books of the Apocrypha have been part of the true Bible since the Bible was first defined.
It makes no sense to say Catholics are not "grouped with other churches of Christianity." since they are indeed the only true Christian Church. The "other churches" you refer to (including the neo-Catholics who currently have Anti-pope Benedict XVI as their leader and make the claim to Catholicism) are called "Protestants"-- heretics who deny certain Truths.
By your logic justifying Mormonism as Christian, you also would be classifying Islam as Christian-- after all, they (claim to) only add onto the Bible also.
Anyway, when most people say "Christian", they usually (AFAIK) mean someone who believes the Bible-- which only includes (real) Catholics.
I say they don't support it the standard way. Requiring a user to replace their standard GL libraries is no more than a dirty hack. Everything they need should be quite possible via the standard DRI kernel interfaces without touching the libraries.
The drivers are not free. You are not free to modify or share them. (gratis != free)
The "OSS movement" is not the goal, nor pioneeded by RMS. RMS is responsible for the Free Software Movement, which is all about making sure people aren't denied their rights to share and modify information.
Your 5 GPU provider thing is nonsense, since (AFAIAA) not a single GPU provider has free drivers-- the best we have are 3rd party free drivers for certain Radeons.
nVidia does not support GLX properly, they "support" it with immoral software and a stupid library hack.
None of the video card interfaces are standardised more than VESA, so really all this stuff about them being just like CPUs is nonsense. If they were standardised, there would be no need for specialised drivers. You don't need special drivers to run 32-bit code on a x86_64 system...
Bloated and disorganised how? They work/look fine here.
I agree that the defaults require at least 800x600, but I'm sure we all know that the majority of people have at least that and besides... defaults are just defaults.
gnumeric, openoffice.org, and gv are not parts of KDE, but if you insist in including them in your judgement, also setup gtk-qt so GTK2 apps are wrapped to Qt.
Everything works at least as good as Windows right now. The only thing needed is new features to give people and incentive to switch.
The primary reason Linux is superior is that it is moral software. Start tainting it with immoral stuff like proprietary drivers and you might as well run OS X or some other immorally licensed *nix.
ATi may be not much better themselves, but at least we have (moral) drivers supporting 3D acceleration on many models. The only way nVidia cards can be nearly as good is if someone ports the apparent 3D acceleration from that open BeOS project...
Except that if you want to share your memory of a web page at a certain point in time, nobody has a right to stop you-- no matter how accurate or automated your saving this memory is.
Treason, as far as I can tell with the limited info I know about it, is a nonsense "crime". Seriously, why should anyone be required to support the country they are in? Especially when the country is so horrible as the US...
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"a consistent set of statements which are derived from one another" sounds quite like what the word 'logic' refers to...
"Faith" is believing in something that you yourself have not proven. If you do not know how an airplane stays in the air, your belief that it will is faith.
Bush may be bad, but I'm not sure he's significantly worse...
Mormons believe in a different trinitarian god.
"Faith" is often simply used as a term for ones set of beliefs. Existence of God, along with many (if not all) of the Catholic Church's teachings can be proven through logic and evidence. Faith (in the sense of blind belief) is necessary simply because no one man can practically prove all these Truths without devoting his entire life to it (and maybe not even then).
Catholics do not believe in three gods. We believe in one comprised of three persons. God has designed so many things parallel to His reality that it is quite clear how logical it is. There are three persons within one marriage-- the husband, the wife, and God. Is that really three marriages? No, it's one comprised of three persons.
So (presuming, without confirmation, that your claims of order are accurate) what gave Luther, a heretic, somehow more authority than God's Church to decide what was or was not God's Word? It would make much more sense to allow God's representative determine God's writings rather than to take the word of someone who denies important truths about God and modifies what he is about to call scripture.
Yes, Martin Luther created the heresy of sola scriptura which is unbiblical. According the the Bible itself, scripture alone is insufficient. Kind of ironic, also, that Luther came up with sola scriptura while at the same time modifying and removing Books from the Bible
None of the Catholic teachings conflict with the Bible and many--including those often rejected by protestants-- can be proven or at least backed using the Bible. Also, note that Jesus told his apostles to preach, not to write: Protestants are in effect saying "We are going to ignore the 8 or so apostles who only taught orally". Also note that in one of the epistles, the writer states that he is writing only because he cannot teach them orally, in person.
The canonisation of the Bible and the Mass was simply putting the existing truths to written text. Just as the assumption of Our Lady into Heaven (which is Biblical) was believed by Christians until protestants began to question it-- at which point it was necessary for an official statement of a sort.
Protestants believe/practice many heresies that are quite unbiblical. For example:
- Sola Scriptura
- Not the Papacy/Apostolic Succession
- Divorce and remarriage
- Contraception
- (in some cases) Homesexuality
- disbelief in the True Presence of the Eucharist
- dishonouring of Mary, Mother of God and "full of grace" (hint: that's from the Bible)
- disbelief in purgatory - Sola Fide ("faith alone") -- how anyone can believe this totally confuses me; after all, Satanists have faith.
- (in some cases) a lack of divinity of Jesus Christ
- not confessing sins to a priest
Since your sentence didn't parse properly, I'll have to guess you meant to say "Catholics believe in three gods."
Incorrect, because Catholics believe in the one, true God which is comprised of three persons: the Father, the Son, and their love-- the Holy Ghost.
You have it backwards: The Protestant heretics removed the Apocrypha from their copies of the Bible because those books interfered with their agenda. The books of the Apocrypha have been part of the true Bible since the Bible was first defined.
It makes no sense to say Catholics are not "grouped with other churches of Christianity." since they are indeed the only true Christian Church. The "other churches" you refer to (including the neo-Catholics who currently have Anti-pope Benedict XVI as their leader and make the claim to Catholicism) are called "Protestants"-- heretics who deny certain Truths.
They don't follow Christ's teachings, nor do they believe in the one, true God. Only Catholics believe in the true God and follow His teachings.
By your logic justifying Mormonism as Christian, you also would be classifying Islam as Christian-- after all, they (claim to) only add onto the Bible also.
Anyway, when most people say "Christian", they usually (AFAIK) mean someone who believes the Bible-- which only includes (real) Catholics.
Also, note that while you're on the topic of using immoral drivers, ATi's immoral drivers work just as good as nVidia's.
I say they don't support it the standard way. Requiring a user to replace their standard GL libraries is no more than a dirty hack. Everything they need should be quite possible via the standard DRI kernel interfaces without touching the libraries.
The drivers are not free. You are not free to modify or share them. (gratis != free)
The "OSS movement" is not the goal, nor pioneeded by RMS. RMS is responsible for the Free Software Movement, which is all about making sure people aren't denied their rights to share and modify information.
Your 5 GPU provider thing is nonsense, since (AFAIAA) not a single GPU provider has free drivers-- the best we have are 3rd party free drivers for certain Radeons.
nVidia does not support GLX properly, they "support" it with immoral software and a stupid library hack.
None of the video card interfaces are standardised more than VESA, so really all this stuff about them being just like CPUs is nonsense. If they were standardised, there would be no need for specialised drivers. You don't need special drivers to run 32-bit code on a x86_64 system...
Bloated and disorganised how? They work/look fine here.
I agree that the defaults require at least 800x600, but I'm sure we all know that the majority of people have at least that and besides... defaults are just defaults.
gnumeric, openoffice.org, and gv are not parts of KDE, but if you insist in including them in your judgement, also setup gtk-qt so GTK2 apps are wrapped to Qt.
Everything works at least as good as Windows right now. The only thing needed is new features to give people and incentive to switch.
The primary reason Linux is superior is that it is moral software. Start tainting it with immoral stuff like proprietary drivers and you might as well run OS X or some other immorally licensed *nix.
ATi may be not much better themselves, but at least we have (moral) drivers supporting 3D acceleration on many models. The only way nVidia cards can be nearly as good is if someone ports the apparent 3D acceleration from that open BeOS project...
Except that a PS1 won't run a PS2 game...
A better example: Running a PS1 game on an XBox 360 at the speed it runs on a PS2.
Actually, you should flip nVidia and ATi in that statement...
KDE can't get much more user-friendly without becoming unusable to non-idiots. Now Windows... that is a difficult UI.
Except that if you want to share your memory of a web page at a certain point in time, nobody has a right to stop you-- no matter how accurate or automated your saving this memory is.
Well, you're excluding the many people who don't have a right mind from your statement ;)
Treason, as far as I can tell with the limited info I know about it, is a nonsense "crime". Seriously, why should anyone be required to support the country they are in? Especially when the country is so horrible as the US...
(Why not just kill all the old people?)
You know, there are sick people who want to do that...
In reality, doesn't "life insurance" insure the well-being of the family? It certainly doesn't bring the dead person back to life...
How about covering someone in honey and feeding them to fire rats or such? Kinda makes limb removal look like nothing...
No amount of life loss is worth a loss of someones life? Death can be quite justified for murder (not going into details).