Panaceaa is right; Edison, though arguably brilliant, was also an ass. He used to pay kids to round up cats, which he would electricute with AC in order to "show" its danger.
He electricuted an elephant, and suspended his anti-capital punishmnent position to invent the "Westinghouse Chair", in order to disparrage AC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Sex that is procreative and fully giving between husband and wife is a wonderful, beautiful thing. No child should be taught that sex is a dirty, terrible thing; the child should learn, however, that it is appropriate only to a husband and wife.
I feel this is equal to teaching children that sex is wrong, since it seems the American (and maybe some other places, too) way is to make sure that kids realize that sex is a dirty, terrible thing you can only do with someone you love.
Is this the American way? Seems to me that "Heather has two Mommies" and "Queer eye for the straight girl/guy" and "who wants to marry a millionaire" and the "Sunday night sex show", not to mention most spam, seems to indicate differently.
It is not right, however, to reduce *any* activity (sex included) to a way to pass the time regardless of the consequences that might follow.
Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse from Dayton, Ohio, assisted Dr. Haskell in a Partial Birth Abortion on a 26-1/2 week (over 6 months) pre-born baby boy. She testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (on 11/17/95) about what she witnessed. According to nurse Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist "delivered the baby's body and arms - everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literature _9313pb.asp
Incidentally, most misery on earth is caused by war (eg, famines are often caused by long wars causing farmers to stop cultivating the land).
No. War is a symptom. It exacerbates the problem, but it is not the problem.
Most misery on earth is caused by selfishness. Uncontrolled selfishness between two humans will often lead to either a fistfight or exclusion of the other person.
War is either a fistfight (WWII) or a hissy fit (cold war and its multiple unofficial wars) fought for leaders of nations who are pissed off at each other for verious reasons (some unjust, some just).
You won't get this information from the mainstream media. According to too many $tvnews, $majornewswebsite, and $radionews broadcasters, the Catholic Church thinks that ALL stem cell research is bad (evil / will send one to hell).
In fact, the Catholic Church teaches that fetal stem cell research is contemptable because those cells are derived from aborted babies.
"Had a major heart attack? In the not-too-distant future, doctors may be able to use stem cells to regenerate damaged heart muscle. And here's the exciting part: They can do it using stem cells that aren't extracted from human embryos."
According to the warped Texas laws regarding such things, it is less awful to steal something outright than it is to switch price tags. One is stealing, the other frauud.
Superbrand Radio $250.00 Superbrand Radio Deluxe $450.00 (same box, same color, except it says "deluxe" and the feature list says "DVD changer" instead of "High-tech design") Both ring up as "Elecronics/Radio"
Blue Men's tie $14.00 (rayon) Blue Men's tie $30.00 (silk) Both ring up as "Men's tie $Price".
In a high volume store, the checkers aren't educated too much about whether the price is correct, especially during peak traffic times. Some may not know silk from rayon, or silk from cotton for that matter.
If my eyes can see the ground, the ground can see my eyes.
If your plane is tilted such that you can see the ground, then the people on the ground can see that portion of the plane which has windows, but it doesn't follow that they can see your eyes, or distinguish your eyes from the rest of your head, or distinguish those individual windows, at distances of several thousand feet.
The people on the ground at the terminal can usually only make out profiles of those inside a plane still at the gate(if that much), and that's only a 200-300 foot distance.
Claiming energy from Carbon Monoxide http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/09220 4/Fuel_cel l_converts_waste_to_power_092204.html
Can this be a replacement for the Oxidization Catalyst in our catalytic converters?
This seems (IMNSHO) very exciting from an environmental standpoint, and will be moreso if it can be done without precious metals, though the O Catalyst is made with platinum already. Also, the reclaimed energy can be used to heat the Reduction Catalist, if only minimally.
If these can't be adapted for cars, try $industry smokestack or even residential use, especially in gas heated homes. How it might compare with the already-developing Natural Gas home full cell systems, I don't know.
Regarding the sexual abuse of anyone, by priests... I am horrified at the fact that these abuses happened. I am horrified that there are evil things happening in, around, and to people who depend on the Church for an introduction the Truth. I am abhorred, as should be everyone, that abuses have happened.
I am also grateful that they came out. Extremely grateful. I am a man who has molested children. I'm nor proud of that (although I am proud...and vain...selfish...). What I did, I did as a wounded child, acting out my woundedness with others, trying to "figure out" what happened to me at 5, at the hands of three other people, on three seperate occasions. What I did, I stopped doing at around 16. That doesn't mean that what I did wasn't bad. It was bad. It was evil. It WAS THAT bad.
By the time I was 14 - 16, talk shows were blaring about the horrors of molestation; the evils of sexual abuse; the nastiness of it all...I watched those shows, and began to think I was nasty; I was evil; I was beyond redemption. I became suicidal. I began cutting myself. I embraced physical pain in order to torture myself, so that God wouldn't have to do so in purgatory. (I had been babtized, but I only very rarely made it to church.)
I swallowed all that pain and ignored it for 10 years. 1 - 1/2, maybe two years ago ago (I don't remember how long), I finally surrendered to Christ's call to return to the Church. He'd been calling me all that time - and I'd been ignoring Him - reading the bible sometimes, but not understanding it...and I said "OK, I'll go if you quit bugging me" (He hasn't been silent for a day in my life, though I've tried to ignore Him) I entered Catechesis . . .
I began volunteering at the parish - in Children's ministry nonetheless! - I'd followed one of the parishoners around for introductions, unknowing that she was going to a youth ministry meeting. When we got there, I guessed it was a calling.
I thought about becoming a priest. I asked my priest about priesthood, and we talked. I began attending daily masses, when it was suggested.
Within a few weeks, the good Bishop of Austin, Gregory Aymond, (a wonderful man, as far as weak humans go) introduced policies to protect children. I got out of youth ministry as quickly as I tried, without making a scene of it.
No children were hurt.
One priest asked me what my "darkest secret was" (priests, take note!) - within 20 minutes, I was bawling.
As the year went on (catechesis), I went through more depression, and at times, despair. And more selfishness. God worked in me, though, and He led me to healing. I was referred to a wonderful counselor, whose hands God used to help me tremendously. I was confirmed at the Easter Vigil.
So the long and the short of it is, that (where have we heard this before?) my sins were as jet black, and stunk as year - old rotten anchovies. I finally surrendered to God, and He used the catholic Church to heal me!
How can people in a compnay not know of the plans by management.
3-hour Mandatory (and no pee break) all hands meetings.
3-page handed-down-no-input-from-you-is-necessary-just-si gn-it-thank-you-very-much-or-you're-fired- "individualized*" recommendations for actalizing certain corporate initiatives with corporatespeak at the top like "two-way communication is vital"
2-reorganizations per quarter, possibly more. ymmv
* by typing your name near the top
The realization that, in many respects, your manager is NOT the micromanaging prick you thought he was, but simply a note carrying go-fer whose notes have been passed through several other layers of go-fers for the real micromanagers, who should have been acting like VPs but are fighting over terf as if THEY were the ones in danger of being laid off.
how CAN people in a company know the real pland by management?
The article links has a link wich purports to go to an explanation of the government's new "computer-assisted profiling system." Interestingly enough, its broken. Why?
I understand these are your beliefs and you believe them for your own reasons, so don't take this as an attack or a flame war - I'm just throwing in an observation.
Indeed, I wish I had said the same, as I also mean it sincerely. There are some people who do like to bash others over the head with their bible; I try not to act like that.
I don't think that we should even start to pretend we understand anything about the mind or the will of God, again working on the assumption that he exists.
While we cannot know God's will in its fullness, a good start is the Bible, the Catechism, and a healthy amount of prayer. The Ten Commandments were a pretty good indication of God's will, as was the birth, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That being said, I feel we should always work on the principle of our own good,
Here's where you get into trouble, especially here:
That being said, I feel we should always work on the principle of our own good,
WE CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR US. We don't have a clue. Just look at what we're doing to the environment, and how big a mess we have to clean up. I'll ask again, why can't we learn not to make messes in the first place?! I'd cite other examples, but they'd just sidetrack our conversation further. (free love -> abortion comes to mind, as does pornography -> stunted love life...somehow I see a third connection to be made here..)
Don't get me wrong: whether it is better for me to eat rice or a hamburger, usually isn't a decision I reserve solely for God. On the other hand, I'm grateful for all the signals that have come from Him, some of which only I could see, and some of which I ignored entirely, to my own shame.
Not all scientists are evil, power-hungry tyrants, just the ones you see in the cartoons and the movies!:) You are correct. No one (NO ONE) is inheriently and completely evil. All people of every profession have some redeeming qualities, although some people have to leave their environments to find those qualities.
"Complete Evil" is a complete absence and denial of goodness. Science IS NOT evil, nor are scientists. That was the point of my paragraph about the Bible. On the other hand, SOME USES of science ARE evil, even though they appear good at first.
we not only ended up with bacteria that could live in our waste, but also used it as a source of food....These bacteria "evolved" into being the perfect waste treatment system.
And, quite possibly (I shudder to think that evolution was your goal) "evolved" into something more resistant to the toxins that should have killed it. How does this advance us in the use of antibiotics? What is the name of this bacteria, and what does it do when introduced to Humans? If it is not directly harmful to humans, then what about other lifeforms? How certain are you that you haven't plagued species X with the "evolution" that you seem so proud of having caused. Have you accounted for every single species that might encounter your evolved bacteria?
Science is a tool that can be used for good purposes, I agree. The discoveries of the wheel, fire, and fire extinguishers were all good. Ultimately, science will lead to absolute proof of God's existence. But science, as a tool, like all tools can be used for evil as well. Even the Holy Bible can be used to hit my grandmother and knock her down. In this case, tool isn't the problem; the problem is its use.
On the other hand, there are certan tools that can be used only for destructive purposes. Pornography comes to mind, in as much as it short - circuits a normal, healthy sex drive and although a pornographic book can be used to hold up the short leg of my dinner table, that clearly is not its intended purpose.
At any rate, my argument was not Utilitarian; it was Judeo-Christian, specifically Catholic. It is not good, according to God's will, to try to design your own bacteria, cat, dog, or child, as it shows a grave disrespect for life and for God. Furthermore, we have no idea what kind of impact such a grave decision could bring about. That one would try to justify doing it for the use of cleaning up after our wasteful society, is little more than a further indictment of our wastefulness.
Look at the lengths we have to go to just to clean up after ourselves! Can't we just learn not to make a mess in the first place?!
Read my sig. To error in the side of being pedantic, read ! as "not".
Read the posts about the nanorobots to clean up after the other nanorobots.
Think about the story of Eve. If you don't know it, start here Understand that Eve was conned into thinking that it wasn't really "that bad". Yet she showed such disrespect for God, that we're all suffering.
I know that "killer bees" is a misnomer, but the aggression of the Africanized bee is something that scientists failed to account for in their creation, much to the detriment of Sounth and Central America and some areas of Texas. Creating custom lifeforms is not what we should be doing.
Transporting animals to do one thing or another, OTOH, is somewhere between here and there. The Spanish brought horses; I brought my dog from Arlington to Austin, and he fathered in Austin.
I'm not an expert in morality (I'm still trying to figure right V wrong out myself) but I can't see the creation of custom lifeforms as a Good Thing under any circumstances.
It appears that the article has been edited since you linked to it.
The new test reads thus:
On 21 December, ZDNet posted a story reporting the preliminary results of this poll, which showed a large majority of respondents who said they planned to deliver applications via Web services by the end of 2002 favoured Java for the job. At the time, Java outranked.Net by a factor of three in this poll. By early January, the position had reversed; the results are shown here. An investigation indicated that Microsoft employees used vote-rigging to distort the results. The full story can be found here.
At some point, a corporation may have greived the sender enough that he HAD to make some real noise in order to get heard.
I've experienced the same level of anger against an employer. The details are relevant, but I won't go into them because my employer had made real efforts to remedy the situation, and as such, shouldn't be "hung twice".
My way of "blowing the whistle" was a mass - message to everyone who witnessed, or should have witnessed, a certain action by a certain hired entertainer in front of too many required attendees. I expected to get fired, but I accepted that risk because what we were forced to witness was WRONG.
I chose mass - email because
1)it would reach the number of people necessary.
2)There were rudamentary tracking processes in place so that I could see, keep, and track, receipts from certain key readers.
3) I didn't have another megaphone.
4) The comments I made were "in print" in the sense that there was an original document of sorts that could be presented to refute any misunderstanding, misinterpreatation, or misrepresentation.
I've gotten some flack as a result of this particular email, but I tracked the issue myself and made clear that the employees here will not stand for the same type of thing in the future. I've also received great support from other workers here.
If I had told only my boss, or his boss, then this issue might have been overlooked or pooh-poohed. It's easy for a corporation to steamroll individuals, not only as a force of will, but as a habit and even in invinceable ignorance. Sometimes the ONLY way to guarantee acknowledgement is to yell at the top of your lungs, send a mass - Email, and inform everyone inside AND outside the org of what wrong was done.
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Panaceaa is right; Edison, though arguably brilliant, was also an ass. He used to pay kids to round up cats, which he would electricute with AC in order to "show" its danger.
He electricuted an elephant, and suspended his anti-capital punishmnent position to invent the "Westinghouse Chair", in order to disparrage AC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Currents
Sex that is procreative and fully giving between husband and wife is a wonderful, beautiful thing. No child should be taught that sex is a dirty, terrible thing; the child should learn, however, that it is appropriate only to a husband and wife.
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I feel this is equal to teaching children that sex is wrong, since it seems the American (and maybe some other places, too) way is to make sure that kids realize that sex is a dirty, terrible thing you can only do with someone you love.
Is this the American way? Seems to me that "Heather has two Mommies" and "Queer eye for the straight girl/guy" and "who wants to marry a millionaire" and the "Sunday night sex show", not to mention most spam, seems to indicate differently.
It is not right, however, to reduce *any* activity (sex included) to a way to pass the time regardless of the consequences that might follow.
Dare you read Humanae Vitae?
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encycli
The head was inside the uterus, how did the scissors get through the back of the head? I see a lie!
The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus.Want to see the diagram?
It is not God's fault that people turn away from Him and do evil. Nor is it a fault of God that He tolerates evil.
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http://www.ewtn.com/expert/expertfaqframe.asp?tar
For the same reason I'd try to keep someone from ramming scissors into YOUR skull.
Whether or not I personally like what you said or did in the last 5 minutes, I do not have the right to murder you.
I support partial birth abortion.
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Why? this is an innocent human being, born, and murdered with a pair of scissors being rammed into his (or her) skull.
Why would any right-thinking person do such a thing?
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/
http://www.priestsforlife.org/partialbirth.html#s
Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse from Dayton, Ohio, assisted Dr. Haskell in a Partial Birth Abortion on a 26-1/2 week (over 6 months) pre-born baby boy. She testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (on 11/17/95) about what she witnessed. According to nurse Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist "delivered the baby's body and arms - everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp.
http://www.abortionfacts.com/literature/literatur
http://www.ockels.nl/Flash/laddermill_flash_v1.htm l
Incidentally, most misery on earth is caused by war (eg, famines are often caused by long wars causing farmers to stop cultivating the land).
No. War is a symptom. It exacerbates the problem, but it is not the problem.
Most misery on earth is caused by selfishness. Uncontrolled selfishness between two humans will often lead to either a fistfight or exclusion of the other person.
War is either a fistfight (WWII) or a hissy fit (cold war and its multiple unofficial wars) fought for leaders of nations who are pissed off at each other for verious reasons (some unjust, some just).
You won't get this information from the mainstream media. According to too many $tvnews, $majornewswebsite, and $radionews broadcasters, the Catholic Church thinks that ALL stem cell research is bad (evil / will send one to hell).
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In fact, the Catholic Church teaches that fetal stem cell research is contemptable because those cells are derived from aborted babies.
The use of adult stem cells are OK, as adult organ transplants are OK, and adult stem cells are already in use in a number of cases.
Fetal stem cells are not.
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/Clin
http://stemcellresearch.org/facts/treatments.htm
Quote from article linked below:
"Had a major heart attack? In the not-too-distant future, doctors may be able to use stem cells to regenerate damaged heart muscle. And here's the exciting part: They can do it using stem cells that aren't extracted from human embryos."
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/issues/bioethic/fact
According to the warped Texas laws regarding such things, it is less awful to steal something outright than it is to switch price tags. One is stealing, the other frauud.
IANAL
Superbrand Radio $250.00
Superbrand Radio Deluxe $450.00 (same box, same color, except it says "deluxe" and the feature list says "DVD changer" instead of "High-tech design")
Both ring up as "Elecronics/Radio"
Blue Men's tie $14.00 (rayon)
Blue Men's tie $30.00 (silk)
Both ring up as "Men's tie $Price".
In a high volume store, the checkers aren't educated too much about whether the price is correct, especially during peak traffic times. Some may not know silk from rayon, or silk from cotton for that matter.
If my eyes can see the ground, the ground can see my eyes.
If your plane is tilted such that you can see the ground, then the people on the ground can see that portion of the plane which has windows, but it doesn't follow that they can see your eyes, or distinguish your eyes from the rest of your head, or distinguish those individual windows, at distances of several thousand feet.
The people on the ground at the terminal can usually only make out profiles of those inside a plane still at the gate(if that much), and that's only a 200-300 foot distance.
Claiming energy from Carbon Monoxide0 4/Fuel_cel l_converts_waste_to_power_092204.html
http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/0922
Can this be a replacement for the Oxidization Catalyst in our catalytic converters?
This seems (IMNSHO) very exciting from an environmental standpoint, and will be moreso if it can be done without precious metals, though the O Catalyst is made with platinum already. Also, the reclaimed energy can be used to heat the Reduction Catalist, if only minimally.
If these can't be adapted for cars, try $industry smokestack or even residential use, especially in gas heated homes. How it might compare with the already-developing Natural Gas home full cell systems, I don't know.
Get professional help before it is too late!
Would you call GOD a professional?
You don't go by the nickname "dubya", do you, by any chance?
See my name.
if one person "hears" here, it's worth it. I'm out of money, so I'll burn
see above comment
see above comment
Unless divine intervention has to do something with killing that eeevil outlook of course
Hold that thought. Divine intervention is the cause for our existance. Read the sig. Oh, and the above comment.
Regarding the sexual abuse of anyone, by priests...
I am horrified at the fact that these abuses happened. I am horrified that there are evil things happening in, around, and to people who depend on the Church for an introduction the Truth. I am abhorred, as should be everyone, that abuses have happened.
I am also grateful that they came out. Extremely grateful. I am a man who has molested children. I'm nor proud of that (although I am proud...and vain...selfish...). What I did, I did as a wounded child, acting out my woundedness with others, trying to "figure out" what happened to me at 5, at the hands of three other people, on three seperate occasions. What I did, I stopped doing at around 16. That doesn't mean that what I did wasn't bad. It was bad. It was evil. It WAS THAT bad.
By the time I was 14 - 16, talk shows were blaring about the horrors of molestation; the evils of sexual abuse; the nastiness of it all...I watched those shows, and began to think I was nasty; I was evil; I was beyond redemption. I became suicidal. I began cutting myself. I embraced physical pain in order to torture myself, so that God wouldn't have to do so in purgatory. (I had been babtized, but I only very rarely made it to church.)
I swallowed all that pain and ignored it for 10 years. 1 - 1/2, maybe two years ago ago (I don't remember how long), I finally surrendered to Christ's call to return to the Church. He'd been calling me all that time - and I'd been ignoring Him - reading the bible sometimes, but not understanding it...and I said "OK, I'll go if you quit bugging me" (He hasn't been silent for a day in my life, though I've tried to ignore Him) I entered Catechesis . . .
I began volunteering at the parish - in Children's ministry nonetheless! - I'd followed one of the parishoners around for introductions, unknowing that she was going to a youth ministry meeting. When we got there, I guessed it was a calling.
I thought about becoming a priest. I asked my priest about priesthood, and we talked. I began attending daily masses, when it was suggested.
Within a few weeks, the good Bishop of Austin, Gregory Aymond, (a wonderful man, as far as weak humans go) introduced policies to protect children. I got out of youth ministry as quickly as I tried, without making a scene of it.
No children were hurt.
One priest asked me what my "darkest secret was" (priests, take note!) - within 20 minutes, I was bawling.
As the year went on (catechesis), I went through more depression, and at times, despair. And more selfishness. God worked in me, though, and He led me to healing. I was referred to a wonderful counselor, whose hands God used to help me tremendously. I was confirmed at the Easter Vigil.
So the long and the short of it is, that (where have we heard this before?) my sins were as jet black, and stunk as year - old rotten anchovies. I finally surrendered to God, and He used the catholic Church to heal me!
How can people in a compnay not know of the plans by management.
i gn-it-thank-you-very-much-or-you're-fired- "individualized*" recommendations for actalizing certain corporate initiatives with corporatespeak at the top like "two-way communication is vital"
3-hour Mandatory (and no pee break) all hands meetings.
3-page handed-down-no-input-from-you-is-necessary-just-s
2-reorganizations per quarter, possibly more. ymmv
* by typing your name near the top
The realization that, in many respects, your manager is NOT the micromanaging prick you thought he was, but simply a note carrying go-fer whose notes have been passed through several other layers of go-fers for the real micromanagers, who should have been acting like VPs but are fighting over terf as if THEY were the ones in danger of being laid off.
how CAN people in a company know the real pland by management?
You get what you pay for. Especially online.
Unless you get less than what you pay for.
Almost never do you get more than you pay for.
I guess you never used Napster! :-) :-)
Try going to church. You'll learn there that you can never possibly pay more than God gives you.
The article links has a link wich purports to go to an explanation of the government's new "computer-assisted profiling system." Interestingly enough, its broken. Why?
I understand these are your beliefs and you believe them for your own reasons, so don't take this as an attack or a flame war - I'm just throwing in an observation.
:)
Indeed, I wish I had said the same, as I also mean it sincerely. There are some people who do like to bash others over the head with their bible; I try not to act like that.
I don't think that we should even start to pretend we understand anything about the mind or the will of God, again working on the assumption that he exists.
While we cannot know God's will in its fullness, a good start is the Bible, the Catechism, and a healthy amount of prayer. The Ten Commandments were a pretty good indication of God's will, as was the birth, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That being said, I feel we should always work on the principle of our own good,
Here's where you get into trouble, especially here:
That being said, I feel we should always work on the principle of our own good,
WE CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOOD FOR US. We don't have a clue. Just look at what we're doing to the environment, and how big a mess we have to clean up. I'll ask again, why can't we learn not to make messes in the first place?! I'd cite other examples, but they'd just sidetrack our conversation further. (free love -> abortion comes to mind, as does pornography -> stunted love life...somehow I see a third connection to be made here..)
Don't get me wrong: whether it is better for me to eat rice or a hamburger, usually isn't a decision I reserve solely for God. On the other hand, I'm grateful for all the signals that have come from Him, some of which only I could see, and some of which I ignored entirely, to my own shame.
Not all scientists are evil, power-hungry tyrants, just the ones you see in the cartoons and the movies!
You are correct. No one (NO ONE) is inheriently and completely evil. All people of every profession have some redeeming qualities, although some people have to leave their environments to find those qualities.
"Complete Evil" is a complete absence and denial of goodness. Science IS NOT evil, nor are scientists. That was the point of my paragraph about the Bible. On the other hand, SOME USES of science ARE evil, even though they appear good at first.
we not only ended up with bacteria that could live in our waste, but also used it as a source of food....These bacteria "evolved" into being the perfect waste treatment system.
And, quite possibly (I shudder to think that evolution was your goal) "evolved" into something more resistant to the toxins that should have killed it. How does this advance us in the use of antibiotics? What is the name of this bacteria, and what does it do when introduced to Humans? If it is not directly harmful to humans, then what about other lifeforms? How certain are you that you haven't plagued species X with the "evolution" that you seem so proud of having caused. Have you accounted for every single species that might encounter your evolved bacteria?
Science is a tool that can be used for good purposes, I agree. The discoveries of the wheel, fire, and fire extinguishers were all good. Ultimately, science will lead to absolute proof of God's existence. But science, as a tool, like all tools can be used for evil as well. Even the Holy Bible can be used to hit my grandmother and knock her down. In this case, tool isn't the problem; the problem is its use.
On the other hand, there are certan tools that can be used only for destructive purposes. Pornography comes to mind, in as much as it short - circuits a normal, healthy sex drive and although a pornographic book can be used to hold up the short leg of my dinner table, that clearly is not its intended purpose.
At any rate, my argument was not Utilitarian; it was Judeo-Christian, specifically Catholic. It is not good, according to God's will, to try to design your own bacteria, cat, dog, or child, as it shows a grave disrespect for life and for God. Furthermore, we have no idea what kind of impact such a grave decision could bring about. That one would try to justify doing it for the use of cleaning up after our wasteful society, is little more than a further indictment of our wastefulness.
Look at the lengths we have to go to just to clean up after ourselves! Can't we just learn not to make a mess in the first place?!
Read my sig. To error in the side of being pedantic, read ! as "not".
Read the posts about the nanorobots to clean up after the other nanorobots.
Think about the story of Eve. If you don't know it, start here Understand that Eve was conned into thinking that it wasn't really "that bad". Yet she showed such disrespect for God, that we're all suffering.
We have the ability right now to craft custom virii and bacteria which can replicate and destroy other creatures.
No.
Call me a flat - earther, (or better yet, call me a Catholic) but I don't see the benefit in creating custom-virii to counteract other parasites.
For instance, look at the at the Africanized bee. (Aphis mellifera scutellata)
I know that "killer bees" is a misnomer, but the aggression of the Africanized bee is something that scientists failed to account for in their creation, much to the detriment of Sounth and Central America and some areas of Texas. Creating custom lifeforms is not what we should be doing.
Transporting animals to do one thing or another, OTOH, is somewhere between here and there. The Spanish brought horses; I brought my dog from Arlington to Austin, and he fathered in Austin.
I'm not an expert in morality (I'm still trying to figure right V wrong out myself) but I can't see the creation of custom lifeforms as a Good Thing under any circumstances.
The new test reads thus:
35,000 emails...might be necessary.
At some point, a corporation may have greived the sender enough that he HAD to make some real noise in order to get heard.
I've experienced the same level of anger against an employer. The details are relevant, but I won't go into them because my employer had made real efforts to remedy the situation, and as such, shouldn't be "hung twice".
My way of "blowing the whistle" was a mass - message to everyone who witnessed, or should have witnessed, a certain action by a certain hired entertainer in front of too many required attendees. I expected to get fired, but I accepted that risk because what we were forced to witness was WRONG.
I chose mass - email because
1)it would reach the number of people necessary.
2)There were rudamentary tracking processes in place so that I could see, keep, and track, receipts from certain key readers.
3) I didn't have another megaphone.
4) The comments I made were "in print" in the sense that there was an original document of sorts that could be presented to refute any misunderstanding, misinterpreatation, or misrepresentation.
I've gotten some flack as a result of this particular email, but I tracked the issue myself and made clear that the employees here will not stand for the same type of thing in the future. I've also received great support from other workers here.
If I had told only my boss, or his boss, then this issue might have been overlooked or pooh-poohed. It's easy for a corporation to steamroll individuals, not only as a force of will, but as a habit and even in invinceable ignorance. Sometimes the ONLY way to guarantee acknowledgement is to yell at the top of your lungs, send a mass - Email, and inform everyone inside AND outside the org of what wrong was done.
Probation.
Texas Sex Offender Database.
Revocation of right to vote for (some?) felons.