No, I'm equating *blind faith* with *faith alone*, that is, faith without any other supporting evidence or works. And the Wikipedia article is wrong- the phrase "by Faith Alone" does exist in the new Testament, in the Epistle of James, prefaced by a Not and followed by "but by every good work", that is, faith with evidence of that faith is what saves. Blind faith- faith without works, is faith without evidence.
Faith for the fundamentalist is always a blind faith- he believes because that is the way it is, not because he has seen any evidence for it. If the Atheists are correct and subjective evidence isn't evidence simply because it is subjective and not objective- then all faith becomes blind faith, because we have no proof for any of it.
Seems to me it's the name AND format Best Brains is complaining about- format only would be fine, but using the NAME MST3K even if you replace "science" with "sinus" would most certainly be trademark infringement- and might also be the reason Wierd Al ended up naming that one song:
And when average is the ideal...we kinda have nothing to shoot for.
Mind if I use that quote in On Lawn's most recent Journal Entry? It describes the current candidates for President of the United States quite correctly.
Absolutely- and I'm one of them. DNA however was obviously attacking a very narrowly defined breed of believers in this- Original Protestants, the kind who still believe in Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia. For these people there will never be a marriage between the idea that people came from Apes and their 6000-year-old world described in the literal scriptures. And they ain't so sure about Jews or Muslims who never accepted Christ as God either. Think Rev. Phelps of Kansas City style Christians. See explaination of how the straw man works above.
To a creationist- we're so mind boggingly usefull that the entire Earth was created for OUR benefit alone. So from the point of view of the creationist- this is still true.
But yes, completely agreed- why should we, who have done so much damage to the planet, be usefull to anyone?
The thing is- when it comes to creationism and this particular argument, you have a third level:
Person A is an evolutionist- and thus has position X. Person B is a creationist- his position Y is a corruption of position X to a large extent (you can get Position X from the Bible if you try REALLY hard). Person A retorts with Position Z which is a straw man that exaggerates the flaws in Position Y. Person A utterly destroys Postion Z, therefore showing the flaws in Position Y and proving Position X.
But agreed, it's a fallacious argument- because neither Position Y or Postion Z is actually Position X. I find that in real life, however, I rarely if ever get accused of knocking down straw men- because I choose my battles with people who don't know what a straw man IS.
Now, since she's working for NASA, the color scheme of the ISS will be two tone- red indicating the direction of centrifigal force, blue-green indicating the other direction, with wainscotting (and how much will it cost us to use the shuttle to ship all of that wainscotting up every time we redectorate)?
Absolutely correct- which is what bugs me most about anybody thinking that gays or autistic people are "normal"- when clearly they are outside of the statistical norm bell curve by at least a sigma, if not more. "Normal" only has any real meaning within statistics- if you think that you're normal you're really probably quite wierd.
Of course- that's the point, creationism is a straw man that needs to be knocked over. Just a brilliant setup is all.
BTW- my signature is a spoof on another signature seen recently - "Vote Kerry/Edwards, this time we'll make Socialism work! No, Really!" Same straw man, different sacred cow. Kerry is no more going to get socialism to work in this country any more than Bush could get trickle-down to work; let's just hope that a single HMO can do a more efficient job than 20,000 HMOs duplicating each other's effort with slightly different forms.
To be honest about it- the Army's only looking at Open Source, not necessarily Linux specifically- I don't remember, is Symbian open source? I think if it's not you might have a hard time programming it to do the laser finder to call in a missile instead of simply getting your GPS location to call a taxi when you're too drunk to know where you are.
Also, isn't Symbian kind of locked into the cell phone market?
So humans could not have possibly evolved? I know quite a few biologists who would argue that point.
We're talking about arguing with creationists, not biologists. Creationists do indeed claim that human beings were created from mud, not monkeys (well, dust anyway, but in honor of DNA, mud alliterates better). And agreed- to any *thinking* Christian, God is not dependent on faith- but most creation fundamentalists only memorize the 30 or so verses that their Health & Wealth preacher preaches on and ignore the rest of the Bible anyway, so you're pretty safe on not running into that quote from Acts that is so close to all the communism stuff in Acts 4 & 5.
And agreed- it's a completely spurious argument, but so is creationism to begin with.
Do you also have a problem using TCP/IP because it was a DARPAnet project to begin with? Hate to say it- but giving free resources to the mis-named Defense Department means that the government as a whole will have more money for social sercives, healthcare, and education- some smart congresscritter is sure to notice that FOSS licencing is cheaper than CS licensing and cut it from the budget.
Never mind that in the earlier article the cop couldn't actually quote a statute to look up, either federal or state- but if not using the library's access outside, what about when the hotspot is the entire city?
Also, what would be the effect on other 2.4ghz equipment, like cordless phones and X10 cameras?
Worse than that- he didn't quote where to find this federal law, or at least AKMA didn't link to it (and neither did any of the other links). I'd withhold judgement until I read the law- or at least found out if it even existed!
Until everybody does it- at which point the PHBs who we can't trust will go out of business and we'll be able to return to normal. There is no reason why a business should be allowed to pass it's costs onto the taxpayer EVER. I support the separation of business and state- do you?
It's certainly much more healthy than the Munsters- but still not perfect when it comes to having relationships with the rest of society. To do that- you have to treat at least some other people as normal also.
However, yes, it's much more healthy than always trying to be something that you will never be.
People losing health care benefits and being paid wages that require welfare suplements are nothing more than rhetoric to you neocons. That's why compassionate conservativeism is neither compassionate nor conservaitveism. But hey- let's just quote from studys given out by the government that lied about WMDs in Iraq and about the unemployment rate when it was three times what they were reporting and about the recovery.
Probable- but not entirely true. You see, there are several different types of inteligence- and what makes Bush the perfect puppet is that he's got the Charisma needed to get anybody to do anything.
Human demand isn't infinite naturally- it's trained to be so by advertising and mental illness. I call it the Munster Syndrome (to separate it from the mirror image mental illness, the Addams Family Syndrome). Anybody who remembers these two sitcoms knows the difference- the Addams Family knew that they were normal and the rest of the world was wierd; the Munsters thought of themselves as wierd and did whatever they could to be like the rest of the world, which was normal. Sufferers of the Munster Syndrome appear to have infinite demand for all sorts of junk because they are trying to keep up with their neighbors.
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No, I'm equating *blind faith* with *faith alone*, that is, faith without any other supporting evidence or works. And the Wikipedia article is wrong- the phrase "by Faith Alone" does exist in the new Testament, in the Epistle of James, prefaced by a Not and followed by "but by every good work", that is, faith with evidence of that faith is what saves. Blind faith- faith without works, is faith without evidence.
Faith for the fundamentalist is always a blind faith- he believes because that is the way it is, not because he has seen any evidence for it. If the Atheists are correct and subjective evidence isn't evidence simply because it is subjective and not objective- then all faith becomes blind faith, because we have no proof for any of it.
And thus- if the group switches to another name that isn't confused with the same acronym- they'll be just fine.
Seems to me it's the name AND format Best Brains is complaining about- format only would be fine, but using the NAME MST3K even if you replace "science" with "sinus" would most certainly be trademark infringement- and might also be the reason Wierd Al ended up naming that one song:
"Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*"
And when average is the ideal...we kinda have nothing to shoot for.
Mind if I use that quote in On Lawn's most recent Journal Entry? It describes the current candidates for President of the United States quite correctly.
Absolutely- and I'm one of them. DNA however was obviously attacking a very narrowly defined breed of believers in this- Original Protestants, the kind who still believe in Sola Scriptura, Sola Fide, Sola Gratia. For these people there will never be a marriage between the idea that people came from Apes and their 6000-year-old world described in the literal scriptures. And they ain't so sure about Jews or Muslims who never accepted Christ as God either. Think Rev. Phelps of Kansas City style Christians. See explaination of how the straw man works above.
There is if you believe in Sola Fide- By Faith Alone, which is obviously the form of Christianity that DNA is attacking in this passage.
Absolutely- The Art Of War is a must study for any debator.
To a creationist- we're so mind boggingly usefull that the entire Earth was created for OUR benefit alone. So from the point of view of the creationist- this is still true.
But yes, completely agreed- why should we, who have done so much damage to the planet, be usefull to anyone?
The thing is- when it comes to creationism and this particular argument, you have a third level:
Person A is an evolutionist- and thus has position X.
Person B is a creationist- his position Y is a corruption of position X to a large extent (you can get Position X from the Bible if you try REALLY hard).
Person A retorts with Position Z which is a straw man that exaggerates the flaws in Position Y.
Person A utterly destroys Postion Z, therefore showing the flaws in Position Y and proving Position X.
But agreed, it's a fallacious argument- because neither Position Y or Postion Z is actually Position X. I find that in real life, however, I rarely if ever get accused of knocking down straw men- because I choose my battles with people who don't know what a straw man IS.
Now, since she's working for NASA, the color scheme of the ISS will be two tone- red indicating the direction of centrifigal force, blue-green indicating the other direction, with wainscotting (and how much will it cost us to use the shuttle to ship all of that wainscotting up every time we redectorate)?
Absolutely correct- which is what bugs me most about anybody thinking that gays or autistic people are "normal"- when clearly they are outside of the statistical norm bell curve by at least a sigma, if not more. "Normal" only has any real meaning within statistics- if you think that you're normal you're really probably quite wierd.
Of course- that's the point, creationism is a straw man that needs to be knocked over. Just a brilliant setup is all.
BTW- my signature is a spoof on another signature seen recently - "Vote Kerry/Edwards, this time we'll make Socialism work! No, Really!" Same straw man, different sacred cow. Kerry is no more going to get socialism to work in this country any more than Bush could get trickle-down to work; let's just hope that a single HMO can do a more efficient job than 20,000 HMOs duplicating each other's effort with slightly different forms.
To be honest about it- the Army's only looking at Open Source, not necessarily Linux specifically- I don't remember, is Symbian open source? I think if it's not you might have a hard time programming it to do the laser finder to call in a missile instead of simply getting your GPS location to call a taxi when you're too drunk to know where you are.
Also, isn't Symbian kind of locked into the cell phone market?
So humans could not have possibly evolved? I know quite a few biologists who would argue that point.
We're talking about arguing with creationists, not biologists. Creationists do indeed claim that human beings were created from mud, not monkeys (well, dust anyway, but in honor of DNA, mud alliterates better). And agreed- to any *thinking* Christian, God is not dependent on faith- but most creation fundamentalists only memorize the 30 or so verses that their Health & Wealth preacher preaches on and ignore the rest of the Bible anyway, so you're pretty safe on not running into that quote from Acts that is so close to all the communism stuff in Acts 4 & 5.
And agreed- it's a completely spurious argument, but so is creationism to begin with.
Replace "Babelfish" with "human" the next time you're arguing with a creationist though, and watch their head explode.
Do you also have a problem using TCP/IP because it was a DARPAnet project to begin with? Hate to say it- but giving free resources to the mis-named Defense Department means that the government as a whole will have more money for social sercives, healthcare, and education- some smart congresscritter is sure to notice that FOSS licencing is cheaper than CS licensing and cut it from the budget.
What other operating system can be recompiled to fit in the restricted memory space of a rifle?
Better yeat Is it LEGAL?
Never mind that in the earlier article the cop couldn't actually quote a statute to look up, either federal or state- but if not using the library's access outside, what about when the hotspot is the entire city?
Also, what would be the effect on other 2.4ghz equipment, like cordless phones and X10 cameras?
Worse than that- he didn't quote where to find this federal law, or at least AKMA didn't link to it (and neither did any of the other links). I'd withhold judgement until I read the law- or at least found out if it even existed!
Until everybody does it- at which point the PHBs who we can't trust will go out of business and we'll be able to return to normal. There is no reason why a business should be allowed to pass it's costs onto the taxpayer EVER. I support the separation of business and state- do you?
It's certainly much more healthy than the Munsters- but still not perfect when it comes to having relationships with the rest of society. To do that- you have to treat at least some other people as normal also.
However, yes, it's much more healthy than always trying to be something that you will never be.
People losing health care benefits and being paid wages that require welfare suplements are nothing more than rhetoric to you neocons. That's why compassionate conservativeism is neither compassionate nor conservaitveism. But hey- let's just quote from studys given out by the government that lied about WMDs in Iraq and about the unemployment rate when it was three times what they were reporting and about the recovery.
A third party, created specifically to avoid the corruption of the two main parties, might end up different, otherwise, I completely agree.
It's just that the Republicans seem a bit more open about it- or at least more likely to get caught.
Probable- but not entirely true. You see, there are several different types of inteligence- and what makes Bush the perfect puppet is that he's got the Charisma needed to get anybody to do anything.
Human demand isn't infinite naturally- it's trained to be so by advertising and mental illness. I call it the Munster Syndrome (to separate it from the mirror image mental illness, the Addams Family Syndrome). Anybody who remembers these two sitcoms knows the difference- the Addams Family knew that they were normal and the rest of the world was wierd; the Munsters thought of themselves as wierd and did whatever they could to be like the rest of the world, which was normal. Sufferers of the Munster Syndrome appear to have infinite demand for all sorts of junk because they are trying to keep up with their neighbors.