The fact that Iraq was ruled by the Baath Arab Socialist Party means that perhaps the European socialists were protesting based on party loyalty (and anti-Americanism) rather than the particulars of the war itself.
most of the countries you mentioned are in deep poverty or have just come out of very conservative governments
Most of them have lived under leftist dictatorships, which may be why they can sympathize with other people in similar circumstances, and would support freeing them from such a fate.
their topmost priority is to feel that they're important
Are you describing France here?
Then don't forget the big protests all over England, Italy and Spain.
Those were organized by Socialist and Communist organizations. I'm not really surprised at the size of the protests, given how many socialists there are in Europe.
...unilateral US action (with its lackey GB, Spanish, and Aussie friends holding pom-poms)...
Well, in Europe alone, the US was supported by Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. These are just from the "Gang of Eight" and the "Vilnius Group". There was also some support from other countries as well, I think (Ireland and the Netherlands?). Among European governments, at any rate, there was more of a consensus for the US than against.
It's too bad that using your mind apparently doesn't help you to address people in a more charitable manner.
Define "God."
The Catholic Encyclopedia describes God as "the one Supreme and Infinite Personal Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, to whom man owes obedience and worship."
[Y]ou don't have to deify an idol to have it lead you away from your god, your true path.
This seems to be the main point you're making. The fact, though, is that no one is led away from God by the cross. The cross is where Jesus sacrificed His life for us; veneration of the cross is directed to Christ, not to the cross itself.
This technique could find use in infertility clinics where centrifugal technqiues, which can damage fragile sperm...
If centrifugal techniques can damage sperm cells, just imagine what a centrifuge will do to the rest of the guy undergoing the treatment! You'll never get me into one of those deathtraps!
you were to get Marcel Marceau to swallow the video-equipped capsules described in this recent/. article, would that be considered "robotic mime exploration"?
I've seen ads on TV for breath mints that apparently turn everything in their vicinity to ice. I'm not sure I understand the science behind this phenomenon, but maybe with a little experimentation you might be able to harness this strange power for your own needs.
The Vatican never sold redemption for money. An indulgence takes away the temporal punishment for sin, but in order for an indulgence to be useful to you, you already have to be in saved (in a state of grace). So you can't be redeemed by an indulgence.
The abuses around the time of the Reformation were not sanctioned by the Vatican; they were perpetrated by certain individuals in Germany. One does not "sell" an indulgence, as if one could sell someone a contrite heart (this was what the abuse consisted of). But one can make a sacrifice as part of one's penance, such as giving alms for a good cause. But the giving of alms was never necessary for the reception of an indulgence.
In any case, the giving of alms in order to gain an indulgence was eliminated at the Council of Trent in order to avoid any further confusion on the matter of indulgences.
People perhaps are SUPPOSED to revere but not worship the cross, their bible, jesus, saints, etc.
Well, we are supposed to worship Jesus. Of the other things and people you mention, people don't consider them gods, so they don't worship them as idols, no matter how much they reverence them.
This is the problem with having idols to begin with, which is why jews/christians are not supposed to have them.
What we are not supposed to have is false gods. As long as we don't consider a statue or something like that to be a god, then it's not a false god. It's not the images themselves that are bad (God Himself commanded images to be made, such as the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant, the bronze serpent, etc.) but what we do with them.
By the way, according to what you said, we shouldn't keep Bibles around, since you think they are a temptation to idolatry. That is, it would seem that you think "jews/christians are not supposed to have" the Bible, since "stupid people, or people not paying attention all the time, can slip into the habit of worshiping the pointer and not the thing it points to."
But his wife is immediate and tangible... it's hard to confure a photo of her with her. Religious concepts are not so easy.
The point is that his wife is not immediate and tangible. Just like Jesus, she exists, but not in a visible way to the soldier or Christian, as the case may be.
In reality people worship jesus and cross' in place of their god.
People do worship Jesus, but no one worships the cross.
You sure about that? [concerning adolescents and their posters]
They don't consider the posters to be gods; nor, presumably, do they consider the famous people on the posters gods either (supernatural in nature, etc.). They know that famous people are just human beings, like them, only a lot richer, cooler, better looking, more talented, or whatever.
And catholics don't worship a cross-shaped idol, either. Look, it may not officially be worship, but at some point you have to objectively define what does and does not constitute worship. People's obsession with the cross often borders on or actually is (depending on the person) worship.
Reverence for the cross is actually reverence for Christ. No one believes the cross is a god. But without Christ's sacrifice on the cross, none of us could be saved.
If a soldier on a distant battlefield says, "I love you" to a picture of his wife, it doesn't mean he loves the photograph. It is his wife whom he loves, and the photo represents his wife.
God knows what our intentions are when we do something. Appearances can be deceiving. For instance, if I were to slap my mother in the face with the intention of hurting her, that would be a sin. But if I did it to kill a mosquito that was about to bite her, or to bring her back to consciousness if she was in danger of falling into a coma (or something like that), then what I did would be a good act. Judging by appearances is what people do, not God: "You Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness." (Luke 11:39)
Here are a few Biblical passages in which people bow down before other people out of respect (not worship):
1 Kings 1:16 Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance to the king, and the king said, "What do you desire?"
1 Kings 1:23 And they told the king, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.
1 Kings 1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, "May my lord King David live for ever!"
1 Kings 2:19 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon, to speak to him on behalf of Adonijah. And the king rose to meet her, and bowed down to her; then he sat on his throne, and had a seat brought for the king's mother; and she sat on his right.
We see here, in the first few chapters of 1 Kings, the following: Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan bows down before King David, and King Solomon bows down before his mother Bathsheba. In none of these cases were they worshipping the people before whom they bowed down.
Piano players are often depicted as having a bust of Beethoven on their piano. But they don't worship Beethoven.
Adolescents often have posters of various famous people on their bedroom walls, but they don't worship them.
You probably have photos of your loved ones on the walls of your house, and perhaps in your wallet, but you don't worship them. Nor do you consider having those pictures there a temptation to worship them.
Catholic don't worship saints, but consider them "heroes" of the faith, examples of ordinary people who lived extraordinary, holy lives. They offer examples that we can emulate in our own lives, just as you may try to emulate someone you know who is saintly. To say that Catholics worship saints just shows that you've been influenced by anti-Catholic propaganda.
And life will find a way to spread. Once relased, if it doesn't die out, it will spread.
Well, that's not necessarily true. Species do become extinct. But on the other hand, these genetically-engineered crops are generally designed to survive very well, with resistence to drought, pesticides, etc. So eliminating these may prove more difficult than usual.
During the lunar eclipse, do not look directly at the Sun!
Despite all the Matrix jokes...
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... this article talks about using this sort of device in humans:
Capable of producing only about 2.4 microwatts, the biofuel cell could be used to derive power from body fluids. For instance, it could also drive a tiny, autonomous sensor implanted near a wound after surgery to sense fluctuations in body temperature that might signal inflammation and infection.
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The fact that Iraq was ruled by the Baath Arab Socialist Party means that perhaps the European socialists were protesting based on party loyalty (and anti-Americanism) rather than the particulars of the war itself.
"Ohhh! My ovaries!"
most of the countries you mentioned are in deep poverty or have just come out of very conservative governments
Most of them have lived under leftist dictatorships, which may be why they can sympathize with other people in similar circumstances, and would support freeing them from such a fate.
their topmost priority is to feel that they're important
Are you describing France here?
Then don't forget the big protests all over England, Italy and Spain.
Those were organized by Socialist and Communist organizations. I'm not really surprised at the size of the protests, given how many socialists there are in Europe.
I believe someone already make an artificial black hole about two or three years ago... It was located at the New York Stock Exchange.
...unilateral US action (with its lackey GB, Spanish, and Aussie friends holding pom-poms)...
Well, in Europe alone, the US was supported by Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. These are just from the "Gang of Eight" and the "Vilnius Group". There was also some support from other countries as well, I think (Ireland and the Netherlands?). Among European governments, at any rate, there was more of a consensus for the US than against.
> I had assumed you were a Christian...
Don't be obscene. I actually use my mind.
It's too bad that using your mind apparently doesn't help you to address people in a more charitable manner.
Define "God."
The Catholic Encyclopedia describes God as "the one Supreme and Infinite Personal Being, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, to whom man owes obedience and worship."
Here is an article on God's attributes.
[Y]ou don't have to deify an idol to have it lead you away from your god, your true path.
This seems to be the main point you're making. The fact, though, is that no one is led away from God by the cross. The cross is where Jesus sacrificed His life for us; veneration of the cross is directed to Christ, not to the cross itself.
This technique could find use in infertility clinics where centrifugal technqiues, which can damage fragile sperm...
If centrifugal techniques can damage sperm cells, just imagine what a centrifuge will do to the rest of the guy undergoing the treatment! You'll never get me into one of those deathtraps!
you were to get Marcel Marceau to swallow the video-equipped capsules described in this recent /. article, would that be considered "robotic mime exploration"?
I've seen ads on TV for breath mints that apparently turn everything in their vicinity to ice. I'm not sure I understand the science behind this phenomenon, but maybe with a little experimentation you might be able to harness this strange power for your own needs.
Good luck!
The Vatican never sold redemption for money. An indulgence takes away the temporal punishment for sin, but in order for an indulgence to be useful to you, you already have to be in saved (in a state of grace). So you can't be redeemed by an indulgence.
The abuses around the time of the Reformation were not sanctioned by the Vatican; they were perpetrated by certain individuals in Germany. One does not "sell" an indulgence, as if one could sell someone a contrite heart (this was what the abuse consisted of). But one can make a sacrifice as part of one's penance, such as giving alms for a good cause. But the giving of alms was never necessary for the reception of an indulgence.
In any case, the giving of alms in order to gain an indulgence was eliminated at the Council of Trent in order to avoid any further confusion on the matter of indulgences.
Here's a page on indulgences, and another, in case anyone's interested
So they are not worshiping the cross-idol but the christ-idol?
I had assumed you were a Christian... Anyway, yes, they are worshipping Jesus.
Since when is Jesus god?
Since He and the Bible say so:
John 1:1,14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.
John 8:58
Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."
John 10:30
"I and my Father are one."
And don't give me that trinity crap, it's totally baseless.
Here's a page that has a pretty good look at some of the Biblical evidence for the Trinity:
The Doctrine of the Trinity
People perhaps are SUPPOSED to revere but not worship the cross, their bible, jesus, saints, etc.
Well, we are supposed to worship Jesus. Of the other things and people you mention, people don't consider them gods, so they don't worship them as idols, no matter how much they reverence them.
This is the problem with having idols to begin with, which is why jews/christians are not supposed to have them.
What we are not supposed to have is false gods. As long as we don't consider a statue or something like that to be a god, then it's not a false god. It's not the images themselves that are bad (God Himself commanded images to be made, such as the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant, the bronze serpent, etc.) but what we do with them.
By the way, according to what you said, we shouldn't keep Bibles around, since you think they are a temptation to idolatry. That is, it would seem that you think "jews/christians are not supposed to have" the Bible, since "stupid people, or people not paying attention all the time, can slip into the habit of worshiping the pointer and not the thing it points to."
But his wife is immediate and tangible... it's hard to confure a photo of her with her. Religious concepts are not so easy.
The point is that his wife is not immediate and tangible. Just like Jesus, she exists, but not in a visible way to the soldier or Christian, as the case may be.
In reality people worship jesus and cross' in place of their god.
People do worship Jesus, but no one worships the cross.
You sure about that? [concerning adolescents and their posters]
They don't consider the posters to be gods; nor, presumably, do they consider the famous people on the posters gods either (supernatural in nature, etc.). They know that famous people are just human beings, like them, only a lot richer, cooler, better looking, more talented, or whatever.
And catholics don't worship a cross-shaped idol, either. Look, it may not officially be worship, but at some point you have to objectively define what does and does not constitute worship. People's obsession with the cross often borders on or actually is (depending on the person) worship.
Reverence for the cross is actually reverence for Christ. No one believes the cross is a god. But without Christ's sacrifice on the cross, none of us could be saved.
If a soldier on a distant battlefield says, "I love you" to a picture of his wife, it doesn't mean he loves the photograph. It is his wife whom he loves, and the photo represents his wife.
I wonder if you can get around this by writing "P" in HTML code:
p=p
P=P
Concerning silica gel, you might want to try looking for it at "arts and crafts"-type stores, it's apparently used for drying flowers.
Here are a few Biblical passages in which people bow down before other people out of respect (not worship):
We see here, in the first few chapters of 1 Kings, the following: Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan bows down before King David, and King Solomon bows down before his mother Bathsheba. In none of these cases were they worshipping the people before whom they bowed down.
gave me the impression that this book was meant to help Rick Berman and Brannon Braga with their screenwriting.
Piano players are often depicted as having a bust of Beethoven on their piano. But they don't worship Beethoven.
Adolescents often have posters of various famous people on their bedroom walls, but they don't worship them.
You probably have photos of your loved ones on the walls of your house, and perhaps in your wallet, but you don't worship them. Nor do you consider having those pictures there a temptation to worship them.
Catholic don't worship saints, but consider them "heroes" of the faith, examples of ordinary people who lived extraordinary, holy lives. They offer examples that we can emulate in our own lives, just as you may try to emulate someone you know who is saintly. To say that Catholics worship saints just shows that you've been influenced by anti-Catholic propaganda.
Maybe the Google cache will work better?
Images of how this is done can be found here.
You might like to try MailWasher. It's free (although there's a Pro version too).
And life will find a way to spread. Once relased, if it doesn't die out, it will spread.
Well, that's not necessarily true. Species do become extinct. But on the other hand, these genetically-engineered crops are generally designed to survive very well, with resistence to drought, pesticides, etc. So eliminating these may prove more difficult than usual.
This page has highly-magnified images of what this process does to steel. Here are direct links to the images:
Not wanted: graphite on tool steel
Wanted : a good-adhering diamond layer on tool steel with an intermediate layer of chromium nitride
Sitting in a dinner for three hours, that's like punishment.
I agree. It also makes the dinner you're sitting in less than appetizing.
During the lunar eclipse, do not look directly at the Sun!
Capable of producing only about 2.4 microwatts, the biofuel cell could be used to derive power from body fluids. For instance, it could also drive a tiny, autonomous sensor implanted near a wound after surgery to sense fluctuations in body temperature that might signal inflammation and infection.
It seems like a useful application.