You know I'm really sorry to hear what happened to Matthew Shepard. It is unfair, and he didn't deserve to die that way.
and eventually killed by christians for being gay
There's two things that ring in my head concerning their actions:
God does not endorse this behavior
You now have a negative perception of Cristians (maybe even stronger)
And please believe me when I say that this behavior is not Christian extremism, this behavior is evil regardless of your beliefs.
Just keep in mind that outside of this country, there are hundreds of innocent Christian's being killed every day for their beliefs. People risk their life just for the opportunity to worship God. The coin does have two sides.
In a twist of irony, a child was born where the mother wasn't sure whether she wanted it or not. Lots of people were saying that it was just a clump of cell, basically a tumor called "burden". She still insisted that he be born.
Fast forward 50 years. The child is now a doctor. His mother has alzheimer's. So the doctor euthanizes his mother because she's a "burden" to society.
Actually I endorse what you suggest to a point. I think that micro-evolution occurs all the time. I just don't endorse macro-evolution.
When I see a watch, I think watchmaker. When I see a building, I think architect. And on the same token, when I see how incredibly awesome this world is with humans and animals and plants and our universe, I think Creator. We'll know for sure (or not) when we die.
However, unlike yourself, I think it's a good thing. As soon as the government starts taking care of everybody, people start to think that being taken care of is the government's job! It isn't!
Any time the government steps in and subsidizes, whatever they're subsidizing multiplies. Whatever they legally allow becomes socially acceptable behavior.
Now here's my unpopular idea: the government subsidizes leeches, illigetimate children, and irresponsibility. Why doesn't anybody care!
We've aborted more unborn children than the number of lost American soldiers in ALL WARS COMBINED! And do you know why? I'd guess primarily because the woman accidentally got pregnant and it would've been inconvenient to have the child. Under what circumstances did she get pregnant? Yes, it could've been a rape incident or a number of other horrific situations, but what about the scenario where she was consenting to casual sex outside of a relationship stable enough to support a child. As we seek to meet only our needs and assert no dependencies, we only achieve in alienating ourselves from those who depend on us. You can easily spend your life getting what you want, and it's just as easy to never get what you need.
There have been only two centuries in recorded history where the existence of God has been denied, the fourth and ours. "When we as a society start acting as if there isn't a God to be responsible to, then we shouldn't act surprised when people act as if there is no God." I can not figure out why having a sense of morality is a bad thing. Even if you argue that morality is relative, what was it initially relative to? Could it be God incarnate as man 2004 years ago? Obviously our "Founding Fathers" were clueless about basically everything. We should revolt and have an anti-morality march! We should kill each other because we're tired of being influenced by those stupid Christians and they're stupid morality! Don't do that. We love the sinner, but hate the sin.
Speaking of loving the sinner, but hating the sin, why would a Christian ever be violent towards a homosexual? Even if a non-believer doesn't suscribe to Christian doctrine, the Christian should (implying that there should never be any "hate crimes" committed by a Christian).
If you look at our genetic make up, we are slowly finding more and more genetic mutations. We are decaying the more we reproduce. And as far as thermodynamics go, we are always heading towards entropy, and eventually 0 Kelvin. So what part of the revelation of God's creation makes us thing that we came from frogs, or birds, or fish or whatever. "Given enough time, frogs turn into princes. In some places that's called a fairy tale. In a laboratory, it's called science."
I sure do hope that Bush shows some fiscal responsibility. Debt is analogous to being in bondage (read slavery) to the lender. We shouldn't owe nobody jack! I hope he figures that out.
Some people spend more time changing the oil in their car than seeking the truth of our existence. Read "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell. It is more important that any/. post or any presidential election.
hb253, please know I'm not attacking you directly. Your post just seemed like a convenient place for me to post.
As I understand it, tube amps have a natural inclination to create even harmonics where as solid state amps tend to create (extremely small) odd harmonics. From a psycho-acoustic model, evens sound warm and inviting while odds sound cold.
Another thing to point out, the average Joe can only hear distortion levels exceeding 1%! That's awful! For the sheer fact that we can "hear" the distortion of a tube amp bothers me as a modest audiophile, even if it does sound more pleasing to my ears. I love when people say, "I know it has a lot of distortion, but I really prefer the sound of tube." That's fine, but don't call yourself an audiophile.
So if sound engineers felt it was necessary to make music sound warm, throw it through a "second harmonic increaser" algorithm and let us have our 0.001% THD solid state (read lasts forever) regular, everyday stereo equipment.
Here's an opinion, I think that buying expensive equipment (like amplifiers) buys you headroom and linearity over anything else. When you are driving an insensitive speaker at louder volume levels, those extra $$$ you spent buys you power and control of a not so perfect set of speakers, which incidentally is where most of your $$$ should go.
Wow. Judging from the responses, it seems we have an overwhelmingly, non-Christian audience. And not just that, some extremely educated ones as well.
Two points to ponder on:
1)
-If you don't believe and there's a God, who cares
-If you do believe and there isn't a God, who cares
-If you do believe and there's a God, whew!
-If you don't believe and there's a God, ooops.
(Is this your final answer, because you're choice has eternal implications?)
2) Ignore what you've been told about morals, ethics, and responsibilities. You've been indoctrinated by Christians to not kill, not to steal, not to lie, to honor your parents.... Who cares if our Constitution was created by a bunch of Christians; they were obviously wrong in their construction of a standard ethical bar.
Or would that inconvenience you? Would it bother you if someone declared within their own power to kill you? Who says killing is wrong? Who says you should even have tolerance for those different than you? Ahhhh, they just make sense; just feel right. Nope. God made those rules that you have been indiscriminately indoctrinated with! How could they! Without my permission!
I can't even sign a check without achnowledging that 2004 years ago, the Christ came to earth. There's even factual evidence of is existence, evidence of his miracles, statistically incredible, accurate predictions of his life even a 1000 years earlier! But this is "old evidence". They're only truths that once were, and now we're smarter, faster, more sane!
And God forbid we have a purpose on this rock. Man would that suck if this was just like those people say; just a test, trust, temporary abode. Preparation for what's to come.
And what about my works. I WILL be remembered! I WILL leave my mark and nobody will EVER forget me, EVER forsake me! I will give something back to mankind, something eternal and good. Ooops, there's that indoctrination again, doing good things because, well just because.
Evaluate the evidence just as scrupulously and in-depth as you do everything else in your life. Do not dismiss the necessity to evaluate for yourself the truths self-evident in the history of this planet (well documented). I suggest looking back about 2000 years.
And to whomever said it before, "Life's too short to proofread"
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It reminds me of the scene where the lady helps a robber sue the family that he was robbing because he fell through the skylight and hurt himself...
You know I'm really sorry to hear what happened to Matthew Shepard. It is unfair, and he didn't deserve to die that way.
and eventually killed by christians for being gay
There's two things that ring in my head concerning their actions:
And please believe me when I say that this behavior is not Christian extremism, this behavior is evil regardless of your beliefs.
Just keep in mind that outside of this country, there are hundreds of innocent Christian's being killed every day for their beliefs. People risk their life just for the opportunity to worship God. The coin does have two sides.
I couldn't leave this alone, sorry.
In a twist of irony, a child was born where the mother wasn't sure whether she wanted it or not. Lots of people were saying that it was just a clump of cell, basically a tumor called "burden". She still insisted that he be born.
Fast forward 50 years. The child is now a doctor. His mother has alzheimer's. So the doctor euthanizes his mother because she's a "burden" to society.
Actually I endorse what you suggest to a point. I think that micro-evolution occurs all the time. I just don't endorse macro-evolution.
When I see a watch, I think watchmaker. When I see a building, I think architect. And on the same token, when I see how incredibly awesome this world is with humans and animals and plants and our universe, I think Creator. We'll know for sure (or not) when we die.
You know, I couldn't agree with you more!
However, unlike yourself, I think it's a good thing. As soon as the government starts taking care of everybody, people start to think that being taken care of is the government's job! It isn't!
Any time the government steps in and subsidizes, whatever they're subsidizing multiplies. Whatever they legally allow becomes socially acceptable behavior.
Now here's my unpopular idea: the government subsidizes leeches, illigetimate children, and irresponsibility. Why doesn't anybody care!
We've aborted more unborn children than the number of lost American soldiers in ALL WARS COMBINED! And do you know why? I'd guess primarily because the woman accidentally got pregnant and it would've been inconvenient to have the child. Under what circumstances did she get pregnant? Yes, it could've been a rape incident or a number of other horrific situations, but what about the scenario where she was consenting to casual sex outside of a relationship stable enough to support a child. As we seek to meet only our needs and assert no dependencies, we only achieve in alienating ourselves from those who depend on us. You can easily spend your life getting what you want, and it's just as easy to never get what you need.
There have been only two centuries in recorded history where the existence of God has been denied, the fourth and ours. "When we as a society start acting as if there isn't a God to be responsible to, then we shouldn't act surprised when people act as if there is no God." I can not figure out why having a sense of morality is a bad thing. Even if you argue that morality is relative, what was it initially relative to? Could it be God incarnate as man 2004 years ago? Obviously our "Founding Fathers" were clueless about basically everything. We should revolt and have an anti-morality march! We should kill each other because we're tired of being influenced by those stupid Christians and they're stupid morality! Don't do that. We love the sinner, but hate the sin.
Speaking of loving the sinner, but hating the sin, why would a Christian ever be violent towards a homosexual? Even if a non-believer doesn't suscribe to Christian doctrine, the Christian should (implying that there should never be any "hate crimes" committed by a Christian).
If you look at our genetic make up, we are slowly finding more and more genetic mutations. We are decaying the more we reproduce. And as far as thermodynamics go, we are always heading towards entropy, and eventually 0 Kelvin. So what part of the revelation of God's creation makes us thing that we came from frogs, or birds, or fish or whatever. "Given enough time, frogs turn into princes. In some places that's called a fairy tale. In a laboratory, it's called science."
I sure do hope that Bush shows some fiscal responsibility. Debt is analogous to being in bondage (read slavery) to the lender. We shouldn't owe nobody jack! I hope he figures that out.
Some people spend more time changing the oil in their car than seeking the truth of our existence. Read "Evidence that Demands a Verdict" by Josh McDowell. It is more important that any /. post or any presidential election.
hb253, please know I'm not attacking you directly. Your post just seemed like a convenient place for me to post.
Peace!
1.2e6km is 7.5e5 miles... it's the same answer.
Also, it may not be big compared to a magelanic cloud, but it's pretty huge for a "planet factory" ;)
So let's do the math...
The planet factory was 13 light/sec in circumferance. Light travels at approximately 3e8 m/s which puts the circumferance at 3.9e9 meters around.
3.9e9 / (2 * PI) ~= 6.2e8 meters which is the radius. That puts the diameter at 1.24e9 meters.
There is 6.2e-4 meters/mile, so 1.24e9 * 6.2e-4 = 7.7e5 miles. That's pretty close to the estimated 1 million mile diameter!
I really like the way this guy thinks.
As I understand it, tube amps have a natural inclination to create even harmonics where as solid state amps tend to create (extremely small) odd harmonics. From a psycho-acoustic model, evens sound warm and inviting while odds sound cold.
Another thing to point out, the average Joe can only hear distortion levels exceeding 1%! That's awful! For the sheer fact that we can "hear" the distortion of a tube amp bothers me as a modest audiophile, even if it does sound more pleasing to my ears. I love when people say, "I know it has a lot of distortion, but I really prefer the sound of tube." That's fine, but don't call yourself an audiophile.
So if sound engineers felt it was necessary to make music sound warm, throw it through a "second harmonic increaser" algorithm and let us have our 0.001% THD solid state (read lasts forever) regular, everyday stereo equipment.
Here's an opinion, I think that buying expensive equipment (like amplifiers) buys you headroom and linearity over anything else. When you are driving an insensitive speaker at louder volume levels, those extra $$$ you spent buys you power and control of a not so perfect set of speakers, which incidentally is where most of your $$$ should go.
Suckers!
Wow. Judging from the responses, it seems we have an overwhelmingly, non-Christian audience. And not just that, some extremely educated ones as well. Two points to ponder on: 1) -If you don't believe and there's a God, who cares -If you do believe and there isn't a God, who cares -If you do believe and there's a God, whew! -If you don't believe and there's a God, ooops. (Is this your final answer, because you're choice has eternal implications?) 2) Ignore what you've been told about morals, ethics, and responsibilities. You've been indoctrinated by Christians to not kill, not to steal, not to lie, to honor your parents.... Who cares if our Constitution was created by a bunch of Christians; they were obviously wrong in their construction of a standard ethical bar. Or would that inconvenience you? Would it bother you if someone declared within their own power to kill you? Who says killing is wrong? Who says you should even have tolerance for those different than you? Ahhhh, they just make sense; just feel right. Nope. God made those rules that you have been indiscriminately indoctrinated with! How could they! Without my permission! I can't even sign a check without achnowledging that 2004 years ago, the Christ came to earth. There's even factual evidence of is existence, evidence of his miracles, statistically incredible, accurate predictions of his life even a 1000 years earlier! But this is "old evidence". They're only truths that once were, and now we're smarter, faster, more sane! And God forbid we have a purpose on this rock. Man would that suck if this was just like those people say; just a test, trust, temporary abode. Preparation for what's to come. And what about my works. I WILL be remembered! I WILL leave my mark and nobody will EVER forget me, EVER forsake me! I will give something back to mankind, something eternal and good. Ooops, there's that indoctrination again, doing good things because, well just because. Evaluate the evidence just as scrupulously and in-depth as you do everything else in your life. Do not dismiss the necessity to evaluate for yourself the truths self-evident in the history of this planet (well documented). I suggest looking back about 2000 years. And to whomever said it before, "Life's too short to proofread"