Intelligent Design is based on science, not theology (like many claim), although there are theological implications none the less with an intelligent designer being involved. The Intelligent Design movement makes a great case based on good scientific evidence only, and have shown the glaring flaws in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. Evolution and Natural Selection are riddled with holes, they've always been a theory... so please don't teach us as if it is fact. Don't make this a theological issue when it doesn't have to be! Intelligent Design is making a good case for itself and challenging other theories like they never have been before. It should be taught in school science along with all the other theories. Wake up and smell the coffee people, nothing doesn't become something out of shear randomness. Anyone with a clue can figure that out. Want the truth? Keep an open mind and follow where the evidence takes you. Implications? Yeah. Isn't it worth finding out the truth though?
"On Dec. 26, God who controls the world slipped beneath the waves.
As a spiritual leader, I receive calls, letter and messages from people who have been touched deeply by the magnitude of the disaster. Even as we do what we can - giving generously to bring relief, keeping vigil with those still frantic to account for loved ones, trying to contemplate the rebuilding - we cannot escape this: We are dismantled inside.
We know how the englufment happened. There was a shaking of the foundations of the Earth and a rising of the waters of the sea. It did not take 40 days and 40 nights; it took littlemore than 40 minues to engulf worlds. That much is explicable, if not imaginable.
We do not know the why of it. No one is responsible. There is nowhere to lodge the meaning or lay the blame, except at the doorstep of God. Who else can shake the foundations of the world? At least the grief is deep, strong and true. Grief is best when only God carries the blame. It liberates the heart for clean anger.
And here is something I know about the broken-hearted. They are the blessed, for they have loved and been loved. They know that this world is no paradise, but somewhere along the way they have encountered the greatest of the gifts. If it were not so, they would expect little and grieve less. Great grief can only produce great love.
One young mother wrote to tell how she is haunted by the television images of parents holding their dead babies. Her words carry me to the deep into which all caring people have been cast. She is singing in the ancient lament of Jeremiah for the one who has lost her children: 'Her sun went down while it was yet day.' This has happened. The sun has gone down while it is yet day.
I cannot speak for God, although I have spent many years trying to listen for God. What I hear today is the sound of weeping. What I taste today is the salt of God's tears. What I remember is a day, we call it Good Friday, when God's sun went down while it was yet day. What I know today is that if there is a presence in all creation that is crying, that presence is God.
I have come to believe that God's ultimate commitment to the world and its creatures is not a commitment to control but a commitment to love. I believe that between control and love God must have had to make a choice. This is the same choice we all make. My own life as a parent of four has taught me this.
Perhaps Margaret Atwood was right to say that we see the world clearly when we see it through tears. Broken hearts are the best companions on a day when the sun goes down.
Now we must do what we can to help. When our common and frail humanity moves us to work side by side we may become aware in spite of ourselves that the One who loves the world is rising from the deep."
- Right Rev. Peter Short, Moderator of the United Church of Canada
Hrmmm... God loves us, so by choice he gave us free will, otherwise we'd just be robots... and that wouldn't be a loving thing to do would it? But free will has consequences, it's a result of the choice. Better to have loved though, than not love at all don't you think?
Debating such things just seems to be so depressing and unresolvable. Do something constructive would ya people? In the end no one has the answers, so just accept it. Live life and enjoy it, it's pretty short you know? Make the best of what you've got.
What's the worst thing that could happen? I guess you could end up in hell and have regrets for eternity, or you might come back as a fly spending your day chillin' out on a piece of horse poo... or you'll just cease to exist, never having any recollection of your previous existance.
Going by this article, HP's de100c Digital Entertainment Center from a few years ago was linux based, and was the predacessor to the HP z545 Digital Entertainment Center now running MCE2005.
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7034640509.html/
HP didn't find linux to be a viable option as a MCE device?
Hrmmmm... interesting.
Dude, get out to your local LUG. Hook up with people there who use linux day in and day out. Ask questions about the things you get stuck on when tinkering around with linux on your own time. Sometimes a MAN page just doesn't cut it!
I don't know much about online training out there that's being offered, but online training alone certainly isn't enough to get you up to stuff with your linux skills over night.
Best of luck.
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Intelligent Design is based on science, not theology (like many claim), although there are theological implications none the less with an intelligent designer being involved. The Intelligent Design movement makes a great case based on good scientific evidence only, and have shown the glaring flaws in Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. Evolution and Natural Selection are riddled with holes, they've always been a theory ... so please don't teach us as if it is fact. Don't make this a theological issue when it doesn't have to be! Intelligent Design is making a good case for itself and challenging other theories like they never have been before. It should be taught in school science along with all the other theories. Wake up and smell the coffee people, nothing doesn't become something out of shear randomness. Anyone with a clue can figure that out. Want the truth? Keep an open mind and follow where the evidence takes you. Implications? Yeah. Isn't it worth finding out the truth though?
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Woah!!! I didn't know my Grandma had been to Titan!!!
"On Dec. 26, God who controls the world slipped beneath the waves.
... God loves us, so by choice he gave us free will, otherwise we'd just be robots ... and that wouldn't be a loving thing to do would it? But free will has consequences, it's a result of the choice. Better to have loved though, than not love at all don't you think?
As a spiritual leader, I receive calls, letter and messages from people who have been touched deeply by the magnitude of the disaster. Even as we do what we can - giving generously to bring relief, keeping vigil with those still frantic to account for loved ones, trying to contemplate the rebuilding - we cannot escape this: We are dismantled inside.
We know how the englufment happened. There was a shaking of the foundations of the Earth and a rising of the waters of the sea. It did not take 40 days and 40 nights; it took littlemore than 40 minues to engulf worlds. That much is explicable, if not imaginable.
We do not know the why of it. No one is responsible. There is nowhere to lodge the meaning or lay the blame, except at the doorstep of God. Who else can shake the foundations of the world? At least the grief is deep, strong and true. Grief is best when only God carries the blame. It liberates the heart for clean anger.
And here is something I know about the broken-hearted. They are the blessed, for they have loved and been loved. They know that this world is no paradise, but somewhere along the way they have encountered the greatest of the gifts. If it were not so, they would expect little and grieve less. Great grief can only produce great love.
One young mother wrote to tell how she is haunted by the television images of parents holding their dead babies. Her words carry me to the deep into which all caring people have been cast. She is singing in the ancient lament of Jeremiah for the one who has lost her children: 'Her sun went down while it was yet day.' This has happened. The sun has gone down while it is yet day.
I cannot speak for God, although I have spent many years trying to listen for God. What I hear today is the sound of weeping. What I taste today is the salt of God's tears. What I remember is a day, we call it Good Friday, when God's sun went down while it was yet day. What I know today is that if there is a presence in all creation that is crying, that presence is God.
I have come to believe that God's ultimate commitment to the world and its creatures is not a commitment to control but a commitment to love. I believe that between control and love God must have had to make a choice. This is the same choice we all make. My own life as a parent of four has taught me this.
Perhaps Margaret Atwood was right to say that we see the world clearly when we see it through tears. Broken hearts are the best companions on a day when the sun goes down.
Now we must do what we can to help. When our common and frail humanity moves us to work side by side we may become aware in spite of ourselves that the One who loves the world is rising from the deep."
- Right Rev. Peter Short, Moderator of the United Church of Canada
Hrmmm
LOVE > *
Debating such things just seems to be so depressing and unresolvable. Do something constructive would ya people? In the end no one has the answers, so just accept it. Live life and enjoy it, it's pretty short you know? Make the best of what you've got.
What's the worst thing that could happen? I guess you could end up in hell and have regrets for eternity, or you might come back as a fly spending your day chillin' out on a piece of horse poo
Good times! =/
Surely this will be available though Windows Update? If not ... Microsoft fix your damn code first instead of making us pay for your mistakes.
*groan*
The Sally-Ann are there too
http://satern.org/response.html/
Donate to them here:
http://www.salvationarmy.org/
http://satern.org/response.html
Going by this article, HP's de100c Digital Entertainment Center from a few years ago was linux based, and was the predacessor to the HP z545 Digital Entertainment Center now running MCE2005. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7034640509 .html/
HP didn't find linux to be a viable option as a MCE device?
Hrmmmm ... interesting.
IBM and Apple merger would be interesting, especially in light of the fact that there are talks about IBM selling off their PC division ...
http://www.theregister.com/2004/12/03/ibm_pc_jv_le novo/
Dude, get out to your local LUG. Hook up with people there who use linux day in and day out. Ask questions about the things you get stuck on when tinkering around with linux on your own time. Sometimes a MAN page just doesn't cut it! I don't know much about online training out there that's being offered, but online training alone certainly isn't enough to get you up to stuff with your linux skills over night. Best of luck.