Jesus said by this will they know you are my disciples, that you have love for one another. We're not supposed to be killin anybody anymore.
The Old Testament that you refer to is to be taken in context with the New Testament. Regardless, it's still the Word of God. These new laws are the beginning of the end times that is Prophesied in this very book. I know the world will get considerably worse before it gets better.
Christ will return to judge the nations, that's not our job but His. Ours is to show Christ's forgiveness for sin, and the way to reconciliation with God so we can have true peace.
This is how the world will view Christians:
Matthew 24
9"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
John 15
18"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
If "Christians" are doing that, they are not Christians. Jesus said to love everyone and treat all people as we would like to be treated.
The harsh laws of the old testament were replaced by love and forgiveness by Jesus. That doesn't mean that we condone what God says is sin, but we still cannot be prejudiced in any way to other people.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that God loves us all the same. There are no favourites, so how can we hate anyone that our God made? We may not like their actions, but we must still act in love towards them.
C 250 is a very sneaky piece of legislation. Once we go down this road it becomes a slippery slope... it may be your rights trampled on next.
God forbid that anyone could actually voice their opinion and beliefs!
Typical communist tactic. Silence those that don't agree with you.
The senators have been getting phone calls for days from thousands of canadians how are not impressed with our rights being trampled on. It ain't over yet.
and of course that damn c-250 bill they're about to pass.
Yes, friends, we can download till the cows come home... but we don't have any free speech.
The Bible will soon be hate literature in Canuckville.;-(
What's more fun is making up your own lines. I saw a chick do this at a party once... total improv.. very early in the a.m. some old tv show on and she was hilarious.. doin all the lines.. mind you, we were.. umm.. very stoned.. but that was years ago...;-)
I'm saying that these "free" distributions come with a price. And that is your time and effort to attempt to get them to work. Like the original poster said, (loosly paraphrased) They may look nice but are too difficult to configure.
Yes there are also no guarantees that any software will work on any system either. I, like many other users, have tons of useless distros kickin around.
"Red Hat was never in the home user game. Even now they are just starting to cater to coporate users." Well who the hell was using their stuff if it wasn't home users or coprorate users?
I'm glad that Red Hat pays their developers. That doesn't hide the fact that their os, will never be a competitor to M$ on the desktop. They obviously tried in the past, but now since a few other distros are killing them with functioning software, they had to move fully into servers.
While the open source is all happy, touchy, feely, like the 60's, the cold hard facts are that the software that comes out of it is working under a very flawed business model. How can you make any money and increase development if you give your product away?
You can call me a troll or mod me down, whatever, the facts remain.. Xandros is a working system that has generated support and capital. It is being improved all the time. It can replace windows for a lot of users. And anybody can install it with four mouse clicks. Try that with any other distro.
Costs money, they have people working on it that they pay. It works. I sell it, because it works.
I've tried a lot of distros and every one was a problem somewhere. Network wouldn't, printers didn't etc. very annoying, and I'm not even gonna mention xfree86. I'm glad Red Hat got out of the home user game because, honestly, they were shitty at it.
Ya all the geeks can scream and jump up & down, but until it works and/or looks like windows.. it ain't gonna fly with home users and will be forever destined to be a fringe os. Yes it can and does work perfectly in some distributions, but home users have enough trouble with windoesn't. They can't and won't guess about the next step configuring anything.
Glad to see other people with decent tech background are having as much trouble as I used to have with this os. I don't feel nearly as incompetant as I did an hour ago.
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The Old Testament that you refer to is to be taken in context with the New Testament. Regardless, it's still the Word of God. These new laws are the beginning of the end times that is Prophesied in this very book. I know the world will get considerably worse before it gets better.
Christ will return to judge the nations, that's not our job but His. Ours is to show Christ's forgiveness for sin, and the way to reconciliation with God so we can have true peace.
This is how the world will view Christians:
Matthew 24 9"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.
John 15 18"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
God Bless
The harsh laws of the old testament were replaced by love and forgiveness by Jesus. That doesn't mean that we condone what God says is sin, but we still cannot be prejudiced in any way to other people.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that God loves us all the same. There are no favourites, so how can we hate anyone that our God made? We may not like their actions, but we must still act in love towards them.
C 250 is a very sneaky piece of legislation. Once we go down this road it becomes a slippery slope... it may be your rights trampled on next.
Peace
God forbid that anyone could actually voice their opinion and beliefs! Typical communist tactic. Silence those that don't agree with you. The senators have been getting phone calls for days from thousands of canadians how are not impressed with our rights being trampled on. It ain't over yet.
and of course that damn c-250 bill they're about to pass. Yes, friends, we can download till the cows come home... but we don't have any free speech. The Bible will soon be hate literature in Canuckville. ;-(
Xandros is based on debian and can be installed in 4 clicks? Why can't the rest of the distro's do this?
What's more fun is making up your own lines. I saw a chick do this at a party once... total improv.. very early in the a.m. some old tv show on and she was hilarious.. doin all the lines.. mind you, we were.. umm.. very stoned.. but that was years ago... ;-)
I agree 100%. There is always a cost whether in labour or software. I'd rather pay the software upfront and have the $%#$ thing work.
Yes there are also no guarantees that any software will work on any system either. I, like many other users, have tons of useless distros kickin around.
"Red Hat was never in the home user game. Even now they are just starting to cater to coporate users." Well who the hell was using their stuff if it wasn't home users or coprorate users?
I'm glad that Red Hat pays their developers. That doesn't hide the fact that their os, will never be a competitor to M$ on the desktop. They obviously tried in the past, but now since a few other distros are killing them with functioning software, they had to move fully into servers.
While the open source is all happy, touchy, feely, like the 60's, the cold hard facts are that the software that comes out of it is working under a very flawed business model. How can you make any money and increase development if you give your product away?
You can call me a troll or mod me down, whatever, the facts remain.. Xandros is a working system that has generated support and capital. It is being improved all the time. It can replace windows for a lot of users. And anybody can install it with four mouse clicks. Try that with any other distro.
Costs money, they have people working on it that they pay. It works. I sell it, because it works.
I've tried a lot of distros and every one was a problem somewhere. Network wouldn't, printers didn't etc. very annoying, and I'm not even gonna mention xfree86. I'm glad Red Hat got out of the home user game because, honestly, they were shitty at it.
Ya all the geeks can scream and jump up & down, but until it works and/or looks like windows.. it ain't gonna fly with home users and will be forever destined to be a fringe os. Yes it can and does work perfectly in some distributions, but home users have enough trouble with windoesn't. They can't and won't guess about the next step configuring anything.
Glad to see other people with decent tech background are having as much trouble as I used to have with this os. I don't feel nearly as incompetant as I did an hour ago.