Of course, if you want to argue logically against Mormons (or any other particular religion), you might make sure you have all your facts in hand before you start hurling accusations and diatribes. Any "Mormon" can tell you that there is no such thing as a "seerer stone". A "seer stone" yes, a "seerer stone" never. And that's just one of your "arguements". I have a feeling that you're disillusioned with religion and so have decided to knock all religions. More to the point, such ferocity usually results from a 180 degree reverse in belief.
That said, if you wish to believe that all religious people are nuts, or fanatics, or whatever, you are certainly welcome to that (erroneous) belief. I might point out that your reasoning and beliefs in this regard are about as well founded as those of Microserfs regarding linux in particular and alternative OSes in general.
As for the God vs. evil issue, consider the following train of thought. It may not appeal to you, but it does have some merit, and explains things a little better than the previously quoted Greek philosopher:
1. God is good. 2. God cannot tolerate evil. 3. God creates people.
Now comes the jump. We all know that struggle makes us stronger (ask any athlete).
4. We are God's children (however you want to interpret that statement). 5. God wants us to become strong. 6. God allows us to confront evil, thereby making those of us who resist stronger (much the way you can be stronger if you exercise hard or become weaker if you don't). 7. Those of us who resist evil (and are thereby made stronger) are worthy to enter God's presence. Those who don't are out of luck because they didn't make the most of their opportunities.
Now, one other comment. Why would God let us go through all this? God is omnipotent and omniscient. We are not. Assume that shortly after forming us, God went ahead and appointed us to heaven or hell by saying "I know you're going to be good" or "I know you're going to be evil." Human nature being what it is, we would complain long and loudly that we hadn't been given the opportunity to prove this for ourselves. So, God, in his infinite wisdom, allowed us just enough rope to either roam freely or to hang ourselves, at our inclination.
Slashdot isn't really a place for religious discussions, anyhow. If you really feel the urge to spread your beliefs, quit school, or work, or whatever, and go proselyte for a couple years. It might instill in you a new respect for what people like the "Mormons" do. In fact, you might even discover that it takes a good deal more conviction to do that than it does for you to log into Slashdot and post a flame.
Oh, and given your reference to Neitzsche, consider the following quotes seen on a wall in Germany during and after his lifetime (respectively):
"God is Dead" --Neitzsche
"Neitzsche is Dead" --God
shaldannon
# find/dev/brain find: cannot open/dev/brain: No such file or directory
I'm running a Presario 4814 (stock) which means I have 32 meg of ram and a 233 MHz MMX processor. I reduced the load by killing off some of the networking processes and by removing my kde backgrounds, but it still eats a chunk. And when I run VNC on my friend's computer, kde takes a noticeable chunk out of that one too. And that one is a dual-processor 200 MHz system running with a whopping lot of ram. Maybe KDE just likes your system:)
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I like KDE, but I'm not sure I'd refer to it as sleek...KDE is a bit of a resource hog compared with fvwm2...as you pointed out, tho, fvwm95 is the crappiest interface ever...worse, even, than Windoze
I agree, too, that they ought to include pqmagic...would be nice if they could also integrate it into the install process...neither fips nore the much touted disk druid are any good compared with pqmagic.
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It wasn't on my cheap bytes CD even though AfterStep, fvwm2, and Gnome all were. Stupid, too, because KDE is one of the more popular "window managers".
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Of course, if you want to argue logically against Mormons (or any other particular religion), you might make sure you have all your facts in hand before you start hurling accusations and diatribes. Any "Mormon" can tell you that there is no such thing as a "seerer stone". A "seer stone" yes, a "seerer stone" never. And that's just one of your "arguements". I have a feeling that you're disillusioned with religion and so have decided to knock all religions. More to the point, such ferocity usually results from a 180 degree reverse in belief.
That said, if you wish to believe that all religious people are nuts, or fanatics, or whatever, you are certainly welcome to that (erroneous) belief. I might point out that your reasoning and beliefs in this regard are about as well founded as those of Microserfs regarding linux in particular and alternative OSes in general.
As for the God vs. evil issue, consider the following train of thought. It may not appeal to you, but it does have some merit, and explains things a little better than the previously quoted Greek philosopher:
1. God is good.2. God cannot tolerate evil.
3. God creates people.
Now comes the jump. We all know that struggle makes us stronger (ask any athlete).
4. We are God's children (however you want to interpret that statement).5. God wants us to become strong.
6. God allows us to confront evil, thereby making those of us who resist stronger (much the way you can be stronger if you exercise hard or become weaker if you don't).
7. Those of us who resist evil (and are thereby made stronger) are worthy to enter God's presence. Those who don't are out of luck because they didn't make the most of their opportunities.
Now, one other comment. Why would God let us go through all this? God is omnipotent and omniscient. We are not. Assume that shortly after forming us, God went ahead and appointed us to heaven or hell by saying "I know you're going to be good" or "I know you're going to be evil." Human nature being what it is, we would complain long and loudly that we hadn't been given the opportunity to prove this for ourselves. So, God, in his infinite wisdom, allowed us just enough rope to either roam freely or to hang ourselves, at our inclination.
Slashdot isn't really a place for religious discussions, anyhow. If you really feel the urge to spread your beliefs, quit school, or work, or whatever, and go proselyte for a couple years. It might instill in you a new respect for what people like the "Mormons" do. In fact, you might even discover that it takes a good deal more conviction to do that than it does for you to log into Slashdot and post a flame.
Oh, and given your reference to Neitzsche, consider the following quotes seen on a wall in Germany during and after his lifetime (respectively):
--Neitzsche
"Neitzsche is Dead"
--God
shaldannon
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you'd send a message that says "I got the goods. Meet me at 34th and Green."
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I'm running a Presario 4814 (stock) which means I have 32 meg of ram and a 233 MHz MMX processor. I reduced the load by killing off some of the networking processes and by removing my kde backgrounds, but it still eats a chunk. And when I run VNC on my friend's computer, kde takes a noticeable chunk out of that one too. And that one is a dual-processor 200 MHz system running with a whopping lot of ram. Maybe KDE just likes your system :)
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:)
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I like KDE, but I'm not sure I'd refer to it as sleek...KDE is a bit of a resource hog compared with fvwm2...as you pointed out, tho, fvwm95 is the crappiest interface ever...worse, even, than Windoze
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I agree, too, that they ought to include pqmagic...would be nice if they could also integrate it into the install process...neither fips nore the much touted disk druid are any good compared with pqmagic.
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It wasn't on my cheap bytes CD even though AfterStep, fvwm2, and Gnome all were. Stupid, too, because KDE is one of the more popular "window managers".
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Cool...thanx
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What Red Hat release is going to have the 2.2.0 kernel & (approximately) when will it be?
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