You clearly noticed the question, since you moved it to the title. You don't seem to have offered any sort of answer. I am asking sincerely. What book are you referring to, and why should I believe in its divinity?
As to asking for a revelation, I have been seeking answers my entire life. Nothing I have found strikes me as credible evidence of a sentient, all powerful creator.
Are you saying that I need to kneel down and ask someone that I am not at all convinced exists his name? If you present me with a specific proposal I will try it.
I have to admit that I will feel ridiculous.
Imagine that I suggested that if you ask the easter bunny for his phone number that you will get it, along with salvation. How would you feel? Would you try it? What would it take to convince you that it was true?
I don't know much about antimatter, but I'd guess that they'd be smaller (great! more application as terror weapons), safer to store, safer to detonate, and more precise.
All else being equal, I'd say that no fallout is a good thing.
'Course, everything I know about antimatter I learned from Scotty and Spock.
I don't think the OP was against biking at all. He was just asking for some consideration.
It seems particularly odd to me that you use your displeasure with the offensive odors of others as an excuse to give off one of your own. Why not take the high-road and WASH YOUR ASS?
"Green" farming and no G.E. crops. I.e. farming the hard way.
Everybody can get by on public transport.
We don't need the electoral college. Why should rural voters have a voice?
On the other hand I do like some of his ideas. Ending the "war on drugs." Focusing on protecting our constitutional rights (Though he wants to pick and choose.)
They are inherently bad because nature is our God. If it doesn't spontaneously spring from nature it's bad. Except when nature does ugly things to itself, like forest fires and extinctions. Then it's our job to fix it.
That isn't what I said. Things would certainly go wrong in the absence of regulation. But they go wrong in the presence of regulation as well. (And when we say "regulation" it is nothing but arm-waving. I'm sure there is some regulation out there that I would support; and probably one that you wouldn't.) The question that I never hear asked is, "Will this regulation provide good that outweighs its cost in drag on the market and unintended consequences?"
I think that the most obvious policy we should be examining with this criterion is the drug prohibition. It pack prisons, erodes our rights, endangers lives and costs BILLIONS. Are those laws keeping YOU from shooting up smack? It's pure insanity.
But my feelings on these matters have nothing to do with the point. The point is that both sides campaign as free-marketers, and govern like socialists.
Both parties talk about free markets. Both parties constantly meddle in the market. If you can't see how "environmentalism" is a big power grab (mostly by the Democrats) then I don't know what to tell you.
Actually, you'll be voting Republican.
No, actually, I'll be voting Libertarian. I'll thank you to refrain from putting words in my mouth.
I'm certainly not helping George Bush by voting for Michael Badnarik any more than I would be by abstaining. Am I?
I will be, however, voting my conscience. I will be helping to add credibility to a party who's platform I don't find revolting to its core.
I will also be sending a message to the Democrats and the Republicans; neither one of you gave me a candidate I could vote for. Most particularly I hope that the Republicans get the message that they can't run a candidate on smaller government and no more nation-building and have him abandon those commitments the moment he walks through the door oval office door.
I will concede that felon and wise-man are not mutually exclusive. I will counter, however, that the list of things Glen King has seen a judge about exhibit a marked inverse correlation with wisdom.
Sorry I didn't get the joke. That whole thing was a debacle and a travesty, and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I think it is fairly different from the PC vs. Mac crap. That's a matter of taste. Vanilla vs. Chocolate.
Whether the software you use has onerous licensing terms, enriches companies that engage in reprehensible business practices (and, at least indirectly, a political agenda I disagree with), and overtly overrides the trade society makes for copyrights matters much more.
But more on the point, I use Free Software exclusively (to the extent that it is within my control) for philosophical reasons. I think that those reasons should matter to you, so I do evangelize Free Software sometimes.
On "Bubba Ho-tep" with Bruce Campbell "If you see one ELVIS VS. MUMMY movie this year... This Is It!"
At least half of that DVD's value is in the Elvis commentary. Even if you never listen to commentary tracks, give this one a shot. Listening to "Elvis" eat popcorn and keep saying "What the hell kinda picture is this?" is worth the rental.
If you are male, and your house mate is male, kick his ass. Twice. If you are female and your house mate is female, kick her ass.
If you are female, and your house mate is male then get your brother or boyfriend to kick his ass. If you don't have either, get some guy who wants to be your boyfriend (but never will be) to kick his ass. In either case start listening to your mother when she tells you something is a bad idea.
I have no idea what you should do if you are male, and your house mate is female. That's too freaky and weird for me to get my head around.
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You clearly noticed the question, since you moved it to the title. You don't seem to have offered any sort of answer. I am asking sincerely. What book are you referring to, and why should I believe in its divinity?
As to asking for a revelation, I have been seeking answers my entire life. Nothing I have found strikes me as credible evidence of a sentient, all powerful creator.
Are you saying that I need to kneel down and ask someone that I am not at all convinced exists his name? If you present me with a specific proposal I will try it.
I have to admit that I will feel ridiculous.
Imagine that I suggested that if you ask the easter bunny for his phone number that you will get it, along with salvation. How would you feel? Would you try it? What would it take to convince you that it was true?
-Peter
Escape velocity decreases as your distance from the surface increases. Eventually 10MPH (Gee, thanks for using Imperial units.) is escape velocity.
-Peter
Oooh. I'd use it for dvd::rip. One of my fondest dreams is to be able to do a rip and transcode in less than real-time.
-Peter
What book?
-Peter
PS: Beware, you stand at the brink of a circular argument.
-P
So your God made me for the purpose of finding Him, but imbued me with an intellect inadequate to the task.
He's quite the sicko, isn't He?
-Peter
Total plutonic reversal?
-Peter
I don't know much about antimatter, but I'd guess that they'd be smaller (great! more application as terror weapons), safer to store, safer to detonate, and more precise.
All else being equal, I'd say that no fallout is a good thing.
'Course, everything I know about antimatter I learned from Scotty and Spock.
-Peter
Shit is natural. Wiping is still a good idea.
I don't think the OP was against biking at all. He was just asking for some consideration.
It seems particularly odd to me that you use your displeasure with the offensive odors of others as an excuse to give off one of your own. Why not take the high-road and WASH YOUR ASS?
-Peter
On the other hand I do like some of his ideas. Ending the "war on drugs." Focusing on protecting our constitutional rights (Though he wants to pick and choose.)
Anyway, Badnarik gets my vote.
-Peter
They are inherently bad because nature is our God. If it doesn't spontaneously spring from nature it's bad. Except when nature does ugly things to itself, like forest fires and extinctions. Then it's our job to fix it.
Welcome to the wacky world of "environmentalism."
-Peter
That isn't what I said. Things would certainly go wrong in the absence of regulation. But they go wrong in the presence of regulation as well. (And when we say "regulation" it is nothing but arm-waving. I'm sure there is some regulation out there that I would support; and probably one that you wouldn't.) The question that I never hear asked is, "Will this regulation provide good that outweighs its cost in drag on the market and unintended consequences?"
I think that the most obvious policy we should be examining with this criterion is the drug prohibition. It pack prisons, erodes our rights, endangers lives and costs BILLIONS. Are those laws keeping YOU from shooting up smack? It's pure insanity.
But my feelings on these matters have nothing to do with the point. The point is that both sides campaign as free-marketers, and govern like socialists.
-Peter
No, actually, I'll be voting Libertarian. I'll thank you to refrain from putting words in my mouth.
I'm certainly not helping George Bush by voting for Michael Badnarik any more than I would be by abstaining. Am I?
I will be, however, voting my conscience. I will be helping to add credibility to a party who's platform I don't find revolting to its core.
I will also be sending a message to the Democrats and the Republicans; neither one of you gave me a candidate I could vote for. Most particularly I hope that the Republicans get the message that they can't run a candidate on smaller government and no more nation-building and have him abandon those commitments the moment he walks through the door oval office door.
-Peter
The exact same argument holds when it comes to environmental (and other) regulation pushed by the Democrats.
That's why I'm voting Libertarian.
-Peter
Okay, felon, drug-user, reckless-driver, wife-beater.
I will concede that felon and wise-man are not mutually exclusive. I will counter, however, that the list of things Glen King has seen a judge about exhibit a marked inverse correlation with wisdom.
Thanks for keeping me honest.
-Peter
Sorry I didn't get the joke. That whole thing was a debacle and a travesty, and it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I think it is fairly different from the PC vs. Mac crap. That's a matter of taste. Vanilla vs. Chocolate.
Whether the software you use has onerous licensing terms, enriches companies that engage in reprehensible business practices (and, at least indirectly, a political agenda I disagree with), and overtly overrides the trade society makes for copyrights matters much more.
-Peter
By "wise man" you mean "felon?"
But more on the point, I use Free Software exclusively (to the extent that it is within my control) for philosophical reasons. I think that those reasons should matter to you, so I do evangelize Free Software sometimes.
What's wrong with that?
-Peter
Well, that puts Kev right out.
-Peter
PS: No flames, I'm a fan. But he has no style what-so-fucking-ever.
-P
I can't belive this isn't +5 informative.
Bob is clearly connected to the Jedi in "Mallrats" and "Chasing Amy."
Jay calls him "Jedi bitch." in their scene in "Amy." Classic.
-Peter
He also said that Jay & Bob were permanently retired. That he didn't want to be Pauly Shore. He asked what he would do, Jay & Bob in space?
He said that "Hardly Clerkin'" became "Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back." He said that the Jersey Chronicles were a closed book.
Then he announced "The Passion of the Clerks."
Hrmph.
-Peter
I'm just going by what the summary said.
-Peter
How would you see the things on the map that are the color of the filtered out light?
I'm sure that you could see them by interior lamps at night, but they'd be drowned out by day.
-Peter
At least half of that DVD's value is in the Elvis commentary. Even if you never listen to commentary tracks, give this one a shot. Listening to "Elvis" eat popcorn and keep saying "What the hell kinda picture is this?" is worth the rental.
-Peter
And a massive re-write. Seriously, that draft is a piece of crap.
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It is also suspiciously similar to EP1 on a lot of themes and plot points . .
On the up side there is some fucking in a control room closet.
-Peter
I've been trying to read "The Star Wars" screenplay. It would seem that it is:
1. Write an embarrassingly bad screenplay.
2. ???
3. Becomes a colossal hit. (Profit.)
-Peter
If you are male, and your house mate is male, kick his ass. Twice. If you are female and your house mate is female, kick her ass.
If you are female, and your house mate is male then get your brother or boyfriend to kick his ass. If you don't have either, get some guy who wants to be your boyfriend (but never will be) to kick his ass. In either case start listening to your mother when she tells you something is a bad idea.
I have no idea what you should do if you are male, and your house mate is female. That's too freaky and weird for me to get my head around.
Hope this helps.
-Peter