I pretty much see Romney as saying what he has to, to try to get elected. I don't honestly think he would do the harm to the economy as Obama has and will continue to do.
So what you're saying is that you have absolutely no evidence of what Romney will actually do. You can't imagine he'll do the things he says he'll do. But you hope he'll do good things, so, let's make a decision based on that...
Noam Chomsky called Daniel Emmett a "charlatan" ... Gallileo Gallilei was locked up
Noam called someone a name, the church threw them in freaking prison, which was nice by church standards, in older times they would have lit him on fire. Read what I wrote again. 1000 freaking years. A full millennium. I agree, it was human nature, the difference is that this human nature was unquestionable because it's authority was derived from "god" and no one can question god. Stop cherry picking the good things so that you can ignore the fact that the institution of the church subjugated the western world for 1000 years, and it only was capable of doing so because of the superstition.
Most boats keep some sort of storm sail on board to put up in those extreme wind situations. It gives you a little bit of control and ability to point the boat and keep the boat from getting sideways to the waves.
Actually, Amazon believes these capital outlays will increase their profitability. They are shooting for next and same day shipping which they believe will allow them to poach business from brick and mortar retailers.
That's the thing, you don't have to answer why. We can say, "we believe it's explainable, but we don't currently understand the mechanism" and more importantly, we may never know the mechanism (I'm speaking of the origin of the universe). I get that that is unsatisfying, but making up a god because that makes one uncomfortable is silly.
I disagree. I find many of his teachings quite troubling. First and foremost is his perpetuation of the idea of sin. It's a horribly dehumanizing ideal, that you are inherently bad, and there is a magic guy who is the only path for your redemption. He also shows pretty clearly how bound to the time he was when he discussed not ending slavery, but how hard to beat your slaves.
Fair enough, but I find that it helps when people have to justify their actions with reason and fairness instead of with "my god tells me to". One of these people can be reasoned/argued with. The other can't.
Let's assume most of the people here were born between 1990 and 1970. In the US hat means something like 80% of them were raised in a house that had at least marginal Christian beliefs. That means these people were, to at least a small extent being told, before they are old enough to reason, to accept certain things as truths. That is really difficult to shake. You've established irrational beliefs in a child, and told them that "faith" is a virtue. Our culture definitely reinforces those principles as well. I think that's the strongest reason people maintain the principle of "spiritual but not religious" because they have this latent faith principle that they can't explain but can't make go away.
Not to mention, the reason that religion, Christianity in particular, is as married into our culture as it is, is because it was put there by force. The church spent 1000 years shutting down science and then torturing and BURNING living, conscious human beings who disagreed with them. They burned documents that didn't agree with them. They intentionally kept the general public uneducated to keep them from being disagreeable. We aren't talking a decade, or a generation, or a century. The church burned this into our culture for one thousand years. They are riding on the coat tails of horrible violence. Execution for heresy rode easily into the 17th century. It takes a while to shake the deep roots the church so assiduously placed.
I wouldn't put out a pay-for version on amazon. 1) Now you give amazon a cut. 2) You do run the risk of misunderstanding. Distribute the book for free, and anywhere you distribute it, include a link to a donation page. I think that's the most up-front way to distribute a truly free book.
The bigger problem is that people don't recognize that these devices AREN'T replacing the teacher. They can make the teacher way more effective. Think of the classroom like an assembly line for a moment. Traditional teaching has one person working (the teacher) during lecture and the other 30 are relatively inactive. Now, we can let the kids consume the lecture on their own, at their own pace, and they can come to school and do examples, and problems, and there are 30 students in the classroom actively working. They can ask each other questions, and can escalate questions to the teacher. Right now, we let them be inactive, and then send them home where, often, there isn't a person they can ask questions of, to do their homework. If they are completely lost, they wasted a full day, and have to wait until the next day to ask questions, which often means they are behind for the new day's lecture as well.
There are a lot of people who love to sit down and play whatever new Madden, Fifa, whatever on their big screen with a bunch of friends. The PC and tablets don't give them that fix.
I absolutely disagree. There are a lot of very loud religious voices out there. There at least needs to be an alternative position getting out there. If you corner a Christian with well reasoned arguments, they almost never convert on the spot. But they are a lot more likely to convert in the future having that seed in their mind, rather than only being fed the same religious drivel.
No, there isn't enough knowledge of the untainted writings. We have 11th century copies of Jospehus' works, and 3rd century references. Coincidently, the 3rd century references, by Christian apologists, don't reference the passages that talk about Jesus. It wasn't until the 4th century that they start claiming Josephus as a source for Jesus' historicity.
The primary references for Jesus are the items in the Bible which are, themselves, 2 or 3 times removed.
Jesus is taken as a given because of Christianity.
The Josephus references are HIGHLY suspect. For example, he was decidedly NOT Christian, but the Testimonium states, 'Jesus, who was the Christ". A non-Christian wouldn't have referred to him like that. Christian apologists don't begin to reference the works until early 4th century. Josephus was the man, he was huge, and having such a prominent reference would have been slung far and wide.
Tacitus is a Roman historian living well after the events supposedly happening. He's explain the story of the Christians who are popping up in Rome.
Richard Carrier is coming out with a book on the historicity of Jesus in the next several months.
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I pretty much see Romney as saying what he has to, to try to get elected. I don't honestly think he would do the harm to the economy as Obama has and will continue to do.
So what you're saying is that you have absolutely no evidence of what Romney will actually do. You can't imagine he'll do the things he says he'll do. But you hope he'll do good things, so, let's make a decision based on that ...
Noam Chomsky called Daniel Emmett a "charlatan"
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Gallileo Gallilei was locked up
Noam called someone a name, the church threw them in freaking prison, which was nice by church standards, in older times they would have lit him on fire. Read what I wrote again. 1000 freaking years. A full millennium. I agree, it was human nature, the difference is that this human nature was unquestionable because it's authority was derived from "god" and no one can question god. Stop cherry picking the good things so that you can ignore the fact that the institution of the church subjugated the western world for 1000 years, and it only was capable of doing so because of the superstition.
Most boats keep some sort of storm sail on board to put up in those extreme wind situations. It gives you a little bit of control and ability to point the boat and keep the boat from getting sideways to the waves.
In really high winds, the sails are there just to keep you pointed in the right direction while you ride out the storm.
Actually, Amazon believes these capital outlays will increase their profitability. They are shooting for next and same day shipping which they believe will allow them to poach business from brick and mortar retailers.
I've just had to come up with the explanations necessary to get others to stop forcing stamps on me.
That's the thing, you don't have to answer why. We can say, "we believe it's explainable, but we don't currently understand the mechanism" and more importantly, we may never know the mechanism (I'm speaking of the origin of the universe). I get that that is unsatisfying, but making up a god because that makes one uncomfortable is silly.
I disagree. I find many of his teachings quite troubling. First and foremost is his perpetuation of the idea of sin. It's a horribly dehumanizing ideal, that you are inherently bad, and there is a magic guy who is the only path for your redemption. He also shows pretty clearly how bound to the time he was when he discussed not ending slavery, but how hard to beat your slaves.
Fair enough, but I find that it helps when people have to justify their actions with reason and fairness instead of with "my god tells me to". One of these people can be reasoned/argued with. The other can't.
Why is that the conclusion? We're complaining that our teachers aren't effective enough. This may very well be the thing that gets them to "enough".
Let's assume most of the people here were born between 1990 and 1970. In the US hat means something like 80% of them were raised in a house that had at least marginal Christian beliefs. That means these people were, to at least a small extent being told, before they are old enough to reason, to accept certain things as truths. That is really difficult to shake. You've established irrational beliefs in a child, and told them that "faith" is a virtue. Our culture definitely reinforces those principles as well. I think that's the strongest reason people maintain the principle of "spiritual but not religious" because they have this latent faith principle that they can't explain but can't make go away.
Others have said this before, but I'm avid hobbyist in not collecting stamps.
Not to mention, the reason that religion, Christianity in particular, is as married into our culture as it is, is because it was put there by force. The church spent 1000 years shutting down science and then torturing and BURNING living, conscious human beings who disagreed with them. They burned documents that didn't agree with them. They intentionally kept the general public uneducated to keep them from being disagreeable. We aren't talking a decade, or a generation, or a century. The church burned this into our culture for one thousand years. They are riding on the coat tails of horrible violence. Execution for heresy rode easily into the 17th century. It takes a while to shake the deep roots the church so assiduously placed.
I wouldn't put out a pay-for version on amazon. 1) Now you give amazon a cut. 2) You do run the risk of misunderstanding. Distribute the book for free, and anywhere you distribute it, include a link to a donation page. I think that's the most up-front way to distribute a truly free book.
Actually, they have tried to make teacher strikes illegal in certain cases. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2012/0912/Chicago-teachers-strike-Illegal-under-Illinois-law
The bigger problem is that people don't recognize that these devices AREN'T replacing the teacher. They can make the teacher way more effective. Think of the classroom like an assembly line for a moment. Traditional teaching has one person working (the teacher) during lecture and the other 30 are relatively inactive. Now, we can let the kids consume the lecture on their own, at their own pace, and they can come to school and do examples, and problems, and there are 30 students in the classroom actively working. They can ask each other questions, and can escalate questions to the teacher. Right now, we let them be inactive, and then send them home where, often, there isn't a person they can ask questions of, to do their homework. If they are completely lost, they wasted a full day, and have to wait until the next day to ask questions, which often means they are behind for the new day's lecture as well.
There are a lot of people who love to sit down and play whatever new Madden, Fifa, whatever on their big screen with a bunch of friends. The PC and tablets don't give them that fix.
I absolutely disagree. There are a lot of very loud religious voices out there. There at least needs to be an alternative position getting out there. If you corner a Christian with well reasoned arguments, they almost never convert on the spot. But they are a lot more likely to convert in the future having that seed in their mind, rather than only being fed the same religious drivel.
I wonder how things like bottled water, soda, beer affect the results. Does it suddenly look like I spent time in Kentucky because I drink bourbon?
Ask foreigners who are being detained without trial how the constitution applies.
Except they put out a release that isn't in businesses best interests. We're all hunkering down with Win 7.
There are cars available, but this did drive up the cost of good used cars by virtue of destroying otherwise good vehicles.
You also didn't calculate the increased insurance cost on the newer vehicle, which is generally substantial (~$1000+).
No, there isn't enough knowledge of the untainted writings. We have 11th century copies of Jospehus' works, and 3rd century references. Coincidently, the 3rd century references, by Christian apologists, don't reference the passages that talk about Jesus. It wasn't until the 4th century that they start claiming Josephus as a source for Jesus' historicity.
The primary references for Jesus are the items in the Bible which are, themselves, 2 or 3 times removed.
Jesus is taken as a given because of Christianity.
The Josephus references are HIGHLY suspect. For example, he was decidedly NOT Christian, but the Testimonium states, 'Jesus, who was the Christ". A non-Christian wouldn't have referred to him like that. Christian apologists don't begin to reference the works until early 4th century. Josephus was the man, he was huge, and having such a prominent reference would have been slung far and wide.
Tacitus is a Roman historian living well after the events supposedly happening. He's explain the story of the Christians who are popping up in Rome.
Richard Carrier is coming out with a book on the historicity of Jesus in the next several months.