I appreciate your discussion on entropy. Like i said, im not a scientist. I figured that evolutionists had a way to describe it, i found it unlikely they would throw it out. My issue is that *something* has to be eternal. Is it matter? Is it a God? It takes faith to believe it either way.
The sun stood still relative to the earth. Miracle, defies science, yes. I believe it because Im taking God at his word. Its faith, I cant back it up with science. Its a miracle. If i believe there is a God who created things, then he is obviously able to do what he wants when he wants, and if that means holding the earth together manually to pull off a miracle, then that is what happened. I will never be able to explain why, just like I cant explain the Trinity, or why God even made us in the first place. I just believe it because of the faith that has come from a personal belief and relationship with Christ.
On sinners. We are all sinners. I dont judge other people for being sinners. What is happening now is that they are indoctrinating children in schools to say that homosexuality is normal behavior, which is contrary to the bible. I would never think a public school should teach that homosexuality is a sin. It is not the schools place. And, condoms protect from pregnancy, but CDC reports show they cannot reliably protect against STD's.
Finally, people do not have a right to be informed. They have a right to have access to information. People have the right to be as informed or uninformed as they want. There is a fine line between informing and brainwashing.
Im not a scientist, and I dont claim to be. Ive looked into it. I dont have a blind faith. It could just be my misunderstanding of the issue, but doesnt evolution defy entropy? Doesnt the big bang conflict with the laws of thermodynamics?
What specific reference do you refer to about the sun? Im aware of some but I want to know which you are thinking of. They are figures of speech. Sunrise, Sunset. We know it doesnt move but those words would seem to indicate it does. Its just a way of saying something.
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Isaiah 40 it is written that "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth". The hebrew there is more accurately translated "sphere". This was long before man figured it out.
Leviticus 17:11 says "The life of the flesh is in the blood". Im sure George Washington wished his doctors had known that as they were bleeding him to heal him.
This isnt the reason WHY I believe but it certainly helps. As far as pointing out sinners, I dont. I dont believe christians should be given the right to brand people with a scarlet letter, but i do think people should have the right to call sin, sin.
Jesus did say, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", but he also told the woman "go and sin no more". He was not judgemental, but he didn't hide the truth that she had sinned.
I am not part of the "God hates Fags" group. I feel ashamed they drag the name of God into such bigotry. But I dont apologize for seeing homosexuality as sin based on my religious beliefs. The reason this particular sin becomes an issue is that there is an effort to normalize it in society. I feel the same way about it being taught in schools as i do about premarital sex being normalized. I dont believe it is the school's place to discuss an issue like that, it is the parents responsibility. Then it is the teenagers responsibility to decide what they think for themselves.
In conclusion, im not saying im perfect or that everyone who doesnt agree with me is wrong, but it is about the basic right to disagree with something.
Is this some sort of way for redmond to put in people's minds that Linux=Piracy? People are so scared of being hauled of to jail by the RIAA nowadays it might work.
There are some negative effects of software piracy though, I mean how do you think we got Windows 95?
I dont think the government needs to take sides, but I dont think that means we have to alter history to do it. I dont think classrooms should have thier daily sacrament, but they should regonize the role of God in history. So when religion is a factor, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, that it not be ignored. They dont have to say "Christmas is the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the only true God." But, they could say "Christmas is the time that christians celebrate the birth of Christ." I mean, that doesn't make you a holy roller, its just what it is. Same thing when they talk about Hanukkah. The point is to be accurate, and not to rewrite history so no one gets offended
Also, Non Christians have been persecuted in the past, so have Christians, in fact alot of the worst christian persecution came at the hands of other christians.
Your Sig: The Liberal Media [airamericaradio.com] Finally a response to ignorant hatemongerers.
Your Comments:"nobody gives a flying fuck what the particular details of your personal invisible friend are"
"how fucking psychotic would you have to be..."
And my personal favorite,"Tough shit you whiny little bitch."
First off, is your AirAmerica a response to, or source of, ignorant hatemongering.
Im not shoving anything down anyone's throats. Do I really have to argue the defense of christmas? Is it wrong for me to think that Christmas is an OK thing for our society? When you say you'll return the favor of keeping beliefs to yourself, does that mean that there will be no more pushing the big bang as fact and let there be a scientific debate? Does that mean that those who believe homosexuality is a sin will be refered to as "those who have a religious belief" and not "bigoted homophobes", or perhaps you just want Christians to shut up and not have thier voice heard in society. Christians are evil and bigoted. Christians are not "tolerant", so we dont tolerate them.
Im sure you have many issues against christians, maybe youve met some hypocrites along the way, i dont know. Just look over the anger in your response to my post and you tell me who has the problem with hate.
You know that news outlets around the country are hard at work making the on screen volcano graphics, lining up siesmologists, and all the siesmologists are picking out ties to look nice for TV. News writers are looking up lava, volcano, and erupt in the thesaurus. I dunno, maybe im too cynical for my own good. I cant help but think, people die in these sort of things. It is interesting scientifically, and historically, but if I see one flashy graphic on fox or msnbc like "Fire in the hole", "Go with the flow", or "Magma-nificent" Im gonna go back to reading books.
Yeah, I think the government should be left out of it. I think if a site chooses not to label themselves as pornography that is thier own thing, but they will probably miss the target viewer they were looking for in the first place. Plus, in future litigation (lightning crashes in the background), having your site listed as.xxx makes it hard to say you were trying to "lure little children". Obviously the best way to filter what your kids, or husband or wife, sees, is to surf with them.
Well, in America they teach that the first Thanksgiving was when the Pilgrims thanked the Indians for sustaining them through the winter. They also turned christmas vacation into "winter" vacation, and take the word christmas out of carols replacing it with "winter" as in "then one foggy winter's eve". So no, they dont have a banner saying "There is NO god" because that would mention god.
Of course, in other countries, indonesia and sudan to name a few they murder christians so I suppose I should count my blessings. Christianity will "get off its cross" when the world stops putting it back up there.
Why dont we just add.xxx or.sex to the ridiculous list of domains out there and restrict all pornographic material to those sections. If you think of newsgroups, you *generally* only get porn if youre looking for it. This way people who dont want porn could avoid it, and those who do could get to it more easily. Parental controls would be more effective as well. Many sites now do not venture from.com because it doesnt look professional. I dont think a site devoted to asian girls in pantyhose has to worry about creating a diginified look.
You know what would lure people away from Microsoft Office? Forget Clippy, get some nice ani Gif's of a bikini-clad Carmen Electra showing you how to properly format an interdepartment memo. Maybe an oiled up Brad Pitt for the ladies.
First off, i find it ironic you respond as an Anonymous Coward given my statement about terrorists not identifying themselves. Second, this is unrelated but I will respond anyway.
I did not say that all arabs should be bombed. Infact, I said that it is cowardice on the part of the terrorists to not identify themselves when they fight, because they put other people at risk. The united states does not want to kill civilians. Aside from the morality (which the US DOES have despite what the blogs, the UN, or Al Jazzera would tell you), it is bad public relations, it costs ammunition and time. If all we wanted to do was eliminate a threat we could have stayed in our bombers and boats. By being on the ground we are attempting to identify the threat and eliminate it. It has nothing to do with indiscriminate bombing.
Feel free to respond to this in any unrelated and illogical way you see fit. For bonus points, use the words "Haliburton" or "Right-Wing Religious Conservative Nutcase".
I reject your argument, we are not murdering innocent people. If we simply wanted to kill civilians we wouldnt be where we were not. Would that the terrorists be so kind as to put on a uniform to discriminate themselves from the populace. Soldiers wear uniforms for that very reason, to identify themselves as combatants so innocent lives are not lost in war. Unfortunately they have chosen to risk the lives of thier neighbors , in the name of greater camoflauge.
You must be talking about North Korea, Sudan, or something because i know youre not talking about the US. The ones who dont blow up buildings they are being shot at from just because they are "shrines"
I hear they are just gonna take about 10 hours of In-Game footage from Star Wars Galaxies and splice in some explosions and gold bikini's here and there.
I would just like to say i for one am against this article being posted. We need to be more united, especially in this tense election season. Stories like this serve to divide, and not unite. Let us think of those who came before us, to unite us. Lincoln would say, a forum divided against itself cannot parse, Martin Luther King would ask that we judge not on the appearance of our grammar but the content of our thread. This article says we are wired to be in opposition to each other, and that is patently not true. We can come together and unite as a nation again if we agree to stay clear of that which would divide us. Even a dope brained, bleeding heart, wishy-washy, tree-hugging, godless, long haired hippified liberal pansy could understand that.
Oh Yeah? My lawyer should be sending you a brief on our exclusive use of the Hello World algorithm. If you intended on creating the words "Hello" and "World", and using them in the context of a generic greating, this falls under the DMCA and you will have to licence these elements from 2LingProg Ltd or face litigation. Our parent company, SCO, may consider purchasing your company after you go bankrupt and adding "Goodbye World" as a service pack for paying customers.
So how should I price Hello World? I just wrote it in C.
Hmm, competition? No competition! You can find some software books that show you how to make your OWN Hello World, but who has time for that?
Some of those books cost 100 Dollars or more... So that I dont look like an "underdog" im gonna charge $250 dollars. Even better, I could convert Hello World, into Hello World for Workgroups, change the font to something a little more professional, and sell it for $325 plus maintenance and security fees.
Remember Johnny Jihad Walker? The apple-pie eater they found fighting for the taliban. I agree we can housebrew some violent fanatics here too, but... none of the 19 on 9/11 were americans. Or the WTC bombing in 93, the Madrid bombings, Embassy Bombings, or Bali.
So do we search all muslims and arabs? Would that have even helped on 9/11? They only had box cutters, they would have been let onboard im sure. I think the point of this story is... we need to get politics OUT of homeland security. It shouldnt be a campaign issue, we should be able to trust that our leaders, no matter who they are, will defend us no matter what it looks like.
In hindsight it would have been great if we arrested these men for terrorism before they boarded the planes, but if we had, you would have heard an outcry of racial profiling. After all, they only had box cutters, what could they do with that?
If we are unable to trust our leaders to act in our best interest, than we should elect ones we CAN trust. If no leader exists whom we can implicitly trust, then we need to re-evaluate the current system and maybe some of us armchair politicians should run
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I appreciate your discussion on entropy. Like i said, im not a scientist. I figured that evolutionists had a way to describe it, i found it unlikely they would throw it out. My issue is that *something* has to be eternal. Is it matter? Is it a God? It takes faith to believe it either way.
The sun stood still relative to the earth. Miracle, defies science, yes. I believe it because Im taking God at his word. Its faith, I cant back it up with science. Its a miracle. If i believe there is a God who created things, then he is obviously able to do what he wants when he wants, and if that means holding the earth together manually to pull off a miracle, then that is what happened. I will never be able to explain why, just like I cant explain the Trinity, or why God even made us in the first place. I just believe it because of the faith that has come from a personal belief and relationship with Christ.
On sinners. We are all sinners. I dont judge other people for being sinners. What is happening now is that they are indoctrinating children in schools to say that homosexuality is normal behavior, which is contrary to the bible. I would never think a public school should teach that homosexuality is a sin. It is not the schools place. And, condoms protect from pregnancy, but CDC reports show they cannot reliably protect against STD's.
Finally, people do not have a right to be informed. They have a right to have access to information. People have the right to be as informed or uninformed as they want. There is a fine line between informing and brainwashing.
Im not a scientist, and I dont claim to be. Ive looked into it. I dont have a blind faith. It could just be my misunderstanding of the issue, but doesnt evolution defy entropy? Doesnt the big bang conflict with the laws of thermodynamics?
What specific reference do you refer to about the sun? Im aware of some but I want to know which you are thinking of. They are figures of speech. Sunrise, Sunset. We know it doesnt move but those words would seem to indicate it does. Its just a way of saying something.
In Isaiah 40 it is written that "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth". The hebrew there is more accurately translated "sphere". This was long before man figured it out.
Leviticus 17:11 says "The life of the flesh is in the blood". Im sure George Washington wished his doctors had known that as they were bleeding him to heal him.
This isnt the reason WHY I believe but it certainly helps. As far as pointing out sinners, I dont. I dont believe christians should be given the right to brand people with a scarlet letter, but i do think people should have the right to call sin, sin.
Jesus did say, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone", but he also told the woman "go and sin no more". He was not judgemental, but he didn't hide the truth that she had sinned.
I am not part of the "God hates Fags" group. I feel ashamed they drag the name of God into such bigotry. But I dont apologize for seeing homosexuality as sin based on my religious beliefs. The reason this particular sin becomes an issue is that there is an effort to normalize it in society. I feel the same way about it being taught in schools as i do about premarital sex being normalized. I dont believe it is the school's place to discuss an issue like that, it is the parents responsibility. Then it is the teenagers responsibility to decide what they think for themselves.
In conclusion, im not saying im perfect or that everyone who doesnt agree with me is wrong, but it is about the basic right to disagree with something.
Is this some sort of way for redmond to put in people's minds that Linux=Piracy? People are so scared of being hauled of to jail by the RIAA nowadays it might work.
There are some negative effects of software piracy though, I mean how do you think we got Windows 95?
I dont think the government needs to take sides, but I dont think that means we have to alter history to do it. I dont think classrooms should have thier daily sacrament, but they should regonize the role of God in history. So when religion is a factor, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, that it not be ignored. They dont have to say "Christmas is the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the only true God." But, they could say "Christmas is the time that christians celebrate the birth of Christ." I mean, that doesn't make you a holy roller, its just what it is. Same thing when they talk about Hanukkah. The point is to be accurate, and not to rewrite history so no one gets offended
Also, Non Christians have been persecuted in the past, so have Christians, in fact alot of the worst christian persecution came at the hands of other christians.
Your Sig: The Liberal Media [airamericaradio.com] Finally a response to ignorant hatemongerers.
Your Comments:"nobody gives a flying fuck what the particular details of your personal invisible friend are"
"how fucking psychotic would you have to be..."
And my personal favorite,"Tough shit you whiny little bitch."
First off, is your AirAmerica a response to, or source of, ignorant hatemongering.
Im not shoving anything down anyone's throats. Do I really have to argue the defense of christmas? Is it wrong for me to think that Christmas is an OK thing for our society? When you say you'll return the favor of keeping beliefs to yourself, does that mean that there will be no more pushing the big bang as fact and let there be a scientific debate? Does that mean that those who believe homosexuality is a sin will be refered to as "those who have a religious belief" and not "bigoted homophobes", or perhaps you just want Christians to shut up and not have thier voice heard in society. Christians are evil and bigoted. Christians are not "tolerant", so we dont tolerate them.
Im sure you have many issues against christians, maybe youve met some hypocrites along the way, i dont know. Just look over the anger in your response to my post and you tell me who has the problem with hate.
You know that news outlets around the country are hard at work making the on screen volcano graphics, lining up siesmologists, and all the siesmologists are picking out ties to look nice for TV. News writers are looking up lava, volcano, and erupt in the thesaurus. I dunno, maybe im too cynical for my own good. I cant help but think, people die in these sort of things. It is interesting scientifically, and historically, but if I see one flashy graphic on fox or msnbc like "Fire in the hole", "Go with the flow", or "Magma-nificent" Im gonna go back to reading books.
Yeah, I think the government should be left out of it. I think if a site chooses not to label themselves as pornography that is thier own thing, but they will probably miss the target viewer they were looking for in the first place. Plus, in future litigation (lightning crashes in the background), having your site listed as .xxx makes it hard to say you were trying to "lure little children". Obviously the best way to filter what your kids, or husband or wife, sees, is to surf with them.
The family that surfs together, stays together.
Well, in America they teach that the first Thanksgiving was when the Pilgrims thanked the Indians for sustaining them through the winter. They also turned christmas vacation into "winter" vacation, and take the word christmas out of carols replacing it with "winter" as in "then one foggy winter's eve". So no, they dont have a banner saying "There is NO god" because that would mention god.
Of course, in other countries, indonesia and sudan to name a few they murder christians so I suppose I should count my blessings. Christianity will "get off its cross" when the world stops putting it back up there.
Why dont we just add .xxx or .sex to the ridiculous list of domains out there and restrict all pornographic material to those sections. If you think of newsgroups, you *generally* only get porn if youre looking for it. This way people who dont want porn could avoid it, and those who do could get to it more easily. Parental controls would be more effective as well. Many sites now do not venture from .com because it doesnt look professional. I dont think a site devoted to asian girls in pantyhose has to worry about creating a diginified look.
Urinating is unamerican son, only communists urinate.
This is basically The Sims for the NSA.
Next thing you know you'll feel compelled to take a swim, only later you'll notice the ladder has been removed...
All your JPEGS are belong to Adobe?
Something about Soviet Russia, im not sure how it goes, but your mother was a whore.
I, for one, welcome our new gigabyte-sized image format.
Microsoft Pricetag(tm) and Microsoft HardToOpenBox (tm). Those kinda features.
You know what would lure people away from Microsoft Office? Forget Clippy, get some nice ani Gif's of a bikini-clad Carmen Electra showing you how to properly format an interdepartment memo. Maybe an oiled up Brad Pitt for the ladies.
First off, i find it ironic you respond as an Anonymous Coward given my statement about terrorists not identifying themselves. Second, this is unrelated but I will respond anyway.
I did not say that all arabs should be bombed. Infact, I said that it is cowardice on the part of the terrorists to not identify themselves when they fight, because they put other people at risk. The united states does not want to kill civilians. Aside from the morality (which the US DOES have despite what the blogs, the UN, or Al Jazzera would tell you), it is bad public relations, it costs ammunition and time. If all we wanted to do was eliminate a threat we could have stayed in our bombers and boats. By being on the ground we are attempting to identify the threat and eliminate it. It has nothing to do with indiscriminate bombing.
Feel free to respond to this in any unrelated and illogical way you see fit. For bonus points, use the words "Haliburton" or "Right-Wing Religious Conservative Nutcase".
I reject your argument, we are not murdering innocent people. If we simply wanted to kill civilians we wouldnt be where we were not. Would that the terrorists be so kind as to put on a uniform to discriminate themselves from the populace. Soldiers wear uniforms for that very reason, to identify themselves as combatants so innocent lives are not lost in war. Unfortunately they have chosen to risk the lives of thier neighbors , in the name of greater camoflauge.
Do you care that hundreds of thounds of people were killed in the name of Iraqi Domestic Policy?
Call me a purist, but I think the akward "Kiss Goodbye" between Jar Jar Binks and Chewbacca in the cantina is unappreciated at best.
Also, I heard thanks to product placement, the death star now has the AT&T Logo slightly superimposed.
You must be talking about North Korea, Sudan, or something because i know youre not talking about the US. The ones who dont blow up buildings they are being shot at from just because they are "shrines"
I hear they are just gonna take about 10 hours of In-Game footage from Star Wars Galaxies and splice in some explosions and gold bikini's here and there.
I would just like to say i for one am against this article being posted. We need to be more united, especially in this tense election season. Stories like this serve to divide, and not unite. Let us think of those who came before us, to unite us. Lincoln would say, a forum divided against itself cannot parse, Martin Luther King would ask that we judge not on the appearance of our grammar but the content of our thread. This article says we are wired to be in opposition to each other, and that is patently not true. We can come together and unite as a nation again if we agree to stay clear of that which would divide us. Even a dope brained, bleeding heart, wishy-washy, tree-hugging, godless, long haired hippified liberal pansy could understand that.
Oh Yeah? My lawyer should be sending you a brief on our exclusive use of the Hello World algorithm. If you intended on creating the words "Hello" and "World", and using them in the context of a generic greating, this falls under the DMCA and you will have to licence these elements from 2LingProg Ltd or face litigation.
Our parent company, SCO, may consider purchasing your company after you go bankrupt and adding "Goodbye World" as a service pack for paying customers.
So how should I price Hello World? I just wrote it in C.
Hmm, competition? No competition! You can find some software books that show you how to make your OWN Hello World, but who has time for that?
Some of those books cost 100 Dollars or more... So that I dont look like an "underdog" im gonna charge $250 dollars. Even better, I could convert Hello World, into Hello World for Workgroups, change the font to something a little more professional, and sell it for $325 plus maintenance and security fees.
Remember Johnny Jihad Walker? The apple-pie eater they found fighting for the taliban. I agree we can housebrew some violent fanatics here too, but... none of the 19 on 9/11 were americans. Or the WTC bombing in 93, the Madrid bombings, Embassy Bombings, or Bali.
So do we search all muslims and arabs? Would that have even helped on 9/11? They only had box cutters, they would have been let onboard im sure. I think the point of this story is... we need to get politics OUT of homeland security. It shouldnt be a campaign issue, we should be able to trust that our leaders, no matter who they are, will defend us no matter what it looks like.
In hindsight it would have been great if we arrested these men for terrorism before they boarded the planes, but if we had, you would have heard an outcry of racial profiling. After all, they only had box cutters, what could they do with that?
If we are unable to trust our leaders to act in our best interest, than we should elect ones we CAN trust. If no leader exists whom we can implicitly trust, then we need to re-evaluate the current system and maybe some of us armchair politicians should run