Whats the difference between religions and cults? As far as I can tell they really are the same thing. Easy, religion is a subset of cult, so all religions are cults.
How do you know if you group, movement, faith is a cult ?
Easy again, if you group bans you from discussing or accessing information you might wish too, you are in a cult.
I was hoping to watch this happen, a terrible union, like a boa choosing prey that is just too large. Once it's got it mouth around the head, it's too late to back out, but too big to swallow, usually leading to unfortunate results for both parties.
But instead I'll watch these great beasts, thrashing about, slowly starving due to tiny nocturnal mammals who are consuming all the plants at the base of the food chain.
The dinos can perhaps catch and snap some of these little beasts up, but the energy expenditure is too large, for such a tiny meal, and they are very fast, hard to see, and adaptable. Indeed, some have adapted to gnawing away at the monsters feet and tail, and running away with a full stomach before the nerve signals have even reached the brain.
In this situation (evolution has rendered your niche uninhabitable) cannibalism starts to look like a good idea. But it is, obviously, a short term solution.
Thanks for the very informative post, as I live in the "Western world", my news has little or nothing about 90% of the worlds people. (And a shocking amount about the tiny fraction of clueless fools known as celebreties)
I had no idea of the positive moves made by your government. Most of our governments are also hopelessly corrupt, but we have the label "lobbying" for this corruption.
This is the best OSS news I have heard in months. the worlds fifth largest population, using free software, I don't know the percentage of computer users in Brazil, but even at 2 %, that means more than 3 million people freed from the FUD, and with possibly 1% of them contributing to the OSS ecology, that gives us another 30,000 bugfixers, tweakers and forkers.
I also think this is exactly what any country that respects it independence needs to do, as being chained to Microsoft, as the U.S.further regresses into a fascist theocracy, strikes me a very,very poor foreign policy.
Again, thanks for the news from outside, makes me think that OSS just climbed another 0.1 on the
Ghandi scale
and yet not one person has been able to put their reasons why in to logical reasons that I can comprehend.
Possibly you are lost, a person as willfully ignorant as you wouldn't look at map or anything.
It's just a couple of humongous coelacanths, desperately flapping their fins about as the water from their tanks slowly drain into more fruitful oceans.
I do understand, and my opinion of religion is similar to yours.
I'm just doing a wee bit to counter the meme, "Sin Tax" should have a historical context only.
Also of note is the fact that ethanol is a good way to keep having fuel when we run out of fossil fuels, but it still takes carbon that otherwise wouldn't be in the atmosphere and puts it there. I thought that was what we're trying to avoid, no? What we are trying to avoid, is adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, such carbon sourced from fossil fuels where it has been locked up for millions of years.
Biofuels remove exactly the amount of carbon from the atmosphere as they release back into it, so no net gain in the amount of atmospheric cabon dioxide.
Sinful ?
What does that mean ? It can vary from faith to faith, and within faiths, and even then changes as religion evolves along with society.
Calling things sinful, is simply meaningless, as it projects your theist views on others, who may have differnet interpretations of sinful.
Some followers of Yaweh, will tell me that the yummy, healthy, normal sex I has last night is wrong and a sin.
I can't take that crap seriously, so I can't take you comment about "sin" seriously.
I'm not suggesting they are exclusive. You can of course be free of theism, and believe god does not exist. I'm saying the statement "God does not exist" is as valid as "God exists". Neither can be proved true.
In the God Delusion, Dawkins is quite clear, I believe he titles the chapter "Why there is almost certainly no God".
Most atheists are aware that you can't prove the absence of God, anymore than you can prove his presence.
So most atheists could be called agnostics, but we are as agnostic about the Christian Yahweh, as we are about Thor or Shiva.
So yes we are technically agnostics, but that may confuse us with those who actually give some credibility to these superstitions.
Almost all atheists, are saying "There is no
(credible reason to believe there is a) God"
Remember, Atheism is "Free of Theism", not "God does not exist"
Don't do this.... Customs guys are not known for their sense of humour, particularly when it is an offensive joke, that they've heard literally thousands of times before.
I know of one English guy, who told me of his arrival in the country, where his friend had filled out the criminal record question on the immigration form, with exactly that: "I didn't think you needed one any more...". Customs took one look at it, he got taken off for a private interview, and ended up heading back to Heathrow the same day.
Thousands of £'s to see the inside of Sydney airport, can't come back for years, holiday they had planned for years ruined.
It amazes me, with all this technology at our fingertips, the default way of storing information for many office workers, is an Excel Spreadsheet, not with any complex formulae, but simply as lists of information, that are only accessed by cut and paste, or by even more error ridden manual transcription.
This is worse than a manual ledger kept on a shelf, where at least large amounts of info can't be arbitarily deleted, and they may have some audit control.
I myself have worked or a large Telco, who through a subsidary maintained a large insurance companies network, they used a giant ( 17 MB ) spread sheet, filled with useless data, to alledgely manage this network. The only time I've even seen anybody using leading zeros in an IP address. No audit trail, No rollback except last nights backup, Single write access. Nightmare.
Must of cost thousands or millions of quid per annum in FUBAR, but the manager who wrote the awfull thing was "completely confident, that it did all required"
Spread sheets for any other use but pure number crunching and pretty graphs, are a cancer strangling your company.
When will we be rid of these pieces of junk.
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Enormously expensive, horribly unreliable, ill conceived.
OBSOLETE.
Far to big and stupid to fly. NASA's spruce goose
The way forward is incremental improvement. The Chinese are using updated, but tried and true Russian technology.
Imagine if the investment made in these enormoud lemons, was put into improving and updating Apollo technology.
But now at the begining of the 3rd Millieum, the US is still throwing good billions after bad.
Look at what NASA can achieve for the cost of just one of these useless shuttle flights. (Restocking the ISS is useless, as it's only there so the shuttle has somewhere to go)
IANAA (American), so it's not my money being directly thrown away, but I was born the same year as Neil put his Footprints on the moon, and a probally older than most of you reading this, I find the lack of useful progress in Human Spaceflight astonishing.
It's like watching someone spend three times the value of a new car, repairing some horrible rustbucket, and even after the money is spent, it will have a fraction of the safety features of a new vehicle.
Why cannot we rid ourselves of this Lemon ?
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How do you know if you group, movement, faith is a cult ?
Easy again, if you group bans you from discussing or accessing information you might wish too, you are in a cult.
I was hoping to watch this happen, a terrible union, like a boa choosing prey that is just too large. Once it's got it mouth around the head, it's too late to back out, but too big to swallow, usually leading to unfortunate results for both parties.
But instead I'll watch these great beasts, thrashing about, slowly starving due to tiny nocturnal mammals who are consuming all the plants at the base of the food chain. The dinos can perhaps catch and snap some of these little beasts up, but the energy expenditure is too large, for such a tiny meal, and they are very fast, hard to see, and adaptable. Indeed, some have adapted to gnawing away at the monsters feet and tail, and running away with a full stomach before the nerve signals have even reached the brain.
In this situation (evolution has rendered your niche uninhabitable) cannibalism starts to look like a good idea. But it is, obviously, a short term solution.
Thanks for the very informative post, as I live in the "Western world", my news has little or nothing about 90% of the worlds people. (And a shocking amount about the tiny fraction of clueless fools known as celebreties)
I had no idea of the positive moves made by your government. Most of our governments are also hopelessly corrupt, but we have the label "lobbying" for this corruption.
This is the best OSS news I have heard in months. the worlds fifth largest population, using free software, I don't know the percentage of computer users in Brazil, but even at 2 %, that means more than 3 million people freed from the FUD, and with possibly 1% of them contributing to the OSS ecology, that gives us another 30,000 bugfixers, tweakers and forkers.
I also think this is exactly what any country that respects it independence needs to do, as being chained to Microsoft, as the U.S.further regresses into a fascist theocracy, strikes me a very,very poor foreign policy.
Again, thanks for the news from outside, makes me think that OSS just climbed another 0.1 on the Ghandi scale
Possibly you are lost, a person as willfully ignorant as you wouldn't look at map or anything.
It's just a couple of humongous coelacanths, desperately flapping their fins about as the water from their tanks slowly drain into more fruitful oceans.
I do understand, and my opinion of religion is similar to yours.
I'm just doing a wee bit to counter the meme, "Sin Tax" should have a historical context only.
Other followers of Yaweh, involve themselves in very strange debates about what he said.
Biofuels remove exactly the amount of carbon from the atmosphere as they release back into it, so no net gain in the amount of atmospheric cabon dioxide.
Sinful ?
What does that mean ? It can vary from faith to faith, and within faiths, and even then changes as religion evolves along with society.
Calling things sinful, is simply meaningless, as it projects your theist views on others, who may have differnet interpretations of sinful.
Some followers of Yaweh, will tell me that the yummy, healthy, normal sex I has last night is wrong and a sin.
I can't take that crap seriously, so I can't take you comment about "sin" seriously.
A 1 kg satalite in orbit, in what is called microgravity it will weigh milligrams, it's mass will however remain at 1 kg.
I'm not suggesting they are exclusive. You can of course be free of theism, and believe god does not exist. I'm saying the statement "God does not exist" is as valid as "God exists".
Neither can be proved true.
Most atheists are aware that you can't prove the absence of God, anymore than you can prove his presence.
So most atheists could be called agnostics, but we are as agnostic about the Christian Yahweh, as we are about Thor or Shiva.
So yes we are technically agnostics, but that may confuse us with those who actually give some credibility to these superstitions.
Almost all atheists, are saying "There is no (credible reason to believe there is a) God"
Remember, Atheism is "Free of Theism", not "God does not exist"
Strange then that your god uses the same strategy, isn't it ?
There is no god, and Dawkins is his prophet.
Don't do this.... Customs guys are not known for their sense of humour, particularly when it is an offensive joke, that they've heard literally thousands of times before.
I know of one English guy, who told me of his arrival in the country, where his friend had filled out the criminal record question on the immigration form, with exactly that: "I didn't think you needed one any more...". Customs took one look at it, he got taken off for a private interview, and ended up heading back to Heathrow the same day.
Thousands of £'s to see the inside of Sydney airport, can't come back for years, holiday they had planned for years ruined.
Pretty funny huh ?
Bush is stupid...Cheney is the super intelligent genius mastermind. Cheney pulls the strings on his "decider" dummy.
<Pedant>
The Koala, is not a bear, and is not called a bear.
It is a marsupial, and it is called a Koala.
</Pedant>
It amazes me, with all this technology at our fingertips, the default way of storing information for many office workers, is an Excel Spreadsheet, not with any complex formulae, but simply as lists of information, that are only accessed by cut and paste, or by even more error ridden manual transcription.
This is worse than a manual ledger kept on a shelf, where at least large amounts of info can't be arbitarily deleted, and they may have some audit control.
I myself have worked or a large Telco, who through a subsidary maintained a large insurance companies network, they used a giant ( 17 MB ) spread sheet, filled with useless data, to alledgely manage this network. The only time I've even seen anybody using leading zeros in an IP address. No audit trail, No rollback except last nights backup, Single write access. Nightmare.
Must of cost thousands or millions of quid per annum in FUBAR, but the manager who wrote the awfull thing was "completely confident, that it did all required"
Spread sheets for any other use but pure number crunching and pretty graphs, are a cancer strangling your company.
Shurely you mean:
"u-haul trucks full of dvd's driving 497 furlongs per fortnight*10^(-6)?"
And how many Firkins per U-haul ?
Therefore it should be hard to read.....
Possibly the worst insult I have ever received in all my years on the interweb.
Also: Why did I not use the preveiw button ?
Enormously expensive, horribly unreliable, ill conceived. OBSOLETE. Far to big and stupid to fly. NASA's spruce goose The way forward is incremental improvement. The Chinese are using updated, but tried and true Russian technology. Imagine if the investment made in these enormoud lemons, was put into improving and updating Apollo technology. But now at the begining of the 3rd Millieum, the US is still throwing good billions after bad. Look at what NASA can achieve for the cost of just one of these useless shuttle flights. (Restocking the ISS is useless, as it's only there so the shuttle has somewhere to go) IANAA (American), so it's not my money being directly thrown away, but I was born the same year as Neil put his Footprints on the moon, and a probally older than most of you reading this, I find the lack of useful progress in Human Spaceflight astonishing. It's like watching someone spend three times the value of a new car, repairing some horrible rustbucket, and even after the money is spent, it will have a fraction of the safety features of a new vehicle. Why cannot we rid ourselves of this Lemon ?