Yeah, you've been listening to the wrong kind of 'religious' people. It comes back to the old observation that people are most willing to share the things they haven't thought about.
There's an analogue to that kind of nominal thinking in the scientific worldview, for the record; it's just easier to filter out.
I'm not offended: God as an excuse for intellectual laziness certainly isn't a new thing. But I'm frustrated because it's not the full summation of religion either, which often also leads to the active pursuit of scientific knowledge. It depends on the person, and in the end, religion mostly irrelevant: people do what they choose to.
God isn't the antithesis of discovery, God is irrelevant to the situation.
No, discussion of the unobservable is what separates religion and science. Science talks about the things we can directly observe and their results. Religion talks about the the things we can't observe in the context of what we can observe. Both are pretty keen on correcting their mistakes.
Of course, lots of mindless babble and power-play goes on under both headings, so your results may vary.
You're making the assumption that religious people are somehow different to regular people, and have no other motives for their ridiculousness than religious ones. If that was the case, I'm sure we'd all agree that religion must be evil. However, the whole line of reasoning starts with a flawed assumption and hurries along to an irrational conclusion.
Lost a kid? Every "point" you made there was straw man. Emotion isn't a good substitute for reason, unless you're aiming for some kind of communal violence.
You're only allowed to register.com.au domains that correspond to the names of businesses that you own, or your own name. This isn't censorship so much as rule enforcement.
Magento is an OO MVF application, on an EAV database, with an artificial (and ridiculous) namespacing system, managed by strictly case sensitive (sometimes you need to capitalise the first letter, sometimes not) XML config files and file placement within module directories. There is literally no documentation and the debugging information is pretty limited.
The modern-day GPU is the difference between "Asteroids" (a video game from the 1980s) and Unreal Tournament 2004 (an intense 3D-graphics game of the 21st century).
Sorry, you need to tie that comparison to something. What did you mean?
thing is tho that the body is a feedback loop, with more chemicals produced depending on all sorts of input, resulting in new output that again produce inputs. The results of this loop is then stored in dna, dna that gets passed on and mixed with other dna.
What? That's not the commonly accepted understanding of the process.
In Jewish folklore, the Re'em was so large that Noah had to strap it on the side of the Ark, and King David, while still a shepherd, mistook its horn for a mountain and climbed it, then the Re'em got up and frightened David.
The concept you're referring to is an interesting possibility, but isn't biblical either.
Hell as separation from God is a modern attempt to re-explain hell-theology in a way that is more acceptable to the more rational kind of society we live in now. It's a possibility if ethereal hell is in fact a "real" place, but it doesn't look like hell itself is anywhere near a scriptural certainty.
If you're interested in exploring biblical theology in greater depth, this book is a decent place to start.
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I'd suspect that it's a smaller subset of possibility than the answer to your question:
And even if it's possible for people to be benign, how about a group of people organised for a non-benign purpose?
I'd say it's possible, but only when it suits their primary interest. And I sure as hell wouldn't trust it.
Really? Is it possible for a profit motivated organisation to be benign?
So, you're claiming he's seen your mother?
'AAA', 'successfull', 'midly'. Do you just make up these terms as you go along? :)
Ah, I see.
Yeah, you've been listening to the wrong kind of 'religious' people. It comes back to the old observation that people are most willing to share the things they haven't thought about.
There's an analogue to that kind of nominal thinking in the scientific worldview, for the record; it's just easier to filter out.
I take it you believe that your sentiment and conclusion are reasonable?
Not that I think religious people are particularly great, but they aren't tautologically closed-minded.
I'm not offended: God as an excuse for intellectual laziness certainly isn't a new thing. But I'm frustrated because it's not the full summation of religion either, which often also leads to the active pursuit of scientific knowledge. It depends on the person, and in the end, religion mostly irrelevant: people do what they choose to.
God isn't the antithesis of discovery, God is irrelevant to the situation.
Yeah, and also:
Because staplers can be used to kill people, staplers are the antithesis of life.
Google treats you like a product. I don't see that to be a good thing.
Well, Dr. Who plots are always well thought out and reasonable.
No, discussion of the unobservable is what separates religion and science. Science talks about the things we can directly observe and their results. Religion talks about the the things we can't observe in the context of what we can observe. Both are pretty keen on correcting their mistakes.
Of course, lots of mindless babble and power-play goes on under both headings, so your results may vary.
We Australians are also pretty much the people in Neighbours.
Hell, if that's the case, I certainly hope so.
You're making the assumption that religious people are somehow different to regular people, and have no other motives for their ridiculousness than religious ones. If that was the case, I'm sure we'd all agree that religion must be evil. However, the whole line of reasoning starts with a flawed assumption and hurries along to an irrational conclusion.
This is either incredibly naive, or just a straw-man. However, this sentiment is mindlessly echoed in so many places that it's impossible to tell.
Making cheap inaccurate shots like this runs contrary to your reasonable ideal, for what it's worth.
I see you're of the "each letter only once" persuasion.
Funnily enough, there's more to electronic engineering than selecting major components.
Lost a kid? Every "point" you made there was straw man. Emotion isn't a good substitute for reason, unless you're aiming for some kind of communal violence.
You're only allowed to register .com.au domains that correspond to the names of businesses that you own, or your own name. This isn't censorship so much as rule enforcement.
Magento is an OO MVF application, on an EAV database, with an artificial (and ridiculous) namespacing system, managed by strictly case sensitive (sometimes you need to capitalise the first letter, sometimes not) XML config files and file placement within module directories. There is literally no documentation and the debugging information is pretty limited.
Figuring it out takes a while.
Sorry, you need to tie that comparison to something. What did you mean?
Unfortunately, Drupal stands out from the crowd by actually having documentation, despite the inadequacies.
What? That's not the commonly accepted understanding of the process.
Yay for straw men. Keep knocking 'em down.
The concept you're referring to is an interesting possibility, but isn't biblical either.
Hell as separation from God is a modern attempt to re-explain hell-theology in a way that is more acceptable to the more rational kind of society we live in now. It's a possibility if ethereal hell is in fact a "real" place, but it doesn't look like hell itself is anywhere near a scriptural certainty.
If you're interested in exploring biblical theology in greater depth, this book is a decent place to start.