I've always wanted someone to make themselves a kind of open source person in the sense that every decision they make is up to everyone on the internet. Maybe user generated polls or what-not but however it worked I figure it would be interesting to see if the majority would make good or bad decisions.
If you needed to output the sound through the headphone jack to another amp and don't want it to loud and distorted you could set the limit to optimal stereo volume.
I applaud your efforts to live a moral life and (unlike most who believe in a creator) I do not believe that those who do not believe in God are destined to burn for all eternity in a fiery hell. This contradicts the Bible of which I base my beliefs entirely. People confuse an illustration in the Bible referring to a place in ancient Israel where people used to burn their refuse (that meant to them that those things were destroyed utterly and would be un-retrievable) with some kind of literal realm of eternal torment. What the Bible was trying to say was that those who do not eventually choose to live in accord with God's laws (all of which are ultimately the best way of living on earth with other people anyway) should be cut-off to prevent their harming others either directly or by being an inevitably damaging influence. The Bible speaks of two distinct forms of death. One, known as sheol is death where a person is still in God's memory and awaiting resurrection and another known as gehenna which was the literal name of Isreal's trash burning pit, in where a person is dead with no hope of coming back. The notion that God, who is referred to in the Bible as upholding the highest standard of justice, would condemn a person eternally in torment for a single lifetime of wrongdoing is absurd and certainly not something to be found within Biblical texts.
I would never speak ill of a person such as yourself who desires to do good but simply has yet to see convincing evidence supporting the existence of God or a need for his worship. I have no doubt that if you truly wish for the good of others that Jehovah God will make himself known to you and you'll come to learn all the answers to life's questions.
Well first off, as to your parenthetical mention of mistranslation: "In the number of ancient MSS. [manuscripts] attesting a writing, and in the number of years that had elapsed between the original and the attesting MSS., the Bible enjoys a decided advantage over classical writings [those of Homer, Plato, and others]. . . . Altogether classical MSS. are but a handful compared with Biblical. No ancient book is so well attested as the Bible."--The Bible From the Beginning (New York, 1929), P. Marion Simms, pp. 74, 76. A report published in 1971 shows that there are possibly 6,000 handwritten copies containing all or part of the Hebrew Scriptures; the oldest dates back to the third century B.C.E. Of the Christian Greek Scriptures, there are some 5,000 in Greek, the oldest dating back to the beginning of the second century C.E. There are also many copies of early translations into other languages. In the introduction to his seven volumes on The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Sir Frederic Kenyon wrote: "The first and most important conclusion derived from the examination of them [the papyri] is the satisfactory one that they confirm the essential soundness of the existing texts. No striking or fundamental variation is shown either in the Old or the New Testament. There are no important omissions or additions of passages, and no variations which affect vital facts or doctrines. The variations of text affect minor matters, such as the order of words or the precise words used . . . But their essential importance is their confirmation, by evidence of an earlier date than was hitherto available, of the integrity of our existing texts."--(London, 1933), p. 15.
And as to evidence indicating the bible being written by our creator: Evidences of inspiration It is filled with prophecies reflecting detailed knowledge of the future--something impossible for humans 2 Pet. 1:20, 21: "No prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man's will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit."
Prophecy: Isa. 44:24, 27, 28; 45:1-4: "Jehovah . . . the One saying to the watery deep, 'Be evaporated; and all your rivers I shall dry up'; the One saying of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and all that I delight in he will completely carry out'; even in my saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and of the temple, 'You will have your foundation laid.' This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue before him nations, so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut: 'Before you I myself shall go, and the swells of land I shall straighten out. The copper doors I shall break in pieces, and the iron bars I shall cut down. . . . For the sake of my servant Jacob and of Israel my chosen one, I even proceeded to call you by your name.'" (Writing by Isaiah was completed by about 732 B.C.E.)
Fulfillment: Cyrus had not been born when the prophecy was written. The Jews were not taken into exile to Babylon until 617-607 B.C.E., and Jerusalem and its temple were not destroyed until 607 B.C.E. In detail the prophecy was fulfilled starting in 539 B.C.E. Cyrus diverted the waters of the Euphrates River into an artificial lake, the river gates of Babylon were carelessly left open during feasting in the city, and Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians under Cyrus. Thereafter, Cyrus liberated the Jewish exiles and sent them back to Jerusalem with instructions to rebuild Jehovah's temple there.--The Encyclopedia Americana (1956), Vol. III, p. 9; Light From the Ancient Past (Princeton, 1959), Jack Finegan, pp. 227-229; "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial" (New York, 1983), pp. 282, 284, 295.
Prophecy: Jer. 49:17, 18: "'Edom must become an object of astonishment. Everyone passing along by her will stare in astonishment and whistle on account of all her plagues. Just as in the overthrow of Sodom
I dunno. When I looked at the wikipedia entry for Orgin of Life and read the incredibly long and complicated proposed explanations for how the most basic of life formed they started to sound pretty Flying Spaghetti Monster-like to me. From my perspective, acknowledging that the most widely distributed book is also the guide book written by the creator of our planet makes more sense to me and is less a "leap of faith" as you put it.
What I still haven't seen is solid proof that the most basic form of life can occur spontaneously in nature. I mean, even if scientists throw out trying to show life occur in nature by chance and just try their hardest to make it happen in a laboratory with a totally controlled environment they still can't do it. Why is this fact ignored?
And the male of the goats, for its part, put on great airs to an extreme; but as soon as it became mighty, the great horn was broken, and there proceeded to come up conspicuously four instead of it, toward the four winds of the heavens. - Daniel 8:8
And while Microsoft is worried about competing with Google, a company that doesn't even make their own OS, Apple will take over! I for one welcome... shiny white plastic overlords?
It looks to me that they're simply looking for programs that mess with WOW because if they don't people can cheat and ruin their game. Did I miss something?
Once they add map data for the rest of the entire earth it'll be fun asking it for directions from say, Portland, OR to Tokyo. I wonder if they'll make deals with airlines and it'll just have you book a trip.
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I've always wanted someone to make themselves a kind of open source person in the sense that every decision they make is up to everyone on the internet. Maybe user generated polls or what-not but however it worked I figure it would be interesting to see if the majority would make good or bad decisions.
T-Rex.
Someone here better patent that before an evil corporation does. Seriously, someone keep this from being made.
Strange. I was under the impression that hardware manufacturers were supposed to make their products work with the OS, not the other way around.
If you needed to output the sound through the headphone jack to another amp and don't want it to loud and distorted you could set the limit to optimal stereo volume.
I think that's called iMac.
People die!
On if you think time spent on myspace.com is better then time spent with video games.
I applaud your efforts to live a moral life and (unlike most who believe in a creator) I do not believe that those who do not believe in God are destined to burn for all eternity in a fiery hell. This contradicts the Bible of which I base my beliefs entirely. People confuse an illustration in the Bible referring to a place in ancient Israel where people used to burn their refuse (that meant to them that those things were destroyed utterly and would be un-retrievable) with some kind of literal realm of eternal torment. What the Bible was trying to say was that those who do not eventually choose to live in accord with God's laws (all of which are ultimately the best way of living on earth with other people anyway) should be cut-off to prevent their harming others either directly or by being an inevitably damaging influence. The Bible speaks of two distinct forms of death. One, known as sheol is death where a person is still in God's memory and awaiting resurrection and another known as gehenna which was the literal name of Isreal's trash burning pit, in where a person is dead with no hope of coming back. The notion that God, who is referred to in the Bible as upholding the highest standard of justice, would condemn a person eternally in torment for a single lifetime of wrongdoing is absurd and certainly not something to be found within Biblical texts.
I would never speak ill of a person such as yourself who desires to do good but simply has yet to see convincing evidence supporting the existence of God or a need for his worship. I have no doubt that if you truly wish for the good of others that Jehovah God will make himself known to you and you'll come to learn all the answers to life's questions.
Well first off, as to your parenthetical mention of mistranslation:
"In the number of ancient MSS. [manuscripts] attesting a writing, and in the number of years that had elapsed between the original and the attesting MSS., the Bible enjoys a decided advantage over classical writings [those of Homer, Plato, and others]. . . . Altogether classical MSS. are but a handful compared with Biblical. No ancient book is so well attested as the Bible."--The Bible From the Beginning (New York, 1929), P. Marion Simms, pp. 74, 76.
A report published in 1971 shows that there are possibly 6,000 handwritten copies containing all or part of the Hebrew Scriptures; the oldest dates back to the third century B.C.E. Of the Christian Greek Scriptures, there are some 5,000 in Greek, the oldest dating back to the beginning of the second century C.E. There are also many copies of early translations into other languages.
In the introduction to his seven volumes on The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, Sir Frederic Kenyon wrote: "The first and most important conclusion derived from the examination of them [the papyri] is the satisfactory one that they confirm the essential soundness of the existing texts. No striking or fundamental variation is shown either in the Old or the New Testament. There are no important omissions or additions of passages, and no variations which affect vital facts or doctrines. The variations of text affect minor matters, such as the order of words or the precise words used . . . But their essential importance is their confirmation, by evidence of an earlier date than was hitherto available, of the integrity of our existing texts."--(London, 1933), p. 15.
And as to evidence indicating the bible being written by our creator:
Evidences of inspiration
It is filled with prophecies reflecting detailed knowledge of the future--something impossible for humans
2 Pet. 1:20, 21: "No prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. For prophecy was at no time brought by man's will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit."
Prophecy: Isa. 44:24, 27, 28; 45:1-4: "Jehovah . . . the One saying to the watery deep, 'Be evaporated; and all your rivers I shall dry up'; the One saying of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and all that I delight in he will completely carry out'; even in my saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be rebuilt,' and of the temple, 'You will have your foundation laid.' This is what Jehovah has said to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have taken hold of, to subdue before him nations, so that I may ungird even the hips of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, so that even the gates will not be shut: 'Before you I myself shall go, and the swells of land I shall straighten out. The copper doors I shall break in pieces, and the iron bars I shall cut down. . . . For the sake of my servant Jacob and of Israel my chosen one, I even proceeded to call you by your name.'" (Writing by Isaiah was completed by about 732 B.C.E.)
Fulfillment: Cyrus had not been born when the prophecy was written. The Jews were not taken into exile to Babylon until 617-607 B.C.E., and Jerusalem and its temple were not destroyed until 607 B.C.E. In detail the prophecy was fulfilled starting in 539 B.C.E. Cyrus diverted the waters of the Euphrates River into an artificial lake, the river gates of Babylon were carelessly left open during feasting in the city, and Babylon fell to the Medes and Persians under Cyrus. Thereafter, Cyrus liberated the Jewish exiles and sent them back to Jerusalem with instructions to rebuild Jehovah's temple there.--The Encyclopedia Americana (1956), Vol. III, p. 9; Light From the Ancient Past (Princeton, 1959), Jack Finegan, pp. 227-229; "All Scripture Is Inspired of God and Beneficial" (New York, 1983), pp. 282, 284, 295.
Prophecy: Jer. 49:17, 18: "'Edom must become an object of astonishment. Everyone passing along by her will stare in astonishment and whistle on account of all her plagues. Just as in the overthrow of Sodom
I dunno. When I looked at the wikipedia entry for Orgin of Life and read the incredibly long and complicated proposed explanations for how the most basic of life formed they started to sound pretty Flying Spaghetti Monster-like to me. From my perspective, acknowledging that the most widely distributed book is also the guide book written by the creator of our planet makes more sense to me and is less a "leap of faith" as you put it.
What I still haven't seen is solid proof that the most basic form of life can occur spontaneously in nature. I mean, even if scientists throw out trying to show life occur in nature by chance and just try their hardest to make it happen in a laboratory with a totally controlled environment they still can't do it. Why is this fact ignored?
And the male of the goats, for its part, put on great airs to an extreme; but as soon as it became mighty, the great horn was broken, and there proceeded to come up conspicuously four instead of it, toward the four winds of the heavens. - Daniel 8:8
And while Microsoft is worried about competing with Google, a company that doesn't even make their own OS, Apple will take over! I for one welcome... shiny white plastic overlords?
It looks to me that they're simply looking for programs that mess with WOW because if they don't people can cheat and ruin their game. Did I miss something?
That's really Omarsexual.
Once they add map data for the rest of the entire earth it'll be fun asking it for directions from say, Portland, OR to Tokyo. I wonder if they'll make deals with airlines and it'll just have you book a trip.