And as others have pointed out, mooching off his mother at the same time.. poor woman:s Unless she's a bit off in the head too she'd probably quite like some more money, but also probably wouldn't want to upset her son.
I beg to differ. I have created a piece of art that nobody will never interact with. Truly it is awesome in its artiness. I will sell it to you for $1,000,000. While you can never see, hear, touch, smell or otherwise interact with it, you will be the owner and able to re-sell it at your convenience.
Well, I got my summer jobs here through nepotism, but since then the IT Manager and his other assistant left for greener pastures and I've ended up as the IT Manager/Software Developer (small-medium business):P I actually had things running smoother here by myself than when the two of them were working full time, though I now also have a part time assistant (part time Contract work, part time IT) which gives me more time to code. And browse Slashdot. Ahem.
You're thinking of the "Passover" which is a Jewish festival commemorating the Angel of Death killing all the firstborn children in Egypt. Christians don't celebrate Passover.
Looking at your article it does say that Easter has come from the passover, I wasn't aware of that. It also does mention the Germanic goddess Eostre though, and that article mentions that she can be thought of as a fertility goddess, and that the eggs thing is of Germanic origin.
I have heard some people say the eggs are meant to symbolise the rock that was rolled from Christ's tomb, and some people roll eggs down hills. But obviously the whole egg thing did not come from there, and neither did worship of the Easter Bunny:p
Where in my post did I suggest that mine does? I do love computing, but since leaving home and attending University, I've done very little programming outside of work and assignments.
Your life doesn't have to revolve around your computer to use the best OS for your needs any more than your life revolves around breakfast cereal just because you choose a flavour you like rather than taking the first one that comes to hand.
By the sounds of this report, computer science grads don't go into anything!
I work in IT, for an engineering company. I do occasionally reinstall Windows and reload printers, but I also maintain a couple of their technical apps and I've been developing a few web based systems for different depts which at least holds my interest. I've sometimes wondered if I left this job whether I would even stay in IT though - it's what I'm good at and it pays well, but I also have this strange urge to be a delivery driver so I can just drive around all day listening to music:P Not sure how long it would take me to get bored of that!
that one tired line from Leviticus is NOT IN THE FUCKING CHRISTIAN BIBLE YOU MORON.
It's not just one line, and the "CHRISTIAN BIBLE" is both the Old and New Testaments. I should know after 23 years of church (before I somehow managed to break free of the brainwashing). I'd do some research before calling others morons. Also if you grew up yourself you might not resort to name calling.
Jesus managed not to say a lot of stuff. He wasn't really into criticism apart from his spaz attack on the guys selling stuff in the temple.
whoever marked these "troll", you're an idiot. I don't have a problem with homosexuality, but I do believe that Christians should stand up for their scriptures rather than wussing out whenever the bible says something that the public might take offence at.
The ones that say stuff like "thou shalt not worship false idols" or "don't worship false gods" etc, ie the AV, KJV and NIV were common. There was also a gaelic one but I don't know gaelic so it wasn't much use.
If their sin was simply worshipping other gods he could just say that rather than go into specifics of mentioning sexual "deviancy". The fact that he did go into specifics makes it seem like those specifics themselves are considered wrong.
Correct on the relationship front. I have definitely loved at least one person despite having problems with how they treated me. I put up with it for a couple of years before ending up a depressed angry mess. Later they said that they never actually loved me (despite moving to the UK just to be with me for 5 months), which I had suspected all along due to the way they were acting about certain things. Perhaps that was just a self fulfilling prophecy though. They've also since admitted that they were depressed (even said it was "obvious") despite denying it at the time.. we both were depressed and this led to agitation and arguments.
Considering he's only known the iPad for a couple of weeks though, isn't it a bit early to proclaim his love?
I understand what you're saying, but there are several passages that talk of same sex relationships being wrong. Pulling the "oh but the culture has changed now" or "the interpretation obviously is wrong" card in this case is just as I said, horse shit. I am aware of many more of the cultural differences back then than most Slashdotters considering I sat through >20 years of sermons, which did explain cultural context and were given by many guys who could read the original Greek, some who could read the Hebrew etc.
There were some many more fundamental things I had issues with, say for example God creating fallible creatures then punishing them for failing. Say the bible is true, what would have happened if nobody had sinned for hundreds of generations, what would have happened then? And surely if God is omnipotent and omniscient then he'd know beforehand exactly when/how/where his creations were going to sin, according to the original parameters he set when creating them? If I wasn't so interested in AI then perhaps that kind of thing wouldn't have been an issue, but I think that if the God of the bible exists and is all knowing, then everything that has happened in the Universe is his responsibility. From there I stopped worshipping him, and since then it's easy to see that Christianity is just as made up as any other religion. If you approach any religion from the point of view that it isn't true then it's easy to notice the flaws, and you don't have to make stupid excuses for them like you do if you're approaching it from the point of view that it's already true. Any true religion shouldn't have to make excuses (nor would it only have been given to one race while millions of others were and still are being punished eternally despite not even being given a choice - this is another one that people make excuses for, but it's stupid - if you don't even need to hear of the religion to be saved, then why bother evangelising?). From the tone of your post you may not even be religious, but I think that anyone who is serious about their beliefs should be a "fundamentalist".
Yep, new sexual experiences are probably just as awkward/embarrassing no matter your orientation. I know I found the whole thing rather awkward considering I'd been "religious" for so long, it was a huge psychological issue for me, but now that I'm not a virgin I'm not all that bothered by sex and am pretty much enjoying the same lifestyle that I had before, but with the bonus that I'm not wondering what I'm missing out on;)
One of the guys here in the office pretty much bases his whole life around random sex (3 people in one night recently, one of whom was in the street and resulted in a warning from the Police!), whereas I'd rather only have sex with people I'm in a relationship with, and I'd rather only have a relationship with women that interest me both intellectually and physically - and there really aren't many women like that around.
Most of those are related (ie the what you can put in your body relates to how "clean" things are, which was also related to the Jews/Gentiles divide), but fair point. It's been a while since I've thought of any of this stuff, and it's all just intellectual masturbation to me at this point.
None of that says that being gay is okay. It just says you shouldn't hate on people for being gay. Any Christian should be "fundamental", ie work from the teachings of the bible. Being fundamental would involve following the teachings of Jesus just as much as believing that homosexual relations are a sin.
Now, again I'll add the qualifier that I don't believe any of this any more, but yes I've read the new testament many times.
PS The bible has plenty of bloody vengeance being rained down on sinners. You ever read the Old Testament? Good stuff in there..
Oh no, I don't believe that the bible is true at all, but based on my own reading of it (which is hardly "limited" considering I've read all of its passages at least twice, and many of them many more than twice) there are many things which are clearly stated which people try to twist to their own ends.
The Free Church of Scotland (my old denomination) is probably one of the most "reformed" in the world, they don't even allow instruments or hymns in public worship, nor woman praying/preaching in public, etc. and don't have all the extra books that the Roman Catholics do. Even so, there are still obvious contradictions to be seen - though with enough faith and wishful thinking you can almost twist any passage to mean whatever you want it to. If you start from the assumption that there is a God, and that he is perfectly loving etc, you have no choice but to keep twisting and re-interpreting what you are reading until it makes sense as something that a loving God would say, which is why so many people who agree with the current sentiment of homosexuality being okay try to change what the bible says to agree with that sentiment.
What exactly about that article am I meant to be looking at? It seems to agree with me that Sodomy is so named because of Sodom and its sexual practices.
When you say Catholic do you just mean Catholic, or Roman Catholic? Because I was a Protestant (or a pretty fundamental denomination, the Free Church of Scotland).
The Old Testament is pretty clear on homosexuality being a sin as well, and that stuff definitely wasn't added on by Christians.
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And as others have pointed out, mooching off his mother at the same time.. poor woman :s Unless she's a bit off in the head too she'd probably quite like some more money, but also probably wouldn't want to upset her son.
Someone give parent $1,000,000! Or at least mod him Funny
No - they should clearly be forced to make it closed source whether they like it or not!
I beg to differ. I have created a piece of art that nobody will never interact with. Truly it is awesome in its artiness. I will sell it to you for $1,000,000. While you can never see, hear, touch, smell or otherwise interact with it, you will be the owner and able to re-sell it at your convenience.
He probably got pwned at Doom or Quake deathmatch in the 90s, refused to play any more games, and this is his way of expressing bitterness.
All this talk is bullocks
While bullocks is indeed a real word, I think the word you're looking for is bollocks.
Good day, sir!
My bet is that part of the Probe was actually created by Sony, and a firmware update blocked the Linux Sample Gathering OS from running.
Well, I got my summer jobs here through nepotism, but since then the IT Manager and his other assistant left for greener pastures and I've ended up as the IT Manager/Software Developer (small-medium business) :P I actually had things running smoother here by myself than when the two of them were working full time, though I now also have a part time assistant (part time Contract work, part time IT) which gives me more time to code. And browse Slashdot. Ahem.
You're thinking of the "Passover" which is a Jewish festival commemorating the Angel of Death killing all the firstborn children in Egypt. Christians don't celebrate Passover.
Looking at your article it does say that Easter has come from the passover, I wasn't aware of that. It also does mention the Germanic goddess Eostre though, and that article mentions that she can be thought of as a fertility goddess, and that the eggs thing is of Germanic origin.
I have heard some people say the eggs are meant to symbolise the rock that was rolled from Christ's tomb, and some people roll eggs down hills. But obviously the whole egg thing did not come from there, and neither did worship of the Easter Bunny :p
Where in my post did I suggest that mine does? I do love computing, but since leaving home and attending University, I've done very little programming outside of work and assignments.
Your life doesn't have to revolve around your computer to use the best OS for your needs any more than your life revolves around breakfast cereal just because you choose a flavour you like rather than taking the first one that comes to hand.
By the sounds of this report, computer science grads don't go into anything!
I work in IT, for an engineering company. I do occasionally reinstall Windows and reload printers, but I also maintain a couple of their technical apps and I've been developing a few web based systems for different depts which at least holds my interest. I've sometimes wondered if I left this job whether I would even stay in IT though - it's what I'm good at and it pays well, but I also have this strange urge to be a delivery driver so I can just drive around all day listening to music :P Not sure how long it would take me to get bored of that!
A somersault is a flip, not a twist. You can add in twists if you want of course.
that one tired line from Leviticus is NOT IN THE FUCKING CHRISTIAN BIBLE YOU MORON.
It's not just one line, and the "CHRISTIAN BIBLE" is both the Old and New Testaments. I should know after 23 years of church (before I somehow managed to break free of the brainwashing). I'd do some research before calling others morons. Also if you grew up yourself you might not resort to name calling.
Jesus managed not to say a lot of stuff. He wasn't really into criticism apart from his spaz attack on the guys selling stuff in the temple.
whoever marked these "troll", you're an idiot. I don't have a problem with homosexuality, but I do believe that Christians should stand up for their scriptures rather than wussing out whenever the bible says something that the public might take offence at.
Indeed. What you need for that is Wolfram Alpha!
The ones that say stuff like "thou shalt not worship false idols" or "don't worship false gods" etc, ie the AV, KJV and NIV were common. There was also a gaelic one but I don't know gaelic so it wasn't much use.
If their sin was simply worshipping other gods he could just say that rather than go into specifics of mentioning sexual "deviancy". The fact that he did go into specifics makes it seem like those specifics themselves are considered wrong.
Correct on the relationship front. I have definitely loved at least one person despite having problems with how they treated me. I put up with it for a couple of years before ending up a depressed angry mess. Later they said that they never actually loved me (despite moving to the UK just to be with me for 5 months), which I had suspected all along due to the way they were acting about certain things. Perhaps that was just a self fulfilling prophecy though. They've also since admitted that they were depressed (even said it was "obvious") despite denying it at the time.. we both were depressed and this led to agitation and arguments.
Considering he's only known the iPad for a couple of weeks though, isn't it a bit early to proclaim his love?
I understand what you're saying, but there are several passages that talk of same sex relationships being wrong. Pulling the "oh but the culture has changed now" or "the interpretation obviously is wrong" card in this case is just as I said, horse shit. I am aware of many more of the cultural differences back then than most Slashdotters considering I sat through >20 years of sermons, which did explain cultural context and were given by many guys who could read the original Greek, some who could read the Hebrew etc.
There were some many more fundamental things I had issues with, say for example God creating fallible creatures then punishing them for failing. Say the bible is true, what would have happened if nobody had sinned for hundreds of generations, what would have happened then? And surely if God is omnipotent and omniscient then he'd know beforehand exactly when/how/where his creations were going to sin, according to the original parameters he set when creating them? If I wasn't so interested in AI then perhaps that kind of thing wouldn't have been an issue, but I think that if the God of the bible exists and is all knowing, then everything that has happened in the Universe is his responsibility. From there I stopped worshipping him, and since then it's easy to see that Christianity is just as made up as any other religion. If you approach any religion from the point of view that it isn't true then it's easy to notice the flaws, and you don't have to make stupid excuses for them like you do if you're approaching it from the point of view that it's already true. Any true religion shouldn't have to make excuses (nor would it only have been given to one race while millions of others were and still are being punished eternally despite not even being given a choice - this is another one that people make excuses for, but it's stupid - if you don't even need to hear of the religion to be saved, then why bother evangelising?). From the tone of your post you may not even be religious, but I think that anyone who is serious about their beliefs should be a "fundamentalist".
Yep, new sexual experiences are probably just as awkward/embarrassing no matter your orientation. I know I found the whole thing rather awkward considering I'd been "religious" for so long, it was a huge psychological issue for me, but now that I'm not a virgin I'm not all that bothered by sex and am pretty much enjoying the same lifestyle that I had before, but with the bonus that I'm not wondering what I'm missing out on ;)
One of the guys here in the office pretty much bases his whole life around random sex (3 people in one night recently, one of whom was in the street and resulted in a warning from the Police!), whereas I'd rather only have sex with people I'm in a relationship with, and I'd rather only have a relationship with women that interest me both intellectually and physically - and there really aren't many women like that around.
Most of those are related (ie the what you can put in your body relates to how "clean" things are, which was also related to the Jews/Gentiles divide), but fair point. It's been a while since I've thought of any of this stuff, and it's all just intellectual masturbation to me at this point.
If by "extreme lack of hospitality" you mean "going round to someone's house and demanding to rape their guests", then I concede your point.
None of that says that being gay is okay. It just says you shouldn't hate on people for being gay. Any Christian should be "fundamental", ie work from the teachings of the bible. Being fundamental would involve following the teachings of Jesus just as much as believing that homosexual relations are a sin.
Now, again I'll add the qualifier that I don't believe any of this any more, but yes I've read the new testament many times.
PS The bible has plenty of bloody vengeance being rained down on sinners. You ever read the Old Testament? Good stuff in there..
Oh no, I don't believe that the bible is true at all, but based on my own reading of it (which is hardly "limited" considering I've read all of its passages at least twice, and many of them many more than twice) there are many things which are clearly stated which people try to twist to their own ends.
The Free Church of Scotland (my old denomination) is probably one of the most "reformed" in the world, they don't even allow instruments or hymns in public worship, nor woman praying/preaching in public, etc. and don't have all the extra books that the Roman Catholics do. Even so, there are still obvious contradictions to be seen - though with enough faith and wishful thinking you can almost twist any passage to mean whatever you want it to. If you start from the assumption that there is a God, and that he is perfectly loving etc, you have no choice but to keep twisting and re-interpreting what you are reading until it makes sense as something that a loving God would say, which is why so many people who agree with the current sentiment of homosexuality being okay try to change what the bible says to agree with that sentiment.
What exactly about that article am I meant to be looking at? It seems to agree with me that Sodomy is so named because of Sodom and its sexual practices.
When you say Catholic do you just mean Catholic, or Roman Catholic? Because I was a Protestant (or a pretty fundamental denomination, the Free Church of Scotland).
The Old Testament is pretty clear on homosexuality being a sin as well, and that stuff definitely wasn't added on by Christians.