"This is a bit of philosophy, but it doesn't have much to do with Christianity. Christianity says you should strive to work so you can use your excess to help the poor, orphans and widows. Christianity says in order to be great, you must give it all away sacrificially and be the servant of all. So in a way, you're supposed to strive in Christianity so you can help more people, but striving in itself is a separate thing."
There would be no poor if the so called Christians gave their excesses instead of created more ways to fleece the poor. ALL religions claim this virtue but only a few actually do it, and the few that do it are good people in spite of their religion and there are plenty of no delusion that give their excess wealth to the needy
">>> I have yet to see anything truly innovative come out of Apple
I can think of two things:
1984 - mouse based OS (yes they copied it from Xerox, but they were first to put it in a home desktop)"
you mean you said this or is there another post you are referring to ?
"'You can literally put facts in front of people, and they will just ignore them,' said Mark Lubell, the director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at the University of California, "
"I've read all of those verses many times...as I have the entire Bible from start to finish...many times. The interesting thing is reading it in the whole context of the Bible." it is still crap no matter what context.
"Obviously, you are starting out with a predisposition of hating Christian." - no, i just hate thoughtless crap and stupidity justifications for crap
"We begin to change our morals and values" - i certainly wouldn't want to turn to using any "holy" book morals as they don't have many
"It should be noted that most of the great scientists for the past 2,000 in the western world consider the Bible to be Truth and found no conflict in their faith and science." - just where did you get this crap?
Does that also work for the mass genocide encouraged by this so called god of forgiveness? "1 Samuel 15:3: "This is what the Lord Almighty says... 'Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' "
"‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.’ (Genesis 22:2)"
"The LHC was budged at 7.5 billion euros" - over how many years? One scientist on TV last night said it costs less than a medium size university to run annually
"Raise and educate your children the way you want, and I'll raise and educate my children the way I want" thats all well and good except if you want to allow ignorant people to raise their children to believe in creationism, that'll only make them ignorant of the facts.
No children should be taught anything about a god or creationism (unless its a mythology class) , it should be a crime to teach children to be ignorant.
"As someone who actually does believe in Creationism I am holding my head in shame." - sorry, but I had to correct that for you. HAve you not visited the creationist museum in kentucky? Its a valid claim for them
well, why not research your questions to answer them? Green energy as far as i'm concerned is still at the steam engine stage when compared to current energy production. Once the battery tech improves enough to give you more than 400 miles per charge and they can find away to charge efficiently while driving to extend the charge and batteries become cheaper to produce then these options are for the bigger wallets (and public transport)
yes, but IF all the energy used is renewable, its not an argument for not doing it. If its all gas, coal etc energy to produce them then it can be an argument. High cost materials are irrelevant if they are produced with renewable energy
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"This is a bit of philosophy, but it doesn't have much to do with Christianity. Christianity says you should strive to work so you can use your excess to help the poor, orphans and widows. Christianity says in order to be great, you must give it all away sacrificially and be the servant of all. So in a way, you're supposed to strive in Christianity so you can help more people, but striving in itself is a separate thing."
There would be no poor if the so called Christians gave their excesses instead of created more ways to fleece the poor. ALL religions claim this virtue but only a few actually do it, and the few that do it are good people in spite of their religion and there are plenty of no delusion that give their excess wealth to the needy
And you would have preferred John McCain and Sarah Palin running the country? Shows how much common sense you have....
Unless you are an arms dealer ....
"due to being improperly configured."
was that during install time when you inserted the Windows install disk instead of SuSE or Redhat? --
">>> I have yet to see anything truly innovative come out of Apple I can think of two things: 1984 - mouse based OS (yes they copied it from Xerox, but they were first to put it in a home desktop)"
you mean you said this or is there another post you are referring to ?
"'You can literally put facts in front of people, and they will just ignore them,' said Mark Lubell, the director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at the University of California, "
Welcome to the world of the Creationists
yes, but those other zealots probably believe in something that is tangible and not vapourware like a god
That means the day of the troll is almost over....
"I've read all of those verses many times...as I have the entire Bible from start to finish...many times. The interesting thing is reading it in the whole context of the Bible." it is still crap no matter what context.
"Obviously, you are starting out with a predisposition of hating Christian." - no, i just hate thoughtless crap and stupidity justifications for crap
"We begin to change our morals and values" - i certainly wouldn't want to turn to using any "holy" book morals as they don't have many
"It should be noted that most of the great scientists for the past 2,000 in the western world consider the Bible to be Truth and found no conflict in their faith and science." - just where did you get this crap?
I'd say the same to you, read the bible or did you miss these bits....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6120373/Top-10-worst-Bible-passages.html
Does that also work for the mass genocide encouraged by this so called god of forgiveness? "1 Samuel 15:3: "This is what the Lord Almighty says ... 'Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' "
"‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt-offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.’ (Genesis 22:2)"
etc etc
"I'm not half as think as you drunk I am."
Yoda, is that you?
Enterprises want someone else to blame if it goes titsup.com. enterprise managers are wimps and clueless
The scientology outfit's god is slightly different in that its supposed to be an alien,
"The LHC was budged at 7.5 billion euros" - over how many years? One scientist on TV last night said it costs less than a medium size university to run annually
I download PDFs in opera and it will auto-launch okular without any setting up.
Global warming is the acceleration of the cycle not the creation of it.
"but many of us have direct experience with God." - we all hear things at times but not many of us are foolish to attribute them to a god.
"I have no need of faith in his existence." - that makes your agnostic, "god" and "faith" - you can't have one without the other
thats because they are painting themselves into a ever decreasing corner space
"Raise and educate your children the way you want, and I'll raise and educate my children the way I want"
thats all well and good except if you want to allow ignorant people to raise their children to believe in creationism, that'll only make them ignorant of the facts.
No children should be taught anything about a god or creationism (unless its a mythology class) , it should be a crime to teach children to be ignorant.
Christians (creationist ones) will never put proof over their interpretation of their book of fairy tales.
"As someone who actually does believe in Creationism I am holding my head in shame ." - sorry, but I had to correct that for you. HAve you not visited the creationist museum in kentucky? Its a valid claim for them
I'm not. I've got an old laptop with a Radeon and i can't update opnesuse passed 11.4 because 12.1 will not load the GUI.
well, why not research your questions to answer them? Green energy as far as i'm concerned is still at the steam engine stage when compared to current energy production. Once the battery tech improves enough to give you more than 400 miles per charge and they can find away to charge efficiently while driving to extend the charge and batteries become cheaper to produce then these options are for the bigger wallets (and public transport)
yes, but IF all the energy used is renewable, its not an argument for not doing it. If its all gas, coal etc energy to produce them then it can be an argument. High cost materials are irrelevant if they are produced with renewable energy