Climate change is to actual environmental science while Jenny McCarthy is to Vaccines. The real truth is being subverted by the Al Gore et al bs that serves no one but a few corps.
Hey, according to string theorist Brian Greene's quilted multiverse theory every possible event will occur an infinite number of times within an infinite amount of space. However, the speed of light prevents us from being aware of these other identical areas. So God *poofed* everything into existence 10,000 years ago as proved incontrovertibly by a book that they take literally. As did Thor and rangnorok and Chronus etc.
It's basically accepted by everyone except one political faction in one scientifically illiterate country.
You do realize that this
\a) Atmospheric CO2 has gone from 280 ppm to 400 ppm (40% increase)
b) ocean pH has gone down 0.1 (30% increase in acidity).
Has happened at least 12 times in the last 100000 yrs? Thats from the core samples pulled from Antarctica. So how many of them involved humans? Hmm.. this one.
People who believe that global climate change will lead to floods and lost land and changing weather are right. It will. Its called a living planet. While we might have accelerated the process, the problem is the fact people want to stop it. That's scary.
No, you get the right to alter planetary weather because you put a city on a coast. You move the city. (or protect it).
The planet won't have runaway greenhouse because its doesnt have the trigger that Venus has. Also we have to accept that 98% of all species of animals have died and we have nothing to do it. Its part of a living planet.
Seriously, though we need to stop electing people who are clueless about certain fields. (like science)
I would mod you up if I had the points.
The entire idea of the polypasshash is unworkable in the real world. Why? because of Humanity will, the fact that there is no such thing as an unbreakable password and people's stupidity. We need stuff that works in reality when its subjected to single inputs and multiple reboots and employees who don't want to do best practices. AS well as money pinching, technoilliterate execs who wonder what they can't log in and want it to work for him/her alone now, or pink slips next week.
The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.
Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space . . . all alone in the night.
Sure as along as I get a cut of your paycheck. Churchs donate to the minister because they believe he is anointed by God. If you want to spout sure, go ahead thats your right. If you want me to give you my money then I want some of yours.
None but churches have succeeded. Salvation army (founded as a church),
Red cross (founded by a teacher turned recording clerk [one of the first female teachers] who got most of her support from churches.
Barton offered personal support to the men in hopes of keeping their spirits up: she read to them, wrote letters for them, listened to their personal problems, and prayed with them.
A Memory of Solferino, a book written by Henry Dunant, founder of the global Red Cross network.
Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and Antoinette Dunant-Colladon. His family was devoutly Calvinist and had significant influence in Geneva society. His parents stressed the value of social work, and his father was active helping orphans and parolees, while his mother worked with the sick and poor. His father worked in a prison and an orphanage.
Dunant grew up during the period of religious awakening known as the Réveil, and at age 18 he joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. In the following year, together with friends, he founded the so-called "Thursday Association", a loose band of young men that met to study the Bible and help the poor, and he spent much of his free time engaged in prison visits and social work. On 30 November 1852, he founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA and three years later he took part in the Paris meeting devoted to the founding of its international organization.
This is the person responsible for the Geneva convention.
On Food banks:
The world's first food bank was the St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance in Arizona, founded by John van Hengel in 1967. According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s. By the mid sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of federal food surpluses, instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger. One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by soup kitchens and similar civil society food relief agencies - some of these dated back to the Great Depression and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come", the first food bank was created with the help of St. Mary's Basilica.
The honest truth is that secular things like this fail because without religion, people honestly don't give a damn about anyone. They are interested in profit for themselves, convenience for themselves and comfort for themselves. There is nothing wrong with these items unless they stand alone.
Once you decide that the bible should be taken "metaphorically" it becomes no different than Stephen King's 'the stand' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone or herman melville's 'moby dick'.
Oh and this is no such thing as Modern secular morals. Is murder moral? It can be if enough people believe. Watch the first episode of 'The 100' thats exactly what they are dealing with. Murdering people because there simply isn't enough resources? Is that moral. To them it is. Truth has to be a specific principle that doesn't change regardless of the year, politics or peoples belief.
You are missing a small point here. If you want to use the bible as an example them lets use ALL of it. Yes Jericho was commanded to be utterly destroyed by God. However it also said in an earlier book that In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. Also, he cut a blood covenant with Abraham and then gave the land that the City is occupying to him.
So. A: God created the land and all the materials used to build the city including the people's ancestors.
B: he gave the land to Abraham whose descendants eventually ended up in egyptian via their choice.
C. When Abraham's descendants left egypt they still remained in a blood covenant with God and therefore owners of the land the occupants of Jericho were on. The leaders of the city refused to recognize this. Therefore the solution was their destruction of which God approved.
D: God gave specific instructions how to defeat Jericho including a specific timeframe which so happened included an impending earthquake which caused the walls to drop straight down allowing Abraham's descendants to breach the city.
It amuses me that you want to use an example but fail to even understand what you are using. If you own something its yours. If its a piece of land all of it is yours including mineral rights etc. God doesn't need money because he invented it and anything that could be used to make it. Its like saying that "jack johns needs gold" knowing full well his land rests on the largest gold mine and because of that he sells the gold to all the nations and is a founding member of the illuminati.
The property was taken to be destroyed and converted so Abraham's descendants could use it because it is theirs.
The points of the bible can reduced to 7 things.:
God is eternal, outside of this universe
God created everything
God owns everything.
God created people in his image because he wanted a family
People screwed up because we chose to rebel against him
God still loved us enough to offer a solution to our rebellion
Those who reject God's solution are separated by their own choice not God's
What amuses me is that you are complaining about this.
Meanwhile they're building extravagant churches and spending money on extravagant things and paying some of their leaders extravagant salaries, and there aren't any taxes being paid.
I don't know if you are jealous or are trying to stifle them. The point of government not endorsing in religion is that religion DOESN'T pay taxes. Any religion. All those extravagant churches serve a purpose: to support a congregation. This congregation is the one who pays the bills for the facility. Any mega church utility bills are in the millions. You think the leader is that wealthy and runs it by fiat? NO, and all of them will tell you that (they also will tell you its the God's money). None of them qualifies as a business in the sense you are thinking because they make no money other than what comes in. Book deals don't happen for the local pastor in Bigbee Valley CME Church. TV time is expensive anyway you cut it. Ask Glenn Beck that. He pays taxes and relies on subscribers only too. What amuses me more is you are afraid of this turning into a theocracy. You know what? That's what the founding fathers escaped. You have this delusion that Christians are going to ban alcohol consumption, pornography, drug use, abortion and mandate everyone go and listen to a guy speak homily for one hr every Sunday while everything is closed. Never happen. This isn't that world anymore. Jesus drank wine. No where in the bible does it ban wine. Its bans overindulgence and drunkenness. Guess what? There are already dozens of laws that also ban that. Abortion is murder no matter how you want to color it with pleasant words and straw man arguments. It is the destructive removal of a fetus from a mother. There are means to prevent getting pregnant in the first place up to surgery. My opinion about abortion is not material to the situation. Some people support this. (until you suggest if they support their mother doing the same thing) Others view that any life has a right. best example: do you think Wendy Davis would support her mother aborting her? NO. The most interesting thing is that when you speak about a woman's right or choice to remove said growing fetus you can't do it with out being selfish or self serving. Yes, Christians speak against that. However, if you think that reducing the population is a good thing in an of itself thats another non religious argument.
Pornography is another issue. Jesus loved the people but condemned their activities because ultimately pornography has long reaching and graphic effects. Using their own industry standards, Adult actresses have the highest number of suicides among all entertainers. Highest number of drug use and abuse. And the highest number of mental health issues. Over half of retired adult actresses claim its eats their soul. Sure Bella Knox can claim she feels empowered by having a man call her a slut and say she loves having anal intercourse while giving fellatio to another man. However, the guardian shows that she has self mutation scars on her thighs. That is a mental illness. WE should love on her. She will eventually discover the truth. Even if no one in college discovered her, the fact she is on video means that her future bosses are watching. And they aren't interested in employing her. Westboro finally isn't a church, its a cult that claims it follows Jesus. And as a cult it stays insular and perverts everything it touches. The only reason it still exists because its cult doesn't rape children or enslave people physically.
You say its only for people to have religion and beliefs if they want but only if their private. Who are you to dictate what people can believe? What if I say its ok for you to think in private but thats where I draw the line. If I hear you speak you will be silenced. Thats just as crazy a statement. Its not only ignorant (because you don't understand religion of any type), its tyrannical. Its what Hitler said before the Jews were murdere
Name one, ONE SINGLE ONE, show that got better with a reboot.
Remove the last 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica and you have your answer. (it still is better with them but they screw over all their development with those 6 episodes)
You don't have to be a Michael Straczynski to know that B5 had a "beginning of the story" and an "end of the story". One of the best decisions that Mr. Straczynski ever made was to allow the story to end (and end grandly I also have to say).
Too many cheap crap-hounds (*cough*couch*abrams*cough*) try to extend a story as long as they are able to squeeze money out of it and are eventually revealed to have no idea what they were doing or where they were going with it. Straczynski told a really great story that ended i a really great way. Live and art have to move on.
I think Stargate SG1 was a far better example of a show that dragged on far too long. Seasons 1-8 were good, then 9 turned to crap and they had to kill it in 10. They'd tied up all of the story lines and loose ends by the end of season 8. I wouldn't have minded a 6th season to Atlantis but to be honest, I'm happier it ended earlier on a high note than dragging on.
Season 5 of B5 was not so bad that it needs to be retconned. I reserve that for the final 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica (the syfy channel one) and other series that simply go insane after been really good. Simply move the end of season 4 to season 5 and it makes sense.
That is exactly why author Gennady Stolyarov launched his campaign. So he could use technology to stop the process and give us control. He wants people to be eternal and stop us from exiting, I see nothing wrong with that.
Um this is why you bribe the person doing the inspection. Broken light? Bribe! Shoddy suspension? Bribe! Leak on any fluid? Bribe! Far cheaper and everyone wins (except the future)
To those complaining about Houston's transit system, You need to visit Tampa and Tulsa. They are far far worse. Trust me. All Houston needs is a rail down I-45 to Galveston and a bus that runs along Highway 6 commenting to the NW transit station.
Then explain why Boston, Washington DC, Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Atlanta aren't similar. They were all built at the same time NYC was. NYC uniqueness doesn't come from age. It comes from the fact it sits on Islands (Manhattan and Long if you are confused.) Atlanta is a prefect example of why your argument fails.
You are assuming death is an absolute. The premise was that Rakkarra suggested that people would find 'Eternal Life' horrifying. What if it wasn't? Then those elderly wouldn't be so accepting would they?
No. Those people are still highly stressed individuals who have a higher incidences of divorce, stress related illnesses, depression and suicide. They mask it by having book clubs, pot lucks, volunteer highway cleanup and soup kitchen service, lectures and discussions, game nights, family-themed events and field trips, hikes, and even a knitting group. Socializing doesn't reduce stress. In fact it actually can increase it. especially in competition.
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Climate change is to actual environmental science while Jenny McCarthy is to Vaccines. The real truth is being subverted by the Al Gore et al bs that serves no one but a few corps.
Hey, according to string theorist Brian Greene's quilted multiverse theory every possible event will occur an infinite number of times within an infinite amount of space. However, the speed of light prevents us from being aware of these other identical areas. So God *poofed* everything into existence 10,000 years ago as proved incontrovertibly by a book that they take literally. As did Thor and rangnorok and Chronus etc.
It's basically accepted by everyone except one political faction in one scientifically illiterate country.
You do realize that this
\a) Atmospheric CO2 has gone from 280 ppm to 400 ppm (40% increase) b) ocean pH has gone down 0.1 (30% increase in acidity).
Has happened at least 12 times in the last 100000 yrs? Thats from the core samples pulled from Antarctica. So how many of them involved humans? Hmm.. this one. People who believe that global climate change will lead to floods and lost land and changing weather are right. It will. Its called a living planet. While we might have accelerated the process, the problem is the fact people want to stop it. That's scary. No, you get the right to alter planetary weather because you put a city on a coast. You move the city. (or protect it). The planet won't have runaway greenhouse because its doesnt have the trigger that Venus has. Also we have to accept that 98% of all species of animals have died and we have nothing to do it. Its part of a living planet. Seriously, though we need to stop electing people who are clueless about certain fields. (like science)
so that means it takes 6000 yrs to crack it? thats not long at all.
I would mod you up if I had the points. The entire idea of the polypasshash is unworkable in the real world. Why? because of Humanity will, the fact that there is no such thing as an unbreakable password and people's stupidity. We need stuff that works in reality when its subjected to single inputs and multiple reboots and employees who don't want to do best practices. AS well as money pinching, technoilliterate execs who wonder what they can't log in and want it to work for him/her alone now, or pink slips next week.
The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space . . . all alone in the night.
Sure as along as I get a cut of your paycheck. Churchs donate to the minister because they believe he is anointed by God. If you want to spout sure, go ahead thats your right. If you want me to give you my money then I want some of yours.
Barton offered personal support to the men in hopes of keeping their spirits up: she read to them, wrote letters for them, listened to their personal problems, and prayed with them.
A Memory of Solferino, a book written by Henry Dunant, founder of the global Red Cross network.
Dunant was born in Geneva, Switzerland, the first son of businessman Jean-Jacques Dunant and Antoinette Dunant-Colladon. His family was devoutly Calvinist and had significant influence in Geneva society. His parents stressed the value of social work, and his father was active helping orphans and parolees, while his mother worked with the sick and poor. His father worked in a prison and an orphanage. Dunant grew up during the period of religious awakening known as the Réveil, and at age 18 he joined the Geneva Society for Alms giving. In the following year, together with friends, he founded the so-called "Thursday Association", a loose band of young men that met to study the Bible and help the poor, and he spent much of his free time engaged in prison visits and social work. On 30 November 1852, he founded the Geneva chapter of the YMCA and three years later he took part in the Paris meeting devoted to the founding of its international organization.
This is the person responsible for the Geneva convention. On Food banks:
The world's first food bank was the St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance in Arizona, founded by John van Hengel in 1967. According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s. By the mid sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of federal food surpluses, instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger. One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by soup kitchens and similar civil society food relief agencies - some of these dated back to the Great Depression and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come", the first food bank was created with the help of St. Mary's Basilica.
The honest truth is that secular things like this fail because without religion, people honestly don't give a damn about anyone. They are interested in profit for themselves, convenience for themselves and comfort for themselves. There is nothing wrong with these items unless they stand alone.
Once you decide that the bible should be taken "metaphorically" it becomes no different than Stephen King's 'the stand' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone or herman melville's 'moby dick'. Oh and this is no such thing as Modern secular morals. Is murder moral? It can be if enough people believe. Watch the first episode of 'The 100' thats exactly what they are dealing with. Murdering people because there simply isn't enough resources? Is that moral. To them it is. Truth has to be a specific principle that doesn't change regardless of the year, politics or peoples belief.
You are missing a small point here. If you want to use the bible as an example them lets use ALL of it. Yes Jericho was commanded to be utterly destroyed by God. However it also said in an earlier book that In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. Also, he cut a blood covenant with Abraham and then gave the land that the City is occupying to him. So. A: God created the land and all the materials used to build the city including the people's ancestors. B: he gave the land to Abraham whose descendants eventually ended up in egyptian via their choice. C. When Abraham's descendants left egypt they still remained in a blood covenant with God and therefore owners of the land the occupants of Jericho were on. The leaders of the city refused to recognize this. Therefore the solution was their destruction of which God approved. D: God gave specific instructions how to defeat Jericho including a specific timeframe which so happened included an impending earthquake which caused the walls to drop straight down allowing Abraham's descendants to breach the city. It amuses me that you want to use an example but fail to even understand what you are using. If you own something its yours. If its a piece of land all of it is yours including mineral rights etc. God doesn't need money because he invented it and anything that could be used to make it. Its like saying that "jack johns needs gold" knowing full well his land rests on the largest gold mine and because of that he sells the gold to all the nations and is a founding member of the illuminati. The property was taken to be destroyed and converted so Abraham's descendants could use it because it is theirs. The points of the bible can reduced to 7 things.: God is eternal, outside of this universe God created everything God owns everything. God created people in his image because he wanted a family People screwed up because we chose to rebel against him God still loved us enough to offer a solution to our rebellion Those who reject God's solution are separated by their own choice not God's
What amuses me is that you are complaining about this.
Meanwhile they're building extravagant churches and spending money on extravagant things and paying some of their leaders extravagant salaries, and there aren't any taxes being paid.
I don't know if you are jealous or are trying to stifle them. The point of government not endorsing in religion is that religion DOESN'T pay taxes. Any religion.
All those extravagant churches serve a purpose: to support a congregation. This congregation is the one who pays the bills for the facility. Any mega church utility bills are in the millions. You think the leader is that wealthy and runs it by fiat? NO, and all of them will tell you that (they also will tell you its the God's money).
None of them qualifies as a business in the sense you are thinking because they make no money other than what comes in. Book deals don't happen for the local pastor in Bigbee Valley CME Church. TV time is expensive anyway you cut it. Ask Glenn Beck that. He pays taxes and relies on subscribers only too.
What amuses me more is you are afraid of this turning into a theocracy. You know what? That's what the founding fathers escaped.
You have this delusion that Christians are going to ban alcohol consumption, pornography, drug use, abortion and mandate everyone go and listen to a guy speak homily for one hr every Sunday while everything is closed.
Never happen. This isn't that world anymore.
Jesus drank wine. No where in the bible does it ban wine. Its bans overindulgence and drunkenness. Guess what? There are already dozens of laws that also ban that.
Abortion is murder no matter how you want to color it with pleasant words and straw man arguments. It is the destructive removal of a fetus from a mother. There are means to prevent getting pregnant in the first place up to surgery. My opinion about abortion is not material to the situation. Some people support this. (until you suggest if they support their mother doing the same thing) Others view that any life has a right. best example: do you think Wendy Davis would support her mother aborting her? NO.
The most interesting thing is that when you speak about a woman's right or choice to remove said growing fetus you can't do it with out being selfish or self serving. Yes, Christians speak against that. However, if you think that reducing the population is a good thing in an of itself thats another non religious argument.
Pornography is another issue. Jesus loved the people but condemned their activities because ultimately pornography has long reaching and graphic effects. Using their own industry standards, Adult actresses have the highest number of suicides among all entertainers. Highest number of drug use and abuse. And the highest number of mental health issues. Over half of retired adult actresses claim its eats their soul. Sure Bella Knox can claim she feels empowered by having a man call her a slut and say she loves having anal intercourse while giving fellatio to another man. However, the guardian shows that she has self mutation scars on her thighs. That is a mental illness.
WE should love on her. She will eventually discover the truth. Even if no one in college discovered her, the fact she is on video means that her future bosses are watching. And they aren't interested in employing her.
Westboro finally isn't a church, its a cult that claims it follows Jesus. And as a cult it stays insular and perverts everything it touches. The only reason it still exists because its cult doesn't rape children or enslave people physically.
You say its only for people to have religion and beliefs if they want but only if their private. Who are you to dictate what people can believe? What if I say its ok for you to think in private but thats where I draw the line. If I hear you speak you will be silenced. Thats just as crazy a statement. Its not only ignorant (because you don't understand religion of any type), its tyrannical. Its what Hitler said before the Jews were murdere
because it is always Executive Meddling. Thats why firefly died.
Name one, ONE SINGLE ONE, show that got better with a reboot.
Remove the last 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica and you have your answer. (it still is better with them but they screw over all their development with those 6 episodes)
You don't have to be a Michael Straczynski to know that B5 had a "beginning of the story" and an "end of the story". One of the best decisions that Mr. Straczynski ever made was to allow the story to end (and end grandly I also have to say).
Too many cheap crap-hounds (*cough*couch*abrams*cough*) try to extend a story as long as they are able to squeeze money out of it and are eventually revealed to have no idea what they were doing or where they were going with it. Straczynski told a really great story that ended i a really great way. Live and art have to move on.
I think Stargate SG1 was a far better example of a show that dragged on far too long. Seasons 1-8 were good, then 9 turned to crap and they had to kill it in 10. They'd tied up all of the story lines and loose ends by the end of season 8. I wouldn't have minded a 6th season to Atlantis but to be honest, I'm happier it ended earlier on a high note than dragging on.
So you hated the Ori, huh?
Season 5 of B5 was not so bad that it needs to be retconned. I reserve that for the final 6 episodes of Battlestar Galactica (the syfy channel one) and other series that simply go insane after been really good. Simply move the end of season 4 to season 5 and it makes sense.
That is exactly why author Gennady Stolyarov launched his campaign. So he could use technology to stop the process and give us control. He wants people to be eternal and stop us from exiting, I see nothing wrong with that.
Um this is why you bribe the person doing the inspection.
Broken light? Bribe!
Shoddy suspension? Bribe!
Leak on any fluid? Bribe!
Far cheaper and everyone wins (except the future)
To those complaining about Houston's transit system, You need to visit Tampa and Tulsa. They are far far worse. Trust me. All Houston needs is a rail down I-45 to Galveston and a bus that runs along Highway 6 commenting to the NW transit station.
Not in sq miles and no the slums don't count nor the metro area.
Then explain why Boston, Washington DC, Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Atlanta aren't similar. They were all built at the same time NYC was. NYC uniqueness doesn't come from age. It comes from the fact it sits on Islands (Manhattan and Long if you are confused.) Atlanta is a prefect example of why your argument fails.
You are assuming death is an absolute. The premise was that Rakkarra suggested that people would find 'Eternal Life' horrifying. What if it wasn't? Then those elderly wouldn't be so accepting would they?
Believing in an unprovable comforting fantasy causes less stress than facing cruel harsh realty ... SHOCK!
which is why those with less stress will outlive those with high stress.
There has been. Its buried behind the paywall of Nature.org. Thats part of the research Koenig based his on.
without Hope there is nothing. Its not a delusion. Believing you can live without it and not be depressed and suicidal is.
No. Those people are still highly stressed individuals who have a higher incidences of divorce, stress related illnesses, depression and suicide. They mask it by having book clubs, pot lucks, volunteer highway cleanup and soup kitchen service, lectures and discussions, game nights, family-themed events and field trips, hikes, and even a knitting group. Socializing doesn't reduce stress. In fact it actually can increase it. especially in competition.