Stats show otherwise. It isn't your eye focus that is the problem. The conversation itself is what kills people. They just become blind and inattentive. Often they could be looking directly at an incoming vehicle and not have it register.
As others have mentioned they have good reason. I guess you could say cops can't either except for work but that sounds pretty impossible to enforce. They can also drive really fast and on the shoulder but that hasn't doomed us all.
Beyond that cooper's ARE better drivers. Much better in fact. They are required to take special driving classes and renew them every so often. Though Bell employees go through the same thing. If only we had a test to make sure people aren't stupid enough to text message while driving.
tl;dr Christianity isn't a con because it is such an old con that now even the leaders believe in it. A self perpetuating con.
Give scientology another 500years and I'm sure all the people at the top will believe in xenu and think that their fleecing people is for a higher purpose.
Also the new testament is cool with slaves and dozens of horrific things please don't go there. Fraud is hardly a bad thing compared to some of the stuff in the new testament.
I've had cousins almost killed for leaving their church (minister hit on my cousin; 17yr old guy). He ended up with a broken jaw and a few hospital trips before he moved from ontario to BC. Oh and the more indoctrinated aunt ended up kidnapping the youngest kid took him to a different province and changed his name to save him from the godless home (he was 8). I'm sure I could actually write a few pages on this family.
I know a transgender person who got told to leave his church. He decided to go anyways because he was ok with who he was. There was quite a bit of talking and he felt pretty uncomfortable so he decided not to return again. Unfortunately in the parking lot he was actually called an abomination and was spat on.
And lastly my girlfriend who left her church was ignored and told it was a phase and that she should grow up. She was made to stay in her room during christmas... until her little sister also left the church. Then she was treated as scum, she was the anti-christ. They gave up on her completely and many of her cousins and grandparents actually disowned her. Her folks are from PA and TX.
I know plenty of people that get thrown out of churches for divorces and such.
Just because it isn't common right where you are doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all. Once you leave the city or go to the bible belt people are fucking insane.
Religion contributes to war wherever you find it. Its because religion atleast christianity gives you absolution without actually having to do the right thing. It also gives you faith in your actions since you can rationalize the book to match your beliefs. If we had no religion there would be less war. This is admittedly a difficult thing to prove since there is no way to have a large n for recent conflicts. I'm basing it in part on studies that show (after fixing for controls) religious people are more prone to violent behavior. "higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies."
Anyways lets look at recent conflicts. Ireland?... catholics vs protestants. Rwanda?...catholics vs tribal-tradition. Bosnia? orthodox vs muslims. Afghanistan and Iraq have muslim radicals of course but Bush believes he went into a holy war and may/maynot have said god told him to do so. Indonesia has protestants vs muslims. kosovo is orthodox vs muslims. The whole middle east is christians giving jewish people weapons to kill muslims/arabs. And the rest of africa has countless christian vs other group fights.
Now I know in some maybe even most of these cases the problem isn't religious. But do you think it is total coincidence that the sides can be divvied more easily into religions in many of these regions than anything else. If there were a pure rich vs poor battle or black vs white battle. Wouldn't people of religions fall on both sides? But all of these battles can be cleanly divided in this manner. And that is something to think about in the least.
Not only does Scientology have its own gods/aliens w/e. It also accepts people from all religions. There are christian scientologists and such. So its just odd.
Well I said it in jest but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_evangelist_scandals The evangelicals ARE pretty damn regular. Something about repression that makes people act the opposite direction who'da thought. Oh wait that seemed obvious.
Its cool, I have karma to spend. And it says something about the religion or it's adherants. This whole topic is about bashing on Scientology but I say Christianity did it first and I get modded down for it though its true.
Wish more Linux distros were set up for easy installation onto and from flash memory drives.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Check the distro you want and it will download it and set it up on the usb stick. Reboot on the machine and it works. If you want to use a custom ISO that works too. You can even build your own setup with it from a kernel. Its a 4.2MB no install download. You've got no excuse.
In the summer time you don't need to heat your house. If you lived in alaska fine. CFLs do hate dimmers, don't use them there. Enclosed is a good spot for cfls. Infact it would be dangerous to put an incandescent in an enclosed space. I've no idea about temperatures, looking outside it seems fine and its 2degrees atm. I don't have any warm-up time issues. Maybe you just bought shitty shitty bulbs? Also, since I switched I think I've changed 2 CFLs in my life. So 2 have died and there are maybe 20 in my house.
22hour flight and you have work to do which is impossible without a laptop? Maybe you have free time to put your life on hold or the willingness to do so but I'm not willing to give up stuff for security theater.
Nice, If it helps I was going to say it if you hadn't beaten me to it. Christianity has been fucking with progress taking money and killing people way longer than Scientology and it certainly affects my daily life more.
Parent should be marked informative. Without knowing x10 was for HA before hand i'd have had no idea wtf the site was, assumed domain squatter and left. Sadly enough they put a "How can we improve this page?
We value your comments and suggestions!" at the bottom.
Do you have a website? Your ideas intrigue me and i'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I just last night change my server from XP to ubuntu. I have just gotten a few things working (haven't really used linux besides from at school a bit). It acts as a server/media center. And I coded a few bash/batch scripts over ssh so I can control music that is playing on the server (launch a player on my laptop that controls the server). Got a web server running along with torrents w/ remote control and a vpn.
Home automation and home servers have interested me for a while but i never had the guts to dive in until recently. I'd really like to hear what possibilities someone who is in deep has come up with.
I'm adding rhythmbox controls to my phone. And likely will be hacking together a PA system. Many of your ideas interest me as well but I'm not sure how I would jump into all of that. (Also I'm a poor college student so I can't spend a ton).
Most ppl above me seem to be freaking out like hicks thinking the government is coming to take their guns. Its a joke guys. Its kind of interesting but they can't srsly suggest eating our pets.
Never said a word about intent. I did say it was coded semi-randomly. Which is absolutely true to evolution. And I'm fine with most of what Dawkins says.
I'm sure as they get put 'feet-first into an industrial grinder' they will go "Oh thank god, you aren't my local MP. That would have sucked" right before they scream their lungs out and die.
~_~ God this is as bad as in the olden days. Sure we killed 2/3rds of the populace and they will likely not survive the winter, they have god now, and with love and fear in their hearts a couple of them might go to heaven. Except democracy doesn't even promise heaven, just that maybe 50years from now the country might be a bit more stable.
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Stats show otherwise. It isn't your eye focus that is the problem. The conversation itself is what kills people. They just become blind and inattentive. Often they could be looking directly at an incoming vehicle and not have it register.
As others have mentioned they have good reason. I guess you could say cops can't either except for work but that sounds pretty impossible to enforce. They can also drive really fast and on the shoulder but that hasn't doomed us all.
Beyond that cooper's ARE better drivers. Much better in fact. They are required to take special driving classes and renew them every so often. Though Bell employees go through the same thing. If only we had a test to make sure people aren't stupid enough to text message while driving.
We do in Ontario too. I think it might be that the charge for reckless driving is too steep so people don't get dinged for mere irresponsible driving.
tl;dr Christianity isn't a con because it is such an old con that now even the leaders believe in it. A self perpetuating con.
Give scientology another 500years and I'm sure all the people at the top will believe in xenu and think that their fleecing people is for a higher purpose.
Also the new testament is cool with slaves and dozens of horrific things please don't go there. Fraud is hardly a bad thing compared to some of the stuff in the new testament.
I've had cousins almost killed for leaving their church (minister hit on my cousin; 17yr old guy). He ended up with a broken jaw and a few hospital trips before he moved from ontario to BC. Oh and the more indoctrinated aunt ended up kidnapping the youngest kid took him to a different province and changed his name to save him from the godless home (he was 8). I'm sure I could actually write a few pages on this family.
... until her little sister also left the church. Then she was treated as scum, she was the anti-christ. They gave up on her completely and many of her cousins and grandparents actually disowned her. Her folks are from PA and TX.
I know a transgender person who got told to leave his church. He decided to go anyways because he was ok with who he was. There was quite a bit of talking and he felt pretty uncomfortable so he decided not to return again. Unfortunately in the parking lot he was actually called an abomination and was spat on.
And lastly my girlfriend who left her church was ignored and told it was a phase and that she should grow up. She was made to stay in her room during christmas
I know plenty of people that get thrown out of churches for divorces and such.
Just because it isn't common right where you are doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all. Once you leave the city or go to the bible belt people are fucking insane.
Religion contributes to war wherever you find it. Its because religion atleast christianity gives you absolution without actually having to do the right thing. It also gives you faith in your actions since you can rationalize the book to match your beliefs. If we had no religion there would be less war. This is admittedly a difficult thing to prove since there is no way to have a large n for recent conflicts. I'm basing it in part on studies that show (after fixing for controls) religious people are more prone to violent behavior. "higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies."
...catholics vs tribal-tradition. Bosnia? orthodox vs muslims. Afghanistan and Iraq have muslim radicals of course but Bush believes he went into a holy war and may/maynot have said god told him to do so. Indonesia has protestants vs muslims. kosovo is orthodox vs muslims. The whole middle east is christians giving jewish people weapons to kill muslims/arabs. And the rest of africa has countless christian vs other group fights.
Anyways lets look at recent conflicts. Ireland?... catholics vs protestants. Rwanda?
Now I know in some maybe even most of these cases the problem isn't religious. But do you think it is total coincidence that the sides can be divvied more easily into religions in many of these regions than anything else. If there were a pure rich vs poor battle or black vs white battle. Wouldn't people of religions fall on both sides? But all of these battles can be cleanly divided in this manner. And that is something to think about in the least.
Not only does Scientology have its own gods/aliens w/e. It also accepts people from all religions. There are christian scientologists and such. So its just odd.
Well I said it in jest but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_evangelist_scandals The evangelicals ARE pretty damn regular. Something about repression that makes people act the opposite direction who'da thought. Oh wait that seemed obvious.
Its cool, I have karma to spend. And it says something about the religion or it's adherants. This whole topic is about bashing on Scientology but I say Christianity did it first and I get modded down for it though its true.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Check the distro you want and it will download it and set it up on the usb stick. Reboot on the machine and it works. If you want to use a custom ISO that works too. You can even build your own setup with it from a kernel. Its a 4.2MB no install download. You've got no excuse.
In the summer time you don't need to heat your house. If you lived in alaska fine. CFLs do hate dimmers, don't use them there. Enclosed is a good spot for cfls. Infact it would be dangerous to put an incandescent in an enclosed space. I've no idea about temperatures, looking outside it seems fine and its 2degrees atm. I don't have any warm-up time issues. Maybe you just bought shitty shitty bulbs? Also, since I switched I think I've changed 2 CFLs in my life. So 2 have died and there are maybe 20 in my house.
22hour flight and you have work to do which is impossible without a laptop? Maybe you have free time to put your life on hold or the willingness to do so but I'm not willing to give up stuff for security theater.
Idiot, now we'll all have to bend over. But really the scanners would catch that.
Though I haven't checked I imagine the pets aren't stacked with the rest of the luggage. Or that would be quite a terrifying trip.
Nice, If it helps I was going to say it if you hadn't beaten me to it. Christianity has been fucking with progress taking money and killing people way longer than Scientology and it certainly affects my daily life more.
I like the Colbert link.
Look up evangelical leaders. Most of them get busted snorting coke off their gay hooker's ass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Haggard
Parent should be marked informative. Without knowing x10 was for HA before hand i'd have had no idea wtf the site was, assumed domain squatter and left. Sadly enough they put a
"How can we improve this page?
We value your comments and suggestions!"
at the bottom.
I guess no one bothered filling it out?
Do you have a website? Your ideas intrigue me and i'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I just last night change my server from XP to ubuntu. I have just gotten a few things working (haven't really used linux besides from at school a bit). It acts as a server/media center. And I coded a few bash/batch scripts over ssh so I can control music that is playing on the server (launch a player on my laptop that controls the server). Got a web server running along with torrents w/ remote control and a vpn.
Home automation and home servers have interested me for a while but i never had the guts to dive in until recently. I'd really like to hear what possibilities someone who is in deep has come up with.
I'm adding rhythmbox controls to my phone. And likely will be hacking together a PA system. Many of your ideas interest me as well but I'm not sure how I would jump into all of that. (Also I'm a poor college student so I can't spend a ton).
Most ppl above me seem to be freaking out like hicks thinking the government is coming to take their guns. Its a joke guys. Its kind of interesting but they can't srsly suggest eating our pets.
We should stop paying for police. If you get raped in the ass you only have your countrymen to blame. ..... Fuck no, your logic sucks.
Woah, man I fail. Sorry, I even reread and didn't see that. Well, nevertheless I didn't mean it like that.
Did you notice the actual suit is called HAL? hehe
Never said a word about intent. I did say it was coded semi-randomly. Which is absolutely true to evolution. And I'm fine with most of what Dawkins says.
Relying on the government to be sensible is a horrifying proposition.
I'm sure as they get put 'feet-first into an industrial grinder' they will go "Oh thank god, you aren't my local MP. That would have sucked" right before they scream their lungs out and die.
~_~ God this is as bad as in the olden days. Sure we killed 2/3rds of the populace and they will likely not survive the winter, they have god now, and with love and fear in their hearts a couple of them might go to heaven. Except democracy doesn't even promise heaven, just that maybe 50years from now the country might be a bit more stable.