Now THAT'S useful!
Oh, and although it's an older post and off-topic to the OP... I would just speak a word of additional caution before going into OC'ing madness. Back in the day I had relatively low success rates manually reconnecting pins on CPUs and stuff like that. Now that they have...
My interest has definitely been piqued by this narrative; thanks for sharing!
Despite being an atheistic-leaning agnostic, I don't try to confront personal spiritual experiences or dispute their validity. However, rarely are they so thoroughly documented and pleasantly presented. Awesome...
Just responding to the OP... yes, I have experienced tremendous discrimination since I 'came out'... but that's because I attend a fundamentalist Christian highschool where I basically flaunt it proudly.
My relationship with my Catholic mom has been strained considerably as well.
I can't speak...
Jared Diamond summed up my perspective pretty well. I'll paraphrase:
It's far more advantageous to the species for individual organisms to devote most of their energy to reproduction than it would be to focus on repair. Extensive genetic diversity and more explosive population growth with...
It can be handled in a variety of ways. You can easily fit it into a Christian world view, given the corruption of nature etc. and the pervasiveness of sin.
From a secular perspective, it can either inspire to a lifestyle of Epicureanism or one of despondency/suicide.
Inevitable doom isn't...
I second the already dominant opinion expressed here. :P
My only gripe with Firefox is that it crashes on certain myspace profiles... although I'm tempted to say that it's just a lack of exception handling, being that it's only the poorly coded pages that cause it to die.
Tabbed browsing...
Since as organisms we have the impulse to survive and procreate... our inevitable destruction brought on by the universe would make it a negative. Of course this isn't a *deliberate willing* of the universe, but simply a contrast between our desire for life and the reality of death.
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You could run into some trouble here...
If it is God's will that your house was destroyed, is it not an explicit defiance to try and rebuild it? If he had wanted it to stand, he wouldn't have sent a tornado through it.
I guess for insurance purposes the definition of "God" could simply be...
As canned as it sounds, I believe that suffering offers us the greatest opportunity for self definition and growth. Looking back personally, it's easy to see how times of internal and external struggle molded me into a more mature person. While it's easy to continue moving in a direction that...
Read (mainly topics covered on these forums :P), write/play music... and of course browse RF. ^^
I can have a life again, so the first thing I did was come back here.
Wow, we're looking to be a bit homogenized aren't we? ^^
My broader family is interesting, one half being Native American Spiritists and the other half being Irish Catholic. Somehow my parents worked out their religious differences, though, because we're quite boring. :P
oh wow....
Harvard, Yale, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Amherst, Bowdoin, Bard, Williams, Vasar.... yeah...
Harvey Mudd, MIT, and Cal Tech for tech schools...
and Cal + USC for saftey-ish schools.
I appended the list; it's 29 schools total. Most seniors have lives. I, on the other hand...
It struck me while I was browsing last night that I didn't recognize most of the names, and probably nobody remembers me. Being that this is the case, I figured I'd start back at square one.
My name is Hirohito, Hiro, or Ty. I'm a 17 year old high school student from California. While I was...
The teacher reading this thread over my shoulder at my Christian school just shook her head and walked away after reading that interview exerpt.
As will I.
Since you originally asked it....
I don't think to highly of Wicca, simply because in my experience it prided itself on being a "practical" versus "theological", but never seemed very real. I could only imagine "beams of energy surging from my palm chakras" for so long.
I used the book...
I guess I don't see the logic behind this. Simply "giving our wealth away" isn't quite that simple: if you were to give a Massai herdsman control of a DJI company and its assets, how long would that company survive. Even if we were to give away a significant portion of our wealth, how would...
Forgive me for not citing a letter, but I see the restorationists as enacting the same types of changes Paul dictates to developing churches, just on a much broader scale (generalization). If you agree with this statement, then they are acting on divine biblical authority. However, since I'm...
At the risk of sounding reductionist, I'd say that the issue of trinity directly determines if Jesus is to be worshiped. This isn't to say that the HS is an afterthought, but it WAS included at a slightly later date (council of ephesus, don't quote me, but 30-70 years later). I am not familiar...
Welcome to the thread Scott:D
Sorry for disagreeing with you, its the only way of disagreeing with the RCC.:D
There's no point to spatting over "dignity" any more so I won't digress.
1. God is not giving due respect to himself, nor respecting the dignity of his creation, by allowing it to be...
After reading the article and most of its links, I am left with my original opinion.
That is, there are two categories: chemists and lunatics. I fail to see a third.:D