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Post by bazbear on Nov 27, 2008 21:26:50 GMT -4
you ignore the part of calculation related to the missing brothers or sisters or grandparents alive. It matters not LK, these sorts math tricks have been around for at least as long as I've been alive (and I'm certain a heck of lot..centuries at least...longer)
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Post by bazbear on Nov 27, 2008 21:16:08 GMT -4
At least two Mormons have now lost their jobs because of their support of Proposition 8. Scott Eckern was director of the nonprofit California Musical Theatre in Sacramento, and Richard Raddon was the director of the LA Film Festival. Both were forced to resign after bloggers found their names as contributors to Proposition 8. The CEO of Cinemark Theaters, Alan Stock, is their next target. And of course the LDS Church is now being investigated to determine if they disclosed all contributions the Church made. Sore losers. Aren't pro-gay right people supposed to be advocates of tolerance? I'd think most are, I know I am. Obviously not all. It might even more about "payback" than it is about the real issue. Politics at it's worst and most base I'm afraid.
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Post by bazbear on Nov 27, 2008 21:06:50 GMT -4
I think my prediction that Hillary Clinton would not be president was much more impressive, considering the time at which it was made. So do I therefore have insider Illuminati information? Is a that semi-admission Jason!? You NWO (or whatever super secret organization(s) we all know about from the... hmmm... enlightened ) insider you! ETA: the word "a" lol
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Post by bazbear on Nov 27, 2008 20:50:43 GMT -4
Indeed, a permanent ability for a six strong human presence in space is the the real story here. I just can't find any resources saying how, given a catastrophic issue, what the plan for evacuation is. I have no doubt there is such a plan
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Post by bazbear on Nov 27, 2008 20:29:12 GMT -4
I'm being lazy, I know, but what are the emergency evacuation provisions for a 6 person crew? Will two Soyuz craft be docked with the station?
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Post by bazbear on Sept 24, 2008 6:51:46 GMT -4
Good job people Any lurker with a "semi-education" and enough brain cells to "cipher" out that two plus three equals five should understand... you know, guys like me Even Uncle Jed would get it, y'all. *no disrespect meant, directed or intended to anyone*
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Post by bazbear on Sept 5, 2008 22:32:34 GMT -4
How 'bout a hydrogen-filled set? Great idea! Of course, adding a PA system announcement of "smoke 'em if you got 'em" would really be a blast
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Post by bazbear on Aug 27, 2008 21:24:50 GMT -4
I wonder if there is some irony in the fact that a thread about Jesus Christ keeps coming back from the dead? Well, think for a moment what a set of scripture that was entirely ordered and perfect in its construction would look like. One direct from God instead of being transferred through imperfect humans. Such a work might be of such power that its origin would be undeniable. And if it's origin was undeniable, then everyone reasonable would have no choice but to follow its teachings. The imperfections in scripture therefore give us some more allowance for free will. At least, that's my view of the matter. Absolutely, in a nutshell...but you see it from your view point, I see it from mine How do I put this...I find it hard to believe an omnipotent and omnicient Supreme Being of the sort your particular religion, and the vast majority of Abrahamic religions, believes in would toy with his "children" in such a way. The Bible, the Qu'ran are NOT the word of God IMO, they are the word of men who may or may not have felt they were the scribes of a Supreme Being, and if some or most of it was divinely inspired, I'm not qualified to pick out what is. edited to add: and NO human is.
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Post by bazbear on Aug 26, 2008 1:43:32 GMT -4
One of the sexiest designs of it's day (jet or piston engined version), the aerodynamically more trained here can correct me, but one problem was it might start to fly like an actual boomerang at times lol. In the days before computer assisted flight systems it was too much to ask a pilot to handle a flying wing's instabilities.
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Post by bazbear on Aug 26, 2008 1:01:23 GMT -4
Wow, a very interesting night of reading, one that has enlightened me in some ways...and further reinforced my belief that the Gods human beings believe in and follow are far more the creations of humans, than any true evidence of the voice of a Supreme Being. I should say here, I am probably a "gnostic" in it's very broadest sense. In my opinion, any scripture must be suspect, as I don't, and can not believe any omnipotent being would directly have his/her Prophets put together such a jumble. And I'm including the non-Abrahamic religions here as well, so I'm not stuck on or picking on the OT, NT, or the Qu'ran. The original question was if Jesus was God (I take that as asking if he was divine, and/or part of the Godhead trio). I have to say I believe no, he was not; if such things as Prophets exist, then he almost certainly was one of them...but no more the Son of God than any other male. We are all the the "sons and daughters" of who or what created us. But again, we're back to using human philosophy to explain what we can't explain...and that's just fine by the way, as long as we're not going down the hardcore dogma lane (and, bless you all, that has NOT been the case in this thread, in the main) Just my two cents (twice edited for clarity)
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Post by bazbear on Aug 5, 2008 19:51:16 GMT -4
Although I don't consider myself a Christian, I certainly appreciate those of the faith who are as tolerant and peaceful as it seems Jesus probably was. Almost all faiths have had "saints' (to borrow from the Christian lexicon...the mostly good folks) as well as "demons...evil doers"...and sincerity and devotion have never meant the devotee was necessarily a just and capable person/leader/whatever (and so the leader has fallen into the later category, what I call a religious "user"...now they may well be sincere and think they are right. But history and human frailties of the character being capable of the worst excesses in a leader,well, you'll have that).
I make no judgments of different faiths; I can only judge the people that profess they adhere to God's (by whatever name or names) word, and try to fight my way through multiple translations of the various texts.
Some would say I am lost; I wholeheartedly disagree, for this quest...misguided it may be, in that I'll never find any facts...hell I take what I like from all religions for my own philosophy, tweaked for reality of course, and run with it.
I know what some would say, I'm here, I'm there...maybe I'm just trying to cover all my bases lol
Oh by the way, Mormons, Later Day Saints...as Christian as ANY of you naysayers, probably MORE so in the main, TODAY (Yes I know the history). They actually believe the average Joe or Jane can be a prophet, and ARE.
This isn't to defend LDS in all it's history, Holy Smokes no, but I doubt any practitioner today, in the mainstream teachings and dogma,could in any way be judged for some of that Christian sect's early excesses.
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Post by bazbear on Aug 5, 2008 18:32:29 GMT -4
I'd say if a person that 1) Believes Jesus* is his savior...the specific tiny details being unimportant in the grand scheme 2) Believes Jesus died for our sins...again specific stories and legends are unimportant and finally 3) Believes Jesus is the final Prophet, at least, and in the vast majority "flavors"(sects sounds too cultish to me lol) believes he was indeed the son of God and a divine being.
I believe none of the above.
*And I'd imagine we all know his name was mistranslated/transliterated, the closest modern english name would be "Joshua" IIRC
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Post by bazbear on Jul 24, 2008 22:31:36 GMT -4
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Post by bazbear on Jul 20, 2008 8:32:44 GMT -4
A really cool program that I'm just getting the basics of, thank you very much for the tip!
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Post by bazbear on Jul 20, 2008 8:08:11 GMT -4
Have you done that before? Does the Saturn V scare them? I think I'll watch In The Shadow Of The Moon too, I don't have any pets to chase with a model rocket. Everything scares my cats. After all, they are cats. In the Shadow of the Moon isn't available here in Canada. It scares mine into other places in the house, even with my pieced together, slightly obsolete sound system. It's the rumble I'd have to think...as either one will sit on top of my guitar amp at a (not so) healthy (for the ear) volume and seem to enjoy that. *shrug*
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