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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 11:12 am
what does any of that even mean?!
Oh and, good morning 
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 11:22 am
Back at work after a week in Ohio. Will probably complete the first stage of a home purchase today (agreeing on a price).
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 11:29 am
and what does that mean?!
psht. I'm goin back to bed you guys ain't making any sense!
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 11:49 am
All according to plan. High-five, everyone.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Sat here fielding endless questions by email and phone about the new changes in Section 125 Flex Plan laws... which is my job, but still. I'll be glad when February rolls around and things settle for the new year. Also watching October Sky, which always makes me blubber like a Baby Huey.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2013 at 5:08 pm by Cyberman.)
Did you know that as well as referencing Sputnik 1's launch in October 1957, "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys", the title of the book on which it was based? I think it deserves an award just for that.
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 5:07 pm
(November 4, 2013 at 5:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Did you know that "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys", the title of the book on which it was based? I think it deserves an award just for that.
No, I didn't!! That's quite cool.  Thanks for telling me, Stimbo!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 5:09 pm
I'm walking home from paying rent. My wallet is strangely light now
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Just finished watching last night's episode of Walking Dead, and now reading recaps. Trying to decide where to go to watch football tonight.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
November 4, 2013 at 8:43 pm
(November 4, 2013 at 11:04 am)c172 Wrote: Just getting up. Soaking up some AC. Listening to NPR. Decompressing from this crazy trip. But at least medically, I appear alright, now.
(November 4, 2013 at 11:12 am)missluckie26 Wrote: what does any of that even mean?!
Oh and, good morning
Well, I love what used to stand for National Public Radio. And I love being cool. Gotta have air conditioning. And I flew up to Sacramento intending to go to a medical conference. I also planned an extra day to Amtrak to Berkeley. Made it to Sac and Bkly, but in Bkly, I got dehydrated and went into the emergency room at Kaiser Oakland.
Missed both the college soccer match and the conference due to this medical issue.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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