Jythier

Jythier

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Reply to The Origin of Us in Art, Science, & Technology JoeUser Forums

Lying to children as a school authority figure really doesn't make sense. They're eventually going to figure out you lied to them, in order to make them believe in Christ... and then what are they left with? "Oh, the people who convinced me Christ was real lied to me... so I should just believe them about Christ only then." Yeah, that'd be dumb. So you're getting some sort of temporary belief at the expense of shaking their faith significantly in the fu

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Reply to The Origin of Us in Art, Science, & Technology JoeUser Forums

I went to public school growing up. They told me that I evolved from a monkey. Then they told me to stop acting like an animal. How do you see whether there's a belly button on a skeleton, again? Yuck.

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Speculative fiction is fun to read. I recommend the Left Behind series. I wouldn't read it again though. The first time was fun. Just remember that if you want the best view of what is going to happen, Revelations is the way to go. And, some Christians believe that all that stuff already happened anyway. But now we're in religion. :P I am acquainted with GalCiv more than Sins, but I do know OF Sins, and got so far as to play the demo.&nbsp

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Have fun shopping! God is so big that he does care, infintesimally more than we can even imagine, about His creation and particularly human beings. That's not pride. It's what God said about us. He's numbered the hairs on our head. He knitted us in our Mom's womb. Etc. He cares about us. Why? I don't know. But I do know that he's powerful enough that he CAN take an individual interest in each one o

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It is amazing how much understanding you can have and then miss the point. It's not about forgiving just minor sins - it's everything. Missing the mark to ANY degree is such an affront to God that the little disparity between people is negligible. Without the sacrifice, there would be no forgiveness. Since there is the sacrifice, there is forgiveness. If I murder someone in cold blood, can there be forgiveness? Absolutely. Should I do so? No

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If we say God is timeless (which he is, of course) he could do it in 6 days. The reasoning being that men needed to rest on the seventh day, so God set the example, finishing in 6 and resting (because he was finished, not tired) on the 7th. The fun thing about God is that when he wants to teach through a metaphor, he just makes the metaphor happen. He's God. He can pull that off. He gave the Jewish people an entire law with animal sacrifices for the express p

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The Bible is silent on the birth day of Christ. Although I must admit that the timing of the holidays Christians celebrate definitely were taken from the pagan world. Easter... Christmas... both covering previous festivals to make it more attractive. What I don't understand, though, is how a book that frees people would control them? The gospel message is quite clear, and it does NOT say, "You can only go to heaven if you're a good little boy/g

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Reply to The Origin of Us in Art, Science, & Technology JoeUser Forums

You want like minded? I can do that. The universe has many wonders, and they are all wonderful. It amazes me often that the same atoms over here are one thing and over there are a completely different thing. That cells come together to form whole beings. That the sun is an element-making machine! The sort of people who would agree with you are also around, I'm sure.. I know not everyone around here agrees with me, at least. :P I'll see

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Based on your laws of physics, it could be quite possible that to place them closer to us would completely upset the balance that keeps the planets/stars/galaxies on course. It doesn't matter though. What matters is that he's not the kind of God who wouldn't put the light coming already, and he's also not the kind of God who would just put the light there and not bother with a source for it. What God's purpose is for doing so is unclear - I wouldn't b

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I don't know the science of stars nearly as well as you, I'm sure, so I'll take your word for it. As for God creating light sources and then not having them end up being a source of light as they're too far away... well, that makes less sense than creating them and the light they would have produced, so I figure God did whatever God thought needed to be done so that we would perceive the stars. Regardless, where do you get the information that dinosaurs were he

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Now, granted, I have to make assumptions to get to my position as well. That is more to show that the assumptions get you to conclusions, not verifiable, repeatable experiments, as observational scientists have. Assumptions applied to observational science is not really scientific anymore.

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Unfortunately, they can't. Historical science is a science of assumptions. If you assume there was no Creator, then there must be some natural way we arrived. If there was a natural way we arrived, then stars must be made by such and such process, and the earth was made from such and such process, because planets and stars formed NOW are formed from those processes. Even with that, you assume that matter always has been. Because it's here now, and now

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Improvements sound cool, I'll keep that in mind. The other thing I've been thinking about is that I'm misrepresenting human behavior. In the model, they buy 3 food objects per year and 3 clothes objects per year, but if they are cheap and plentiful, I believe the people would actually end up buying more food and clothes as a luxury if they were not saving for some reason. There is transportation and maintenance costs built into this system as well, but again,

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I've been working on writing down the exact workings, but at the same time, I continue to have better ideas, different ideas, worse ideas... I have more on it than just in this. Employees would gain experience in their field and that would improve performance and efficiency. Simplifying down to three products (building, clothes, food) may get me where I want to go, though. I'm a terrible programmer - this is to be a learning experience and I don't expect any sort

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Reply to The Origin of Us in Art, Science, & Technology JoeUser Forums

Physics only says it's possible, not that that's how it happened. Further, physics doesn't explain how life started. So, I'm not sure how you can be so sure that it's what DID happen.

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Reply to Hey Fatty! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I like taking walks with the family. Good family time. Get to talk about nature. Sometimes I'll play Zendo with my oldest while we walk, but he's not so good at that. :D

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Another Worthless Idea in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

For a while now I’ve wanted to design a ‘game’. I won’t say it’s really a game. I think I’d like to play around with it, but it seems almost like more of an economic simulation than a game in the strictest sense. At least, in its current state it wouldn’t be a game. The basic premise? There is a town. In that town, there are people who own different businesses. These businesses will, given raw

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Reply to The Rapture: The last train... in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

The Protestant doctrine is of course that baptism is not NECESSARY for salvation but it is a COMMAND of Jesus Christ to those who have been saved. So we get baptized, but it does not cost us salvation if we don't.

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