it was the "in-thing" to happen to sinners in jesus' time, being possessed.
some could boast they had legions of demons calling their body home.. it was also a primary miracle for the top christians to perform, ridding demons away, proof you had god's spirit.
"be gone you demon!!".
My mom claims to have been posessed by one for several seconds while using a Ouaji board with her teenage friends. She "saw a shadow move across the room, enter her, and could feel it's evil."
But it had nothing to do with the fact they were also experimenting with drugs that night and trying to freak eachother out. She 'had not taken that much yet'.
- Lime
i am looking into getting myself a pellet pistol.
my reason for a pellet is it will not kill anyone but sting them pretty good.
we have been getting some undesirable's and they have been breaking in to my neighbors places.
As far as using something so powerful, it says not to kill, it doesn't say anything about blowing someone's kneecaps off.
Be careful with this - talking to some police in Colorado, they will warn that in court firearms involved in self-defense can often become an all-or-nothing event. The courts can rule that if an attacker wasn't a big enough of a threat for you to kill them, then they weren't enough of a threat for you to fire at them at all (if you don't intend to kill with a shot, fire a warning shot that misses entirely, and if that doesn't stop them, and it's you-or-them - it's shoot to kill.)
Police also warn that if you're going to produce a weapon, you best be prepared to kill with it immediately. The 'fight or flight' instinct will be triggered in your attackers, and things can happen very fast (some may run, some may attack, sometimes additional weapons are produced).
A gun is a frightning weapon... but it's no guarantee that someone will automaticlly leave.
- Lime
i am looking into getting myself a pellet pistol.
my reason for a pellet is it will not kill anyone but sting them pretty good.
we have been getting some undesirable's and they have been breaking in to my neighbors places.
For about the same price you can get a do-it-yourself wireless home alarm system - they come with several door/window sensors, a motion sensor, a central unit, and a couple keychain remotes to arm/disarm the system.
That coupled with perhaps a small can as a last resort.. but most people won't stick around if an alarm is going off, and that way you don't have to worry about escalating violence (you pull out a pellet gun only to find out one of them has a real one.)
- Lime
as a christian, i would like to apologize for the stupid and insensitive remarks made by pat robertson.
instead of throwing stones from his ivory tower in virginia, he should have taken a que from the one he claims to follow who when asked about the murders of galileans making their sacrifices by pilate said, "do you think that these galileans were worse sinners than all the other galileans because they suffered this way?
but unless you repent, you too will all perish.
The second of Jesus's 'greatest commandments' was to love your neighbor as yourself - which is certainly a good thing.
I don't care what some BS TV figure spews, regardless of what side he claims to be on (unfortunately, most people do care, and embrace.) There are liberals that spew the very finger-pointing, hateful crap that I find disgusting. It never helps the side the fingers aren't pointing at - it just inferiorates the other side for having their mistakes magnififed, and the good works they do ignored.
I care about actions and solutions. Shit happens. If Chrisitians do their best to contribute and help the people of Haiti, not just in prayer, but with actions and THEN with prayer and best wishes,
Who can find fault with that?
- Lime
http://e-watchman.com/.
"at this late hour millions of jehovahs witnesses have already been stumbled, including people once associated with jehovahs witnesses such as family or relatives of jehovahs witnesses, and there are those many millions who have partaken of a bible study with jehovahs witnesses but who did not commit to become jehovahs witnesses, who are now increasingly, often rabidly, hostile to the watchtower organization.
those legions of stumbled individuals, united through dozens of internet discussion boards and so-called "recovery" groups, are now unwittingly primed to do an evil work during the hour of darkness soon to engulf this wicked world.
So, in other words, the JW Apostate Alert Level has been raised to 4. ORANGE - "Heightened Apostate Activity".
- Lime
i'm looking into voice recognition software.
has anyone here tried any.
the only one i've heard of is dragon software.
I can understand why it would need a quiet setting but I don't have much time and patience. I wonder if the newer versions are more efficient?
I bet realistically it's about the same (maybe a tad better thanks to faster processor speed and some marginal improvements). A lot seems to depend on your voice. I don't have a strong accent, so it could take dication from me at a normal speaking pace (Dragon uses some grammatical analysis to figure out words you said.. so it'll get it wrong initially, but as you complete the sentence it may correct itself.) It always requires some proof-reading, which frankly I think is done better in a second pass with the keyboard, rather than using the dumb voice commands while creating the draft. Usually you want to fix grammer and stuff afterwards anyway.
When I used it.. it tended to be a bit of a novelty - it could eventually get the job done, but not without some pain. In the end, I could still type things faster and with better accuracy, so unless the technology has vastly improved, or you really need to be hands-free, I wouldn't bother. (With a cordless headset, it might be nice if it could take notes/dictation while I pace around the room brainstorming or work on the whiteboard.)
The price does seem to be an issue now.. $200? I think it was about $80 when I got it (version 5 I think).
- Lime
... how you can take a book written centurys ago, and vague at that, and try to decern what the writers "really" meant and how the doomsday prophecys "really" indicated our times.
doesn't feel like your chasing your tail?
why not, eat and drink for tomorrow you may die?
Take one down, and pass it around...
(Both sides)
- Lime
i have a jw friend who's done somethings with his jw girlfriend in the porneia category.
not intercourse though.. he wants to go to the elders and confess.
i'm not sure of his reasons why, i mean he sees the bs of the cult.
When my ex-wife got into some trouble, she insisted on going to the elders to confess.
She came out crying, and cried/screamed something like "That was the most humilliating experience in my life. I will never step foot in that place again."
She refused to say anything more about what happened in there, and they certainly didn't help either of us sort things out in some rough times. But sure enough, she never set foot in that hall again. When we bumped into a couple elders from that hall at the grocery store some time later, as soon as they spotted us she spun around and practically ran to the car without speaking to either of them. I'm betting one of them was on the JC.
So... just saying.. try to be prepared for the potential negative effects of this. You may go to find 'spiritual forgiveness' - what you're likely to find is an inquisition (funny, I don't remember Jesus demanding detailed accounts from the prostitutes he offered forgiveness to...).
- Lime
i'm looking into voice recognition software.
has anyone here tried any.
the only one i've heard of is dragon software.
I tried Dragon about 7 years ago, and it was pretty good at that time for simple dictation and voice commands.
I don't know if they still offer it, but when I got mine their big selling point was that it included a good Plantronics headset with a good noise-cancelling microphone in it (getting a clear sample is the first challenge of voice rec). It was indeed a really good headset, and I still have and use it today with skype - it's quality is awesome and it's survived far longer than any other headset I've owned without parts breaking/falling off.
EDIT: It seems this may no longer be the case, according to the cnet review:
The bad: The pricey license of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 serves only one user; rocky installation on Windows Vista; no Mac option; poor audio quality on included headset led to poor results.
Bummer. :/
- Lime
for years i believed that god had created all the plants and their elements and nutrients specifically for us.
yesterday as i was walking at the getty museum was smelling the garlic plants in the garden and made me wonder.
if we are a product of evolution and the survival of the fittest, why do we depend on a wide variety of plants to survive?
It is very possible, and easy to imagine if you think about it. There are molecules that self replicate when in the right environment. They also adapt. That pretty much meets many definitions of what life is: self-sustaining things that reproduce and adapt.
I just thought I'd throw in this video that is probably related to what BurnTheShips is refering to (not really a scientific reference, but a good starting point for anyone interested in current abiogenesis theories.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg
- Lime
