ibooks author is an app available for download.
it helps people write books and publish from an ipad through ibooks.
your book can be free for download or have a price attached to it.
Hey, guys, I don't think it's spam in this case. Apple's iBook app is pretty sweet and they released what sounds like a really nice piece of authoring software so you can create your own multimedia iBooks and make them available through iTunes iBook Store.
Not that I've used it, Conan, but I would love to. I don't have a Mac, though. But I do think it's a great idea for those who are computer savvy and operate on a Mac.
Thanks for the suggestion.
http://www.everystudent.com/wires/godreal.html.
british philosopher, dr. antony flew, has been a leading spokesperson for atheism, actively involved in debate after debate.
however, scientific discoveries within the last 30 years brought him to a conclusion he could not avoid.
How would atheists respond to this?
First, I cried. Then I wept. Near the end, I sneezed and pooted at the same time. (I believe it was providence.)
I'm not sure how Flew's position late in life could be considered a threat to atheism, as if atheistic views are cherished beliefs like those of theists. After all, atheists don't have the fear that crossing over may cost them an eternal prize, redeemable at death. Of course, I'm not a hardcore atheist and I don't mean to speak for those who are. It's just odd to me how Christians were excited by Flew's move from atheism to deism. From where I sit, nontheism is still nontheism. That hardly bolsters Christianity or other theistic views of an intervening, personal deity. Those who hold nontheistic views reject traditional self-refuting descriptions of a creator.
Of course, that doesn't stop Christians from invoking Flew as a near-convert for their brand of theism. I remember when Flew was quoted in the WT propaganda: "If I wanted any sort of future life I should become a Jehovah’s Witness." Of course, that was a fancy bit of quote-mining. Here's the context:
HABERMAS: C. S. Lewis explained in his autobiography that he moved first from atheism
to theism and only later from theism to Christianity. Given your great respect for Christianity, do
you think that there is any chance that you might in the end move from theism to Christianity?
FLEW: I think it’s very unlikely, due to the problem of evil. But, if it did happen, I think it
would be in some eccentric fit and doubtfully orthodox form: regular religious practice perhaps
but without belief. If I wanted any sort of future life I should become a Jehovah’s Witness. But
some things I am completely confident about. I would never regard Islam with anything but
horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam. It was
because the whole of Palestine was part of the land of Islam that Muslim Arab armies moved in
to try to destroy Israel at birth, and why the struggle for the return of the still surviving refugees
and their numerous descendents continue to this day.
So there you have it - Flew giving whole-hearted support to the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses.
this is an honest question on my part.
someone on this board asked me 'how do you know' a while ago and i really struggled with it.
in fact, it was a turning point for me.
Actually, Thomas had already demonstrated his faith in Christ. He stood by Him, listened to Him, obeyed Him, followed Him and His teachings. He had already 'proven' himself, so to speak.
I don't think that has anything to do with the point of what Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason.
Thomas Paine was saying that he didn't buy the resurrection story from the hearsay.... so if Thomas the Doubter could demand evidence before he believed it, then we should be permitted to do the same.
the latin fathers of the church has never described jesus carrying a "patibulum".
indeed, the early christians to represent jesus carrying the "crux", not the "patibulum".
it's a fact.
Gosh, you'd think if this was such an important detail, an omnipotent god would've ensured it was accurately recorded so there wouldn't be room for misunderstanding.
this is an honest question on my part.
someone on this board asked me 'how do you know' a while ago and i really struggled with it.
in fact, it was a turning point for me.
Here are a couple of fitting excerpts from The Age of Reason, also available online in its entirety through Project Gutenberg (among others).
Revelation, when applied to religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man. No one will deny or dispute the power of the Almighty to make such a communication, if he pleases. But admitting, for the sake of a case, that something has been revealed to a certain person, and not revealed to any other person, it is revelation to that person only. When he tells it to a second person, a second to a third, a third to a fourth, and so on, it ceases to be a revelation to all those persons. It is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other, and consequently they are not obliged to believe it.
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The resurrection and ascension, supposing them to have taken place, admitted of public and ocular demonstration, like that of the ascension of a balloon, or the sun at noon-day, to all Jerusalem at least. A thing which everybody is required to believe, requires that the proof and evidence of it should be equal to all, and universal; and as the public visibility of this last related act was the only evidence that could give sanction to the former part, the whole of it falls to the ground, because that evidence never was given.
Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it. But it appears that Thomas did not believe the resurrection, and, as they say, would not believe without having ocular and manual demonstration himself. So neither will I, and the reason is equally as good for me, and for every other person, as for Thomas.
ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.
if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?
other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........
Zoiks: Titan, you say? Sounds swell to me.
A dozen concubines for Prime Minister Zoiks!
ok, so the mega millions jackpot is at half a billion dollars.
if you won and decided to take it in a lump sum, you automatically lose 40%, then there's state and federal taxes, so you'd actually get a 'meazly' $240,000,000.. what would you do if you won that kind of money?
other than donate a chunk to the world-wide-wit-lessing-work..........
Easy. I'd finally complete my To-Do List:
Still under consideration:
Haha, you know I'm just kidding, honey, if you're reading this. How about I take you to the Olive Garden tomorrow evening.... make things right?
so if blood is so precious in gods sight, just why did he create mosquitoes?.
or did they used to drink orange juice in the past?.
and if you feel up to it, here's a load of other blood sucking creatures that are living on you, every day.. .
So that's why my wife is always complaining about the "goddamned mosquitos." How could I miss that? Props to Stealth.
cannonballlll!!!
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hahaha, great line, Palm
Veronica Corningstone: Excuse me.
Ron Burgundy: What are you doing?
Veronica Corningstone: I need this machine so I can watch a tape for a story.
Ron Burgundy: I'm using the tape. I'm showing Jeffrey my Emmy tape. We are watching history.
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, I'm a professional, and I would like to be able to do my job.
Ron Burgundy: Big deal. I am very professional.
Veronica Corningstone: Mr. Burgundy, you are acting like a baby.
Ron Burgundy: I'm not a baby, I am a man. I am an ANCHORman.
Veronica Corningstone: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke.
Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.
Veronica Corningstone: I will have you know that I have more talent and more intelligence in my little finger than you do in your entire body, sir.
Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker.
Veronica Corningstone: You look like a blueberry.
Ron Burgundy: Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?
Veronica Corningstone: Well, you have bad hair.
Ron Burgundy: [insulted] What did you say?
Veronica Corningstone: I said... your hair... looks stupid.
[an A-bomb mushroom cloud is reflected in Ron's eyes; the knock-down drag-out fight begins]
so if blood is so precious in gods sight, just why did he create mosquitoes?.
or did they used to drink orange juice in the past?.
and if you feel up to it, here's a load of other blood sucking creatures that are living on you, every day.. .
Heyyyy, you didn't play the game right, Dan. But you're right- that part is silly, too. Haha, those crazy dubs believe all kinds of ridiculous things, unlike true Christians, eh?
