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Yep, God is merciful, we'll all make it. Well, assuming I don't kill you and steal your SSRs. Hell, even then if I begged for forgiveness I might be able to get away with it. :devil:
As long as you buy indulgences, my friend. I'll be selling them at $5k per sin. How many do you want?
My problem with religion in general is the bull**** they'll (usually the church or its equivalent) put up to get things their way, or to convert.
"God intended men to rule"
"Homosexuals are sinful"
"Allah says GWB/Catholics/Americans are evil"
And so on.
Or, even the John 3:16 passage. What if I don't believe in God? What if I believe in Allah? What if I believe in Budda? Or worst yet, what if I believe in myself? Do I go to hell?
And what if I never knew of God/Allah because I live in the middle of China and have never heard of him? I get to go to hell too, even though I don't know what it is?
In general, I think religion needs to elevate itself far and above what these supposed "teachings" from thousands of years ago and simply extract its values, which, for the most part, are very valuable - "Thou shalt not kill", etc. Likewise with the believers- no one should ever, ever follow blindly to what the church tells them (i.e. Jihad, crusades, etc). If it doesn't sound right, stop, and consult your boss upstairs directly.
Peter, I thought dealing directly with God is more of a Protestant thing?
Chris: I have a problem with this:
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There is one big difference between Christianity (which by definition including Catholics) and other religions - it's not man-made, but rather, God has revealed to us.
How do you know that Christianity is not man made, or that other religion didn't get their divine inspiration from their own "God"? Just because it's true for, say, you or Peter or Darren, doesn't necessarily mean it holds true for me or anyone else here. Suppose I'm a muslim today. How do you think I would react if you halo'd Christianity and said that "God has revealed to us"? I think they'd feel a little left out in the cold, won't they?
As for the devil, I blame the Church. The church is the devil .
-S- like I said in my posts, I am Catholic, but there are some things in the Catholic church that I don't adhere to... and dealing directly with God is not just a Protestant thing.
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Ahh, the joys of pluralism.
Like I said before, with Christianity, comes faith. It's hard to accept the facts that align with Christianity without having a little faith in terms of God and Jesus. Notice I didn't mention anything about terrorists, homosexuals, blah blah blah blah blah. Whether or not those things are "right-or-wrong" is of personal opinion. What I stated about the question @ hand - what the heck does John 3:16 mean - I answered based on facts contained in the Bible. And yes, some of those facts, to believe them needs a wee-bit of faith. For example, the part of Jesus being fully human, fully God, as well as the Son of God all at the same time. It's an oxymoron - how can "someone" be God, human and the son of God at the same time. I dunno. It just is.
For me, Christianity is not about a religion. People don't tell me what to believe, or not to believe, or what to think or what not to think. Christianity is all about a choice - a choice to believe that Jesus died for me so that I can connect back up with God. It's a relationship thing, not a religion thing. When people get involved and organizations are formed, that's when "religion" happens.
As for the Catholic church, if memory serves me correct, "Catholic" means "Universal Church." The foundations of the Catholic faith is essentially Christian in nature - the deity of Jesus, his sacrifice and ressurection. I know of some "Catholics" who are more charasmatic than a lot of Protestants that I know!
Well, my brain is hurting now. Not because of the fun/serious dialog going on here, but cauz I smell pizza in the oven and I made some tastey guacamole! YUM! I need food.
So I checked my e-mail today and I got 2 e-mails from some candidate running for communications dir. for my floor (I was gonna run for something, until I realized that I really don't give a f'ing rat's ass about these people. This place is definitely not as tight knit as my last rez).
One of them was a critique of all Ontario universities. Being that it's written by UT students, you know how it's gonna be biased. I did find this piece on UT St. George (aka the real UT) fairly true though
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UofT St.George:
The REAL Uof T (and it IS U of T not UFT) These guys are the definition of
annoying smart asses. St. George's reputation for snobbishness rivals that
of Queens. Their class sizes have ballooned to the 1000's. At St. George
you're not a number, you're a decimal! This may be THE hardest campus of
them all and the most respected. Where UTSC bells marks up, St. George
consistently bells down. Why? Everyone here emerged from the womb with a
straight A report card in hand, a testament to the fact that they
were/are/will always be in the '90th percentile' of the general populus. Now
these suckers are pitted against eachother in a bloody fight to the finish. Welcome to the real world smart asses, you ain't all perfect and somebody
has to get that 60! These guys are miserable (if they're passing),
especially if they're the severely isolated and chronically lonely, verging
on depression commuters. Commerce is full of Chinese kids who primarily only
talk in Mandarin/Cantonese and almost every other field is dominated by
white kids. And EVERYONE is seriously over caffeinated. Oh yeh, it's also
COMPETITIVE. Friendliness is interpreted as a sly method to get someone's
notes/syphon off their intelligence. And that irritating dwntwn chique is
alive and well, so don't be surprised to see some non-asian chick in a
kimono chatting about the plus side of communism with her friend in a puffy
pink formal organza dress (with heels of course). At heart downtowners are
embracers of all things and all people, but in order to see that you'll have
to get them to slow down and talk to you for two seconds and lets face it,
if they want to graduate from St. George they don't have the time to do
anything else but study!
KGB - ah, it's called a splitter and a long cable! I've got a long cable. The cable dude made one for me that's about 10-feet long I think.
Go and grap a splitter and some cable from RadioShack or whatever.
LaterZ!
Darren!!
Except I would need a 50-100m of cable and my mom would kill me afterwards... you see, all my cable jacks are spread all over - 1 upstairs, 1 in the living room which is too far away from the computer room (which has its own outlet but must have been disabled when we cancelled our Cable Internet)
My dad bought a cheapo external tuner that has monitor out - it's not one of those fancy box that connects to the computer via USB or a PCI-TV card. The big difference is the antenna connector (Asian style instead of North-American style), and it has no built-in table for Cable TV (you need to auto-tune the whole thing and the channel numbers won't line up for the first 14 or so channels). The video cable is split between the tuner and the computer, and the tuner uses video overlay and supports PIP. Haven't got a chance to play with it much because of lack of signal (I could try plugging my game console into the AV-in and see)
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Well, assuming I don't kill you and steal your SSRs. 
Hell, even then if I begged for forgiveness I might be able to get away with it. :devil:
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It's nice to watch movies in true widescreen. 
