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by milesf 10y ago
As a follow-up to what you're saying: Was Jesus a real person existed, likely. Agreed Did he rise from the dead, no. Disagree. If (and notice I'm using the 'if' proposition) there is a God, who created ev
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by milesf 10y ago
I'm thoroughly confused by what you're saying, Ozy. I agree as well that Jesus of Nazareth existed, but the evidence I have examined and gone over and over many times points to a different Jesus than the one you're describing
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by milesf 10y ago
I don't understand your point about the death of Stephen (which I just happened to be reading in my devotional time this past week) in Acts 7. Could you elaborate? I respect a person's right to believe whatever they want. All I as
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by milesf 10y ago
It's is the most published book in human history, with over 6 billion copies. It outsells every book every year (sorry New York Times). The answers are there, in particular have a look at the archaeological & prophetic evidences. T
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by milesf 10y ago
You missed my point. Here it is in parable form: https://hbr.org/2010/11/the-irish-banking-crisis-a-par
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by milesf 10y ago
I took an introductory management class back in the 1990's at a local technical institute. The teacher worked full-time and taught the course on the side. One of the most valuable courses I ever took. I don't have specific recomme
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by milesf 10y ago
I'd say "advanced management theory" may be dying, but I don't even see basic 101 management theory being acknowledged in many organization. Things like "don't have one person report to two or more people"
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by milesf 10y ago
Sounds like you're a sane person :) Respectful, honest disagreements I like. Drop me a line at immortal@coderpath.com.
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by milesf 10y ago
Nothing new. Let me up the challenge for you. All of the stuff you've said here and more can be better represented at http://bibviz.com/ There are great answers to your questions above and more, but in my experience th
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by milesf 10y ago
Well, I'm 47 now and have had the open challenge since 1990 that if anyone can show me that the Bible is not what it purports to be, then I will have to renounce my faith and search elsewhere. I think that qualifies as an honest attemp
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by milesf 10y ago
Good-faith, meaning what? Non-Christian?
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by milesf 10y ago
My point was Jack was both a tremendous intellect and an imaginative storyteller. But "obliged to invent a Christ figure"? I've never heard that before. Can you cite any examples?
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by milesf 10y ago
(facepalm) Did you even bother to search their websites? http://www.ptsem.edu/ http://hds.harvard.edu/ http://divinity.yale.edu/ http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/home
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by milesf 10y ago
You're right. The Bible starts with the first five books, but then begins to unfold an incredibly compelling narrative rooted in culture and history right up until approximately 2016 years ago give or take a few years. Have a look at t
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by milesf 10y ago
I agree with you, but only in some circles of Christian thought. Like I said before Christianity is not a monolithic community, it is multi-faceted. There are many Christian believers that are able to rationally dialogue about reason and fa
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by milesf 10y ago
Dogma is no different than our skeletal system. Freedom of movement is enhanced in our bodies because we have something firm and fixed to pull against. Imagine being a human blob without bones. Is that freedom to move? Philosophy without a
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by milesf 10y ago
One visit to carm.org or reasonablefaith.org with any questions outside the parameters you've set and you'll see there are ample examples to the contrary.
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by milesf 10y ago
Uh, yeah, that's a pretty good summary: God is, by definition in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, the standard of good.
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by milesf 10y ago
Every community I have been a part of (church, family, techs, software development, Ruby Programming, etc) have been multifaceted. I will only talk about my camp, Evangelical Christians, because that's what I know. When I was a new Chr
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by milesf 10y ago
"the answer is almost always nothing" That's just not true. The whole area of Christian Apologetics attempts to answer many of the questions that are raised.
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by milesf 10y ago
Am I the only one that saw this and immediately thought "mining cryptocurrency"? :)
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by milesf 10y ago
Do you think it's reasonable that conversations like this are fine on HN, but anytime I bring up Christian thought on the matter I am pressured to "not talk religion"? Wrestling with these top shelf Maslow's questions li
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by milesf 10y ago
Because this is an old post and not someone who is recently deceased, I do not feel what I am about to say is in poor taste. I don't want to see the idea of the loner computer hacker be idealized any longer. Mr Robot, while a clever an
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by milesf 10y ago
I remember being new to Information Technology in 1998 when Windows 95 & 98 were the norm. I had more than one client who would take delivery of 10 - 12 new, identical workstations and it was very common to have half with one problem an
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by milesf 10y ago
I was huge into the BBS scene in the early 80's. My favourite were Blue Boards written by the late Martin Sikes: http://www.penmachine.com/martinsikes/ Martin was an early influencer in my life. Here I am 30 years
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by milesf 10y ago
I overcame Bipolar Spectrum disorder. This article, and many others like it, get many things right. Each person is different, and it took me many, many years to get the right help and many, many different approaches. I'd like to add an
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by milesf 10y ago
Anyone here remember "Rails is a Ghetto"? http://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedshaw... Zed's Rails article did lead to some improvements in the Ruby community (eg: The &
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by milesf 10y ago
Can someone think of a better way to do DNS? I remember when the internet was just a hosts file you had a copy of on your computer, so it is not outside the realm of possibilities to come up with something different. Something better.
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by milesf 10y ago
The world has always been in a mess. Even if it straightens out it invariably becomes bent again. I like talking about the solution I found, but the signal to noise makes it hard to have a rational discourse. There are answers and there is
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by milesf 10y ago
What I don't understand is the apparent oxymoron: Classified Emails. Email is horribly insecure. Why would anyone use it to exchange classified documents?

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