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"Excuse my outrage, but I think it's justified."

YoDaDeeOh says...

...from the source material in question;

Matthew 5:38-40
New International Version (NIV)
Eye for Eye

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well.

...and...

Matthew 22:36-40
New International Version (NIV)

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”


...so, it may be cherry picking, but those are the cherries they were specifically directed to pick.

NASA | Fiery Looping Rain on the Sun

YoDaDeeOh says...

from the YT description:

The footage in this video was collected by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's AIA instrument. SDO collected one frame every 12 seconds, and the movie plays at 30 frames per second, so each second in this video corresponds to 6 minutes of real time. The video covers 12:30 a.m. EDT to 10:00 p.m. EDT on July 19, 2012.

EMPIRE said:

Can someone help me with a doubt I have about this video? Is the motion of the flare and the sun surface in real time? Does it really move THAT fast?

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An atheist among Christians for 30 days

YoDaDeeOh says...

...let me (hopefully) clarify...

the initial (westy's) assertion was that faith is inherently irrational. I countered that i believe rationality is inherently faithful. It is the (for lack of a better term ) "Dawkins" definition of faith (belief without evidence) that i am disputing. At least i can say that the belief i have (in God) is based on evidence...so i have faith (in God).

An atheist among Christians for 30 days

YoDaDeeOh says...

...if that is the definition we are assigning to FAITH....then the statement is correct...though not terribly meaningful...i see faith as neccessarily having two part....belief + action. The Bible records these words in James 2:14-18

"What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds.Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do."

Faith that is not demonstrated is not yet truly faith...

The criteria for what defines "(real) evidence" is a very individual one as well.


Tom Waits: Chocolate Jesus

An atheist among Christians for 30 days

YoDaDeeOh says...

@westy

...i haven't watched the clip, so maybe i am missing some context....but i challenge your notion that FAITH is not based on anything. When i choose to sit in a chair, i have FAITH beforehand that the chair will hold me. This faith is based on previous experience with that and other chairs, my general knowledge of how gravity behaves (again based on previous experience), perhaps the advice and council of other people whom i have reason to trust, and any number of other factors. The truth is , however, that each and every time i chose to sit in the chair...i am trusting it to hold me, and i can never be absolutely certain that it will....until i demonstrate my FAITH, and commit to the action. FAITH involves acting (ie thinking, believing) in that which we are not CERTAIN of...no doubt....but that FAITH does not exist in a vaccuum...it is encouraged and strengthened by our experience.

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Steve Vai - I Know You're Here

YoDaDeeOh says...

Fifteen years ago this would have had me drooling....I was all about Stevie, Satch and all the other gunslingers trying to melt our faces off (and our fingers bleed). I was a real technique-whore...had to be damned near impossible to play or it was crap. Somewhere along the line though...I realized that there were players that could touch me more with one note than a million Myxo-phrygi-doria-whatever arpeggiated scale-runs ever could. I still appreciate great technical playing for what it is and I don't think that good technique, and great "feeling" are mutually exclusive....but I'm far less interested in how many 128th notes there are or how many modes can be played in 16 bars.
For what it's worth this "almost" gets there. Still get a little too much of the old "Look what I can do!!!" vibe though. Gets my upvote though, Vai always had a much better sense of song-writing than most of his peers.



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