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  1. Sasun, I hope you are reading this thread and you finally realize what I have been saying about "believers". Djark: About my definitions of spirituality and religion ... Religion -- it tells you what to think. Spirituality -- it is YOUR personal quest on what to think. Both spirituality and religion often lack a fundamental basis and rely mainly on assumptions, hearsay, superstition, and imagination. But I can respect spirituality faaaaar more than I will ever respect most religions. Religion is a very convinient escape for a lazy mind. You just take everything as given and stop to question things. That is just sad.
  2. Spirituality is all good and great ... but the topic here has been religion. More specifically, the Christian religion. Also, if this world has nothing of value for you, then why bother with life? Doesn't that make life a pathetic and useless waste of "time"? If it's all about the after-life, then why live? If you are going to say we are born and then live to prove ourselves worthy of a good after-life, don't bother! That's the worst reason you could give Well, ok, maybe that's not the worst one ... the worst one you could give would be: "Because Jesus said so."
  3. God is nothing without Humanity. Non religious people love their neighbors too. God promises to give you stuff right when nothing will matter anymore, i.e., after you are dead. ... and another cool quote since we are playing the fancy quote game: Sip 2:16:06 3:08 PM Religion is the tool of the devil.
  4. Sometimes people use humor to avoid directly insulting others. The picture is of me but it is somewhat edited with the cheese and the packer's jersey. For a long time I thought people like you were joking with the Jesus talk. But the scary thing is sometimes it seems like you actually believe everything you say. And that is faaar more disturbing than how you look down on everyone else My "wound" stems from seeing Jesus and God used as punchline to somehow justify every little thing done in life ... when in fact we as humans should give ourselves faaaaaaaar more credit than you do. Everything that goes well you attribute to Jesus. Of course no one will ever be able to compete with that! Then when something goes wrong, you blame yourself (or the devil). Come on! Wake up and take some responsibility for your SELF.
  5. Have you ever been to the buffet in Bellagio (Vegas)?
  6. Sip

    Happy Valantines Day!

    I hate Valentine's Day ... it's the "love check" day for women. You (the men) have to say it or else ... Some can actually say it and mean it .... most can be devious and cunning and fake it ... others just end going down in flames.
  7. Maybe Microsoft will add a new Jesus App Wizzard to the next version of the .Net framework to get big-budget corporate projects started. Sorry it's a bad joke but I just couldn't resist. I've turned to Jesus many times before but he has NEVER been of any help when it comes to debugging Visual C
  8. Zartonk, anyone who knows me knows well that I am the last person to buy into the "supernatural / spiritual / religious" mombo jumbo ... however, I am fairly convinced on the power of the mind over body. I think a lot of our ailments are not really physical and are mostly in our heads. Furthermore, how we "feel" often has a direct correlation in how we "are". That is why a "televangelist" can in fact "heal" a person if that person is stupid enough to believe that such a thing can be done! (ironically enough) I think it is a very non trivial and at the same time puzzling/distrubing thing to realize that you can have two identical persons, with identical biologies, and identical surroundings, etc etc ... yet one could be horribly misserable and the other be completely content and happy. It's all in those darn chemicals in the brain. ... or some people chose to call it "soul" (I don't think it is because soul has a bunch of supernatural connotations associated with it) ... but whatever name you chose to label it as, the phenomenon is there. As far as our metal state and our biologies, since the mind controls a lot of things that are going on in the body, I think our mental state can definitely impact our biological well being. The effects of stress on blood pressure and heart disease are one very common example but it doesn't have to be as simple as that.
  9. Why? Because the vengeful God will not forgive them and they will go to Hell. In other words, try to be better than God.
  10. In order to execute anything in linux, execute permissions must be set. You do this using the chmod command. There are different ways to specify the command line parameters but I usually do: chmod 755 file This sets the read, write, and execute permissions as : 1 1 1, 1 0 1, and 1, 0, 1 for the owner, group, and everyone else. In this case, the owner will have read/write/execute permissions. The group and everyone else will only have read/execute permissions. I think this is most likely what you have to do for the .run file you are trying to execute.
  11. I'll give a recursive solution: refer to the previous post.
  12. Try n=2, 3, and 4. Once you try those, then we'll go from there. I'll give you a hint that it may be different from small n. But for large n, there is a formula.
  13. lighters don't burn flags .... muslims with lighters do
  14. I hear ketchup bottles work just as well But now I see your ulterior motives for posing the question!!! Here's another one ... I thought it was pretty cool: So, there are n Armenians in Glendale, each having a unique piece of gossip. They all want to know everything. Their only mode of communication is the phone. When two people make a call to each other, ALL their gossip knowledge gets exchanged ... so they will both know all that each other knew before calling. Given that these are highly efficient Armenians, what is the minimum number of calls required for ALL of them to learn ALL the gossip? They can only do a normal one-on-one call. There is no conference calling or text messaging or anything like that.
  15. Hahahahah ... Vava, how did you guess what I was typing?
  16. Assuming the table is all clear, Azat, sounds to me like you would want to go first. Put your bottle at the center of the table ... then where ever your oponent puts a bottle, just put yours at the opposide side of the center in the exact same spot (in the next turn). This way, your oponent is guaranteed to run out of space before you do.
  17. http://www.bettersolutions.com/powerpoint/167713172024151918000819231714/322197152521233192317141323721.png http://www.bcschools.net/staff/PowerPointHelp.htm http://www.functionx.com/powerpoint/ http://www.cof.orst.edu/net/software/prese...pnt/ppguide.sht http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/FX010857971033.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/assistan...0951431033.aspx ... and of course THIS.
  18. Nope sorry ... but I didn't really look for them ... they were posted somewhere else.
  19. Azat Nab: You have a new message from your wine dealer. Vava Nab: Squeeeeeeek squeeeek Quebecker Nab: You just folded 2 more WU's
  20. Ironically enough, they are hurting themselves a lot more than anyone else by attacking embassies. It's like you are mad at the post office for distributing Playboy and you go and burn down your own mail box in the front yard.
  21. Supposedly here are a couple: http://users.cableaz.com/~campbell/images/muhammed1.jpg http://users.cableaz.com/~campbell/images/muhammed2.jpg A note to any radical/militant muslims that might be looking at this post and have their feelings hurt .... what the hell did you think was going to happen? OF COURSE they will now be posted EVERYWHERE around the world.
  22. Hahahahaha ... I think I see where his squeeks might be coming from
  23. Amen to that. I would leave if I knew of collectively smarter people somewhere else but I think we all know that the world is basically full of idiots (collectively). As dumb as the majority has been here in the US, it doesn't even begin to compare to the morons roaming around over-seas.
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