Organized religion is not bad, any more than organization itself is bad. Do we become more charitable if we disband the Salvation Army and Red Cross and let everybody just give individually according to their beliefs? Or what about World Vision? I'm not going to go to Africa to help some starving orphan. In fact, without some organizaton out there to tell me, I wouldn't even know there was a starvation problem in Africa at all. But
Atheism is a religion, just like the rest. Polytheism, monotheism, atheism.... Just like zero is a number. No, zero is not the absence of numbers; it's a number. It took mankind 4000 years before the Arabs finally figured that out. Saying atheism is not a religion is just their way of trying to make themselves "the" religion; just like Christians saying they are the one religion and everyone else is a cult. Everybody t
I concur about Israel, except for the part about the cycle of violence beginning in antiquity. Palestine remained in relative peace for almost a millennium after the Crusades were over. Jews, Christians, and Muslims worshipped freely in peace in Jerusalem the whole time. There might have been a few minor hiccups to the peace, such as World War I, but the violence didn't really pick up again until 1948. Anyway, it's good to see that multiple on this foru
Yeah, and we made a big deal of the Christmas tree lighting downtown. However, our city council is being stupid about the drive-through trail of lights. They slashed it from the public budget, but they won't let private parties put on the show for them in town unless they give the city all the profits.
[quote]everyone has done that "Hello World" bullshit.[/quote] Have you, though? The code you posted doesn't look like valid C++ code: it looks more like MUD code. Can you compile it through g++ or Visual Studio with no edits at all? And how are you able to do a cout without first doing a "#include ; using namespace std;"?
[quote](How do I know that? Because the alternative is physically impossible and completely unnecessary for the story.[/quote] You're entitled to your opinion what is necessary or not, but the story is what it is. Genesis 7 is the Biblical account of it. I would further point out that not just every living thing that walked the earth died, but every BIRD. How would local flooding in a region kill every bird? Like I sai
[quote]but, I'm also curious with other thing, if God live among us, interfere with everything in this world, would we call him a God, or a Ruler?[/quote] I think our proven track record is, we would crucify Him.
Are you coding a MUD? There are lots of issues with this code. I don't know where to begin. It looks like you're mixing constructs from other languages. Have you successfully executed a basic Hello World.cpp program yet? I think you need to go back to the beginning first.
Do note that it's a||b, and not a|b. Although with this particular mini-program the end result is the same (that's just coincidence). 5||2 evaluates to 1, whereas 5|2 evaluates to 7. This program works by coincidence either way because 0||0 = 0|0 = 0. And to add to the confusion, a|b is a bit-wise OR operator, not an add (which is also coincidence: 5|2 just happens to equal 5+2 in this case). Using a|b when a
Never fear, tea is here. Not sure what you're doing, but boolean || is working fine for me. #include int main() { int a = 5; int b = 2; while (a || b ) { if (a) { a--; } if (b ) { b--; } std::cout
[quote] I find it somewhat ironic that an equal amount of our time and effort isn't spent on solving the real problems that face us, like world hunger, world peace or disease all of which could be solved with a little more effort. [/quote] A few premises I disagree with. a) world hunger and world peace cannot exactly be solved with just a little more effort. b ) I don't think I agree that an equal amount of time is not al
He said the proportion was interesting. And I concur. So I went and looked up some stuff. Ancient Egyptian ships had a 7:1 ratio. Kayaks are about 9:1 to 10:1. Modern ships tend to design for higher length-to-width ratios to navigate choppy waters, but they have the liberty to steer and propel their boats directly into the waves. Noah would not realistically be able to steer the ship. Longer boats are easier to propel. No
Besides, the Bible is pretty clear on the matter: Genesis 7: 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild an
[quote]My reading of the Ark story is that "the entire land was flooded", that Noah finally landed "on the mountains of Ararat" and that the story was always, always about a people who lived there and were the ancestors of the Hebrews. It was not about the entire world. (Incidentally, Islam, which was not subject to the Latin translation, still believes that the deluge was local.)[/quote] The "local flood" theory of the Ark is physically not possible. Genesi
[quote] If God had been forced to change His divine plan because of the conduct of one of His creatures, (by destroying the devil), He would therefore have submitted to the will of a creature, and His action would have been dependent on the action of a creature. That would imply that God would have no longer been God [/quote] Since I am not Lula, I can make a go of it. Have you never submitted yourself to t
[quote] ¡Feliz Navidad a todos! no tengo árbol de navidad por falta de dinero, de hecho, desde hace tiempo que no pongo árbol de navidad en diciembre.[/quote] Cuando yo era in el sur de Mexico, ellos tenian arboles de navidad en noviembre. Muy lindas tambien.
It's interesting that starting threads that are overtly political are frowned upon on these forums, but religion is okay. I would think religion is even more inflammatory than politics. But nonetheless, I'm okay with it, and it's their forum anyway. That said.... I think we're splitting hairs when we talk about God creating evil & Satan. Lucifer and Satan are the same person. So yes, I would contend that God
I know I got slaughtered sometimes online, on various games. Had nothing to do with my age. I just wasn't very good at it. I had fun for a little while, even if I was losing. Didn't always invest the time to try and get better at it. Of course, there were a few games, I was the guy doing the slaughtering. The sportsmanship of the various people who I beat varied at times. Sometimes I got double/triple-teamed, which is perfectly fair game
[quote]This may sound funny, but the better a game is, the louder my criticism.[/quote] Actually, to those of us who have actually delivered software to customers, that doesn't sound funny at all. If you don't get any bug reports filed against you, heard nothing bad about your stuff, etc.--it's probably because people aren't using it. But when you've got a hit, lots of bugs and "bugs" get filed, they're all drop-dead critical priority, divas c
