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Category: religion

12/17/08 10:50 - 30ºF - ID#47096

Purpose Driven Life

Rick Warren is going to be the minister at Obama's inauguration.

He started the whole 'Purpose Driven Life' movement.

It's like the shortest possible summary of what turns me off of religion.


Purpose #1: You Were Planned for God's Pleasure (Worship)
Purpose #2: You Were Formed for God's Family (Fellowship)
Purpose #3: You Were Created to Become Like Christ (Discipleship)
Purpose #4: You Were Shaped for Serving God (Ministry)
Purpose #5: You Were Made for a Mission (Mission)
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This kind of thing is the worst though:


This spiritual servitude only has negative connotations in a culture that is obsessed with asserting the rights of the individual. Civil rights, human rights, gay rights, minority rights-we hear about this constantly. Instead of asserting our rights-even if we have the freedom to do so-we are choosing to set them aside for a greater thing: the opportunity to serve the living God. What are you setting aside in order to serve God? --



I don't get it at all. Hearing that sort of talk is the only time that I believe in the otherwise-unbelievable claim that "religion is the opiate of the masses".

Divorcing 'God's purposes' from actual human justice seems abhorrent to me, and I don't even believe in God.


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12/14/08 06:17 - 37ºF - ID#47061

Holiday Dinner

Hey Everyone -

I've been out sick the last week and before that on vacation. I guess I totally screwed up my chance to plan an (e:strip) holiday dinner.

Sorry!
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12/12/08 09:58 - 24ºF - ID#47048

Always true.


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Category: buffalo

12/12/08 09:28 - 29ºF - ID#47038

Black Ice!

I counted 13 multi-car accidents on the way to work, including 4 accidents just at the on-ramps to the 198 at Elmwood (one at each on-ramp!). Plus a few spin-outs. It usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes to get to work via the 198, 190 and 290 but it took more than an hour.

Black ice, freezing rain, it's a giant mess. I hear the skyway is closed, too.

I was tempted to take pictures but that's stupid while driving :)
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12/11/08 11:08 - 27ºF - ID#47035

Cold Day In Hell

Still sick as a dog, but... enjoying exploring a new programming language. XML literals, unrestricted operator and syntax overloading, optional explicit immutability and finally a non-verbose type system.

Scala:

I think maybe I've found my post-Ruby future (not any time soon, though).
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Category: video

12/11/08 01:22 - 28ºF - ID#47025

Ninja Cat


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Category: culture

12/09/08 07:09 - 44ºF - ID#47009

Gay Marriage for DBA's

"Y2GAY" & "gaytabases"


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12/09/08 10:30 - 41ºF - ID#47003

Just Venting.

I slammed my hand in a door yesterday. What's worse is that it must have bothered me so much in my sleep that I grabbed onto it with the other hand and then somehow rolled onto my stomach, and slept with my shoulder pressing into my hand and wrist all night. It's twitchy and palsied now in addition to hurting and has lost all strength.

Ouch.

*_*
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Category: internets

12/05/08 03:57 - 27ºF - ID#46974

Natural Harvest

not a joke?

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Buy it online:
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Category: work

12/05/08 10:51 - 23ºF - ID#46969

Ordering an SSL Cert and Pointing DNS

Ordering an SSL cert and getting DNS set up for the new servers is taking like 2 weeks for some reason.

>.<


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