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Samuel Dravis

Duper, I couldn't find the audio you linked to. :( Just to be clear, there is a range of beliefs within Christianity on predestination vs. free-will. Predestination (or determinism, more generally) has been a highly debated topic by theologians since the beginning of the Christian church; it's by no ...

Samuel Dravis

I've recently read quite a bit on wiki and NewAdvent about predestination. I am a big free will buff (insofar as I hold that people choose for themselves and they are responsible for their choices) and see what I read, on the face of it, to be ugly, irreligious nonsense that no one could possibly ...

Samuel Dravis

I've been reading a very large amount of ordinary language philosophy lately, primarily Wittgenstein and Bouwsma. They're pretty much the only books I've been reading for months on end. They're accessible, enjoyable, and they don't seem to fail miserably at replying to philosophical questions either.

Samuel Dravis

This is how I understand it. At no time does the speed of any wave exceed c, but it can look as if it does if you're only looking at the EM burst effect and not at the star making it. http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4582/pulsareffectda0.png I seem to have gotten the spiral arms pointed the wrong ...

Samuel Dravis

Hiya.

Samuel Dravis

I'm not going to get into the moral argument anymore. Its become a play on words and I have already said many times that evil will destroy good unless good destroys evil first. Right and good, wrong and evil. They cannot coexist, breathe the same air, or live on the same planet together. I didn't ...

Samuel Dravis

Hmmm... Points for persistence; demerits for engaging in moral relativism. I'm not a relativist. I was asking a question about the quote you provided, which apparently assumed moral relativism. Do you contend that executing a man for torturing and murdering a nine year-old girl, is rationally ...

Samuel Dravis

Actually I was quite impressed with her use of categorical syllogism. "God-[hypothetical or otherwise] acts ethically. God embraces vengeance. Vengeance is ethical." It's quite a good argument. (How old is Bettina -- like 17? She's giving a pretty good thrashing, from where I sit). Which of the two ...

Samuel Dravis

I'll explain mine. My morals are not religious based. I base them on what I perceive to be right and wrong, good and evil, in the society I belong to. I see Jessica as right and good, and Couey as wrong and evil. Okay. I agree with you, as far as that goes. I think Couey is evil too. God himself ...

Samuel Dravis

I'm surprised to see so many people finding moral virtue in revenge. Could somebody set out what exactly they think is good about revenge, especially in the context of capital punishment cases? I.e. set out why it is better to have exacted revenge than not to have? (I realize that everyone's ...

Samuel Dravis

I am sorry for this, but it had to be done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNqiSkd1M6k

Samuel Dravis

Incredibles. Good movie

Here's one:

Guy 1: \"Wait! Wait! Look at me. Look at me. I'm life. I live... I, I breathe... I feel. Now that you know it... can you really take it? Is it really worth the price?\"

Guy 2: \"I pay it gladly.\"

Samuel Dravis

People are emotional beings. It's human nature to want revenge. It's also human (well, male at least) nature to want to have sex with anyone female that can be found. That doesn't mean that we should do so, or that it is suddenly justified or justifiable just because we changed our minds from before ...

Samuel Dravis

For example, he was a big guy coming at you with a knife and you had a gun, would you kill him? If that were the only option I had for self-preservation. I would try to find an option that did not involve killing him, but if need be I would. However, like Cuda said: Bet51987 - I think your ...

Samuel Dravis

Is the majority killing people now? The first chart indicates that the murder rate is under 10 people per 100,000 for whites. Less than 1 in 10,000 is a fairly small number of people. This number is greater for blacks, but even that is nowhere near majority status. Also, one of the circumstances ...

Samuel Dravis

I am against capital punishment. Here's some of my rebuttals for a few of common reasons given by pro-CP people: Deterrence As someone else already pointed out, most people aren't going to plan killing someone. They'll just do it on the spur of the moment. There's not much you can do to help them ...

Samuel Dravis

I thought that The Village was pretty good until about 10 minutes before the end. That just destroyed the whole movie. :/

Samuel Dravis

Krom wrote:Happy birthday!

My birthday is tomorrow: March 15th. (I'll be 26 )

x2. 20.

Samuel Dravis

You sound feisty today, Mobius.

Anyway, this was easily predictable. I just wish they would take preventative measures instead of punitive.

Samuel Dravis

Why is the guy facing charges? It seems like they already got what justice they deserved. It's not like they're gonna do it again anytime soon anyway...

Samuel Dravis

Sniper, I'm not getting how Sin can be passed genetically if it's a spiritual thing like a choice. Also, unless I'm mistaken, souls are created individually by God; they don't \"procreate\" or anything themselves, right? So I'm not sure how that would work with souls either.

Samuel Dravis

The Dolphin's Cry - Live

One of my favorites from Live.

Samuel Dravis

Apollo 13. XD

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Foil: GATTACA

Samuel Dravis

76%

I missed a lot of console ones, I've never even owned a console.

Samuel Dravis

It WOULD have been possible, but our parents chose otherwise. Being predisposed to a certain choice does not force one to make that choice. I'm not seeing a difference with the two; you "could not" make a different choice either way - if you were predisposed to make a good choice, then you would ...

Samuel Dravis

Mine is an extremely obscure reference to a bit of fiction that I like.

Samuel Dravis

I'm sophomore college student and work part time at a local newspaper. I also co-own a lawnmowing business. There's good money in lawnmowing...

Samuel Dravis

I don't see how Nintendo can fix it. People will swing them around, and if they aren't careful they're going to get hurt or break things. Really I'm not sure how people lack that much common sense...

Samuel Dravis

LOL that made me laugh. They must think I'm terrifying!

Samuel Dravis

A significantly larger version of this:

Samuel Dravis

If the containment is ever breached, it won't be long before there's no problem anymore. Seriously; these things would probably be distant from things that could be affected by it, and there's zero danger of it exploding. Take away the fuel and the reaction stops within seconds. The heated gas would ...

Samuel Dravis

Acts of terrorism need things that go \"boom\", not things that fizzle and die...

Samuel Dravis

I have a Nokia 6010 (I think). It is old and ugly, but the thing will literally stay on for days. It has quite a few hours of talk time too (~5?), plenty for normal use.

Samuel Dravis

Night Mare by Piers Anthony

and (slowly!) The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.

Also, I just finished my first aid/CPR book and was trained in that on Saturday. I'm going to an instructor course a couple of weeks from now though, so I guess I will see more of it...

Samuel Dravis

Yeah, I had checked PD but they weren't there either. :/

Samuel Dravis

So I was looking through my collection of descent music today and I notice I can't find a few tracks. Here's the full listing: 1 Deimos: Contribution 2 Phobos: Bread and Water 3 Tiris: Evidence 4 Earth: Seoul Descent 5 Mars: They Think We're Terrorists 6 Noctis Labyrinthus: Side Effects of Progress ...

Samuel Dravis

I guess if there's just a pop between the sections, you could use Audacity to just delete the pop from your new wav...

btw, can you link those tools you're using? I'm interested in the music as well, particularly, tracks 5, 8+.

Samuel Dravis

I just checked my college papers I've done recently with that in that link (thanks Topher). Yup, 12th grade level, every single one. The only papers that went lower than that were some first person creative writing that I've done. I wonder how Word decides which grade the paper's at...

Samuel Dravis

Yeah, IWAY is (mostly) dead, long live Heroway, Paraway and all the rest of them! Basically HA is not fun to play much anymore because you fight too many people playing with heroes. It's boring; not 'PvP' anyway... I do like the latest round of Ele updates. With Searing Flames it looks like they're ...

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