Epic Guide|Mostly Harmless

Johnny Cash…although old and has been around a long time, is a passing fad. He has all this popularity from the movie “Walk The Line” with Joaqin Pheonix and so it’s cool to like Johnny Cash right now. He’s really bad though. He doesn’t hit the notes at all. Maybe he’s a good songwriter, but seriously, his voice is weak and boring. Sadly, he would be laughed off the stage at American Idol. And ring of fire is not that good. Out.

As a person involved in starting discussions of the two things you’re not supposed to bring up (politics and religion) I feel it necessary to point out that while everyone involved in the dialogue has their own perspective, it’s important to listen to what the other has to say. A conversation with someone will be much more enlightening than spouting of facts that seem to prove one’s point. When discussing matters of disagreement, I ask myself, “What’s right about what the other person has to say?” None of us know everything. Let’s stop pretending that we do and try to learn something new.

The fact of the matter is that in the canonical gospels, there are many contradictions of stories. Some of the obvious ones are the time frames of the synoptics (Mark, Matthew, Luke) compared to John, the differences of the passion and birth narratives, even as technical as the genealogies of Jesus differ. Not only this, but theologically one must consider the differences between Hebrews, James, and Revelation compared with the rest of the New Testament. And then there’s the differences between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The differences are endless. But does that mean that Christianity is based on lies?

NO!

First of all, most of the differences are insignificant compared with the broader message of the texts that are generally in agreement (mostly because if the texts had said something completely contradictory they would not have made it into the Bible at all), nevertheless, there are important differences - but that does not make the entirety of Christian Scriptures untrustworthy.

Something can be true and not historical. For instance, in the move Platoon, there is a really great scene where charlie sheen and tom beringer get in a fight over how to treat the vietnamese. This obviously is a fictional story, but it’s profoundly true in the sense that it shows the struggles of the soldiers and american society. In the same way, the texts of the Bible are not true because of their historical accuracy, although in some instances that is necessary, the majority of the stories about Jesus are important because they point to larger theological truths.

For someone to read Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus as a guidebook for how to raise people from the dead would be foolish, that’s not what it is. The point of the story is not how to raise people from the dead, or even that Jesus did it, the point of it is to show Jesus’ compassion for those he loved. Truth is bigger than history.

I’m so ready to go to Wordcamp, it’s going to be just like Space Camp, but a bit more nerdy.

In a not so shocking move, France has forgiven their fallen Soccer leader Zidane, who head-butted a Italian.  I’d say that if the French won the game, Italy would have attacked France, knowing that the streets of Paris where built for foriegn marching armies.

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/5775686

“A poll published Tuesday in Le Parisien newspaper showed 61 percent of the 802 people questioned forgave Zidane. No margin of error was provided, although it would be plus or minus three percentage points in a poll of that size.”

“In the poll, 78 percent of respondents said Zidane was the tournament’s best player - in line with his selection as the Golden Ball winner by World Cup journalists.”

The French are idiots, and soccer is a boring sport.  At least American’s got to see some action when head-butts flew.

The announcement that Google has created a credit card payment system called Google Checkout to compete directly with EBay’s PayPal and the rest of the merchant account industry, is both good and bad news.  This opens up a bigger door to a number of legal responsibly in areas such as Contracts, E-Commerce Disputes, International Transactions, Ethics and Intellectual Property.

Google has always tried to be easy to use and confidential, so the first benefit is to have a system that is safer than using a credit card online. Google stores your credit card data and never gives it to the merchants, so your credit card is not directly used in transactions, which has been PayPal’s exclusive model over the past few years.  This is obviously attractive to buyers, because security is a big issue on the internet.  It also is good for sellers because Google is providing the transaction protection and fraud guarantees to the merchants.

The bad news is that Google is quickly becoming the world’s information giant, which will strongly test Ethics and Intellectual Property rights.  Not only does Google contain the best data mining tools and search ability, but they also store ALL the information they gather.  Google is rumored to have the largest grouping of servers in the world, not to server up web pages searches, but to actually store data, such as whole websites that have been cached, so much of the information found on the internet is actually being stored at Google server farms. Google will now have the ability to collect vast amounts of personal information directly from users, such as address, full names, and credit cards.  Traditionally all information that is in Google databases was collected from other websites, so personal data found on websites isn’t necessarily right or complete, it is only as good as it’s source.  The question must be asked who owns that data?  Does Google because they captured and stored it, or does the creator of that information?

Recently Google refused to turn over information the United States Attoney General about viewing habits of internet surfs in regards to child pornography.  So Google holds its information in high regard and will protect it for as long as possible.  However, once credit cards get tied into the transaction process, more attract against Google may come because of the simple fact that money is involved.

Google must be wary of the contractual agreements with its users.  Credit card information is highly regulated, so they will need to fulfill the government mandated agreements, meaning they may not be able to cross data with search data.  Google will be on the leading edge of the Internet E-Commerce Dispute law, they will need to be prepared to defend against lawsuits and lobby for proper laws and regulations.  They will be the testing ground of internet law.

Got Blog Spam?

We do, I delete atleast 10 spams off our blog every day, what is that all about?  I’m in the crowd that belives that spam is a waist of time, and that content will sell more gadgets than any 10000000 spams will.

Any one who comes to my site to spam will get smacked down.

I just took a look and it seems that I have been quiet for over a month.  That is because I havent been politically pumped lately.  Never fear, I just got a new book by John Stossel, I forgot the name, but it is a book that debunks american myths, such as outsourcing is bad and women earn less then men.  Crazy stuff.  Anyway, its pumping me up big time, so once Im done with this book, get ready for it.

I recently posted a note on some findings of Coke, saying it would just about ruin your body if you drank it.  Well, we put them to the test, and nothing happened, so I guess that means Cokes not to bad.  We videoed the whole thing, well add it to the site soon.
We put a leg of lamb in 2 quarts of coke for a week, nothing happened of any sugnificance.

We put a nail, and a toe nail into coke, not much happened, the toe nail was fine and so was the nail.  The coke with the nail in it was a bit cloudy.

The French 2 Franc had the most damage, it was actually tarnished, just like the french record of war.

Coke is tasty and coke is toxic.

My grandma likes to encourage our ongoing education, so she sends us books and clippings.  One recent one caught my attention, it was for Coke.  It wasn’t for me, it was for a cousin, who apparently drinks too much Coke.  I was blown away by what coke can do, it is very bad.  And since I own a blog, I thought I’d tell you about it.

• You can dissolve a T-bone stake in a bowl of coke in two days.
• Many cops use coke to clean blood off the highway.
• Coke can be used to clean your toilet.
• Coke removes rust spots form chrome
• Cleans corrosion from a car battery terminal.
• Coke loosens rusty bolts
• Removes grease from clothes
• Cleans road haze from your windshield.
• Cokes active ingredient is phosphoric acid, its pH is 2.8.
• Coke will dissolve a nail in four days
• Coke is used to clean the engines of coke delivery trucks

So, I have decided I will try to prove the following items, check back later.  If want to find out more about nutrition, I found the information on a newsletter from www.functionalnutrition.com