Good morning.
- Unable to sustain faith (in science infected with money interests). One wonders if global warming and the money/science/faith connection with occur more globally.
- Hotels and Internet. It’s my experience (globally) that the high end and low end hotels all charge for internet. Judging from the Internet price, I’d guess SPH considers itself “high end” and charges accordingly like its peers.
- A book for youth (and perhaps more) recommended. Twelve more here.
- The former premier atheist remembered.
- The view from the entitlement wing.
- Home servers?
- Directly connecting media and Palin vs Kennedy. This connects to that as well.
- Straight to a girls heart, genus genius of course.
- QoD links. (that’d be mostly evolutionary biology)
- A deontological response.
- An atheist disagrees fundamentally with Dawkins.
- Hunting … Elmer?
- Heh.
- So, now we all know.
- I saw many of his works displayed in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg this summer and I agree they are very striking.
- Saint Lucia remembered.
- Crime and punishment?
- Where the green global warming fans (fanatics) are leading us, to solutions that just don’t work?
- Christ hidden in Talmud?
Hotels and Internet – It’s been my experience that low end hotels give away the Internet for free. Not that I stay at lots of low end places but I see quite a few of them offering free internet and one low end place I stayed a few months ago in PA had free internet (although I had to ‘activate’ the account at the front desk first).
Media and Palin vs Kennedy – Only thing is there’s been plenty of media reports about Kennedy not having clear positions, not having a resume besides her fame as JFK’s kid and work as a charity fundraiser. I’m sure there were more stories about Palin’s problems but Kennedy is not in contention for a national position and is only trying to be appointed to fill out the remainder of Hillary’s term…beyond that she will have to win a statewide election if she wants to hold the post all on her own.
The former premier atheist remembered.
What a bizarre story. Do you think Douglass Adams is in eternal hell also?
Christ hidden in Talmud?
LOL, no he’s clearly visible on my toast. Talk about grasping at straws.
Christ hidden in Talmud?
I’m a little surprised by what’s not there. Wouldn’t the ripping of the curtin that hide the Holy of Holies have been recorded? Even if they didn’t make a connection to that and Christ’s death on the cross that would be something of note? No? If, say, our Declaration of Independence had it’s thick glass case suddenly shatter with no obvious reason….that’d make the newspaper.
Boonton,
What are you considering an example of “really low end?” Red Roof, for example, for quite some time had an additional $10-15 fee for internet via T-mobile, I think. It wasn’t included in your room fee. On the high end, I’ve never stayed at a “ritzy” hotel that didn’t tack on extra charges where-ever and whenever it could for virtually anything and everything. They’re in the “if you have to ask about cost, you shouldn’t be here” attitude. Accordingly, Internet costs a bundle.
As to your Talmud remark, the obvious rejoinder is that the problem is right then, the Jewish authorities had just put to death a man whose claims that evidence would right then be connected and validated … a thing they didn’t want to do as a main thrust of his teaching was against Temple authority. Excising from the record that made a certain sense.
JA,
Uhm, as noted earlier, I have no clue whether Mr Adams is in hell, or if he is even will have a life thereafter, or whether his stay is eternal or requires only (ala Dostoevsky who is by the by very Orthodox) a quadrillion quadrillion steps to salvation. I am not the Judge. He is … and accordingly it is not my place to presume.
Mark,
But it is your place to presume that “He” is the Judge, right? As opposed to Mr. Adams, who does not believe in a Judge, or billions of Asians, or Muslims who believe in Allah, etc. What I got from the linked piece was laughable arrogance. This guy meets one of his idols and later realizes that the idol disagrees with him on the fundamental nature of reality.
Does it cross his mind for a second that maybe the brilliant and thoughtful Adams is right and he should reconsider his views? Or at least that Adams could be right? Nah. He immediately assumes that Adams was “estranged from God. Estranged at a level so deep that he had rejected the existence of all spirituality.”
What are you considering an example of “really low end?”
Specifically the Wayne Hotel in Honesdale PA (http://www.hotelwayne.com/). A $50 buck a night joint in a town that looks like cashing unemployment checks is the #1 industry. But a really cool main street and the hotel is in a building that is almost 200 years old. Not too long ago I stayed at a more mainstream ‘low end’ hotel in PA (Days Inn I think?) and wi-fi was free there too. I don’t stay often at hotels but I assume it should be standard. I’d consider being charged for it sort of like being charged extra for taking a shower or watching TV.
Usually when I travel I’m only staying a night so I just want a decent bed, shower and a TV. I wouldn’t opt for an expensive hotel so if the experience is as you describe it, maybe I’ll just stick with the dives unless someone else is picking up the tab.
Excising from the record that made a certain sense.
From whose record? Theirs or ours? The destruction of the Temple is often read as a confirmation of Jesus’s status. Why not excise that from the record? Because the scholars writing back then couldn’t ignore that anymore than a scholar of Hiroshima today could ignore the a-bomb attack on it in WWII or a NYC scholar could ignore 9/11.
From what I understand, the Holy of Holies was not supposed to be viewed. To do so would be to risk death. For its shield to suddenly rip and expose it would have resulted in a lot of issues. What did people see, for example? These things would have had to have been addressed even if one believed the curtain ripped for some other reason than Jesus being the Messiah. So was it excised out or did it not happen? Or did it perhaps happen but was quickly replaced with a new curtain so exposure was limited?
JA,
You asked me “Do you think Douglass Adams is in eternal hell also?”
I answered, essentially with “dunno” or perhaps “mu”.
Boonton,
Wifi has become cheaper so more marginal (sub $50 per night) hotels are getting it. But, you are either wealthy or on somebody else’s dime to stay at the really fancy places. And in my view, I agree, the ritz ain’t worth it for a place to crash.