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Short WLC clip regarding objective vs relative moral values:
The person asking the question would have known this if they had read all of exodus/leviticus/deuteronomy and taken the 10 commandments in context of the entire book which does expand on all of the basic laws.
But that is just it, isn't it? People (on both sides of the coin, btw) very often don't apply quotes/principles in context when it comes to the Bible.
An example is this: I had an argument with a family member, a Christian, who was all up in arms about something being said and passed around in the public eye. Another Christian had quoted the Bible in response to a question and was lamb basted for it. I supported what he said with another line of scripture and the family member said "oh, just picking out the lines of scripture that support your argument? How much pork do you eat, or shell fish!" And he made a few more comments regarding pulling scripture out of the Bible.
Well, I had thought that he, being Christian far longer than I would know the context of my quote... instead I got a little mad and told him he was being intellectually dishonest... that I wasn't picking and choosing. I carefully explained that the scripture HE referred to was refuted for gentiles in the NT by the apostles, and that the scripture I referred to was REITERATED in the NT for EVERYONE to follow.
He didn't respond after that.
But it made me realize that I can't just assume that people think the way I do or know the things I know. Neither can I believe I know MORE than what someone else knows or outright dismiss anything they say without careful consideration and an obligation to discern their meaning at more than a face-value level.
So if I ever whip out a single line of scripture in a journal entry and don't bother to explain it, y'all have every right to question what I quoted and to seek clarification. But I do want to assure you if I do so, there is more to it than simply a one-liner and the meaning therein. "Thou shalt not kill." - see video above.
OH! And ironically, in my family member's comments, he was doing exactly what he was claiming I was doing.
Short WLC clip regarding objective vs relative moral values:
The person asking the question would have known this if they had read all of exodus/leviticus/deuteronomy and taken the 10 commandments in context of the entire book which does expand on all of the basic laws.
But that is just it, isn't it? People (on both sides of the coin, btw) very often don't apply quotes/principles in context when it comes to the Bible.
An example is this: I had an argument with a family member, a Christian, who was all up in arms about something being said and passed around in the public eye. Another Christian had quoted the Bible in response to a question and was lamb basted for it. I supported what he said with another line of scripture and the family member said "oh, just picking out the lines of scripture that support your argument? How much pork do you eat, or shell fish!" And he made a few more comments regarding pulling scripture out of the Bible.
Well, I had thought that he, being Christian far longer than I would know the context of my quote... instead I got a little mad and told him he was being intellectually dishonest... that I wasn't picking and choosing. I carefully explained that the scripture HE referred to was refuted for gentiles in the NT by the apostles, and that the scripture I referred to was REITERATED in the NT for EVERYONE to follow.
He didn't respond after that.
But it made me realize that I can't just assume that people think the way I do or know the things I know. Neither can I believe I know MORE than what someone else knows or outright dismiss anything they say without careful consideration and an obligation to discern their meaning at more than a face-value level.
So if I ever whip out a single line of scripture in a journal entry and don't bother to explain it, y'all have every right to question what I quoted and to seek clarification.
But I do want to assure you if I do so, there is more to it than simply a one-liner and the meaning therein. "Thou shalt not kill." - see video above.OH! And ironically, in my family member's comments, he was doing exactly what he was claiming I was doing.
So many people have left
I pop on every once in awhile, sometimes I check to see if any of the people I used to follow, or who follow me are active at all. But it seems more than a few of them have left dA pretty much for good, they removed all their deviations. :( Makes me sad.
Back to Mac?
Well, I am an OS buff as well as a computer hardware buff... I have been building my own computers for awhile now, but when I saw that Apple was moving to RISC and their own CPU to boot... had to do it. So it is time to go back to Apple! I picked up a new Mac Mini M1, and an OWC expansion... Excited to get it. Coming a week after Christmas. If you haven't read up on the technology, go take a look at it. I used Mac Mini's for YEARS before I started building out my own boxes because of their simplicity and because of the unix-based Mac OS X. Prior to that my favorites were an old Amiga workstation, power PCs... etc. I had home-built Be boxes too. I just enjoy the tech. So, despite the fact I will be taking a hit in my Steam games account (many of the games won't work well, at least for the first year or so I am sure), I am going to go for it. I will post pics when I get it.
Ubuntu to Pop
Well now! Remember I said I thought I would try giving Ubuntu a year? That was before a Snap install/then deinstall hosed the entire system. Yes that is right. I installed some Snaps to do some work, once the work was done I decided to remove one of the Snaps and my system started behaving oddly. So, I rebooted.
Guess what never came back?
I was a little unhappy with that.
Pop!_OS (based on Ubuntu with tweaks) released their own 20.04 Beta so I decided to install that (I've used Pop for nearly a year solid at one point when it first came out - good distro). Pop enables flatpak but I do not believe snaps are on by default, but to be s
Ubuntu 20.04 Beta
Decided to check out the almost released next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu. When Ubuntu first came out, I hopped on board and ran it as my linux distro for several years. But things happened, stuff was changed, blah blah and I stopped using Ubuntu. In fact I am pretty sure I haven't really touched it in over a decade, except maybe I did install Kubuntu and ran it briefly.
It installed easily through the ubiquity installer. I installed alongside of Windows 10 (gotta keep Windows around for a handful of games, and sometimes to test ideas for work). Canonical has made some changes to the default theme, including a new icon set
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YES. I was just telling a friend the other day that she was annoying the piss out of me with her constant use of the Bible to point out what everyone is doing wrong, how they are sending themselves to hell, picking apart every single thing they did that didn't fit into her box of what they should be. I was getting angrier and angrier at her insults (not to me, to others - bitching and complaining to ME about other people, which I commonly call bitch-gossip). So, the very next time she quoted some scripture for me, I looked her right in the face and, without missing a beat, I said, "Romans 13:10, sweetie. Romans 13:10. Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." I just so happened to have seen the verse in that context online a couple of days before. It was fate. She jumped back (emotionally speaking) and asked me how I had the right to use the Bible as I wasn't a "practicing Christian" (Because I don't go to an actual, physical, Christened church). I said, "Honey, the church is irrelevant to the Bible. Muslims use the Bible in their holy book, different name, same book - and you're totally against Islam." She hasn't spoken to me since. It's worked out REALLY well for me. This is not to say hateful things about this person - just to show an example of how it happens in my every day life - yes, literally, every day - someone spouting off some Bible verses just to make their ideas, or their judgments, fit. It's SO ANNOYING.