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Comment Re:"at least without hiring outside help" - (Score 1) 124

Magento is an OO MVF application, on an EAV database, with an artificial (and ridiculous) namespacing system, managed by strictly case sensitive (sometimes you need to capitalise the first letter, sometimes not) XML config files and file placement within module directories. There is literally no documentation and the debugging information is pretty limited.

Figuring it out takes a while.

Comment Re:what about chemicals that are masculinizing gir (Score 1) 614

thing is tho that the body is a feedback loop, with more chemicals produced depending on all sorts of input, resulting in new output that again produce inputs. The results of this loop is then stored in dna, dna that gets passed on and mixed with other dna.

What? That's not the commonly accepted understanding of the process.

Comment Re:Unicorns... (Score 1) 721

In Jewish folklore, the Re'em was so large that Noah had to strap it on the side of the Ark, and King David, while still a shepherd, mistook its horn for a mountain and climbed it, then the Re'em got up and frightened David.

Doesn't exactly sound like a real animal.

Yay for straw men. Keep knocking 'em down.

Comment Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score 1) 416

The concept you're referring to is an interesting possibility, but isn't biblical either.

Hell as separation from God is a modern attempt to re-explain hell-theology in a way that is more acceptable to the more rational kind of society we live in now. It's a possibility if ethereal hell is in fact a "real" place, but it doesn't look like hell itself is anywhere near a scriptural certainty.

If you're interested in exploring biblical theology in greater depth, this book is a decent place to start.

Comment Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score 2, Insightful) 416

The concept of hell is fascinating because its origins are not really biblical at all. There are literally only a handful of passages in the entire Bible on which we pin this whole concept of eternal damnation, and their interpretation is questionable at best.

Hell comes from the blending of Roman and Greek understandings of the afterlife into Christianity theology/mythology i.e. post-Constantine. It makes sense: culture shouldn't change just because the state suddenly changes religion. The problem is that after several generations of indoctrination, many treat these little historical quirks as if they were important (nigh unquestionable) points of doctrine, rather than curiosities.

Comment Re:What the bets the first release will be... (Score 1) 416

The current trend in theology is that the resurrection is all about the restoration of the universe itself (i.e. Earth, or wherever we end up), rather than an ethereal non-physical existence somewhere else--making this place irrelevant. Instead, the tendency is towards believing that part of the point of Christianity is to make this place better, whatever that might mean.

Of course, in order to accept that, you have to get past the mindless shouting of those who are threatened by differing opinions about irresolvable issues.

Comment Re:Piracy (Score 1) 358

To be fair, the two different discussions that you've mentioned are examples of the proposed solutions to the the problem of copyright (as it exists today), so it is all part of the same discussion. And based on my limited sample-set, most of us would be happy with a change in either direction.

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