Manhattan

Things just aint addin' up with his stories!

She incessantly only talks politics (which are radically different than mine), religion (also radically different) and obsessively about one of our very broken family members she coddles ...Who is/was so very abusive to her and us. I'm missing out on seeing her husband who is kind and flexible (unlike her).

Would it be rude to merely set out rules for our visits/conversations?

...(Almost 14 Billion years) it was unlikely that universe and life could have developed/evolved to the extent it has? In other words: Did he make a known statement about the unlikeliness of the time-line proposed by most? I had a conversation with a guy the other day (not sure how credible) who stated that Einstein thought that even in 14 billion years it wasn't likely we would be where we are, challenging established universe and evolution ideas.

I will get several e-mails from them in the same day. They ask for password and other personal info (in an amateur-ish format, I might add; misspelled words, etc.). I just mark them as phishing scam and they're deleted. I really want to respond to them since it's become harassment. If I reply will it open a can of worms?

I think I'm a fast learner but a novice. Now I've got the things I need except the know-how. I've downloaded Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, I have a real nice camcorder- but I lack the confidence and wish there were courses I could take. I mean some of the Youtube videos I've seen that are posted are by these hacks and numbskulls ; I don't know what to call them- But I say to myself, if they can do it I should certainly be able to. Can anyone steer me clear?

They were also called Anti- Christ or Heretics. The 16th century reformers were called "Protestants". Scientologists call their adversaries "SP" or Suppressive Person, I think. The Mormons call their attackers "Anti-Mormon. Help me with the list. Are their names the Amish use, the Muslim uses for those who are "whistle blowers" against them, so to speak? I mean the list is long. Baha'i? Buddhist? 7th Day? Help me out.

Weekly? Monthly?

It stood out because of how dramatic it was, National news I'm sure. But it was also dramatic because it was all caught on film by this news helicopter. Some guy is being chased by the police through these neighborhoods, having a shoot-out (I think) along the way. The news helicopter gets in on the action and is somehow relaying where this bad guy is to the cops from their eye in the sky. The guy even shoots at the helicopter at one point in the film. The bad guy has a short succession of hijacking dif. vehicles and ends up in a pick-up truck (I'm almost sure with a hostage this time). There's a shoot out in a parking lot and this cop just reaches out and shoots the guy through the windshield with his shotgun. The chase is over. Can anyone remember where that was and some of the details?

Does anyone know the factors that might have a concealed weapon permit app denied?

For example if there is a public intox. on a persons record. I know they may very from state to state. Also I think I heard there were some recent changes in requirements.

...for stealing (book of Acts Chapter 5). Seems pretty O.T. in the N.T.

What are the titles of the people in the priesthood just beneath the Pope? Aren't there positions that might be compared to an apostle?

I overheard a computer guy say he thought there were better ones than Norton. Question (2): My Norton detected 3 Trojan horse viruses when I did a full scan the other night. I can't remember when I ran a full scan last (a week?) - so there's no telling how long it has been in my system. There isn't some guy in a dark room exclusively looking at my computer, just waiting for the instant to get info (cards, accounts) the moment I'm infected, I don't imagine. So now that I've removed the viruses can I feel safe? ALSO why the hell didn't my Norton catch it/block it? By the way my Norton 360 does random full scans often- that's good- I guess.

I have listened to debates, ad nauseum, between "believers" and "un-believers" (but I can't help it- I'm hooked) about origins and creation and evolution. The theologian will criticize Hitchens or Hawkins or Dennett or Harris, " How can the big bang be plausible; how can nothing come from nothing? ( to quote Julie Andrews). Well I throw the question back (as if it isn't even considered) " where did god come from?" He is "from eternity" as they say, but how did he start? What was he doing before 4000 years ago. I would think he's been pretty bored. He/she has been sitting in the middle of...uh... nothing. Wouldn't that be the check mate? Doesn't it's answer match what the died-in- the-wool atheist would say? " That is, we think "linearly" and there are things just outside our grasp?

So with all our limitations as humans can we really be so absolute about anything? We have so many filters- I mean we only see within a range of light, Our hearing is within a small range of vibrations. Our taste buds only have several things we can taste. Our memory is so transitory and subject to interpretation. We seem to be genetically driven according to biases and so gullible (they are finding) to change our minds, etc. I mean this is all science talking. How can we be so bigoted and ignorant and arrogant and full of our selves. It seems that given all our limitations and flaws we could "cut the other guy a little slack," ay? Was it Aristotle who likened us to people in a cave staring only at shadows. That really is us!

Or is there some kind of firewall? My landlord offered Wifi and has it installed in his apartment. Can he see what I'm doing on my computer and is my personal info safe... say if he were to be curious or unscrupulous?

I've been skimming some of the other Y!A sections and why does it seem that the culture and religion sections gets people so hostile and negative?

Just came across an old Youtube bit on her. I began to wonder if she might feel just a little vindicated as all the dust is still settling

re: Church & child abuse issues.

WHERE ARE YOU SINEAD?

I had heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend about folks that deny the existence of the dinosaurs. For example I am told my Mormon friends say the fossils were either planted on earth as a test or that they were just used as materials from other "earths". Tell me it aint so.

...do a bit on grading God. Funny stuff. Today I Googled "God's Report Card" and saw more "grades" on how God did/is doing. How would YOU grade God in the basics? Is God "Passing"?