The aroma, the taste, the fact that it's awesome with chocolate, and well, it wakes me up on the rare occasions that I drink it (with lots of milk!)
Also, I can't stand tea :(
The aroma, the taste, the fact that it's awesome with chocolate, and well, it wakes me up on the rare occasions that I drink it (with lots of milk!)
Also, I can't stand tea :(
Thanks Gnorb :)
DMAN: Well, honestly, as a non-Christian, the idea of the Rapture isn't very fair, is it? So many other faiths existed before Christianity, including Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, etc. The Rapture would make each any every one of them, the foundation of so many other religions and cultures, absolutely invalid. What other religious concept can exude such arrogance?
I think it's pretty morbid. Even if I were Christian, I don't think I'd believe in it. Besides that, I don't think Hinduism really has a hell. We just have reincarnations.
I got a 5 too! Just got my scores yesterday :)
Raptrex: Charts help a lot. Your teacher will make you do a lot of them, and it just helps combine the information into a nice graphical format. You'll also need to write a lot of essays, so practice that too!
The test itself is pretty easy. The questions are rather basic. Just watch out for those essays.
The navigation needs spacing, some of the headers would look better unitalicized (featured post, etc). The color scheme is very good, and the organization is very clean. There's a lot of empty space as you head down the page, but it looks rather good.
And definitely validate! Most of the errors relate to your not closing the img tag and not giving the images alt attributes.
I dunno, I usually open the links in a new tab, finish reading, and then look at the link. I think it's silly to assume that people aren't going to finish an article they're immersed in.
However, if the article isn't catching them, they likely won't finish the article anyway. I've given up on articles before, but never because I get distracted by a link.
Movable Type for blogging, and Vanilla for forums :D
I love the footer and the colors, but the top of the page is arguably rather plain. The typography needs a wee bit of work, and once that's settled, it should be fine.
The top of the page is also a little lacking.
I love everything about it, but I agree with the others: your content is too far down the page, and there's a lot of unnecessary whitespace at the top of the page. The site is also extremely long, which can be a little aggravating, but I'll live with it.
Great illustrations and colors :)
That was amazing. Thanks for the video!
Wow...
I dunno if Natalie Peace sounds quite right. It's kind of an esoteric middle name, Peace is.
What about something like Natalie Marie? Since Natalie's such a long name, you'll probably want to pick something short and sweet for the middle name, 1-2 syllables, which, I guess fits the bill of everything mentioned here :)
They look disastrously ugly when they're converted into images, but as text, I use :D, :(, :), :/, ^_^, @_@, o_o, ._., and :3 very frequently. And sometimes, if I'm feeling especially giddy, they'll end up in my posts :D <-- SEE?!
Nice work! I'll pass it on to my friends so we can all test it out :P; I do think the control panel needs a little work, but I like how it hovers over the main page of the site, so you can see your changes, instead of being a separate page. And nice updates!
Why would you let your faith decree how much success you can have? In our world, you can do the most significant good with money, and without it, barely anything. Missionary efforts are all well and good but everything requires funds. What you're asking for is a level of devotion that's simply not possible for everyone. I know the saying about the camel and the millionaire, but having money does not always constitute being greedy. If money = power, people can use those positions of power to better influence the world, assuming that they have that mindset.
So you're saying that, if I believed in Jesus, he wouldn't let me have my toaster? Because I need those Pop-Tarts -- you don't know how much I need those Pop-Tarts!
It's not bondage to be somewhat materialistic. People have to get by somehow, and that involves entertainment, comfort, utensils, and shelter. That's not to say that ginormous plasma TVs are all well and good, only that our society places value on those four categories of items. And I don't disagree with them. I'm not dependent on them to any degree. I can walk away from all this. But like the people of New Orleans, I'm happiest when I'm in my place of comfort. To lose everything you own and have to start over is incredibly difficult in this society. As a result of losing their belongings, the refugees had to move, scrimp and save to be able to reclaim the life they loved. If they had not loved it, they would not have bothered -- when they had nothing, they were glad for simply being alive, but still wanted the lives they used to live. You can't imagine that those who were "washed away by the Great Flood" were particularly happy, now can you? It's all remarkably subjective...
Not everyone's suited to be a missionary; but everyone deserves to be happy, and if this floats your boat, have fun.
Amy Tan, I believe - author of The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Joy Luck Club, and The Kitchen God's Wife.
Interested! E-mailing you now :D
I'd be respectful no matter what; I'm a fool around "celebrities". However, I'd probably watch every action and criticize the man to everyone within hearing range. I can't stand Bush as a president the way that I might be able to stand him as a person, and having the two mix in one room and one strange moment might be enough to cause me to do something stupid :/
Piano - 8 years and going, singing, and trombone. Harmonica when I can get one :D
What I'm trying to defend is individual choice. The whole concept of evangelism makes the choices for people and then hands them out, one on an obviously silver tray regardless of its validity, and the other in a crate behind the tour bus.
I'm not really taking offense to anything. I'm saying that it seems strange that what you're promising people can't really be proven except through individual belief, which you cannot possibly advocate (a unique thing for everyone?). Individual belief is what keeps religion alive, and individual belief changes the world, not religion on a whole.
It's not a question of moving on...it's that you offer these enormous metaphors for something that only someone's heart can explain to them. Our moral compasses are ourselves, regardless of what any religion teaches. We're not all sinners, liars, murderers, and thieves. We're not all damned, doomed, or sorrowful. We're fine. I wish evangelists such as yourself, instead of grabbing a soapbox, would find those who truly need help and act...actions are so much more powerful than words, and people who truly need you, who you don't reach with your opinions.
I'm fine with the internet being your soapbox, but my goodness, does it hurt to have a positive attitude of humanity sometimes?
Edit: The other side of the coin...is atheism? You're kidding me! Most people say the flip sides are Heaven and Hell...to say that you're going to Heaven now, and were in "Hell" before is a terrible exaggeration. Were it not for my fondness for the intricacies of my culture and religion, I could call myself an atheist too - a perfectly happy and morally whole atheist.
Now the way you picture it could be this...your life now has a divine figure, and atheism does not. But your reference from your previous post indicated that Jesus came back from the other side, AKA death, AKA atheism. That's an untrue perspective you paint.
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It's not a question of "rejection" or "acceptance"; both of those words are very heavy "there's no turning back" sorts of things that don't apply in this situation. It's a matter of personal belief. I don't believe in the divinity of Jesus, therefore I'm not turning him away or anything. I'm simply ignoring your opinion.
The way you say "if they reject him" implies, also, that upon "rejection", a person is doomed. I don't think what you're saying there is fair. It's like saying Christianity is the only true religion and anything else is a load of garbage.
I read through your missionary post (the latest one), and I was a bit shocked that you assume anyone who isn't a Christian is automatically a sinner in some way (your friend John said something about how Jesus has a plan for you to repent and live your lives, and I'm assuming you believe the same thing because you posted it proudly and did not alter your view of that). That's not fair either. Like I said before, your rules don't govern my world. The world isn't going to end when you say it is simply because you believe it's so.
And you keep placing yourself on this pedestal and say that you offer a greater moral alternative to the life we're living, which is a bit offensive to people like me who can't find anything wrong with their lives. Jesus is not everyone's answer, but to the people who find comfort in Christianity, please don't make it seem as if it's everyone's obligation to believe in what you believe. Not one bit of it is truth to me.
Aesculapius was resurrected in Greek mythology. Ra is eaten every day in Egyptian mythology. Heck, I'm Hindu - we have that whole reincarnation bit. If you search back through all religions, you'll find the same evidence. Men have died and come back to the world to tell the story. Proof of those resurrections are just as fictional as resurrections in the Bible. All holy books are fallible because they were written by men, and men cannot speak the language of the divine purely.
It's not that simple. Christianity does not hold true for all people because not all people are Christian. You can't simply say that Jesus is my god, because he isn't. Besides that, this world is not governed by Christian rules and laws but you're so adamantly trying to prove that it does. If anything, I may be the only exception here. You can't say all if you don't include me.
The real thing that governs here is a fear of death, an inability to consign yourself to one fate and instead masking it by saying that anyone can be saved...but saved by what? Saved from what? A bit of Christian mythology to come?
I don't believe in Jesus. I don't doubt his good qualities, but I don't worship him. Therefore, my path can go to death, or life again. There is no pit stop for Jesus to get onboard and take me to heaven because by the rules of my religion, there are other ways to get there. So yes, I would still consider your insistence that Jesus is my only ticket to heaven a breach of my religion bubble. In your own community, that's fine, but some people have other faiths and beliefs that just don't match.
It's not a bad message, don't get me wrong, but you're going about it the wrong way. It's like the guy on the street corner with a sign that says "THE END IS COMING" in large capital letters. Everyone's a little bit weirded out by that guy, and the morbidity of his statement. The end is very far away. Maybe we should all lighten up and live out our lives a little more freely as well.
I love it! It's flowing, beautiful, and free. The light blue is a bit light, and as said above, the white text and light green background is a bit hard to read, but it's still so lovely. Very nice job :D
Gravity has nothing to do with religion because religion can't govern the laws of the universe. It's a fluid thing, it can't speak for structure.
The laws of Christianity do not apply to all; there are other views out there that you fail to take into consideration. For me, the world is purely scientific with a smattering of a non-Christian faith thrown in. Those are my laws, not karmatosed's, not yours, and not anyone else's. We each live in our own version of the universe, and if you claim a "bus" is going to hit people in yours, that's your choice. It doesn't mean that the people who don't listen are going to be hit by the bus. In their universe, there might not be a bus at all.
It's all opinion; that's all religion is. Therefore, this street corner preaching, this avidly trying to spread the "word of truth" as you claim...is imposing on other people's lives. Christianity does not govern the world, so please don't try to say it does :/
I kinda like the style, although the fonts could be improved (the light gray caps are very elegant). My only problems with the layout lie within the organization and the color choice. That blue, in such a large quantity, is really too bright for me. Use it as a compliment color, maybe? :o
Well, it's simple, for sure. The images definitely need work. Fix the rounded corners on the banner, and make sure your logo isn't pixelated. You actually don't need your URL in the banner. It'd be more interesting if you did something more with it, than just the solid background and some text, and the purposely-pixelated-picture.
Your headers almost intersect with the navigation! And, on pages where your banner is gone, the header is almost touching the top of the page; it also jauntily sticks out of the straight-line-structure of your text. Gotta fix that!
The single line that separates your footer from the main content should probably be more of a light -> mid gray, to match the lines used in your navigation.
Speaking of navigation, the little checks that appear by visited links are way too tiny in comparison to the navigation text. Also, the checks barely serve any purpose. I don't think using them in your navigation is the best, but if you perhaps used them on the links inside your content section -- so your readers know which of your links they've been to, since that'll both fit the size of the check better and leave your navigation to pick a suitably washed out color for a visited link instead -- that'll probably serve you better.
The blue color of your links, and the red color on the active state both make me a little apprehensive. I know that using one color to stylize your site is not always the best way to go -- it's hard to do well -- but I also know that using the wrong compliments is also a bad way to go. My suggestion to you, for colors, is to go to ColourLovers.com and choose a palette (for inspiration purposes) that inspires you.
I can't offer much on the fonts, but listen to these guys. They can help you out bunches. Best of luck!
There might be some kinda strange butterfly effect. The shockwave of a blog's collapse could be pretty widespread, theoretically, because every blog has been read at least once (if you think about it). The likelihood of a very small blog making the news, or something similar, however is not as likely.
Personally, I'd prefer to think of blogs as upright trees, not dead ones :)
What I don't understand about evangelism is the hypocrisy. You say that there's really only one way to not die if Jesus or whoever comes back to Earth -- and that is to accept said deity -- but you really give two options when you talk to people: Listen to me and heed my word, or listen to me and don't heed my word. Neither one really has a negative impact, but you seem to believe that it does, that by not accepting what you say for truth, your listener is damning themselves in eternity.
And that's just not cool. There's no room for alternatives. That's not forgiveness at all, or compassion. That's overwhelming arrogance and violence, no matter how gently you speak.
Here's where I deviate from that. I'm sure, if I were in any trouble, I would appreciate someone coming up to me of their own volition and helping me. But religion is a touchy subject. Some people want it, other people don't want it, and it's not something that should be helped or altered because it benefits people the way they want it to benefit them. Religion could be my back-up for when things go wrong, or it could be my life. But it doesn't have to be the only answer, and you telling the world that it is says two things: 1) You're very dedicated to your religion, and that's something that can easily be lauded; 2) Someone's not right.
And in the broad scheme of things, you can't just say any religion is necessarily not right or wrong because it's all a matter of belief, a yes or no question. The commercialism of religion, therefore, is an incomplete thought because there is no right answer. We'd all love to know the answers, but no one knows for certain, and that's the most glaring fault of evangelism.
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» Ron Paul Spam ... Last Reply: 1 year ago by RightOn.
Exactly my point of view. I don't get why so many people like the guy. I wrote a bit of a postie on the matter which'll probably capture my sentiments better (http://www.biscuitrat.com/archives/2007/09/think_about_the_consequences.php)