Daniel Eaton's Public Library

21 Nov 09

17 Nov 09

Helping Our Evangelical Friends Make Sense of “Mormon Doctrine”

ldstalk.wordpress.com/...-make-sense-of-mormon-doctrine - Preview

lds

Evangelicals are sometimes express irritation at the complex nature of Mormon doctrine and theology. They complain that once you think you’ve pinned Mormon theology down on something, the Mormon in front of you will say things like

“Oh, but that’s not what we believe today.”

“That was just Joseph’s personal opinion.”

“That’s not official doctrine.”

“You aren’t taking that quote in context.”
Like early Christianity, Mormonism does not have the most developed approach to theology. And like most early religions, the focus is more correct practice rather than correct theological belief. Mormonism is more focused on orthopraxy than orthodoxy.
7 more annotations...
- you have to make sure that their statements were made in an official capacity and meant to be binding upon the membership
- While they are a great resource for guaging what modern LDS are being taught, and what they are thinking and believing, the manuals should not be viewed as always binding doctrinally
- The famous “Church Handbook of Instructions” disseminated to LDS local leadership also falls into this category. It is more of a book of current Church policy than a disciplined and binding statement of timeless doctrine
- Once the prophet is dead, he is replaced by successors whose words carry modern authority to the Church going forward. If the successor moves on from policies or (more rarely) doctrines espoused by his predecessor, the living prophet generally trumps the old one.
- The LIVING prophet takes precedence in guiding the present-day Church. Old quotes do not always stand the test of time. Brigham Young’s Adam-God idea being a prime example. No one in the LDS Church really knows what Brigham meant by those quotes, they seem to conflict with what we know of canonized LDS scripture, and even Brigham Young himself seemed to contradict the notion on occasion in his own statements. Thus the doctrine was discarded.
- Just because an apostle wrote it doesn’t mean you’re holding binding doctrine in your hand. LDS General Authorities try to be very careful in their writings (perhaps moreso today than in decades past) because they are aware that people will inevitably be tempted to take their opinion as law. But sometimes stuff slips through the cracks.
  
  The most obvious example of this, is apostle Bruce R. McConkie’s landmark book – “Mormon Doctrine.” It’s an invaluable resource and shows a great deal of care and scripture cross-referencing. It’s a resource I use all the time. And most of the time, it gets the doctrine essentially right. Most of the time….
- Books written by apostles really should not be viewed as binding – merely persuasive. Sort of like rabbinic commentary on the Torah in the Jewish tradition.

15 Nov 09

The opposite of with:public, the with:me search is very useful for just seeing waves that are explicitly with you (not with the public group). To limit your results to only waves you've updated, use by:me.

Other search operators include tag: for tags, and has: for attachments like images, files, and gadgets. For example, has:gadget returns waves with gadgets; has:image returns waves with images in them, and has:attachment returns waves with gadgets, images, or files. You can combine search operators, like with:public has:gadget, and use the minus sign to exclude waves as well, like -has:image. Here's the full list of Wave's advanced search operators.
Good Wave etiquette dictates that you don't add bots to public waves.
1 more annotations...
- To load Wave with certain modules minimized by default, you can use a custom Wave URL with the #minimized parameter. For example, https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact launches Wave with the Navigation and Contacts modules minimized. The https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact,minimized:search URL minimizes Navigation, Contacts, and Search panes as shown here.

Google Wave: Save Time By Using Keyboard Shortcuts | Google | Tech-Recipes

www.tech-recipes.com/...me-by-using-keyboard-shortcuts - Preview

google wave keys shortcuts

- Space Bar – takes you to the next unread message
- Home Button - takes you to the first message
- End Button – takes you to the last message
- Up and Down arrows – Navigate up and down the message list
- Left and Right arrows – Switch from digest panel and wave panel
- Ctrl+Space Bar While focus is on Wave Panel – mark all messages as read
- Ctrl+G – Color selected text (bring up a popup window for inputing desired color)
- Ctrl+B – Toggles bolding on selected text
- Ctrl+I - Toggles bolding on selected text
- Ctrl+5 – Toggles Bullets
- Ctrl+7 – Left align
- Ctrl+8 – Right align
- Ctrl+C – Copy selected text
- Ctrl+V - Pasted copied text
- Ctrl+X – Cut selected text
- Enter – Replies to selected message
- Ctrl+R – Replies to selected message
- Ctrl+E – Edit message
- Ctrl+Enter - Insert inline reply while editing

Find All Public Google Wave Documents

blogoscoped.com/...2009-10-01-n38.html - Preview

google wave

Daniel - Google Wave

wave.google.com/wave - Preview

google wave

About Google Wave

wave.google.com/...about.html - Preview

google wave

14 Nov 09

Apophysis Script Wizard by =Xyrus02 on deviantART

xyrus02.deviantart.com/...physis-Script-Wizard-143599113 - Preview

apophysis script

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

www.theatlantic.com/...3 - Preview

have run into intense financial difficulties, sometimes defaulting soon after leaving the congregation. The man who’d bought the $270,000 house threw a huge housewarming party and invited everyone from church. He gave a weepy testimony about the house God had given him, passing around the title for all to see. At the time, he was working as a handyman, putting up drywall, painting, roofing, and doing other odd jobs. Within three months he had three families living in the three-bedroom house, and he still could not keep up with the payments. After five months, he went into foreclosure and ducked out of the country.
The guys who’d started the landscaping company also fared badly. They had a pretty good spring and summer in 2007, their first year of operation, and then business started to fall off. In church they kept giving positive testimonies, bragging about their success. But by October, they’d begun selling off their equipment; eventually they lost the business and had to go into hiding. The most interesting part of the story is the epilogue. One of the partners in the group, whom I’ll call Luis, eventually moved to Richmond, and an acquaintance from Casa del Padre told me that he’d recently run into him there. Luis hadn’t been embittered by the experience; he blamed the disaster on the fact that he’d started working on Sundays instead of going to church.

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

www.theatlantic.com/...2 - Preview

christianity wof

most new prosperity-gospel churches were built along the Sun Belt, particularly in California, Florida, and Arizona—all areas that were hard-hit by the mortgage crisis.
the prosperity gospel has spread exponentially among African American and Latino congregations. This is also the other distinct pattern of foreclosures. “Hyper-segregated” urban communities were the worst off, says Halperin. Reliable data on foreclosures by race are not publicly available, but mortgages are tracked by both race and loan type, and subprime loans have tended to correspond to foreclosures. During the boom, roughly 40 percent of all loans going to Latinos nationwide were subprime loans; Latinos and African Americans were 28 percent and 37 percent more likely, respectively, to receive a higher-rate subprime loan than whites.
4 more annotations...
- One theme emerging in these suits is how banks teamed up with pastors to win over new customers for subprime loans.
- The subprime officers were drawn from “an utterly different background” than the professional bankers, she told me. She had been running a small paralegal business; her co-workers had been car salespeople, or had worked in telemarketing. They were prized for their ability to hustle on the ground and “look you in the eye when they shook your hand,” she surmised. As a reward for good performance, the bank would sometimes send a Hummer limo to pick up Jacobson for a celebration, she said. She’d arrive at a bar and find all her co-workers drunk and her boss “doing body shots off a waitress.”
- The branch managers figured pastors had a lot of influence with their parishioners and could give the loan officers credibility and new customers. Jacobson remembers a conference call where sales managers discussed the new strategy. The plan was to send officers to guest-speak at church-sponsored “wealth-building seminars” like the ones Bowler attended, and dazzle the participants with the possibility of a new house. They would tell pastors that for every person who took out a mortgage, $350 would be donated to the church, or to a charity of the parishioner’s choice.
- I asked Garay why his parishioner Billy Gonzales, who earns barely $25,000 and has no money to fix his car, should donate 10 percent of his income. “Because it gives him a new mentality. It teaches him that money can breed more money, that you can have money in your pocket on Saturday morning even though you got paid Friday night. People who support the church week after week have a dedication. Those who just give $5 or $10 here and there, you’ll hear them have the same problems week after week.”

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

www.theatlantic.com/...rosin-prosperity-gospel - Preview

christianity wof

One other thing makes Garay’s church a compelling case study. From 2001 to 2007, while he was building his church, Garay was also a loan officer at two different mortgage companies. He was hired explicitly to reach out to the city’s growing Latino community, and Latinos, as it happened, were disproportionately likely to take out the sort of risky loans that later led to so many foreclosures. To many of his parishioners, Garay was not just a spiritual adviser, but a financial one as well.
In the late 1940s, Roberts claimed his Bible flipped open to the Third Epistle of John, verse 2: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health. Even as thy soul prospereth.” Soon Roberts developed his famous concept of seed faith, still popular today.
3 more annotations...
- Of the nation’s 12 largest churches, she says, three are prosperity—Osteen’s, which dwarfs all the other megachurches; Tommy Barnett’s, in Phoenix; and T. D. Jakes’s, in Dallas. In second-tier churches—those with about 5,000 members—the prosperity gospel dominates. Overall, Bowler classifies 50 of the largest 260 churches in the U.S. as prosperity. The doctrine has become popular with Americans of every background and ethnicity; overall, Pew found that 66 percent of all Pentecostals and 43 percent of “other Christians”—a category comprising roughly half of all respondents—believe that wealth will be granted to the faithful.
- Osteen took over his father’s church in 1999. He had little preaching experience, although he’d managed the television ministry for years. The church grew quickly, as Osteen packaged himself to appeal to the broadest audience possible. In his books and sermons, Osteen quotes very little scripture, opting instead to tell uplifting personal anecdotes. He avoids controversy, and rarely appears on Christian TV. In a popular YouTube clip, he declines to confirm Larry King’s suggestion that only those who believe in Jesus will go to heaven.
- Rick Warren, whose book The Purpose Driven Life outsold Osteen’s, told Time, “This idea that God wants everybody to be wealthy? There is a word for that: baloney. It’s creating a false idol. You don’t measure your self-worth by your net worth. I can show you millions of faithful followers of Christ who live in poverty. Why isn’t everyone in the church a millionaire?”

12 Nov 09

'Witches, possessed' flock to Kenya pastor - CNN.com

edition.cnn.com/...kenya.witches - Preview

kenya witchcraft

The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

www.skytopia.com/...2mandelbulb.html - Preview

mandelbrot fractals 3d

Skytopia - Mystery of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

www.skytopia.com/...mandelbrot.html - Preview

mandelbrot fractals 3d

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

www.skytopia.com/...mandelbulb.html - Preview

mandelbrot fractals 3d

11 Nov 09

Andrew Napolitano: Health-Care Reform and the Constitution - WSJ.com

online.wsj.com/...3917304574412793406386548.html - Preview

healthcare

"There's nothing in the Constitution that says that the federal government has anything to do with most of the stuff we do." Then he shot back: "How about [you] show me where in the Constitution it prohibits the federal government from doing this?"
In Wickard v. Filburn (1942), the Supreme Court held that a farmer who grew wheat just for the consumption of his own family violated federal agricultural guidelines enacted pursuant to the Commerce Clause. Though the wheat did not move across state lines—indeed, it never left his farm—the Court held that if other similarly situated farmers were permitted to do the same it, might have an aggregate effect on interstate commerce.
4 more annotations...
- James Madison, who argued that to regulate meant to keep regular, would have shuddered at such circular reasoning.
- Applying these principles to President Barack Obama's health-care proposal, it's clear that his plan is unconstitutional at its core. The practice of medicine consists of the delivery of intimate services to the human body. In almost all instances, the delivery of medical services occurs in one place and does not move across interstate lines.
- Congress refuses to keep commerce regular when the commercial activity is the sale of insurance, but claims it can regulate the removal of a person's appendix because that constitutes interstate commerce.
- The president and his colleagues want to reward their supporters with "free" health care that the rest of us will end up paying for. Their only restraint on their exercise of Commerce Clause power is whatever they can get away with. They aren't upholding the Constitution—they are evading it.

Incendia - 3D Multiprocessor Fractal Engine

www.incendia.net - Preview

incendia fractals

Daniel Eaton's Public Library

Super Massive Script Pack v3 by =Fractal-Resources on deviantART

Helping Our Evangelical Friends Make Sense of “Mormon Doctrine”

YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

Using Google Wave

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

Google Wave 101 - Wave - Lifehacker

Google Wave: Save Time By Using Keyboard Shortcuts | Google | Tech-Recipes

Find All Public Google Wave Documents

Daniel - Google Wave

About Google Wave

Apophysis Script Wizard by =Xyrus02 on deviantART

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

Did Christianity Cause the Crash? - The Atlantic (December 2009)

'Witches, possessed' flock to Kenya pastor - CNN.com

The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Skytopia - Mystery of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Andrew Napolitano: Health-Care Reform and the Constitution - WSJ.com

Incendia - 3D Multiprocessor Fractal Engine

Sponsored Links

Top Tags

View All Recent Tags (49)

Public Tags (482)

Daniel Eaton's Public Lists (0)