Here is an off of the top of my head theroy about the flood.
Buuut, could the flood be a 'type of' global warming that melted the
caps and flooded the land? Then had a type of 'ice age' that helped
bring the earth back to normal?Huuuum.

It really it came from man. In my religion, God is the essence of
everything. We all 'came' from Him.
But religion came from man, because it seperates us from each other,
which seperates us from God and ourselves, ALONG with each other.
God don't want to seperate Himself.

I like that AB.


In my religion God is the essence of everything. We all 'came' from Him.
We are one with Him. I don't believe that He seeks our worship, just our
love.

Well according to my religion, maybe in a very, very, very, very deep
way religion did come from God.
But really it came from man. In my religion God is the essence of
everything. We all 'came' from Him.
But religion came from man, because it seperates us from each other,
which seperates us from God and ourselves, along with each other.
God don't want to seperate Himself.

Here are a few links to some prog. alts. Sometimes I am a pack rat when
it comes to program installs.
By the way, Open office does rock its windows counterpart.
It's free, and the price for it's counterpart......?

This is an antivirus that is comparetive to AVG (free)
(win-lin)
http://www.free-av.com/

Here is a cool EULA (end user licence agreement) analyzer that red flags
privacy violations. That way we can keep, not reading them without
worry.lol (free)(win)
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/

It looks like skype has some worthy comptition. (free +)
(win-lin-mac)
http://www.gizmoproject.com/

If you have the hard drive space and don't like carrying discs.
(free +)(win)
http://www.virtualcd-online.com/

For a good dvd ripper\burner that is extreamly easy to use,
try dvdfabexpress.(win)(free +)
http://www.dvdidle.com/

This is a few for now. Maybye I will give more links later.
Any one else have a few?

i have never used a sonicwall, but my belkin router works well with
vista.
plugin, detect, online.

if you do any kind of media encoding, I have heard that this is a great
app. mediacoder.sourceforge.net
it's free, open source, and converts mutipale formats.
it also has a built in previewer.

I tried vista on my test computer. i tried it on a 2.4 intel with 512 of
ram and a 128mb geforce video card. It runs and works and looks
great.but compared to winxp on the same system, vista crawls.

Are you useing a windows version? That might be why. I have no problems
under linux.

When we physically die, we will KNOW all of the truth.
Alive, we know not the whole truth.
How can one be judged for ignorance.
That's not just, of a true just God.
That's like a blind man being punished for believing that the sky is
completly yellow when the truth is that it is blue.
He doesn't know better for himself. He only knows what he was taught.
Should he be punished for that?
You see, my whole belief is that there is no hell.
It doesn't make sense.
It is a scare tatic of religion.
How can a Being, that is so loving, be capabale of such an act?
We punish our children because we love them and want them to learn from
thier mistakes so that they can better themselves.
So you cain't learn from a Hell punishment, therefore that cain't be
love. Straight up punishment that cain't be learned from is not love.
(witch is something God is supposed to be in pure form (love))
SO logically there cain't be a hell.
It is a contradiction.

Thanks Mass.
I am just glad to be a part of this growing process.
Where we all learn from each other.

First of all, people just need to know that anything yahoo is easily
hacked. As well as MSN.
Also Basicly anything that is windows geared.

If you are using windows then you should only have plug your MP3 player
into it (using USB or something) and it will be listed as a new drive.
Then all you have to do is copy and paste your MP3 files onto the new
drive.
Wolia!
More help could be provided with more info.

Yea. Mac has more of a 'Linux basis' than windows.
Better code makes for a better product.

Religion is just a way to describe the beliefs of a person or group of
people.
Me Attacking religion is not to mean to be insulting to people in that
way, my point is that it seperates us from each other, and the truth.
Sorry if I didn't make this clear.

The TRUE fact is that God is everywhere all of the time. Even in sin. I
believe that most all of religions say this. Some say it, and the
opposite, thus bringing fourth contradiction. For the most part,
contradiction is the definition of mostly all reglions. I don't believe
in religions, I believe in God.
In truth.

I do have a question though, if someone can help.
I thought that the very reason for punishment is for us to learn from
our mistakes so the we want do them again.
According to some religions, punishment for 'sins' is death by eternal
fire.
How can we learn from this?

I'm with you Jess on the seperation thing. I believe in God, but I don't
believe in religion.
Religion is man made.
Think about it.
Why would God want to seperate us from each other?
There is only one truth.
As far as atheism being a religion, sure, why not?
Like I said, the other religions are man made anyway, why not have
another?

I agree with you Abra.


"The god I know has absolutely nothing at all to do with any religion."

Religion is just mans explaination of God that is understandable to us.
But with so many different religions, they all contradict each other,
thus setting in confussion.

For anyone else,
Why would God want to confuse us? (with religions)
I don't think that He would. (religion is man made not god made)

A good gun/linux distro is not limited to the limits of pcs or macs. I'm
just looking for the day when everything is compatible with everything
else. Too many 'greed' restrictions keep us from doing alot of things
that we want to do. Even things that we want to do and just don't even
know it yet, because it's not possible, for the majority, that they know
of.
With linux, there are no limits. The only thing holding it back is
hardware.

Alot of the Macs basics are a diritive of a form of (gnu)linux.
As was windows initially.
Linux is the way to go.
Open source.
Freedom.