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2. I don't think God would allow error either... but it does come down to who we're putting our faith and trust into. If the Bible was essentially written by men who were inspired by God, then we would be trusting that the men wrote God's word down correctly. We can put our faith and trust in God saying that his (I'm only writing "His" to satisfy the "proper" Christians out there) word is true. It's only the interpretation of men that leaves something to be desired. 3. Of course religion without faith is useless. But then it's not really a religion anymore... if someone practices Christianity without faith, then you can hardly call them Christian... that's the point I'm trying to make. If you can claim that "religion" is just a set of rituals of which faith has no importance, then you could call Scientology a religion as much as Christianity or Judaism.

I did realize that something was up... 2 seconds after I started downloading the file. There was no way to cancel it. I never touched the file after it finished downloading, and I shredded it, along with all my free space, immediately. I also did an antivirus scan and it came up with nothing. Also, I just did a Google search about the message that they sent and it seems to have affected quite a few people. What I'm talking about is, if I never clicked on the zip file at all, would it open completely by itself? Another search result turned up the worm Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.ayc/Image-005.JPEG_escudrinado-MSN.com. I think the virus was the one shown there. No, it wasn't. The file that I received wasn't a JPEG file at all. There's nothing in my root directory (C:) either. This is a common behaviour of most viruses.

Well, Yes. It's the one that only has a 90-day evaluation period, and you can get it off winzip.com.

This post has 2 parts: Part 1 is a tech-support question. One of my IM friends sent me a suspicious message today, along with a zip file. I downloaded it, and 2 seconds after starting, I realized that it was a virus. I didn't open it, but instead shredded the file using a file shredder that overwrote it 7 times with random data. My question is, can a zip file open completely by itself, without the user clicking on it? Because if it can, then the virus is already on my computer. If it is, how do I get rid of it? Here are all the facts: The message sent was: The file's name was g8997.zip. It was 172 KB in size.After the file finished downloading, I saw a command prompt pop up for about 0.3 seconds. I didn't get the chance to see what was on it. I never opened the file, and instead shredded it. I am now currently shredding my free space, so that no files can be recovered. The person sent it again, this time named g9002.zip. Same size. Part 2 is a general discussion question. What is your opinion in IM worms? How often do they happen to you, and what do you do to prevent them? How annoying are they, really?

There's also the fact that it runs faster, and has a lot of different options.

Thanks a lot. I'm currently on Genesis 8. I started yesterday...

True. All the sermons and passages that my pastor and Sunday-school teacher tell us about are either in Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, or somewhere in the New Testament. Hardly any sermons are taught about things elsewhere. Leviticus and Deuteronomy are especially avoided. Of course Christianity is not a bad religion in and of itself. It's the people who practice it that go to extremes, like you said. The KKK is known by many names now. They are not one consolidated group, but are all over the Internet (e.g. the Order of the White Knights) and spread out in small clumps in major U.S. cities. Sometimes I have questions about why God wants us to worship (H)im. I mean, first, he creates us and commands us not to do things without telling is what they're bad for. (Example: Adam and Eve - they were told not to eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. God only told them, "you will surely die", without telling them what was bad about eating of that tree. That seems kind of nonsensical, but, what the heck, it's Christianity.)

I think they warned you because it might be offensive to certain women. We're supposed to be a "kind and caring" community here.

Well... yeah, I guess it's my hard drive. It gets a "5.2" on the Vista Experience Index. My winsxs folder is now currently 6.03 GB. It contains 31,220 files, and 7,976 folders. How much was yours beforehand?

I once read in a Gideons' Bible that if you read three chapters of the Bible every weekday and five chapters every Sunday, you can read through the whole Christian Bible in a year. I'm going to do this on my blog, and post opinions every 23 chapters (every week, in other words.) based on what I've read. Who supports me on this venture?

No noticeable difference yet. I'm going to check things out in a while. Funny, when Windows updates something, it doesn't look like anything's been updated at all.

Where I am, in Ontario, marijuana is "illegal" (more like extremely frowned upon), but the laws concerning it are very lax and possibly even nonexistent. Medicinal marijuana should definitely be legalized, or stay legalized, in North America. The only thing I don't like about marijuana is smoking it. That can produce very bad effects as well. You could use marijuana for other productive purposes as well, such as using it as hemp, to make paper and clothing, or to bake it in brownies.* (* That last one was a joke. Some people did that before and they ended up callign the police because they thought they were dying. [No emphasis. The red means it's an edit.]) Of course, cannabis is not nearly as bad as tobacco (the LD-50 of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, according to Wikipedia, is 1.27 g/kg of body weight for men, and 0.73 g/kg of body weight for women, when consumed orally.) but it can have negative effects as well. If you start experiencing any of those effects, STOP! Marijuana is not nearly as addictive as tobacco, so it should be easier to stop.

I don't dislike certain abortions due to the amount of time - only because of the method. No matter if partial-birth abortion is performed at 16 weeks or 34 - it's still the same horribility. But other methods of abortion are less harmful to the fetus itself, beside the fact that the fetus dies in all these cases. I am personally against partial-birth abortion and would love to see it illegalized, even though I am pro-choice. This is because partial-birth abortion actually involves directly harming the fetus, after it is outside the womb. (And to Joshua, you once said in another post that "the whole idea of abortion" is to cut the baby's head off or rip its brains out with a big hook. This is wrong. Partial-birth abortion counted for about 0.17% of total abortions in the US in 2003. So it's actually not that big of an issue.)

True. But I think the custom-title thing is to reward loyal members, and give them some autonomy after the standard ranks run out. I think the limit should be reduced to 300 instead, because that's bigger than 200, which is the last standard rank, and because the limit shouldn't be reduced altogether.

Today I checked windows Update because I had nothing better to do, and I found that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was out. I'm going to install it and see what's so good about it. As I type this sentence, the update has finished downloading 8%. I'll also be keeping a time log of how long it takes, and how much time Vista takes to install the service pack. Okay, here's the log: Start install (00:00:00) -----Installing Windows update portion (00:00)... done (04:47) Restarting (00:04:47) Installing Service pack (00:06:09) -----Stage 1 of 3 (06:09)... done (20:00) -----Stage 2 of 3 (20:01)... done (20:32) Restarting... (00:21:40) Welcome Screen (00:22:48) Installing service pack... (00:23:10) -----Stage 3 of 3 (23:10)... done (26:48) Welcome (00:26:48) Install Finished (00:27:10) So, all in all, except for downloading, it took me 27 minutes and 10 seconds to install SP1. They said it would take at least an hour... I guess they were wrong.

Oh, at 200 posts? (i.e. once you become a "Super Member".) I thought the limit was 500 or something. Now all I need to do is to come up with a good title. (My post count is nearing 300 as I make this post.) No, it's not there. I don't see a "Custom member title" field. Maybe the limit is 300? If so, i'm 3 posts away.

I've seen some of the custom titles that some users have. What is that about? Is there another topic about this already?I'd just like to know in case I want to give one to myself.

1. Sorry for being off topic. But it seems that every religion out there claims to be the "religion of peace". Why should Christianity be treated any differently? 2. I don't get angry easily. I forgive people as well. It's not that I don't uphold the principles of Christianity, it's that I'm having troubles with faith. 3. I don't get the grammatical structure of this sentence at all. I'm trying to interpret it, but I'm drawing blanks. 4. "Don't despair on what others are doing..." so I shouldn't care if my best friend starts doing drugs? 5. I thought Christianity was incriticizable as well. I've never read the Qu'ran (not sure where the apostrophe should go), so I wouldn't know what you're talking about. 6. Ahh... that's probably what I've been missing... Problem is, though, I can't think of any things that I've done that would warrant that... although there definitely are a few, 7. I guess so. 8. I don't live in America. 9. "Don't worry about what the old testament says except for the 10 commandments"... yeah, Leviticus has been a little problem for me over the past few years... I'm trying out the Gideons' experiment and reading through the whole Bible in a year. I'll get to you about that later. 10. I don't remember anything about that. 11. Define "extreme". I'm trying not to be blind, but being not-blind means that I have to maintain some degree of skepticism, and keep a salt shaker with me at all times in case I have to read something contradictory. 12. The "miracles" in my body... you mean "life", right?

I think the scientific quest to prove evolution can also be explained philosophically (I know... I'm trying to act as a philosopher even though I don't have such a degree...) I think scientists are followers of the human quest for knowledge. This quest has led them to believe (notice I do not say "erroneously believe".) that a complex problem such as life cannot have such a simple answer (i.e. a deity.) Scientists are people who challenge a norm and then find ways to prove it. For example, back in the 1600's, it was common knowledge that the Sun revolved around the Earth. It was up to scientists to disprove this. Back in the 1800's, it was also common knowledge that the Earth and everything in it was created by someone. Now scientists are trying to challenge this theory and disprove it. To them it is nothing more than a great challenge that they feel compelled to take. While creationists simply flick their hands and say, "No, there's no need to do that; God did it all," scientists are actually trying to prove them wrong. Of course, some scientists are trying to prove the creationists right, but it's the creationists themselves, not the creation scientists, who are ignorant.

Although this is theoretically a good idea, there is one problem: Microsoft doesn't want to use "open" engines because it wants to own everything it uses. If Microsoft were to acquire Gecko, Firefox would be dragged along helplessly and become a part of Microsoft. Also, the whole point of Firefox is to be an open-source continuation of Netscape Navigator, which was a competing product back in the days before the Browser wars. (Netscape actually held 90% of the market share before IE came around. So there were heydays for Firefox.) Getting the masses to change is the whole point of Firefox. Get rid of that, and... well... Microsoft will pretty much have a monopoly on everything. And we don't want that...

Very trye. But, their basic service is "free", so they aren't technically lying. It's not that they're not a free host anymore - just that they're a really crappyone.

1. Well, that certainly clears things up.2. Well, if God inspired these writings, as you say, wouldn't there be resolution loss? Wouldn't the error of humans be considered? I'm just thinking, maybe his (His? I keep getting confused.) original and pure message got noised up a little. 3. Doesn't religion necessarily include some sort of faith? "Religions" like Shinto or Taoism aren't really "religions" in the strict sense... they're more like "lifestyle practices". 1. I say that no religion can truthfully (no emphasis, it's just my edit colour) claim that they are the "one true" religion. It doesn't mean that there isn't one, but it doesn't seem like we've discovered it yet. If someone follows a religion, they can follow it because it was created by "the one true God", but it is not necessarily the "one true religion". I mean, every religion claims that it's the "one true religion". If it really was that one true religion, then it wouldn't need to be claimed: it would already have been proven.2. You're pretty much right.

Although I am Christian myself, my arguments on this forum are based completely on human logic because I'm currently experiencing a period of backsliding and am trying to reconcile my beliefs. I also see a lot of Christians who don't believe in a lot of the good things that the Bible has to teach. Like people who propose the death penalty, for example. When you kill someone, you usually don't do it out of love unless it's a case of euthanasia or pre-term abortion. Why is it therefore just to kill someone just because they committed a crime? In one chapter of Proverbs (I believe it's 25:21), the scripture reads, This basically means that we should care for our enemies. My pastor once gave a great sermon on this. He said, "By doing that, you'll make them feel really stupid. You'll make them think, man, I was wrong to do all that stuff to him or her." I also see a lot of Christians trying to pull me into a complete blind-faith belief in Jesus' power. Although their intentions are without doubt good, I don't sense that I'm ready for it. They keep telling me to drop my skepticism completely. I don't sense that it's something that I'm ready to do. But hey, it's God's choice. If he (He?) wants me to become ready, he'll call on me. If he (should I really start changing this into "He"?) exists (and I have no doubt that he could), then I will be able to sense it.

More like 99.9976%. If you're being tortured (like biologically, for instance), and you're terminally disabled, then that is called suicidal euthanasia. IF someone helps you to do it, then it's just called euthanasia. What do you think about that practice?

Or perhaps it needs to fallback on Active mode. I did that and now everything works fine. It shouldn't have to do that, though. It's not a problem with binary format. Some PHP files make it, but others don't. It's only a random few files that have zero file-length.