Exegesis is also on topic for several other sites with scopes limited to a particular religious tradition. What makes us different from those sites is primarily the fact that we are about the process of hermeneutical analysis, not the final output of that process.
This distinction can be seen in...
@Caleb I used Solaris and Linux on the same project for years and have a healthy fear of non-standard options. I was also burned by learning UNIX on SGI's IRIX, which I quite liked, but had some weird extensions I leaned on too heavily.
(As with all life lessons, I don't recall the details very well.)
@JonEricson No I do get the issue. Most of my shell work is not only on Linux but also on machines that I manage so I am far too lazy in this regard, but I do have a few things that I have to keep portable to BSD and even a few other 'nixes so I am not completely oblivious. Mostly I am just jealous of @Gilles and his encyclopedic knowledge of variations between shell environments.
@Caleb There is something about comparing Unix and hermeneutics that makes you want to upvote twice. First for the content and then for for the pleasure of reading something that geeky ;)
@NiclasNilsson I'm afraid the analogy may be lost on many of our most problem users it this area, but I had fun writing that and I hope it helps some wrap their heads around our little gig here.
@Caleb Yeah. I never really understood how many of us are tech people on this site. But when user123456 starting with 1 point posts I guess he/she probably don't have that background (either thar, or they dpn't want to link their SO-profile to this place)
Our target demographic may be geeky enough for that to make sense, but our real problem is with the influx from Google and elsewhere of non-analytically minded folks that think their opinions are just as needed here as their local Bible study leaders suggest they are when they prompt "now let's hear what everybody thinks this verse means to them".
@NiclasNilsson True, not having the 100 point bonus from a tech SE site is usually a good tip off. Having the bonus but coming from C.SE is usually just as bad or worse.
@NiclasNilsson I love it and hate it, often on the same days. It has it's own unique set of problems challenges.
@NiclasNilsson Partly I can get away with that sort of criticism because I'm a member in good standing and community elected moderator over there. I'm allowed to be critical. Here I'm just an institutionally appointed lackey that SE saddled this beta with ;)
Between down votes given, and a lack of asking and answering any questions myself, I accumulated negative reputation for the entire month of December. I'm disappointed that there's no badge for that.
@BruceAlderman LOL, I am down from my September number. I remarked here a while back that I needed to answer something just to support my downvote habit.
@swasheck I've changed my thoughts on so many things, and even in those areas where I still agree with myself, I would express it a lot differently these days
@swasheck yeah I know, lots of folks' opinions/beliefs change over time, and if they've published them already, meh
but imagine all the users who aren't good fits here, times that by two, then imagine them constantly commenting on my blog about how I'm going to hell or being judgmental or need to be saved or....
And I generally just leave those comments unapproved
maybe someone can take your old thoughts and take them in a novel direction ... or you can demonstrate clear thought progression through new discoveries
there's still a couple users who choose to disregard site guidelines, and its frustrating when there's not much you can do about it, but there are also several new users who I really enjoy reading content from
@swasheck I have 4000+ rep so I can do a lot more things, and I co-started a community chat room and am also listed as an Owner in the Library, so perhaps some perceive me as a mod
I am specifically trying to understand why homosexuality is considered to be sinful, while other listed sins (adultery/divorce, dietary, etc) are routinely ignored or minimized. Are all sins equal, or are some more egregious than others? If the latter, why and how is the level of egregiousness d...
@swasheck oh I'll start something new as soon as I can figure out what domain name I want
In the past I've had prayeramedic, exmergent, and clever names like that
I'm trying to think of something catchy, easy to spell if I share it with someone verbaly (even if it means buying spelling variations to help), and that fits
Warning. Giant wall of text from my master's thesis upcoming.
tl;dr;
It is likely that the discount applied by the steward had no impact on his employer because of the practice of adding excessive commission to sales. The discount can be seen as the steward discounting his own commission in ord...
and on the other ... more likely but still not likely
nonetheless
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i have a bit of a confession
i've been afraid to dust off the thesis and the greek
for so long i was haunted by "what's next???" after my master's degree. my wife is a practical person who longs for practical ministry. i'm a theoretical person who wanted to do phd work. all doors were closed and it made me depressed, bitter, and angry.
my thesis represents the height of that internal battle
> You are misinformed. Numerous African, Asian, American and Pacific-island language versions of the Greek Scriptures use the name Jehovah liberally, so that readers can clearly see the difference between the true God and the false ones. The name has appeared, too, in versions in European languages.
> I'd be interested to hear which modern language translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures insert any name of God into the text. I was only aware of the NWT.
> Numerous contemporary African, Asian, American and Pacific-island language versions of the Greek Scriptures use the name Jehovah liberally, so that readers can clearly see the difference between the true God and the false ones. The name has appeared, too, in versions in European languages.
> Lots.
Which?
*Lots*.
See, this doesn't actually answer the question I asked.
Warning. Giant wall of text from my master's thesis upcoming.
tl;dr;
It is likely that the discount applied by the steward had no impact on his employer because of the practice of adding excessive commission to sales. The discount can be seen as the steward discounting his own commission in ord...
