The Upper Room

3:06 PM

I'm kind of sad... I'm serving on a retreat so I'll lose my streak towards the Fanatic badge :(

wax eagle

@a_hardin bummer, I lost mine over the weekend...

no possibility of mobile logon?

no, not even taking my phone (which is the only reason I even got Enthusiast

@waxeagle Wouldn't that be against the point of a retreat?

wax eagle

@TRiG depends on the retreat's purpose :)

@waxeagle Well, the ones I'm used to in literature are supposed to include seclusion from the world. And dead bodies, usually. Retreats crop up in detective fiction.

3:10 PM

@TRiG there were no dead bodies when I was a candidate, but now I'm kind of scared...

wax eagle

@TRiG yeah. typically they are intended to be seclusion/separation...

@a_hardin Actually, on reflection, they aren't supposed to include dead bodies. They just often do.

And the nice young man from the local village who helps the elderly monks take care of the garden is doing it so he has a quiet spot to grow cannabis.

"what a beautiful shrubbery"

3:13 PM

That was a Paulo Baldi story.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00803g1

Q: How can I contribute to the effort to clean up Christianity.SE?

3:58 PM

I've heard rumors of an cleanup effort on Christianity.SE that is in its infancy, how can I contribute so that I can assure my voice is heard from the very beginning?

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6:10 PM

El'endia Starman has added El'endia Starman to the list of this room's owners.

@StackExchange If making someone an owner was an owner-only action, that would have been awesome. :P

user2334

@Atheist Yes

user2334

All moderators gain global chat moderation privileges, yes

user2334

We don't get access to private chat rooms that aren't tied to our site, though

user2334

But we can kick people, change owners, move messages, etc.

user2334

6:16 PM

Removes them from the chat room

6:26 PM

→ 19 messages moved to Refocusing Christianity.SE

@MarkTrapp How permanently? :P

user2334

@ElendiaStarman I don't think we can ban people. Or at least I can't find the option. But you could make a room private and shun/kick the unbelievers

@MarkTrapp SHUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

user2334

Oh no, a narwhal!

@MarkTrapp Nope. ~~Chuck Testa.~~ A unicorn.

6:53 PM

Q: Eastern Religions

Occasionally, I see answers that compare Christianity to "Eastern religions" -- and that phrase is usually followed by a completely muddled failure to understand...Something, probably Buddhism or Hinduism. And, as this is Christianity.SE, I would not expect or require the answerers to (necessari...

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7:56 PM

Q: Bible hermeneutics is live

I though the community here would be interested. It will be interesting to see how that proposal and this one co-exist. Here's a relevant question on meta: How can this site distinguish itself from Christianity SE?

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Q: Can we reverse the trend on low quality posts?

8:20 PM

In the beginning, there was Christianity.SE Congratulations community, we are now just over half-way through the minimum stay in public beta! We have lots of participation and a full seven weeks of asking and answering. Honestly we have a lot of good content and some wonderful users. However, m...

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Richard

@StackExchange How can we reverse entropy?

Caleb

8:40 PM

@Richard Ask on Philosophy. Or programmers, they always welcome impossible tautologies.

Richard

LOL. It's a question in a story by Isaac Asimov. It ends with a giant computer using the line "Let there be light". Very heretical, but very powerful...

The Last Question

The Last Question is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1. It was Asimov's favourite short story of his own authorship, and is one of a loosely connected series of stories concerning a fictional computer called Multivac. History In conceiving Multivac, Asimov was extrapolating the trend towards centralizatio...