@JonathonByrd: For a beginner, I recommend nano as an editor... it doesn't have a lot of features, but it shows the important key commands at the bottom of the screen
@waxeagle We're picking up a new client that has built a website off of java. our contract will be to manage their site and we don't know java.. bravo to the sales guy...
@waxeagle the sarcasm is more in fighting about such things... seriously I use vim all the time, and while I realize not everyone wants to learn it, it's the best one for me.
@dancek Thank you thank you. And for reference it's called edit-server. All text-areas in my browser are outsourced to an external editor. Focusing on them launches an instance of gvim.
@dancek I have it bound to a key-stroke for chat because it's not always a good thing since this editor has some special javascript wiring to the rest of the page, but for writing up answers on SE sites it's the cats meow.
@dancek I wondered how long it was going to be before somebody whipped that out. The back story is a crack-up.
I've been wondering how the SE model handles accepting "wrong" answers. I see no real way around the problem.
Say that someone were to write a Creationism-supporting answer to @JonathonByrd's question there and he accepted it. The community might not be happy about it, and there might be better answers, but what can they do?
@BeatMe btw I didn't add all that hovind stuff. that was all edited in. you're answer doesnt really focus on my question. it's more defending carbon dating. I don't dispute that one can accurately determine the amount of c14 in an object.
@dancek There really isn't one. If the post author chooses to accept the wrong answer there is nothing you can do but dv it or upvote a different right answer. There is a badge four outpacing a well voted accepted answer.
@dancek A diamond mod can delete an accepted answer, but they are the only ones, not even the OP can do that. We had a situation in RPG where the OP wanted to nuke his own answer and couldnt because it had been accepted even though it was wrong.
@JonathonByrd No. The Question OP would be the person who posted the question, but the OP of an answer is just the person who posted that answer even if got edited later, etc. Post Owner is another moniker.
@JonathonByrd If you want to link me, I'll look, but depending on if they really went crazy or are just being their usual skeptical, abrasive selves, I may not be able to do much.
One argument used to support the idea that the age of the earth is on the order of 10,000 years old (the 'young earth hypothesis') is that radiocarbon dating is confounded by the fact that the levels are not stable, and that the concentration of carbon-14 in the atmosphere is still increasing are...
@JonathonByrd the Skeptics mods seem to have it under control. Some people are jerks, but if everything's working properly, they get downvoted/flagged and dealt with in the normal course of things.
God's name is written as the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH) in the Old Testament. The name is not vocalized in the manuscripts and it's considered ineffable, forbidden to say aloud, by Jews. For that reason, the original pronunciation hasn't been preserved.
The two most commonly suggested possible ...
Assuming that one believes in an almighty Lord, why should one choose a particular Christian practice over another or even over another religion?
As long as one lives in a moral fashion, why would God care that our money, faith, efforts and time go through a particular human congregation or anot...
@Fabian I'm guessing from previous experience that there'll be more similar discussion, I'd mostly hope that the next ones would be over there. Maybe moving this one would kinda set a precedent
@JonathonByrd nah, I just don't have a fork or knife. I keep a pocket knife for opening stuff...I had a butter knife but I took it home for some unkown reason. Spoons are easier to clean than forks...
@Fabian great early Puritan literature. Edwards postulated that we are essentially spiders being held over a candle flame by God by nothing more than our web. Or like deer on a mountain crag barely wide enough to stand on. Its rather an interesting sermon.
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is a sermon written by American Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards, preached on July 8, 1741 in Enfield, Connecticut. Like Edwards' other sermons and writings, it combines vivid imagery of Hell with observations of the world and citations of scripture. It remains Edwards' most famous written work, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730–1755.
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"There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God."
Most of the s...
@Caleb by your starred quote i presume you've found a way to embed se chat into vim or vim into se chat. please share. i am dying without modal editing
@djeikyb Unfortunately it's not that sweat, it's just a plugin that outsources (all or selected) text areas in my browser to an external edit-server, which can be anything. I use gvim. I have that combined with a user-script for keyboard controls for everything in SE chat, and life is bearable.
You've got a fish-eye lens attached, it's hard to frame those questions without including something that doesn't belong in the picture. Put a macro lens on work up from there.
@JonathonByrd yeah, "how does revlations play out" is begging for argumentation. for example, from people who believe the book of revelation has already been fulfilled
@Purmou See you, and as disappointing as this might be remember the commandment to honor your parents even when they are wrong is REALLY important. Unless they want you to sin, abiding by their wishes is one way God wants you to honor Him.
I personally found the suggestion to replace AD & BC with CE & BCE as the identification of the time before and after the birth of Christ to be offensive and sacrilegious. It is political correctness gone to far. I bristle anytime I hear someone use BCE.
I continue to use AD & BC wh...
@BeatMe I wish I had time to explain. I actually have to leave. Ask me tomorrow or if I am on, later tonight. better yet we can open up a new room for it.
In the Biblical account, Eve ate the first first.
Yet Adam is blamed with the problem of original sin.
How is that fair?
I personally found the suggestion to replace AD & BC with CE & BCE as the identification of the time before and after the birth of Christ to be offensive and sacrilegious. It is political correctness gone to far. I bristle anytime I hear someone use BCE.
I continue to use AD & BC wh...
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