Hey guys, I've got a question I'd like to ask, but I think it needs work getting into a suitable form. Basically, it's: "Is it possible for both Calvinism and Arminianism to be true?". That is, some (most) of the time, people make the choice to be saved, but sometimes, God just sovereignly saves someone.
In general however, Calvinisim has a broader scope than other systems, allowing for both the excercise of free will including calling on men to use it to come to salvation through faith as well as God's sovereign ordination. The stereotypes of Calvinism that everybody makes fun are are usually less than half the picture painted by the theology.
@El'endiaStarman Partially true = mostly wrong. Anything you build on a bogus foundation is going to be subject to serious problems. This isn't a side-line issue for either school of thought and if you change the most basic suppositions of each side, you no longer have meaningful sides at all.
@El'endiaStarman Yes, because it's about the NATURE of the beings involved (God's nature vs. Man's nature). It's not about individual cases or a sort of generalization of what most of them do, it's about what kind of beings they are and what their respective scopes are.
Please help me understand why this isn't a good question.
Why don't women cover their heads I've reworded it to better fix the Q&A format. However, my accepted answer will be more of my opinion (IMHO). I would rather not do that.
As a "Should a Christian..." question, it would be easier t...
Btw: washingtonpost.com/local/… Looks like you can be fired (or at least come close) in DC now for thinking that voters should be able to decide the status of same sex marriages
@AffableGeek And whatever her position may be, the LGBT students at Gallaudet deserve an advocate. And if Dr. McCaskill views them as cowardly intimidating bullies whose rights are subject to the whims of the majority, then she may well not be the person to serve that role.
@waxeagle As some of the comments on the BTB post remark, the whole idea of a "diversity officer" is a bit vague.
I suppose an actual job description would help. Is that public record, does anyone know?
If Timothy Kincaid is right, and Dr McCaskill actually asked her pastor to speak on her behalf, we can say that she certainly doesn't deserve her job back. On the other hand, the pastor may well have been talking entirely off his own bat, without her approval.
@TRiG My hearing (but Deaf) ASL teacher in high school was a teacher at Gallaudet until the DPN movement kicked him out. Gallaudet had their accreditation put on probation a few years ago though, which goes to show that that wasn't such a smart idea.
@El'endiaStarman One of the interesting things is that books on Deaf culture will often themselves draw parallels with the gay experience (the most notable similarity, to my mind, being that most Deaf people have hearing parents).
I rarely see gay people comparing themselves to Deaf people, but I have seen vice versa.
@TRiG Interesting. To me, the biggest difference between the two is that you will have a very hard time (or at the very least, much harder) using the Bible to support the idea that Deaf people shouldn't marry and/or have sex. Same goes for skin color. Anti-homosexuality statements in the Bible are easy to find though.
@TRiG I honestly never would've thought to draw a parallel between homosexuality and deafness/Deafness. I guess it's just not that strong of a parallel.
@El'endiaStarman It's one I have seen, more than once, in books on Deaf culture. Couldn't name which books, off the top of my head. They were ones my mother had out from Trinity College library when she was studying.
@El'endiaStarman Either swear, or don't. Self-censoring with symbols is just silly. (I suppose I'll give you a pass because you're quoting. If I remember correctly, that one is usually attributed to Mark Twain, but not actually found in his writings.)
@El'endiaStarman My mother would never swear. Ever. But now she's an interpreter. And interpreters' ethics say to transmit what's said accurately, without imposing your own personality. So she's said she would if she had to. I don't know whether she ever has. But the thought of my mother swearing is simultaneously amusing and horrifying.
@TRiG That's actually one big reason I'd be uncertain about becoming an interpreter. If I did though, I'd probably be able to transmit what was said accurately because 1) it's part of my job, and I agreed to it, and 2) I wouldn't really be paying that much attention to it anyway. And a lesser reason: 3) the mental block against swearing in sign is weaker.
There is good evidence that "bad language" is stored in a separate part of the brain: witness the case of the deaf man with Tourettes syndrome who swears in ASL. And swear words in foreign languages don't set off the same triggers in the brain, so it's very hard to judge how bad they are in conte...
swear words in foreign languages don't set off the same triggers in the brain
@TRiG Hmmm...for me, ASL and English effectively come from concepts, and I think my brain filters on the concepts for each swear word, not the actual word or sign. Either that or my ASL (really, PSE) comes from English first most of the time, so my brain filters on the English first, resulting in no swears in sign language (from me).
@El'endiaStarman I really must learn some actual languages. I've forgotten all my Irish and most of my French, and my ISL never really existed to begin with.
Please help me understand why this isn't a good question.
Why don't women cover their heads I've reworded it to better fix the Q&A format. However, my accepted answer will be more of my opinion (IMHO). I would rather not do that.
As a "Should a Christian..." question, it would be easier t...
