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  1. Nightingale
    well, if 3 refers to a "mystery" it could be the divine mystery of the resurrection. in the case of peter, it could mean that it is a mystery how many times he denied Jesus, but that it was more than one and less than a whole lot. dunno.
  2. Nightingale
    Pope Leo was an interesting guy.
  3. Nightingale
    heads or tails isn't random. its caused by the way you flip the coin. We did an experiment in high school where we had a machine flipping a coin in a vacuum. landed on heads every time. and the fact that the coin is flipping at all is CAUSED by you.
  4. Nightingale
    yes, square1 does charge for the repack and the lost gear. They make you get the repack done at the loft, which charges $15-$20 more than most riggers at the DZ, even the school riggers.
  5. Nightingale
    I could see that...
  6. Nightingale
    There's no such thing as random. Everything has a cause. Even your "random" malfunctions have causes. There is always a reason. Weird wind, strange body position, there's always something. It isn't always something preventable, but there's always something.
  7. Nightingale
    paraphrasing, by definition, is a translator's interpretation of the text. you're reading someone's idea of what it means. if translating were as exact as you seem to think, all the translations would be much closer to the same.
  8. Nightingale
    hehe.
  9. Nightingale
    both.
  10. Nightingale
    the problem is, when translating one language into another, is that you lose the connotations of the words. for example, in Spanish, the word "meja" means "my daughter". However, it means so much more than that. But, a direct translation is "my daughter" and that's what pops up on a subtitled movie, or whatnot. The translation is correct, but all the cultural nuances are missing. That's the problem with reading a translation, ANY translation. Even the translators will tell you that reading the original and reading the translation is not the same. EVER.
  11. Nightingale
    genesis, specifically, the first book, regarding the creation of the earth, sun, moon, etc.
  12. Nightingale
    an example: Pick anything scientific. Anything at all. Start asking why it works. Take, for example, a rube-goldberg machine... you know, one of those wacky ones that one action causes a million different things. you can ask, starting from the end and working your way back... why does the marble fall into the bucket? because the boot kicked the marble. why did the boot kick the marble? because the roller skate hit the boot. why did the rollerskate hit the boot? because the dominos hit the roller skate. why did the dominos hit the roller skate? because the person who created the rube-goldberg machine hit the domino. no matter where you start, you get back to a point where SOMEONE had to do SOMETHING to put a series of events into motion.
  13. Nightingale
    please elaborate???
  14. Nightingale
    I think that's a good philosophy. Science is based on proof and disproof. One cannot possibly prove or disprove the existance of God. That is faith. Science isn't about faith, and faith isn't about science.
  15. Nightingale
    we read segments of Thomas in school... quite interesting. I did track down the entire translation later. Portions of Greek versions of the Gospel of Thomas were found in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt about one hundred years ago and these can be dated to about 140 A.D. or somewhat before. A complete version in Coptic (the native Egyptian language written in an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet) was found in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945. That version can be dated to about 340 A.D. The Coptic version is a translation of the Greek version. Thus most, if not all, of the Gospel of Thomas was written prior to 140 A. D. http://www.misericordia.edu/ interesting... I remember some of the above stuff from school, but not then pre 140 AD thing...
  16. Nightingale
    exactly. What we discovered in my jesuit "Philosophy of Humanity" class in college was that you can explain all the "Whats" that you want... but when you start asking about the "whys" that's where you get into trouble if you try to keep philosophy and science separate. Eventually, you get to a "why" question that just plain can't be answered... the "unknowable", as you put it. And there, I think, is where we find God.
  17. Nightingale
    But, what isn't explained is the WHY. WHY does physics work the way it does?
  18. Nightingale
    I was thinking of the aggie bonfire.
  19. Nightingale
    I'd say someone is obligated to return everything they rented. If they lose something, they should cover the cost, unless they bought insurance or something from you, which might be a good way to go if you do a lot of rentals. If you only do a few rentals, providing insurance isn't going to cover your ass if someone loses gear on a cutaway. Say, on average, one rental canopy per year is lost due to cutaway. If you rent say 200 days out a year (one rig rented is counting as one day here, so if you rent 2 rigs in one day, I counted it as 2 days for math's sake), and 60 percent of those people buy insurance at $15 a day, then you've made $1800 on insurance and could probably afford to replace the occasional lost canopy. However, if you only rent 50 days, you'd only make $450 on insurance at $15 a day... therefore, to break even you'd either have to not offer insurance, or offer it at a higher price.
  20. Nightingale
    just so you have a comparison... I had to take 12 classes for my master's. you're going to have to take a lot more for another bachelor's. It'll probably cost a lot more too. Many places pay you more if you have a higher degree. I would really, really encourage you not to go back to undergrad when you already have a degree. Many people who pursue a master's do not have an undergraduate degree in that field, so you don't need to worry about that. you may have to take a prerequisite class or two, but that's not a huge concern.
  21. Nightingale
    and here, you get into philosophy. is the organization of particles in the manner described a random occurance, did it just happen that way because that's the way it happens, or was the organization of particles masterminded by a being with order on its agenda?
  22. Nightingale
    60 times, using the cost figure for a rig that Lisa provided above. Using the square1 prices, they would only have to rent a rig 46 times.
  23. Nightingale
    cool. Just something to say "this person just signed up"
  24. Nightingale
    many Christians believe in Theistic Evolution, the idea that evolution happened, but was guided by the hand of God. The Hebrew word yom, which was used in the first known written version of Genesis, has multiple meanings. There can be two uses of the word, as a literal day, or as a figurative day for a period of time.
  25. Nightingale
    "no real disagreement can exist between the theologian and the scientist provided each keeps within his own limits. . . . If nevertheless there is a disagreement . . . it should be remembered that the sacred writers, or more truly ‘the Spirit of God who spoke through them, did not wish to teach men such truths (as the inner structure of visible objects) which do not help anyone to salvation’; and that, for this reason, rather than trying to provide a scientific exposition of nature, they sometimes describe and treat these matters either in a somewhat figurative language or as the common manner of speech those times required, and indeed still requires nowadays in everyday life, even amongst most learned people" (Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus 18). interesting... this kinda makes sense.