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I think there's a perpetual debate about privacy vs. public safety which will never satisfy everyone. I generally lean more on the side of privacy than safety, if only because the entity on the side of safety (the government) has all the power in this relationship. Also, once you give up your privacy, you can't always get it back.Now, with Obamacare, there's even more cause for worry. Will the government be able to fine people who have body fat over X%? What about a “smoker's fee” that people will have to pay every year? These may seem far-fetched today, but I am almost certain that these kinds of ideas have been raised in the offices of some bureaucrats lately.
Wow, that is something. So they didn't send a rescue team because the Americans thought the message about a sinking ship was a trick…? Wouldn't there have been other ways to confirm this?
I just took a look at a Crossfit video, and that looks like an (intense) entire exercise program. When I was referring to “compound”, I meant just exercises like squats (multiple muscles) rather than just calf raises (mostly one muscle).The gym I'm going to now is called American Bodyworks, which has locations in two states only. The $450 membership is for two people, so per month it came out to about $17-$18/person. Is that high? I thought it was decent, especially since there was no initiation fee. The place is clean, it's open 24-7, doesn't get very crowded, it's got enough equipment that I can always find something to work out on, and it's less than a five minute drive from home. I was more likely to use a gym that was close by than one which was further away. Isn't it true that some places which advertise really cheap rates make it hard to cancel (or something like that)?
I am partial to music from before the mid-eighteenth century, so my favorite composers are from that time. Some of my favorites include Praetorius and Monteverdi, and a bit later I enjoy Marin Marais, J.S. Bach and Handel. Of more recent composers, I like different works here and there. Rimsky-Korsakov's “Scheherazade”, Ravel's “Bolero”, Strauss waltzes, to name a few.Seems like there are frequently concerts of 19th century composers so you are in luck if you ever wanted to go to one. When I've looked in the past for baroque concerts, it seems like they don't have all that many of them.
I suppose that what you say about #2 is true in that even isolation exercises do work some secondary muscles. But just to be clear, I think that an exercise like bench press is a compound exercise, because it works out triceps, chest, shoulders. I haven't heard of Crossfit, so I'm not sure what to think of it. I still think that if a person had to choose just a few exercises to do to build basic strength, they would be compound ones – such as bench press and squats. They wouldn't get every muscle group, but many of them.As for #5, I take a different approach. If there's a day I don't feel like going to the gym, I might just skip it (right now I typically go 6 days a week). If I don't work my muscles enough, I feel like I wasted an opportunity since I'll have to wait another three days or so before really working them out hard. However, I do agree that it's important to make sure that one day off does not lead to a week, which then leads to a month. For me, if I go to the gym regularly I want to keep going regularly, but if I go infrequently I lack motivation to work out. Therefore, missing one day isn't a big deal but I am assuming that I will be motivated to return the next day.Incidentally, one of the best motivators to workout is the cost of gym membership. When I think how much I spent for my membership (and my wife's) – I think it was around $450 for 13 months – I make sure I make good use of it. As I think I mentioned before, it was either invest in a membership or invest in new clothes since it was getting harder to maintain a constant weight. I think investing in health was a better choice for a variety of reasons. 🙂
Which are the sonnets that Bacon is known to have written? Here is a list of some of his works, but it doesn't mention sonnet:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_by_Francis_Bacon#Religious.2FLiterary_WorksIf Bacon did publish sonnets under his own name, then the answer as to “why” may have to do with the content of them, which may have differed from the content of Shakespearean sonnets. Also, I don't think we have to deny the existence of Shakespeare for this to be true; rather, that Bacon attributed works to him that weren't really his. [ot]While looking up Bacon, I saw that he died experimenting with freezing meat, something which would have been a significant help to people of that period:
Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King’s physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: “They were resolved they would try the experiment presently. They alighted out of the coach and went into a poor woman’s house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it.”After stuffing the fowl with snow, Bacon contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: “The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging… but went to the Earle of Arundel’s house at Highgate, where they put him into… a damp bed that had not been layn-in… which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.”
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I'm not that worried about some photo of me with a bong will show up anywhere because that was way back in the late 70's. There would have to be someone who kept an actual hard copy photo. Nowadays, I would worry more about it with all the cell phones around and the fact that it can be uploaded to any social media pretty much instantaneously.
Imagine, though, the parent with a daughter who was secretly photographed in the girls' restroom at school by another girl using a cell phone, only to have that picture sent around time and again. Ten years later, that girl/woman is going to have that trail following her, and it will be all the more accessible by others. How would she and/or her parents feel? Or imagine the stalker who sees a kid on the street and can immediately pull up the kid's address? These are scary things, and we are entering scary times. As for the government, the dangers are more about gradual totalitarian control. You probably already know about cop cars that go around and are able to photograph thousands of car license plates to search for wanted criminals. What happens if the feds access the database of local police to search for those who violate IRS provisions? We have already seen evidence which points to the targeting of political opponents by the IRS. I think it would be less troubling to me if government power decreased as surveillance and tracking technology increased. However, it seems that our country is becoming more authoritarian as monitoring technology is getting better.
Well I was robbed when they postponed the Fresno State-Colorado game because of the floods. I had 14 confidence points riding on that game, and unless I get credit for that game, it looks like I may lose all 14 points. Other teams which had fewer points riding on that game didn't suffer so badly. So I am now out of first place in the league by, you guessed it, 14 points.
That birthing idea seems like it could have potential. I heard that Roman women would give birth standing up, thereby making an aid out of gravity. Centrifugal force sounds like it could help as well, though perhaps a tad too impractical.
I don't know how you're doing it, but so far you've picked every single game for this week except for one…!
Well I picked Boise over Air Force with all 20 confidence points, but at halftime Boise is only ahead by 4 points. If they lose, I may take a tumble in our league rankings.
That would be cool but it sounds like they might have been stolen from state archives. I hope she didn't pay too much for them or else she will be forced to get her money back from the estate.
From what I saw, this seems to be the only applicable passage:
First of all, you ask if the God of the Christians forgives those who do not believe and do not seek faith. Given that – and this is fundamental – God's mercy has no limits if he who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart, the issue for those who do not believe in God is in obeying their own conscience. In fact, listening and obeying it, means deciding about what is perceived to be good or to be evil. The goodness or the wickedness of our behavior depends on this decision.
I could be wrong in my analysis, but it seems to me that “he who asks for mercy does so in contrition and with a sincere heart” implicitly has faith in God in his heart, does it not? If one were truly an atheist, why would he ask for mercy in the first place? Now, I do think that such a statement is probably better expounded upon through other qualifiers, but I am guessing that the Pope stated this as a generalization.
I don't know what he is at this point. I just know he says a lot of things that kind of stick in my craw. Maybe I should go to one of the fundamentalist Catholic sects that reject Vatican II.
First of all, I would suggest that you take a look at his exact words. I still would like to read the exact words that he said. Wording, especially in theology matters, can be very important. Simply look at the divergence between faith/works justification over the centuries over a matter or words, and the political fallout that resulted. I think context of one's statements is also very important. Second, I would suggest considering whether what he said was radical at all, or if it was simply another way of stating what the Catholic Church has already stated. For example, can salvation be possible for those who do not know Christ? What does the Church teach about those who, like the lost tribe in the Brazilian rainforest, do not know Christ because of no fault of their own but who otherwise lead relatively blameless lives? Third, I think that joining a sect is to ignore the plausible reality of the situation. Would a pope who has spend years/decades in authority under other orthodox popes really be a closet heretic who is changing doctrine? That seems preposterous. Papal history is filled with stories of popes who bring their own talents, areas of focus, skills, and even weaknesses into their papacies. Just because Pope Benedict XVI was a strong theologian does not mean that Pope Francis is wrong for focusing on different matters, such as the poor and apostolate to non-believers and homosexuals. In the end, I think that if Catholicism is meant to bring all to salvation then there is really no way that people like atheists or homosexuals can be ignored. While I recognize that the article at the beginning of this thread begs even more questions, I think that we should trust that what was said was not heretical.
