Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
Col 3:12-17.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Yeah, I'm still here
Ok, so I know its been....months...
Anywho, that's all I have. Except for this:
What can I say, I been busy.
My mom sent me an email with some attachments I thought were funny enough to post. Bill, it reminded me of our college days. Here they are.
Bill, my college roommate actually got a similar one. It said, "The FAT bread has failed and the Kernal is panicking."
My favorite message I got on my compie was, "Windows has failed to laod the device. Therefore it will never attempt to load the device again." Of course it tried the very next time I booted it.
Anywho, that's all I have. Except for this:
Didn't know you could now upload video. Must be a new feature.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
Friday, April 06, 2007
On the lighter side...
For those of you who like Neil Diamond, but don't agree with Algore, here is a song for you!
*Note* I don't really know much about the site it's on, so I am not endorsing them or thier content. This is where I found it after I heard it on an afternoon talk radio show.
Enjoy.
*Note* I don't really know much about the site it's on, so I am not endorsing them or thier content. This is where I found it after I heard it on an afternoon talk radio show.
Enjoy.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Finished My TH5312 Paper! YAY!!
It only took a month but my final project for Patriology, Christology, and Pneumatology is finished! Praise the Lord.
We were asked to evaluate the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son by the Father. Up until this class I had not heard of this teaching, but apparently it has been the majority view for centuries. It came out of the word "monogenes" used of Christ, as well as "Son of God" and "Born of God." From there it grew more and more complicated. Major theologians have argued about the doctrine for a very long time. H. Orton Wiley says the Son relies on the Father for His divine essence. Shedd says the Persons of the Trinity cannot be distinguished from each other without the doctrine, and that without it God would not be a Trinity. Notice these two are about as far apart as one can get in the Calvin/Arminius debate.
After careful research, I have come to the conclusion that eternal generation would violate the attributes of God. Calvin came to the same conclusion, by the way. Both Wiley and Shedd say that God's attributes are His essence, and that the essence is shared equally by all three Persons of the Trinity. Hence, God's attributes must also be shared equally. But in order to make eternal generation make sense, they have to say that the Father's "unique" attribute is generation, and the Son's "unique" attribute is being generated. Another problem is that they say the "generation" is the Father giving the essence to the Son. If they all share the essence equally, how does this happen? Or does it imply that there was a time when the Son did not have the essence of the Father?
I don't know how exactly the Persons of the Trinity interact, and how They are differentiated, but I think eternal generation is not the answer.
We were asked to evaluate the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son by the Father. Up until this class I had not heard of this teaching, but apparently it has been the majority view for centuries. It came out of the word "monogenes" used of Christ, as well as "Son of God" and "Born of God." From there it grew more and more complicated. Major theologians have argued about the doctrine for a very long time. H. Orton Wiley says the Son relies on the Father for His divine essence. Shedd says the Persons of the Trinity cannot be distinguished from each other without the doctrine, and that without it God would not be a Trinity. Notice these two are about as far apart as one can get in the Calvin/Arminius debate.
After careful research, I have come to the conclusion that eternal generation would violate the attributes of God. Calvin came to the same conclusion, by the way. Both Wiley and Shedd say that God's attributes are His essence, and that the essence is shared equally by all three Persons of the Trinity. Hence, God's attributes must also be shared equally. But in order to make eternal generation make sense, they have to say that the Father's "unique" attribute is generation, and the Son's "unique" attribute is being generated. Another problem is that they say the "generation" is the Father giving the essence to the Son. If they all share the essence equally, how does this happen? Or does it imply that there was a time when the Son did not have the essence of the Father?
I don't know how exactly the Persons of the Trinity interact, and how They are differentiated, but I think eternal generation is not the answer.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
The New National Anthem
O say, can you see(if you cannot say or see we'll force everyone else around you to accommodate you by changing everything from entryways to job requirements in an effort to make you feel just good as everyone else),
by the dawn’s early light,(Unless of course those lousy Big Corporations continue to destroy the environment with their toxic fumes that have not really caused all that much damage but makes us environmentalists feel important to predict the end of humanity)
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming(But not too proud, in fact, we should feel very guilty for all the poverty us rich Americans have caused all over the world by being one of the most free and prosperous societies in history, and we should give more to the poor through oppressive taxation)?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight (Well, we don't believe in fighting anymore and also those stripes and stars are offensive to certain groups, so in light of these please take that flag down, ok?),
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming (Listen, there is nothing gallant about war or the military either, so no more glorifying murdering innocent children and spending money on defence that should be feeding all our single mothers' kids out there)?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air (Well, we now consider all war wrong, no matter what, so see above for what we should do with all the money being spent on rockets and bombs that are killing innocent babies all over the oppressed world),
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there (Unless we ourselves burn it in an act of free speech, that is),
O say does that star spangled banner yet wave (Please don't ask us to speak, there are those out there with speech impediments who may well be emarassed, or even offended),
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave (Can we really say "free" when most states don't allow gay marriage, there is rampant institutionalized racism?, and some people are not allowed to use marijuana for medicinal proses? Not to mention there are some Neanderthals out there who actually want to take away a woman's freedom to kill her unborn baby. And bravery isn't a virtue we really want to be encouraging. That breeds distinction, and we would like there to be no distinguishing characteristics in our society thank you, especially not those backward, evil, homophobic, anti-abortion, traditionalist, gun-totin' kind of characteristics. Well, you can be as radical as you want, just make sure it's as far left as you can go. Then we will call you "brave.")
by the dawn’s early light,(Unless of course those lousy Big Corporations continue to destroy the environment with their toxic fumes that have not really caused all that much damage but makes us environmentalists feel important to predict the end of humanity)
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming(But not too proud, in fact, we should feel very guilty for all the poverty us rich Americans have caused all over the world by being one of the most free and prosperous societies in history, and we should give more to the poor through oppressive taxation)?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight (Well, we don't believe in fighting anymore and also those stripes and stars are offensive to certain groups, so in light of these please take that flag down, ok?),
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming (Listen, there is nothing gallant about war or the military either, so no more glorifying murdering innocent children and spending money on defence that should be feeding all our single mothers' kids out there)?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air (Well, we now consider all war wrong, no matter what, so see above for what we should do with all the money being spent on rockets and bombs that are killing innocent babies all over the oppressed world),
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there (Unless we ourselves burn it in an act of free speech, that is),
O say does that star spangled banner yet wave (Please don't ask us to speak, there are those out there with speech impediments who may well be emarassed, or even offended),
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave (Can we really say "free" when most states don't allow gay marriage, there is rampant institutionalized racism?, and some people are not allowed to use marijuana for medicinal proses? Not to mention there are some Neanderthals out there who actually want to take away a woman's freedom to kill her unborn baby. And bravery isn't a virtue we really want to be encouraging. That breeds distinction, and we would like there to be no distinguishing characteristics in our society thank you, especially not those backward, evil, homophobic, anti-abortion, traditionalist, gun-totin' kind of characteristics. Well, you can be as radical as you want, just make sure it's as far left as you can go. Then we will call you "brave.")
Friday, February 23, 2007
External HD
I know there are a couple of techies who sometimes stumble in here, so I have a question:
I am looking for an external HD. I have a library program, Libronix, that is oh, 6 gigs (it contains literally thousands of books in digital format, all searchable, pretty cool), and could expand quite a bit. They let you install it on multiple computers (3, I think), so I got to thinking that I could install the base program on my wife's laptop, then install the library on an external HD so as to not fill her internal HD
So, I need to know if I should go with a USB or Firewire connection, or both. I want to be able to (fairly) quickly search the library when I am in class or on the road somewhere. It doesn't have to be lighting, but 3 hours won't cut it either.
Here is another issue. My desktop does not have USB 2.0 (thank you Lexar) or a Firewire connection, so if I want to transfer anything, is there a Firewire card for PC's, or a way to repair my USB 2.0 bus (I think the Lexar jump drive fried it, but I haven't had the time to look at it, not that I could tell. Suffice that anything I plug into my front USB ports gives me the popup "USB device found.....There is a malfunction with your device, unplug it and try again.")?
Any advice will be received with gladness and thankfulness.
I am looking for an external HD. I have a library program, Libronix, that is oh, 6 gigs (it contains literally thousands of books in digital format, all searchable, pretty cool), and could expand quite a bit. They let you install it on multiple computers (3, I think), so I got to thinking that I could install the base program on my wife's laptop, then install the library on an external HD so as to not fill her internal HD
So, I need to know if I should go with a USB or Firewire connection, or both. I want to be able to (fairly) quickly search the library when I am in class or on the road somewhere. It doesn't have to be lighting, but 3 hours won't cut it either.
Here is another issue. My desktop does not have USB 2.0 (thank you Lexar) or a Firewire connection, so if I want to transfer anything, is there a Firewire card for PC's, or a way to repair my USB 2.0 bus (I think the Lexar jump drive fried it, but I haven't had the time to look at it, not that I could tell. Suffice that anything I plug into my front USB ports gives me the popup "USB device found.....There is a malfunction with your device, unplug it and try again.")?
Any advice will be received with gladness and thankfulness.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Guess Who!
See if you can figure out who said this:
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."
Hint: It was written in Rome
"And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen."
Hint: It was written in Rome
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
LEXAR=EVIL
NEVER BUY A LEXAR JUMP DRIVE!!!
Karen bought one a month ago
and it failed, fair enough. But now I cannot plug in any USB devices! Somehow
the Lexar jump drive has corrupted my USB recognition software. And here is the
transcript of an "online Tech help chat" with Lexar. I don't think this
guy's name was really Justin. Unless Justin's first language is not English and
he lives in Bangladesh or somewhere.
robert : We bought a Lexar
JDCL-256-00-500 about a month ago and just began using it. We saved some files
to it and took it to another computer and the other computer tells us there is
"no disk in the drive." I disconnected the jump drive and the drive
letter remained. I unistalled the "Mass storage device" and plugged
in a different device ( A Lexar Multi-Card reader) and have the same problem.
It says there is no "disk in drive." There should be 4 drive letters
for the card reader, not one. I went online to find out that the JDCL-256 is a
bad device prone to failure, so I just want to unistall the USB driver for it so
I can use other devices and go buy a new jump drive. So far I cannot plug in
any other USB devices (printer, mouse, ect.). They will not work. Please help
You are now speaking with
Justin of Lexar Support.
robert: Hello Justin
Justin: Thank you for
contacting Lexar. I will be assisting you today!
Justin: Hello Robert
robert: hello
Justin: May i know the
operating system of teh computer?
robert: Win XP service pack2
Justin: Are you using the
JumpDrive for the first time in this computer?
robert: well, I was trying to,
but it did not work
Justin: ok.
Justin: lets try some detection
steps.
robert: ok
Justin: Please connect the
JumpDrive ot the USB port and disconnect all the other USB devices
robert : whoah, wait, I cannot
do that, I have a network printer that is in use that is USB
robert : As well as my mouse
Justin: no Keep connected your
mouse
Justin: i mean the other
devices
Justin: After connecting the
JumpDrive
Justin: Shall i proceed with
the steps.
robert : I have only a mouse
and my printer connected, so can I now connect the jump drive?
Justin: just disconnect the
printer too and connect the JumpDrive directly to the USB port of the computer
robert : done
Justin: Right Click on "My
Computer" icon Click on Properties Click on Hardware tab
robert : I have an error
message that says, "One of the USB devices attached to the computer has
malfunctioned and Windows does not recognise it."
robert : Also, I am to the
Device Manager
Justin: ok. Click on the
"+" sign next to "Disk Drives" Is the Lexar JumpDrive
listed there?
robert : no
robert : the light on the jump
drive is not on either
Justin: ok.
Justin: Click on other devices
Justin: Is the Lexar JumpDrive
listed there?
robert : no
Justin: ok.
Justin: Click on
"Universal Serial Bus Controllers" Do you see "USB Mass
Storage" device listed there?
Check whether there is a yellow
"?" or "!" mark next to it?
robert : Yes, there is a mass
storage device, and it is "working properly"
Justin: ok do you see any
yellow "?" or "!" mark
robert : no
Justin: ok.
Justin: Does the JumpDrive
works in different computer?
robert : We tried it on another
computer earlier today and it did the same thing
Justin: so earlier it workked
in a different computer when you copied the files is that right?
robert : Correct. Yesterday we
copied files onto it. Today we tried to copy those files to a different
computer, and it gave us this error. Now I am trying it on this computer, and
it doing the same thing it did earlier today.
robert : I believe the jump
drive may be broken
Justin: do you mean copying the
files again?
robert : Yesterday: Copied
files onto Jump Drive
robert : Today: Tried to compy
files from Jump Drive to second computer
robert : Right Now: Tried
copying files from Jump Drive to third computer
Justin: ok still facing the
same issue is that right ?
robert : Yesxd
robert : yes, sorry
Justin: Is that the USB Generic
drivers fro the computer is updated?
robert : What? I do not
understand.
Justin: I mean the USB drivers
for the computer?
Justin: Kindly cobntact the
system vendor to update it.
robert : Updated? From what to
what? They are all USB 2.0
Justin: if still the issue
persit, kindly get back to us.
Justin: yes may be some
supporting files could be missing
robert : Could you tell me how
to unistall the Jump Drive so I can use other USB devices in the mean time?
Justin: Doies the Jumprives
works fine in the first computer in which you have copied the file?
robert : Let me check\
Justin: sure.
robert : As I took it out, I
noticed the drive is very hot and there appears to be a spot where the outer
cover is becoming deformed
robert : It does not work in
the first computer now. Although the light came on, it read 0 bytes used and 0
bytes free when accessing it.
Justin: Ok.
Justin: When did you purchase the
JumpDrive Robert?
Justin: Is that within a month
robert : About a month ago, but
we just now used it
robert : It was on clearance,
and I am beginning to think I know why
Justin: ok. Would you like to
replace the product?
robert : Well, I believe it was
only 17 or 18 dollars...
robert : The issue at hand
right now is that on 3 computers I can no longer plug in USB devices. They will
not work
Justin: ok, would you like to
replcae it robert?
robert : If I have to send it
somewhere I think that would be more trouble than the drive was worth.
robert : So probably not
Justin: you need to take care
of one way shiping charge.
robert : Yeah, I thought so.
Justin: ok. would you like to
replace it?
robert : No. Are you able to
help me somehow unistall the Jump Drive or the drivers for it so I can use my
USB devices?
Your party has left this
session.
robert : Well, thanks anyway
Online: 37:21
Yup, 37 min and I am where I
started. I looked around, and almost 100% of thier jump drives fail within a
year. Grrr...Bill or Phil, if you know how to fix this, lemmie know please! I
can't use my card reader or my camera because it always gives me this error,
"Windows has detected a USB device that has malfunctioned." Grrr....
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