I scored 34 for Part One, 26 for Part Two…
I got a 22 and a 20 though i would disagree with the quiz’s conclusions that I “believe the church ought to be Politically Engaged” for the first part. Mostly, at least… it’s pretty hard to avoid as churches are concerned with men and “Man is by nature a political animal”
Definitly agree with the “Quiet Critic” conclusion for me, though… I guess AZSpot is close to where I’m at but a bit more “radical”? I just figure that God (as I, in my limited and of course not accurate understanding, figure what God might be… which probably places me outside the realm of “christianity” anyway to most) is pretty unconcerned with the fates of nations.
“Holoselves are, for all intents and purposes, artificial humans – you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference, and when they’re legally occupied by a human, have all the rights and responsibilities of a human. People will naturally prefer to own their own dedicated holoselves, but it will be possible to share holoselves (the physical structure adapts to suit the host intelligence). Actual cognition (sensation, reflection, and the like) takes place partially in the ’real‘ brain, partially in the ’holo‘ brain (after a certain point the distinction between ’real‘ and ’holo‘ brains becomes more philosophical than practical – asking ”Am I the same person in Cairo as I am in Denver“ is pretty much the same as asking ”Am I the same person tomorrow as I am today?“. The neat thing about holoselves is that they need not be human; the need just enough resident intelligence to input and process (coherently) perceptions and to communicate with other (holo and non-holo) instances of the controlling intelligences. This will lead to numerous holo-fads, like holo-birds, holo-fish, and more.” —
Stephen Downes (via azspot)
I wanna be a holo-centaur. Or a holo-Anubis. Maybe holo-Jackie Chan.
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“Jesus, in short, abhors both passivity and violence. He articulates, out of the history of his own people’s struggles, a way by which evil can be opposed without being mirrored, the oppressor resisted without being emulated, and the enemy neutralized without being destroyed. Those who have lived by Jesus’ words—Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, César Chavez, Adolpho Pérez Esquivel—point us to a new way of confronting evil whose potential for personal and social transformation we are only beginning to grasp today.” —
Walter Wink (via azspot)
The sort of insight my “religioius” family will never understand.
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Here’s what I want you to do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake(via Very Good Taste)
Usually hate these things, but I feel like this might be helpful for me to refer back to.
Oh man…. Only missing a little over 30 things on the list. #1 desired food i haven’t had yet: Currywurst. And not a single thing crossed off… I’d probably try almost anything. The only thing on the list I’d even call “daring” is Roadkill.
McCain unsure how many houses he owns - Politico.com -
When directly asked, he said, “I think — I’ll have my staff get back to you. It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”
His staff eventually answered, “At least four.” Other estimates range from seven to eleven.
Don’t be hard on the guy for his memory problems. Think of it this way. How many chairs do you own? You’d have to think for a minute. Does a couch count? What about a futon? What about that chair in the office that you don’t technically own—but if anybody else uses it they’ve clearly stolen your chair? Do the seats in a car count? Stools? The broken chair in the basement you’ve been meaning to fix for years?
It’s sort of like that for McCain. Except he has more money than you do, so it’s houses instead of chairs.
As is the nature of these things, not only has the Obama campaign already attacked McCain on this point, but the McCain campaign has already responded TO that attack.
Both campaigns seem to be taking the “Oh those damn rich people, you can’t trust them ,they’re out of touch and they don’t understand AMERICA.”
Well… I’m not sure that’s entirely true, but as they are the vast minority of Americans, that is for sure…. But if we’re talking especially about the issue of “raising taxes” (which the McCain campaign is complaining about in its response) the Obama campaign is the only one who wants to raise taxes on these terrible terrible rich people (which would probably include himself and McCain). Senator Obama, in fact, does NOT want to raise taxes on most Americans. If you break down the tax plans in terms of Average Percentage Change in After-Tax Income (aka How Much More You’ll Be Making Via Less Taxes), all but the TOP QUINTILE of Americans benefits MORE from Obama’s plan. The only people truly impacted by Obama’s plan are those in the top 1 and 0.1 percentiles of American earners. Do you really think they’ll miss it? Or that they STILL won’t be disgustingly rich by comparison to the rest of us? Even the McCain campaign has indicated that over $4 million is A LOT OF MONEY which places one out of touch with the needs of America so….
Furthermore, it’s not like McCain is talking about cutting programs and funding to certain parts of the government in ways his tax cuts would make any sense at all. Americans either need to get this through their thick heads or fail each other miserably.
(stats on tax plans taken via The Tax Policy Center’s report)