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Name: Elgin/Jamie/James
Country: United States
State: South Carolina
Metro: Due West
Birthday: 6/27/1983
Interests: reading (philosophy, theology, and more recently sci-fi); Metaphyiscs- especially the areas of action theory, problem of free will, and the mind-body problem; Music- punk (not the stupid pop punk, but bands such as the Broadways and the Lawrence Arms) and alternative; Going to concerts; Computers; Sports- Tennis and Soccer to be more specific
Expertise: Not really an expert at anything other than being myself
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AIM:  glascow1967
Member Since:
4/17/2004
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| Last night (or more precisely this morning), I went to bed a little
after 6am planning on getting a full night (or morning) of rest, but I
was awoken at 10 by the sound of construction outside my back
door. It was impossible to go back to sleep. So I got up
and fiddle around for several hours. I have managed to order a
few cds from Interpunk today. I purchased The Falcon - God Don't Make No Trash -Or- Up Your Ass with Broken Glass and two Face Tomorrow cds (For Who You Are and The Closer You Get).
Face Tomorrow is an awesome band out of Holland. I had previously
thought that it was going to be difficult to find this cd over here, as
I never thought Interpunk would carry it.
Last night I decided to start writing my rough draft for my Apologetics
paper. I decided that I would start the paper off by telling a
story about a person who "seems" to have unjustly been condemned to
hell, if the Christian Exclusivist's story is true. I got this
idea from a couple of books that I have recently read, Gulley and Mullholand's If Grace is True and Fischer's Moral Responsibility,
both books start with stories to test the readers intuitions.
Gulley and Mulholland use these kinds of cases as the basis for
overthrowing centuries of orthodoxy. I intend to use my story in
a similiar manner to built a case for inclusivist universalism.
I recently purchased
an invaluable book entitled Show Them No Mercy
in which I have found a way to affirm the infallibility of scripture
through a sort of discontinuity thesis. And built that into the
typical "God is love" argument, plus all the other stuff
involved. I have found myself unsatisfied by much of the argument
that I have read in favor of inclusivist universalism. There are
still a couple of books that I want to get my hands on though. As
of now I am having to create my own argument for it and keep from
building the proverbial straw man, which is annoying at times. I
will stop with this now. After I have completed my argument for
inclusivist unversalism I may post it here for all to read.
One last note John Wesley is an idiot.
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| Sleep is evading me. I don't understand why. I need to sleep but I can't. At least I can read some.
Today I picked up John MacArthur's Why One Way,
which I will continue reading after I post. I am not a fan of
MacArthur's work in general, as I don't agree with his positions on
several issues. But the book is very small and I am curious as to
how he develops his argument against incluvism/pluralism.
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| - Today I went to Greenville where I purchased cigars, a cd (see above)
and a book. The cd is awesome, and I encourage all to check it out. I bought Frankfurt's On Bullshit,
which I read tonight (it is a very small book). It was pretty
good and leaves me with some things to think about. I will need
to read it again before I will make any critical remarks as to what
Frankfurt says.
I tried to find a book on BSD today while I was at Barnes and Noble
and
Books-a-million but was unsuccessful. However, I have found some
interesting comparisons online. I will hold off my post for now
til I feel more comfortable with everything that I am reading, as I am
not the most knowledge person on all this stuff, especially the inner
workings of FreeBSD, as I have just started looking into it. Here
is a comparison that I have found online that I have valuable in my
research. Though it doesn't tell me everything I want to know, it
does provide a very accessible comparison of OS's.
Edit- I had to add this once I saw it
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| - - Well, my tournament bracket is fucked to hell. I had Boston
College winning it all, and well they lost today. I also had
Syracuse in the Final Four and they lost in the first round. Oh
well.
I will put up something substantive up here soon. I will hopefully
posting an open source vs. closed source (particularly microsoft) post
in the next week. I am still doing a little reading on FreeBSD,
because I haven't looked at in depth in the past. I am however
becoming intriqued by it these days.
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| Today was test 1 of 4, which went ok. Tomorrow will be 2 and 3,
Friday will be the last one. After the test, Mark, Rob, Becca,
Jeremy and myself went to Greenwood to run some errads. The first
place we went was the ABC Packaging store (aka the liquor store).
I had about a shot of Johnnie Walker left so I wanted to purchase some
more scotch. Therfore I bought some Chivas Regal 12. After
picking this out I looked in the burbon section for something
else. Some randomn guy told me to get "old forester", he said it
was great. Of course I didn't believe him. He said, "If I'm
lying, I'm dying." Then he said, If I thought it was bad, then I
could call his office and he would refund my money. This seemed
like an empty offer, so Jeremy asked him what his number was, and he
gave it to us. After this I decided to buy this bottle of "old
Forester". After running the rest of errands we came back to Due
West to eat dinner. After dinner Rob, Mark, and I had about a
half shot each of the burbon. It was a little strong at first,
but had a nice after-taste. I am satisfied enough that I will not
call the guy and ask for my money back. But I thought that I
would mention the story, because I thought it was amusing.
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