Fort Wayne's festival

Germanfest 2008

ahem, fix this please?

I approve police using every effort to fix this area. There are non-criminals here and I think they deserve a safe Fort Wayne. I think the residents will applaud your efforts. Heck! Send the National Guard in there!

Another murder. The mortally wounded victim backed into a house, wrecking it. He had been shot. Why is there a debate whether it is a homicide? Why are we letting the gangs dictate policy. If I wanted to live in L.A. . . . anyway, I hope the police are given greater latitude in prevent more violent crime in this area.

They should fix the law so that police should only have to have evidence of ONE, and ONLY ONE drug buy before they raid the place.
If the person arrested has ties to local gangs, deport his butt to the nation of Chile or use him for mine-sweeping in Kurdish Iraq or the Iraq-Iran border for all I care.

The citizens of this city should feel safe and it can't happen if they are so scared that they will not be witnesses in court, or indeed, disclose vital information to police when questioned.

are apply goodness

So, I got this email for a “job”. I highlighted a few of the funnier bits.

Dear Mr\Mrs Our corporation would like to offer you a good opportunity to make a successful career building. We have looked through your resume and Curriculum Vitae at the job seeking websites and decided to send you this invitation e-mail. Our business group, [name deleted], is looking for cooperative, efficient people with the reliable attitude to a job. That is why, we would wish to see you a member of our team.

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If you are interested in apply for a well-paid, well-provided and alluring job with the long-term career possibilities pliant schedule and a variety of perks and bonuses, [name deleted]. would be glad to see you on board. You can find more details about the position available and learn more information about our company at your earliest convenience. Our support team is ready to provide you all the essential instructions and succour. Feel free to send us an e-mail.

If you take pride in your work and inspire those around you, we would love to hear from you at [name deleted]@gmail.com. To begin collaboration with our business corporation, please, fill the attached application contract and send it back to us.

For you convenience, here is [name deleted] full contact information:

- telephone: +[number removed] -mail: [name deleted]@gmail.com

Our vacant positions are ready to be taken by any resourceful and ambitious person like you.

Best Regards, [name deleted]. Recruiting Manager.

So, when I looked into the sending email of qq.com, I got a completely different site. Yep, good company when recruiting manager are using gmail for liking document for good working sending when winds favor you. I didn’t open the application doc nor apply. I did, however, find qq.com translated to English amusingly problematic.

My take on qq

Go here: are receiving English good words (this is a sample from qq)

Under the pressure of the apology is not necessarily true, but her remarks aroused public indignation than the original after it is sincere. It is said that Lufthansa is a very high IQ woman, in her appear "instinct" when there are rumors. The high-IQ people say is characterized by or very straight, or very bending. Lufthansa chose the former. Straight said that the characteristics of being easy to spread, and then transferred aliasing. Lufthansa's statement marked no courtesy, she started her on the topic. In the language, I think she called for the residual brain can, because she did not control the outcome of things is maintained. Sharapova back diary as the same as foreign journalists jet, and bold words, like more than just words. The price is pleased expression of insecurity.

to get spat on

I will accept my payment of spitting and jeers, like I have a choice.

I have tried to wrap my mind around the concept of accepting every line of the bible as the direct action of God and the word of God. I am too arrogant, thinking I am smart, and favor a more reasonable assessment. I reason out the bible in a humanistic way. I know that this leads to error, because I am a human and prone to it.

So, if I am a human, pastor is human, cleric is human, deacon is human, are we not each capable of rendering a decision on the bible? As we not all capable of reading the books and having an ever-so slight or vastly different take on it? I think with the number of denominations (and false ones like Mormans+) that we can indeed come up with different understandings.

Is a deacon chosen by an Angel? A deacon goes through a legal process in the church with selection and evaluation. I don't believe congregations get to elect one. If that is the case, then humans, ultimately, are choosing. I add here the decades-long history of knowing a problem priest (non-Catholic and those who are Catholic) passed along through different parishes rather than fire the "employee" for violating the trust of the company, in part, committing fraud and perhaps embezzlement.

I try to reason out understandings of many things. I take the bible, not as a complete volume of all of the will of God, but rather as history with the miracles of God, explained to the peoples to the best of His ability.

Could Noah wrap his mind around the concept that there were other nations, oceans, continents, polar bears, penguins ... uh, no. Could the writers of Genesis possibly understand the sun, radiation, the moon, the stars, the planets, the milky way, comets, no. Could early biblical people understand plate tectonics, rock formation, fossils even from their own time period, climate normalities and changes, again no.

Did those people understand chemistry, biology, etc. I think trying to explain to early people these concepts would have been a waste of time. Some people, through disease and famine lived less than ten years. Living to thirty was good! Would these short-lived people, living-in-a-bubble people understand even what a million is? Had they ever seen a million of anything other than locusts and sand grains? How about a billion, trillion? Who do you convey spans of time to people who don't have calendars? Many didn't have sundials or the like.

Explain the world, existence to simple-minded persons. You cannot convey the complexities because the lack the ability to understand -- in a sense, too stupid. I mean this, for each generation is taught as much as they can be of what was, then how to use modern technology and understanding. Try teaching many older adults to use the computer when they never have. It can be a long process. Try explaining mountain building to a young person.

If you accept everything, then you would be in a quandary regarding a periodic shift of passion and rage throughout. Whereas if you look at it as history flecked with God's miracles, then ... it begs another go, another read.

The concepts of the ten commandments itself is a point of contention as one school of thought is that "thou shalt not kill" is inaccurate, in that it was meant to be "thou shalt not murder" based on the translation. Translation ... who does that, man.

So a human translates the bible from language to language with the NIV being a newer version. So, with English being as completely versatile and ambiguous as it is ... when it is translated next ... what will the meaning of "bad" be? Will bad be, "cool", be of evil-intent, misguided, inconsiderate, foul-smelling. Ah! Someone, ultimately approves of the translation.

There are written and unwritten languages of the world. The Holy Bible is being written in those languages as I am typing. Will the translator be more even-tempered or more like David Koresh, Muhammad, Joseph Smith, Hitler? The principles stand alone. Make the world better and stronger (improve it) by your being in it. It is the one truism in most modern religions.

misguided

Since I raised eyebrows at my support of a vlogger I should better clarify a comment I made regarding "misguided" teaching. While The vlogger in question is undoubtedly atheist, his commentary on science and rationale stands on its own. I encourage rational people to examine the world in which they live and not cling onto the potentially dumbing ideas given to them by a misguided person, however well-intentioned.

If, after much scrutiny, you find that your thinking has validity, great! As long as you examined it for strengths and weaknesses.

By misguided I mean, by example: snake-handling "Christian" worship, abhorring-doctors Christians who would see their family (especially children) die from a readily treatable condition or disease, sect-cults who "believe" it is better to "have your children" to have more children then find flavor-of-the-week father-like figure to raise some.

More traditional or mainstream religions still denounce other denominations as "false" and particular groups as heretics and worthy of persecution. Read up on Martin Luther and you will find Jews were an easy, likely target for a number of reasons. Muslims are a good target (as I have picked on them categorically myself), for the louder/loudest ones are generally amoral, immoral or in other cases extremely dangerous.

This is not true of all Muslims. Communists try to infuse government with religion, replacing party members as deities and that there is no God (Marxism--foundation of Communism), only society and the governing body (facilitating 1984).

How about Scientology, Hare Krishnas, Neo-Nazi (in pre-war WWII Germany, Ayrian aliens and God don't mix, though there were some churches allowed to exist if they recognized Hitler as the supreme being).

I will not pick on Buddhists, for their peace philosophy is great. I will note, however, that very few have the strength to follow the correct principles without being tainted by society or by others. The secluded temples can separate a number of people so that they are more likely to reach enlightenment, but in practice you can't have it all. In China where protesters are killed, enlightenment in a Godless government with militant reaction, is challenging, to say the least. It is, for most, unobtainable.

I think it is equally hard to believe that God wants man to horribly mistreat women, as directed by many Islamic countries. Is this the word of God or the morally corrupt direction of a repressed man, Muhammad. God who lead people to victory, who protected His people, guided His people to His simple principles, God who put forth many prophets and Jesus who directed all persons (especially followers) to love each and be at peace, then directs Muhammad to slaughter infidels. I don't think that is the will of God. I don't think God would command his simple-minded followers to find enemies, meaning you are looking, and slaughter them.

That is Salem witch trials, Rome, Sparta, dark ages Europe, Nazi Europe, Asia's purge of the Jews and other political enemies, Africa's battles for independence, Jamaica's societal wars, Caribbean island wars, Cuba, Spanish Inquisition, and the list goes on.

If your God tells you to kill, read your list carefully, and know that you too are a target then for other groups. Do not be mislead or misguided. Use reason and rationale. Maybe, just maybe, you will find that some parts are not as sensible as you were told they were.

Although the statement earlier was merely an extension of the Evolution-Creation debate, people's reaction speaks more of their thinking than of their dedication to principles. A person doesn't kill or persecute another person or group because God wills it, it is by the person's will only. A person accepts a concept based on merit, reasoning it out.

+ Hare Krishnas, while non-violent, have a "guru" requiring an unreasonable portion of a member's assets, and generally a non-truly theistic philosophy