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I make like 40 posts a day = too lazy and weak to do 400 pushups.

You could always spoil your ballot to make a point.

10 posts in and someone makes a large penis reference. Tif, never failing to be immature since 01. I'd want to improve my concentration and cut down on procrastination.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Just playing around/improvising can be really helpful.

I think they are rolling out their yearly changes. I don't even have fb anymore but I remember seeing a preview article.

That is a lie sir. You know I should change my name but I doubt it would do anything to confuse people. You have to simultaneously change your avatar and sig, then it will :P

I'd rather have Bachmann than Palin.

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My signature comes alive and plays the wall some beautiful jazz. 60 hp.

The distinction is incredibly hazy. They may not be worshipping the statues per se, but they still worship with them and they can easily be seen as idolatry, including by most Christians outside of Catholicism. Anyway, I think sees is right and we've gone a little too off topic, and we should probably leave the discussion. Do you have a poster in your room, by any chance? Perhaps of a band, or actor, or sports figure? Do you have it there because you like the piece of paper with ink on it itself? Or because you like what it represents? But at any rate, we are getting off topic.

Yes, the crusades and the inquisition broke the morals of the church. The statues are not being worshiped, they are symbols of God. Once again, broke the morals of the church. All you're demonstrating is that various corrupt members of the church have broken the morals that the church holds. It doesn't mean they've changed their teaching - it means that when humans are given power, many times they will abuse it. It says nothing about the morality of the church itself.

Papal infallibility is not an essential moral teaching, nor was it a "recent concept". It was generally accepted up until that point and only officially sanctioned at that time.

I'm well aware that they were a powerhouse and still are to some extent. The fact that you actually expect the church to change their teaching on social issues only serves to show you know nothing about the church at all. It seems unfathomable to so many atheists and non-religious to think that maybe the church genuinely thinks something is immoral and isn't just creating "laws" to "control people". If the church actually believes what it preaches (which i firmly believe it does) then it cannot change its teachings to appeal to the general populace, and it won't. The day the catholic church changes their stance on social issues is the day I finally hop off the fence and become an atheist.

Odd. I wonder what's different between the player for http and https.... Oh well, thanks for testing that out.

Try disabling it and seeing if the vids work (on http, not s) if you don't mind - just for my curiosity now :P

If the above is right, it must mean hardware acceleration isn't enabled for embedded videos. Interesting - curious to see if that works for you (disabling acceleration)

Herp. You must feel like you're being trolled right now aha :( Sorry I missed it - but that was the one thing that occurred to me as embedding was working fine. Try to view the vids from the actual user page - does that make any difference? I know you said "any vid" didn't work but I assume that just meant using the video page itself. edit: so instead of watching this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QwCAwX-Ze0 watch this: http://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil

Do you have adblock installed by any chance? If you do, try disabling it on youtube - sometimes it can make videos not play correctly.

Word out of anaheim this time around was that he was a great locker room presence and a very hard worker. Much more talented than conklin as well.

The church didn't need to be populist for the most part of its history, because it had people by a societal and moral stranglehold. The church used to be an incredibly pervasive and, for parts of its history, dangerous organisation, be it the Catholic church or whatever else. The Spanish Inquistion, the Crusades, and the Salem witch trials give examples of the power of the church across continents over time. If you control people's minds, lives and beliefs, what need is there for populism? Today, with this influence eroding, populism is becoming increasingly necessary as a way of preserving the church. That's why the church will need to change. Similarly, in those fifty years, more and more senior church figures - though probably not in the USA, where they're ultra right-wing - are reconsidering the church stance on such issues as homosexuality and abortion. The Anglican church is just one notable example. I don't even know where to begin with this post..... I'm talking about the catholic church. I can practically guarantee there will be NO reversal of catholic moral teaching in my lifetime in regards to these issues. There are 23 known Crusades, called for by the pope, with the main aim being to gain control of the Holy Land for Christianity. Point being?

Yeah you and that Swedish guy (Azeroth?) were probably my 2 biggest haters way back then Azvareth? Haven't seen him in a while..

Congrats!

Center-Left Canadian here.

The church didn't need to be populist for the most part of its history, because it had people by a societal and moral stranglehold. The church used to be an incredibly pervasive and, for parts of its history, dangerous organisation, be it the Catholic church or whatever else. The Spanish Inquistion, the Crusades, and the Salem witch trials give examples of the power of the church across continents over time. If you control people's minds, lives and beliefs, what need is there for populism? Today, with this influence eroding, populism is becoming increasingly necessary as a way of preserving the church. That's why the church will need to change. Similarly, in those fifty years, more and more senior church figures - though probably not in the USA, where they're ultra right-wing - are reconsidering the church stance on such issues as homosexuality and abortion. The Anglican church is just one notable example. I don't even know where to begin with this post..... I'm talking about the catholic church. I can practically guarantee there will be NO reversal of catholic moral teaching in my lifetime in regards to these issues.

It's Catholic teaching that being homosexual isn't wrong, but acting on it is. This is a drastic change from where it was 100-125 years ago where they didn't even believe it existed. I'm not saying that the teaching is right, because I believe that it's not. Just saying. Well I would think that the Catholic church would have to become a bit more progressive as gayness is becoming more accepted in society. The church has never been populist - why would they change now? They've always been pro-life and abortion has been widely accepted for the past fifty years - no signs of change there.