At 03:13 PM 12/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: >All praise be to Allah? Seriously though, I've heard Allah uses the three >free BSDs, Jehova uses Linux, Buddha uses Plan 9, and Zeus uses an OS >based on compiled Perl, or at least that's the word on the street. I've >read that Jehova uses Linux because, like Jehova, Linux has a lot of >different versions and flavors. You can pick which one you like best and >roll with it. Heck, that makes me wonder about the Hindu gods? Now that >must be a mess. Perhaps they are all based on some kind of agent-based >operating system that can be combined in any number of forms?
I hear BillG's bidding on that market. >This is a good question. If you were a god (or God for the monotheists) >which OS would you use to run the Universe(s)? > >At 01:23 PM 12/19/2002 -0600, you wrote: >>Not to get religious on everyone but there are questions I have answers for. >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: "NOLUG ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:10 PM >>Subject: [Nolug] E-T and evangelism >> >> >> > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:28, Joey Kelly wrote: >> > > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:22, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > > > >> > > > Well, The White Man goes to remote, underdeveloped to spread the >>Gospel >> > > > of Christ. Maybe ET evangelists would come here to spread *their* >> > > > religion to "the savages on Sol 3". >> > > >> > > This is my main argument against ETs. If the bible is true, then God's >> > > attention is focused here, not Out There Somewhere. Plus there's the sin >> > > question: Christ died once, as a human. He didn't die for the little >> > > green men. Conjecturing that the little green men didn't have a fall on >> > > their planet stretches things a litle thin, in my opinion. >> > >> > As I said, it would be *their* religion they would be spreading, not >> > ours. >> > >> > You made the crucial qualifier: "If the bible is true". What if it >> > isn't? (Note that as an atheist, this is just an intellectual excersise >> > for me...) >> >>It is, and has been proven mostly by those trying to disprove it. Look up >>the research on radio-halo's around the early 1970's. >> >> > Also, "If the bible is true, then God's attention is focused here". >> > Why is that so? If He is omniscient, omnipresent & omnipotent, why >> > couldn't He be handling multiple worlds at the same time? >> >>We are the only planet that fell into sin. SETI will fail because there are >>no radio dishes out there to respond to us. The other planets are still >>following God's plan that He had for us in the garden. They obeyed where we >>failed. Lucifer fell once and came here. While we were not the first >>planet he stopped at (after all there are so many), we were the only one >>that failed the trial of temptation. Jesus died to correct what he >>(Lucifer) started. >> >> > Furthermore, "Christ died once, as a human". Following the Bible, >> > true, and far as it goes. Other species may not have fallen from >> > grace in *their* versions of the Garden of Eden, and for other species >> > that also Fell, Christ would have sacrificed Himself for them, in what >> > ever way that each of those sets of civilisations evolved... >> > Since Christ is part of the Triune God, and is also thus omniscient, >> > omnipresent & omnipotent, He could be handling multiple worlds at the >> > same time just like His Father. >> >>But he has no need. Christ died once and only once. We are quarantined due >>to sin. We are the only solar system in the universe that has fallen. >>There will be no contact with aliens and there are no little green men. The >>world is less than 7000 years old (again, go look up the research on radio >>halo's, and helium crystals - I can provide research dates for those >>insterested) and probation ends soon. God spoke everything into existence >>except one thing. Us. We are the only thing valuable enough to have been >>created with His own hands. >> >>Write me off list if you want more information. >> >>~! >> >>___________________ >>Nolug mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--- >Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Puryear Information Technology >Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >http://www.puryear-it.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
