Re: What's your favorite audio drama

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The Radio Drama Revival podcast site is http://www.radiodramarevival.com

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The Radio Drama Revival podcast is a showcase for audio drama and has a huge archive that includes look-ins on many series with info to find the rest.  They also have some complete productions, one of which, called "Severed Threads" is a fantastic multi-part story.

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Re: Looking for some audio dramas

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How could I forget the Welcome to Night Vale podcast (I think it's welcometonightvale.com) surreal horror at its head-scratching best.  There's an Audible title in that universe that I would recommend people listen to the episodes that occur chronologically before the book release before listening to the book, as it's filled with fan service goodies that won't necessarily make sense to a Night Vale virgin.

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Re: Looking for some audio dramas

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The Truth podcast has just begun a new series about a struggling band that discovers that it can enter into the world of its songs, and that the world is not nearly as safe as they thought.  it's funny, close to the bone for those of us who've participated in or loved local bands, and is well produced.

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Re: I probably shouldn't be posting this

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I'd be willing to be a moderator if asked.

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Re: When do you truly lose it all?

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First, thank God you're all right.Next, two word question: renter's insurance?Finally, are you in financial need?  If so, I wonder if we couldn't organize a Go Fund Me or something like that to help you out?

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Re: The future Mrs. Dark

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Then metheglyn it is, and yes, quite appropriate.

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It will be done.  Consult with your beloved about whether plum wine, cranberry mead, metheglyn (spiced mead) or a cider or pear cider would be your preference, and keep me posted as to dates.  (use the following email: a touch of reverence at gmail (take out spaces and complete the .com)

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Re: The future Mrs. Dark

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I don't remember what your take on alcohol is, but, speaking of raising a glass, if the two of you would enjoy it, I'd be pleased to produce a special beer or wine for use at your wedding festivities in honor of your long-suffering service as nanny to this bunch of misfits.  If that's not appropriate for any reason, or if you simply don't like booze,, no worries, it's just a thing I can do that is unique and somewhat portable.  (easier to ship to your sweetie in the States than to you.)  Please advise.

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Re: The future Mrs. Dark

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That's fantastic.  To Mrs. Dark-to-be, you've got yourself a basically decent human being, which is high praise from me as there are a lot of undecent (as opposed to indecent) ones.  To Mr. Dark, it's the surprises like this that make life the unpredictable, joyous thing it is.  I'm happy for you, I like seeing good folk find joy.  As someone who took two wrong choices before marrying the right one, we call those "practice marriages" and learn from them.So, will you end up in the States or the UK, or have you gotten that far yet?

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Re: Grmapa - talking map

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I used 43 -86, which should correspond to 43 n by 86 w.  (I actually used 43.0 86.0) with a 40 km radius.  This corresponds to Pentwater Michigan.  I tried out zoom levels between ten meters and 1 km inclusive.  I did see some large geographical features like the Grand River and a few islands in Lake Michigan, (though oddly, Lake Michigan was not labeled as such or I didn't find it), but no cities, roads or other features.I suspect this area just hasn't been well mapped in Open Street Maps, it;s rural west Michigan and the closest large city is Grand Rapids, which was on the very edge of my map.

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Re: Grmapa - talking map

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I apparently live in an area that has not been mapped extensively in the open maps, as I'm not getting streets, towns or anything other than large cities and geographical features such as rivers and islands in Lake Michigan.

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Re: New GPlus Acccessibility Community, Now Open!

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Ahem, returning to something approaching the original topic of the post and leaving the nihilism of fan-boy/girl loyalty to products behind, I find that using the list item command (usually i) in the screen reader of your choice is a very effective and simple method of moving from post to post in G+.  Using the button commands will allow you to interact with the post.  The only major use for Google's keyboard shortcuts for me would be to post, or share, though a button for this already exists.

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Re: This isn't for attention

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Ghost Rider, your beloved has a beautiful name.  It's been a long time since I was a teen ager, thirty plus years, but I do remember the way love felt for me when I found it then.  In fact, for me it hasn't changed all that much, which either says that love may be less changeable than adults who dismiss teenagers, or that I never grew up in the first place.  *smile*I am not clear whether you feel that you suffer from chronic depression, or whether what you are feeling is a strong reaction to the specific event of your family seeking to separate you from Erowyn.  A lot of the posts here seem to assume chronic depression, and they have said many good things.  If it is a reaction to the specific event, then it may be easier to live through as you can hold on to the notion that time will pass and if your relationship is what you believe it to be, you can get to the point where you may pursue it regardless of what they may think.Believing 
 as I do that love is probably the single most important thing we do with, to, and for one another, whether it be romantic/sexual love, or the love of which Christians speak, or simply that quiet and infinitely important love between friends who fit together like hand in glove, it is what we live to do and to be.  So i will never dismiss your feelings as teenage hormone spikes or anything of the sort.  You have access to a powerful source of inspiration in the love you feel and, presumably in the love she feels for you.Love alone doesn't get the dishes done.  It's a verb, as well as a state of bliss and being.  I cannot specifically advise you how to go forward, but if your love is as you describe it, you have it within you to manage, for your sake, for her sake, for what you might build together.  I am not foretelling, I don't know you from Adam, but I know a thing or three about love and its power.  Maybe it is enough to hold on to
  right now when you are feeling shattered and alone.As for the inappropriateness of posting this, screw that!  There are times when we are allowed to ask to be seen, to have our humanity affirmed by others when it is needful.  I hope that the things the rest of us have said here give you something to hold on to.Go well, little brother.

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Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person

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And Dark wins the Internet for the morning, though: re: 22 I think, my vision of the Fair Folk is more the progenitor of Tolkien elves than the Wee Free Men, and they make vampires look like your pre-school teacher when annoyed.  Dating them tends to end badly for humans.

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According to the research I've been doing, Go is actually more challenging than chess, as it has a larger decision tree, and as it is more difficult to create an evaluation of the quality of a given move.

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By the way, I found rules that made sense, and lots of discussion showing that Go is in fact a far more challenging game to do well than is chess.  I am researching this to figure out if my skills could be brought up to it as now I'm fascinated.

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Re: Ask about accessible "Go"

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I've yet to find rules for the game that I understand, especially around capturing pieces.  I'd be willing to write the game if I could do so.

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Re: distributing high quality audio

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So here's the short answer.  Do what is necessary for the recording in question.Here's the expansion on the short answer.  It depends entirely upon what you want the recording to convey.  If the sort of detail you want to highlight is something that compression kills, don't compress.  If not, then find the level at which said detail becomes muddy and stay above that floor.As someone who keeps his music collection in .flac, I go for larger, better quality, but when recording and distributing simple interviews, I'd compress the hell out of them for band width/storage considerations.  It's the difference between the Diane Rehm show, where all you need is clear voice audio and something like Radio Lab, where audio production is actually a part of the experience.Your .flac option and compressed file is likely the best alternative.

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Re: aikido!

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Thank you. Some thoughts here.I dont think ki (or qi as it is often transliterated) is a Buddhist concept. At least, Ive seen more references to it in Chinese medicine and philosophy than in any religious concept. In that context, it is simply a universal energy that emanates from the Creator and is stepped down if you will into increasingly concrete manifestations. This is not dissimilar from notions of Jewish mystics concerning an energy coming from creation through manifestation. The application in Aikido is to harmonize oneself to this universal energy. I would offer that being open to the Holy Spirit would be a functional analog of this concept, so that, rather than opening oneself to an unknown spiritual force, one is opening the way to make a place for the Holy Spirit to come in, teaching harmony with our fellow beings.Ueshiba Murahei (the founder) was not a Buddhist. He followed a charismatic religious
  person in a faith called Omoto Kyo, the tenets of which I am not familiar, but his goal of harmonizing intention and neutralizing violence seems entirely in line with Christian principles.I mentioned bowing, because I have seen objections to bowing to the kamiza as a form of idol worship, rather than bowing to one another.On the subject of enlightenment, I will only state that there is a division of opinion among Christians as to the relationship between Grace and Works, or to put it in the terms of this conversation, whether there is any value in striving to become more like Jesus. To the extent that such striving has a value for you, Aikido seems to me a good path in that regard.I say none of this to persuade you specifically, but because there may be other people reading this who are unfamiliar with the differences among Christians and/or with Aikido itself.

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Re: aikido!

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I have heard these cautions expressed by other Christian folk before and I have never been given a reason or example I understood, other than the traditional practice of bowing in to class that some have felt occupies a place reserved for worship. Id be interested to know what aspects of the spiritual parts of the discipline of Aikido would give you pause as a Christian.

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

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Some thoughts from someone who is quite old compared to most of you, (Im in my mid forties.)First of all, people are people, and whether its here, Google Plus, Facebook, LiveJournal, or a good double dozen other fora Ive participated in, there are people who either dont know how to conduct civil conversations when things get hot, or who dont give a tinkers damn. Believe me, this is not unique to the blind community. We do have our particular cultural anomalies, but they are small compared to the common issues that plague on-line discussions everywhere. I refer you to the phenomenon known as gamergate that dominated the tech news for about three months earlier this year that resulted in some truly dreadful and misogynistic behavior on the part of so-called grownups, and the kerfuffle over the Hugo awards. Google these if you arent familiar, gamergate or sad puppies.Next obvious statement, ther
 e is a reason why people in most countries have to be of a certain age before being given responsibilities over lethal accident vectors, such as cars, aircraft and the voting booth. The on line world is a space that allows for much more freedom of younger people than most other spaces. This is probably a net bonus, since old farts like me need to be shaken out of our complacency. But there is a cost in inexperience, in incivility, in the fact that teen agers are simply aliens, most of whom dont know how to feed themselves well, do laundry properly or take any account of money, let alone deal with the responsibilities of running a complex on-line game that requires good security, the ability to consider consequences and so forth. I know from experience, I was one, and Ive raised two, with two more in the pipeline, God help me.A lot of the drama referred to here seems to me simply the radioactivity of children, and is not necessarily worth wri
 ting off a community. Those of us who are older and have more life experience need to be in the position of mentors and guides, and perhaps not judge too harshly. Those of you who are the aforementioned aliens, (sorry, but truth is truth, and if you survive it you will get better) please cut the rest of us some slack too.We all come from such diverse backgrounds, that blindness is, surprisingly to some of you, one of the least important things we have to share with one another. That said, it is important to remember that my experience of blindness, being in the first cohort of blind children who were put in public schools (or government-run schools for you britts) is very different from that of someone growing up today in a country with few resources to work with. I was damned lucky; being born even a couple years sooner would have condemned me to having no choice about how I was educated. Blindness is not the central fact of my existence, that wo
 uld be the lovely woman who foolishly consented to marry me ten years ago, and the avatars of chaos that claim to be her children. Others of you have come to different terms with your blindness and who am I to judge, given the differences in our history.People have been complaining about Freedom Scientific since it was Henter-Joyce. There are a lot of reasons why they developed the way they did, and there are a lot of modern-day market forces that are stressing their business model to the breaking point. JFW is still a nice piece of kit that I no longer use, but if it works for you, God bless, kiss kiss and lets go on.So, if you have a beef with internet forum chatting, that I get, but I think youre misattributing some of the problems you see to this and other such like being a blind-specific affinity group. For every drama queen Ive run across here, Ive found a ton of people who are respectful, helpful and love sharing the
 ir enthusiasm for our hobby of audio games. Ive had lovely discussions with people, even when we are vehemently disagreeing on another topic about such things as religion, or something equally important, the future of Swamp. Im not here every day, and I hardly read every topic, so I often miss the worst of the drama, because it takes place on discussion threads I dont normally follow, so I hear about it as an indirect reference somewhere else.So Id urge you not to give up on us just yet. Weve survived the hacking Swamp year, debates over same sex marriage, and well survive the poor security practices of people who either dont know any better or choose to be slipshod. Its ok, that will sort itself out over time. Hot button topics will come and go, tempers will fray under disagreement, but on the whole, we do pretty well.

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Re: What do people believe when it comes to religion and or spirituality?

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Nocturnus, I hear what you are saying. Now, please hear me.A number of the beliefs you profess actively harm people *here* in *this* world. If I call you on that fact, you have to understand that I do not believe that knowingly harming people is consistent with following Jesus. So I speak out against your views when I find them harmful to real people I know. Does that feel like oppression to you? Ive certainly seen that viewpoint expressed by many people who call themselves Christians in the wake of cultural events.I understand and respect that you are acting out of a particular view of what it means to love someone, i.e. that seeking to steer people away from wrong action is a loving act, no matter how offensive it may appear.But heres the thing. In doing so, you disrespect the person you claim to love. You assert that your understanding of Gods is superior to theirs. You dare to place an imperfec
 t idol of God, created by your interpretation of Scripture above the worship of an all-pervading God who caused everything to be, who is so much larger than you can comprehend. You dare to tell God how to judge people. Its colossal arrogance, and if Ive learned nothing else in my thirty-plus years of studying the Bible, theology and religion, it is that Jesus wasnt a big fan of arrogance. Its actually a lack of trust in the goodness of a creator who made people very different from you.

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Re: Right to die and quality of life

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Let me begin by saying that I am in sympathy with those who believe in an unconditional right to die. It is a logical extension of the liberty which is at the heart of at least the American mythology of government.Now let me push back against the overwhelming tide of discussion in this thread.It is a short road from accepting simple disability as a legitimate reason for ending ones life to applying pressure to the disabled to do so in pursuit of savings, less bother for the temporarily able, who are often very good at ignoring the likelihood of their own eventual disability. Im not certain we want to give society permission to think that disability could be a state of being for which death is the only solution. Thats much easier than creating acomodations, taking universal design principles into account, even funding disabled people to help us live in the main stream world. Thats a dangerous precedent to set.As I ge
 t older, the notion of absolute rights comes into conflict for me with the notion that we have responsibilities to the society as a whole to help those less fortunate, to allow each to maximize their own liberty, even at some expense to our own. It is all well to articulate an absolute liberty argument about the right to die, or any other issue. (remember I am disposed to agree with this argument.) This liberty interest exists in tension with a societal interest in promoting life, in choosing to develop medical, legal and design protocols to bring those of us with disabilities into the fold. A world without Stephen Hawking is certainly a lesser place. A world where Franklin Delano Roosevelt is dead rather than President may see a different outcome to World War II. What would be lost to the world if everyone who thought they might want to die because things were hard was kicked through that door.I will certainly take this route if I should ev
 er find myself in a medically untreatable condition where I have no quality of life, and after I have consulted with my family and they are at peace with that decision. I will do so whether its legal or not. But I do think it incumbent on us to make sure that the barriers to making that choice cause us to hesitate and dont encourage the eugenic cleansing of the gene pool by a too ready resort to state-assisted death.

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Re: aikido!

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I will second Assault_Freaks recommendation of Aikido as a form suitable for blind or visually impaired students. The increase in self-awareness, and especially of body awareness is priceless to anyone who may have to react quickly to changing terrain without the warning of visual input. Ive studied off and on since 1985, and to this day the best applications Ive made of the combat tactics of Aikido are in dealing with icy side walks, carrying heavy objects and losing my balance on stairs and otherwise surviving situations that would have resulted in injury without that training.This is one aspect of Aikido training. Many of the benefits are psychological or spiritual. This might be especially true for a blind individual. In order to be able to move with your partner, you have to learn to be quiet in yourself, to put away attachment to a particular outcome as in doing xyz throw and moving into a mindset that the Japanese call m
 ushin, which roughly translates into no-mind, and refers to a state of being where you simply move into exactly the right place at the right time to achieve advantage without relying on force, or rather without relying on your own physical strength, and relying instead on superior position. The experience is almost mystical, its as though space curves to fit your needs so that you end up almost moving down hill into the perfect spacetime place. Thats imprecise language, but hopefully it conveys something.

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All right, look. Message 40 is not actually representative of what I understand to be my obligation if Im going to profess Christianity. In the light of 24 hours thought, I think I have taken a disagreement to a more personal level than I should have done and i am sorry for doing that. It is very hard for me, part of what I am learning by being on this path. I passionately believe in the rightness of people loving whom they love. Every fiber of who I am longs for the day when we stop noticing who is holding whose hand or kissing whom or marrying whom. I long for that day when we smile to see love, wherever and however that love might be shaped. I truly believe that is the example Jesus set us by his life.I have also seen the results of seemingly well intended attempts to dissuade people from being who they are by people who thought they were saving souls. They brought Hell into reality here on earth by their actions
 , by the lack of compassion and vision they showed.When I run into this sort of thinking, it sets off my anger. I will work for the world I spoke of. I hope I can bring you along.

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Who says that invariance equals perfection? Who says that perfection does not in fact consist of being able to adapt perfectly to the mind-numbing complexity of a world far beyond your humble comprehension. I do not say your faith is vain, I say it is cruel and arrogant, costing the lives and well being of real humans. I say that you fail to understand the meaning of Jesus life in a tragically superficial way that allows you to feel superior and saved. By the way, are you aware that to redeem is to liberate, as in slavery, and is less about achieving some narrowly guarded moral perfection than it is about humans achieving what it means to live in Gods image?And no, the alternative to absolutist philosophy is not nihilism. That shows a lack of imagination on your part, not an understanding of truth. You speak of the love of Christ, and all I see, to borrow liberally from J. R. R. Tolkien is the cclaw of egosim, cruel
  and cold and devoid of love. I do not say that you have not experienced the love of the God you profess, that would be presumptuous, but that you find a human document to be inerrant, showing the whole of the mind of a being you are unequipped to comprehend in its entirety is a demonstration that you want God to be smaller than he/she/it truly is.I wouldnt care, except that your God is killing people I love and taking a morally indefensible pleasure in doing so, exuding the falsely sympathetic nonsense of loving the sinner and hating the sin. If you ever come to my home, I will break bread with you, pray with you, and show you an unconditional welcome. You cannot say the same thing.

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Im fairly certain that if one makes categorical statements about what God loves and/or hates, one is engaging in a lack of humility that is staggering in its intensity and tragic in its failure to comprehend the sheer majesty of a God who can create a multiverse and be at once separate from and part of that construction. Im also fairly certain that, given the incidence of homosexual behavior in the natural non-human world, anyone who asserts with certainty that God hates the actions of homosexuals needs some basic biological primers. Finally, the notion that the Bible should be your sole guide to the knowledge and understanding of God leads to a barren and dead faith that cannot change, except by political maneuvering that alters a supposedly inerrant text, (as has happened many times in the 2,500 years plus that parts of what we call the Bible have been around. it is necessary to study the Bible, but hardly sufficient. Failing to apply life exp
 erience, reason and above all the humility to pray and actually listen is spitting on the gifts we have been given. If a Christian tells you that God hates something, gently suggest he or she go pray about that again.

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Let me preface all this by saying that I am in the odd position of being a pagan who bought into some notions sufficiently to choose to be baptized this last Easter. As such, I am very definitely in a state of flux about what I think, what I believe and what belief even means. I have the luxury of being just fine with not knowing a lot of things, since Ill learn what i need to know and the rest will come as it will, or as God wills if you prefer.First of all, it is very important to keep the difference between Gods intent and the interpretation of that intent by humans and the institutions they create. Im pretty sure that I do not need a concept of Heaven/Hell. Im not all that interested in the question of post-mortem life, since, it will happen or it wont. I dont need Heaven as a positive reward for good behavior, nor Hell as a fear-based incentive. I do not need a God of retributive justice
  to smite the evildoer to make me feel better. I dont even need to know whether Jeshua bar Miriam actually existed as such.For me, it is enough to choose to accept the notion that Jesus was the incarnation of God, sent to us to demonstrate what a life lived in love would look like. The notion of his death as a substitutionary sacrifice that takes away my sins asks me to believe in a cruel God, which doesnt make sense given the notion of God sending Jesus to redeem us anyway. Being a Christian is deceptively simple, love God, love what God loves. If you believe God created everything, this means loving what God created, in the ultimate act of love.This is not a mainstream notion of what it means to be a Christian, particularly here in the U.S. While its quite simple, its very difficult to practice well.Anyone interested in some of the sources for my thinking should read anything they can find by Marcus Borg.
 ; He is a progressive Christian writer who has given me a way in to professing Christianity. I dont agree with everything he says, but he showed me a different way of thinking about what I thought I knew.

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Ill add as a closing remark here that you should simply assume that your information could be hacked on anything from a game server to your bank. Given that banks and credit card merchants will generally cover your losses, this may not be a serious as it sounds, but it does suggest that you should never duplicate passswords, choose passwords that bear no relation to any easily obtainable information about you and (if you are old enough to do so) enroll in a credit monitoring service to watch for anomalous transactions. It is uncumbent upon developers to do their best to use good security practices. It is equally incumbent on users to realize that these will never be sufficient in the face of a determined effort to undermine security and act with the appropriate level of paranoia.

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For the record, the industry standard way of doing this sort of thing is to report it to the developer, complete with a detailed description of the exploit and then wait some amount of time, then release a message explaining the danger of the exploit to the community without detailing how its done, so that consumers can take their own security measures, which would in this case at a minimum mean making sure that your password in these games is not the same as one you use on any valuable accounts. Guilevi, this is not the procedure you appear to have followed and that is why you are catching some crap here. In future, Id recommend following this approach.

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Re: to blind new agers

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Steve, your message assumes I am not a Christian. As it happens, I am, and I still find Christian arrogance offensive, perhaps more now than before I walked into church.

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@dark, I was in fact responding to post 1 in this thread, and of course youre right I should have been more specific.@severestormsteve1, my comment about parenting comes from the following quote from that post:Hello everyone. I write  this to you all not to offend anyone, but to provoke action and thought. I write this with kindness in my heart, because I am concerned regarding your eternal well being.Forgive me, but this is offensive, assuming as it clearly does that I and anyone who does not believe as the OP does exactly is in danger of their eternal soul. Arrogance is unattractive. Arrogance in a Christian is actually offensively hypocritical.As for the notion of Hitler being God, lets look at this a bit. If one believes in an all-knowing, all-powerful God, and that everything works according to the plan of this God, then one must accept that Hitlers works were in fact intended by that God for some purpose that the believer may not be able to understand, but must accept as good.Now, it would be a fair response that being part of the plan of God and being God are two different things. This is something that a Christian might say, since many Christians believe in a God that is not of the world he created. There are those of us who find the idea of a God separate from his creation to not accord with our beliefs or reason.I will come back to this tomorrow.

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Some thoughts here.Have you considered the possibility that Hitler was in fact God, that the evils perpetrated by him and his regime were an object lesson to a fallen humanity? For someone who appears to put as much reliance on Gods goodness, this shouldnt be a hard stretch.Does truth contradict itself? What does this question even mean? You assert that two contradictory things cannot be true, then asserting for no other reason than your own belief that one thing is true. Many of us do not look on the Bible (which Bible by the way?) as inerrant truth, so its not a valid source for asserting truth in a discussion with people who do not share your belief. That would be a very small god who only had one way to him, no matter what a book says about it.Finally, as a recently baptized Christian myself, let me advise you to stop talking about the goodness of the lord. It is ineffective and often offensive. I w
 as not brought to church by sermonizing, but by watching good people do good things out of the ordinary and recognizing that their faith was part of why they did them. My eternal well being is my own affair and Gods, and Id appreciate it if yall would stop using public spaces to parent me and others you find to be unbelievers.

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Re: Getting Into Game Of Thrones

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Actually, the Mallazan Book of the Fallen qualifies as pretty grim and bloody, and Martinesque in that you shouldnt give your heart to any character, as none are safe.

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Re: google plus notifications no longer accessible on pc?

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Using NVDA and Firefox, the G+ notifications show up at the top of the page just fine after the apps link in the Google navigation bar.

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Re: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER

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Even though we knew it was coming, I still stopped dead in the midst of my day yesterday when I heard. I remember an interview he gave in 2012 where he talked about his impending death, and I think Ive never heard a more sane or courageous confrontation of mortality than what he said then.

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Re: Behold! Samsung Galaxy Talkback!

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If I can get this unlocked, and if it will update anything like as fast as the Nexus phone series, this is likely to be my next phone. I believe the release date is April 10, and I may well be ordering that day. The features shown here are a clear improvement on Google TalkBack. I am hesitant to leave the stock experience, but, assuming I can put the Google Now launcher on the phone, I may be sufficiently happy.

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Re: nvda: its achievements over the years and its drawbacks

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I would like to ask a question of JFW users here. Do you make a lot of use of the feature that allows you to prune what gets read in browse mode documents? (I forget FSs name for this feature, but its the one that is supposed to declutter web reading and was introduced in 14 or 15.) If so, Id love feedback on how useful you find it as its the one compelling thing that might get me to try JFW seriously again, as NVDA doesnt have anything like that and certain pages are a nightmare even for this pretty savvy navigator.

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Re: Demons

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It occurs to me that you have already explained what you are going through quite articulately here in this forum. It also occurs to me that in the main we have an example of quite a good and non-judgmental discussion that could act as a model for any therapist who is working with you. Sadly, not all therapists are able to hold a stance of compassionate, non-judgmental listening, but all in all weve done pretty well here I think.Perhaps you could direct your therapist here, or copy your posts and our responses into a document that you could email to your therapist, editing if you feel that certain elements of the discussion are out of bounds. I know I would give my permission to have my parts of the conversation used for your benefit if they would help, and I suspect others here would do likewise as I am pretty sure were all rooting for you.

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Re: nvda: its achievements over the years and its drawbacks

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Ah sorry, I think that object navigation wasnt a feature that FS trumpeted widely, and since I havent updated my SMA since 12, Ive only had things like the FSCast to keep up with JFW development. Ive actually considered renewing my SMA a couple of times, but the punishing terms that would make it cost nearly half the cost of a new license to upgrade to 16, plus a SMA fee on top of that have made it unlikely I ever will, a silly decision by FS since I am a lost customer, whether or not their product has aged well.

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Other than what has been mentioned, NVDAs object navigation works quite well to navigate some programs that arent easily used in other modes. This is a clear advantage over JFW, along with the other major advantage, being of course price.

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Re: let's talk about the hobbit film trilogy

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Ugh! How predictable to change Thorins death like that. We havent seen it yet, were going to go but the plague decided to visit and laid low everyone else in my family, so we wait until everyone is healthy. I blame North Korea.

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Hmm, Id never thought of the second movie as a video game, but thats rather apt, right down to the special arrows. I have not seen the extended version of the second movie, but the extended version of the first movie did do a few things to improve it so perhaps the Desolation of Tolkien might be improved.WE will be going to see it as my children are utterly hooked on the franchise, and after all, whats Christmas without a multi-hundred-million-dollar action extravaganza with over loud sound, incautious plotting and eagles.

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Re: Of Reason and Faith

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And here is where Im wishing for a threaded forum, because i want to respond to about five posts. Please bear with me.@Nocturnus, thank you for your kind words. I do appreciate what you said, Please hold that in mind in light of things i will say further below in this post.@Bladestorm. I have taken several deep breaths before writing this part of my response. Lets see if Ive managed to take hold of the instant fury your #102 called forth in me. There are several reasons I did not ask my beloved friend to ask God why it is wrong for her to be a lesbian. One is perhaps that I did not wish her suicide on my conscience. To have acted in that fashion would have, in my judgment then and now been an assault with intent to do grievous harm. I also have no evidence other than a book to believe that God thinks being a lesbian is wrong. God has never personally told me that she thinks being a lesbian i
 s wrong. Given the joy and fulfillment said friend now finds with her wife and now several-years partner, I have no evidence that God has anything against her marriage, her joy or the ways in which she uses that wondrous gift of a body for her own and her partner/wifes pleasure.You asked why folks insist on putting their personal experiences on other people. Im glad you acknowledge that you do this, and of course youre right, its a common phenomenon. On one hand, there is a trivial answer to your question, which is how else are we to judge other than what we have lived? I think a deeper and more interesting (in the context of this discussion) answer would be that we have fallen in a sense, though not perhaps as the Christian Church teaches. WE have become separated from God, perhaps as a necessary artifact of being created beings, perhaps through some fault of our own. Each of us seeks, albeit unknowingly
  sometimes, reunion, a restoration of that time when we were inseparable from the being of God. Indeed, the very word religion has this in its roots, religio, the Latin from which the word comes to us means to bind again, like a ligament or ligature, other words with the same root. It is very easy then to see our experiences as our own unique fragment of that union, and to cling to them as TRUTH, which is fair, because perhaps they are TRUTH, or at least truth, real to us.Pagans have a term for this, unsupported personal gnosis. Its a problematic term since it assumes that there could be some supported personal or impersonal gnosis as compared with UPG, but it is the idea that we each experience the incomprehensibility of Divinity as we are capable of experiencing it. We are after all accepting the existence of a being or beings on an order of complexity that places us in comparison somewhere below a virus when compared to us. Does a virus 
 know anything about the host it infiltrates? Does it even know anything about the cell whose DNA it hijacks to reproduce itself?But we are, for better or worse, beings who make conscious attempts to make sense of the things that go on around us. We use science to ask questions capable of rational responses, such as why planets move in the way they do and according to what laws of motion might one predict their future positions. We use philosophy and religion to ponder those questions that dont admit of rational answers. And Im sorry, the Bible is not admissible in the court of rational evidence, it is a book that justifies the claims it makes because. . . they are the claims it makes. This is not said to denigrate the Bible in and of itself, or those who take it as the basis for their lives, only to point out that it is impossible to prove using the Bible that the Bible is the literal TRUTH. Its rather like trying to defin
 e the word is by using the word is as a famously unwise President of ours did not so very long ago.Oops, sorry, digression.My point in all of this is that the lived experience of people is not something over which you as a fellow inhabitant of a fragment of the consciousness of God have any right to sit in judgment. You say we should love the sinner and forgive the sin. No! You have no right to forgive, because you have no right to judge. It was the judgment of a loved one, even couched in the terms of forgiveness and incomprehension that cost my friend so dearly. If we wish to speak of forgiveness, then let us talk about the fact that her mother attended her wedding at her insistence because she wanted her mother to share in her joy at having met the woman of her dreams, that same mother who very nearly killed her own daughter. I stand in awe of such strength. I couldnt have done it; Im not 
 that good and loving a person.The difference between what you all articulate is and where I sit is that you, in obedience to the commandment of your faith seek to show me that my Truth is in fact a lie, or at best a misunderstanding. You claim the right to judge, even if only to forgive those who transgress the moral code you take from 

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Ack, sorry, I forgot there were at least three other posts I wanted to respond to.@Jayde, we have to be careful in discussions like these. We have to hold the thought that Christians are in a very difficult position if they behave in a way that you and I might regard as more compassionate. When evangelism is a root value of the religion one gives ones heart to, and especially in that NRE period where everything is all unicorns and light, its very difficult to hold the balance of the divinity of those who dont get it in as high a respect as we would like to see.One problem with discussions like these is that at bottom, the difference is not one that will be bridged. Our Three Musketeers arent about to abandon that faith that they have acquired after very real and difficult struggles, not when it is a source of so much that they find good in their lives, perhaps even that reunion with God that I spoke of in my previous post.
 sp; And why should they? If thats their lived experience then blessings be upon them and may they do no harm in figuring all this out, as both you and I have wished. Im certainly not about to acknowledge that women are subservient to men, and will in fact act in every way I know how to overcome what is to me an idea rooted in fear and insecurity, a medieval conception that has no place in a world that claims to value each person.But these concepts are just not capable of rational discussion. One believes, or one does not. One has had lived experience of these things, or one has not. While I would in any case have voted against Californias Proposition 1 to outlaw same sex marriage, I certainly would not have become an activist in the wake of its passage, were it not for the lived experience of seeing people I knew and loved harmed by it. It took that lived experience to inform my rational distaste for what I perceived as bi
 gotry with the passion I hold now about such things.So lets not ask for rational answers to questions that are not really rational questions.@Daigonite, Ive seen some of what you have regarding feminists. I live after all in Michigan, home of one of the largest women-only gatherings in the country every summer, the Michigan Wymyns Music Festival. (I think I have the spelling right, though, much like terms around blindness, the fashion changes frequently.) There is a great and fundamental divide among participants at MWMF concerning the right of transgendered women to attend, a division that has resulted in violence in the past, and still is a source of great sorrow. Such divisions also exist in supposed paradise for Pagans, the Bay Area, and a large gathering called Pantheacon, where a couple of thousand pagans gather to meet, celebrate and learn. Three years ago, there was a struggle concerning whether transgendered wome
 n should be allowed into a particular womens-only ritual that led to flaring tempers, accusations of betrayal and mental illness, and generally reflected poorly on this supposedly progressive and inclusive gathering. (I do not propose to enter into those thorny discussions here, suffice it to say that there was bad behavior on all sides.)Yet it is fair to ask if there isnt a need for some degree of militancy on the part of women in a world of GamerGate and gang rapes in India that are not prosecuted because the victim was a women. If you have not encountered professional problems as a woman, you are blessed lucky and may it continue to be so, but please be careful about dismissing the experiences (there we go again) of the many women I know who on a daily basis have to maneuver through a world that men just dont. Its tempting to take the excesses of what is after all a fringe and apply them to all those who identify as feminists.
 ; Its also tempting to do that to Christians, something I have to keep in mind every day as I interact with my fellow church goers. Oh yeah, did I mention that I am a regular attendee of a church and a regular contributor to its newsletter? Im trying to restrict my arguments with Nocturnus et al to things they have specifically said, or to commandments that are universally acknowledged to be at the heart of Christian teaching. My goal is not to persuade them not to be Christians. It is simply to persuade them that if not careful, their teachings will lead them down the path of believing that those who arent are somehow less than they, something that is a cancer at the heart of modern American Christianity, a cancer I struggle to overcome every time I enter my church.

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Re: 112, oh Nocturnus, please tell me you dont actually believe that those are comparable? Show me, other than by virtue of its condemnation where homosexuality is harmful to anyone who practices it or those around them. Even studies done to ask questions about children raised by gay parents have shown that there is no harm that can be attributed to this cause. Are you truly going to ask me to accept the moral equivalence between killing someone and being attracted to them/ Really? I dont think you can actually mean that, or maybe you do because your book says so. But please do not seek to cloak it in a rational world view. Call it your faith, and move on.

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Re: #67 and #70.:@Nocturnus, I accept that you intended this to be an open forum discussion of beliefs, but the three of you have consistently attempted to refute contradictory statements of belief and have attempted to convince us, your audience that your lived experience should be thought of as universal. I do not hold this against you, it is exactly what you are commanded by your holy book to go do, and if you are to live your faith, then this behavior is exactly what you ought to be doing.But please do not claim that you are seeking an honest debate or are open-minded to hearing other points of view. You have all stated that your faith is solid and unchangeable. Well and good, but that means that your only purpose to start a discussion around faith is to try and convince me, and people like me that you are right. In order for this not to be the case, youd have to be willing to learn from others and accept the possibility that what you
  believe is not the One True Way. You are not open to this possibility by your declarations. Therefore you are trying to convert me. Im not asking you to stop; I am freely participating in this topic after all, but I am asking you to fundamentally acknowledge what you are doing and why you are doing it.Re: 70, @Bladestorm, you are of course entitled to your beliefs. I find some of them to be cruel and abhorrent. I shudder at the thought of a world run by your beliefs, knowing how many innocents would be persecuted even more than they are now. I fervently pray and work toward creating a world that differs markedly from what you believe. That said, if I found myself with you working towards something we both believed in, I would support you in that belief. I do not demand you change your beliefs.You were interested in what I meant by being called by Jesus. All right, Ill try to explain that, though (and thi
 s is something you probably understand) its a thing on a level more basic than words. There have been moments when Ive been playing or singing music inspired by the Christian faith where I have felt that I was serving something larger than myself. There are for instance, many moments in Handels Messiah that move me consistently. That silly moment in the Charlie Brown Christmas Special where Linus starts reading about Jesus birth. I get a lump in my throat and have, ever since I was six. Reading that part of the Gospels that speaks of Jesus last night in the garden at Gethsemane, I am filled with awe and pity and grief for this man. In his most human moments do i find him admirable, worth emulating, worth following. In the sorrow of Mary Magdalen and her joy at finding the Risen Christ, I find a like joy. In his appeals to serve those in need, I find a cause worth sacrificing for.I recognize these phenomena
 , and many others that I have experienced as a calling or a vocation. I am not presumptuous enough to know where it leads, but I am perhaps finally wise and brave enough to walk on that road and find out. Im pretty sure it doesnt lead to a place where I will find anothers lived experience to be less than mine, meaning that I will likely never be a good Christian. I think there is a level of presumption that the stories of lots of faiths and traditions teach us is foolish in the sort of tribalist triumphalism that characterizes Christianity as it is practiced today in the U.S. A doctrine that says that accidents of birth make one set of people less than another set of people is one I cannot give my support to.And so I return to what I said before. To those of you espousing your new faith, with all the zeal and enthusiasm of a new lover, I wish you joy in your love. May love make you wise and compassionate, respecting the inf
 inite diversity that you believe your Creator made for you to dwell in. May that fierce passion grow and mature into something that, as Paul says, is patient and kind. And may you do no harm before that happens. May you never cause another to feel lessened by your faith. May you never contribute to the insecurities, of culturally created damage done to people who do not conform to your vision of perfection. Your words can be weapons, may you use them with love and care. And, also in accordance with your faith, may you judge not, lest you be judged, for surely you do not know the mind of God, no matter what you think you know about what the Bible says.

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I want to share an experience with you which may explain why I cannot allow you to slip by on the I love homosexuals and hate the sin line.Have you ever heard a human voice reduced to the burnt-out husk of its former beauty, with all light and joy taken away from it after hours of weeping? Have you ever felt the pain of someone clutching you so hard that she is leaving bloody wounds on your arms and only wished that you could hurt more if only please God it would take away some of her pain? Have you ever known the utter hopelessness of knowing that all you could do was to bear witness?Five years ago, I sat in a small house in the East Bay (the suburbs of San Francisco for those who are unaware of that bit of geography.) A very dear friend of mine, someone I adore and love for her bright soul, for her keen intellect, for her bravery in simply refusing to be beaten down by a world that has decided that being gay is sinful, this lovely, flawed, brave w
 oman lay in my arms as I sat on her couch. The sound of the exhausted, hopeless sobs that came from her as she buried her head in my chest and asked why, why why over and over again for nearly half an hour will haunt me to my grave. Please understand, this is a woman who marches for her transgendered sisters on their day of remembrance marking the violence that is perpetrated against them. This is a woman who canvassed in neighborhoods against the 2008 Proposition 1 that declared marriage to be between one man and one woman, encountering hate, fear and irrationality, and managed to do it with a smile, with wit, with courage and grace. This woman, whom I had seen comforting blood-streaked survivors of hate, was herself finally done in, to the point where all she could say was why, why, why?Shall I tell you what had been the final straw? It was her mother, who truly loved her and had tried, Lord knows she had tried, but just
  could not prevent herself from wishing that her daughter would be other than who she was, would love in the Biblically approved fashion. There was no violence that youd recognize? No one threated my beloved friend. No one called her even a sinner. her mom, someone she loved deeply had just said, I wish you could get right with God, because God says youre not doing the right thing.Even the intent of love can kill my friends. This time it nearly did. I stayed with my friend for forty-eight harrowing hours, much of which I simply held her to me and cried and tried to love her the best way I knew how, to tell her that she was beautiful and special and worthy of love, of Gods love, of the love of her friends, that she was brave and funny and that sadness sucked but that we needed her. If it sounds incoherent, it was. I was crying nearly as hard as she was, because I was so very furious that this light o
 f the world had been so damaged by someone elses presumption, by someone who should have cared enough about her to love her for who she was, not ask her to be someone else.So, if you tell me that she should have held in her urges, those urges that existed from her birth to love women rather than men, I might get a little angry. If you tell me that her troubles, her sorrow was because somewhere in her heart of hearts, she knew that she did wrong and was resisting the call of God, well, I might get angry. I have seen Hell my friends, I walked through it for two days with a woman whose only crime was that she liked girls rather than men. If that is Gods way, then well, to quote Huckleberry Finn, All right then Ill go to Hell. You cannot love the sinner and hate the sin, Im sorry, you just cant. That is my lived experience, that is what God has shown me in the form of a palsied, shaking woman who wouldnt
  eat and wanted to die because her own mother did not love *her*. Sorry, that trumps any book ever written for me.And now, Im going to tell you another story, a myth if you will. This is also my gnosis, my received wisdom that did not come from a book, or at least is only loosely inspired by one. Call it an adaptation, rather like a movie is to its literary original if it disturbs you too much. I dont ask you to believe it, it works for me.God looked out on the world that he had made, and it was good and it filled him with joy. And yet, in his mind there came a new thought. There should be beings capable of looking around and seeing the beauty that he had wrought, beings who had the ability to choose for themselves how they would magnify the glory of his creation.;And so, taking up a lump of clay, he fashioned a man, and blew the breath of life into his creations nostrils, infusing the humble clay with his sp
 irit. And the man awoke and looked around. And all that he saw was good, but of course he didnt know that for he had never experienced sorrow and had no basis for comparison. So he wandered around in the Garden where God had made him and all was well.Except that God saw that he had no one to talk to of his 

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Lots to ponder and respond to here.I do wish that Christians would let go of the idea that it is only the fear of God that makes men moral. It is a belief that fosters irresponsibility rather than asking people to do their best to be moral beings, to fail, and to keep trying. I do not fear God in the way that you who are espousing this philosophy or religious belief do. I do not think that there is a cosmic bean counter, totting up my good deeds and my sins and that if Im a bad boy I will end up roasting for eternity. I seek to be a good person because. . . because I find that it is a good and noble thing to do, to seek to overcome the flaws in my makeup, to do good in the world, to fight, as Tolkien might have had it, the long defeat of imperfect embodiment of divinity. (I prefer Tolkien to Lewis in my British religious fantasy writer-philosophers, and if you think otherwise than I cry you heretic and burn in hell.) (Th
 at was a joke.)There are plenty of good and moral people in the world who have nothing to do with Christianity. That the Bible says otherwise does not make it so.And, talking of the Bible, could we please acknowledge that the Bible as it has come down to us today is a political document, not literal truth? The gospel of Mary Magdalen, (one of the most beautiful and soul-filling pieces of writing Ive ever read) was suppressed because it did not sit well with a church that was trying to situate itself in the world of temporal as well as spiritual power. The Gnostic Gospels are in general a more mystical, more inaccessible in some ways to modern readers, interpretation of the experience of Jesus life. Even the canonical Gospels refer to Mary as the one Jesus loved best. The suppression of her words is one of the great tragedies of Christian history as a church that included Miriam of Magdala would have been kinder, more compassion
 ate and truer to Jesus teachings than the hardness of Peter or the institutionalism of Paul.Kreefts critique of the New Paganism is apt in many ways. As a pagan myself, I recognize the correctness of much of what he says, though there is a lack of context, similar to that shone by many critics of Christianity. Many pagans are now confronting the formlessness of a belief structure that values the judge not principle above all others as Kreeft claims. This makes it much harder to police ones community from the sexual predators that seem to shadow all religious establishments, as several high-profile and unfortunate recent examples from many different faith traditions (including pagan) demonstrate. I was simply following my bliss is the justification, one that would likely make poor old Joseph Campbell, the popularizer of that phrase, roll over a hundred and three times in his grave.Paganism (or perhaps more
  accurately neopaganism) is a comparatively young movement, arguably a hundred years old or so and is going through a period of growth that has not been managed at all.So, if Im a pagan, why am I commenting on this thread? A fair question. It is simply that I have felt Jesus call and have begun the work of following that call to where it will lead. Where it has led thus far is that I occupy a position of trust and some degree of moral authority in a local church. I began there as a musician, progressed to helping them organize volunteers for their various outreach efforts and am now participating in a long-term study of how to improve our practices to be more consonant with the mission of the church. So what is a pagan doing in all this? I am serving people in need, the best I know how, in a place where this is one of the most effective vehicles for service there is. I am also leaving myself open to the relationship with Je
 sus that I have felt stirring in my heart of late. This has required a degree of humility of which I did not know I was capable.But lest you espousers of Christianity as the One True Way begin rejoicing at my iminent conversion, its not going to happen in the way you mean. I do not accept the Bible as the ultimate authority. Its a series of books, filled with stories about a world that no longer exists, if ever it did. Some of these stories are beautiful. Some of these stories touch my heart in ways I cannot and will not deny. Some of the music inspired by these stories is among the most moving of the creations of human beings for me. But ultimately, the Bible was written by people with agendas. Ultimately, the choices about what we see in the Bible were made by people with agendas. Im not so presumptuous as to say that they were not divinely inspired. I ask Christians to not be so presumptuous as to
  say that theirs is the only divine inspiration that is real. That arrogance is the single biggest problem the modern church has.Finally, let me address the question of what you have to gain if one of us were to acknowledge the truth of your belief. I know you mean well by this, but I cry foul. You gain a world 

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@Dark, I dont disagree, Peter Meijer is simply investigating a different paradigm and taking advantage of the growing certainty that brains can be rewired with sufficient work.I dont see it ever being the only way forward, but its gotten less press than the more obvious identification route, so I thought Id point it out. I suspect the real answer is something that includes both.

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Um relationships with sighted people are just as healthy or unhealthy as you make them. Sorry, Im happily married to a sighted woman who never thought of me as less, who drove 150 miles round trip to see me when first we were dating, and with whom I have worked out a very fair and equal distribution of labor based on the things we are good at and enjoy doing. With respect, if you dont think this is possible, you either havent met the right sighted person, or need to do some work on your own sense of self-worth.

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Re: NV Talk! - NonVisual Desktop Access, On AudioGames.net

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Andfor goodness sake, donate!

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Re: Serotek Loses 5, Future of Company in Doubt

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Its worth noting that there is a grass roots movement among the members of the Eyes Free mailing list dedicated to Android Access to reconstitute something like That Android Show as a community-led podcast. Further news as it becomes available.

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There is an interesting bit of research being done on sensory substitution, intentionally working to create synesthetic experiences to substitute for absent vision. Peter Meijers app for Android The VOIC is working on a very different sort of representational model of visual environments. Rather than seeking to identify objects and present that information, his premise is simply to create a more primitive representation of the environment as a color map with information about horizontal and vertical placement in the field of view of a phone camera or a glasses peripheral and put the processing burden right back on the Mark I human brain. His research and that of others in the field suggests that it is possible to train even totally blind subjects to interpret the data in a way analogous to visual interpretation. and actually generate an internal soundscape that acts in some ways like vision.The resolution is poor at the moment, and the de
 livery mechanism is still in its early stages. Still, its an avenue of thought that might yield far more fruitful results as the technology improves.

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Rachel, I dont have anything useful to contribute to how you handle your struggle. I frankly dont understand what youre going through, which isnt the criticism it may sound like, its simply and literally the case that I do not have such impulses that I feel are beyond my eventual control. I will not presume to judge you, something Im working hard on cultivating.I did want to take a moment to say that I am incredibly impressed with the brave, vulnerable, kind and thoughtful responses this topic has brought forth. This conversation could have gone so very wrong. That it hasnt is a statement about the culture we have here which is surely not perfect, but there is a reason for pride and solace here, since on a lot of fora, this would have become a slag Rachel fest, with untold harm being done. Good job everybody.

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Cool, Ill be in touch through the shop.

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MEQ sounds like a game I would pay you to make accessible for us.

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First rule of Blind Fight Club, get a good lawyer.

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Re: jaws 16 beta: death of screen reader innovation illustrated

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The Research It feature is a good first attempt to solve the same sort of problem that the little helper apps in Win 7 and 8 are trying to solve, easy lookup for commonly needed information sources. Sadly, as Research It is often dependent upon web formats that dont remain constant for very long, its often broken, reducing its utility.

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Re: Now available: TalkBack v3.5.2 Beta 1 for Android 2.2 Froyo and above

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Im running the new beta. The side tap functionality will be awesome once the devs get it to stop triggering when the phone screen is off. There are too many false positives right now, even at the lowest sensitivity on my Nexus 4, and this is a commonly reported problem.

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Re: We're alive - SPOILERS!

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I think were foreshadowing Rileys death at the end of things, whether by Scratch or some other agency.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178171#p178171

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I have experience using the Android application, which after a shaky start where accessibility is concerned, got much better. Its very nice to tell my phone to play Dave Brubeck and have a lovely and ongoing swath of cool jazz to listen to through dinner with zero intervention. Your experience with the desk top application is better than mine, which was far less usable last time I tried it, so Ill have to go back and try it again.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177186#p177186

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Now that Christopher Toths excellent QRead program will read .mobi files, what is the current state of the art on translating Kindle e-books into this format, which essentially involves stripping out the proprietary fecal matter? Im hoping theres another solution than using calibre, which Ive never managed to figure out.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176964#p176964

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Im familiar with Ed Sharp as it was what I used to do my BGT programming on the last computer. What I was looking for was a way to do the interactive programming that idle allows in a way thats usable without a lot of backwards somersaults, sacrificing virgins (of which I know all too few) and general jiggery-pokery.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176912#p176912

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Best python development environment

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Ok, a question for anyone who develops in Python. What is the most usable IDE to use if you want to for instance use the interactive development features of Python rather than pre-generating files and putting them through the interpreter?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176873#p176873

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Re: We're alive - SPOILERS!

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Im now a bit puzzled about Scratch. Does anyone truly believe she has moved on? And yet, its getting late in the day for her to return to center stage, with about two hours of programming left and the major mystery to get to the bottom of. I confess, Im going to feel it a bit anticlimactic if her only presence is indirect. We do have the clue of her brief appearance a few eps back, but then where did she go? Unless were going to find her in the zombie cave and Pegs is somehow going to get pulled into saving or not saving her? That could be cheesy as hell.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176021#p176021

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Re: We're alive - SPOILERS!

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I think that were going to get a lot of dense info right quick with the gas and observing its effects on Pegs. It seems like she got a larger dose than say Victor did in season 3.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175418#p175418

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