huskertim

Good for you Kansas husker, not only for the victory, but for your involvement in the process, far to many of us talk but not enough of us act (beleive me, I'm not proping myself here). So, see you in November.

My $.02 Firstly, let's not be naive, of course this is a big F@#$ YOU to the old red, white and blue. Must we overthink everything. The idea that there aren't any more suitable places for this "cultural center" in NYC is rediculous. The working title to the project was the Cordoba House, really, no history majors here I guess. If Rauf was as interested in reconciliation between the muslim and western worlds you think he could have shown a liitte of the "cultural sensativity" that he calls for from the rest of us. IMO this is very much the same tactic used by the "minority leaders" of our country (IE Jesse Jackson, Farikan) or, if you prefer the radical right (Fallwell, Phelps). The fomenting of intolerance through beligerence is a neccessary part of recruitment to their cause. Even though these figures seldom represent the rank and file members of the cause they supposedly support, they act as touchstones (or lighting rods if you prefer) for attracting attention to themselves in the name of their cause. IMO that's what this is about. My concern going foward is that once built, the "cultural center" will demand a "clean zone" around it thus infringeing on the rights of other property owners to build as they see fit. I suspect that the Bloomberg admin would cave to these demands on the grounds of "cultural senseitivities". Having said all this, keep in mind, I support everyone's right to be as big an A**hole as they can. God knows we've shead enough blood to defend that right. So if the owners of this property want to build their victory trophy over the site of our fallen citizens while the city of NY argues over wheather it should build a memorial to these lost souls, I say go for it.

Amen bratha. (wouldn't it be cool if the Supreme Court had actually read this bit?)

I think your presumtion is erred. The athletes in question aren't pushing God into sports, they are bringing themselves into sports. The fact that they are christians, jews, muslim etc. merely informs thier view of the world. I am a christian (not a very good one mind you) so when I go to work I bring my icky christian views with me. When I go to McDonalds, I wolf down my double cheese with a christian viewpoint. Even when I drink my 6 pack (or so) of Amber Bock in front of the x360 in my underwear all piss off because my wife isn't "in the mood" and frankly I'm kinda bored, I do so with my christian viewpoint informing my decisions. What I'm saying is that these guys are just expressing who they are in the way the know best. I understand how this evangalizing can be grateing. God knows I don't want to hear Connor Oberst's latest whinnings about immigration either but, that's the price of watching him in concert. Keep in mind two things though, 1; you don't have to listen and 2; if we restrict everyone's right to say something someone else dosen't like then eventually we will all be silent. I for one will not be silent.

I doubt that you could have made Law Review at Harvard Law though . . . lord knows I couldn't. Agreed, I'm not slighting BO just the idea that merelly attending these schools makes one a genius. Someone's got to finish last in every class.

I was an early fan of Palin. Her home spun, blue collar conservatism appealed to me (nice cans didn't hurt either). I intially saw her as very raw politically and in terms of public speaking, I assumed she would mature into the role. As a conservative, I supprt her campaigning for others, but if she has any aspirations for the white house, I'd have to vote elsewhere. I think most peoples' public estimation of other peoples' intelligence tends to be way off base. I would assume most presidents are like most people, that is mostly pretty average. The public perception however is offen swayed mostly by media. How is Quale an idiot for a few gaffs and Biden is just a tad eccentric. Really? I've also heard enough of this well, he went to Harvard or Yale, I have to say, if my dad had the cash, I could of gone there too. Now, we do have opportunities to do something about these parties, I have attended some 911 seminars and certainly read alot about the other various movements cropping up. The press seems content to paint the Tea Party thing as just a right wing freak movement, but I will tell you, the movement is in an embrionic state, it is not a unified ideology or even a group of entirely like minded people. You have the chance to shape the future of what may be the next viable political party. Will you continue to whine about the evils of the Dems and Pubs or are you ready to get off you a** and get involved?

Take all the time you need. Egg analogies are pretty apt here. Like twelve of one, a dozen of the other. Your position is that if I accept Christ I can spare myself unimaginable misery. It then follows that failing to accept him results in eternal damnation. Since we're playing a rigged game, and my character, honesty, charity, or general interest in the welfare of my fellow man has nothing to do with my salvation from an original sin I took no part in and had no hand in committing, this shifting of the burden of responsibility is both cruel and ridiculous. I didn't ask to be a sinful creature. I don't want to be a sinful creature. I was made that way, created sick and ordered to be well. We also can't forget that God is the dungeon master here. He set up the game in the first place. He created a world foreknowing that the supremacy of his creation was going to disappoint him, and that this disappointment, though it couldn't harm or threaten him in any way, would result in the eternal misery of billions upon billions upon billions of men, women and children. And the best he could come up with to solve his self-created problem was to send himself to sacrifice himself to himself to create a loophole for his own rules. Strange as this solution seems, it gets even worse in that we have no original account of any of it. Even if you fly in the face of scholarship and believe that the disciples wrote any of this down, it's still anecdotal, and we have none of the autographs, or the copies of the autographs, or the copies of the copies of the copies of the copies of the autographs. Your analogy fails because the stranger didn't create you eggless and order you to buy eggs. He didn't make the only way to get eggs accepting fantastic stories from the iron age in a culture awash in ignorance, illiteracy, and superstition. The stranger doesn't say allow me to buy your eggs for you or I will kill you, then go to work on you after your mortal coil has gone cold. The analogy wasn't intended to explain the entirety of human exisistence, though that would be one hell of a feat, but merely the idea that we are offered through grace that which we are unable to obtain ourselves and that ,in typical human fasion, the sinner blames God when he refuses this gift. As to why God would create a world as flawed as this, that is the ultimate question persued by clerics and philosopers alike. Me, I'm just this guy, ya know? I wonder, do you ever ask why God would have created the beauty of this world as well? The thought that our actions and our attitudes do not "count" towards salvation presumes a lack of accountability which is not what I have said. Call me a Calvanist if you like, but I believe firmly that our deeds and our attitudes reflect what is in our souls. The hard of heart will be unable to accept the grace of God or responsibilities for his own inequities. Many religions do think you can earn salvation, and I celebrate their service both to God and their fellow man. I simply do not see how any one of us is able to be worthy of God's presence so I choose to serve in love rather than for the reward of heaven. While the logic you use to argue your point is fundamentally sound, the tenor of your writing seems to express a bitterness. If all I'm saying is fairy tales then surely you've no need of such venom. I hope I haven't said anything that you would construe as a personal attack. If so, I do apologize, then again ,I may be misreading you, in which case, I also apologize.

Many are called...less actually answer...and even less actually do. Thank you, but there is no sense in comparing worth to a human standard when God calls us to be perfect. Does He? I'm not a Christian, so I don't know. From what I do understand from my friends who are, we are all sinners, and God forgives us and loves us anyway. So is there really a call to be perfect? Certainly that can be a personal standard. btw - I don't mean to hijack this thread, Landlord. Good luck and keep us posted. You just answered your own question. We sin and God forgives us for it. If it was okay for us to behave that way there would be no need for forgiving, nor would there be a need for Jesus to have lived and died in our place. God's standard is perfection, we don't match up to it, but He loves us enough to give us a way out despite that. The way out is Jesus. Sounds like you and huskertim have some differences to work out on your Huskerboard theology. It isn't your sin that screwed you, but someone else's a long, long time ago, at least according to him. Not the place for this X, we can have our fun but let's not highjack our friend here. My prayers are with you landlord.

I got to give it to Roy. Early last season he seemed to be a much more decisive and agressive runner than in his previous years. He kind of reminded me of Brandon Jackson, that sort of "I will not be denied" angry running style. So with 2 good shoulders, I think he'll have a great season. Ultimately, I do think Burkhead will be the better talent in the long run, but he's got time to grow, and that's a very good thing.

It's an interesting question. Speaking to the other side of it, the disunion of politics and religion would benefit religion as well. Religions tend to find strenth in stife and atophy in comfort, after all, who needs Gods when you've got a 52" HDTV and a fridge full of goodies. As to your libertarian leanings, I suspect that word has a wide range of meaing depending on who's using it. Most who do, simply like to think they are somehow unique from the unwashed masses.

I'm sorry my reply is less than timely. I think you have a common misconception here. I see nowhere in the Bible that failure to believe Christ is the son of God is a sin. Christianity is based on the idea that we are born in sin. (Original Sin). The idea is that God/perfection is incompatable with sin/iniperfection. The penalty for sin is death, construed for the poposes of the Bible as separation from God. Separation from the devine is the definition of Hell. My experience with theology leads me to think that most accounts of hell are simply illustations of that unimaginable misery. The thing that sets Chritianity apart from other religions is the concept of grace. When Christ explains that you ain't gittin to heaven without me, he's simply saying that we are incapable of perfection and hence unable to pay the penalty of our sin and by the way, I'll even sacrafice myself to pay for your sins. Let's try a really bad analogy. I want a dozen eggs, they cost 87 cents, I have 25 cents, a stranger offers to pay for my eggs; if I say no out of pride I don't get the eggs. Is the stranger to blame? Did he dam me to an eggless existence, or did I do so with my own foolish pride? Either way, I ain't gittin me no eggs. Christ obviouly understood the flawed nature of man, having been one, and knew we didn't stand a chance at redemtion by our own means.

The federal levels thing you have there is irrelevant. When it comes to issues of morality, education, and public safety, the laws of the state are supreme. That's why I never understood why people waste their time arguing on whether the president agrees with things like capital punishment. It's irrelevant. It's up to the states entirely. If you get caught with weed, unless you are in DC or a federal territory, you will be prosecuted on state criminal laws (or in Louisiana, Roman law) and not federal law, unless of course the feds get involved and believe that what you did was somehow apart of the interstate commerce clause (as in, there is evidence you are an interstate drug dealer). I suspect that if you are convicted of selling MJ the feds would get you on tax evasion which is not under the ICC.

Love this article. I am very pro-nuke. As a former Navy guy, I have to say our vessles have an imbeccable safety record. The Soviet failures were a result of working in a failing and corrupt system. People's lives were secondary(even triciary) to political and economic consideration. The fear that this nation could some day decline to similar crcumstances is not baseless, but ultimately the worst case scenario has been played out and the world is by and large unscathed. I find it interesting that the hard core environmentalists present reams of "data" about global warming and refuse to listen to hard facts on atomic energy. Not supriseing though really, religious zealotry is seldom rational.

As much as I would love the PSU-NU match up, I can't see either school being enthusiastic about having to spend the extra cash every year to send the women's JV rifle team half way across the country. These divisions aren't just for football, and both schools support alot of "Olympic Sports" and title nine programs. I think this will be part of the decision process like it or not.

I think Bo is building a monster here. The depth, the coaching, the mentality of this program is so much more in line with were NU was in the 90's. The ineptitude of the offense last year was unforgiveable, but, the Blackshirts kept us alive. Either we become a consistant team offensively (which I think will happen this year) or we will stuggle mightily. My prediction is OSU 3 NU 3 IA 1 PSU 2 MU 1 I just am not convinced Wisconson will get over the hump or that Michigan will suck forever. The wildcard in all this of course is those pesky CCGs, those of you in the Ten now might want to review our first CCG to see just how unlikely an outcome can result.

I'm sorry to say it, but the past is gone. I miss the OUvNU days but that all died when the Big 12 formed. As much as we old school types would love to see it, it jus ain't gonna happen.

[quote name='knapplc' date='13 May 2010 - 08:19 AM' timestamp='1273756795' post='603 And while we're talking about federally granted rights, let's remember that federal law (specifically, Title VII) prohibits laws that have a disparate impact on a group based on their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy and/or marital status. Arizona's latest law is dangerously close to that disparate impact, if not outright over the line. BTW, since when did the feds start granting rights, if they have that authority, then they can take them away too. Seriously, you have to understand that rights are inate and the role of the government is to protect those rights for it's citizenry. Notice, your above list does not specificy immigration status, and for a reason. If our constitution is said to apply to all people everywhere, then why in the hell aren't my brothers in North Korea being defended from tyranny? Why do ny brothers in China suffer from cencorship? Yes, we all have equal rights, but our government is established to protect ours, wouldn't it be nice if everyone could say that about their own?

Sorry for throwing this back to the original line of this thread, but every time I see this thread title I think, "That's probably not such a bad thing." There are heaps of woe we can lay at the feet of religion. It's abused, misused and suffused with corruption. Religion is a human construct subject to the problems of all human constructs - no matter how noble its intended purpose, avarice, lust for power, jealousy and various phobias combine to send it off on tangents it was never intended to take, and often these tangents are horrible in consequence. Religion is like a forest grown out of control. The larger trees choke light and rob resources from young saplings. They leach nutrients from the soil and return little, striving only for their own gain. Nature has a way of taking care of this problem - it has forest fires that come through and destroy the riotous old growth, allowing the forest to rejuvenate itself with younger, fresher, more vibrant growth. I don't think that would be such a bad thing in the modern world of religion. I think the author here is referring specifically to the evangaelical brand of Christianity not religion as a whole. Of course religion is frought with the perils of human inperfection, aren't all human endeavors. I ask you this, if all religions ceased to exist tommorrow, do you think that nothing would replace them? With the decline of Chrisianity in the US we see marked rises in the rates of other religions such as Islam, Wicca, and Buddism (yes it's as much phiosiphy as religion but it makes the point). In the absence of these even, people find causes beyond themselves and often as not engage in even more fanatical behaviors. Look at the actions of ratical evironmentalists, animal rights people, anarcist (didn't want to forget SOCAL), not to mention all the cults of personallity masquradeing as political or spritual movements. Religion is not the cause of mans laments, man is the cause of mans laments, and eventually nature will solve that littel dilema too.

Surprisingly, your posts in this thread more closely resemble the way I feel...Or at least the way I'd want to think I feel. I sometimes wonder why people seem to forget how to converse with God, or do they not all have that innate ability? People were astounded by my then 4 year old Son talking about what life was like before he was born..Now at 9 years of age, he doesn't remember ever thinking about it. By conversing with God, I don't mean smoking cigars with George Burns or even hearing voices, but rather, being able to enter his mind and trying to keep up with all the answered questions that occur to you to ask. I'll admit, I've not studied Religion(s), but I suspect most if not all would condemn you for even trying to meld? with God...But how can you not feel God's disappointment in all Religions or their Bibles? I was a Freshman at UNL trying to cope with the sudden deaths of my Father and my big Brother the first time I seriously tried to read any Bible...I kept having a strange deja vu feeling while reading it and the (several) mistakes and misquotes practically jumped out of the page at me. It was later explained to me that most of the "inaccuracies" were due to bad interpretation...But with all the omissions kept out by the Church and all the "creative shaping" to further their causes, I now suspect that the Bibles were the "National Enquirers" of their day. I once asked God who created him...The answer made perfect sense at the time, but now..still makes my head hurt a little. When we seek confusion, we find it. When we seek meaning we find it. Sometimes our own mind gets in the way of knowing what we want even when we think we know, that's why we punish our cruel brains with drugs and alcohol. The weak or lazy minded can be excused for simply adherring to someone else's interpetations but it is the unique tragedy of intellect that we so often overthink lifes simplest questions and endlessly seek what is already in our pocession. I'm sorry for your loss, perhaps in our grief we are best reminded of the blessings we could not see before. I suspect your reading of the Bible was tainted with expectations either of granduer or disappointment. Either could certainly be expected at such a time. Exit from such misery seldom comes in a great rush but rather dampens in time. Don't let sorrow corrupt your intellect or your memories of those you loved.

My friend, I think you paint with a broad brush. We Christians are not of one mind any more than we Husker fans are. Some husker fans hate the oppostion and will throw obsenities (and objects) at other fans, some will applaud them. Is the later wrong, do they not enbody the passion of the sport if not in perfect spirit. Some think we need to stay in a conference that affords us the best shot at going undefeated in our division and some would like to see more competitive games. From my perspective Christianity is the true path, but God didn't put me in charge, and I suspect, he hasn't let me in on all the details of his grand scheme either. So, I say live and let live. If God is, I'm sure he can handle things just fine without my interference.

The idea that the Bible was written in consistantly literal prose is rediculous. As a complelation of many different authors over many centuries, it would be hard to assume that any one style of writing would be exclusive. The general concensus that I've encounted with theologians is that the Bible is many things, a geneology and history of the Hebrew people, a philosophical guide to life, a moral compass upon which to build the laws of man, among others. The point is that the authors give us a window into the human experience and relate the trials as well as the joys therein. It is far more a book about Gods blessings than his derisions but man sees only what he will open his eyes to see.

What benefit have you derived from yours? As a Christian you are an atheist with regard to every other god except your own. I went one further is all. Benefits package includes sleeping in on Sunday, and the removal of a priori assumptions that you are bound to believe by threat of a fate worse than death. I don't accept the premise of the second sentence, which is that there is a commonality of principle within religion. There isn't. I don't accept that if only I believed a talking snake duped a couple of teenagers into eating an enchanted apple, or that Jehovah sent bears to maul children for mocking a prophet, or that taking something on faith is superior to investigation, or that a carpenter was cruelly murdered in first century Palestine––all coming to me by way of hearsay––that it would be sufficient grounds for the absolute expression of moral truth. As to my benefits pkg, I find solice in my faith, I find fufillment in service both to God and to others. I do not act as I do in fear, but in love. I enjoy my spirituality and find that when my mind, body, and spirit are out of balance, I am unhappy. To ignore what I seem biologically as well as socialogically compelled to do is not logical. Indeed, if the persuit of self actuallization is inconsistant with my human nature then both I and Mr. Maslow have some serious rethinking to do. As to the presumtion that the commanallity to which I reffered above is a dogmatic adherance to a singular notion of what you've been told we wack job Christians beleive, it is not. As with any persuit of deeper understanding, it is as much the journey as the destination I seek. I'm pretty sure I've made it clear that faith and "investigation" are IMO better married than devorced. In my breif study of astronomy I glimpsed the vastness of a universe that is simply behond human comprehension. In my brief study of nuclear physics I glimpsed a multiplicity of structure and design that too, is inmeasurably beyond us. To think I, or any person could begin to know all that is, is insane vanity. Conversely, to claim to know all that is not, is likewise. I suspect, that you have a fundamental problem with the notion that one group of people stand if moral judgement of another. This is understandable, I agree with the sentiment. It appeals to our inate sense of justice, but to some degree, aren't you doing likewise?

Firstly, think football is all about lines but I can see we've addressed that one pretty well so...I voted WR, not only do I think we need a game changer at this position to replace Paul, but I think it's crucial to establish NU as a legitamit choice for future WR prospects. Currently, I just don't think Nu is even on the radar for the top flight kids at this position. I can't think of any other spot on the team that can't garner interest from high profile prospects, but then again most high profile WR's are prima donas so maybe it's just a chemistry thing.

Sorry if my commentary comes off a "drive by", but I simply don't blog on a daily (hourly) basis. I consider myself a Christian and I assert that questioning my faith isn't a sign of spirtual weakness, but rather one of strenth. I am not offended when you insult me, rather I am instructed to turn the other cheek. In consideration, I beleive this has worked well for me. Christ (at least by acconts) railed mightily against the religious authorities of his day both for their motives and for their lack of understanding of the scriptures. Am I so wise as to be above reproach? My faith (not blind alliegence) will not be shaken by your assertions but strenthened trough meditation on the questions you pose. My question to the secular among us though, what benefit have you derived from your atheism? A sense of superiority ? I hope not. Intellectual fulfillment? Then what are we seeking ? I would caution that the arch of history favors not the faithless. A people without commonality of princple seldom retain a strenth that preserves them.

I liked his analysis, very well thought out. What's the deal with Ricky Henry? Last I heard, he had a "minor" shoulder injury, but nothing long term.