I am usually logged on to yahoo messenger as bibleguyjeff if anyone wants more of a conversation then posting in the discussions. If I am at work, ya gotta cut me some slack!
Creative You are good at solving problems, coming up with original ideas, and seeing connections between things, connections that most other people miss.
You do not shun abstractions and concepts in favor of the concrete and tangible.
People with a high score on the "creative" trait often are employed in such fields as finance and scientific research, and enjoy avant garde and classical music as well as literary fiction and scholarly non-fiction.
Intellectual
You are thoughtful, rational, and comfortable in the world of ideas. People find you interesting to talk to. You're the living embodiment of the saying "You learn something new every day."
You do not avoid abstract conversation, experimenting with new ideas, or studying new things. It bores you to stick to the straight and narrow of what you already know.
In general, those with a high score on the "intellectual" trait are employed in such fields as teaching and research, and are enthusiastic about reading, foreign films, and classical music.
Curious
You like to get to the bottom of things. You're not content knowing what someone did; you want to know why they did it.
You don't simply take things as they are and move on; you're not content skimming along on the surface; you don't feel you're wasting time by digging for the meaning of things.
Friendly
You would rather hang out with others than spend time alone, and you'd far rather be doing something with your friends than just sitting around. You're happy in a crowded room, club, stadium, or auditorium.
You're not a private person who is ill at ease in a group; you don't view excessive socializing as a waste of time.
Warm
You have a genuine interest in other people. You're a natural host, and are always thinking about how you can increase the happiness of those around you. When friends have problems or are in trouble, you're usually the first person they turn to for aid and comfort.
You don't always say exactly what you're thinking; you don't like the idea of causing anyone pain because of your criticism.
Scoring high on the "warm" trait suggests that you are among those who enjoy domestic activities — doing things around the house — and are enthusiastic about charitable work, helping others, and making the world a better place.
Empathetic
You are in touch with your own feelings, which helps put you in touch with the feelings of others.
You don't buy the logic that your happiness comes ahead of everyone else's because unless you're happy you're incapable of making anyone else happy.
Innovative
You come up with a lot of ideas; if one doesn't work out, there's always another waiting in the wings. You often have interesting solutions to difficult problems. You're practically a one-person brainstorming session.
You are less interested changing the world than in dealing with things as they are. Unlike those who spend all their time trying to solve problems, you prefer to zero in on things that work and stick with them.
Sympathetic
You have a knack for knowing what's going on in the hearts and minds of those around you, without their having to tell you explicitly. People tend to turn to you with their problems because they know you care, and that you will likely offer good advice and a helping hand.
You do not feel that people with sad stories are just looking for attention, or have brought their problems upon themselves.
Resilient
You bounce back quickly from adversity. For you, all setbacks are temporary. You don't dwell on bad news, bad luck, or criticism; you regroup and focus on solving the problem, whatever it may be.
You almost never feel that there's too much on your plate, that you don't have the strength to deal with the bad hand you've been dealt, or that you're going to lose it if you have to deal with one more problem.
Original
You are constantly coming up with new ideas. For you, the world as it exists is just a jumping-off place; what's going on inside your mind is often more interesting than what's going on outside.
You don't feel that the road to success is to be a realist and stick to the program; you never stop yourself from coming up with new ideas or telling the world what you're thinking about.
Enjoy my Video Musical Net Bio
This song describes my childhood so well its spooky!
I was one of the first "Ritalin Kids". My mother yanked my meds in 6th grade. I found booze in the next couple years; First drinking hers and watering down what was left behind in the house, and drinking the leftovers when the family had get togethers. Finally the big debut; A half gallon of Ancient Age under the bleachers my freshman year in High School. (You say off to the races, I'll say thank-ya!)
This set me up for the slow death of my first marrige. 14 years is torched. Wasn't her fault.This was me...
I met my current wife in a bar, and as she says, we have a marrige arranged by two drunks. My drinking progressed till, although not quite as old, this was how I felt about 5 Years ago.
p>Even in the depths there were joys. I love my wife, and even in my drunken stupor I managed to help her win time with her children. I quickly came to love them as my own. In the words of the immortal Johnny Bravo, "We So Pretty!" My well blended family of kids! It isn't always easy but usually very interesting.
I went to the hospital in November, 2002, with a pulse over 150. They couldn't get it to slow down, and told my wife if I didn't begin to respond to the meds quickly I'd die. Finally all of the abuse and lack of nutriton was paying me back. (Who'd of thought the olives in a Beefeaters Over didn't count as veggies. Then again there was Celery in the Bloody Mary, potatoes in the vodka, grains in the whiskey etc... but it availed me not.) The drugs messed up my head a little while, and although I'm a tall lanky guy, but when I get mad... I scare people. I don't know if its from the military, or martial arts, or the stuff I went through as a kid, but it's like I'm on that cold craggy mountain top, where the winds howls. Its a cold desolate place, but I'm quite comfy, and people can tell. It makes them uncomfortable. The medical staff didn't spend a lot of time in my room.
Once you've been in through detox, you end up at kind of a crossroads. Its very confusing. You're not sure who you are or who you want to be. You just know you want to be somebody better then you were.
The first step in changing is to take a hard look at who I had become. The best way I can describe it is I had given the key to me over to somebody else, and I was alone for the ride. I would sleep for a while, wake up and try to give some directions, then fall back asleep. I woke up far from anywhere I knew, and without a way back. I had a DUI years 10 years ago, and while I didn't kill anyone, it is one of the low moments of my life. Whenever I have been at the end of the rope, and about to drink again, I make my self remember the bad thinks, like driving drunk, and it helps my resolve. If anyone reads this, I gotta tell ya this is just the tip of the iceberg. I have sunk to low everywhere was up. If you stuck on the ride, and want to get off of it, don't worry that I would judge anything you did. I f'n gaurantee I got ya beat. Anyone who wants to, let me know, and I'll do what I can to help ya get started at getting stopped.
Resentments are the death of an alcoholic, the grease on an already slippery slope. I find my myself frustrated with a particular aspect of RG right now, so I'm going to dial back on my "investment" for a bit. I'm not quitting in a tizzy. I'm not…
Agree..
You are making a choice and was well stated. My choice was made and not stated at all.
You are wonderful man Jeff..... simply wonderful to the point where you are a member of an elite group... and I personally feel you as a shining beacon,…
Jeff, your participation will be missed but you know what you gotta do. You are a man of courage, we know that, so do what you do the way you always do it - with great zeal and enthusiasm. Enjoy your next journey and hopefully you will find your way…
Say I love you while you may, There might not come another day. The "Gate of Time" on oiled hinge, Closes silent, locked and pinned. So say I love you while you can, Or you might, alone, in silence stand.
I often say I didn't check my brain at the door as a Christian. The analysis of Luke and his writing are part of that for me. No other religion other the Judaic Christianity has such a firm footing in history. Archeology has verified an astounding number of facts in the Bible. If what we can examine is verifiable, its seems more likely the Spiritual Truths are on the mark as well.
This page had very good info on the subject. Enjoy.
The three previous sections considered primarily but not exclusively incidental restraints on expression as a result of governmental regulatory measures aimed at goals other than control of the content of expression; this section considers the permissibility of governmental measures which are directly concerned… Continue
There's a lot of discussion about Mormon beliefs. So, in order to make this easy, I will list out what Mormonism actually teaches. These are not sensationalized, and inaccurate statements.
Following documentation from Mormon authors. Finally, please understand that the Mormon Church uses Christian terms but has radically changed the meanings of those terms. So, when it says that Mormons belief in the father the son and the Holy Spirit, they are really saying… Continue
Posted on December 13, 2009 at 5:30pm — 30 Comments
I usually accept comments on my blogs, but not this one. It is a statement of my position.
I spent over a year dealing the false assertions of our last mormon visitor. He finally showed himself by deleting his user, and compromising huge portions of our archived discussions. He saw the "writing on the wall" so to speak, and it didn't look good for his cause, so ~poof~. I worked hard on a lot of those discussions. I'm not going to waste the time here.
I am viewing your profile now. Interesting. Glad to see we are still friends. By the way, due to some kind of a glitch many of my old friends are no longer on my list of friends. Needing all the friends I can get, let me assure this happened through no choice of mine. So far, I have had no explanation for what happened. Meanwhile, may we live lovingly in the Now.
Columbus was bravely reliant on established topographic evidence, weak though it was. Your application of that analogy to a faith based on a religious belief system just doesn’t tally.
Jeff, I've never known this before but for some reason I can't seem to access your 'God, logic and Faith' thread. The white comment box doesn't appear? I've sent a mention to Sid to sort it out. But meantime, if you'd like to do us a favour, please post my comment on on my behalf explaining the sit.
“Faith is the assured (?) expectation of things hoped for, the evident (?) demonstration of realities (?) though not beheld” (Heb. 11:1). The hopes and goals of scientific reasoning towards their efforts to prove objectively discerned aspects of reality are one thin. But a life given to a hope of expectation of things not able to be confirmed by scientific facts is I think a poor argument for the belief in a god of the bible.
Hey Jeff H! thanks a lot for that Happy Birthday comment. It means a lot to me. In a way, I mean, being this is only a webpage! But that's the kind of spirit I think this place needs. I haven't been around in a while, but from what I remember about RG, people can tend to put their dukes up. So thank you. If we meet in the discussion forums I will be sure to keep the gloves ON. Haha. Jk. Peace and Love, Self-seeker
thank you Bill. I came here driving towards the syncronisitic spot between our emotional and analytical states as manifested up in religion and science. I didn't fully realize this except I did know they shared a common bond in our culture. As soon…
LOL......you are a smart ass.....I love it....:D Nope it's quantum biology all the way for me. Forget the quantum mind stuff I'm a perfect example, I'm mindless I just have a wet blob that occasionally functions. Well sort of sometimes maybe. Actual…
sweetguy here. US, of course, or maybe IT. Every word we say has been polished for millennia, the evolution of the logical thought, we are their thoughts thinking now. We are the living thought, and thought is a territory where what's living and wha…
Thank you so much David. Would it be an oversimplification if I said that the experience of God is central to your practice and that prayer and study are key?
Is it possible for others in other parts of the planet, who may otherwise have never hear…
Principle: Prayer and scripture study bring the witness of the Holy Ghost to the truthfulness of what is studied.
Practice: Praying to my Heavenly Father, in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, before and during study of what has been given to me as…
1, The black makes you do a lot of HTML editing when copying and pasting from lighter background web sites. That really is my only complaint about the dark background, and
2. There was a shakeup at Ning today - this may make things easier or harder…
I'm in love with Wordpress. It's making so many things possible.
Regarding black background, the current bg on RG is actually a very dark and muddy teal. Pure black is definitely crappy for text reading (which we do a lot of here). Are you saying y…
The new Wordpress 3.0 is just announced as yet but from its description it is very exciting development, Sid. As far as the colors go - anything but black for the text background!
That's great news db!
I do have one question that would make or break this though. Does she have experience with MediaWiki? Because I think what we really need here is someone with MediaWiki experience, but I could be wrong.
Thanks for the referral…
I'll add more later Kernel, but I'll say the experience was what lead me into trying to learn/understand what this experience was and how can such an experience take place if I accept what I have been told about our daily physical lives. And of cour…
I've been mulling over the concepts of RG and Open Source Religion for quite some time.
The other day I was doing a college assignment that had me looking into Yoga studios (website design stuff) and I noticed this studio made a big point to say tha…
Roman, I guess you're referring to another discussion where I pointed to a misunderstanding when you attributed to John, derisively, words that in fact were from an indisputable authority in the field under discussion. Certainly John should have bee…
1.When the observer is observing the brain, the observer can never show empirical proof that the brain is capable of grasping or doing any function that is independent of it’s physical structure, or independent of empirical phenomena.
2.Since no pr…