If you're studying Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or some other language: something using accent marks, and have need of inputting those on a keyboard, check this out, http://cmpstuff.blogspot.com/2009/11/typing-accents-and-special-symbols-on.html.
Well, if you are using Linux: this happens to be among the easiest input methods I've found for keyboards. Doesn't discuss character direction and Hebrew directly, though...just some special characters and accent marks.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Rough draft(?): OdeReply to the Beck of Popular Christendom
Constructive input and opinions on the ending (the original or standing version?), welcome, (for your poetry snobs, I'm aware it has hard rhymes),
1 Strange as it is, many teach a dying for their cause or purpose as a sort of way to gain purpose in this life, rather than a constant mortifying of one's own will and desires foremost for Christ in obedience to Him, which seems always to work-out being incompatible with the schemes of those who so exploit people in the name of God--often they are deluding themselves, the exploiters, that they're doing His Work, which fog of delusion is quickly exposed by light of the word's testing.
2was, Children of Hell
Why would I want this fellowship
of blasphemy in Jesus' name?
(Pelagius's children marching on.)
"Look at us, our mighty deeds,
what God had done through us as means"
(Common causes any could up-drum.)
In hordes build they, up earthly dreams
convert so many, to man-wrought schemes
like mercy's wrought according to their laws.
These earthly voids, their dusty wells
ring not the Bridegroom's wedding bells,
bid they 'comeandlive', and not die,1Twice-Childes of Hell.2
1 Strange as it is, many teach a dying for their cause or purpose as a sort of way to gain purpose in this life, rather than a constant mortifying of one's own will and desires foremost for Christ in obedience to Him, which seems always to work-out being incompatible with the schemes of those who so exploit people in the name of God--often they are deluding themselves, the exploiters, that they're doing His Work, which fog of delusion is quickly exposed by light of the word's testing.
2was, Children of Hell
Thursday, May 14, 2009
unCreative Commons
I think it should be publicly stated that the ND CC license ("ND" means "No Derivatives"; whichever version of the license; 3.0 here) should not be called a "Creative" license; perhaps a "Commons" license, as something a person may distribute, but that's all. This especially since someone badges their work with a CC and gets brownie points, but it's not a CC.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
A Day's Pearl
I boasted, though a little boast, of the happines in my sorrows wrought by some ill health mental and physical-unbearable hives that keep driving me to prayer for which I was hungering, to pray to God not only for others, not only for myself, but also for an act in relationship towards/with Him, to my mother who believes prosperity-gospel teaching, hoping it might dent her delusion, disabuse her of the falsehood that keeps her trapped; a message about how Jesus himself told us rejoice in our sufferings; she sent a nonsensical message back "When in scripture you see suffering it usually has to do with trials of dealing with people and their wackiness". She continues, "If God were to get glory out of people getting and being sick, then Jesus wouldn't have gone around and healed people. Sickess is of the curse not the blessing. You need to find out what is wrong and be healed of it. Please go see a doctor...........Please!!!!!!!! Thank you :)~"
How strange to find happiness in failure, in sickness. How elevating to one's eyes to be in gratitude for suffering, though the results produce now be imperfect. One wants to put to words what is behind the delusion of her, and that of others blinded by falsehood, to diagnose man's heart and relieve the error such that they might turn in actuality to Christ in truth, genuinely, but such is not man's place or in his power; I am reminded again that we are helpless, as once I realized in confronting Mormons that I was facing a spiritual, demonic, wall and that nothing was or had been or could get through them, so interrupting every false statement with a challenge from the word, and then showing it in context in that text without wresting, they began to shake as those unsocialized as children such that they looked damaged, and with their shaking repeated over and over the Mormon mantra (called by them "my", they say, "testimony").
How similar the grasping of error, whether unto death, or mere error, but how common among men to hold fast to what is untrue, what is do the detriment of their souls and robbing of true riches. But this is my pearl for now, that is, that again I am reminded we are but helpless watcher's of God's work, and that His word is the power, unto action, conviction, condemnation, hardening, softening, enlivening/quickening, correction, direction, even salvation: not anything we might devise by cunning or observation or our own experience. This is my pearl for the day, that is, we are helpless, and must remember it.
How strange to find happiness in failure, in sickness. How elevating to one's eyes to be in gratitude for suffering, though the results produce now be imperfect. One wants to put to words what is behind the delusion of her, and that of others blinded by falsehood, to diagnose man's heart and relieve the error such that they might turn in actuality to Christ in truth, genuinely, but such is not man's place or in his power; I am reminded again that we are helpless, as once I realized in confronting Mormons that I was facing a spiritual, demonic, wall and that nothing was or had been or could get through them, so interrupting every false statement with a challenge from the word, and then showing it in context in that text without wresting, they began to shake as those unsocialized as children such that they looked damaged, and with their shaking repeated over and over the Mormon mantra (called by them "my", they say, "testimony").
How similar the grasping of error, whether unto death, or mere error, but how common among men to hold fast to what is untrue, what is do the detriment of their souls and robbing of true riches. But this is my pearl for now, that is, that again I am reminded we are but helpless watcher's of God's work, and that His word is the power, unto action, conviction, condemnation, hardening, softening, enlivening/quickening, correction, direction, even salvation: not anything we might devise by cunning or observation or our own experience. This is my pearl for the day, that is, we are helpless, and must remember it.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
An Abuse of Copyright Claiming
From, http://www.marktwainproject.org/copyright.shtml,
And no, the justification for claims of copyright "well, it was costly for us", does not hold legal water. Thoughts? Corrections? Anyone?
In addition, texts edited by the Mark Twain Project and published by UC Press (such as, for example, the Project's 2003 edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) are also protected, and may not be reproduced without permission.I hope they know the mere slight editing, whether updating language, or punctuatorial, does not confer copyright on a work, but rather new substance must be added: a mere editorial reproduction of a work does not do this. If they've added annotations, for instance, these might be protected, but someone would need only strip them off.
And no, the justification for claims of copyright "well, it was costly for us", does not hold legal water. Thoughts? Corrections? Anyone?
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Just a reminder post...
...to myself that I left a comment here.
This is one of my favorite quotes on global warming, by the way:
This is one of my favorite quotes on global warming, by the way:
I am not saying that the warming does not cause problems. Obviously it does. Obviously we should be trying to understand it better. I am saying that the problems are grossly exaggerated. They take away money and attention from other problems that are more urgent and more important, such as poverty and infectious disease and public education and public health, and the preservation of living creatures on land and in the oceans, not to mention easy problems such as the timely construction of adequate dikes around the city of New Orleans.(http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dysonf07/dysonf07_index.html)
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