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I had forgotten that name... and a few others.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Aw, Jeeze! I see it, now that you mention it.
Or mine eyes have seen the light, or whatever.
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I celebrate with you this version of the timeless myth of human sacrifice for humanity's "greater good" in the struggle between good and evil.
What profound paradox that this (patriarchal, sky-god) type of myth, and the institutional structures built around it, are responsible for more bloodshed, more human suffering, more loss of human potential, than the other myths that so-called Homo Sapiens uses to avoid facing the fact that we are a violent, territorial, destructive (to self, and to all other species, and biota) aberration of evolution (if you are an anthropomorph ... quite possible if this myth is salient for you ... then you can substitute "fulfillment" for "aberration").
But, wait: I said "paradox;" where's the "other side" to complete the dysjunctive conjugation ?
Here: this myth, like others, can engender the best within humanity; within its context remarkable individuals can flourish who become exemplars of service, cosmic insight, and selfless behavior. For many people, this myth, and others, are as necessary for survival ... in a world where basic existence is threatened daily ... as food and water: sanity, and the ability to cope, depend on it.
So, I'm not being sarcastic when I say that I "celebrate" with you. And, I write this in probably dim awareness that the myths of "no myth," science, rationality, marxism, nihilism, are as real as any myth, albeit pursuing one of those myths leads to a different labyrinth of paradoxes.
Oh: "science;" how about quantum mechanics ? There's a set of paradoxes that virtually beg to be packaged into a religion by some prophet, or other. Perhaps we are all, right now, being tickled by a half-dead-half-alive cat's whisker in its temple, while chanting "meow" beneath statues of Saint Schrodinger ?
The impossible quest by individuals to abandon all myth has interesting consequences that, I believe, are also paradoxical.
"For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Christian "Sacred" Text, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 1:21
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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As always Bill, you make the Mariana Trench seem like a surface scratch. It's always a privilege to read your esteemed thoughts.
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I'm fine with Christianity, except for the bit where they say that the devil and demons are evil.
They're the guys who punish people for doing evil -- I can get behind that.
The idea of a god and angels that make people suffer for being good is what I won't align with.
To follow the fable:
- God makes good people suffer.
- Satan disagrees with that, and they go to war.
- God wins.
- God writes the history, making himself out to be the good guy.
Talk about the bleedin' obvious.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: except for the bit where they say that the devil and demons are evil
You appear to be confusing Christianity with Buffy The Vampire Slayer!
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Liked the movie, sort-of, but hated the show*
* That goes for both christianity and Buffy
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I'm not familiar with this version, but I really like the way it thickens the plot  William Blake would be quite "at home" with this version ... ref. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" circa 1790CE :
"Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what the religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy."
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'm not familiar with this version
Maybe because it's my divination, and I don't talk about it much.
It's pretty damned obvious, though. I can't believe that people can believe that God and the angels are the good guys.
They're the Axis, but they beat the Allies, so the Allies have gone down in history as the bad guys, no matter how nonsensical it is to believe that the Holocaust was just a "learning experience".
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No wonder you don't like "Christianity." You don't know anything about it. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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There is none so blind.
And we've already proven that I know more about your religion than you do -- Hell, it doesn't look like you've even read the bible!
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Wrong forum. Take it to the Soapbox.
This space for rent
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Just got this as a mail (excerpt):
Quote: This important expiration notification proposal notifies you about the expiration notice of your domain registration for redacted.net search engine optimization submission.
Yeah.. right..
Quote: If you fail to complete your domain name registration redacted.net search engine optimization service by the expiration date, may result in the cancellation of this search engine optimization domain name notification proposal notice.
I sure hope so. But I fear it may not. 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Ah, the first of many "final" notices you think?
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Yeah.. 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Yup. Once any search-engine-related site gets a hold of you, they stick like Gloo.
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If you hit Winkey+S, then type "upd", one of the options should be "View installed updates".
I haven't had any updates for weeks, but all the ones that were installed before I brought the hammer down are there.
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Thanks for the hint.
1. When I followed Winkey + S and typed "upd" cortana appeared and did nothing.
2. I clicked the (Start button window icon) and then typed "upd" and had quite a few options but none of them seemed to be the correct one.
I took a snapshot (posted at my web site -- really wish CP supported inline images):
http://raddev.us/images/winupd.png[^]
Inconsistent
So, can we rant about Win10 not being consistent too? 
My forthcoming book, Launch Your Android App, is available for pre-sale at Amazon.com -- releases on April 1, 2016 (no joke). 
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No idea why anybody thinks Search (Win + S) is the way to go here.
Settings > Update & Recovery > Advanced Options > View Update History
Not rocket science. Most recent update on my system is Update for Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems (KB3140741) on 23 March
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9082365 wrote: No idea why anybody thinks Search (Win + S) is the way to go here.
Settings > Update & Recovery > Advanced Options > View Update History
Um, because the path you listed has changed three times since Win 10 was released, and there is no way of knowing if the update being discussed changed it again.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the path you listed has changed three times since Win 10 was released
I don't think it has. The tip I just looked up to confirm is dated April 2015.
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It must have gone full circle, then. Nothing ever seems to be in the same place twice, when I look.
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The Advanced Update Options (the option above the selected one in your screenshot) should* take you to a page where there might be the View Installed Updates screen (which may have a completely different name, by now, but it should have "installed" or "History" in it)
* I say "should", because there's no guarantee that they haven't moved everything around, again -- God knows, they've got no time to fix bugs whilst they're busy playing "Musical Menus"
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