Check This Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk

Possible Lyric

For every door that opens, another ten doors close.

-TRR

Need a Guitar Tuner For Linux?

I strongly suggest the Free Music Instrument Tuner (or fmit for short)

to install in Ubuntu:
sudo aptitude install fmit;

everyone else download the source or the rpm package from
http://home.gna.org/fmit/

It supports Jack as well as Alsa
~Tyler

Suspend Resume While Running Transmission Bit Torrent Client

I have been very annoyed that I cannot suspend or resume my computer while the Ubuntu default torrent client Transmission is running, so, I found a solution:
- goto your home directory
-select "show hidden files" from the 'View' dropdown menu. (Optionally press crtl-h)
-open the '.config' folder
-open the 'transmission' folder
-open 'settings.json' with gedit
-find the line that says: "allow-hibernation-even-when-torrents-are-active" (it was the first value in my file)
-change the number directly after that statement from 0 to 1
-save the file
-restart transmission!

Thats it...
If you know how to use vim you can just
vim ~/.config/transmission/settings.json
and edit it like that. :)

the creation of dna, not random, NOT GOD but physics

http://scienceandevolution.blogspot.com/2007/11/dna-is-vestige-of-formation-of-liquid.htmla

My debate skills stem

from this
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/logic.html

from http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

Biblical contradictions wanted

"Does anyone have a list of Biblical contradictions?"

Yes. There are many such lists. The following are here in the Secular Web Library:

• Bible Inconsistencies: Bible Contradictions? by Donald Morgan is a fairly comprehensive list of such problems.
• Best-Selling Errancy by Mark D. Ball, Ph.D., is an essay on inconsistencies in the Bible.
• New Testament Contradictions by Paul Carlson discusses some of the most glaring New Testament contradictions.
• A List of Biblical Contradictions by Jim Meritt looks at about five dozen contradictions.

In addition, there are many other biblical problems. See, for example, the Biblical Criticism and the Biblical Errancy pages in the Secular Web Library.

Are you a free thinker? I hope so...

http://www.ffrf.org/nontracts/freethinker.php

To be a freethinker is far better than being of the sheeple.

I hate this argument: christians, stop using it

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

The universe is so complex it must have been designed

"The presence of design in the universe proves there is a God. Surely you don't think all this appeared here just by chance?"

This is known as the Argument From Design.

It is a matter of dispute whether there is any element of design in the universe. Those who believe that the complexity and diversity of living creatures on the earth is evidence of a creator are advised to consult the Talk Origins Archive.

There is insufficient space to summarize both sides of that debate here. However, the conclusion is that there is no scientific evidence in favor of so-called Scientific Creationism. Furthermore, there is much evidence, observation and theory that can explain many of the complexities of the universe and life on earth.

The origin of the Argument by Design is a feeling that the existence of something as incredibly intricate as, say, a human is so improbable that surely it can't have come about by chance; that surely there must be some external intelligence directing things so that humans come from the chaos deliberately.

But if human intelligence is so improbable, surely the existence of a mind capable of fashioning an entire universe complete with conscious beings must be immeasurably more unlikely? The approach used to argue in favor of the existence of a creator can be turned around and applied to the Creationist position.

This leads us to the familiar theme of "If a creator created the universe, what created the creator?" but with the addition of spiraling improbability. The only way out is to declare that the creator was not created and just "is" (or "was").

From here we might as well ask what is wrong with saying that the universe just "is" without introducing a creator? Indeed Stephen Hawking, in his book "A Brief History of Time," explains his theory that the universe is closed and finite in extent, with no beginning or end.

The Argument From Design is often stated by analogy, in the so-called Watchmaker Argument. One is asked to imagine that one has found a watch on the beach. Does one assume that it was created by a watchmaker, or that it evolved naturally? Of course one assumes a watchmaker. Yet like the watch, the universe is intricate and complex; so, the argument goes, the universe too must have a creator.

The Watchmaker analogy suffers from three particular flaws, over and above those common to all Arguments By Design. Firstly, a watchmaker creates watches from pre-existing materials, whereas God is claimed to have created the universe from nothing. These two sorts of creation are clearly fundamentally different, and the analogy is therefore rather weak.

Secondly, a watchmaker makes watches, but there are many other things in the world. If we walked further along the beach and found a nuclear reactor, we wouldn't assume it was created by the watchmaker. The argument would therefore suggest a multitude of creators, each responsible for a different part of creation (or a different universe, if you allow the possibility that there might be more than one).

Finally, in the first part of the watchmaker argument we conclude that the watch is not part of nature because it is ordered, and therefore stands out from the randomness of nature. Yet in the second part of the argument, we start from the position that the universe is obviously not random, but shows elements of order. The Watchmaker argument is thus internally inconsistent.

Apart from logical inconsistencies in the watchmaker argument, it's worth pointing out that biological systems and mechanical systems behave very differently. What's unlikely for a pile of gears is not necessarily unlikely for a mixture of biological molecules.

The common atheistic arguments

Please don't use these arguments or methods of persuading me toward God: they will not work.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/mathew/arguments.html

I kept confusing this with existintialism.

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that "My mind is the only thing that I know exists." Solipsism is an epistemological or ontological position that knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified. The external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist. In the history of philosophy, solipsism has served as a skeptical hypothesis.
[Wikipedia]

OpenGl on Ubuntu

ok, here are my initial notes on installing opengl for developers:

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dev build-essential libglut3-dev

It has worked for me, if you have problems leave a comment or email me, I might be able to help.
Here is the set of tutorials I'm using to learn: http://www.swiftless.com/tutorials/opengl/opengltuts.html