Guest thanatoid Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads one; and I believe that many such facts have not been noticed till now, which is evidence of the natural disinterestedness with which the thing has been done. 799. An artisan who speaks of wealth, a lawyer who speaks of war, of royalty, etc.; but the rich man rightly speaks of wealth, a king speaks indifferently of a great gift he has just made, and God rightly speaks of God. 800. Who has taught the evangelists the qualities of a perfectly heroic soul, that they paint it so perfectly in Jesus Christ? Why do they make Him weak in His agony? Do they not know how to paint a resolute death? Yes, for the same Saint Luke paints the death of Saint Stephen as braver than that of Jesus Christ. They make Him, therefore, capable of fear, before the necessity of dying has come, and then altogether brave. But when they make Him so troubled, it is when He afflicts Himself; and when men afflict Him, He is altogether strong. 801. Proof of Jesus Christ.--The supposition that the apostles were impostors is very absurd. Let us think it out. Let us imagine those twelve men, assembled after the death of Jesus Christ, plotting to say that He was risen. By this they attack all the powers. The heart of man is strangely inclined to fickleness, to change, to promises, to gain. However little any of them might have been led astray by all these attractions, nay more, by the fear of prisons, tortures, and death, they were lost. Let us follow up this thought. 802. The apostles were either deceived or deceivers. Either supposition has difficulties; for it is not possible to mistake a man raised from the dead... While Jesus Christ was with them, He could sustain them. But, after that, if He did not appear to them, who inspired them to act? SECTION XIII: THE MIRACLES 803. The beginning.--Miracles enable us to judge of doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge of miracles. T
Guest Mike M Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads all this appears to us mysterious, and yet it is material like the blow of a stone. It is true that the smallness of the spirits which enter into the pores touches other nerves, but there are always some nerves touched. 369. Memory is necessary for all the operations of reason. 370. Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead that it has escaped me. 371. When I was small, I hugged my book; and because it sometimes happened to me to... in believing I hugged it, I doubted.... 372. In writing down my thought, it sometimes escapes me; but this makes me remember my weakness, that I constantly forget. This is as instructive to me as my forgotten thought; for I strive only to know my nothingness. 373. Scepticism.--I shall here write my thoughts without order, and not perhaps in unintentional confusion; that is true order, which will always indicate my object by its very disorder. I should do too much honour to my subject, if I treated it with order, since I want to show that it is incapable of it. 374. What astonishes me most is to see that all the world is not astonished at its own weakness. Men act seriously, and each follows his own mode of life, not because it is in fact good to follow since it is the custom, but as if each man knew certainly where reason and justice are. They find themselves continually deceived, and, by a comical humility, think it is their own fault and not that of the art which they claim always to possess. But it is well there are so many s
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads Why did you include a totally irrelevant newsgroup and post religious drivel to this technical group? Please don't do that. Most people will simply block you in the future. I know I will if you do it again. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:897eu6e0fd9anaafpe4853bo144oeeo50f@4ax.com... > on this > occasion as before. And thus, while the present never satisfies us, > experience dupes us and, from misfortune to misfortune, leads us to death, > their eternal crown. > > What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but > that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to > him > only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his > surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in > things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss > can > only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only > by > God Himself. He only is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it > is > a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been > serviceable in taking His place; the stars, the heavens, earth, the > elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, > fever, pestilence, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since man has > lost the true good, everything can appear equally good to him, even his > own > destruction, though so opposed to God, to reason, and to the whole course > of > nature. > > Some seek good in authority, others in scientific research, others in > pleasure. Others, who are in fact nearer the truth, have considered it > necessary that the universal good, which all men desire, should not > consist > in any of the particular things which can only be possessed by one man, > and > which, when shared, afflict their possessors more by the want of the part > he > has not than they please him by the possession of what he has. They have > learned that the true good should be such as all can possess at once, > without diminution and without envy, and which no one can lose against his > will. And their reason is that this desire, being natural to > >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads My apologies, I see what's going on, now. Why do people think that if they SHOVE religion in your face that you'll magically convert? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:%233Tjv4HVIHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Why did you include a totally irrelevant newsgroup and post religious > drivel to this technical group? Please don't do that. Most people will > simply block you in the future. I know I will if you do it again. > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com > > "mm" <NOPSAMmm2005@bigfoot.com> wrote in message > news:897eu6e0fd9anaafpe4853bo144oeeo50f@4ax.com... >> on this >> occasion as before. And thus, while the present never satisfies us, >> experience dupes us and, from misfortune to misfortune, leads us to >> death, >> their eternal crown. >> >> What is it, then, that this desire and this inability proclaim to us, but >> that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to >> him >> only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all >> his >> surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in >> things present? But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss >> can >> only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only >> by >> God Himself. He only is our true good, and since we have forsaken him, it >> is >> a strange thing that there is nothing in nature which has not been >> serviceable in taking His place; the stars, the heavens, earth, the >> elements, plants, cabbages, leeks, animals, insects, calves, serpents, >> fever, pestilence, war, famine, vices, adultery, incest. And since man >> has >> lost the true good, everything can appear equally good to him, even his >> own >> destruction, though so opposed to God, to reason, and to the whole course >> of >> nature. >> >> Some seek good in authority, others in scientific research, others in >> pleasure. Others, who are in fact nearer the truth, have considered it >> necessary that the universal good, which all men desire, should not >> consist >> in any of the particular things which can only be possessed by one man, >> and >> which, when shared, afflict their possessors more by the want of the part >> he >> has not than they please him by the possession of what he has. They have >> learned that the true good should be such as all can possess at once, >> without diminution and without envy, and which no one can lose against >> his >> will. And their reason is that this desire, being natural to >> >> >
Guest Heather Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message news:e3Vf47HVIHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > My apologies, I see what's going on, now. Why do people think that if > they SHOVE religion in your face that you'll magically convert? Because they have an IQ of 50 perhaps?? (G) > > -- > Gary S. Terhune > MS-MVP Shell/User > http://www.grystmill.com >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads Hmmm... The math works... -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Heather" <figgyd@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:u6qA1HIVIHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message > news:e3Vf47HVIHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> My apologies, I see what's going on, now. Why do people think that if >> they SHOVE religion in your face that you'll magically convert? > > Because they have an IQ of 50 perhaps?? (G) >> >> -- >> Gary S. Terhune >> MS-MVP Shell/User >> http://www.grystmill.com >> > > >
Guest N. Miller Posted January 11, 2008 Posted January 11, 2008 Re: Windows 9x/98SE, Me Updates/Patches/Downloads On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:43:53 -0500, Heather wrote: > "Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message > news:e3Vf47HVIHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> My apologies, I see what's going on, now. Why do people think that if >> they SHOVE religion in your face that you'll magically convert? > Because they have an IQ of 50 perhaps?? (G) Robots have IQs? -- Norman ~Shine, bright morning light, ~now in the air the spring is coming. ~Sweet, blowing wind, ~singing down the hills and valleys.
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