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What made you certain that the Bible is a lie?
What made you certain that the Bible is a lie?
Hey everyone! :-)
I'm Hannah, a 16 year old girl in the heart of the Bible belt.
So basically, I've been a Christian since I was 6, grown up in a largely Christain family, have gone to the same church for 10 years, and gone to Christian summer camp for 4 years, etc. In the past few weeks, I took it upon myself to scrutinize my faith, and have come to the conclusion that I'm now an Agnostic Atheist. Obviously, if I confirm this, my road ahead will not be easy.
So I need advice.
1. Former Christians, what made you sure that the Bible is untrue?
2. How did you deal with your new life as an atheist/agnostic???
Thanks I really need this.
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RE: What made you certain that the Bible is a lie?
1.The first chapter of the book of Genesis.
2. Pretty much the same, but with way more fun.
Welcome to the forum!
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Welcome aboard TTT.
CTS, got it right. She knows.
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(25-12-2012 11:46 PM)TheToughTruth Wrote: Hey everyone! :-)
For younger types and those who are perhaps curious about some interesting topics of the bible, I highly recommend:
Biblical Nonsense - A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians.
There are a lot of interesting scenarios and things that are picked to pieces and even talked about in great detail as to why they couldn't or did not happen (take the flood for example).
To answer #1... there is a lot that has made the bible "untrue" for me. For one, I have issues with genesis because a literal interpretation seems garbage to me and contradicts everything we understand about reality (the universe, cosmology, light itself, etc). The other issue is that a LOT of religions at the time used the same types of biblical creation stories.
Keep in mind that during this time, science in a lot of ways was vastly not understood, insanely primitive and mankind still thought the earth was flat and to boot also thought that stars in the sky were pinpricks in the sky or firmament.
If one makes a "non literal" interpretation, it seems to me a person is trying to "interpret things to fit" since many times things are taken out of context, or people say... "Oh well they must have meant this because we know this today so they must have meant that." An example of this is again the "light problem" for me. I'm not sure how familiar with cosmology you are, however, as of this year, the hubble deep field was finished. It took pictures of galaxies in their infancy, literally millions of years after the big bang. It was done by looking deep into a part of the universe where we could see galaxies way way out there. If you do a really basic thing here, we use the speed of light... say a galaxy is 2.5 million light years away, it means it took about 2.5 million years (and then some) to get here.
So if we look at hubble deep field and how old these galaxies are, they are millions of years after the big bang. In the days when the bible was written no one had any idea planets even revolved around the sun, they did not understand gravity, they didn't have a damn clue what stars even were. So for people to try and make genesis fit to "how things just work out" in any explanation of today's science makes me say, "Bullshit." It's wishful thinking at it's best.
We also know the planets are created in extremely violent events (that goes for any solar system) due to objects colloding, gas and elements forming together and the leftovers ended up being planets. Creation myths are largely laughed at by any peer reviewed science because tall tales, myths and things that cannot be confirmed other than by wishful thinking and elaborating on stuff we have nothing more than hearsay from authors who remain anonymous.
To put it another way: If someone has a way of explaining something that allows me to understand the universe. Something observable, understandable, repeatable, demonstrable (We call that the scientific method); It would be vastly dishonest and silly of me to then go off of something I cannot confirm, cannot show to be demonstrable, to not be understandable, to not be observable. In other words, I would need to throw away my logical thinking and skeptical way of looking at things to adopt a lot of bullcrap.
In the court of law we have a system that allows us to determine whether or not an eye witness is a credible witness to something. If the person cannot be correctly placed there as a witness (confirmed or as no way to confirm), has personal bias or gain in the matter or knowingly misrepresents data they can be disqualified. Now here's the fun part, in the court of law a witness can be make or bust in a case. They are responsible for an eye witness account for something, something crucial.
Many times people get thrown out as a credible witness if it's found they have a bias, or if they cannot be placed at the scene, or if the witness is strictly hearsay.
So if we will toss people out of the court of law for something as simple as a bias, or personal gain, or even hearsay evidence... WHY would a person base their ENTIRE LIFE on a book that is full of hearsay accounts, anonymous authors, biased accounts and data that cannot be accounted for nor confirmed. In other words, random people, no credibility, hearsay evidence and tons of bias to gain from it.
Anyway, so that's the book of Genesis... I'm sure other members could add to more books (after all, there are an awful lot of them... with plenty of fun things to talk about).
Onto #2.
I'm a skeptic. I am a huge fan of Occams Razor.. I care more about what is true in my life now than what simply looks or sounds good to me. I care about being a good person because I want to be, not because of some ultimate reward or punishment. I'm skeptical and cautious about things, I bother to look into things, I bother to take a second look and I enjoy being open minded.
For the first time in my life I am genuinely happy, I love it. I appreciate life for what it is, my mortality, the mortality of others and I would say that I deal very cautiously with people anymore since I don't blindly just trust people so much anymore.
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I can't answer your first question fully. I've read the bible and laughed at it's nonsense, but I was never a Christian, never religious at all. So it's like reading Harry Potter for me, except Harry Potter has better writing and way way way way way fewer intrinsic flaws and contradictions.
For fun, google Skeptics Annotated Bible and you'll get the full bible online, in its entirety, along with a bunch of skeptical comments on many (most?) of the verses. It's also searchable, and it has categories. One of the most interesting, in light of your thread here, is "absurdities". This takes you to a page of well over two thousand absurdities in the bible. Some are pretty lame, others are outright laughable. For example, grabbing one nearly at random from somewhere down by the bottom of the list, absurdity number 2,057 says "Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself" - so, God swears by himself to himself?
In any case, the site is interesting and presents a very skeptical look at the bible, as the name implies.
But even if I can't answer your first question fully, I did want to welcome you to the forum. So welcome!
"Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly." - Robert A. Heinlein
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RE: What made you certain that the Bible is a lie?
... Just as an aside, be careful about telling your parents etc if you're not certain how they'll react. Some of the teens on this very forum can tell you horror stories...
I'm impressed how short a time it's taken you to decide that the Bible's not trustworthy. It took me a lot longer because I was maybe more deeply programmed. I think you somehow are lucky that you seem to have dodged *indoctrination*, which is the major tool for how people manage to keep kids faithful. There's all kinds of ideas that seem plausible which pastors etc use, sometimes with skill, other times not, to make people doubt if they are right that Christianity is wrong. Somehow you have managed to just *read* the bible, without all of that extra baggage attached, and of course you came to the obvious conclusion that it makes no sense
The Bible makes a bunch of specific claims. The one which always struck me as odd is how in the Old Testament God makes a series of 'eternal' laws about sacrifices and blood and... yeesh a *lot* of stuff, ownership of property and so on, and then suddenly in the New Testament it's not so very eternal any more, new plan, screw blood sacrifices etc.
A Christian pastor - any Christian pastor, not just the good ones, could weasel his way around that objection without even blinking. It's the fact that after that objection there's another similar one, and then another, and then another. And if you think about it in any great detail, you end up building this very shaky castle of beliefs all supporting each other, whose *only* reason for being there is the insistence on the existence of one Jehovah Esq, and the insistence that this extremely dodgy book of unknown provenance describes this guy's plan for the world.
For your second question - not much changed for me. I was able, with relief, to stop going to church and stop pretending to pray. Other than that, still same guy. Oh... few relationships went sour.
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RE: What made you certain that the Bible is a lie?
I read the entire bible when I was 10. It seemed like a fairy tale to me.
Talking snakes, apples that make you aware that you are naked and have sex (which is evil), Adam and Eve being the only people in the world having sons who marry women that materialize from where?
Then all the evil stuff god tells people to do, murder the inhabitants of entire cities and "taking the women", genocide. Then that isn't enough and he has to kill everyone except for Noah and start over...
I mean, come on, this is a being you want to worship? This is not a benevolent, loving being, this is pure evil. Especially since he supposedly is omniscient and knows how it all turns out ahead of time. So he's just playing with people's lives like a video game.
So I put the bible away when I put my other fairy tale books away.
Before I read the whole bible, I was fervently catholic. After, I just quit going to church and that was that. I was lucky, although I didn't know it for many decades, my parents were closet atheists.
The younger you are when you realize that you are looking at a bunch of fairy tales, the easier it is to live with yourself, but the harder it can be dealing with friends and relatives. I lucked out, many are not that lucky.
I agree, have a look at the Skeptics Annotated Bible. It'll answer most of your bible questions.
Science is the process we've designed to be responsible for generating our best guess as to what the fuck is going on. Girly Man
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Here ya go:
Bible's not a lie so much as manipulated by liars.
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Welcome, Hannah.
We've got a lot of teens running around here, so I think you'll fit right in.
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Being in London for Le Web this week brings back fond memories.
In 2001 I was living here, working for a startup. I was hired as VP business development, but within a week after arriving in London to take the job I was promoted to acting COO – they guy doing that job had been fired over some resume discrepancy.
I was thrilled to have an exec position that was one step away from the CEO. At the time that was my goal – to become the CEO of a startup and successfully take it public. Being the Decider. Final responsibility for success or failure. Win or lose, at least you were in the arena. Etc. Gladiator stuff.
I was terrible at my job though.
I had little management experience at the time and I was suddenly managing the teams that were building the product and preparing for ops afterwards. It was all on a very tight schedule and I lived and breathed Microsoft Project all day and all night. I was also managing the sales team out trying to get deals done for the launch and the marketing person. And a bunch of other people doing various jobs (HR, etc.).
My weaknesses were glaring:
Stress was eating me up.
I snapped at people pretty regularly. I was (and am) mercurial.
I micromanaged, failed to delegate properly and tried to do people's jobs for them.
I probably did more harm than good.
The person running the sales team, a guy named Peter Morgan, became a good friend and I often confided, over pints of surprisingly strong beer, my dream of being a proper CEO someday as well as my knowledge that I lacked a whole host of skills to be that CEO.
I was beating myself up over all my failings as an executive. But beating myself up wasn't making me any better at my job. It just added to the stress.
One day Peter said something after another one of my whining sessions that changed everything about the way I worked.
He said "Stop worrying about what you're bad at. Focus on what you're good at and do more of that. Swim downstream. That's how you become successful. Play to your strengths."
I've never forgotten that conversation. It still took a few years for it to properly sink in, and during those years I did finally become a CEO. I was lucky enough to have a right hand guy who ran things internally for me, though, so my management weaknesses didn't hinder things.
I'm glad I was able to be the CEO finally, because I never would have realized that (in addition to the fact that I wasn't good at it) the job wasn't all that great anyway. I'll write more on why being CEO isn't what it's cracked up to be in another post.
But I'd finally learned my lesson. There was no way I'd ever fix the personality traits that led me to being a terrible manager. I'd spent too much energy trying to be this perfectly well rounded executive.
Peter's words came back to me, and I started focusing on doing the things I was actually good at already. Talking to people. Focusing like a laser on a given task until it was done. Researching. Learning. Selling. Communicating.
That's when TechCrunch was born. When it became more than just me and a couple of others I made the spectacularly brillant decision to hire Heather Harde to be the CEO of the company because she's great at all the things I suck at (to be fair, she's also great at all the things I'm good at, too).
That gave me the flexibility to continue to be myself and not have to try to swim upstream all the time. And things worked out pretty well.
There's an important point here, though. When I say "swim downstream" I don't mean "take the easy way all the time." That definitely doesn't lead to success.
Sometimes you have to be a salmon, which literally swims upstream to get what's needed done. That means exhausting yourself. Getting clawed at by bears and smashed into rocks, and then dying at the end.
Which sucks. But in the salmon's case, it's the way things are. That salmon knows what it has to do, it's resolute, and it does it. A salmon who never swims upstream never reproduces. That salmon is a loser.
I'm talking about something different. I'm talking about this weird need a lot of us have to ignore the things we're already good at and focus too much time and energy on being better at things we're not good at. Not because we're necessarily interested in those things, but just because we think we'll somehow be happier or more successful if we fix it.
But sometimes it's better to just let it go.
A good current example is Jack Dorsey. Dorsey was, say some people, terrible as the CEO of Twitter. But he's fantastic at being the guy who focuses on product, at both Twitter and Square.
Jack Dorsey shouldn't spend his time trying to fix whatever personality traits cause him to suck at being a CEO. He's better off (as are we) if he just focuses on imagining and building new products.
Another example of this is Michael Jordan, who yearned to be a great baseball player. It's fine that he tried and failed, sometimes you need to scratch an itch. I'm just glad he gave it up after a year and went back to the Bulls. Where he won three more championships. That was probably a lot more fun for him than struggling to play baseball.
There's tons of nuance here, and caveats. I don't think this applies to people's personal lives at all (people who aren't great parents, for example, should probably not just give up trying). And even at work we sometimes need to spend time doing things we aren't good at. In general, though, I say stop worrying about what you suck at, and focus on what you're good at. It's more fun, and you'll be happier.


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By James W, Thursday 11th November 2010
Uncompromising, socially relevant and filled with unexpected twists, Dream Home is a bold departure into the slasher genre for Director Pang Ho-cheung. As one of Hong Kong's most acclaimed young directors and a promising filmmaker in the international circuit, Pang is known for the award-winning Isabella and Exodus. It stars talented actress and rock singer Josie Ho as the lead, as well as Hong Kong actors Eason Chan, Michelle Ye Suen and Lawrence Chou.
When she was a child, Cheng Lai-sheung (Josie Ho) could see Hong Kong's famed Victoria Harbour from her apartment. But as time passed, the old buildings in front of her home were demolished to make way for a huge residential project that now blocks her view. Increasingly disappointed and upset, she vowed to one day save up enough money for her family to move into a new apartment with a magnificent sea view. In order to achieve her dream, Cheng has to work hard at two full-time jobs. She even goes as far as stealing customer data to sell to other companies. However, no matter how much she toils, she cannot earn enough to keep up with the ever-increasing values of Hong Kong's real estate. With her father terminally ill and medical expenses rising, she decides to make a fateful choice for her family: to let her father die and cash in his insurance. But even the insurance money proves to not be enough, since property prices keep leaping higher. Her dream home now seems forever out of reach...until suddenly, it dawns on her: in order to get what she wants, she must take matters into her own hands...even if it means getting her hands seriously bloody.
Dream Home hits cinemas on November 19th thanks to Network Releasing and you can catch a teaser from this movie by clicking below.
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Fear goes viral in a bold retelling of a George A. Romero's zombie horror classic, Day of the Dead: Bloodline.
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Ramping up the action and bloodshed, and with plenty of nods to the 1985 classic, prepare yourselves for the next bloody chapter in one of horror's ...SHARE: READ MORE Grab your towels! The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is coming back in HD
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The release comes in two formats, the first a Special Edition in both Blu-ray and DVD, and the second a Collector's Edition Blu-ray that comes in retro VHS-style packaging and includes a collector's art card as well as a 24-page behind-the-scenes booklet written by producer Kevin Jon Davies. Both formats contain a wealth of new bonus content..
In 1978, Douglas Adams united the worlds of science fi...SHARE: READ MORE More exclusive Doctor Who vinyl!
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More collectible, limited edition Doctor Who vinyl will be released in October thanks to Demon Music, Big Finish, HMV and Sainsbury's!
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The TARDIS arrives on Coldstar, a vast freezer satellite, packed with supplies to feed a colony world. But there are cracks in the ice, and something scuttles under the floors. Soon, Rose and the Doctor encounter robots, space pirates and... refuse collectors. As Coldstar's tunnels begin to melt, an even greater t...SHARE: READ MORE It's time to meet The Monster
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The Monster is a billed as a lean, mean horror with a dynamic building atmosphere of dread aided by strong characterisation and performances from Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine and Scott Speedman and directed by Bryan Bertino.
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With their relationship at breaking point, Kathy is on the edge while Lizzy is all out of faith in her mother but tries to stay brave and fearless. To survive the night, Kathy must summon her most primal instinct to protect herself and her daughter from what's lurking...SHARE: READ MORE Director takes us from Buried to Down a Dark Hall
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As you all know, a couple of weeks back, the Master of Horror, John Carpenter, announced the impending release of the original soundtrack album for Halloween - in which Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
The album arrives on October 19th from Sacred Bones, the same day that the new David Gordon Green-directed film is released in theaters.
Well, today a first glimpse at the film's score has been unleashed, the bone-chilling "The Shape Returns." The track demonstrates Carpenter's singular ability to rai...SHARE: READ MORE The latest film with horror icon, Barbara Crampton is coming soon - Dead Night
Posted on Tuesday 18th September 2018
Following its European Premiere at Video FrightFest 2018, STUDIOCANAL announces that Dead Night will be arriving on DVD and Digital Download 8th October, just in time for Halloween!
Everything and anything goes in to this ambitiously quirky delight, oozing eeriness and evil, from the producers of John Dies At The End and Phantasm: Ravager.
The film features a stellar cast including horror icon Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You're Next, We Are Still Here) with a strong supporting cast of genre favourites including AJ Bowen (The Guest, House Of The Devil) and Brea Grant (Halloween II, Dexter).
James, his wife Casey, their two kids Jessica and Jason, and sick friend ...SHARE: READ MORE First film to be released under the FrightFest Presents label - The Dark.
Posted on Tuesday 18th September 2018
The first film to be released under the FrightFest Presents label, the new venture from leading independent distributor Signature Entertainment and leading genre festival FrightFest, The Dark received its UK premiere at this year's prestigious FrightFest in London, and is perfect for genre fans who love nothing more than a backwoods shocker featuring ghouls, gore and flesh eating, but one done with panache and poignancy.
An undead young woman, Mina, stalks the 'Devil's Den' woods where she was killed. If anyone enters the woods, she kills them and feasts on the body. But when she stumbles upon a young blind boy named Alex in the back of a car, who shows signs of horrifying abuse, she can't bring herself to kill...SHARE: READ MORE Is Phantoms the perfect book for Halloween?
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The brightest names in horror showcased in Phantoms, a ghastly collection of ghost stories that will have you watching over your shoulder, heart racing at every bump in the night.
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For the first time ever on vinyl, here are Episodes 7 to 12 of the BBC radio series that became a global phenomenon. First broadcast in 1978 and 1980, the Secondary Phase features storylines and sequences unique to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's radio series.
Pre-orders for the Amazon limited run have gone live today. 500 exclusive editions will feature a 12"x12" artwork print signed by Paddy Kingsland of the Radiophonic Workshop. Once again the highly collectable volume will also feature specially commissioned artwork and sleeve notes on 3 x 180g heavyweight orange vinyl.
Follow Zaphod Beeblebrox as he journeys into a totally weird new dimension, and intrepid Earthman Arthur Dent as he tries ...SHARE: READ MORE Let us give thanks! The new teaser trailer for Captive State is here
Posted on Sunday 16th September 2018
From Rupert Wyatt, the director of Rise of the Planet of the Apes comes a gritty and smart sci-fi thriller, Captive State.
Set in a Chicago neighbourhood nearly a decade after an occupation by an extra-terrestrial force, the movie explores the lives on both sides of the conflict - the collaborators and dissidents.
Starring John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, Ashton Sanders, and Machine Gun Kelly, Captive State will be released in 2019.SHARE: READ MORE Another tasty piece from 88 Films, Popcorn.
Posted on Saturday 15th September 2018
The latest title in the superb Slasher Classics line from 88 Films is a true legend of the genre, Popcorn.
Canada took the slasher movie to the next level when the country produced the trendsetting Black Christmas in 1974, at the height of what has become known as 'Canuxploitation'. Later shockers from the nation of moose, Mounties and maple syrup included the equally effective My Bloody Valentine (1981) and Happy Birthday to Me (1981) but by the turn of the eighties the terror-trend was drying up... at least until the plasma-spilling shocks of Popcorn in 1991!
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ADEN (Reuters) - A Yemeni tribal leader who mediated between the government and al Qaeda was killed at a checkpoint ambush in Abyan province in the country's south on Thursday, official and tribal sources said.
Al Mullah Zabahra was known for helping the government free individuals kidnapped by al Qaeda, including the Saudi consulate's deputy consul, who was abducted in the port city of Aden last year.
"The tribal leader was killed in an ambush, he was in his car when the armed men shot him," said the official source.
Both the official and a tribal source said al Qaeda was behind the incident.
The United States and its Gulf Arab allies have watched with alarm as Islamist fighters, emboldened by political instability, gained ground in the south of Yemen in the past year. Yemen is positioned strategically next to Saudi Arabia and major shipping lanes.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which operates in the country, is seen by U.S. officials as the most dangerous offshoot of the global militant network.
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Chris Davis drives in 4 to power Orioles past Rays
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- It only seemed as though Chris Davis was a one-man wrecking crew in helping the Baltimore Orioles get off to another promising start.
The hottest hitter in baseball homered for the third straight day and drove in four runs Thursday in a 6-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
Davis went 7 of 11 with three homers, three doubles and a major league-leading 11 RBIs in helping the Orioles win two of three games in the season-opening series. He drove in four for the second day in a row, hitting a two-run homer in the second inning and a two-run double that broke a 2-2 tie against Roberto Hernandez (0-1) in the sixth.
"It's awesome, but at the same time, it's about winning baseball games," Davis said. "I've basically just been trying to keep it simple. Do my job. We've got a lot of guys in this lineup that can do a lot of things with the bat, and we've proven that over the last three days."
Adam Jones had three more hits, giving him seven in a series that saw the three-four-five spots in Baltimore's lineup go 17 for 37 with four homers, six doubles, 13 runs scored and 15 RBIs.
Davis was a big part of that production, joining Hall of Famer Frank Robinson (1966) as the only Orioles player in three consecutive games to begin the season. Only three players in major league history -- Willie Mays, Mark McGwire and Nelson Cruz -- have homered in four straight to start a season.
Davis hit a three-run homer in Baltimore's 7-4 victory on opening day, then had another three-run homer and drove in four runs in an 8-7 loss to the Rays on Wednesday night. The first baseman has gone deep in nine of his last 10 regular-season games and is the first player in Orioles history with multiple RBIs in the first three games of a season.
"I feel comfortable in the box. Obviously, we've had quite a few runners on when I'm up at the plate, which is always fun. You get a hit, those guys are going to score," Davis said. "We played really well with the exception of the game in the middle, we just kind of let that get away from us, but I think it's definitely a series to be happy with it."
Miguel Gonzalez (1-0) allowed two runs and four hits over 6 1/3 innings. The Orioles' bullpen protected the lead, with Jim Johnson entering in the ninth to earn his second save after Brian Matusz allowed two runners to reach base.
The victory may have come at a price for the Orioles, though.
Second baseman Brian Roberts singled in the ninth and injured his right hamstring stealing second base. He was helped off the field and will have a MRI examination Friday.
Roberts, who missed most of last season with several injuries, said he felt something kind of pop behind his right knee during the last couple steps to second base.
"We'll re-assess it tomorrow and see where we are," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He's in some discomfort."
Evan Longoria trimmed Tampa Bay's deficit to 6-3 with a long flyball that went off the wall in left-centerfield for what turned out to be a single.
A potential big inning for the Rays fizzled when Longoria was called out for passing Ben Zobrist on the bases as he headed into second for what should have been a double.
Zobrist, who had been holding up to see if the ball was caught, proceeded to third, where he was stranded.
"I was going back to the bag to tag if they caught the ball. It was a mistake really, a baserunning mistake," Zobrist said.
"It's one of those things you're taught to always keep your head up," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "It's just like whenever you hit a car from behind. Whose fault is it? It's unfortunate. ... Longo feels terrible about it, I'm sure."
Hernandez, the 32-year-old right-hander formerly known as Fausto Carmona, made his first start for Tampa Bay -- ending a stretch of 1,060 consecutive games by the Rays without using a starting pitcher 31 years or older, a streak that began in June 2006. All but 34 of those games during the streak were started by a pitcher under the age of 30, the exception being James Shields' 33 starts in 2012 and one by Jae Seo on the right-hander's 30th birthday in 2007.
Gonzalez held the Rays hitless until fifth, when Tampa Bay scored twice even though none of the four groundball singles they strung together in the inning were struck well.
James Loney drove in the first run off Gonzalez with a single to center and Jose Molina made it 2-2 with a single to almost the same spot.
The Orioles answered quickly.
Nick Markakis drew a one-out walk, Adam Jones singled for his third hit of the day, and Davis lined his two-run double into the gap in left-center field for a 4-2 lead. J.J. Hardy's two-run homer off Cesar Ramos made it 6-2 in the eighth.
Hernandez, who hit Davis with a pitch in the fourth, allowed four runs, six hits, two walks and struck out seven over 6 2/3 innings.
Game notes
The start by Hernandez also stopped two other long streaks by the Rays -- 1,207 consecutive games without using a starting pitcher signed as a free agent and 1,693 games without using a starting pitcher signed as a major league free agent. ... Orioles DH Wilson Betemit, who sprained a right knee ligament during an exhibition game on March 25, underwent exploratory arthroscopic surgery Wednesday. He could return in six to eight weeks. ... Baltimore RHP Steve Johnson (strained right lat) has started a long throwing program. ... Baltimore is still planning to activate RHP Chris Tillman (strained left abdominal muscle) from the 15-day DL to start Saturday's game against Minnesota. ... Orioles RHP prospect, Dylan Bundy, will start the season on the seven-day DL at Double-A Bowie because of right forearm tightness. ... The Orioles claimed RHP Josh Stinson on waivers from Oakland and optioned him to Triple-A Norfolk.
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MLB News
Rockies' Trevor Story awaiting MRI results on injured elbow
Rockies shortstop Trevor Story said Tuesday he woke up "a little less sore" after injuring his elbow Monday night. He is shut down for now and awaiting the results of an MRI.
Cubs' Brandon Morrow won't pitch again this season due to bone bruise
Cubs closer Brandon Morrow, sidelined since mid-July by what the team had called biceps inflammation won't pitch again this season due to a bone bruise, Theo Epstein, the team's president of baseball operations, said Tuesday.
Nashville Sounds to become Triple-A affiliate of Rangers
The Texas Rangers and Nashville Sounds announced a four-year contract for the Sounds to become Texas' Triple-A affiliate. The Round Rock Express in suburban Austin, Texas, had been the team's top affiliate the past eight years.
Justus Sheffield could make big league debut for Yankees this week
Yankees manager Aaron Boone says LHP Justus Sheffield could give the team "a couple of innings (out of the bullpen) if we needed it."
Sutcliffe questions Judge's ability to lead Yankees
Rick Sutcliffe dissects the Yankees' recent struggles and who needs to step to make a run in the postseason.
White Sox slugger Jose Abreu hospitalized with infection in thigh
Jose Abreu, who has 22 home runs and 78 RBIs this season, will miss the White Sox's series against the Indians due to an infection in his right thigh.


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Pope Benedict XVI is garnering much praise on his way out of office (but not out of the Vatican), including from the "world's leading exorcist" (read: world's leading abuser of people who need genuine psychological help). The Telegraph has the story:
Father Gabriele Amorth, the founder and head of the International Association of Exorcists, said the German pontiff had "done many things for exorcists" during his eight-year papacy, which will come to an end on Feb 28.
He said Benedict, regarded as a staunch conservative during his time in office, had "allowed exorcists to administer the sacrament of exorcism not only to people who are suffering from demonic possession, but also those who suffer other evil disorders, such as diabolical infestations."
Fr Amorth, the Catholic Church's best known exorcist, will be a special guest on Friday on a television programme to commemorate Benedict's papacy.
The programme, to be broadcast on a religious satellite channel, will be called: "Joseph Ratzinger and the Devil – the history of a pontificate and the battle against evil".
Given Benedict's crimes, the devil could scarcely have done any better himself. And you have to laugh at stories like this:
He claimed in a book last year that Pope Benedict unwittingly performed an exorcism of two men possessed by the Devil in the very heart of the Vatican, describing how he and two assistants brought a pair of "possessed" Italian men to one of the Pope's weekly audiences in St Peter's Square in May 2009.In the book, 'The Last Exorcist – My Fight Against Satan', he said the mere presence of the pontiff cured the men of their demonic afflictions. As the Pope approached them, the men, identified only as Marco and Giovanni, began to act strangely – they trembled and their teeth chattered.
When Benedict stepped down from his "Popemobile" the two men flung themselves to the floor.
"They banged their heads on the ground. The Swiss Guards watched them but did nothing," he wrote. "Giovanni and Marco started to wail at the same time, they were lying on the floor, howling. They were trembling, slobbering, working themselves into a frenzy.
"The Pope watched from a distance. He raised an arm and blessed the four of them. For the possessed it was like a furious jolt – a blow to their whole bodies – to the extent that they were thrown three metres backwards. They stopped howling but they cried uncontrollably."
Fr Amorth, who claims to have conducted thousands of exorcisms, wrote: "It is no mystery that the Pope's acts and words can enrage Satan…that simply the presence of the Pope can sooth and in some way help the possessed in their fight against the one who possesses them."
Even the Vatican denied that nonsense. But this will, I predict, become "evidence" of miracles when the church decides to make Ratzinger into a saint in 10 or 20 years.


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We want to talk a little more on the XF56mmF1.2 R.
The two ED lenses, these are not enough to explain the crisp and sharp image quality that the lens delivers.
Today, we want to look toward the back-end.The key is highlighted in the picture: the aspherical lens and the triplet lenses.These 4 elements are the focus lens group for XF56mm.
To say it as inner focus, the focus lens group is enormous, and just by looking at it, it makes you feel that the image quality is going to be great.On top of that, the 3 lenses are triplet lenses.
Generally speaking, there is a space between lenses.
And inevitably the air gets in the space, which will cause reflection on the surface of the lens. But in the case of triplet lenses, there isn't any space in between.
It is tough against reflection, ghost and flare.
There is one another work against reflection, ghost, and flare: using less lenses.
Using aspherical lens instead of spherical lens is an good example.
As far as image quality is concerned, using large focus lens group with multiple number of elements will be the easier way to design the lens.
But then the AF speed and ghost are the price you have to pay. So here, we have come up with the idea of 1 aspherical lens with triplet lens.
As long as there is not white mass of light is shown, users are not concerned about ghost. But the reflection on the surface of the lens certainly degrades the sharpness and the contrast.
XF56mm is crisp and sharp because it works against ghost and eliminates it as much as possible.
Continue to read Episode 9
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English Layout Square
This useful tool is easy to make, easy on the eyes and awesome to use.
By Christopher Schwarz
Pages: 46-47
From the December 2010 issue # 187
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Wooden layout tools usually are superior to metal ones in my opinion. They are lightweight, inexpensive and as accurate as woodworking requires. Period.
A 36″-long wooden straightedge can easily be trued to be as accurate as a metal machinist's straightedge, which can cost as much as a good handplane. And you don't have to treat the wooden straightedge like a holy relic. If the straightedge is dropped or run through a wood chipper, you can make another in short order.
In May, I destroyed one of our shop's large wooden squares that we use for marking out the joints for large carcases. I was about to build a replacement square when I received Patrick Leach's monthly tool newsletter.
Leach's electronic list of tools for sale has always been more dangerous for me than opening an e-mail virus. (Sign up for his free newsletter at supertool.com – if you dare.) Leach has good taste in vintage tools and manages to find fine stuff, month after month.
In a recent newsletter he listed a gorgeous English layout square in mahogany that I couldn't afford. So I did the next-best thing – I built one (actually two) using photographs and details from Leach.
My square looks like the original, but I changed the joinery to suit me. I joined the center brace with a mitered half-lap instead of a mortise and tenon. And instead of mahogany, I used curly white maple I salvaged from a 19th-century dresser that was headed for the dumpster.
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For the record, I think anniversaries of birthdays and deaths and other celebrations of milestones are a waste of time and energy. I'm not talking about actual birthdays, but rather anniversaries of birthdays of people who have died. I don't begrudge people who do celebrate them and take them so very serious, I just prefer to live primarily in the present and look forward to the future. Today would have been President Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, had he lived that long. In seeing some of the press on this, it has reminded me of my feelings about him and how they have changed over the years. When I cast my very first vote for a presidential candidate, it was for Jimmy Carter and also against Ronald Reagan. In my late teens, I saw Reagan as a dangerous and scary president who was a puppet of his handlers, not really in control, especially in the later years of his presidency when he was already starting to lose it.
His candidacy and presidency really marked a major change in the way a lot of our politics and governing takes place, the legacy of his 8 years has had a profound effect on our country in both positive and negative ways. I would argue the negatives far outweigh the positives, but I'm not going to deny the good things he did. The biggest negative I see is the promoting of the idea of blatant, unabashed selfishness, greed, I got mine, you get yours, trickle down, if you treat the rich nice, maybe they will reward you for it…bullshit. And of course the techniques they used to drive home this idea were repetition and saturation. The media were compliant and ate it up with a spoon and then fed it back to their viewers and readers. There was some push back initially, but as the repetition and pounding started to work, polls started to move and of course spineless democrats get wimpy and stop pushing back. That's how conventional wisdom is born. And of course in recent years, the media has been overtaken by conservative corporate entities and of course Fox News came on the scene in 1996 and it's all been down hill since then.
I do look back on the Reagan presidency with some respect, though. He did compromise with the democrats, he did consult with them on foreign policy, he did act like an adult most of the time and seemed to respect others even if he didn't agree with them. This part of his legacy doesn't seem to be one that current Republican politicians model or respect. But it was a different time back then…30 damn years ago, man I'm old…and so are you. :) There were still long standing traditions within the House and Senate, a respect for the institution and it's history. Sure, some of it was antiquated, but in some ways I long for that "antiquation." Freshman congresspeople knew their place, stayed in the background and learned the way things worked. The media ignored them for the most part. Today, the media elevates even the fringest of candidates like Christine O'Donnell, who now has a sweet PAC that can pay her rent, food and travel expense for her now. I hope she sends flowers to the press for the sweet gig they created for her. The swarm mentality of the cable news networks and others, lends itself to elevating people and of course, crushing them too. Shirley Sherrod, anyone?
I remember a lot of the great things Reagan did when it comes to nuclear arms treaties and diplomacy in general. He wasn't afraid to talk to his enemies, he wasn't afraid to compromise and he also wasn't afraid of doing something his supporters didn't necessarily support…I'm thinking taxes.
Having said all that about Reagan, there are many misperceptions that have been manufactured and perpetuated by subsequent politicians and his legacy in many people's minds just doesn't square with the facts. Will Bunch has a piece at the Washington Post pointing out some of these, go read it if you are inclined. Here are a few highlights…
Five myths about Ronald Reagan's legacy
1. Reagan was one of our most popular presidents.
But Reagan's average approval rating during the eight years that he was in office was nothing spectacular – 52.8 percent, according to Gallup. That places the 40th president not just behind Kennedy, Clinton and Dwight Eisenhower, but also Lyndon Johnson and George H.W. Bush, neither of whom are talked up as candidates for Mount Rushmore.
In 1982, as the national unemployment rate spiked above 10 percent, Reagan's approval rating fell to 35 percent. At the height of the Iran-Contra scandal, nearly one-third of Americans wanted him to resign.
In the early 1990s, shortly after Reagan left office, several polls found even the much-maligned Jimmy Carter to be more popular.
I can't help but think about President Obama's poll numbers in comparison and how hyperbole and reality often diverge in many people's minds. Not just on Fox News either, we progressives have our own small thinkers…firebaggers I'm looking directly at you.
2. Reagan was a tax-cutter.
Certainly, Reagan's boldest move as president was his 1981 tax cut, a sweeping measure that slashed the marginal rate on the wealthiest Americans from 70 percent to 50 percent. The legislation also included smaller cuts in lower tax brackets, as well as big breaks for corporations and the oil industry. But the following year, as the economy was mired in recession and the federal deficit was spiraling out of control, even groups such as the Business Roundtable lobbied Reagan to raise taxes. And he did: The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 was, at the time, the largest peacetime tax increase in U.S. history.
Did the supply-siders learn their lesson from that experience, not so much. You can tune in any Republican on television talking about anything budget related and they will proudly proclaim that if you cut rich people's taxes, all will be good in the world. It's like herpes within the Republican Party, it won't go away and they keep spreading it around to each other. But of course the Republicans want to cut funding to try to find a cure for it. :)
Go read Will Bunch's whole article and share it with others. Maybe it will help to rewrite history again, something closer to reality.
H/T to Booman
The reason this site is called Extreme Liberal is largely due to the redefining of the word liberal, which began in the Reagan era and continues to this day. I have always and will always call myself a liberal, whether people like it or not. :)


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LU hosts ExxonMobil Scholar in Residence speaker Ruby Payne
Lamar University's College of Education will host Ruby Payne, expert in educational leadership as ExxonMobil Scholar in Residence, March 21 and 22. Payne will conduct workshops March 21 with the fall 2012 ExxonMobil student researchers in the College of Education, with staff from Smith Middle School in attendance at one of the sessions. Sessions begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Education and Human Development Building on the Lamar campus.
Payne will then conduct a colloquium with faculty in the Mary and John Gray Library, Room 702, at 9 a.m., March 22. Faculty from Smith Middle School will join this colloquium as well.
She will also be the keynote speaker at the 10th annual Lamar University Education Research Conference the same day. Her visit is made possible by a generous gift from ExxonMobil.
The ExxonMobil Scholar-in-Residence Grants are designed to engage students in critical thinking, discussion and writing to allow them an opportunity to test solutions and discuss recommendations with experts. A faculty-student mixer was held on campus February 13 to honor the fall 2012 researchers who participated in the research and form the basis of workshop with the 2013 Scholar-in-Residence.
Participating faculty were Dorothy Sisk and Debra Troxclair of the Counseling and Pedagogy Departments, Jau-Jiin Chen in the Family and Consumer Sciences Department, and Julia Yoo of the Pedagogy Department.
The fall 2012 ExxonMobil student researchers are Elizabeth Alpers, Nada Alzahrani, Majed Bagasi, Myra Bass, Debbie Bean, Lauren Bennett, Stacey Castolenia, Nikita Douglas, Vera Hafford, Rachel Henley, Melissa Johnson, Ana Mendez, Kyle Mays, Claire Miles, Sharon Oliver, Kristen Robbins, Maria Romero, Jace Runte, Cheryl Spangler, Vanessa Torres, Jessica Ward, and Yasmin Wingo.
Ruby Payne is an author, speaker, publisher, and career educator. She graduated from Goshen College, Indiana, before earning her master's degree from Western Michigan University and her doctorate from Loyola University, Illinois.
She has written and co-authored more than a dozen books surrounding issues of poverty in areas of education, social services, business, communities, churches, relationships and leadership. Recognized internationally for her first foundational book "A Framework for Understanding Poverty", Payne has helped students and adults of all economic backgrounds achieve academic, professional, and personal success.
The lessons learned during those years led Payne to create Aha! Process, Inc., a company that educates about class and poverty.
"Ruby Payne has made a phenomenal impact on the education of students of poverty not only in the United States, but in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, China, Hungary, Slovakia and the United Kingdom," said Dorothy Sisk, director of LU Gifted Education. "Her Aha! process brings on how to respond to the needs of students of poverty."
As a publisher, she received a Gold Medal from Independent Publishers in the Education category and received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers in the Professional Development category, among many other awards.
"The two things that move a person out of poverty are education and relationships," Payne said.
For more information on the ExxonMobil Scholar-in-Residence program, contact Robin Latimer at (409) 880-8929, or email@example.com.