St. John of the Cross

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 6, 2005 in Church Technology, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

I spoke to Father Aquino who moved here several years ago from the Philippines. “In the Philippines, the Church is more traditional and conservative. In America, there is more of a liberal belief in the Catholic Church. I think people call them Cafeteria Catholics. These people take from the Church what is good for them and if it isn’t good, they discard it,” said Aquino. “For example, the Church in the Philippines teaches respect for human life. Here, a lot of Catholics go out and get abortions.”

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Musicians Wanted in your town!

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 5, 2005 in Culture | 4 comments

Musolist.com has launched! It hopes to combines craigslist.org, myspace and purevolume into one around the musician community. It just launched the craigslist.org features (ie. classifieds for musicians) next is the myspace/purevolume stuff: (Rankings, MP3 streaming, Directory of Services, Message System, etc.) This is Soft Launch. Check it out. Does it make sense? Did you see any errors. If you are a musician, you can see bands that have posted a musician wanted ad. Or, if you are a band you can find musicians that are ready to play!

http://www.musolist.com

Plenary Indulgence

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 4, 2005 in Church | 0 comments

Further reflections on my visit to Mass. The Mass I attended was the Divine Mercy Mass where congregants can receive Plenary Indulgence for sins already forgiven. (Definition: By an Indulgence is meant the remission of the temporal punishment due to us on accont of our sins.) I asked a congregant, if these sins are already forgiven why do people need an indulgence? He didn’t have an answer. Here is what must be done:

This list is a convenient compilation of all the ways to obtain a plenary indulgence. Note that in addition to the described work, obtaining a plenary indulgence also has the following conditions (see Norms which are summarized below):

* Sacramental confession. A single sacramental confession suffices for gaining several plenary indulgences; but Communion must be received and prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff must be recited for the gaining of each plenary indulgence.
* Eucharistic Communion.
* Prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff. The condition of praying for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff is fully satisfied by reciting one Our Father and one Hail Mary; nevertheless, each one is free to recite any other prayer according to his piety and devotion.
* It is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be absent. If the latter disposition is in any way less than perfect or if the prescribed three conditions are not fulfilled, the indulgence will be partial only, saving the provisions given in Norms 34 and 35.
Source

I’ve got to admit this is pretty crazy to me.

Fun with Angry, Yelling, Legalistic Christians who Know Everything

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 3, 2005 in Church | 4 comments

This week I attended a Catholic Mass. Outside of the Mass, a man, named Tom Elwood, held a sign that read, God Kills, Repent on one side and Jesus Caused 9/11 on the other. As people drove to Mass, he yelled at them telling most of them they were going to burn in hell. After the service, I walked over to hear his shtick. “This Church has departed from truth and now are an apostasy. The entire denomination from the Pope to the youngest member, if they stay Catholic will die and go to hell. The Catholic Church has completely departed from the Christian faith and is a wicked tradition,” said Elwood. “If you are Catholic you are going to burn in hell.”

While I was there, two guys walked over to confront Elwood. As they requested he leave, Elwood shouted louder. “You are going to burn in the lake of fire if you don’t leave the Catholic Church.” One of the men became very angry and told him he wasn’t wanted there and told him to leave. After they walked away, Elwood said, “See how he got irate, it is because he hates God and God hates him.”

A black woman walked by and tried to grab the sign from Elwood. Elwood told the woman she was a sinner who was going to burn in hell. The woman yelled, “I’ll break you.” She picked up an item on the ground to throw it at Elwood. A person in a car told the woman it was not worth it to do this, so she put down the item and walked away.

After the commotion, Elwood handed me a pamphlet put out by a true church (www.atruechurch.info). On the back of the pamphlet, a list of false teachers were listed, such as Charles Spurgeon, Chuck Smith, Miles McPherson, Billy Graham, John MacArthur and dozens more.

I asked Elwood, if all these people were false teachers of the Christian faith, how can we know what is the true way to practice faith. “We can know, because the Bible is true. In 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 16, we are told (Christians will) have the mind of Christ.” I asked Elwood did he believe Jesus Christ was omniscient. Elwood said yes. I asked, if Christ mind was omniscient are you omniscient? Elwood said no. How can you have the literal mind of Christ then? Elwood got angry at me and told me I was going to burn in hell, he took his sign apart and walked to his car to leave.

I guess the body of God has to have an asshole to function…

How to speed Up Firefox

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Apr 2, 2005 in Culture | 0 comments

First of all, EVERYONE switch from IE to Firefox it is a way better browser. Second, do this it makes browsing much faster:

I saw this tip a few days ago. Here is how you can make Firefox 2-3 times faster, even faster than Internet Explorer with the added benefit of not dancing with the Evil Empire’s security holes.

1. Type “about:config” on your URL bar and press return.
2. Find “network.http.pipelining” in the list and change the value to “true” by clicking on it.
3. Find “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and change that to “true” too.
4. Find “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and change the value to “30″ or any higher number you wish.
5. Right click anywhere on the page and select “New” and then “Integer”. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and make the value “0″. Source: ipkonfig.com

Boom!