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| So I innocently attended a Christmas gathering where I was ambushed by agent Smiths.
Here are some of the mortars that were tossed at me.
1. "You can't disciple someone unless they've made a commitment to Christ."
Gee I guess Jesus' 12 weren't disciples then? It was quite a bit later that there was a confession by the tongue by Peter. And the 3000 who believed at the day of Pentecost were surely being led in the "Sinner's Prayer" by Billy Graham right? Allright, there was the small technicality that the Rev. Graham wasn't born yet. And didn't Peter take those gathered at Corneilus' house through the 4 spiritual laws and the Romans road? Oh yeah Paul hadn't penned the letter to the Romans yet!
2. "We need to establish a doctrinal standard." "When you have a new convert where are you going to start with them?" Asked Smith #1. "First I find out where that person is with the Lord" I responded. "No that's wrong" both Smiths chimed in as my mouth skinned over and I was unable te render some clever intellegent comeback. They wanted some sort of doctrinal contract. This I balked at as the beginning of denominationalism. Their concern was that they needed a standard to protect themselves against liberals and gays. That way they could bar them from joining. But I've got news for them first of all they have nothing to fear. Nobody's going to try to rain on their parade any within the next century. As for me this all seems like "Nyarrr*"
I got tag teamed for over an hour before my wife saved me by informing me it was time to leave.
Before that conversation there was the ritual "So how are things going at your house church ... is it still just your family?" "We're up to three families now." <<button on shirt pops off>>
This reminds me of the shallowness of my years in the "Ministry". How at the Pastors meetings I would hear conversations that could be classified as bragging and comparing. The focus of these conversations was as I was told once "The A,B,C's of success ... Attendance, Building and Cash"
* Nyarrr the sound a grouchy old fundy makes when someone else's liberty in Christ irks him.
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| Oh my gosh. I've always paid my mortgage on time. I even pay extra on principal to reduce my total interest paid. I will pay off my house within the next 5 years unless some catastrophe prevents me from continuing.
The fed announced that it is going to bailout the mortgage industry. You know those slimy guys who pull the bait and switch routine when selling you a mortgage, you know the same slimy guys who invented the balloon payments in the 80s, you know the same slimy guys who created compounding interest.
Yeah those guys, they get off the hook for duping people into getting mortgages they couldn't afford. The same guys not only get out of the bad mortgages but they get a One Trillion dollar grant from the government. That means you and me the taxpayer (all whopping 138 million of us) will have to come up with an additional $7247 each to pay for this (including the $85 million AIG bailout).
All so that we can have a momentary bump on Wall St.
My 401k and IRA already tanked. The only money in there is what I rolled over from my pension. Dang I wish they had pensions still!
By the time I retire I won't since I can't.
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| Notes on using log4j with tomcat and netbeans.
log4j.xml & log4j.dtd go in the top of the source packages (<default>)
some articles say it needs to go in WEB-INF/lib that does not work. you'll get a please configure log4j properly
ensure all your java files import the right logger.
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.log4j.Level;
netbeans will automatically suggest java.util.Logger ...
You'll get a nice console log but not rolling file, email, etc.
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| You're not old until your hopes and dreams die.
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| This was a real treat!
req.open("GET", url, false);
>> req.send("null");
"The download of the specified resource has failed"
It turned out that IE didn't like cookies to be set more than once. It had nothing to do with the actual response text.
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