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381  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: September 24, 2014, 08:45:16 PM
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If we are discussing what is "unfair,"  isn't it unfair that Jesus, who was completely sinless and blameless, had to come to suffer for my sins?  I am the one that chose to sin but he paid the price for my sins.  Knowing that God, out of His great love for me, sent His only son to die for me?  That is unfair to God!  I should be paying the price for my own sins, but instead I am offered the greatest gift anyone could give to me, eternal life because of His love and the thing is that it is offered to everyone!  God is no respecter of persons. We are all welcome to His gift if we just accept it.

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If God did not want to suffer for sins, he should not have deemed them such.

We can get frustrated at thy way God has chosen to do things, or we can accept that He has chosen to do things they way He has and respond with gratitude for even caring about us. Who are we to say how God, the creator of the universe, should or should not have done something?  It really is all about humility.  It is said that one of the greatest sins is actually pride.  This is because our own pride is what keeps us from even humbly coming to God and accepting Him at all.

So why is it unfair that god (Jesus) suffered for the thing he himself created? If I give you a gun, and you accidentally shoot and wound yourself, and then in turn I take my own gun and shoot myself in the foot, is it unfair that I ended up  getting shot because you got shot? And does that fix your wound? That whole "dying for our sins" thing makes no sense whatsoever. Just like blaming all the actions of murderers and rapists on a goat, taking the goat out of town, and killing it (a completely idiotic ancient practice that inspired the story of Jesus).
382  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pictures from Russia. on: September 24, 2014, 08:33:35 PM
More things in the last three pages about which Russians DGAF :

-dangerous littering
-dangerous wild animal
-dangerous giant hovercraft
-dangerous intersection

Sounds like Russia is a country of YOLOs  Grin
383  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: September 24, 2014, 03:22:55 PM
I was trying to send via QR scan. The keyboard/clipboard functions seem to be missing too. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ugVeQmN.png

For future reference, this is what it looks like if you select a watch only address. You can receive to it, but not send from it, so the send button disappears.
384  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: September 24, 2014, 07:32:01 AM
Are the servers down? I have a tx that has 9 confirmations on btc.blockr.io, but only one in the tx view. (Yes, I have hit "Sync").

http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/9abbc3106f3d8000fa72f5f50ea3681cab23d98e1b43f98e5ab5b037725e337a


Edit: Aaaand it's back! Smiley

We had an issue with Server 1, again. We decided to finally replace it. If something like this happens to your wallet again, exit out of Mycelium and start it again. It will pick another server at random, and will probably pick a different one from the one that locked up.
385  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pictures from Russia. on: September 24, 2014, 07:21:30 AM

More recent pics. So much trash and glass has been dumped on the beaches of Vladivostok, that the glass pieces were broken and ground up against each other and surrounding sand, creating rounded "jewel" stones of glass that cover the beach. Looks pretty, but it's still dangerous.

386  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Sanction against Russia for West-choreographed conflict in Ukraine on: September 24, 2014, 07:01:42 AM
It's pretty silly that you're still denying that Russia had anything to do with the fight in Eastern Ukraine, or that it annexed Crimea, despite overwhelming evidence.
no evidences. do not fool yourself  Wink

You should repeat that a few more times. Lenin says if you do that, it will become true.
387  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Crimea on: September 24, 2014, 06:52:50 AM
Oh the hypocrisy! Russia's stated reason for invading and annexing Crimea was to protect its people from assault and oppression. Russia then proceeds to assault and oppress the indigenous Tatar population. Guess it's time for Turkey to invade and annex Crimea away from Russia!  Grin


Pagan has infested the thread as well...  Grin

The derivative meanings in Russian with the root stemming from "Pagan" are
- Poganec (noun) - someone worthless, shitty, bastard.
- (Is-)poganit' (verb) - to spoil, to pour dirt onto, to fuck up.

Just some food for thought...

Of course! Christianity infected everything, and turned anything it didn't agree with, or anyone who didn't believe in their beliefs, into an insult. Horrible religion that was.
388  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Sanction against Russia for West-choreographed conflict in Ukraine on: September 24, 2014, 06:20:08 AM
It's pretty silly that you're still denying that Russia had anything to do with the fight in Eastern Ukraine, or that it annexed Crimea, despite overwhelming evidence.
389  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: Best Mobile Bitcoin Wallet for Android? on: September 23, 2014, 05:12:21 AM
I'm currently using Mycelium as my mobile wallet, and so far the user-end experience is smooth and flawless, but because it uses a centralized service by default, I have to trust them to not hide or simulate payment.

This also let's us support HD wallets that take a few seconds to sync instead of 20+ minutes that your criteria would require, and will allow us to implement CoinJoin by default, since we have servers where user's wallets can announce intentions to spend and mix, which is not possible without a server. Once we add Tor and CoinJoin support, there will be no way for us to know who you even are, so no way to know whom to hide or simulate payments for.
390  Bitcoin / Wallet software / Re: HD and MultiSig Wallet (has both mobile and desktop) on: September 23, 2014, 05:06:35 AM
Mycelium has HD wallet in beta, and will release the final version probably next week.
391  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: September 23, 2014, 05:05:17 AM
Problem:

I'm trying to send 0.00619512 BTC. I have 0.28831103 BTC. Mycelium tells me I have "insufficient funds."  Huh

Make sure the funds have more than 0 confirmations (swipe to the right and check that the topmost transaction has some confirmations), and that you are not spending from a watch only address.
392  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: September 23, 2014, 04:59:50 AM

Christian gods condemn out of their nature (as you so condemn).

But that makes their nature WORSE than the nature of the humans they claim to have created. Humans are more discerning and forgiving in their nature.
You condemn out of your nature (as christian gods so condemn).

Which still doesn't make the purported god's nature better than my nature.
393  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pictures from Russia. on: September 23, 2014, 04:50:07 AM
Although many parts of Russia are beautiful, don't fall for just the pretty pictures of the clean places presented to the public. And it's very inadvisable to travel there. Crime, bulgraries, and thefts are high, and it's very easy for Russians to spot foreigners: if you are dressed in nice new-ish clothing and look happy and not angry or hostile, you are a foreigner, and can be a target for a mugging, or be ripped off by a shop owner, or a taxi that drives you to the middle of nowhere and extorts more money from you to drive you back. The government is not friendly, too, and can detain you for any reason if they think you could be "brainwashing" their people with "pro western" propaganda. They can even detain you right at the airport and after interrogating you force you to fly back to your own country, even if you are only there passing through on a connecting flight. My parents' friends were flying to Germany for vacation through Sheremetyevo airport, and were detained and forced to fly back, forfeiting their plane ticket, losing money, and losing three days of their vacation, and that was a year ago, before the recent thing with Russia started.

But here are some more pictures to go with this thread's topic


















(Moscow)

394  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: September 23, 2014, 04:21:46 AM

Christian gods condemn out of their nature (as you so condemn).

But that makes their nature WORSE than the nature of the humans they claim to have created. Humans are more discerning and forgiving in their nature.
395  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: September 23, 2014, 04:13:33 AM
IT'S NEAR WRAP-UP TIMES, FOLKS


Well, the tipping point has arrived and the crumbling of the villains is really accelerating...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-22/ukraine-introduces-capital-controls

It's a good thing Ukraine has more bitcoin ATMs than any other country in the world  Grin
http://www.coindesk.com/5000-terminals-across-ukraine-now-offer-bitcoin-cash/


Again, I'm not Russian. Like most of the world, I am now a fan of the Russians

Most of the world hates Russia. Want me to post the evidence again? I noticed you keep repeating the same things and the same lies over and over again. Either your masters are late on your last payment, and you are putting in the bare minimum of effort to shill and spread Kremlin propaganda until your check clears, or else you are simply following the words of your soviet hero, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."  - Vladimir Lenin
396  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scientific proof that God exists? on: September 23, 2014, 03:57:53 AM
Do I think every sin is equally bad?  Actually I do.  I know that sounds totally crazy but in God's eyes a sin is a sin and any sin however "small" in our eyes, is enough to separate us from Him.  Does that mean that the consequences for all sins are the same?  No.  This is where we, as humans, start grading them on a scale.  Some sins do way more damage to ourselves and others, so in that way it seems that some sins are much worse.  But in the big picture, all sin is what keeps us apart from God.  This is why a person who was a super amazing good person and did everything right their entire lives still cannot earn their way to heaven-  All have sinned and everyone needs forgiveness for that sin.

And that is why the Christian god is a petty asshole and a spoiled little bitch. If someone does some minor bad thing to me, like lies, steals some change, or breaks something of mine and doesn't tell me, it's bad and it sucks, but I can forgive and forget, and still be their friend after some period of being a bit upset with them. Unlike that asshole god, I don't "separate myself from them" for every minor insignificant thing. Also, if they do something really bad to me, as opposed to a minor harm, I actually have the intellectual capacity to differentiate the two and know how bad one is compared to the other. God treating everything equally, and making the worst punishment possible for any crime regardless now minor, makes him sound really really evil.

Actually, there's a website I have been reading recently that talks about life and punishments in North Korea. Really horrific stuff, especially with their WW2 style concentration camps http://freekorea.us/camps/ You should check it out. Your description of sin and god really reminded me of that, since the punishment for major crimes like theft and assault, and the punishment for minor crimes like thinking badly of Dear Leader or complaining about the lack of food, is punished equally, with being sent to one of their concentration camps (a real hell on earth) where people are constantly starving, forced to work all day, die constantly of all kinds of ailments or starvation, are beaten, tortured, and abused, and can even be shot for picking up chestnuts of the ground. All "sins" are punished equally with that hell.

You haven't seen followers of Satan doing evil?  Basically it is pretty simple.  There is good and evil.  God is good, He is love.  If we are not for God, we are against God.

Even if we don't acknowledge god or know or ever heard of him? Also this sounds like a "No True Scotsman" fallacy. But no, I have not seen anyone who actively proclaims to worship or follow Satan doing evil.

All rapists, murderers, child abusers, lairs, thieves and so on are serving Satan when they make evil choices and decide to do these sinful choices. So anyone doing evil is serving Satan

Your claim is that regardless of what the person believes, if they are doing good they are serving god, and if they are doing bad they are serving satan. That is false because people who don't know about or acknowledge either of those entities are not doing their actions to serve someone else. They are doing it to serve themselves, the person they are doing the action for, or some other person or entity. At most you could claim that they are doing what god or satan would want then to do, NOT that they are serving them by their actions. E.g. if I give money to a homeless person, I am serving the homeless person and my own feeling of empathy, NOT god, even if I may be doing what your god might want me to.

On the flip side, are there people out there doing "good" and "loving" without knowing they are in reality unknowingly doing what God wants?  Yes.  And many of these same people also end up having very blessed lives because of that!

But then, once they die, even if god presents himself to them as undeniable proof, and they go, "Huh, you ARE real. Oops! Please forgive us for doubting your existence!" god still says "Nope! You should have believed in random crazy stories without any evidence! So now, despite you living very good lives as very good people, I will send you to a place where you will be tortured for eternity. Bye now!"

Instead of thanking Him for it, many of us just ignore Him, are angry at Him, or even deny He is the one giving us all the blessings we have.

Because a lot of us work very hard to achieve those blessings ourselves. A farmer that spends months working the ground, growing seeds, fighting off insects and infections, watering plants during droughts and digging ditches to direct away downpoor floods, should thank his own hard work for the "blessing" of food on the table, not god.


I believe the Spirit of God is present all around us. This is why throughout the world there are people that have a conscience and realize that some things are just wrong. There is a universal belief among most cultures that murder, abuse, adultery, stealing and lying is not a good thing to do and It doesn't matter what nationality, race or religion you are.

Actually it's evolution and genetics, not god. We survive better as a species, and are "fittest" to survive when we work together in packs as social animals. Survival of the fittest means social packs and groups, not just individuals. And this empathy and care for others has helped us propagate our genes better than those who tried to be individual and didn't work together or care for each other. Same as a school of small fish can survive as a species much better than if they were floating around as individual food bites. Best evidence of this, BTW, is that with time we have learned to have even more compassion, understanding, and are more ethical, than the people who wrote the bible 2000+ years ago. Many things presented as moral and ethical in that book are considered abhorrent now. Even the way god acts.


If a person truly wants to do what is right in their hearts God is fair and just and will give that person a chance to accept or reject Him I believe.  

It's still INCREDIBLY petty and monstrously cruel that your god judges the entirety of a person's existence not of whether they were a good person, but whether they believe in him without him giving them any evidence to.
397  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: September 23, 2014, 03:06:00 AM
So, when people in Western countries get tired of the corrupt bankrupt governments, and rise up to overthrow them, will myshownow and the rest of the stooges here be claiming that these protests against corrupt western governments will also be staged and paid for by "The West" with western propaganda spurring them on?  Grin


Well, we're already in the middle of a financial war but it turned out not as thrilling as one might have expected because the WEstern villains are already bankrupt and their financial system is imploding. Actually, if one wants to bring down the EU,it's easy and it's supposed strongest member is the most vulnerable point. Germany? Precisely. Deutsche Bank has a $75 trillion derivative debt, and it is actually to prevent the corrosive effects of that debt that is in the middle of the continental austerity program which is strangling the rest.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-28/elephant-room-deutsche-banks-75-trillion-derivatives-20-times-greater-german-gdp

Some quite revealing and shocking infographics:
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/world_debt/world_debt.html

Contrary to what you morons keep suggesting by these posts,

  • NO ONE HERE ON THIS BITCOIN FORUM IS FIGHTING FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE DOLLAR, OR FOR THE BANKING INDUSTRY.
  • NO ONE GIVES A SHIT IF THE DOLLAR COLLAPSES, SINCE WE WILL ALL BE WAY RICHER THANKS TO OUR BITCOIN HOLDINGS GOING UP IN VALUE TREMENDOUSLY.
  • NO ONE ACTUALLY SUPPORTS NAZISM, OR BELIEVES THE RUSSIAN LIES THAT UKRAINIAN GOVERNMENT, WHICH SOUNDLY REJECTED FASCISM IN THE ELECTIONS, IS FULL OF NAZIS.
  • THE ONLY CONCERN ANYONE HAS IS THAT RUSSIA, A PROVEN TOTALITARIAN REGIME THAT HAS REAL EVIDENCE OF INFRINGING ON HUMAN RIGHTS, OPPRESSING FREEDOM, MURDERING DISSENTERS, AND SPREADING PROPAGANDA, IS DIRECTLY INVADING ANOTHER COUNTRY, AFTER THAT COUNTRY HAS VIOLENTLY DEPOSED A RULER THAT WAS TRYING TO IMPOSE THE TYPES OF RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM THAT RUSSIA HAS.

No one is rooting for US or "The West." You guys keep setting them up as strawmen, as if that's what your opposition is fighting for, as if THE ONLY alternatives are "You are either Pro-Russia, or you are Pro West/USA," but that is a false dilemma, and they are nothing but strawmen whom no one on the anti-russia side gives a shit about. Got it?
398  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: September 22, 2014, 10:41:39 PM
Maybe cuz, in opposite with western propaganda, russia has not deceive the whole damn world with 60+ years of imperial warfare and some international financial mambo jumbo scam?

Neither has Kim Jon Il and Kim Jong-un of North Korea. Should we all worship and defend them too? (despite them still running WW2 style concentration camps and killing millions of people)

Also, Russian propaganda is not "in opposite" with western propaganda. Propaganda is propaganda. Only difference is whom is being lied to.

And another also, read up on some fucking history. Russia did not deceive the world with international financial mumbo jumbo from a capitalist banking perspective, but they sure as hell had 60+ years of imperial warfare and subterfuge, and have been deceiving the world with communist financial mumbo jumbo, which, unlike capitalist mumbo jumbo, has actually killed millions of people, and continues to kill today. Not from military invasions, but from starvation and oppression directly caused by it.
399  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: September 22, 2014, 10:35:31 PM
#Russia|n 'media' @lifenews_ru interview a dying Aydar soldier after ambush http://youtu.be/aAWMTqVKnJA  18+ #warcrimes


I've documented this notorious #Russia|n GRU unit killing & torturing #Ukraine soldiers: 18+

http://ukrainewarlog.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_18.html


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The Russian spetsnaz "fast response unit 'Batman'" who deceptively ambushed Aidar Battalion have become notorious in the Luhansk region during the last few months of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine - for killing Ukrainian forces loyal to Kiev.

Does this mean we can stop all the distractions about the "nazi Aidar batalion from Ukraine" and just focus our attention on the remaining nazis from Russia? Like these guys for example?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ukraine-crisis-who-are-russian-neo-nazi-groups-fighting-separatists-1463489

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According to Zisels, neo-Nazi organisations – which have prospered in Russia for over 20 years, and fuel tensions in the country after the fall of the Soviet Union – are now operating in Ukraine after being active in Moldova and Georgia.

Zisels says the most powerful far-right unit is the Russian National Unity (RNU) movement, led by ultra-nationalist Aleksandr Barkashov.



Barkashov visited Ukraine twice this year, in March and May, and is currently based in Donetsk.

Barkashov's son is fighting in separatist groups in eastern Ukraine, says Zisels.

Among other Far Right groups alleged to be operating in the Ukraine is Aleksandr Dugin's Eurasian Youth Union, right-wing elements of The Other Russia dissident coalition, and the resurrected 'Black Hundreds'.

Zisels said the Russian neo-Nazis "do not have their own military units, but their members are included within other units".

and much much more, including more info on those Odessa "protestors"
400  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk - way to Russia. on: September 22, 2014, 10:32:10 PM
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that during the fighting in Donbas 60-65% of the Ukrainian military equipment had been destroyed. Truly astonishing number, especially if we remember that the pre-war Ukraine had one of the most heavily armed armies in Europe.

EXTREMELY false. Ukraine's military has been decimated over the last decade by corruption and by budget cuts to the military, mostly on the assumption that Russia is all peaceful now.

I think it is becoming glaringly clear that the truce and peace talks were badly needed by Kiev because it was on the verge of crushing defeat.

When Ukraine went to fight against thugs and terrorists, it was winning easily and could have won this fight. Once Ukraine started fighting against Russian military and russian support in the form of money and weapons, they started losing. Yes, obviously Ukraine can't beat Russian military.
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