Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:55:52 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <8e38b627-a937-cfde-ddad-070f49d4fc94@example.net> <45923010-96be-72d0-9ccc-9a43f25f35c4@example.net> <9f43ab34-3ec7-e654-c9a4-864acfc74923@example.net> <578db959-a6bc-19b4-9edf-0e45a994a3f0@example.net> <5f26b99d-cefb-9b85-1296-0be9aff25a7d@example.net> <4WX9P.39821$Uup4.921@fx10.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="4169757"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: <4WX9P.39821$Uup4.921@fx10.iad> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62919 On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-12-22, D wrote: > >> The great strength and the great weakness of christianity is that they >> are bound by the book. This is a problem in todays woke world, > > The woke are bound by their own book - which is far more outlandish > than the Bible. What bible do they have? Woke will self destruct into ever smaller factions. Eventually it ends up as individualism, which is good, or it will spend itself on in fighting and go away as a political force. >> but if they let it go, they won't be christians any longer. I respect >> the guys who struggled to reconcile the book with todays world without >> giving it up completely. > > The literalists have always had - and been - a problem. I resolved the > issue in my school days. The literature classes we took taught us about > metaphor and simile, and I saw no reason why the seven days of creation > should not be metaphorical rather than literal. Suddenly there was no > conflict. There are lots of things like that in the book. This is the truth!