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Re: NASA's most advanced telescope complete after 20 years (PHOTO)

From Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: NASA's most advanced telescope complete after 20 years (PHOTO)
Date 2016-11-13 13:52 -0500
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On 11/13/2016 01:29 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
>> On 13/11/16 17:00, Phil Hobbs wrote:> On 11/13/2016 03:29 AM, Tom Gardner wrote:
>>> On 12/11/16 23:47, krw wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 22:44:42 +0000, Tom Gardner
>>>> <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/11/16 22:19, krw wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:46:46 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann
>>>>>> <ghf@hoffmann-hochfrequenz.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Am 12.11.2016 um 16:03 schrieb krw:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Snipping the rest shows that you're not even interested in
>>>>>>>>  learning. Rather, you're interested in hating the
>>>>>>>> religious.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When I open my eyes and look at the world, by far the biggest
>>>>>>> group of haters are the religious.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, you're just projecting your hate on them.
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you think Christ meant in Luke 14:26?
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems explicit and unambiguous to me.
>>>>
>>>> Why would you think I know?  ...or particularly care?
>>>>
>>>> OK, I looked it up.  All that's there is that one's religion
>>>> (God/Jesus, depending on your denomination) comes first, even
>>>> before family.  Did you have a point?
>>>
>>> You really do have comprehension problems, and/or a remarkable
>>> ability to turn a blind eye to things you don't want to see.
>>>
>>> That verse requires Christ's disciples *hate* their family etc. Not
>>> dislike, not distrust, not have second priority, but *hate*.
>>>
>>> Luke14:26 “If anyone comes to me and does not *hate* father and
>>> mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own
>>> life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
>>>
>>> (My *emphasis*)
>>>
>>>
>> You misunderstand.
>>
>> All over Scripture, we're commanded to love our neighbour as ourselves,
>> and God's love for us is likened to both the love of parents for
>> children and (surprisingly) eros--the Church is called the Bride of Christ.
>>
>> Jesus was using normal rabbinical hyperbole to emphasize that we have to
>> love God more than anything or anyone else.  That's the teaching of the
>> Church from earliest times as well.
>>
>> The passage you're misquoting is Luke 14:25-26.  Jesus is being followed
>> by large crowds, and he's teaching them that there's more to
>> discipleship than that: following him involves letting go of the whole
>> world.  The pericope reads in full:
>>
>> Luke 14:25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said
>> to them,
>>
>> Luke 14:26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and
>> mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his
>> own life, he cannot be my disciple.
>>
>> Luke 14:27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot
>> be my disciple.
>>
>> Luke 14:28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first
>> sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
>>
>> Luke 14:29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to
>> finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
>>
>> Luke 14:30 saying, 'This man began to build, and was not able to finish.'
>>
>> Luke 14:31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will
>> not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand
>> to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
>>
>> Luke 14:32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends
>> an embassy and asks terms of peace.
>>
>> Luke 14:33 So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he
>> has cannot be my disciple.
>>
>>
>> He says the same sort of thing quite a lot, e.g. in the parables of the
>> buried treasure and the pearl of great price:
>>
>> Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field,
>> which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all
>> that he has and buys that field.
>>
>> Matthew 13:45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search
>> of fine pearls,
>>
>> Matthew 13:46 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold
>> all that he had and bought it.
>>
>> Heaven lasts forever, and is God's free gift to us--all we have to do is
>> to say 'yes' and mean it.  It's just that meaning it means valuing the
>> gift at its true worth, which is far more than everything else we have.
>>  It's not that we shouldn't love our families, or save for the future,
>> or have a good time, not at all.  Loving God makes us love our earthly
>> families more, not less.  But all those things have to come second.
>>
>> You see, it's fatally easy to delude ourselves into thinking that we're
>> disciples of Christ, and then discover too late that we were really
>> holding on to something else more tightly--pride, security, hatred,
>> self-righteousness, our houses, the good opinion of our family and
>> friends, lots of things--so that we hadn't really said 'yes' at all.
>>
>> God doesn't want our stuff, he wants _us_, because he loves us.  That's why it's the Good News.

(Snippage restored.)
>
> So presumably He is also using rabbinical hyperbole
> in many other cases too, e.g.
> Mark 12:31 ... ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ...

You presume a lot. ;)    I didn't say "invariable rabbinic hyperbole", 
just that it's a rhetorical trope.

>
> I must admit that is convenient, since it means
> that I can interpret the Bible in just about any
> way that suits my purposes.

You seem to be doing that already.  How about cutting it up into ransom 
notes?  Then you could have new vocabulary as well.  "Oh look, I found 
curse words in the Bible!" ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

-- 
Dr Philip C D Hobbs
Principal Consultant
ElectroOptical Innovations LLC
Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics

160 North State Road #203
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510

hobbs at electrooptical dot net
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