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Post by drlj on Oct 5, 2022 12:37:44 GMT -5
Make up your mind! It’s bad enough to be atoning without getting bad advice on the proper day to do it. Catholics have it easy. We get in a closet, mumble a few things that sound like sins, and we hit the road fresh as a daisy. We don’t need no special day to feel guilt. It’s a 24/7/365 thing for us. Besides, wasn’t that a Barry McGuire song, Eve of Atonement? This was the first sentence in my OP from yesterday: "Tonight is the eve of Yom Kippur, the most serious holiday on the Jewish calendar." It's funny the way this religion observes holidays. They begin the night before the day of, after sunset, and continue until the next specified sunset, be it one day or seven. As far as the day of atonement, we save up all our sins for a whole year and then blast 'em out in one convenient day. And no one has to divulge them to their rabbi or anyone else. It's just between the sinner and You-Know-Who.
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Post by coachdoc on Oct 5, 2022 12:39:51 GMT -5
Barb speaks fluent math. I can barely communicate in the language at all. Thank God for calculators but, if they were wrong, how would I know? A high school math teacher taught us to do the problem with rounded numbers to get an easy approximation of the answer. Then if your approximation wasn’t any where near the complete calculation, that attempt at answering the complete problem, your answer probably wasn’t correct. This trick has served me well. Still use it. |
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Post by gbacklin on Oct 5, 2022 12:43:53 GMT -5
I haven’t posted in the daily for a while. All is good here with us. Work continues to be busy, and I’m three months in and still working on teams and culture changes. I’m also letting my security lead go. That’s a tough one, but my person doesn’t have the experience I need. I’m struggling to get folks to think more than a step ahead. Anyway, it still beats where I was working. The diversity here of thought, culture and experience is fascinating. Watching the kids run around is hilarious too. Good for the soul. The family is well. Rob reported that she got a 100% on her differential equations exam. Seriously, I know the term but I have no idea what they do. I failed calc II and dropped the make up. 🤷♂️❤️ I hope you all are well. Glad things are going well at the school, Paul. DiffEq was at 7:30AM, because the professor said if you weren't committed to showing up to class you shouldn't be there. The class and I eventually reached an understanding. That understanding was "C." I took Calc I, II and III over one summer. At the end of the term, I was not sure of my name ! |
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Post by howard lee on Oct 5, 2022 12:44:42 GMT -5
This was the first sentence in my OP from yesterday: "Tonight is the eve of Yom Kippur, the most serious holiday on the Jewish calendar." It's funny the way this religion observes holidays. They begin the night before the day of, after sunset, and continue until the next specified sunset, be it one day or seven. As far as the day of atonement, we save up all our sins for a whole year and then blast 'em out in one convenient day. And no one has to divulge them to their rabbi or anyone else. It's just between the sinner and You-Know-Who.
Sounds like a faulty system.
Yes?
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Post by Dub on Oct 5, 2022 13:05:37 GMT -5
It's funny the way this religion observes holidays. They begin the night before the day of, after sunset, and continue until the next specified sunset, be it one day or seven. Not sure about Islam but, thanks to its roots in Judaism, Christianity observes holidays the same way. Some adherents of modern sects may have forgotten this but it still remains true. |
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 5, 2022 16:48:41 GMT -5
no sin, no salvation
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 5, 2022 19:43:25 GMT -5
A high school math teacher taught us to do the problem with rounded numbers to get an easy approximation of the answer. Then if your approximation wasn’t any where near the complete calculation, that attempt at answering the complete problem, your answer probably wasn’t correct. This trick has served me well. Still use it. So you're doing the same math problem twice. I'm not doing that! |
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Post by theevan on Oct 6, 2022 5:50:59 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on Oct 6, 2022 14:44:25 GMT -5
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Post by millring on Oct 6, 2022 19:03:54 GMT -5
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Everyone remembers that part. Most don't recall the parting command. |
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Post by howard lee on Oct 6, 2022 19:19:28 GMT -5
What goes around comes around.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 6, 2022 19:26:16 GMT -5
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Post by james on Oct 6, 2022 19:52:43 GMT -5
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Everyone remembers that part. Most don't recall the parting command. Don't push beads up yer nose? 😉 |
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Post by Marshall on Oct 7, 2022 8:24:00 GMT -5
A high school math teacher taught us to do the problem with rounded numbers to get an easy approximation of the answer. Then if your approximation wasn’t any where near the complete calculation, that attempt at answering the complete problem, your answer probably wasn’t correct. This trick has served me well. Still use it. So you're doing the same math problem twice. I'm not doing that! I use that approximation every time in a restaurant. If the bill is $34.26 (let's say) I say 20% tip is $3.5x2 or $7. $7 + $35 is $42. I write down $42 for the total. I don't calculate the actual tip. That's the restaurant's problem. I pay $42. |
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Post by Marshall on Oct 7, 2022 8:25:21 GMT -5
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Everyone remembers that part. Most don't recall the parting command. |
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Post by drlj on Oct 7, 2022 16:14:07 GMT -5
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Everyone remembers that part. Most don't recall the parting command. “You shouldn’t be throwing rocks. Somebody could get hurt! Go, and throw rocks no more!” |
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