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Re: My Experience with the TenMarks Math Premium Trial

Chris Engelsma — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:25:43 -0000

Can TenMarks be used on the larger Kindle tablets?

Re: Have You Heard About Our Online BLB Institute (BLBi)?

Chris Engelsma — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:32:50 -0000

Do you use Moodle to manage these courses?

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:52:59 -0000

Of course, I believe the Palestinians are humans. Did I ever deny that? The vast majority of Palestinians are good people who are being oppressed and murdered by their own leadership. Even Hamas are humans, except they are evil humans who need to be destroyed.

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 05:20:49 -0000

If they treated the Palestinians as full human beings and gave them the rights normally given to such, the Palestinians would destroy them. If you had a guy in your house who was fully committed to killing you and your entire family, would you accord him the full rights due to human beings?

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 22:21:49 -0000

but how can you not hold the guy down who is trying to kill you? If you let him up, he kills you. Then where are you? It seems to me that if someone is dedicated to your destruction, then you have no choice but to destroy them first. I don't see any way around that. That is why I led with.....If Israel disarmed, there would be genocide. If Hamas disarmed, there would be peace in the middle east.
and Hamas isn't unclear about its intentions. it is not interested in a two-state solution. It is not interested in the Gaza strip. Its only interest is the complete destruction of Israel. I don't know how you can negotiate with such. You can only destroy them before they destroy you.

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:24:18 -0000

Well what do you propose to do with someone (or some people group) that is dedicated to your destruction? Do you shoot back?

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:12:23 -0000

What does Hamas mean then, when they call for the destruction of Israel? Should Israel take that seriously?

Re: Israel’s Iron Dome: a misplaced debate

Chris Engelsma — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 22:21:24 -0000

If Israel disarmed, there would be genocide. If Hamas disarmed, there would be peace. It's as simple as that.

Re: Typing Hebrew Niqqud (Voweling Points) in Windows 8

Chris Engelsma — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:58:14 -0000

crazy thing with me....I am using Word 2013. I installed the new keyboard as you directed above. It worked for the first two vowels....now I can't get it to work at all. Any idea why it stopped working?

Re: Does Acts 2:39 Support Infant Baptism?

Chris Engelsma — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 08:59:36 -0000

But Gal. 3:14 makes clear that the promise God gave to Abraham WAS the Spirit. The promise to Abraham = the promise of the Spirit.

Re: DOJ Settles with Louisiana Tech over ADA Violations Stemming from Online Homework and Assessment Tool -- Campus Technology

Chris Engelsma — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:06:50 -0000

No...this highlights the stupidity of our nanny state govt that has to protect and nurture us from cradle to grave.

Re: 10 principles to guide your giving

Chris Engelsma — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:12:03 -0000

good points but we live in different times. when deacons spend other people's money, they do so in a way that is inherently inefficient. recall Milton Friedman's four ways to spend money. When people spend other people's money, they spend it inefficiently. There is no way to alter this basic fact of human nature. Nowadays, with technology, I can help out people directly and cut out the middleman (i.e. the deacons). I can send books to prison inmates, when a guy at church loses his job, I send him a money order directly, or I can go to a site like kiva.org and support some third world entrepreneur directly. I guess....I just don't see much need anymore for the deacons. ?

Update: Let me reword that last sentence. I just don't see much need anymore for the deacons to manage our tithing.

Re: 10 principles to guide your giving

Chris Engelsma — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:07:46 -0000

Shouldn't we be concerned how our money is spent? isn't one of the principles of wise giving that we try to maximize the effectiveness of every dollar we donate? What if my local church is wasteful and wants to spend thousands on new parking lots, A/C, etc. etc.?

Re: The gospel’s promissory form

Chris Engelsma — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:48:07 -0000

I was looking for some help with the question....does baptism seal the objective promise of God (with no reference to our subjective response)? or does it also seal my subjective response to that promise? In other words, do the sacraments seal God's promise to me or is it a seal of my interest in that promise? Note the last clause of the question in Q. 69 of the HCat;

69. Q. How is it signified and sealed unto you in holy baptism that you have part in the one sacrifice of Christ on the cross?
A. Thus, that Christ has appointed...

Re: Schoology Site Performance

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:13:11 -0000

People who pull DOS attacks ought to be hog-tied and quartered.

Re: Mickey Kaus Explains That Barack Obama’s Bad At Politics Because He’s Black

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:23:19 -0000

As I pointed out before and as you so predictably illustrate....whenever anyone opposes affirmative action, s/he must be racist. It's so kneejerk.

Re: Mickey Kaus Explains That Barack Obama’s Bad At Politics Because He’s Black

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:55:09 -0000

Affirmative action just gives legs to the rumor that minorities are some how inferior.

Re: Why Taxes Are Annoying

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:24:18 -0000

So tell me....which tax would you cut so you can give the lower classes a tax cut. My contention has been all along that they don't pay any taxes anyway. I am a parent with four children, a new house and a decent job and.....my tax refund was over 5k. Is that nutbar or what? I probably made money.

Re: Why Taxes Are Annoying

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:22:52 -0000

haha!!
Maybe we should be more like Russia. They passed a flat tax and saw a dramatic increase in revenue. only a lib would see an increase in revenue as a good thing :)
http://query.nytimes.com/gs...

Re: Paul Ryan’s Bad Political Economy

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:06:52 -0000

All govt action is inherently inefficient. When people spend other people's money......why are we surprised that they spend it wastefully and with no concern to get the most bang for their buck?

Re: Why Taxes Are Annoying

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:05:18 -0000

More and more countries are moving to flat tax systems. Here is wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Re: Why Taxes Are Annoying

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:02:33 -0000

The Tax Foundation estimates tax compliance costs at 194 billion.
http://www.taxfoundation.or...

Re: Debating Paul Ryan’s “Path To Prosperity”

Chris Engelsma — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:23:13 -0000

The police are removing threats to people's liberty with the result that people are now free to write their own story. So in that sense....yes they produce a society with less crime. But your "production" is to limit liberty and to shape society into what you want it to be. e.g. you want to reduce income inequality. that's a threat to freedom; not a maintenance of it.

Re: Mike Miles Going Big On Testing in Colorado

Chris Engelsma — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:48:57 -0000

I still don't see the problem. Schools will have to compete for students, quality will improve, ....where is the problem? are you saying that poor students eventually won't have a school to go to??

Re: Mike Miles Going Big On Testing in Colorado

Chris Engelsma — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:45:32 -0000

chuckle. meanwhile, we homeschoolers just get on with education. :) Come on kids....let's go play in the mud!!