John S Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession. And yes i do define someone as a Christian by what they believe. That's how you define religions in general. If a Jewish person says he's a Christian, even though he believes none of the teaching of Christianity, is he a Christian? The answer is no. You can't say you're one thing and believe another, otherwise you are lying. Therefore, by asking the people what they believe instead of what faith they identify with, you find the true number of Christians. There are people who say they are a Christian just because their parents are Christian, but they know nothing of what Jesus did. So no, it is not that kind of move, it is a truth finding move.

Check our names mate. I'm a different person.
I'm saying that he's choosing who is a "real" Christian which is a dick move. You can't say who is and isn't a Christian because of what you think.

Oh shit man, my bad. I just saw the same color blue and didn't think anything of it.
Lol, that is my fault.

Although now your comment makes a lot more sense. I completely concur with you though.
Because he says that even though over 3/4 of Americans define themselves as Christians, that only 8% are true Christians.
That is an insane amount of people he is calling out as not being a "true" Christian.
And is indeed a "dick move".

John S Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession. And yes i do define someone as a Christian by what they believe. That's how you define religions in general. If a Jewish person says he's a Christian, even though he believes none of the teaching of Christianity, is he a Christian? The answer is no. You can't say you're one thing and believe another, otherwise you are lying. Therefore, by asking the people what they believe instead of what faith they identify with, you find the true number of Christians. There are people who say they are a Christian just because their parents are Christian, but they know nothing of what Jesus did. So no, it is not that kind of move, it is a truth finding move.

I'm more concerned with the fact that he thinks he's allowed to define other people by his beliefs.
Assuming it's a he.

One: I was asking where you got the 8% figure.

Two: What? That doesn't make any sense.

Check our names mate. I'm a different person.
I'm saying that he's choosing who is a "real" Christian which is a dick move. You can't say who is and isn't a Christian because of what you think.

Oh shit man, my bad. I just saw the same color blue and didn't think anything of it.
Lol, that is my fault.

Although now your comment makes a lot more sense. I completely concur with you though.
Because he says that even though over 3/4 of Americans define themselves as Christians, that only 8% are true Christians.
That is an insane amount of people he is calling out as not being a "true" Christian.
And is indeed a "dick move".

John S Dickerson, The Great Evangelical Recession. And yes i do define someone as a Christian by what they believe. That's how you define religions in general. If a Jewish person says he's a Christian, even though he believes none of the teaching of Christianity, is he a Christian? The answer is no. You can't say you're one thing and believe another, otherwise you are lying. Therefore, by asking the people what they believe instead of what faith they identify with, you find the true number of Christians. There are people who say they are a Christian just because their parents are Christian, but they know nothing of what Jesus did. So no, it is not that kind of move, it is a truth finding move.

"Gender: male"


Nope, you couldn't.

That doesn't make any sense.

Wow I am an idiot.

*possibly

They sit there and are waiting for a bus which never comes, so they can easily be found and brought back.

Seems like a lot of work making a "fake" bus stop just for the off chance they sit there if they get out. Seems like a guard or locked doors would work better, but I'm not the nursing home's financial adviser.

Add all what they said with my part: The province (in US state) of that part of the Netherlands is (north) Brabant, and the northern part of Belgium was back in the days south-Brabant. So when seperated, they didn't think of the borders. And also cause you can just travel from the Netherlands to Belgium without any border controls

This situation has its roots in feudal times, where different lords would own parcels of land (the same way moderns farms are made up as a patchwork) There was a series of complex medieval treaties, agreements, and land-swaps between the Lords of Breda and the Dukes of Brabant. So when the modern countries came into existence, they automatically inherited those complex parcels of land.

i think its something to do with the second world war, but dont quote me on it. basically i think the countrys borders changed and happened to land on a town.

actually it goes all the way back to 1198
when some landlords did some shady stuff with land they owned/wanted to own.
it wasnt even corrected when in 1830 belgium seperated from the netherlands

Well evidentially the sentence was to long for him to read, we should be proud he tried.

Yes but its long enough to reach from Belgium to the Netherlands.

or average american behaviour

or we could give them a test offer them some H2O2 or bleach as a drink and if they drink it they'll die. the main issue with us humans is since we have no natural preditor and we are ontop of the food chain we are kinda immune to the whole natural selection thing like the smartest of us would survive and breed more smarter ones and the dumber ones would die if we had a preditor now im not super smart but im not an idiot i have common sense. i couldnt honestly teach you to build a particle accelerator but what i can teach you is far greater and not so highly specialized that you would need a masters in non euclidian quantum physics to understand me. i mean sure its cool and helpful to our expanding knowledge to make and use a particle accelerator but will it produce food for me?

same to you, my dear internet comrade.

now hear me out. we could make a battle arena and kill them all and use their bodies to make a bigger arena.

I was thinking we could just use another Holocaust.

Hitler was on the right idea just the wrong demographic.

or we could give them a test offer them some H2O2 or bleach as a drink and if they drink it they'll die. the main issue with us humans is since we have no natural preditor and we are ontop of the food chain we are kinda immune to the whole natural selection thing like the smartest of us would survive and breed more smarter ones and the dumber ones would die if we had a preditor now im not super smart but im not an idiot i have common sense. i couldnt honestly teach you to build a particle accelerator but what i can teach you is far greater and not so highly specialized that you would need a masters in non euclidian quantum physics to understand me. i mean sure its cool and helpful to our expanding knowledge to make and use a particle accelerator but will it produce food for me?

yep, welcome to our generation, look at it, and feel shame.

Honestly the shame hurts. We have SO MUCH potential as human beings, yet we turn out like this.

Here is hope to a better future. . .

same to you, my dear internet comrade.

nope, they may only say if a word has a definition, which selfie, and twerk do. unfortunately.

Regardless this still means that a majority of people use these terms and still does not help with the fate of humanity.

now hear me out. we could make a battle arena and kill them all and use their bodies to make a bigger arena.

I was thinking we could just use another Holocaust.

Hitler was on the right idea just the wrong demographic.

or we could give them a test offer them some H2O2 or bleach as a drink and if they drink it they'll die. the main issue with us humans is since we have no natural preditor and we are ontop of the food chain we are kinda immune to the whole natural selection thing like the smartest of us would survive and breed more smarter ones and the dumber ones would die if we had a preditor now im not super smart but im not an idiot i have common sense. i couldnt honestly teach you to build a particle accelerator but what i can teach you is far greater and not so highly specialized that you would need a masters in non euclidian quantum physics to understand me. i mean sure its cool and helpful to our expanding knowledge to make and use a particle accelerator but will it produce food for me?

yep, welcome to our generation, look at it, and feel shame.

Honestly the shame hurts. We have SO MUCH potential as human beings, yet we turn out like this.

Here is hope to a better future. . .

same to you, my dear internet comrade.

Words we consider common today were slang back when they were invented. There's nothing wrong with growing and adapting a language. More words gives people the ability to better communicate complex ideas to each other.

You'd be very surprised how much the english language has evolved since it's creation; english has, and always will be, controlled by the people that use it, and when the people that use it need a new word for something, well, they're gonna use it. You use words that were originally slang all the time without even realising it. What makes this any different? Hell, in the 90's words like 'geek', 'emoticon' and 'voicemail' were added to the dictionary, they were all slang at the time.

It has been like that as long as humans made dictionaries.
A lot of the words today have been slang from years ago.

they don't really have any choice, the word of the year is the most common one, which those two are, at least in america.

But don't they decide what is and isn't a "word"?

nope, they may only say if a word has a definition, which selfie, and twerk do. unfortunately.

Regardless this still means that a majority of people use these terms and still does not help with the fate of humanity.

now hear me out. we could make a battle arena and kill them all and use their bodies to make a bigger arena.

I was thinking we could just use another Holocaust.

Hitler was on the right idea just the wrong demographic.

or we could give them a test offer them some H2O2 or bleach as a drink and if they drink it they'll die. the main issue with us humans is since we have no natural preditor and we are ontop of the food chain we are kinda immune to the whole natural selection thing like the smartest of us would survive and breed more smarter ones and the dumber ones would die if we had a preditor now im not super smart but im not an idiot i have common sense. i couldnt honestly teach you to build a particle accelerator but what i can teach you is far greater and not so highly specialized that you would need a masters in non euclidian quantum physics to understand me. i mean sure its cool and helpful to our expanding knowledge to make and use a particle accelerator but will it produce food for me?

yep, welcome to our generation, look at it, and feel shame.

Honestly the shame hurts. We have SO MUCH potential as human beings, yet we turn out like this.

Here is hope to a better future. . .

same to you, my dear internet comrade.

"So I'm tethering"

I think I can speak for most people when I ask what the fuck is tethering?

you has google, do you not?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering

Tethering is using your mobiles 3G or 4G or whatever signal you have to access the internet , it pretty much makes your phone a wifi router ! But not all phones can do it and not all contracts allow it

Using a mobile device that has a data plan to provide internet to other devices, such as by making it a hotspot or using bluetooth or a cable.