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Re: JoemarTaganna.com :: How to build a web app using Bottle with Jinja2 in Google App Engine

Joemar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:25:39 -0000

You're welcome. I can't help you though with your problem with the Windows SDK, I'm using a different OS.

Re: JoemarTaganna.com :: How to build a web app using Bottle with Jinja2 in Google App Engine

Web Development — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:17:08 -0000

Hi, thanks for the articlel was a good help in getting started with bottle / app engine.Has anyone succeeded in running Bottle 0.9.3 with app engine and the Windows SDK? I could only get 0.8.5 to run.

Re: JoemarTaganna.com :: How to build a web app using Bottle with Jinja2 in Google App Engine

Tobias Meyer — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:21:29 -0000

Nice one!! More of that pleace, just downloaded bottle.py and playing a bit with it.

Re: JoemarTaganna.com PyBlogEngine - a Python-based blogging platform for Google App Engine

ecommerce hosting — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:51:50 -0000

So that's what GAE means. I was surprised on the things this code can do, I'll try your PyBlogEngine after you release a stable version.

Re: M. Scott Peck’s Four Stages of Spiritual Development

PoppySu — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:21:04 -0000

Hello ! I ended up here by way of looking for more info on Peck's four stages. I read this for the first time yesterday and it blew my mind...His description of the four stages and the interactions between them explains so much about the huge difference in worldview and perception of God between myself and many people I know. I fact, I have learned to edit what comes out of my mouth because my deeper thoughts usually do not go over well :) Peck's explanation of the antagonism between the four stages (between 2 & 4 of particular interest to me) was music to my ears. So I add this to my hodgepodge collection of bits of theology, philosophy, and psycology that resonate with me and suggest that as much as I may feel I grasp for truth, I have at least found something :) Peace

Re: The Philippines could be the wealthiest nation on earth

Mara062153 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:59:05 -0000

I want to share to you that Tagean-Tallano clan as real owner of the whole Phil Archipelago and the gold are the ones who have a heart of gold to share it to the Filipinos.
Thank you for posting your blog on my facebook, keep going on.

Re: The Philippines could be the wealthiest nation on earth

Mara062153 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:53:53 -0000

Good pm fr. Benjie I am also doing research regarding this matter, the gold and OCT 01-4 it's authenticity and trying to gather references of our factual history which can be found on the 139 pages of 1972 Judge Agana Decision with Compromise Agreement. Hope we can work together with zeal to let this truth prevail.

Re: “Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations”

Cosmin Mihai — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:15:58 -0000

Thanks for the references Joemar, I'll definitely take a look. It's understood that reason rules over blind belief, although, personal experience can play a very important role in the way we reason. That's why I will always believe that there is more than just cause and effect.

Re: “Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations”

Joemar — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:15:12 -0000

Thanks Cosmin for your comment. For my reply to the points you raised:
1. Rate of evolution
Living things are constantly evolving at different rates for different species. Generally though, noticeable changes can only be observed after a span of time from hundreds to millions of years. In organisms where the rate of evolution is very fast (in microbes, for instance), evolution of new strains, variants and even species has been observed and has even been demonstrated in the laboratory.
2. Human and dinosaur footprints
This is a rather sensationalized report from a mixture of dinosaur tracks found in the Paluxy River in Texas. It turns out that many of the tracks were not perfectly preserved. Shapes can range from circle to oblong to something that looks like human tracks, but were actually just loosely preserved dinosaur tracks.
3. Misplaced fossils
Many reports of this sort has come up in gray literature (non-scientific non-peer reviewed publications). When studied closely, none of these reports had enough substance to stand up to scrutiny. Some were outright fraud that until now is still being used by creationists in their arguments.
4. Dating
Carbon dating is not the only method of radiometric dating. It’s true that carbon-14 isotope can only be used to date samples that are up to 50,000 years old. But C-14 is not the only isotope that are used for dating. There are uranium and potassium isotopes that can date rock samples that are millions of years old. Bones of dinosaurs do not contain enough uranium or potassium for radiometric dating, so igneous rocks that lie beside or close to these fossilized materials are used as samples for dating. So the age assigned to the bones is taken from “index” rocks close to it that contain enough material for dating, but its never the other way around…it’s never circular (or cyclic) reasoning.
5. Proof for evolution
No theory can ever be said to be complete. However, direct and indirect evidence for evolution is abundant. You can read Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True or Richard Dawkin’s The Greatest Show On Earth for a more thorough presentation of all the current pieces of evidence for evolution.
As for me, biology makes a lot more sense as a science if understood within the paradigm of evolutionary theory. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, we got ourselves a simple, natural, verifiable mechanism/explanation of how life came to be without resort to any supernatural (a.k.a. undetectable) agent or forces, which is beyond the sphere of science.

Re: “Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations”

Cosmin Mihai — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:55:07 -0000

I hope you'll forgive my sloppy English. (circulary is meant to be cyclic... etc.)

Re: “Life Could Not Have Come Through Random Mutations”

Cosmin Mihai — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:29:44 -0000

I am not exactly challenging the evolution theory, but I am rather unsatisfied about certain aspects like:
1. How does it happen that we are not facing any new such evolutions these days?
2. What about the archaeological findings of human footprints along dinosaur footprints
3. How come that dinosaurs bones were found in layers of soil which correspond to different timeframe than they are supposed to have lived?
4. How is the dating done for bones and other archaeological evidence which should have been "alive" millions of years ago, whn the carbon dating can not go beyond few tens of thousands of years. (To my knowledge they are dated according to the soil layer in which they are found, and the soil layer in which they are found is dated according to the kind of fossiles found inside. A bit circulary dating I would say.) So, I would really like to know the truly scientific point behind all these.

And the list may continue.

As far as I am concerned Evolution is not a complete theory, as it's not possible to prove it today (trhrough experiments as you are defining theory and science). It resembles rather to a religion since it is taking advantage of belief and the strong ressemblance between species (this later thing it is indeed the most appealing FACT of the evolutin theory).

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:58:04 -0000

there is something I don't like about religion. it put's my point of view on a seclusion with the people of that certain region. but I know my God is beyond region.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:33:29 -0000

yup I should agree. we should never believe out of fear and let us never fear to find out if what we believe is true.
but as for me who believes that there is a God, Holding on with the belief that God exist is not of much importance. if I believe that God exist then same is true that I believe that there is an adversary called the devil. now if the devil rebelled against God and then the devil himself must have know that God exists. why would he rebel on Someone who don't even exist?
If the devil believes that God exist and if I would only hold on with the I belief that God exist. then what is the difference between the devil and me?
the devil believes that there is a God, mark vincent believes that there is a God. ha ha ha. look at it. see the difference? no difference! ha ha ha
I might as well be an agnostic if that if is the case.
If you are going to ask me why I believe in God then. my answer would be, as best as I know how: I believe in God not because I fear death. or to prove I am godly. or to just persuade people on my belief because I am intelligent than what i really am, God knows I am nothing but a fool, or because I am hopeless and I only delude myself to an infinite God hoping he will make me rich or a rocket scientist someday or I'm losing touch with reality. i just believe in God as I believe in a friend. because I consider Him as a friend. I guess I believe in God not because i am born in culture that believes God, a God who grants your every wish come true just like a genie or does magic tricks which makes me astounded. I believe in God not because he is incomprehensible so I have no choice but to believe in something lofty for me to understand, i believe he gave me a wandering heart to understand him deeper His character.
I thank you jo for making this blog. it makes me reexamine my heart and the soundness of my beliefs and what I hold dear in me. perhaps I am not doing an exhortation to anybody regarding my belief in God, but a scrutiny of the logic and reason of my own belief.
he he he
thanks for replying

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Joemar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:05:02 -0000

Many things have changed since college :) But I miss those really deep and heated discussions we had with our good old friends in UP Tac. Hope we can discuss again soon. But I have a totally different point of view now.

One can always adapt a model of thinking (or imaginary explanation) to interpret events and phenomena. Whether or not these explanations are true is a different question.

If you're just concerned about making sense or in giving meaning in what goes around, religion is more than enough. But, if you care about truth, you've got to limit your imaginations to what can be confirmed by a reality check (for scientists, this would mean an experiment).

Religion is a pursuit of meaning regardless of truth, science is a pursuit of truth regardless of meaning.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Joemar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:55:48 -0000

Probably this explains why some atheists eventually profess a belief in God in their death bed...safe choice at that point in time, rather than risk being eternally damned. :) Fear of death is the basis of all classical religions.

However, these things have never been a matter of life and death to me. Besides, I view death differently. I am not the only agnostic/free thinker who thinks that death is nothing to be feared. I am in fact curious what lies beyond it.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Joemar — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:32:13 -0000

Thanks Mark.

Re: JoemarTaganna.com :: Imagination and the Nature of Science

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:33:49 -0000

whew hope I can still relate to you. nosebleed

Re: JoemarTaganna.com :: Imagination and the Nature of Science

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:26:08 -0000

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:22:52 -0000

You've got nice blogs here joe. i like your posts. he he

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:20:54 -0000

I remember way back in college how you guys do bible brainstorm, I never bothered to give you my opinion since you try to understand it for intellectual simulation besides I'm not as intelligent as you guys. and the point of view you had way back then is, God is defined by religion and interpretations of the bible. my understanding of the God is different, I know God by the way I see little miracles that happens in everyday in our lives. and I mean miracles as Miracles that do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. when I hear a friend say hi, I see it as a miracle. how it warms my heart, it gives encouragement and comfort. I dont associate the feeling as a mere impulse on my brain, It makes more sense to me, and that I know I am living life. I know I am not mere a creature walking on this planet whose sole purpose is to find logical basis for things I do not understand.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:04:18 -0000

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by the rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it? The same with people…Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

Re: Life is Worth Blogging » Blog Archive » How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic

Mark Vincent Granados — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:02:17 -0000

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. C. S. Lewis

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