Posts Made By: William Paolini

You should have no problem selling this for $400-$420. Excellent eyepiece. I often put a 2.5x Barlow on it and it absolutely blows away the Nagler 2-4 Zoom (at the 4mm setting) for lunar observing. Much sharper.

There have been a number of studies like this, and generally they show the same results. Here's another one as example - http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/AtheitsHated.htm.

One must remember (before anyone posts something not appropriate here), that studies like these do not reveal anything about the group in question, but more about the other groups. I think if you look at the study and the questions, it is reasonable to conclude that what they are revealing is how any group generally feels about another group that they know little about. There is always a level of distrust and formation of opinions based on misinformation about little understood groups. Since atheists are a relatively small portion of the population, they will probably not be understood well at all by the other groups in the population, and therefore generally trusted less than groups and people known.

To illustrate, when Catholics were an emerging group in America, there was much mistrust of them, and really a lot of this mistrust still persists in pockets here and there. Here's a bit about it - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5351/

It's human psychology to distrust what you don't understand...the human race still struggles with even the basic tenants of Christ's teachings. Amazing?

The passing of any human being is always a sad thing, as there are others who no doubt called that person son, father, brother, and friend. Regardless of the deeds of his life, and which of those God may consider under the control of sin or not, those closest who knew and cherished him are hurting. For them may God ease their pain, and for his soul may God grant His grace and mercy.

A Prayer for the Unbelievers -
O God, the everlasting Creator of all things, remember that the souls of unbelievers were made by You and formed in Your own image and likeness. Remember that Jesus endured a most bitter death for their salvation. Forget their idolatry and unbelief, and grant that they too may some day know Christ, who is our Salvation, our Life and Resurrection, by whom we have been saved and delivered, to whom be glory for endless ages.
Amen.

Why perplexed? It happened to Adam and Eve, and continues today with every single person or every faith (or non-faith). It's nothing more and nothing less than sin at work. It's not a matter of "if" any religious sin, only a matter of where they draw the line where they do sin. Knowing one's "line" is the key to being able to move it.

Understand your point...and agree. People show situational ethics all the time. In your example with that commandment, a better situation would probably be the death penalty, or state sanctioned murder. If you don't exercise your right to protest against it, or if you don't vote against it, then you are supporting murder IMO. More controversial but still to the same point, abortion and euthanasia.

As a reminder...

MATTHEW 5:21-24 " You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.' "But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, 'Raca!' shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, 'You fool!' shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift."

IMO situational ethics will always be seen, even from the most devout of any religion or philosophy. Why? Sin.

Merry Christmas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For whatever the primary scope is...

-Largest TFOV I could muster with a 5-6mm exit pupil
-2mm exit pupil
-1mm exit pupil
-0.75mm exit pupil

AFOV's no larger than 68-70 degrees on the Max TFOV eyepiece, all others 82 degrees or larger.

I think Anacortes and AMart should always have a strong presence there. For AMart, in keeping with its main focus, there should be a large table and AMart members can drop off their eyepieces and gear to display on the table for others to buy, and if they sell then Herb handles the sale and at the end of the day takes 10% or 15% of the selling price as the consignment commission for the sale. At end of day or show those who dropped off item to display can get their portion of the sale or their item back. Heck, I'd be willing to also fork over $5 per item just to be able to put it on the table also as it would get all that traffic.

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Brian,

Remember two things through this...

1) Cancer is limited ... it cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot corrode faith, it cannot eat away peace, it cannot destroy confidence, it cannot shut out memories it cannot silence courage, it cannot invade the soul, it cannot reduce eternal life, it cannot quench the spirit, and it cannot lessen the power of the Resurrection.

2) That you and your mom can every day, regardless of the circumstances of that day, share love, foster hope, support each other in faith, promote peace, build confidence, recall with joy memories, give each other courage, uplift your souls, pray for eternal life, enliven your spirits, and be reverent in the power of the Reurrection.

Don't give cancer the power it does not have. Always just focus on #2 as this brings all good things. God bless.