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Originally posted by MartinN View PostIf you're asking if I was there to witness it, no I wasn't - and neither were the nearly 3 billion Christians today in person to witness the resurrected Christ. You get absolute, unmistakable knowledge of Christ when you surrender to Him.
The question most people have is - why should I surrender to Christ? My life is just fine without him - then they turn back and dive right into their sin... pride.... greed... lust.... anger....gluttony.... envy.... laziness.... These map into specific realities when they take form... popular among geeks would be enjoyment of pornography.... for instance, tagged along by masturbation. Some are married and cheat on their spouses.... Others are obese...
When you sin long enough, it becomes normal, and then we become resigned and desensitized to it to the point of being angry and defensive (skeptical, intellectual, whoring for agreement/admiration, etc,, is part of this too), just like you and a whole lot of others here are who would much rather enjoy their sin until death, and go straight to hell than turn away from it and enjoy eternal life with God, by accepting Christ's payment for sin, His atonement for all of humanity, by faith and repentance.
So if it looks like your life is "just fine" without surrendering to God (i.e. radical transformation of your identity/behavior)... that's something to ponder on (or not).
THAT is how you will find out whether Christ is a myth or not. And of course, you can try and overcome sin by surrendering to Muhammed, Allah (a moon god, nothing to do with God of the Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), "Thor" (heheheheheh!), Zeus, Manitou (good one, didn't think of the native indians ).... or you can just create your own version of god... like the homosexuals did when they created the Queen James Bible . Heck, if I don't like the rules - I'm just gonna rewrite them!
Question to the administraion, and OP. What any of this has to do with cams and FBI? If you want to discuss moral, or what you like or don't, please open another thread. I also jumped in regrettably, so feel free to delete my off topic posts.
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Originally posted by MartinN View Post... the topic of animal sacrifice ... animal sacrifices have ended ... Jesus Christ was the ultimate and perfect sacrifice ... the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world ... since the animals did no wrong, they died in place of the one performing the sacrifice to atone for the sins of men ... Jesus Christ also did no wrong but willingly gave Himself to die for the sins of mankind ... Jesus Christ took our sin upon Himself and died in our place ... God made him (Jesus) who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God ... accomplished on the cross, we can receive forgiveness ... Animal sacrifices were commanded by God so that the individual could experience forgiveness of sin ... the animal died in place of the sinner, but only temporarily, which is why the sacrifices needed to be offered over and over ... Jesus Christ was the ultimate sacrificial substitute once for all time ...
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Originally posted by MartinN View PostJust because you can gather agreement with others, doesn't make it untrue.
Same goes for souls, ghosts, heaven, hell, unicorns, magic, etc.
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We now know how the NSA reflashes BIOS's on shipped computers
Originally posted by halfmanhalfamazing View PostCheck this story out:
Ex-Official Says FBI Can Secretly Activate an Individual?s Webcam Without the Indicator Light Turning On
?The FBI has been able to covertly activate a computer?s camera - without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording - for several years, and has used that technique mainly in terrorism cases or the most serious criminal investigations.?
Much as I have suspected, many BIOS/firmware exploits against pre-chosen computers are done the old fashoned way: intercept the computer in shipment and reflash the BIOS. The NSA's "Tailored Access Operation" or TAO is confirmed to be intercepting computers being shipped to known customers, and to prefer BIOS modifications to software/hardware changes when modding shipped computers.
The countermeasure to this is obvious: Never order any device containing firmware or processors by mail/delivery. Always buy it off a store shelf, even if you are an embassy needing twenty machines. In addition, never download a BIOS update to any IP address you can be predicted to be using-unless you honeypotting, seeking to reverse-engineer the code to catch the NSA or their (still-unproven) buddies at the FBI in the act instead of using the code.
Hell I ought to learn some Assembly and do exactly that..
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With a to-C decompiler this would get soo easy
Originally posted by curaga View Post...or wait for libbeauty to get better and have a to-C decompiler
Locally cached stuff could be found by digging out references to writing to any disk, needing some programming knowledge to do but not much.
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Originally posted by Luke View PostOnce you have something like C decompilation, it would be so easy to open the code in gedit or pluma and just do a string search on "http," "ftp" and then check all numbers long enough to be an IP address for any suspicious code around them. No programming knowledge would be needed, only an extracted copy of your BIOS and the decompiler. This would be to catch phone-home software of ANY type.
Locally cached stuff could be found by digging out references to writing to any disk, needing some programming knowledge to do but not much.
Even in open source BSD had a hidden backdoor for two decades.
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Originally posted by cbgoding View PostI know, I know. "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Insert burden of proof argument here. However... The majority of atheists I've met, myself included, are agnostic atheists. Gnostic = knowing, agnostic = not knowing. We don't claim to know that there isn't a god, but we see no evidence of one, and live our lives accordingly.
Same goes for souls, ghosts, heaven, hell, unicorns, magic, etc.
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