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bayooooooo: How can impartial God favored Jacob even from the womb of his Mother? What was the offence of Esau?

Man do you know how much that fucking pissed me off when reading it as a kid?

What did Esau do that God decided to hate him?

What crime did he commit?

Why was it OK for Jacob to DECEIVE HIS FATHER to steal Esau's birthright?

Why was God playing tricks behind Isaac's back to defraud him?

Man that story made me angry.

Someone tell me what Esau did that was wrong.

kandiikane: They said we were made from his image, if we can make mistakes, he probably can.

This is probably a good point.

God probably is just a more powerful version of us.

Maybe the Greek/Roman concept of God (or rather, the gods) is the correct one.

kandiikane: lol, after you don question your faith finish?

Hehe

Well, I was raised to question almost everything. I don't think there is anything wrong with asking questions about your religion, so you can better understand it.

Or maybe God isn't omnipotent?

Because if he is omnipotent, and he let the devil get into the garden and tempt humans, then he sounds like a really....well, you fill in the blanks.

Maybe God is not as strong as we think. Also, remember in the Old Testament, he said he wanted to prevent Adam and Eve from eating from the 2nd tree, the one that gives eternal life or something.

So maybe I'm misinterpreting these things. If he is not omnipotent, if he makes mistakes too, then I guess we can chalk these things up just to errors he made. Not evil or vindictiveness.

Anyway, with all this said, I still like Christianity and consider myself a Christian.

It overall is a pretty good religion.

But I think if you think too deeply about some parts of it, you will drive yourself insane.

I think if you spend too much time thinking about the Old Testament, you will become an atheist. Either that, or someone who hates supernatural forces or hates God.

It is better to just think about the New Testament, in my opinion.

At least the God of that book is loving and kind.

You went to ALL THIS EFFORT to make the world in 7 days, make human beings, but you let the Devil roam around and Bleep it all up.

Why? What is the point of that?

You let your BIGGEST ENEMY hang around your kids?

Why would you do that?

Why is it the kids fault, and not your own?

If it were a man doing what God did in Genesis, that man would be arrested and locked up, and his kids taken away from him. We'd call such a man a negligent father, no?

The fall of man.

Why did this happen? Satan tempted the woman into eating from the forbidden fruit.

OK..................

So why on earth did God let Satan into this garden!?!?!?!

Why did he put a forbidden tree there? why not put the forbidden tree on the moon or something, where they can't get it?

Am I going to put a shotgun next to a 3 year old child and tell them "Don't touch?" Or will I put the shotgun very far away where they cannot reach?

Will I let an evil person enter the same place where I am keeping this three year old child? So that the evil person will tell the child to pick up the shotgun and shoot it?

The Bible is a very confusing and frustrating book at times

To be honest, some of these stories just sound very petty.

OK, all-powerful God makes some human beings. And they misbehave, and he doesn't like them.

So why not just move away? If you are displeased with them, is it by force to constantly hang around them?

If the earth and the people on it are evil and desperately wicked, why not just leave them be and go do your own thing? Make some other creatures you like better in another universe somewhere.

Also, why not just kill the troublesome devil? You are all-powerful God, right? So why does the devil even exist? Why does sin even exist?

What about the flood. God killed everyone on earth but one man's family.

So even a 1 month old baby deserves to die? 1 month baby that can barely do anything is wicked and should be killed too?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Most of the story in the bible seem pretty wicked.

The Bible makes God seem like a wicked God. In the old testaments sha.[/quote]+100

Sacrifice your first born child. Wipe out this village, killing every man, woman and child. God doing dares in heaven with the devil, and a man's family being wiped out as a result

Without trying to be sacriligeous, the Old Testament God doesn't sound very different from any of these mean gods we have in Yorubaland who require human sacrifice and sh1t

Kandiikane is the type of chick you might try to knock up on purpose, though

Hmm.

The only problem though is that if you have a kid with her and the child is a GIRL, then you will have a very stressful life. Trying to keep the boys away from that girl

Imagine how hard it must have been to have been one of Kandiikane's teachers in school. How can you concentrate on your lesson plan? You'd be distracted and just stare at her lips.

You had better pray for only male children

kandiikane: Plus, I have to make sure you are rich and can look after the child. Not just working a 9-5 job trying to make ends meet.

lmao

African women! Why I love them. Straight and direct to the point.

All about the $$$$$$$.

No bread, no play.

Though for kandiikane, I would probably make an exception for this "no baby mamma" rule

Heh. The best thing to do is to test your code frequently. The longer a gap between your tests, potentially the more additional work you create for yourself.

That variable change was simply an example. If you think that this doesn't occur in real code, or is a sign of a poorly planned program...

Anyway, my comments stand. Focus on what is important in programming, not the irrelevant

Job is one of those books in the Bible that can test the faith of any believer. If the Bible was only about Job, then I'm not sure how attractive Christianity would be.

1. If by "correctness of code", you mean "does this do what I intended", the correct approach for that is writing tests, actually. E.g. unit testing. Or even better, proving correctness of your code.

2. If by "correctness of code", you mean, "finding minor syntax errors"...well, those will be discovered very rapidly, IDE or no. In fact, the compiler or interpreter will reveal this to you.

If you forgot a semi-colon at the end of a line, g++ (for example) will quickly notify you. So there is nothing gained by using a text editor per se.

3. Proficiency is gained via practice and experience. It is better to gain this experience using good tools for the job, not crappy ones.

Bad tools only slow you down.

Let's say I'm working on a project, and want to find where I defined a group of functions for which their names include the text "ekt_bear".

I want to replace all instances of that text with the text "obiagu".

On the Unix command If I want to do this, I can type:

grep -lr "ekt_bear" target_directory | xargs sed -i "s/ekt_bear/obiagu/g"

This will replace all instances of "ekt_bear" with "obiagu" in the folder target_directory.

Does it really matter if an IDE provides the same functionality or not?

It is a tedious task, irrelevant to the actual job of programming. Whether you do it via command line or via IDE, your programming skills have not improved one iota.

Syntax is not particularly important.

In C++, a for loop looks like:

for (i=0; i<= N-1; i++){
blahblah
}

In Ruby:
(0...N).each do |i|
blahblah
end

(well, this is one way to do it, there are several.)

Are you really telling me the important thing is to memorize the difference in the syntax between these examples? Rather than the more important thing of understanding the CONCEPT of loops?

Which is more important...fundamental concepts, or syntax?

To any young programmers being confused by some of the nonsense the OP and others are saying, here is my advice:

1) Use whichever text-editing tool you feel most comfortable with. Text editors are simply productivity tools, they are in no way "cheating." If you don't understand Algorithm X, then no text editor on earth will help you understand it.

2) Anyone who tells you that to be a good programmer you need to start off with assembler, C, or C++, they are 100% full of horsesh1t. If you actually read any of these academic papers which introduce a new algorithm, they sketch the algorithm idea in pseudo-code. They don't write it in assembly or C. So clearly, these languages are irrelevant for actually coming up with useful ideas. The idea is what is important, not that the idea was written in language Y.

3) Focus on improving your math skills. A lot of ideas in programming and computer science become trivial if you are solid at math. Recursion is basically just induction, for example.

logica: LMAO.

No! No! Real programmers don't use high-level languages; they program in Assembly Language or even Machine Code!

It is the same people who don't understand recursion and don't understand when to data structure X over data structure Y who will then think they are "cool" because they program in assembler/C/C++ using Vim/Emacs.

Give me the Javascript programmer who understands recursion, understands mergesort, and can implement a linked list from scratch, over the "real programmer" who cannot do these things.

The former guy is obviously bright enough to master new syntax. The latter guy, not too much you can do with him.

I really do not get why certain people in the programming community act like this. It is counter-productive and misses the point.

kandiikane: lol, you sure. So many men say that.

I'm 26. I don't really have any peers or close friends around my age who have children outside of wedlock. In the unlikely event that I impregnated a girl unintentionally, it'd be someone I was probably thinking of marrying anyway. So we'd just get married.

Baby-daddy stuff, baby-mamma stuff is not part of my culture.

If you even want to make is about a display of "coolness" rather than actually whether you are a good programmer or not, at least use as an example like Vim or Emacs.

That is what programming posers/nerds talk about, not frikkin Notepad.

Notepad is just a dumb choice for programming.

It screws up the formatting and display of your text. For a language like Python (for example) where indentation is important, you are screwed. And for almost other language where the way the text is displayed is important, you are also screwed.

Being a good programmer is not about whether you use Notepad or an IDE.

Look, you either understand programming concepts or you don't. If you do, it doesn't matter whether you are coding on a piece of paper, napkin, Notepad, or an IDE.

And if you don't, Notepad won't help you any.

The OP's topic misses the point of programming, imo.

Focus on learning loops, recursion, variables and their scope, data structures and algorithms.

IDE vs. Notepad is irrelevant.

Awo. Greatest African in history.

May I accomplish 1/100th of what he did

Imo girls rock

Very friendly and nice, at least to ekt_bear

Imo girl haters like chino11 can go hug transformer

i don't have any pikin yet lol

mod needs to delete that photo...that is disgusting

Correct yarn.

More LGAs, less states.

Lmao.

NL Chinenye is a much younger guy in his 20s, no? Based in yankee. So probably not this dude.

Though it is funny to think of our militant Ngwa guy as the leader of a kidnap gang

The worst thing about his actions is that if by chance Igbos are killed in the north in response to his statement and someone calls him out on his tweets, he will say:

"Oh, I didn't actually SAY these words! I only retweeted them! And that I retweeted them does not mean I endorse or agree with it."

Meh.

If you make a wild accusation, then surely there is some burden on you to provide evidence for it.