Comments for Rich's Random Thoughts http://richmccue.com Educational Technology, and other things I don't want to forget... Fri, 16 May 2008 14:49:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Family Friendly Internet - Easy and Free using OpenDNS! by rmccue http://richmccue.com/2008/02/family_friendly_internet/#comment-144 rmccue Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:46:24 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2008/02/21/151/#comment-144 Thanks for the heads up on the Mac version of K9. Here is a link to the mac version (beta) of the <a href="http://www1.k9webprotection.com/getk9/beta.php" rel="nofollow">software</a>. Thanks for the heads up on the Mac version of K9. Here is a link to the mac version (beta) of the software.

]]> Comment on Family Friendly Internet - Easy and Free using OpenDNS! by Anonymous http://richmccue.com/2008/02/family_friendly_internet/#comment-145 Anonymous Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:25:41 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2008/02/21/151/#comment-145 K9 Web Protection has a beta Mac version now, BTW. K9 Web Protection has a beta Mac version now, BTW.

]]> Comment on Mozy: Pain Fee Computer Backups by rich’s random thoughts http://richmccue.com/2007/06/132/#comment-118 rich’s random thoughts Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:12:32 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/04/26/132/#comment-118 [...] OpenDNS along with Mozy Backup and two services that every home should seriously consider using. [...] […] OpenDNS along with Mozy Backup and two services that every home should seriously consider using. […]

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by Odell http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-125 Odell Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:12:37 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-125 Rich: I enjoyed reading your blog. I too left the LDS Church not too long ago as a result of recognizing that all of my spiritual foundations were largely result of the imaginations of a man I wouldn't trust my children to be with- even, Joseph Smith, Jr. As a youngster, I was taught to admire and emulate his life. I can hardly think that my parents and church leaders, had they known the real life and times of Joseph, would have ever encouraged me to be more like him. My best to you and yours on this journey through life. Rich:

I enjoyed reading your blog. I too left the LDS Church not too long ago as a result of recognizing that all of my spiritual foundations were largely result of the imaginations of a man I wouldn’t trust my children to be with- even, Joseph Smith, Jr.

As a youngster, I was taught to admire and emulate his life. I can hardly think that my parents and church leaders, had they known the real life and times of Joseph, would have ever encouraged me to be more like him.

My best to you and yours on this journey through life.

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by bolok http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-130 bolok Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:33:32 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-130 It takes a lot to be so in the open as you are, Rich. My hats off to you. We are kindred spirits in our journey out of the Morg and into rational thinking. My deal breaker was that JS was marrying (spiritually of course) other men's wives... If you believe that was okay then you have to accept that Gordon B could knock on your door and take your wife today. May your journey continue with a brightened path. -bolok It takes a lot to be so in the open as you are, Rich. My hats off to you.

We are kindred spirits in our journey out of the Morg and into rational thinking. My deal breaker was that JS was marrying (spiritually of course) other men’s wives… If you believe that was okay then you have to accept that Gordon B could knock on your door and take your wife today.

May your journey continue with a brightened path.

-bolok

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by Don http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-132 Don Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:19:24 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-132 I too recently announced my reasons for leaving the Church and sent a link to my blog to a few close friends in the morg. You can read my reasons here : http://operation-oppressed.blogspot.com Welcome to "outer happiness" ! I too recently announced my reasons for leaving the Church and sent a link to my blog to a few close friends in the morg. You can read my reasons here :

http://operation-oppressed.blogspot.com

Welcome to “outer happiness” !

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by rmccue http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-131 rmccue Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:53:11 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-131 Sam, Thank-you for your post. I love your thoughts on the "church" not being the buildings or formal organization. I think that having a community of some kind can be helpful for many people to grow and serve each other, but when the needs of the community (or organization) start to take presidence over the needs of the indivuduals, then everyone involved should take a hard look at what they are doing and why they are doing it. Good luck on your journey. I look forward to checking out your website when it is back up and running. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste#Meanings_in_global_culture" rel="nofollow">Namaste</a> Rich Sam,

Thank-you for your post. I love your thoughts on the “church” not being the buildings or formal organization. I think that having a community of some kind can be helpful for many people to grow and serve each other, but when the needs of the community (or organization) start to take presidence over the needs of the indivuduals, then everyone involved should take a hard look at what they are doing and why they are doing it.

Good luck on your journey. I look forward to checking out your website when it is back up and running.

Namaste

Rich

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by sam http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-128 sam Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:05 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-128 Hi Interesting read. My website is down right now. Be up again next week, so I left the address. LOL. I am a Christian. I dropped out of the church scene back in 1999, when I resigned my position as a pastor in a Vineyard church in Ontario, Canada. I became involved in the house church movement, and still am. I will never go back to man centred religion, which most of Evangelical and mainstream Christianity has become. A society focused on rules and duty, with little of no life, and no resemblance to the New Testament church you read about in the Book of Acts and the Epistles. No thanks. Church is people, people gathered in community around the person of Jesus and His Word. It is service to God and to others, in works of love and compassion, living out the Kingdom of God as a family. Church has NOTHING to do with buildlings, professional clergy, programs, my staring at the back of a person's head, listening to sermons, and putting my two sheckels in the offering plate once a week! That is totally unscriptural. It took me until I was 40 to wake up. I was raised a minister/missionary's son, and became an ordained minister myself. I finally broke the cycle of non-biblical dysfunctional, non-sensical, duty-bound, don't question Christianity. What a relief! Hi
Interesting read. My website is down right now. Be up again next week, so I left the address. LOL.
I am a Christian. I dropped out of the church scene back in 1999, when I resigned my position as a pastor in a Vineyard church in Ontario, Canada.
I became involved in the house church movement, and still am. I will never go back to man centred religion, which most of Evangelical and mainstream Christianity has become. A society focused on rules and duty, with little of no life, and no resemblance to the New Testament church you read about in the Book of Acts and the Epistles.
No thanks. Church is people, people gathered in community around the person of Jesus and His Word. It is service to God and to others, in works of love and compassion, living out the Kingdom of God as a family. Church has NOTHING to do with buildlings, professional clergy, programs, my staring at the back of a person’s head, listening to sermons, and putting my two sheckels in the offering plate once a week! That is totally unscriptural. It took me until I was 40 to wake up. I was raised a minister/missionary’s son, and became an ordained minister myself. I finally broke the cycle of non-biblical dysfunctional, non-sensical, duty-bound, don’t question Christianity. What a relief!

]]> Comment on A Canadian Version of the DMCA is a BAD Idea! by rmccue http://richmccue.com/2007/12/canadian_dmca_bad/#comment-140 rmccue Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:55:11 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/12/08/147/#comment-140 Sounds like the government had second thoughts over the weekend. From the CBC: "A controversial bill that seeks to reform Canadian copyright laws, expected to be introduced early this week, may be quashed after a groundswell of opposition erupted over the past week." http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/10/tech-copyright.html Sounds like the government had second thoughts over the weekend. From the CBC:

“A controversial bill that seeks to reform Canadian copyright laws, expected to be introduced early this week, may be quashed after a groundswell of opposition erupted over the past week.”

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/10/tech-copyright.html

]]> Comment on Why I don’t go to church every Sunday anymore… by rmccue http://richmccue.com/2007/11/why_i_am_a_non-believing_mormon/#comment-134 rmccue Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:12:53 +0000 http://richmccue.com/2007/11/22/146/#comment-134 Thank-you for your thoughtful response. You mention that the advice to "gain a testimony through bearing it" is only useful advice for someone sincerely seeking spiritual knowledge. I disagree with that for the simple reason that a person should at the very least always be truthful to his or her self. That doesn't mean that they can't exercise faith and change their behaviour (living the gospel, reading scriptures, praying, etc) in order to try to find out if something is true. But to say that something is "true" without that personal knowledge is deceptive, and I feel helps perpetuate falsehoods... How do you know who truely believes and who is "faking it until they make it"? An example of this that most people have heard of is the story of the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes" rel="nofollow">Emperors's new Cloths</a>. No one except the child had the courage to speak the truth... everyone was embarrassed that they could not see the invisible cloths, so they lied to each other so that they could fit in with the group.  After letting family and friends know that I am no longer a believer, I was surprised at the number of people in my ward who have privatly told me that they go to church for social and family reasons only, and have not believed the religous dogma for some time. Thank-you for your thoughtful response. You mention that the advice to “gain a testimony through bearing it” is only useful advice for someone sincerely seeking spiritual knowledge. I disagree with that for the simple reason that a person should at the very least always be truthful to his or her self. That doesn’t mean that they can’t exercise faith and change their behaviour (living the gospel, reading scriptures, praying, etc) in order to try to find out if something is true. But to say that something is “true” without that personal knowledge is deceptive, and I feel helps perpetuate falsehoods… How do you know who truely believes and who is “faking it until they make it”?

An example of this that most people have heard of is the story of the Emperors’s new Cloths. No one except the child had the courage to speak the truth… everyone was embarrassed that they could not see the invisible cloths, so they lied to each other so that they could fit in with the group.  After letting family and friends know that I am no longer a believer, I was surprised at the number of people in my ward who have privatly told me that they go to church for social and family reasons only, and have not believed the religous dogma for some time.

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