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Comment on Counting Cards by Jair

Jair — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:03:44 +0000

That is not an unreasonable assumption, when I had the Noscript add on there it would have been very unlikely I was ever counted.

Comment on Love Is the Law by Terumah 5770 – Only Let Us Be Called « Jay's Thoughts on Stuff

Terumah 5770 – Only Let Us Be Called « Jay's Thoughts on Stuff — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:16:36 +0000

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Comment on Visitor 10,000 by jay c

jay c — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:11:44 +0000

I use sitemeter.com. The biggest problem with it is that it misses some visitors, and I have no idea how many. I just know that every now and again someone will tell me they read something on my blog, but sitemeter has no record of them being there. It also won’t pick up on feedreaders. You might try Google Analytics. It shows much of the same info, but it doesn’t appear to let you see all the info on a particular visitor. It only shows that you had one visitor using IE, one visitor using Firefox, one using Windows XP, one using Mac OS X, but it won’t tell you directly that the visitor using Firefox was on Mac.

Comment on Visitor 10,000 by Mark C

Mark C — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:48:01 +0000

Congrats, Jay. (I’m a LONG way from that myself, being very much a latecomer…but I’m curious if you have some particular sitemeter tool that you like. The standard logs from my host don’t seem to have that kind of detail.)

Comment on B’shalach 5770 – Keeping God’s What? by Let light replace suffering through acceptance | Real Doctor Jay's Blog

Let light replace suffering through acceptance | Real Doctor Jay's Blog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:51:24 +0000

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Comment on B’shalach 5770 – Keeping God’s What? by jay c

jay c — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:58:25 +0000

I think that’s true to a certain extent, but not nearly as far as many people think. I think God’s laws can be put into a few categories for this purpose.

1. Commands to a specific person (or people) for a specific purpose don’t apply to anyone else. I’m not supposed to take ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun to attack the Canaanites. That was Barak’s job.

2. Commands for general behavior from a particular class of people within Israel don’t directly apply to other classes of people. Most Israelites are free to marry a widow or legitimately divorced woman from any nation or tribe so long as she has converted to the worship of YHWH, while a high priest may only marry a virgin of Israel.

3. Commands for general behavior from Israel don’t directly apply to other nations. For example, no one outside of Israel is allowed to eat the Passover lamb. (You mentioned that example, and when I opened e-sword to verify the names of Barak’s two tribes, it opened to the passage in 1 Corinthians that quotes “this do in remembrance of me.” I was just reading it last night.%2

Comment on B’shalach 5770 – Keeping God’s What? by bethyada

bethyada — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:46:59 +0000

I think it depends on the purpose of a particular law. Some laws may be to test obedience: Don’t do this solely because I say so; some because of the intrinsic wrongness: Don’t do this evil; and some because it is a criteria to belong to a group: Drink this in remembrance of me. There may be other examples.

The concept of standards existing regardless of (and prior to) our awareness only seems to apply to “refrain from evil.”

Comment on Vayera 5770 – Faith in God’s Call by jay c

jay c — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:26 +0000

Everything in life is a balancing act. Having realized that God appointed me to a certain role in life, I am sometimes tempted to believe that the role exists for me and not the other way around, that because I am a teacher and a writer, God created a role to use my abilities. That’s not so. God had a role for me to fill and he gave me the ability to begin filling it. Only by relying on him, by trusting in his continuing grace and provision can I be everything he needs me to be. Without God we are inadequate to any truly worthwhile task. With God we are more than conquerors!

Comment on Vayera 5770 – Faith in God’s Call by Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:52:18 +0000

I’ve had those same excuses myself thinking I’m way too inadequate to be used by YHWH. But then I think it’s my weaknesses that make me rely totally on Him, to allow Him to take over and work through me. I’m reminded of the scripture about His strength being made perfect in our weakness. 2 Cor 12:9

Comment on Imported Haloscan Comments by Justin Watt

Justin Watt — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:11:04 +0000

You’re welcome!