From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017011010492854220-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Are you saying that some people are instinctively contrarian ?   If I say   
   > yes, they say no. If I say blue, they say red ?   I've known a few people   
   > like that. People who could be counted on to take a contrary position to   
   > anything I said.  My old friend Dee was one.  It's fun for a while, but   
   > can become tiresome.  Expecially when that turns into a reflex, where they   
   > disagree just too be doing it.  Can't really make much progress if someone   
   > is always disagreeing with pretty much anything you say or try to do.   
      
   No, nothing like that but rather the tendency to push back in response to   
   being pushed...and so-called 'religion', actually Faith, is nothing to be   
   pushed...IF the Objective is Truly to further its Cause!   
      
   > Aren't you leaving out the temptor ?   
      
   Leaving him out of what? Adam and Eve *both* Shirked their Responsibility to   
   Obey their Lord and Deliberately Disobeyed Him, and thus also Rebelled   
   against Him...temptation being NO EXCUSE, which is no different from   
   soldiers accused of participating in atrocities COPPING OUT by claiming that   
   they were 'only following orders'!   
      
   > I believe Jobs was a Buddist.  You can check that, look it up.   
      
   Yeah, there was something abouot that, but his *behavior* was atheistic i.e.   
   as though there is no God who forbids his Dishonest dealings with others.   
      
   > Whatever Job's failings, his company made good computers. He understood a   
   > very basic thing, that they HAD TO WORK.  It amazes me that anyone without   
   > a support staff can use a pc. I know Neil does pc work for a living, so   
   > maybe he'd be the one to enlighten me. For music, it's mac's or don't   
   > bother. At least for live work, for what I do. That's sad, as Cook doesn't   
   > understand this market at all, is ruining the macbook pros for any content   
   > producing use.   
      
   PCs work fine. Usually it's WinBLOWS that's the problem, so there's always   
   Linux for an OS.   
      
   > I spent last night looking for other software that can do what I do, and   
   > on a pc. I've used Cubase in the past. I'd would probably literally take   
   > an " act of God " to get me back in that hole. Steinbergs mac support was   
   > horrific when I used it, about 10 years back.  Guess they got bought by a   
   > real company, so maybe it's better now.  Looking at Presonus' Studio One.   
   > I may buy their medium size package and see if it's usable, for what I do.   
      
   You just prefer the computer Monopoly company...and that's the very reason   
   i.e. I Hate Monopolies, that iWON'T!   
      
   > My other option is to baby these last two macbook pro's I have a while in   
   > the hopes that Apple's board dumps Cook and starts making improvements to   
   > their computers again. Or, sells the computer divisions off, and so they   
   > can spend their time making ever more expensive cell phones. Let someone   
   > who cares about computers have the computer line.   
      
   That, or Repents!!!   
   Because one day they will stand before their Creator and give an account for   
   their behavior...and in response will hear the reply:   
      
   Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the   
   foundation of the world:   
      
   Or...   
      
   Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and   
   his angels:   
      
   Just imagine how much better a world we'd have if more people took that   
   Seriously!!!   
      
   > This country was founded by religious people.  My lib friends would argue   
   > they were " theists ", rather than Christians.   
      
   Jim   
      
   The term is Deists, and I used to be one myself, and there were some, but   
   most were NOT.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)