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Beautiful! Yes, Jesus did give us the prime directive. However unlike the Pharisees he willing “to lift a finger” to help with them. He gave us his teaching. He gave us his Church. He gave us the Holy Spirit to live out the prime directive.

He also gave us the Eucharist. The body of Christ doesn’t distract us from our work - it allows us to do our work better. So to debate about the Eucharist is how athletes debate about training regimens or diets. If we can improve how we prepare ourselves for the work that need to be done, we can do the will of God better.

You are right, Jesus hated those Pharisaic formalities that prevented people from actual loving others. However Jesus did participate in other Jewish “formalities”. He celebrated the Passover, the festival of tents, he was presented at the temple, and so on.

To say Jesus believes all formalities are bad is not true.

For this partially question, what is wine, I don’t think it is preventing us from loving God and neighbor. I do think it is important because of the centrality of wine in the Gospels. T he miracle of the wedding feast at Cana, image of the vine and branches, and with the culmination of the last supper.

I don’t see how this is Pharisaic in nature. The way I read it, the issue is: what is wine? The definition of a thing and debate around the definition is something that everybody does. Just remember the hot dog/sandwich war which took the lives of so many… Pharisaic concerns would be about nonessential things like the color of the bottle the wine is in, the cork or bottle cap, etc.

What materialists and some scientists forget is that matter matters. What materialists, some scientists, gnostics, and some Protestants forget is that matter has spiritual matters. God became man so that man could become God - Athanasius [1]

Jews (and thus Jesus) followed particular instructions by to obtain material effects (think Passover or Jericho). Similar to preparing a meal, particular ingredients and particular processes yield a particular result. Change some of the ingredients and you get a different result.

What Jesus did in the Last Supper was to elevate material behaviors to produce spiritual effects. He takes the Passover meal and uses it to share his divinity.

If wine and bread is needed to share his divinity, then the questions of what is wine and what is bread are of the utmost importance for a Catholic.

[1] - https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-so-that-we-might-become-god...

3D PIE CHART!!!!

Sources? Mother Jones clearly has theirs, otherwise I would have to accuse you of "trying to polarize a situation".

I've heard it said: Never lend money to a friend... Give it away.

You can actually do that already. Just go to github.com/user/repo/search

So: https://github.com/rails/rails/search

How do you guys release features as "staff-only"? Do you have some internal tool that manages that?

Don't forget the infamous Film Actors Guild.

There are numerous benefits to having someone with social influence work for your company. Say your developer has a large following on Twitter.

- Any problem that they don't know how to solve can be solicited to x number of people. - If they encounter a bug in 3rd party software that your company uses and publicly bitch about it, the better chance you have to get a timely fix. - If your company uses/creates open source software, it is more visibile, and there is a greater likelihood that more people will contribute to it. - They market your company. - They attract more desirable hires.

I disagree, for software engineers it is becoming more important to have a greater online influence. Employers are looking more and more at how involved people are in open source projects (eg. github profiles).

People with blogs and StackOverflow profiles public expose how much they actually know about software development. Then when they have a greater following or more points that is a validation that what are saying is accurate.

Klout is really just an arbitrary reputation ranking system, just like the Bartonphink system. However the difference lies in what people conclude from an individual's ranking. People use Bartonphink to rank someone on their pertinence to bartonfink. People use Klout to "measure someone's online influence". This is extraordinarily important to businesses looking to do marketing, sales, customer service, etc.

The point I think you are missing is that Klout, and other ranking systems, can give a quick and objective assessment of someone's value or ability in a certain area.

Here's a list of ranking systems and what they indicate:

Klout -> online influence StackOverflow -> programming expertise FourSquare -> loyalty to a business Credit Score -> fiscal responsibility HackerNews Karma -> ability to provide interesting and pertinent points of conversation

I did something like this a while back (http://1week1project.com/tagged/week-9?chrono=1). The hardest thing was trying to set a price, ie Should I pay myself $25 to schedule a dentist appointment?

It would be really cool if you were able have some better way to determine the payout for a certain goal. Perhaps you have your friends vote on it or something like that.

Here's the reason I started it: http://1week1project.com/post/925649367/prologue

and the rules I setup for myself: http://1week1project.com/post/930496448/the-rules

TL;DR: In an effort to organize my ideas and actually get something done, I created this meta-project with 9 rules to act as a framework to guide my endeavors.

I'd appreciate any feedback you gals/guys have on the project itself, the projects I've worked on, the organization of the site, etc.

Essentially, how could it be better?

Thanks.

In your post you present a lot of new information that could help your business but you don't have a lot of experience in those matters. Don't let this stop you from trying them. Instead learn as you go. Keep them under constant surveillance. Figure out what you want a strategy to accomplish. As you utilize it, if it isn't leading you to your goal, cut it off. If it is then foster and encourage it.