Episode 212 - WWKAD: What Would Kevin And Alex Do? [Discussion]

[hectos]

great show guys...let me know when you want to do DN from big D.

[bellz]

Here's the best explanation I've seen about whether or not to eat pork (or other food) per the Bible.
I'd personally prefer if Diggnation didn't get into religious or political discussions on the show. It's an argument that can't be won, because there's always someone wanting to argue the other point.

"Please note that this was required by God of His people in the Old Testament.
He set up many laws to keep His people pure. As pigs were seen as animals that
ate garbage etc. God called them unclean. Pigs/pork was not an acceptable
sacrifice for the atonement for sins. However, in the New Testament, this law
was "lifted." Because of Jesus' death on the cross (and resurrection),
sacrifices were no longer needed as Jesus was the final sacrifice and faith in
Him was the only way man could be pure before God. It was no longer necessary
for God's people to leave by these strict rules. God declares this once
unclean food clean in the following passage in a dream to Peter.
Acts 11:4-10
4Peter began and explained everything to them precisely as it had happened:
5"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw
something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners,
and it came down to where I was. 6I looked into it and saw four-footed animals
of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of the air. 7Then I heard a
voice telling me, 'Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.'
8"I replied, 'Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my
mouth.'
9"The voice spoke from heaven a second time, 'Do not call anything impure that
God has made clean.'
10This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up
to heaven again."

[dizmog]

If I understand Alex, and I think I do, why doesn't he use something like Mozilla's Thunderbird. It's like outlook (which he probably has anyways), but free & from Mozilla.

I have 3 gmail addresses, my work email and a hotmail junk email all loaded into my Thunderbird.

Dunno, maybe I misunderstood, but it seems like a simple solution.

http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

[feebee]

Really liked the episode. I like when shows are not afraid of religion or politics. Sure your bound to piss some people off with whatever views you have. However I found the whole discussion very real and down to earth. I would like to see stuff like that more often in diggnation.

[joeyrock]

Wow, never knew Kevin and Alex were religious/believers... weird

[sebastian20]

Originally Posted by masherscf

That's funny. France is named for a Germanic groups of tribes called the Franks who pushed out the Celtic tribes that occupied the land before the common era. This happened much the same way the Germanic Anglo-Saxons displaced that the Celts that occupied Britain around the same time.

So, maybe the Germans never left France.

Jah... secretely, we've been on our way to world dominance for thousands of years... only that Hitler guy was to indiscrete, you know? (Is it okay for me to make jokes like that? I always wonder, people from other countries joke about the time between 1933 - 1945, but what if a German does it?)

[sebastian20]

Originally Posted by feebee

Really liked the episode. I like when shows are not afraid of religion or politics. Sure your bound to piss some people off with whatever views you have. However I found the whole discussion very real and down to earth. I would like to see stuff like that more often in diggnation.

I absolutely agree with you (although I don't think that anybody could be pissed by their views because they weren't pro or con any religion, were they? Rather each has his own religion in a way.)

Philosophical stuff like that could really attract people to Rev3. A modern, totally script-free talk show led by internet visionaries like Alex, Kevin or geniuses from other areas, such as David Meerman Scott (The New Rules of Marketing and PR). Sort of like 'Random' (that "show" Kevin and a pal of his are doing from time to time), just not about tech.

[logant]

The religious discussion made this one of the best Diggnations.

[lisaj]

My main problem with the Bible discussion is how the article cherry-picked to make a humorous article. Nothing wrong with a laugh, but many of the passages that were chosen were from the Old Testament where the "law of the land" were extremely harsh. This time was before Jesus, and and when Jesus came around, his new "laws" abolished a lot of the old laws.

And another problem that I had was when Kevin mentioned how women are represented/treated. There are many prominent women in the Bible that were just as strong and represented well, ie. Ruth. Read up on it. Just saying.

[masterq]

Originally Posted by logant

The religious discussion made this one of the best Diggnations.

I thought so too. It makes me feel like they said "who gives a shit what the politically correct rules are. If we want to talk about religion we're gunna go balls deep and talk about religion." Thats what true diggnation is...

...and beer. MOAR BEER!