Jon Ericson

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My day-to-day work is with a combination of C, ksh and PL/SQL. I enjoy asking and answering questions that come up at work. I also dabble in Perl, lua and LaTeX. My boss has asked me to learn Python as well.

My favorite living philosopher is Alvin Plantinga and my favorite dead philosopher is Blaise Pascal. I think Paul of Tarsus is too little credited as a force in Western philosophy. If you think I'm a Christian, you're right.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (ESV)

At home, I have a potted herb garden, potted dwarfed citrus, and a hanging hummingbird garden. My wife and I are also trying to grow a son, but he's harder to feed and train properly.

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Mar 15	comment	How should one reconcile a wrong against another person? @Monica Cellio: This is like my third draft, so I'm clearly struggling to express myself. ;) I have some ideas about how to be more clear, but I suspect it won't happen before the weekend.
Mar 15	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on passover tag wiki excerpt
Mar 15	answered	How should one reconcile a wrong against another person?
Mar 13	comment	What happens to retired Popes like Pope Benedict? Speaking tour? Book deal? Consulting? That's what retired presidents and CEOs are up to. ;)
Mar 12	revised	Was Christ's suffering unusually harsh for the standard of the Roman times? Spelling and grammar.
Mar 6	comment	Did Jesus know how to read and write? Closely related: Does John 7:15 mean Jesus was untaught? and What language did Jesus commonly speak?
Mar 6	awarded	Necromancer
Mar 5	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on What do the verses in Luke 5:20-25 teach us?
Mar 4	comment	Which are some of the Non Trinitarian sects in Christianity I'm going to retract my "list question" label. But I still think this question ought to be closed since Wikipedia answers it well.
Mar 4	comment	In which denominations is naturism unacceptable? I'm voting to close because I think that it merely sets up a strawman to be knocked down. As the accepted answer points out, it's hard to identify which people find naturism wrong for societal reasons and which think it's a sin.
Mar 4	comment	What traditions believe that a woman's relationship with God must go through some man and how do they support it from the Bible? I'm voting to close because I think its not constructive to ask primarily who believes this. Rather, I think asking where the belief came from or how it's supported from the Bible are more constructive.
Feb 28	comment	How may we reconcile the Blessed Virgin Mary's maturity with her age? @jayyeshu: Heh. That's a good and valid criticism. However, the question does not frame the question in any particular Christian tradition, so it might be better to say there's something amiss with the question. (To be fair, I do believe that Luke was speaking with the power of the Holy Spirit as he wrote. Mary's son is profitable for study for that very reason.)
Feb 27	answered	How may we reconcile the Blessed Virgin Mary's maturity with her age?
Feb 27	revised	How may we reconcile the Blessed Virgin Mary's maturity with her age? Spelling, minor clarifications, and links.
Feb 27	comment	How may we reconcile the Blessed Virgin Mary's maturity with her age? We know surprisingly little of the education of girls in first century. I don't think we need to go so far as to put Mary in the Temple at an early age; her father and/or mother could easily have instructed her in Hannah's prayer. (The comparison between the two is inspired!)
Feb 24	comment	Scriptures and the 'Simulated Universe' Tangentially related: Does the Simulation Argument differ in essence from the Evil Genius puzzle?
Feb 21	comment	According to the Roman Catholic church, who can baptize a new believer? I'm trying to find it, but I recall hearing about a case of a shopkeeper who shot an armed robber and them administered an emergency baptism with bottled water. My understanding is that as long as there is water and a member of the Catholic church says the right words, anyone can perform a baptism in an emergency situation.
Feb 14	answered	Why isn't Lent observed across all traditions?
Feb 9	answered	Earlier use of this argument for the necessity of evil?
Feb 8	comment	Earlier use of this argument for the necessity of evil? You might consider asking a version of this question on Philosophy. Folks over there might have better knowledge of the history of arguments for and against God.