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Christ, social media and creating a better world for my family to come into.

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Business, religion, culture.

People don't know that I'm good at

Baking.

My TED Story

I fell in love with the idea that great minds could come together and discuss whatever storms of genius they had brewing. I have been hooked ever since. I challenge people I meet to watch at least a TEDtalk a day to expand their minds.

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• A reply on Conversation: Could anyone teach me how to make a website?

  Jul 16 2011: What I loved about Yola was actually the internal support community.

• A reply on Conversation: Islam beliefs & Christianity beliefs. fiction? deviation? true?

  Jul 16 2011: His point is exactly that. The Koran is a syro-aramaic interpretation both culturally and philosophically of ideals found withing the writing of Christ but crafted to the purposes of the culture and locale of its writings.

• A reply on Conversation: Islam beliefs & Christianity beliefs. fiction? deviation? true?

  Jul 16 2011: So there needs to be a clarification of life. Are you speaking to the flesh or the soul. The life and death being discussed is the one of the soul.

• A reply on Conversation: Islam beliefs & Christianity beliefs. fiction? deviation? true?

  Jul 16 2011: Great question. Scriptural God is not all things. God is all good. If the understanding is that sin is evil it is by definition anything that is apart from God. There are several points within scripture where these differences occur and what they are.

• A reply on Conversation: Islam beliefs & Christianity beliefs. fiction? deviation? true?

  Jul 16 2011: The issue with this is the purpose of Christ's gospel. Was Christ there only for the Jews? Christ makes a clear claim "I am the way the truth and the life and none will enter the kingdom but through me."

• A comment on Conversation: Where do you think consciousness comes from?

  Jul 16 2011: I personally believe that awareness comes from God as does identity.

• A reply on Conversation: why our universe has laws of physics?

  Jul 16 2011: What he is saying is that the acknowledgement of truth and the ability to understand truth are not the same. I think a similar way to help you understand from your own perspective would be to ask you how Allah created the universe. Not the action itself but the mechanics. It is an acknowledgement of the limitation of man's capacity to reason.
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  A reply on Conversation: why our universe has laws of physics?

  Jul 16 2011: This is well said and well focused. The purpose of this debate is not a discussion of life after death but the discussion of why this universe has laws. Keep your eyes on the prize SR and focus on the task at hand.

• A reply on Conversation: why our universe has laws of physics?

  Jul 16 2011: I am interested on which premise the calculation of 99.9% is made. I am not touting Islam, in fact I am directly opposed but statistical near-certainties based on imaginary numbers and limited calculations can't possibly be so accurate.

• A reply on Conversation: why our universe has laws of physics?

  Jul 16 2011: Your existence is finite. Your authority is material.