Also, I’m working with an adventist developer who is actively developing The Conflict iPhone app to support all of EGW’s writings. We’re working with the White Estate to accomplish this. Although we haven’t announced any plans to support the iPad, I can only imagine it will come in time. In the meantime, we can be guaranteed at least one option through Laridian’s PocketBible application that they’ve promised for the iPad.

http://blog.laridian.com/?p=200

Just as a little addendum to my article, I wanted to add “Education” as another element that is often blamed for the conservative-liberal rift. (A popular idea being that liberals are more intelligent, and conservatives less.) But it is also inadequate to explain the differences. Perhaps that could be another post in itself.

Secondly, I should have defined further the process through which people are polarized into 2 groups, as opposed to multiple sides (5, 10, etc.). There are certainly numerous subgroups in the church, but each group is generally perceived as either liberal or conservative. I understand this process to be an outworking of our human nature. We like to see each struggle as good versus evil, with those pulling on our side being the good guys. This way of thinking tends to see the world in black-versus-white, 2 parties. (I believe this is also reflected in the world of secular politics, wherein most representative governments revolve primarily around a 2-party system, even though other parties may exist. But I am not enough a political scholar to say more.)

Furthermore, on the subject of what pulls people into 2 groups: Although the connections between points of doctrine and lifestyle and policy may not be clear, there are connections. Sometime the connections are long (what we believe about Jesus’ human nature is connected to what we believe about our human nature, which is connected to what we believe about sanctification, which is connected to what we believe about Christian living, which is connected to our personal standards, which connect to many specific issues, etc.). The longer the chain, the more diversity in what people holding one or more points in the chain will ultimately believe. But there is a continuous action, through the efforts of individuals along the chain (in their words, writings, and actions) to pull others toward their view. Thus there is something like a constant, multi-dimensional tug-of-war going on, which dynamically sorts people into these two camps. There is also the simple effect of “like attracts like,” wherein we pick up secondary characteristics of people like us, and the converse effect of “guilt by association,” wherein we resist secondary characteristics of people who hold positions opposite ours.

Perhaps in the future I will merge the above into the original article.

Sometimes lysdexia, err, I mean dyslexia is a blessing, but usually not.

Daniel

But why, if it just displays remote applications, why does it mention “display managers” noting TWM, which is sometimes called Toms Window Manager. And why does it have X11 in it’s name. Having X11 in it’s name seems to be deceiving if it’s just a VNC client.

It also says “A full X server display”

Running EGW CRE 2008 in Tiger just about requires a different window manager because Quartz-wm does not have window gravity set right. Therefore you can use a different window manager, one of which is TWM to display the EGW CRE 2008 window (which, BTW, is built-in to the X11 installation).

But, I first hand knowledge about the iPhoneOS.

Daniel

I’m not saying EGW CRE 2008 would run on it, only that it may give the iPhoneOS the potential to run WINE applications – EGW CRE 2008 being one.
Why someone would want to… because it is there.

I have no iPhoneOS product, so I can’t try.

Daniel

Anaglyph is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_image

Randy

Randy