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Nolo Promittere answered question 2/18/2010

My Son Has A 90.7 Grade Average, What Would Be His Gpa?

You can't tell from that. If he received a 90 in all classes but one, where he got a 91, then his GPA would be 4.0. If half of his classes were high "B"s and the rest "A"s he would have a 3.5 and, of course, if he had 89's in all of his classes but one … Read more

Nolo Promittere answered 2/18/2010

My Final Grade Is An 80% What Is My GPA?

Based on a 4.0 GPA max and assuming you have taken no other classes, you have a 3.0. This, of course will change as you take other classes.

Nolo Promittere answered 2/12/2010

How To Find My Mom Or An Old Address For Her, Do You Know How I Could Do That Without Pay Fines? Even An Email Address

Try Zabasearch.com. It has a database going back years and will give addresses and phone numbers for free. The site makes its money on people who want more information than just that.

Nolo Promittere

Nolo promittere – I do not wish to promise
Nolo excussare – I do not wish to explain
Nolo queri – I do not wish to complain
Nolo satisfacere – I do not wish to apologize.

My Perspective:
1. I am a Christian with fundamentalist/evangelical leanings. As such, I accept the Bible as God’s word and follow a fairly literal interpretation of it. This actually differs from what many accept as literal since I take beliefs logically inferred from scripture to be secondary in importance and inherently less reliable

My church is United Methodist and I do, in general, agree with their official stances – specifically regarding Baptism (including infant baptism), open Communion, Universal Redemption, Justification by Faith and Prevenient, Justifying and Sanctifying Grace.

2. I am socially moderate and fiscally conservative(EXTREMELY conservative). This, combined with a general distrust of the competence of the government as well as a strong belief that dependence on the government to supply your needs is tantamount to idolotry, tends to put me in the libertarian camp. More specifically, I am an austrian school of economics influenced anarcho-capitalist.

I do not believe that abortion is morally justifiable, that recreational drug use is rational, that prostitution is ever an acceptable career or expenditure or that strong alcohol has positive value. I believe in seat belts and helmets and I do NOT believe in talking on a cell phone, or texting, while driving. However. I also don’t believe that it is the Government’s place to ban or severely restrict any of this. Laws are not adequate substitutes for morality and governments are poor stewards of righteousness. Honestly, most people who would trust a 12 year old kid to babysit for them would balk at leaving their children in the clutches of a Senator picked at random. Yet we are seriously supposed to look to these people for guidance??

I am firmly of the opinion that whom you turn to to determine your actions is equivalent to honoring and elevating them. If you do what is right because God leads you to do so, you are honoring God, but if you do so because of Government edict, you are honoring the Government. How then, is this not idolatry?

3. I currently have an A.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Physics. I also have a few minor certifications (Comptia A+ and ITIL Foundations), but the bulk of my education is informal.