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Ok people, remember Simon’s Wrist?

I’d just like to take a quick poll, how many people here think that kind of thing would be nifty? Here’s an actual review of what it is.

It is essentially a palm pilot that can be strapped to to the inside of one’s wrist and worn underneath their sleeve. At the top of the wrist it is strapped on using a standard expandable watch band, and at the base it is strapped on using velcro. The watch band could be easily modified to attach a standard watch (digital or analogue) to the top of the wrist as well. The palm pilot would have a molded back which curved to match the wrist, and across the inside would be tightly stretched cloth sewn down in several places, to lift the palm slghtly off the skin and prevent chafeing, and to allow a more comfortable fit. The palm would be slightly angular so that while the base may be as much as two inches wide, the top would only be one and a half, and the whole thing would be approximately two and a half inches from top to bottom. This would mean that the top screen would be rougly 1.5×1.5 square, and the bottom (the writing area) could be 1×1.75inches. The stylus would be inserted on the top of the unit, so that it would eject across the inside of the palm of the user’s hand. The power button and all other control buttons would be along the left side of the unit (so that it is not likely to be bumped when in use by a right-handed user. Lefties like me would just have to deal ^^). The actual inside area given to the electronics would be a little unde a quarter of an inch, except at the top where it would expand to a little under a half an inch for the batteries.

An addition could be easily made and attatched with a watch with its own strap that transferred power directly from the unit allowing the use of the rechargable AAA-size batteries and eliminating the need to replace batteries at watch shops. The watch could also act as a control and send commands through the strap to the palm to be processed. This way it could act as a second minidisplay for the palm and be used in cases where it was not necessary to use the stylus and the power drain of the larger screen.

The palm itself would probably cost along the lines of $150, and the watch attatchment could run up another $100.

Who else thinks that would be damn cool? I’ll add a rough sketch of it to this post when i get home.

More. Please recognize that for every passage i have quoted that makes no sense, there are hundreds of completely sensible and reasonable ones.

Genesis 3:16 “(16) To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”

1 Timothy 2:11-14 “(11) A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. (12) But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. (13) For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. (14) And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. (15) But women will be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.”

Psalm 137:9 “How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones against the rock.”

1 Samuel 15:3 “‘Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

1 Samuel 15:9-11 “(9) But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. (10) Then the word of the LORD came to Samuel, saying, (11) “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following Me and has not carried out My commands.” And Samuel was distressed and cried out to the LORD all night.”

and this one is just a ‘think about it’ quote that Mr. Tulloch showed me a long time ago. I thought it was rather nifty. He called it God’s “Single moment of fear.” Of course it was Genesis, which was a parable, not to be read as fact.

Genesis 3:22-24 “(22) Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”– (23) therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. (24) So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.”

“Like one of Us.”

~Tchau

Sorry, Laura. Went a little nutty there. I do respect your beliefs, but i have the firm oppinion that one should fully understand what it is they believe in before they can let it control them. And I also understand the ideal of “let go and let God”, which under ordinary circumstances would be perfect, except when one thinks of other people or things as God. The Bible is not God. The Clergy are not God. They are tools to help one find God, if that is their choice, nothing more.

You know i don’t consider myself Catholic, because I do not give myself to the idea that there is definately a God. Nor do I give myself to the idea that there is definately not a God. But I don’t think anybody should give themself to the idea that their religion, when run by humans, especially one so ancient as an Abrahamic religion, is perfect.

Remember, Islam is a religion that promotes peace. Its name means “Surrender [to God]” and is related to the word Salam which means “Peace”. The Qu’ran says that a Muslim must never initiate hostilities, aggression is forbidden by God [2:190], but it does contain that one passage, “slay [the enemy] wherever you find them.” [4:89]. Just because a human wrote it into a religious text doesn’t mean it’s right.

Peace.

This was not meant to bash anyone’s beliefs or condone anyone else’s, but merely to promote understanding and study before complacent acceptance.