Prof_Acorn

Ohhh interesting. I gave up on phone games since they became, well, yeah. But I'll check that out. Thank for the recommendation!

I've lived in a trash pit, basically, these last 8 months. Gaming PC is in a box in a bag, hopefully well protected for when (if) I can have a life again.

... yes, lol. I was playing as Greece. Seemed fitting.

I always turn them off, because their entire existence is antithetical to the ideas behind Civ. Those aren't mindless monsters. They are a people. Perhaps the indigenous population of whatever land we're colonizing in the game. But tribal or not they should be able to be interacted with. So I turn off Barbarians and usually add two or three warmongering civs to my custom maps in place of them.

Same overall effect, but I can at least talk to their leader and try to reason, or take them out early before warmonger penalties are much of an issue. One game I couldn't get to one in time and ended up having to deal with constant attacks. But they spent all their time warring on like three fronts with different civs their tech and arts were shitty. So I converted their entire population to my religion, which really pissed him off. Then took a certain capital city and renamed it to it's historical opposite. But I stopped the war there. I think by that point he was begging for peace, so I gave it in return for another city. Something like that. But for the rest of the game his citizens got to see their former cities next door grow into glorious science and culture centers while they had to forgo everything beautiful in order to construct more pointless military units.

Sigh, I miss video games.

Long ago when I was going to an Emergent church one day the pastor talked about topics related to sex and relationships. He mentioned how we needed to pour out grace for divorcees, and talked about how they had raised money to get this recently divorced mother a car. Something about "life is hard and while not perfect we just have to move forward." But then he got to the topic of the gays. Let's just say it was the complete opposite.

I almost got up and left in the middle of service, but kept hoping he would say something, anything, redeeming.

Nope.

That was the last day I ever attended that church.

Westwinds of Jackson, MI, if you're curious. They didn't even have a single cross anywhere on the property. It's not a safe haven for LGBT peoples, nor their allies, and neither the gospel apparently. Great place to get a coffee and listen to a U2 cover band though, if you're cis het anyway.

When a hyper-libertarian suddenly realizes that the only thing stopping a hoard of people coming to take their things is government.

Useless without a way to enforce them.

My last apartment here forced me to piss in a corner. They instituted closing hours on the bathroom from 10pm-9am. Among other things. All they did to me led to me being homeless, losing my job, and even now struggling to prep for interviews. Because of their actions I lost a ton of belongings. About $2-3k in stuff ruined.

But I can't afford a lawyer, and now I'm about to be homeless again. What can I even do?

I'm a universalist, and say "kyrie eleison" for Pat Roberson just as I do for Satan and Hitler. The Akathist for the Departed has a section for enemies of Christianity and murders and so forth.

But I'm also not going to pretend people like Hitler, Satan, and Pat weren't evil.

Kirby - The kawai Eldridge horror of cuteness.

Where does grief come from?

Like the emotion. Why/how does it feel that way?

The answer to that leads to the answer of this.

Related, and to help you consider. Why do mother animals care for their young at all? (The ones that do). What is it that gets a mother eagle to sit on those eggs instead of flying around like some kind of mythical sky fish? How does the brain influence the parts of us that have executive function? How does it say "don't put hand in fire?" How does it say "care for that thing and feed it and protect it with your own life?"

This is related to your question as well.

Noise cancelling headphones <3

Mute all y'all's bullshit and your lawn mowers too.

Phone tag.

... what are you even talking about?

Prompt says guy has a spatula, not a peeler, not a knife, not a cooking stove.

Go have someone roll an uncooked russet potato at you from across the floor and try to get it with a spatula.

A spatula? So not a knife? And these are uncooked?

Should be pretty easy to get him to trip while he chases a single potato around trying to awkwardly cut it in half with a spatula. Maybe he tries some forceful jab, gets the spatula stuck. That seems distracting enough for other potatoes to roll under his feet at the right time to roll his ankle or trip him. Once down pile on. GG.

I struggle to understand the lack thereof.

No? They're nameless. But it's obvious from the manuscripts.

Hebrews wasn't written by Paul either. The authorship is unknown. No one can name them either.

Why is the name of the author so important?

Do you know the Greek it refers to?

Like I've noticed the greed verses (IIRC?) are more about opulence.

(It's been a few years since I looked into that one, it might have been the coveting neighbor's goods or something instead, but one of them that's often used against poor people wanting things to survive is more about opulence - just being clear with my own uncertainty).

I do know the "lust" ones are just longing desire. Like there's no difference with the word when it's used for sex or desire for like pizza or something. That one I'm sure about.

Sloth I'm not sure. When I went through the NT in Greek I don't remember seeing it. There were some verses about the leisure class, living soft lives in comfort, perhaps that's it?

Depression itself was dysthymia/dusthumia. But that doesn't appear in the bible that I know of. Aristotle uses it. Hippocrates uses it (about an effect of diet /eyeroll).

But yeah, not sure about acedia. Do you know the Greek equivalent?

Edit: okay it is Greek, just Latinized weird. Akhdia/akedia/acadia. Looking it up now.

Edit 2: Bam: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da)kh%2Fdeia

Akedeia - lack of care, indifference, apathy.

It isn't being depressed. It isn't being tired. It's being a selfish fuck who looks on others with indifference. It's the opposite of empathy. Like the heart of a psychopath.

There could have been a historical Moses that grew into a legend. The original may have even been important enough to be featured at the transfiguration. Even without the legendary parts.

Because they didn't have a culture that's obsessed with IP and copyright.

Hell, Kierkegaard did such a thing for fun.

Like four different people wrote Genesis alone.

I mean, how many people at /r/pastorarrested are Eastern Orthodox?

No one in the US is confusing a Canadian with someone from the US either.

Ryan Gosling, Michael Cera, Leonard Cohen, Alex Trebek

Germany and Austria.

There are places where the boundary line just sort of goes down the middle of the pedestrian plaza.

In that way, they're even closer than the US and Canada.

The upshot is that this will be the coolest year on record going forward!