Bible verses good bye

Also did a Bible study devotional today on (Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.) trying to meditate on this verse and read a commentary before the BMX & Draw stream
Link to the entire stream the Bible study devotional is at the very beginning
https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2145825803
Anyone interested in the process for todays drawing here is the start to finish if anyone wants this drawing for free as a gift can try and mail it to you reminded of verses on gifts
https://m.twitch.tv/videos/2146084846

Have a coworker who is extremely cold and distant. Doesn't greet me at all, doesn't say hi, or good bye, nothing. Only talks to me if he needs something. We could go weeks without talking and his desk is right next to mine. I don't even bother now and do my work. Is this normal or I guess this guy just doesn't like me? I assume he doesn't because he talks to others in the office. Should I even bother saying anything about it or will it backfire? He's the only coworker on my team who is in the same area. My other coworkers work in another location and are very friendly. Of course I'm stuck with this one..

Edited to add - I'm SUPER new to Reddit, so if this is the wrong group or wrong way to ask this question, sorry!
My MIL and I got into a heated argument about swearing. She says the Bible tells her not to swear, so she is adamantly against swearing, watching movies with swear words (try finding one of those!), and will tell others regularly that they need to watch their language, even people who she has no authority over, creating what I feel is unnecessary conflict. I believe the Bible is simply advising us that words can be damaging (100% true!) but that the list of swear words she believes she must avoid as a good Christian were actually man made. To my knowledge, there is no list in the Bible of swear words to avoid, besides using the Lord's name in vain. However, I do feel that your INTENT behind the word is what matters. For example, if I drop a hammer on my toe and say "aw fuck that hurt" vs "fuck you motherfucker" directed at someone - the word usage is irrelevant. The emotion behind what was said, and the tone that came out as a result of that emotion, is what made the word fuck offensive. First, would love FRIENDLY discourse on whether or not people agree. Second, I would love example videos to illustrate the two scenarios - someone with road rage or angry at someone else who lights them up WITHOUT curse words and then a curse-word-filled meditation/affirmation/etc, to illustrate how the tone is really what's offensive. Can't find those scenarios on YouTube, anyone have examples? TY!

FIR new song "Ronald" was OK at best. Tech's verse was one of the only good parts of the songs. Ronnie's gutturals were terrible and Alex Terrible would have been a better option for that. The fact Alex Terrible had such a small part in the feature, kinda pissed me off too. Especially being a Slaughter to Prevail fan. This feature I think is just another example of why IMO Tech is the undisputed G.O.A.T. and shows he is just a great all round artist. Much love from the east coast to my fellow Technicians.

Using Viper v3 Pro which I absolutely love, but the old (OG, non-Otsu) Hayate with these skates is a tad bit too frictionless for me. Not well versed in the mousepad jungle nowadays so asking for advice here.
Is there other slower skates I should be testing before taking a shot at investing in a new pad or is there a good mousepad you guys think would suit me better? Current size of pad is if I had to guess around 45x30cm, don’t have anything to measure it with exactly. Thankful for any help in this jungle.

I have really strong faith in God but I feel like I’m not a strong enough Christian. I talk about Jesus all the time and people ask questions about the Bible to me. I love that they want to learn more but it gets me so down because I can’t answer the questions. Like I don’t feel like I’m well enough versed in the Bible. I’ve been reading the Bible but here’s a few of my dilemmas •I don’t know where to start •what parts do I highlight •how do I get the motivation to do it every day?
When I sit down to read the Bible I get so lost because I don’t know where to start.
Also, what are the main stories like Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and so on.
I feel like I’m overthinking this but i would like some help pls ❤️

Even though I see the miracles that He keeps doing everyday. There are days were I keeps asking myself if he's real.
Then I have those depression thoughts coming in, and I start crying. I don't understand how I keep question my own faith in God when I know that he's here watching.
I love God. I do. But why do I question my own love for him. I read the bible daily. Either they are verses or chapters, I read at least once a day.

Guys after struggling my whole teenage and adult life I’m finally free.
It’s simple and easy to do and you’ve heard it a million times but until you understand it with all your heart, you will continue to struggle.
Believe in the Lord, repent, confess and walk with God daily.
I used to think to repent meant to turn from your sin. It doesn’t. If it was that easy, everybody would do it. Repent means to change your way of thinking. Repent means to make up your mind about your sin. You have to hate it. You have to decide that no matter what, you are going to change.
If you walk according to the spirit you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. This verse doesn’t say you might not carry out the desires of the flesh. It says you will not.
I finally started reading my bible everyday, praying everyday , going to church and I cut back drinking and started working out. I have no urges guys. I have no desire to indulge in this filth anymore. It’s gone. I pray you guys begin to understand how to break free. I know how it feels.
If you wonder if God has left you, he hasn’t. He’s made it clear he hasn’t left me .

Please give me your thoughts on my school list. Thank you!
Stats: 4.0 GPA, 517 (130/125/132/130) MCAT
ORM, Texas resident with strong ties to Washington St, undergrad to Baylor University.
Academic awards: Dean's List, Honors, Certification in Healthcare Spanish, Provost's Scholarship, Outstanding designation
Non-academic awards: Baylor Excellence in Student Leadership Award, Folmar Research Grant, Outstanding Presentation Awards for research.
Leadership: 770~ hours - supplemental instructor for chemistry, Vice President, Mission Chair
Research: 1000+ hours - internship, long-term microbiology lab experience, quality-improvement project in hospital -- will get a couple publications next year, 3 presentations both won awards.
Clinical: 150 shadowing hours, 400+ hours patient care/interaction - good variety; hospitals, rural clinics, international in Kenya + Philippines on mission
Non-clinical volunteering: worship leader (1000+ hr), ESL volunteer (50~ hours, new position), vacation bible school in Kenya and Philippines (~100 hr).
School List: https://admit.org/school-list-builde84ae684a-8573-4776-9fc6-beebefb05fc2
- Duke
- Stanford
- Perelman
- Mayo
- Vanderbilt
- UT Austin
- St. Louis University
- UT Southwestern
- UNC Chapel Hill
- Georgetown
- Tulane
- Emory
- Baylor
- University of Pittsburgh
- Loyola
- University of Washington
- Loma Linda
- Creighton
- Colorado
- University of Cincinnati
- McGovern (UT Houston)
- Texas A&M
- University of Houston
- UT Tyler
- Texas Tech Lubbock
- Texas Tech El Paso
- UTRGV
- UT Medical Branch (UTMB)
- TCU

hi. I turn 17 soon, and I'm looking back on what I did at 16. It was a really rough year, to say the least. I very likely have OCD, which has led to constant guilt, worry, and stress. I felt like I wasn't good enough or deserving enough for things, so I made myself miss out on opportunities.
Even on the very day I turned 16, my family bought me sushi and gifts. They were all smiling at me and happy. My mom offered to throw me a Sweet 16, and I declined. I remember later on that evening I just sat in the living room, lights off, the sky slowly getting dark outside. Guilt was crushing me for a small mistake- if you could even call it a mistake. I'm a huge overthinker, and what I did hurt no one. Yet, it was such a big deal to me. I felt like I didn't deserve my treats and my gifts.
Any subsequent mistakes I made were a big deal in my mind. I wouldn't let all my friends sign my yearbook because I thought I was a bad person. I didn't sign up to do this school year's play. I didn't do much schoolwork because I felt like I wasn't gonna go anywhere in life, so what was the point?
My family didn't take my mental health seriously; just got told to pray and read the Bible. Focusing on Christianity ironically made my mental health bad in the first place. I tried it in 2020 only because my 13 year old self thought the world would end and I didn't want hell. that's what kick-started my possible OCD, though I didn't know about it at the time. my intrusive thoughts got so bad this age that I found out i likely had the disorder. like, no, laying in bed and literally worrying yourself sick because you're worrying about past mistakes are not sane people things.
I'm just so sad about it. I know I can't go back and use my time better, but I'm still sad about it. Screw mental illness. Screw 16.

the suicidal
step out
into death
who am i to judge ?
for what eternity holds
no-one knows
the low reading aged
if you write something they can’t understand
then according to them
its your fault
so they reject
this is the path of mediocrity
and cretinism
all religions schism, narratives of homogeneity require force to maintain (which can be extremely brutal historically)
Knock Out Asinine Nits
photos
staring out from a smooth granite block
if not quizzical
then should be
stuck in eternity
like that
somewhere
there must be a couple that mesh
and get along with each other
somewhere
i’m gone
the world rolls on
i disappear
and appear
the pages of a book that flick through
some words rest
and others don’t
skimming stones
eventually
stop
and sink
rhoticity explained to me, i now understand it, but otherwise i wouldn’t have had a clue except for the joking use of irish, scottish, canadian or usa accents
i think the zen term "seamless monument" is a metaphor for reality, you can’t penetrate it, there’s no artefact of manufacture since it has no seam, it can only be traversed, which btw is the basic philosophical problem of existence, there is no "inner" reality that subsumes "the detail of being"
“ I m currently 16 years old and a "child prodigy". I started university at 14. I have thus far only received one grade which was not an A+. It was an A-. I have memorized 100 digits of pi, the periodic table, and most of the Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks. I am learning Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Sahidic Coptic, Spanish, and Italian. I just like old languages. I don’t have to study long — I have a nearly photographic memory. When I do study, I just write things out over and over. I am a very visual thinker, so I remember pictures. Ask me anything ! ”
ed. she also has ehlers-danlos syndrome and is ADHD
in my view, the languages are a big mistake, they interfere with each other
“ Why do you think that ? ”
the languages you list are particularly disjunctive its a heavy learning burden with heaps of "opportunity costs" and the skill is becoming increasingly redundant with AI translators
also my experience of polyglots is they get damaged in some way
the brain is not infinitely capable, beware of burning it in waste of time activities, which to be honest a lot of so called education is
dr. alan cole argues that zen masters are in fact "made-over" daoist sages
i would go further and say that the koan system involves the same sort of "puzzling process" as the tao te ching
when you hear this sort of crap from the policy making elites, no wonder china is a problem !
the real impact of the one child policy may be the scarcity of anyone at the higher levels of government or policy being able to think straight
of course, this is to the advantage of the west and is the same problem japan had in WW2, idiots determining their strategic direction
boundaries crossing
abatement of being
from this perspective
everything looks crazy
really ?
do you ever listen to anything outside your own echo chamber ?
sad souls
in the twilight of their lives
mumbling gibberish
the words of others
are not your own
if you actually understood
why wouldn’t you use your own words ?
time separates
that childhood intensity
fades
as the branches grow apart
what was not seen at the time
is now seen
you are not well read and have an "anti-creative" mindset !
i’m getting on in years and just can’t be bothered to deal with your hubris
good-bye
ed. the net is full of these entitled gen Z’ers with a deeply entrenched intellectual inertia created by a malfunctioning education system
valves, muscle, connective tissue, timing
easy to see how it can go wrong as we get older
this dynamic core of existence in the center of our chests where every beat needs to be followed by another
i think religion can be regarded as a hallucination, the hallucination being that a literary work is real, perhaps most easily seen in the beliefs of ancient egypt, what are the pyramids and all those smaller tombs about ?
the reification of stories
these people
who
rather than bringing something to the table
only
take
and
are
impertinent
with
it
the puzzle of the poetry of others
seems to need the conversion
into something
i understand
"the girl on a bulldozer" (2022), a good tightly written kdrama
caodong poetry 23; verses on master fushan’s sixteen themes #4; touzi; translated by suru

1. not falling into life or death

on the day when the golden rooster heralds the coming spring
the jade hare conceives, entering the purple palace
reeds bloom on both shores, shadowing egrets
an old fisherman lifts his oar, dispersing mist, returning home
.
不落死活。 金雞日裏報春時。 玉兔懷胎入紫微。 兩岸蘆華映白鷺。 漁翁舉棹撥煙歸。
.
my reply
one day
the distance travelled
catches up with you
and you have arrived
.
one day
the distance travelled
catches up with you
you
have
arrived
ed. the terms in suru’s translation are very chinese and have a historical perspective, so i have "reworked" it into something modern that people will understand
“ ChatGPT-4 scored higher than 100% of psychologists on a test of social intelligence ”
hilarious
a tui calls
stunning the silence
my day is filled
with melody
ed. the tui is a new zealand native songbird
if you have ever attempted to count the number words in a book or whatever, which i have, count the number in a couple of paragraphs, then multiply by the inverse of whatever proportion of a page it is then multiply by the number of pages and i figure you get within 10% which is close enough
i’ve written millions of words, its like an exclusive club and its interesting to know who else is in it
giacomo casanova’s autobiography
the book comprises 12 volumes and approximately 3,500 pages (1.2 million words) covering casanova’s life from his birth to 1774
i have read most of it, people misunderstand him as a legendary lothario, but he is much more interesting than that

Hi! I'm Tyco, and although I'm a huge One Piece fan, I'm pretty new here, so I just wanted to put my first major theory for the verse here. I hope it's good!
So my theory is that Saturn has somehow been alive for at least 900 years and during the Void Century (or before) performed tests on Joyboy, so he would inherit the powers of the Gomu Gomu No Mi (otherwise known as the Hito Hito No Mi: Model: Nika), similar to how Bonney inherited the powers of the Toshi Toshi No Mi. Plus, the Gorosei did say themselves that that fruit (the Gomu Gomu No Mi) was the most ridiculous power in the world, a power that the World Government would probably want for themselves, right? So my headcanon is that Joyboy was essentially a guinea pig for the World Government to experiment on, like to test his elasticity, durability, etc. I would imagine that Joyboy didn't like that, so he set out to sea in the name of freedom, to escape from those barriers that had been set for him only for him to be labeled as the world's very first 'pirate', and it was made a crime to be a pirate, which is where this stimulus comes from that all pirates are bad people, when in truth, not all of them are. Bad people are just bad people, but that's the opposite of what the World Government would want you to think when it comes to the world of pirates.
Anyway, hope it was decent, I definitely tried a lot to think of a good enough I've y to post here 😂 Hope y'all have a great rest of your day!

Dated him for almost two years, actually fell so hard and fast for him. He means everything to me, then i discovered his porn addiction and that it spanned so deep he was recording and taking sexually exploitive pictures of people around him, including his sister. Never been so disappointed and disgusted, but i love him so much i just let it go. We argued for months and months because I kept finding more, and eventually he told me he didn’t think it was cheating. That was the first step he took that let me know it was over, and then he started ignoring and avoiding me for days on end. I would see him at school and he’d kiss and hug me and promise to change and nothing would happen. Then he just, dumped me and i’m a wreck. Went no contact, but we could still contact each other? as in we weren’t blocked and i find myself waiting for him to text. One day i made a fake post lying that i had been asked out by a boy, he immediately reacted and spammed me telling me I was his and he wanted me, absolutely broke me more cause he once again became the only thing that mattered. Long story short he got back together with me that night and the next three days were hell, he kept saying his mom had his phone which i knew was a lie so once again i was being ignored. Solid day goes bye and he texts me and says we’re done, blocks me on everything. (also says he lied about loving me and felt guilty which made things so much worse) was a mess obsessive thoughts crying sobbing over everything. A solid week goes by, doing better when his art account he has followed me on instagram and i dumbly accepted it, just to find he’s been drawing me and blaming me for the breakup. Absolutely bullshit, i comment on one being like what are you doing and his best friend who hates me comments back and is like leave him alone. I blew up and left like five paragraphs exposing how he cheated and left and lied to me played me and came back before leaving again and then drawing me on his instagram? Next morning i woke up blocked. He was a bad bf, i know that but for some reason i can only think about the good times , i need help to heal, any advice? (revenge advice welcome as well)

Good morning dear children of God, 1 Giăng 2:11 "Nhưng ai ghét anh chị em mình thì ở trong bóng tối, bước đi trong bóng tối và không biết mình đi đâu vì bóng tối làm mắt người đó mù lòa". You cannot say that you hate other members of the church but you love the Lord. As this verse says if you hate others it means you hate God too. Have a blessed Wednesday. Amen.

Another installment in the eternal gay crusades of /Christianity, now complete with more Daughters of the Confederacy level discourse about slavery.

Because it is worse than slavery.
Why do people try to force God to agree with them and accept their ideas rather than trying to learn God's will and align themselves to it?

so god has a poor morality

No. You do, if you disagree with him.

common you can also use your critical mind and say something is bad if it is obviously bad

Obvious to whom?
And based on what standard of badness?

mmm... empathy, compassion,
make a person as your property is baaad

Suffering under massive debt? Choose to sell yourself into slavery to pay the debt and remove the burden. While a slave you will have to do whatever work your owner requires, but you are guaranteed room and board and have no financial obligations. When the term of your slavery is over, if you are happy in your current situation, you can choose to make it permanent. If you are unhappy you go free with no debt and a small amount of money to help you establish yourself in your restored liberty.
The problem is that people today only think of slavery as it existed in the transatlantic slave trade, but that was not the only form in history. I think if slavery as set out in the Law of Moses was practiced today we would have much less of a debt based economy.

it doesn't work that way if you're a woman. if you're a woman and are sold by your father, you are enslaved for life.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42fjhk/
There's also another child thread where someone pointed out that the parent commenter is an insane bigot but the mods nuked their responses for incivility.

Slavery doesn't cause less people to exist. The YouTube apologists have approached the slavery topic a lot recently. I used to wonder the same thing. The matter is God has these people and he wants them to be a certain way but they are stubborn.. think of it like you have a cow that ran away and home is north and this dumb ass cow doesn't want to go north but he will go north west..

Slavery torments the already living...

Not always historically. This is what people are taught in a modern lens. Sometimes in the past people would purposely become slaves in Jacob's case to get a wife. And something interesting in Bible slave laws is that these people could run away.. so if your gig is such a bad deal that you want to leave, you can. Additionally in the case of Israel after a certain number of years they go free.. and some of them loved their masters so much they decided to stay.. which is likely the case with Eliezer.

.... leave it to Christianity to see people speak so positively on the concept of salvery

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l427som/
A digression on Hebrew translation

For one thing, "abomination" is not really a great translation of the word "ṯō·w·‘ă·ḇaṯ" / ṯō·w·‘ê·ḇāh, which is used in a variety of "do not" contexts, not necessarily conveying the sort of disgust and rage that "abomination" suggests.

Let me rephrase the post to your liking: Why does the Bible condone enslaving people but demand two men be killed if they have sex with each other?

Because one is a commandment and one is not.
Doesn’t seem fair to most ears, but when someone is circumcised of ear and heart, they “see” things differently.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l432735/

That's a very good question. Slavery is a horrible thing, it's detestable. The idea of something like that coming from a loving god would be a huge contradiction. It's up to you how you choose to rectify that
Slavery back then is not the same as what we went through recently. Where it’s just whips on plantations.
And you guys cherry picking homosexuality over all other sins is ridiculous. If homosexuality is ok, then why can’t all adultery be ok?

What's wrong with two people of the same sex in a loving, consensual, mutual relationship?

If they’re celibate then nothing…
What’s wrong with Covet and adultey as a whole? Let’s just abolish it. Is that ok?

Well both of those things harm people
If you covet something that doesn't belong to you, that eats a hole in you and might inspire you to do something to get what you covet.
Adultery damages trust between romantic partners and breaks hearts.
Two mutually loving people having sex who have the same genitalia harms no one.

Two same sex couple having sex also eats a hole in them. Spiritually. If you don’t like it then it’s ok, just don’t call yourself a Christian and expect God to favor your desires in the end. The point is to trust God. You’re literally going against him by committing adultey having same sex in the dark… Why not just be celibate? Why do you need to have same sex relations and blame the Bible for not being fair. It makes no sense. If you’re a homosexual who chooses sex over God. Cool. But don’t drag him down because he can’t see you in the dark.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42ssq8/

Are you saying slavery isn’t detestable or that it coming from a loving god isn’t a contradiction?

a loving God and slavery isn’t a contradiction. You need objective morality in the first place for it to be a contradiction, and you atheists do not.

a loving God and slavery isn’t a contradiction. You need objective morality in the first place for it to be a contradiction, and you atheists do not.

I think you're misunderstanding "objective morality" there are several ethical schools that don't require an authority figure.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l43e65c/

I think saying homosexuality is not harmful is naive. You are free to do it but it does have consequences that preclude you from any semblance of traditional living. Also, if everyone was homosexual there would be no people bc it does not produce children.

The only downsides are from the hate bigots create. Let’s not victim blame now

Haters gotta hate 🤷🏾‍♂️... is Taylor swift a victim too? She has haters after all.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42tgxf/

I believe it has to do with the nature of their slavery. The standards for slavery were different than today’s- I don’t believe they had prisons; if you owed someone something, you became their slave. It was a temporary status.
The only more permanent slave status I’ve read in the Bible involved pagan people that were being punished.

No, god explicitly permits people to own other people as their property for life. It was not always temporary, and didn't always have anything to do with debt repayment.

Exodus 21: 2-6
“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.”

Right. Now read Leviticus 25:44-46 about buying and owning foreign slaves.

Yeah, that’s what I meant about “punishment for pagan nations” Everyone around the Israelites were pagans.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42hqpl/

According to your own morality, the concepts of slavery and that of a loving God are contradictory. Just about anyone should be able to see that regardless of religious beliefs.

Nope. Slavery and a loving God are compatible, as we don’t decide morality you might as well tell that opinion to a brick wall.
So again, how is slavery and a loving God contradictory?

Because slaves are not the recipient of God’s love. You can’t love someone and also allow them to be enslaved.

Why not? Who are you to decide what love is and what love isn’t?

I’m sorry you feel that way. It’s mind-boggling to me that you think enslavement of humans is OK.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42ybv5/

Slavery isn’t necessarily the worst thing to happen to anybody ever, we just fetishise it today because America puts so much importance on it. Fact is that in ancient pre-mechanised times if you needed something doing you with did it yourself or got your captured enemies to do it. Slavery has been present in every society in history and has many forms, it’s damn nearly a natural state of humanity. Sometimes slaves were abused, murdered, tortured, raped; sometimes they were given gifts and made part of the family. “The ottomans took Christian children as slaves and made them into elite warriors who eventually got their own kingdom, meanwhile their trans-Saharan slave traders routinely castrated all the males they got from Africa and sent the women into harems, making European slavery relatively benign.

“B-But akshually guys slavery wasn’t that bad and it’s natural!!!”
You go out of your way to defend slavery, but don’t do the same with homosexuality which is objectively less harmful, please stop talking.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42gaf7/

The Lord doesn't need to call salvery an abomination. There is a correct way to handle slavery through debt. However, that does not mean they are property. The Lord's children, ARE NOT FOR SALE. All debt should be and needs to be released freely every 7 years. Then you bless them as they leave freely, regardless of the amount of debt returned back.
Homosexuality IS A CHOICE. It's a much of a choice to choose who you sleep with, as it is to lust in the first place. He calls it an abomination because it's your choice, and it almost always leads to a chaotic state. Not directly, rather, indirectly. It leads culture into a mindset of "I should be able to anything I want to". Sadly, that's just not how a stable society functions, and you see it's ripple effect today.

Homosexuality is NOT a choice, plain and simple, no buts or ifs. If it was, you could choose to be homosexual for just 5 minutes to prove your point which you obviously can’t, no matter how hard you try you can’t control who or what you’re attracted to. It is also not inherently lustful just as heterosexuality isn’t inherently lustful, couples of any gender or sexuality can have a loving and healthy relationship. It doesn’t lead to any “chaotic state”, as I mentioned before it can be perfectly healthy, what truly leads to a chaotic state is the constant backlash of mindless homophobes who don’t want to accept the fact that their worldview is wrong. Also, multiple societies in the past had no problem with homosexuality and turned out very prosperous. Read a book, bigot.

Lol

What an insightful response.

There is no response you will accept or even listen to. I gave the only one worth giving.

That’s blatant projection right there, you did not accept or listen to my response, so it’s more like you were proven wrong and didn’t know what to reply with.

https://www.reddit.com/Christianity/comments/1cs2bb4/why_does_the_bible_call_homosexuality_an/l42ga4o/

I was never apart of the online community very well. I've always struggled with forums amd such. But I've been following red vs blue and roosterteeth since the beginning finding it here and there before realizing there was a website, then realizing it was a series with a plot and not just a random series of videos I found online.
I bought merch as some of my earliest online purchases and dvds from game stop. Me and my friends even started making our own machinima by recording onto vhs tapes using techniques we figured out in halo 2 combining glitches into a series we called godly halo force, a reference to the white space tou could break into in halo 2 by glitching out of the map. My screen name on every game service I ever use is still based on those memories inspired by RvB.
I named my first car, a black for explorer tex because it felt like I was invincible driving it.
Started watching achievement hunter in college daily with my roommates and friends as a cornerstone of our friend group. We played mods in minecraft based on mods played by the group like skyblock.
When sheila gave out I got a subaru outback I named Carolina.
When I graduated college in 2015 I hiked the Appalachian trail the next year and planning stops to be in town when new episodes of off-topic, RT podcast, and other podcasts would drop so I could download a bunch beofe going back to the woods. I can honestly say I wouldn't have finished all 2000+ miles without those podcasts. Started watching camp camp during that too.
As a teacher I've been able to relate to some of my favorite students through knowing about achievement hunter, rwby, and other RT stuff.
I guess all of this to say in the truest sense, I will miss RT and I'm glad I got to watch it for 21 years of my life. I don't think tomorrow or the next days will be the same. It's truly been an honor to watch RTs content and to be aware of the final moments. Watching this long goodbye has been heartbreaking but it's better than eaking up one day to find its all gone.
I hate goodbyes.

You don't have to read. Thanks if you do though.
For starters, I'm not looking for any reassurance or guidance from anyone. It's all noise in my head that gets filtered out at this point. Nothing anyone ever says actually turns out to be true when I partly try to share my problems. I truly do believe I'm useless. I've had no real purpose ever since I was born, and I don't have any purpose now. Sometimes people say to "be patient", but I can't stand that. Thousands upon millions my age have achieved and done so much, and I'm not just saying that because I'm comparing myself to them. I know there isn't any point in that. I compare myself to my myself yesterday - that much I've learned - but there hasn't been any significant change in me no matter how I think or what I do. I can't escape the hole I've dug for myself. I have a single true online friend, whom I consider better family than my blood family. We chat regularly, we're both artists, and we're even writing a comic together as a passion project. We've shared a lot of private stuff between us, and I genuinely love that I get to know this person. Before I can let them down, too, that is. Other than them, I had a good circle of real life friends. Before they all turned to drugs, alcohol, or just became narcissistic assholes and I've had to cut myself from them. I've tried pulling every single one out of those paths and hold as tight as possible, because I know what it's like to be given up on, and I have failed each and every single time, only giving up when my mental state was so bad that I zoned out of reality, and the days became blurs. They still are, occasionally.
I feel the worst when I'm talking to my mother. She smiles and laughs occasionally when I'm around, but that's just because I'm at home all the time and she gets to ramble about our parrots. But I know that's not what she truly feels. It's like she's just hearing a good joke from a person she dislikes. I wouldn't say I'm hated, but I believe that she'd prefer having someone else in the room when I'm around. I never share anything with her - it turns into a lecture if I do, or I get bombarded with questions which I never have the answer to. I feel immeasurable shame and guilt just standing around her, not to mention around my step-father, where it's x2 worse. It feels like I'm constantly being judged by him, and I probably am. I'm 18 - turning 19 in 6 months - and I've sat in front of a PC my entire life. I always get teased about a girlfriend or irl friends, but that's just because I never share anything with them, as said earlier. Well, I don't have a girlfriend, though I had a male friend with benefits for a while. That is, until before he tried getting me to take pictures of myself or begging and talking me into the act even if I didn't want to. I broke it off eventually, even when he threatened to tell everyone about we were doing. (I called his bluff. We live in a country where if it's known that you swing the same way, you're likely to get beaten)
I keep telling myself I'll be better, but it never comes, no matter how many attempts I make on bettering myself. Sure, I exercise - a little less nowadays since I cant afford my gym membership anymore, now that I'm finished with high school and no longer get daily allowance from my parents, - I try to keep up basic hygiene, and I've become a little more social over the years. It's an improvement from the way I was in the past, but it all feels like it doesn't matter. The progress doesn't matter. In my eyes and the eyes of everyone around me, I wholeheartedly believe that they just see me as useless, or are about to. It just takes one bad day or mishap for them to do so. My older brother (by 5 years) has made many, countless attempts to be involved in my life. And after I pushed him away so many times, I got exactly what I wanted. Now he doesn't talk to me. He moved with his girlfriend - a lovely person as well - out of our apartment without so much as a 'bye', or even a text. I see him occasionally, and it's awkward each and every single time. We say our pleasantries, and then both stay quiet until someone else comes in the room to break the ice. It feels like I don't have the right to laugh with him.
I'm extremely aware of how self-destructive and bad this belief of mine is, but its impossible to ignore or change. And I really, really do want it to change. But I'm replaceable. Anyone can fulfil my role. I don't make money, and I don't make someone's day necessarily better by being around other than a single online person - which is sure to change. Sure, people might notice if I'm gone, but the feeling they have will go away after two days. I'm a mild inconvenience at best, and useless at worst. Both feel worse than being hated or despised. It's easy to ignore those people. But when I constantly disappoint everyone around me, and constantly disappoint myself, I can't set the thought aside. I'm a useless person. And by writing this, I probably pissed off 30% of people reading because I seem edgy. And the funny thing? I'd love to just say "No! - Wtf is wrong with you and why would you even say that?".
But I don't even know if I'm faking this for attention. I truly don't. Id say I haven’t gone through any serious trauma at all. I know people who've gone through much, much worse, and they still kick ass. In comparison, nothing is even explicitly wrong with my life. And its probably why whenever I've tried sharing my problems, I'm met with confusion. I sometimes wish that I DID go through something bad.
Maybe then people will have an easier time understanding why I always disappoint them. But, again, that just sounds like an excuse for attention.

This is another story from the small rural California town Grocery store that I run.
We’ve had this boomer coming in for years, on the surface he’s a super sweet old man, loves making conversations with the older employees, everyone knows him and mostly everyone likes him.
He used to come in seemingly only to brag about his great football star grandson. “My grandsons a football star, he’s gonna go to state and maybe get drafted by the NFL.” Always giving us updates, letting us know how he performed at the last game. He was so proud and it was nice and positive interactions all around.
Until one day he stopped talking about his football star grandson and started exclusively complaining about (drumroll) “…the Gays” from that day on he never mentioned his football star grandson again.
Then the only place left to go was downhill from there. Since then He started aggressively hitting on the teenage girl employees and straight confronted a Mexican family in the aisle to ask if they were illegal. I watched as he stared daggers at an interracial couple in line in front of him, and when it became his turn he asked if I remember the Bible verse that says to marry within your race. We have to shuffle stations around when he comes in so no teen girls clerks are stuck helping him because he WILL make them uncomfortable.
The older employees are still nice to him but I’m pretty sure everyone else hates him. He came thru my line the other day and asked if I wanna hear a joke, I said ‘no thanks’ so he launches into his joke about a squirrel and a raccoon, (already sounds racist) so I yelled ‘no! I said I don’t want to hear it!’
I’ll be glad when he dies, and most likely, so will his football star grandson.

Keep seeing a lot of “Aw Poor 2.0” posts and the answer is no. Hell no. He deserved that smoke.
Let’s breakdown why V20 received the reception he did when he first entered that room. Let’s put it into context. The night before while Angela was sitting right at the table Vinny 2.0 served as her mouth piece.
All the roommates felt a way about that and made comments on how that was weird. Producers also found it strange and clearly did not like that Vinny 2.0 was speaking for Angela.
Which is why they rolled tapes on her goofy ass coaching him to be her spokesman. Then the next morning after the whole fan page debacle comes to light Vinny 2.0 enters into the room SOLO without Angela.
In my opinion, everyone deferred to treating Vinny 2.0 with angst because he had been acting as Angela’s proxy not even 24 hours prior. Vinny 2.0 and Angela both knew that there was going to be an issue with the roommates especially Sam.
Angela and Vinny 2.0 thought that by sending Vinny 2.0 in solo it would prolong or completely avoid the situation. But honestly, that was their collective mistake. Because of the night before they had already set a precedent that if you’re talking to Angela then that means you’re also talking to Vinny 2.0 because as we seen the night before he was answering and speaking on her behalf.
Now all of sudden Vinny 2.0 is speechless and thrown off because the roommates are continuing to act as if he’s Angela’s proxy (which he is, she made it so), that’s why production ran those clips back of Angela coaching him and encouraging him to speak for her. To basically say, “well girl, whether it’s you directly or you through ya man, you gon get this smoke Ang.”
So no, it’s not poor Vinny 2.0. He and Angela played a telephone game and won the sit down prize. I don’t feel bad for him. Mr. “You can tell her that yourself”, like excuse you? Tuh! I thought I was. Ain’t that why she sent you in here? You been speaking for her all this time, now you don’t have words? Bye V20, BYE!
I loved when Sam countered, “well then go get her so I can go tell her”, she clocked his ass good with that. I also loved how Jenni followed up with, “so why did you come?”
That question had a double meaning. First meaning obvious, why would you come without your significant other in the first place? You’re not a main character and barely a side.
The second meaning behind that question was, if you’re not going to act as a mouthpiece for Angela like you did last night, why did you come in here solo as if you don’t know there’s shit she needs to answer for?
Angela and Vinny 2.0 set the tone the night before for what happened in that room the next morning. Angela knew she couldn’t take the heat, that’s why she sent him in there because she thought they wouldn’t address him.
But nah, it don’t work like that. She should’ve never opened him up to that and he shouldn’t have allowed himself to be used like that. Bet he learned his lesson and will have Angela speaking for herself going forward. What they pulled the night before even had Pauly feeling a type of way. So you know it was some bs.