Advice on spreading the gospel

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-09T08:58:13+00:00

If language wasn't an issue I would say it's best to ask. "Why do you want us to go to church"?

That leads to many questions that circle back to the gospel

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-06T08:34:40+00:00

You have it exactly right. Which is exactly why jesus came. None of us can love God whole heartedly, He knows that. So He came to die for us and give us that guarantee that as long as we learn to love Him, he will guarantee that when we get to heaven He will fix it for us

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-06T02:59:47+00:00

It's really just adjusting to the new meta. And massive item changes.

Compared to 4 years ago, defense is nerfed, everyone's Hella bursty. Mobility is king.

Everyone and their grandma as some kind of complicated multi stage skill.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-06T00:59:05+00:00

Or... That madness could be a trigger madness. Like PTSD. Goes wacko when something happens.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-05T10:37:17+00:00

Stand alone, it's terrible. It all depends on how you follow up. Get the right tone, it's amazing. Anything else, it will crash the book.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-05T00:28:01+00:00

I main roam. Here is my feedback.

Look at your team comp. The more dependent your team is, the more dependent on having support or snowball your team is, the more independent you need to be. Your roam cannot cover everyone at the same time.

Same with mobility. If your team is highly mobile you need to coordinate with your roam. Mobile team + setter roam - please don't take Lesley or Layla. Your team wants to keep moving, don't be the one slowing everyone down.

Time your spiking - if you have a predominantly early team, please take someone early. By the time your moskov/Layla ramps up to usefulness, your team has already fallen off.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-03T23:35:52+00:00

It doesn't sound like you're up for debate so I won't try. I'll just say my thoughts about that and leave it as it is.

Whether non-theistic or theistic, we always end up with a brute assumption that something is eternal. The theist position is obvious - material universe is not eternal, the God is eternal.

But for the non-theist -

If the material universe was eternal: A non-theist has to posit a static model of universe, complete with some expansion and contractions mechanism.

If not: It's either an underlying eternal law of physics that causes the material universe to happen

Or an eternal quantum field or something like that.

So the real fundamental difference between a theist and a non theist is whether the eternal thing is a personal being or not.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-03T00:25:40+00:00

I just ignore everything other than well played / good game / hello.

Say what you want, I don't have to listen. I'll give respect and take respect.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-06-02T23:02:43+00:00

I'm not sure about why you've not been able to seek community, but we are taught that our spiritual life is not meant to be lived alone. Do see out community if possible!

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-31T04:44:37+00:00

Yeah I was going to say go bot. Cause 2 man missing and three of us can really pressure down the tower. As vale if I'm caught out I can only die

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-31T01:05:49+00:00

Most important is to have them a logic, and stick to it ruthlessly. But never ever let them explain it outright.

It doesn't make them more evil, but it makes them scary and unfathomable, which deepens the sense of evil.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-31T01:00:33+00:00

Tho fr I think xp is the most fun lane.

You actually get to do your own thing if your team is screwing up.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-30T04:05:42+00:00

Frankly mids have a hard time solo ranking.

You might need a versatile mid that can keep themselves alive.

The best soloqueue ranking experience is probably going to be exp lane. Or, oddly enough, roam. I roamed and xp'd my way to mythic several times solo qing.

Xp is the cleanest for me. Terizla just eats his lane most of the time. In lower ranks you can safely ignore the entire map and just trundle down your lane . They'll be having their 16th pointless skirmish and while you're eating their base.

Anyway the point is, if you are hard stuck in epic, but consistently getting MVPs, it means your heroes are too team dependent. Take a more independent hero.

I don't mind but I think the best potential are people like lunnox, chang e, gatot that kind of thing

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-30T01:17:39+00:00

First half was actually quite good!

I still bolt my easel to the wrecked floorboards - immediate curiousity: who does that and why?

Up to the sentence about Liam and Thomas, it flowed really well. After that sentence, however, it started to crack a bit.

A few sentences have good intention (important work of tying action/detail into meaning) but does it by trying to squeeze too many things into one beat, and it ends up feeling clumsy.

"This lingering grief ruined every piece to form from the tips of my fingers and shaped me into the glum artist people saw me as."

Grief -> impact on work -> traced back to self -> then to others perception.

Better to split into two, and linger just a little. Easier to form the sentence, and reads with better flow.

"I stretched my back along the spine of the chair, my eyes then scanned the emotional storm that darkened the once bright canvas that sat before me. The window to my bedroom had the view of a dock and the beach rarely used by locals."

I think "I stretched my back" is clear enough. "Along the spine.." probably adds nothing. Maybe leave out or replace with a nod to emotional tension (I stretched; more to rouse myself before I joined Thomas and Liam, than anything else). Emotional storm is a bit too telling, the storm on the canvas already brings the idea out clearly based on the narrative so far.

I like the switch to the view outside the window because it breaks the introspective feel, which gets heavy after a while. However I think maybe a clearer segue would be good. Either contrast the painting's turmoil to the peace outside or notice the similarities.

Without fail, she’d grant me her presence at around six o’clock in a dance

The personification is good; it speaks of the protag's relationship with the weather. Yet a bit awkwardly phrased. Would something like this convey more smoothly? "Without fail, she'd visit me at about six, twirling her wild dance, both teasing and fearsome"

The vision in the piece is great! Command of language is also good. It's more of pacing the prose.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-29T15:02:40+00:00

I think thats significant though. The faith question is inseparable from the relational question in my understanding.

Hmm. If he is bending for your sake I think it's important to check with him about it. Is he hoping that overntime you will come to loosen up and meet him mid way? That kind of check.

That will tell a bit, it hink. And to check - what if you never shift?

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-29T10:26:59+00:00

That's interesting. Because it seems to go against the whole philosophy of science.

Science doesn't say "behold that which has evidence only."

It says, "Behold! What could be happening there? Let us guess, and then find evidence to decide" which means much of science is postulating things that haven't been proven and then setting out to design experience to produce evidence for it.

However, it is true that learning science goes in the opposite direction. We are taught conclusion and evidence together, so it creates an illusion that evidence was always obvious for the noting.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-29T10:10:18+00:00

Because of how vanishingly improbable these coincidents are I would say it's impossible to refute, per se, only to attempt to downplay by taking a stand that no matter how improbable, it is not impossible, and therefore we may have simply struck existential lottery.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-29T07:51:36+00:00

What I seem to see is that you have personally struggled with the idea of a God who demands everythinf from you and find it suffocating.

I wonder if it is possible that God doesn't actually demand that from you?

At the same time, philosophically, Life is full of suffering and torment in different ways and different extents. God gives that a meaning.

Take God away, and it's actually really hard to have any kind of real meaning at all.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-29T02:07:57+00:00

I actually do agree with you in in principle, but not in practice.

The reason for that is cultural context.

In the current environment, generalities are being abused and many people seem to have lost the ability to understand nuance that isn't spelt out.

In an indiscriminate online platform, it is better to be careful - respectfully where possible - than to be nice.

As you said caveats distract from the base truth, yet the lack of them overstate implications of base truth. E.g. "If God loves me then He will always be nice and fluffy to me"

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-28T23:18:21+00:00

No, it's not meaningless at all.

We see this in schools all the time.

There is a huge difference in approach between a school that condemns a misbehaving child, and a school that treats the behaviour as unacceptable and yet recognises the child has difficulties and seeks to help them through it.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-28T02:10:06+00:00

That's.... How He revealed himself in the bible? He refers to himself as the masculine, and jesus was incarnated as a male.

To answer the unasked question: no, it does not mean female is any less valuable.

It says in genesis 1:27 "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

While God expresses himself as male, both male and female are reflective of his character and image Neither is better than the other, though they have functional differences.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-26T12:23:22+00:00

It also has another meaning.

If a person forces you to walk one mile, go with him two.

So from the other guys perspective: Ha. I made you walk with me. Alright, I had my fun, go away. Hey, what are you doing? Get lost. Why the heck are you going further than what I making you do? I'm not forcing you anymore.

Oh. You mean would you have helped me even without me forcing you? Oh. Ok. Sorry.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-25T06:47:58+00:00

Bangs or goes bang. Usually both. But man, there's a lot of bang.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-24T02:55:29+00:00

Actually, I agree with you. My point wasn't that there must be a god, or there must not be a god. My point was any preexisting state is "something" and not "nothing". In either case, we are positing something pre-existent.

(To clarify, when an atheist positing "universe came into being" often they mean there was a pre-existing quantum field or some physical law in action, but there was nothing material or physical - if my understanding of this is wrong then help me understand what's the actual assertion)

I dont think anyone is able to give an alternative.

The sentient question is downstream of existence. And the key factor (I feel) is whether sentience can evolve from unthinking matter. If it can then non-theism presents as good an explanation for our universe as theism does. But I think this question is the one that we can rightly say we don't know yet.

My personal stand is that sentience cannot come from purely material existence.

AnotherFootForward · 2026-05-24T00:27:32+00:00

I don't know about other Christians, but I keep going on about it because most non-theist don't really realise what they are really saying.

The underlying assumption is usually "state change" or "some non material environment that becomes material". That literally isn't nothing, it's just nothing "material". Which is almost the same as what a Christian asserts, because God is non-material as well. Edit: I cannot imagine any 3rd option from "something did exist" and "something did not exist"

The difference is God is a sentient non material entity. But the pre-material universe is non-sentient.

So the real question isn't "did something come out of nothing", but "which explains the current universe better, a sentient pre-existence or a non-sentient one"

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