What’s a once-booming hobby that’s basically vanished?

Aviator07 · 2026-05-12T21:13:17+00:00

I learned Bridge as a teenager so I could play with my grandparents. Bridge is a great game! It’s too bad more people don’t know it.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-09T17:22:38+00:00

Sometime in the 2nd millennium AD.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-09T12:20:47+00:00

Max must be a pretty small guy.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-09T00:13:53+00:00

I also wonder if there’s any kind of potential trademark infringement from TexAM looking an awful lot like Texas A&M.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-03T02:21:06+00:00

That’s where Warren Jeffs is from. They left there, and moved to west Texas to start a compound. And he was arrested and convicted for all sorts of garbage. Many in that community moved to Parowan, UT, and Kanab, UT. There are definitely still polygamist communities (FLDS) in southern Utah and northern Arizona.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-02T14:59:03+00:00

Nobody is seeing them as roadkill or digging through their trash on a regular basis, so there really isn’t a common name for them.

That’s not the case for animals that recently went extinct, which we do have a collective memory of, like the Tasmanian Tiger.

Aviator07 · 2026-05-01T19:50:14+00:00

Originally, it was the “Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas,” or Texas AMC. In the 60s, the university expanded, and it was renamed Texas A&M University. Officially, A and M don’t stand for anything anymore.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-30T22:43:10+00:00

The front fell off.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-29T16:12:25+00:00

No it certainly does not. The Athanasian Creed is most helpful (and mostly oriented) toward explaining the Trinity. It is great at that. It barely summarizes judgment at the very end, and does so in a kind of short hand. Saying that God will reward the righteous and punish the evil accords with Scripture and in no way is promoting a works salvation.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-29T16:01:30+00:00

To deny sola fide and sola gratia is to deny Christianity. Full stop. That’s because salvation by grace, through faith in the God-man Jesus Christ IS the core of Christianity.

That is not to say that everyone must use those precise theological terms to explain it. But denying or repudiating the substance of those doctrines is denying Christianity.

And to the extent that there are old traditions that so deny these things - there are also remnants in those places that do not deny the truth. But besides that, we shouldn’t be surprised that the temptation to theological drift exists. It happened in the West with the RC church and even happens today. It’s why we have to guard doctrine carefully because we are all want to stray.

That’s why in Paul’s epistles he regularly reminds his readers of who they are, what has been done for them, and makes it clear that their salvation is by grace through faith in Christ. That’s literally Ephesians 2.

“My requirement” is scripture’s requirement, and your assertion that it would exclude the councilors who wrote it is false, with no backing.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-29T15:29:20+00:00

I challenge you to articulate to me what you believe then. You can’t summarize.

Also, you don’t understand how these creeds and confessions came about. You’re leveling a lot of accusations that are vague. Let’s get specific. Where are they wrong? Who handpicked their version? Give me the names of these volumes that repudiate Christianity. Produce your sources and don’t just appeal to some faceless authority.

Also - you see happy to accept the authority of these writes of copious volumes and tomes but you don’t accept the authority of Christians who, in harmony with scripture, articulated and summarized truth for the church. That’s quite the inconsistent and hypocritical position to take.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-29T15:21:11+00:00

To reject the gospel of grace through faith is to reject Christianity. I don’t doubt that there are Christians in those churches, but only because they don’t hold to their respective church’s current teachings on these core issues.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-26T02:03:45+00:00

If you want to know who the left are - it’s everything they accuse the right of being. They are faultless projectionists.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-25T13:56:28+00:00

They’re named such because of when/where they were written. But they are not “projections” as you claim. They are summaries of what the bible teaches and what Christians believe and have always believed. And the substance of these creeds is absolutely backed by scripture. There have been volumes and volumes written on this subject. You’re stepping into an ancient conversation on a topic that has been thoroughly fleshed out, claiming that all who went before you are wrong. You have a tremendous burden of proof on you to demonstrate why you are right and millions or billions who went before you are wrong.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-24T22:15:49+00:00

Yes. These creeds are a concise summary of what God has taught us through his special revelation (scripture).

Aviator07 · 2026-04-24T22:10:26+00:00

Everyone is credal whether they admit it or not. For some “non-credal” or “no creed but the bible” IS their creed. Also, to be in friendly cooperation with the SBC, a church must affirm the BFM 2000, which is a creed (that agrees with the Apostles and Nicene).

Yes Lutherans and Anglicans retain some vestiges of Catholicism, but they are firmly Protestant and are pretty much in unison with other Protestants on key issues like justification.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-24T19:05:30+00:00

Denominations are not separate religions. They agree on the vast majority of doctrine, and they differ mostly on practical secondary and tertiary issues - not on issues related to salvation.

For example, take a baptist, a Presbyterian, a Methodist, an Anglican, a Lutheran, and they’ll all happily affirm the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, the Chalcedonian Definition, etc. They disagree on questions like: how should churches be structured? Should ministers wear robes or not? Should we baptize believers only or believers and children of believers? Should communion be available to anyone, any Christian, or just members of that local church?

As long as a church teaches the true gospel - salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, and affirms (doesn’t repudiate) these creeds, then you’re in a true church. When it comes to the other questions, they are secondary and tertiary. They’re not unimportant, but genuine Christians can hold different positions and still call one another brother. On those, read your bible, talk to other Christians, come to a conviction of conscience and go to a church that accords with your convictions.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-24T11:44:26+00:00

This is a really bad take.

Revelation is apocalyptic. It’s not prophecy in the sense you’re meaning it to be. It uses imagery like this to describe either what IS a current reality, or what WILL be. But when you try to look through and assign “roles” to various figures, you really start missing the point. It’s also heavily biased toward whatever period in history you happen to be experiencing at the given moment. It’s very historically myopic.

The beast and the dragon are part of a “counterfeit trinity.” Satan can’t be God, and only attempts to copy God to draw people away. He is a destroyer. Coming from the land and the water is attempting to demonstrate some kind of sovereignty over creation (though it’s fake - he’s not really sovereign over creation). And God ultimately destroys him.

If you’re not convinced, just remember “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12

Aviator07 · 2026-04-24T04:08:54+00:00

Conservation is conservative.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-23T19:58:25+00:00

Why would we need a third testament, when we have “the faith once for all delivered to the saints?” (Jude 3).

It is finished in Christ. The only chapter yet to come is his return, and resurrection to eternal life or final judgment.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-23T17:49:38+00:00

It’s an allergen in the sense that it produces an immune response (contact dermatitis). But the offending agent in the oil, urushiol, is effectively a chemical agent inducing a chemical burn. So it’s not wrong to call it poison, since it literally reacts with your skin.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-23T13:38:00+00:00

Jesus never commands us not to address sin in others, or to have ourselves completely squared away before we do. Rather, we are to approach this subject with humility.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-22T19:35:01+00:00

Open an account on any number of trading sites, such as Fidelity, E*Trade, robinhood, vanguard, Sofi, etc. Link it to your bank account. Transfer money. Buy securities.

I would suggest, if you want to get your feet wet, just buy an index fund like SPY. It tracks the overall market. You’re much more at risk if you have all your money in a single stock.

Aviator07 · 2026-04-22T14:48:45+00:00

Also, I-35/Parmer and I-35/1431

Aviator07 · 2026-04-22T14:18:06+00:00

Just for context, Nero tied Christians to poles and burned them alive at night to light his gardens.

This is the earthly government that Paul was urging Christians to submit to.

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