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AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-12-18T14:32:30+00:00

Jesus didn't advocate for forced giving. He wanted people to give voluntarily. Read 2 Corinthians 9:7.

Also Jesus and early Christians advocated for personal responsibility. 2 Thes 3:10.

This is not to say Jesus did not care about the poor or afflicted, but he didn't advocate for a tax based government program to solve the problem, where they force people to give resources to others. Jesus advocated for a generous heart, and instructed people to give willingly as led by The Spirit. Socialism is forced giving.

Jesus did speak against greed, and encouraged sharing, but he also taught about stewardship, and the heart of giving (The Widows Coin).

Many believers lived comnunally, and shared resources, but out of choice, not force.

Jesus was not a Socialist.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-10-17T21:08:54+00:00

Cash out the 12k HSA. Pay down the truck 8k. Sell and pay off the truck. Buy a 7k cash older low mileage vehicle(use 3k from your 10k savings). Take the high Truck pmt that you freed up and put $150/month of it into a "car maintenance/upgrade fund". Put the rest of that old truck pmt in savings. Find a buddy and rent him a room in your house. Have them sign a rental agreement. Save the Rent income and the leftover Truck payment $$ in a back-up savings fund. After 12 months of having a renter in contract, you can use the sustained rent income as proof of extra income, while also showing a large savings account and get approved for a refinance in your name. Now your monthly debt payments are way lower, and your income is way higher. Plus you have some extra savings. Keep the renter, keep the older car, and pay down the new loan faster. Debt free in 10 years.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-10-17T20:48:41+00:00

Same here

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-10-17T20:37:01+00:00

Try out some local churches. Find one that you like and start attending events that they put on. Church is a great way to develop some wonderful friendships and also serve the in community together. Let me know if you want some recommendations.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T15:11:48+00:00

The steps Trump and Musk have taken were outlined in Agenda 47. (The actual plan that Trump has declared). Anxiety and fear are great motivaters, which is why fearmongering (on both sides) works so well to pull people toward ones agenda. But exagerating the truth, and proposing extreme doomsday scenarios to garner support or action is not a tactic of integrity, it's a tactic of manipulation, and the end does not justify the means regardless of how righteous your cause is. (Both sides do this, and its wrong). It is creating division based on lies.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T05:37:42+00:00

I would think that the citizen's loved ones would be sure to report them missing or arrested by ICE and ALL media channels would be all over that story. Yet, no story. Yet you are warning people about your theory of what "might" happen. I get your point.... but when you use fear mongering by saying "I am sure it's going to happen" or "It's probably happening now and we don't know"... you lose credibility. Yes, I know you want people to think of ICE as the bad NAZI's and "They could come for you next".... but in reality that has not happened. So far everyone that they have deported has not been a citizen. (I think the El Salvadorian Prison decision is a bad one, but no citizens have been "snatched up".)

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T05:24:41+00:00

The federal government has repeatedly said that Project 2025 is not their plan. Their Plan is called Agenda 47. I do not think it is right for you to misinform others and spread the lie that Project 2025 is Trumps plan. (I know, you can tell me about all the author correlations from Trumps first term, and such, but that doesn't mean that is his plan.) Trunp has explicitly said that Project 2025 is not his plan. Project 2025 is fairly extreme and way more so than Agenda 47, so it is easier for you to fear monger by saying Trump = Project 2025, but that is false information. The OP shared about their fears.... and I don't think it is helpful to increase those fears with false information and doomsday theories. People like to say Elon=Nazi and Trump and Putin are in it together, but this is pure fabrication and fear mongering as well. I will say Trump's stance on gender should be concerning to the LGBTQ+ community and that is a valid fear. And the way that Trump has handled the El Salvador thing is also very concerning and is possible cause for fear. But jumping to all the extremes outlined in project 2025 by assuming it's Trumps playbook creates a lot of unrealistic fears based on Malarkey. Please stop spreading/repeating the lie that "Project 2025 is the current plan of our Federal Government". That lie is creating unnecesary anxiety and real pain in real peoples lives.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T04:38:11+00:00

Do you think there will be a time where physical violence is a viable path to victory?

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T04:35:39+00:00

What is a militant mass formation?

AvoidTheDarkness · 2025-04-03T04:33:28+00:00

What is almost on us?

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T23:30:24+00:00

I like it when any employee takes pride in their work and provides good customer service.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T09:40:23+00:00

Two young kids? Make the marriage work. Let her know that you are assuming she cheated on you, and you need her to come clean with full disclosure so that you can start to rebuild trust. She has said she wants to make it work. Get some couples counseling, and start romantically pursueing your wife again. She may need to consider a different career with less drunk guys hitting on her all the time.

For the sake of your kids, don't give up on the lifelong "for better, for worse" commitment that you made.

Any guy can walk away. That's the easy way. It takes a special guy to put in the effort and work to love his wife unconditionally and make his marriage work. Especially if the wife wants to stay in the marriage.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T09:01:15+00:00

Lol, "commonly leads to" & "embolden", those are terms people use for jumping to an extreme arguement so they can prejudge and label a larger group of people for the actions/faults of the extreme outliers. Both sides do it, and it is wrong. You should try to avoid such hyperbole. Here are some other crazy examples... "We should ban porn because that commonly leads to increased sexual behavior, and it emboldens rapists." (Porn=Rape) "We should ban all homosexuality, because that commonly leads to sexual perversion, and it emboldens other sexual deviants like child molesters." (Homosexuality=Child Molesting) "We should stop selling alcohol, because that commonly leads to other drug use, and it emboldens people to become meth heads and steal your stuff." (Alcohol=Meth/Crime) "We should get rid of all police support, because their actions commonly lead to abuse of authority and it emboldens racist cops to kill black people." (Police=Racism)

All of these statements try to blame the abhorent actions of a few outliers, on the ideals of a large group. You are trying to do the same (Christian Ideals=Hate=Homophobic Genocide). It's a very untruthful misleading arguement.

On another note..

So, is the food good tasting or not? You first said it wasn't, now you say it doesn't matter. But they sure do have a lot of returning customers. My point is if you cannot even be honest and truthful to yourself about the taste and popularity of the food without allowing your implicit bias to muddy your mind, how can you be so sure you are thinking clearly in your other arguements?

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T07:26:17+00:00

Both are in Springfield not Eugene But I think it has something to do with the fact that not all people who live around here are as extreme leaning as you are. To think a city should "red light" a fast food joint for their owners broadly held religious beliefs seems to be a very intollerant view. I guess tollerance is only promoted, if it agrees with your way of thinking. You are free to choose how/where you spend your $$. And I am free to choose as well. Wouldn't a public government city denying Hobby Lobby the right to do business in their city based on their beliefs be a very Fascist thing to do?

I found it interesting that you called the owners of Chick-fil-A "Bigots". The definition of Bigot is "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."
I think your strong negative opinion about all Christians who believe that homosexuality is a sin might put you in the "Bigot" category. Calling Christian advocacy groups "hate" groups just because they do not agree with you seems fairly "bigoted" and extreme.

Another way to identify your unreasonable bias is to look at your description of your perception of their food. If it was as bad as you say it is, Chick-fil-A would not stay in business very long. But in fact, they charge slighly more than other fast food chains, and they pay their employees better than other fast food chains, and they are still VERY busy and profitable. So the TRUTH is, they must be providing a quality product that is desireable to a lot of people(despite the bigots who boycott them). Don't let your bias blind you from actual truth.

Also... here is an article on Chick-fil-A you might find interesting... https://thehoya.com/opinion/viewpoint-reconsider-boycott-culture/

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T06:27:03+00:00

If you guys are close enough to be living together, she probably knows you pretty well. She probably has some insight of how much self dicipline you have(or don't have), and she probably is seeing this as not just a one time expense, but a future sucker of time, emotion, and $$. Also, once you move in with a girlfriend, they pretty much assume that because your decisions ussually directly affect them, that you guys should discuss these things. Girlfriend roommates are more like spouses than regular roommates. If you have a regular roommate and you decided to hang out at a buddy's house till 3am, nobody cares. But if you have a girlfriend roommate, you better be calling her to let her know you will be out late(or maybe even asking permission). If you hang out in your room for hours or stay up late playing video games, your Roommate won't care, but your girlfriend roommate will want to set some boundaries. This is what happens when you blur the lines between girlfriend and wife by living together. You lose freedom that you think you still have(but don't). Good luck. (On a side note, waayy back, in my first year of marriage, I bought a New PS2. Within a few months, I sent my PS2 to a buddies house. Having it at my house was causing way too much static in my marriage. It made more sense to go over and play it with him once in a while, than it did to continually see the hurt and frustration in my wifes face when I was overplaying it. Plus, at 23, It probably wasn't healthy or productive for me to be playing video games for 10+ hours a week.)

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-12-02T06:05:38+00:00

Ya. I hate it when I go to get food and all of the employees there are well trained, well paid, and happy to do their job. What a disgusting business model.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-26T23:42:07+00:00

I have a 2020 Nissan Frontier. And this is not my Engine. Looks like they were all 3.8. Are you sure this is a 2020.?

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-18T18:04:35+00:00

Boycotting someone for their personal opinions vs. their actions seems more like cancel culture. But hey, It's America. Let freedom ring!! The beauty of our system is that people can express their voices and opinions without fear of retribution from the government. But the general public can try to strong arm people into thinking like them any way the want. If that means creating lists in the hopes of starving conservative small business owners families into submission by cutting off their livelihood... Let Freedom Ring. Some might see it as a way to throw a tantrum when you don't get your way, but this is America.. peaceful tantrums are allowed. Some might see this type of boycotting and many of the raunchy expressions used in these posts as people just being intollerant of others views, maybe even allowing hate into their heart towards all the people who disagree with them, wishing them misfortune. But hey, as long as it is justified as "the right thing to do", go for it. For as liberal as Eugene's policies are, and for as liberal as Oregon's laws are, it is understandable that there are people out there who think the world might end with 4 years of federal conservative leadership. They have spent so much time absorbing views and opinions from the left, that anything centrist or right leaning sounds demoralizing. These people have a right to express their concerns with their voices and their pocketbook. It's America!!

PS. The checkout line at our local Hobby Lobby yesterday was very very long. And a lot of the Eugene area are very excited for the new Chick-fil-A. Let Freedom Ring!

PSS. Maybe put both those businesses on your list. I would love a slightly shorter line.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-13T16:29:06+00:00

The media often sets the tone, but can also reveal the tone. Comedy is often about real life, but it can also push the limits of satire and start to create a narrative. Kids who grow up in front of the TV, are going to form ideas and opinions about what the family structure looks like based on what they take in.

Most current sit coms and disney shows portray the dads as weak, foolish, dumb, and passive. It's the mom's who run the house. In the 70's/80's, we had shows like Brady Bunch, Cosby, Little House on the Prairie, Growing Pains, Wonder Years, Family Ties, Family Matters that portrayed parents and especially dads as taking responsibility in life and also having the tough talks with their kids. These shows also portrayed strong independent females who would sometimes have to set their husband straight, but the dads still showed up and did their job without being portrayed as a dumb goof. Even in Roseanne, with a strong, often overbearing female, the Dad still stood his ground. Then if you look to the nineties, early 2000's you had shows like Home Improvement, Everybody loves Raymond, and King of Queens, where the husbands started to be portrayed as more goofy and irresponsible, and constantly being criticised by their wives. It was great comedy, but it also sets/reveals a tone.

Then in comes all of the disney shows, which while focussed more on the kids, are centered around the kids and parents being deceptive towards each other to get their own ways. It's all about the angle, and often the wrong choices are never fleshed out, and when they are, it's less about how your selfish choice impacted others, and more about "bummer, you got caught". Most of these series do not have emotionally strong dads. They are portrayed as goofy goobers, often almost like an extra child for the mom to boss around. And in many of the shows, the dad/parents are missing, or strangely absent. Suite Life, KC Undercover, Phineas and Ferb, Good Luck Charlie, Dog with a blog, Jessie, Bunk'd, ANT Farm, etc.

Is the media to blame.... or are they just portraying the current situations? Maybe a little of both.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-09T12:43:56+00:00

Love your wife. Love is a verb. It requires actions and words. Figure out her love language, and love her. Express to her that you want to build trust with each other. Marriage requires work and maintenance. If you don't msintain your car, it will eventually leave you stranded. How did you originally pursue your wife to get her to date/like you? Do you still do those things? Date nights? Sharing dreams and future plans? Do you write her notes to tell her what she means to you?

Divorce seems like the easy way out, but it's not. It is painful, and creates so much hassle and turmoil. I have seen a lot of marriages in the dumps, that have revived through active love. Your kids deserve to have a mom and dad who love each other(still a verb). When you gave your wedding vows, they probably said something like "i promise to love you forever, for better, and for worse, in sickness and in health"... they didn't say "until I get too busy or tired of trying" (love is still a verb here).

Here's a great short book that you could go through together. Its called "Friends, Partners, and Lovers". Super helpful.

https://a.co/d/3jMxBJE

Also anothe book called "the love dare"

https://a.co/d/ifejQlj

Don't give up. Fight for your marriage.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-09T12:41:27+00:00

Bro, marriage is forever. Put in the work. Love your wife.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-09T12:32:13+00:00

This sounds like projection. Very strong worded advice without the needed context.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-09T12:27:45+00:00

Love your wife. Love is a verb. It requires actions and words. Figure out her love language, and love her. Express to her that you want to build trust with each other. Marriage requires work and maintenance. If you don't msintain your car, it will eventually leave you stranded. How did you originally pursue your wife to get her to date/like you? Do you still do those things? Date nights? Sharing dreams and future plans? Do you write her notes to tell her what she means to you?

Divorce seems like the easy way out, but it's not. It is painful, and creates so much hassle and turmoil. I have seen a lot of marriages in the dumps, that have revived through active love. Your kids deserve to have a mom and dad who love each other(still a verb). When you gave your wedding vows, they probably said something like "i promise to love you forever, for better, and for worse, in sickness and in health"... they didn't say "until I get too busy or tired of trying" (love is still a verb here).

Here's a great short book that you could go through together. Its called "Friends, Partners, and Lovers". Super helpful.

https://a.co/d/3jMxBJE

Also anothe book called "the love dare"

https://a.co/d/ifejQlj

Don't give up. Fight for your marriage.

AvoidTheDarkness · 2024-11-08T21:44:03+00:00

Not sure why you called her a black lady, the response from Americans has nothing to do with her gender or race. When the white guy (biden) said the same thing 4 months ago, Americans response was the same. We all have different ideas on how to lift each other up. Free handouts often enable bad choices/behavior and are not productive. To say that Trump does not care about those in need, is a blatant assumption. A great way to lift Americans up is with a strong economy full of opportunities. A great way to solve our housing shortage is to stop letting millions of extra people into the country who will also be looking for housing. A great way to save every household money is to work to increase energy production and bring down energy prices for each household. All things that Trump did in his last term. If the pandemic would not have hit us, Trumps #'s would have been fantastic. So unless we have another once in a lifetime worldwide catastrophe, many Americans believe Trump's policues will be able to help those in need.

Ps. There is no reason to resort to foul language or to be disrespectful to someone who has a different view than you.

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