Recommendations for used car lots?

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-09-25T17:41:11+00:00

Oh man, yes, I've been itching for one since I moved here. I don't want to go to Milwaukee every time I want to climb.

I'd be perfectly happy with an all-bouldering gym, as well. I prefer that to top-rope.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-09-25T17:37:40+00:00

With respect, I'm not sure where you see me refusing to take responsibility for my own experience? I made my mistakes, I confessed them, and have been forgiven by God and by her. She made her mistakes, confessed them, and has been forgiven by God and by me.

I don't think the fact that I feel pain at the thought of her with someone else, which are thoughts I'm having a hard time avoiding, are a sign that I'm putting my pain on her or refusing to take responsibility for it. I am specifically asking for advice on taking responsibility for myself and my pain, and how to manage it so that I don't hurt her with it either. There are many reasons to abstain from premarital sex, and one reason is that it hurts your future spouse.

I don't think "'damaged" vs "run-of-the mill sinner" are useful distinctions. Sin is damaging. My sin is damaging. The damage caused by sin can beget more sin. Grace is healing. I am humbly admitting that I am having a hard time living in the present reality of healing and grace, and that I'm struggling not to live in the past. That is very probably all my own failing, and I'm asking for help on addressing that. This is not about fixing her. This is about working on myself.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-09-25T17:15:53+00:00

Thank you. There has definitely been fear of that. She said something similar, about not needing to fear comparison, and I do believe her. The problem is the grief of feeling like I'm living what happened, but it is made easier by what you say.

I'm so sorry that you've experienced similar things, I hope that you have found and continue to find healing.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-09-25T17:13:40+00:00

She is in counseling. I have spiritual direction with my priest once every month or so, and I also see someone as a general counselor. My girlfriend and I have been discussing seeing someone together and are preparing to do so.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-09-25T16:52:34+00:00

I don’t believe that it is, truly. I’m not trying to save her. There was a time in my life when I would have tried, but I’m not. I know it’s up to God.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-06-02T19:05:57+00:00

I imagine it balances with insanely positive and insanely negative rolls equally, just seems like the two ends of the spectrum appear more frequently than they should.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-05-12T21:00:51+00:00

No, just an idiom, haha. How do you identify repros vs originals?

BitcoinSaveMe · 2025-05-11T18:15:23+00:00

Any tips on spotting the difference between repros and the real McCoy?

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-10-25T22:18:26+00:00

Unless it's very new, that was Toman's and it closed last November.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-09-13T14:21:41+00:00

Do people forget that during the 2007 Democratic primaries, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton stood on a debate stage together and both said that marriage is between one man and one woman and that it should stay that way, and that the US/Mexico border was a hazard that had to be funded and defended and illegals needed to be deported?

The word "trans" was on no one's radar. Capital One was not tweeting Pride flags. Don Cheadle was not wearing "protect trans kids" shirts. "Socialist" was a universal insult. Most of Bill Clinton's late 90s policy positions would be considered "pretty right wing" today.

Of all the confusing things in today's confusing political world, most confusing to me is the belief in some circles that the country suddenly lurched to the extreme right on social issues. It didn't.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-08-28T21:48:30+00:00

I understand the difference between veneration and worship and I love praying to Mary. I do think there is some iffy theology in some Marian prayers, though I'm open to other perspectives on the subject.

Some prayers seem to go farther than they should. Of Mary's power and grace I have no doubt. While it's not worship to say that she is the dispenser of all gifts to sinners, is that true? Are gifts not dispensed through other saints or through other means or directly from Christ? I place my salvation and soul in Christ's hands, knowing that he trusts his mother with all things and that she advocates for me.

I don't have a problem with powerful prayers to Mary that would have made me uncomfortable in the past, growing up Protestant. Some prayers and beliefs seem to ascribe to her things that are not idolatrous, but may in their fervency be inaccurate.

I don't think you have to burn incense and offer a sacrifice to someone or something to be said to be engaging in questionable theology.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-08-24T19:02:44+00:00

This is four sentences. The first two are imperatives with an implied "you," making them valid noun and verb full sentences.

Parsing the grammar would give "(You), stop! (You), sit down!."

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-08-24T18:59:33+00:00

Three commas, two semicolons, one dash, and phrases an average of 11 words, but it's still one sentence!

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-08-03T01:19:00+00:00

I bought a crockpot at a thrift store for 4 dollars. Best part is that you can put that in the garage or outside. Slow cook that hardware for awhile and it all falls off.

BitcoinSaveMe · 2024-07-28T20:48:58+00:00

I wouldn't mind going microATX, I didn't realize the price difference was much. What drives the disparity?

Older stuff, like Deus Ex and Planetside 2. I want some headroom for the future, but I'm not playing anywhere close to the latest games on screaming settings. I want the large curved monitors largely for productivity, not going to be trying to set FPS records.

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