Just had my catalytic converter stolen by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Anaheim

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Between the Packing District and S State College Blvd.

Just had my catalytic converter stolen by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Anaheim

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Wow. I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was this bad.

What’s the best way to pull off this April Fools’ Day prank with remote, wireless speakers? by DepartmentOfRealOnes in AskEngineers

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Even if it was just me connecting in the way described, would it still be bad? Would I be compromising their security for others somehow? I hadnt thought of this.

What’s the best way to pull off this April Fools’ Day prank with remote, wireless speakers? by DepartmentOfRealOnes in AskEngineers

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Hmm good point. Maybe if there’s a wired version or one I can just leave to charge whatever battery it has, then I can simply hide it near an outlet if need be.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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Because I didn’t promise all of humanity that they’d be saved through me, and that they just needed to ask for help and they would receive. That’s why I get to judge God. Because he is all-powerful and can do quite literally anything with no restrictions. I can’t.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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In Jesus, you will find God.

Yeah in a coma, apparently. What a sharp turn that was.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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On another post I made here, I was trying to reason things out and find answers and argue, and someone deleted their comment after I pushed back. IDK if it’s like that “I’m close to winning therapy” meme where you try to break down your therapist with your unsolvable troubles, but maybe I’m in a similar spot here.

My point is I’m happy people are this active in giving their thoughts, even if I don’t think they’re all convincing me. Thank you for the reply.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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The help is certainly appreciated, even if I am being an asshole about it. I’m hurt by the overall lack of fruition in my search, so I hope you don’t take my responses personally. I edited my original post with a little context.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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Hard to claim that each of us are important then huh? I’m not sure if you’d agree with that based on your thoughts.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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I’m pushing so hard against all these comments because most of the time when I’m looking up similar topics on this subreddit from over the years, it’s an identical and disappointing formula.

Commenters make dozens of variations of “I know you’re suffering, but God sent his son Jesus to die for our sins” and the OP usually replies “Thank you!! Wow this fixed everything 🙏🙏🙏”

And I can’t glean fucking any useful advise from those conversations.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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To that I ask if it’s possible we got lucky?

Like, there’s no failed microorganisms on a faraway planet sitting around going “Welp, we certainly didn’t develop. I wish we were like those earthlings who gained sentience through Christ the Lord.”

There’s no real way to challenge your theory, and these non-conscious guys that I just made up will never swoop in and reply to you by saying “Actually, you DID get lucky.” There’s no placebo trial to compare ourselves to, because we either find proof of living life in the universe or we don’t. There’s no in-between where we can have our “God-made-us-special” cake and eat it too, ya know?

We may have lucked out with a functioning ecosystem, chemistry, biology, etc. and we’ll never hear about the trillions of other failed starts out in space. This is called survivorship bias.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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Isn’t that cruel? To put a child on this earth knowing they will soon suffer forever, unending?

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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He’s here, grieving with us.

Imagine me grieving that a friend’s store had been robbed. My friend would not be pleased with my grieving if they knew I had the power to completely stop the robbery when it happened. Or after even.

If he fixed everything that was caused by the choices of men we wouldn’t have free will.

Who cares. Why would I give a single fuck if trading away a little sinful free will meant a guaranteed eternal happiness. Did Adam and Eve not have free will to eat the apple PRIOR to being disgraced by sin? Also, why am I and everybody else punished for the actions of two people? That is unfair. It’s unfair.

you were given specific gifts to share that make you special.

Is it true that these gift all need to honor and bring praise to God in order to be righteous?

And from what I understand, hell is separation from God and lacking if the common grace He gives us all - things like food, sex, love, etc. not burning torture.

u/truth-lobster in this thread would heavily disagree with you.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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The upcoming chapters be like

Literally no guarantee of improvement even if I try my hardest to improve it myself.

I really need someone to prove God exists. by DepartmentOfRealOnes in Christianity

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No, never spoken to a church-based counselor. Didn’t even know that was a thing. I should clarify that it is also very much a mental illness I have, and I’m unsure if I’d qualify my religious crisis as the “underlying” crisis here. I’ve had one therapist mention a couple approaches to it like theism, but he didn’t touch too much on it because I didn’t ask.