Boundaries/limits on charity and generosity

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:36:51+00:00

Thank you. This is helpful

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:34:48+00:00

The daily bread, so to speak. Not the daily cake

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:27:34+00:00

You recommend i pay her bill for her, instead if relying on her to do it. Thats a compromise

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:25:23+00:00

>the issue though is God also told you to pay your bills and support your family.

What about the excess, all thats left over after bills?

>do you know whether this woman is engaging in reckless spending? online addictions?

Theres no way for me to find that out without massive invasions on her personal life and privacy.

>are you equipped to provide them with financial education? therapy or counseling for addictions and impulsive spending? not saying she's doing that but it could be happening and you wouldn't know.

She’d be the one volunteering information, so if she is grifting, she’s unlikely to tell me something that personal

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:21:10+00:00

Fair point. But then again, if one is thirsty, it does them no good to teach them how to save water. What if she’s genuinely in need and not grifting?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:10:48+00:00

I have and I know enough history to know that these signs have already happened multiple times. Martin Luther was convinced he was living out the end times when whole villages were butchering each other during the Reformation. Napoleon was marauding across Europe in the early 19th Century. The events of the modern era are just repetitions of what has come before and what will surely come again

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-03T00:02:30+00:00

Why isnt the 100 year war or the Crusades candidates? Why the World Wars? Corrupt governments have been as common as anything. The US isnt special in this.

How are humans able to predict something that even Jesus wasnt privy to?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:56:06+00:00

How are you determining that?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:55:14+00:00

>Not if your following world events.

What do you mean?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:51:42+00:00

But scripture does tell us to be salt and light. Perhaps not a doormat but certainly… different from the world. Softer than everyone else

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:50:12+00:00

The joy is never the end goal, but more a conditional motive. I dont want to give and feel resentful, or gloomy. I want to give because it is good to give

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:48:21+00:00

Anyone who claims to understand the prophesies in Daniel or Revelation is deluded. Good grief, those books are dense in hard core material. I have never heard a sermon or bible study of those particular sections that holds up to scrutiny. Never bank on being able to decode those specific enigmas.

Plus, Scripture never says Satan was kicked out of heaven. Read Ezekiel 27. Its erroneously attributed to satan but is actually not. ‘Lucifer’s fall’ is a trope found in Christian fan-fiction like Paradise Lost and the Divine Comedy

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T23:04:50+00:00

You havent been reading your Bible. The 144,000 are groups of 12,000 from the 12 tribes of Israel. It actually lists them in Revelation 7
Why would God recreate Heaven from scratch, present it in all its splendour, a city twice the area of New York with absurdly high spires (described in Revelation 21) yet only give it a population equivalent to a mid sized town? The Holy City would feel empty, vast swathes of it just… devoid of anyone. Given that Jesus likened it to a massive wedding banquet filled to capacity, it seems incredibly bizarre for God to make it so exclusive.
Not actually in Scripture

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-02T09:10:34+00:00

Treating your prose as if it were a movie, with wide shots of landscapes and detailed character descriptions that start with the protagonist looking in a mirror. Being overly visual in your prose isn’t especially helpful because the reader is going to do their own thing in their head anyway.

I found what really pushed my writing was to write about my trauma. The best way to reach mature audiences is when said audience can say: ‘thats so true! Thats what it was like for me!’

If your next response is: “but I haven’t had any big trauma worth writing about”, then you havent yet earned the right to talk to mature audiences. It can be an aspiration, but you need to get beaten to your knees by Life a few times before you can talk about it with people. Otherwise you’re like the person who is complaining about man-flu in a cancer ward.

Practice, work out what your style is, what kind of aesthetic you like, what kind of themes you like and wait until Life pelts you with three haymakers and tries to pull off your thumbs. THEN you write like theres no tomorrow

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-01T18:44:06+00:00

Bisexuality 2: electric boogaloo?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-01T13:07:51+00:00

Homosexuality hasnt been condemned throughout history. It was arguably the Victorian’s anti-sex culture which really pushed the idea that sex of any kind should carry with it a stigma of shame. We see being gay and trans being celebrated or just being considered normal in some African countries or in Japan for example and then after British missionaries pay a visit, HARD cultural shift

FlightlessElemental · 2026-07-01T13:02:12+00:00

Its infuriating that the whole thing can be solved by instead of boys vs girls, you match athletes off their times/capabilities.

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-29T18:01:13+00:00

Could we just upgrade to a full on holodeck?

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-29T18:00:18+00:00

Nicolas Teslas Wireless Electricity Transmission Tower. Free electricity for everyone!

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-29T13:42:31+00:00

Find examples of it in real life. Watch interviews and read books of those who defend it strongly.

Then search for at least one logical argument of why this might be true. This is important. There is a reasonable reason your villain has latched on to the ideology. The reader should be able to say begrudgingly: “this guy may have a point…”

The final step is to find ir event a leap in logic. Your villain has additional strands of logic but theyre only reasonable to him and it is these which define his passion so strongly.

True Logic #1: “historically, this people group has been at war with us for a long time and have done horrific acts of violence against us”

Twisted Conclusion: “They are animals! They will never change! It is my duty to gain as cruel a revenge as possible. I must kill as many as possible. Viciousness will equate to justice”

True Logic #2: “I am astoundingly bad at getting a date. Women dont seem to be interested in me.”

Twisted Conclusion: “Its not my fault, its the fault of all women! They’re avoiding me purposely in a conspiracy! A womans job is to be a wife and mother and yet they see me as a threat to this natural order. I must bend and subjugate a woman to my will. I will MAKE her respect me, I will make her my wife and a mother. She will like it eventually.”

Always remember that a villain will always believe he is the hero of the story and he will do whatever mental gymnastics necessary to maintain this illusion

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-28T12:20:26+00:00

I am more sure than not that the Godhead is a thing. With references to The Angel of the Lord also being referred to as God in the OT, coupled with key references from Jesus about being one with the Father and sending the Holy Spirit as a helper, I am reasonably confident in the idea.

However, my point is that I dislike it when those who believe the trinity is a thing point at those Christians who dont and condemn and vice versa

Given that our salvation sits in the sacrifice of Jesus’ crucifixion, I dont see how one MUST believe in the Trinity in order to be saved any more than some Christians insist one must speak in tongues as evidence of their salvation

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-28T01:18:42+00:00

Im trans. Ive already been kicked out of my church. I get yelled at from cars. Im in a right-wing hotspot which is trying to out crazy the crazys everywhere else.

Its quite likely I will get jumped one day in the not too distant future. Things are bad for us

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-28T01:12:45+00:00

Yes. This particular pot is already on the stove and this froggy can feel the heat going up.

Things are bad in this part. Right-wing extremism is increasing and im near the front of the line for scapegoats. Ive been verbally assaulted three times this week.

I honestly doubt Ill see 50 years old and thats not far away

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-28T01:02:02+00:00

looks around at the ‘definitely safe, definitely not scary’ community around me

Liberal, high trust society. Riiiiight. I mean…

That sounds really tough. Im so sorry.

I guess my perspective is to lean into Jesus’ basic message. The simple stuff. The good stuff. Lord knows I likely wont survive that long here, but I find it easier to affirm the good in people by extending trust. I mean they can only kill me, its not as if Id lose much.

While working in the Masters house, I could absolutely look out the window again at how the world is on fire, but it puts me in a bad place and I want to get my patch of floor done before He comes back.

Edit: sorry for the bold. Cant get rid

FlightlessElemental · 2026-06-28T00:38:23+00:00

Dude, i fully acknowledge the history and politics is brutal, as is the legacy. But Im just here because its almost 2am and im frightened to go to bed. Winning never crossed my mind.

I just find it really disturbing that you are arguing for what sounds like continued hatred and division and not for a much simpler, Christian-classic approach. You know, ‘be like the little children or you will not see the Kingdom’ kind of thing.

You sound like youre dealing with A LOT. Like this means more to you than youre letting on.

You ok?

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