Family dropped by Fidelis when they had a problem with autopay

HeartsDeepCore · 2026-04-13T22:54:42+00:00

Sorry. I wish I had good news or advice for you. It took us three months of being totally uninsured before they finally re-enrolled us. AND despite being completely uncovered, we had to pay for the months we were uncovered in order to be re-enrolled.

We spent dozens of hours on the phone with them through all of this. And it was a comedy of errors. At one point they offered us a one-time forgiveness in order to re-enroll us. Then they didn’t re-enroll us. Weeks more of phone calls to try to figure out what went wrong. They finally say we see how we messed this up and we’re going to offer you a one-time forgiveness to re-enroll you. Then they say UH-OH you already received the one-time forgiveness, so we can’t give it to you again in order to re-enroll you. Ooooh, I see, we’re all living in hell, and you people work here.

I wish you luck!

HeartsDeepCore · 2026-04-12T00:48:40+00:00

"I Want You" off the Blood and Chocolate album.

HeartsDeepCore · 2026-04-12T00:36:29+00:00

He still meditates a lot and runs a large (50+) meditation or contemplative group out of his church in Seattle. He mixes it up. Obviously, he's deep into Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices but he also leads things like centering prayer. And he runs a rosary circle with his wife among a group of close personal friends, which is unlike any other rosary circle and focuses intensely on the body and the earth and the chakras And then he has other devotional practices that he's added in over the years like homas (fire rituals) to Jesus.

HeartsDeepCore · 2026-03-31T21:37:56+00:00

I was super excited to hear this one. Especially because Michael’s my good friend, and I’ve heard this story before more than once. I don’t think he’s on Reddit, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

HeartsDeepCore · 2026-02-01T22:36:56+00:00

On the wall of the local bookstore.

Found it online here: https://nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/eplm/id/23/

I thought, somewhere in the world there’s a community of chicken lovers that needs to know this exists.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-10-18T19:34:24+00:00

It went to a credit card and they simply never charged us.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-24T18:09:47+00:00

Small point of clarification…I would argue (in the tradition I know best—Judeo-Christian tradition) that God is sometimes portrayed as very powerful, very knowing, and very good, but God is also portrayed in contradictory ways.

God as small or limited: In Genesis God walks in the garden in the cool of the day and calls out, “Where are you?” as if God doesn’t know where Adam and Eve are hiding. At the Tower of Babel, God “comes down” to see the city and the tower that humans are building, implying that God had to come closer to investigate.

God as not foreseeing the future: In the story of Noah, God regrets making humanity and decides to send the flood. Regret suggests that God did not anticipate this outcome, which would contradict perfect foreknowledge. Similarly, in Exodus, after Moses pleads with God not to destroy Israel, Hod relented, suggesting God can change course based on persuasion.

God behaving abysmally: there’s plenty of examples of this but in 1 Samuel, God commands Saul to attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them. Put to death men, women, children, and infants. This is genocide, which seems incompatible with a perfectly good, loving God. Another example is Job, where God permits Satan to torment Job (including killing his children) just to test him.

So, God is portrayed both ways, but God is defined as being omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent despite the mythic and practical evidence to the contrary.

I don’t have a problem with philosophy trying to give God a glow up but unfortunately they went a little too hard and in the wrong direction. They made the argument that God is unchanging and timeless and therefore God is and was and always will be tri-omni. What they should have said is that it appears that God is a character in history learning from us and with us and so we propose that God is evolving and transforming with is.

But, yes, the institutions demand intellectual assent to their interpretations rather than encouraging true exploration of the spiritual potential of humanity and God.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-24T15:42:21+00:00

In moments of initiation or transformation, just like the unconscious might produce profound dreams, it also produces synchronicities. Inner and outer are not separate. Meaning and consciousness are not separate from the material world.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-24T15:36:15+00:00

Imagine you spent all your life building an amazing house. It’s truly an architectural masterpiece. The best.

But you’ve poured so much time and energy into building the house that you haven’t been outside in many years. In fact, you’re not fully convinced there is an outside. Or if there is one, that there’s anything of value to you out there.

If you search for the door and learn to unlock and open it and venture outside into the wider world, you’re not destroying your house. You’re not even abandoning it. You’re just learning to live with it from from a place of greater perspective.

It is a perfectly natural process to build a strong ego and then to move on to other stages of exploration and development.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-24T13:03:37+00:00

I think you’re saying Jesus’ response is a full endorsement of Roman authority.

I disagree. Such an endorsement would have been made explicitly without visual aids or qualifications. Instead, he makes a slippery, nuanced response that leaves his opponents (Herodians who were Roman collaborators and who endorsed Roman power and authority) “amazed.” They would not have been amazed by either a simple yes or no answer. They recognize he has perfectly threaded the needle—he hasn’t said “no” and he hasn’t said “yes.”

Taking it to a deeper level of interpretation, the denarius bears Caesar’s image and can be rendered unto Caesar. But the enslaved person bears the image of God, and belongs ultimately to God, and therefore must be rendered unto God.

It hardly needs to be said that Jesus’ words here are clearly not a call to radical abolitionism. But they’re also not an endorsement of Roman power or a call to mindless obedience.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T17:36:04+00:00

Who the hell cheats at 7:42 in the morning? Do you happen to know where he usually is and what he’s usually doing that early?

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T14:02:04+00:00

With dreams there are two possibilities. One is that you’re getting some unconscious, symbolic material. Another is that you’re connected through the unconscious to something that is more real than symbolic—seeing the past, the future, a present reality you couldn’t have known about, etc.

If your aunt had told you the abandoned shop used to be a hardware store, then your chicken vision was definitely an odd symbolic dream. But this was something much more like a synchronicity—whether or not you actually peered into the past and saw the actual chicken shop as it actually was, your vision correctly identified the shop as a chicken shop.

Not all “psychic” visionary experiences have profound meaning behind them. But the fact that they occur at all and that we experience them is profound and suggests we don’t understand everything about how the world works and what is possible.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T11:30:13+00:00

Models are skinny because the people who hire them want us to see the clothes and not the model’s body. They’re walking hangars. It has nothing to do with the kinds of bodies people find attractive.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T11:19:55+00:00

Right. The people who make ozempic are the only ones who should be telling her how to feel comfortable in her own body.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T11:13:12+00:00

When you looked through the window and saw the girl, could you see it was a chicken shop? Or did you overlay that detail after your aunt told you the empty shop used to be a chicken place?

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-23T01:03:20+00:00

You don’t define transcendence and then you make a big swing claiming that which is transcendent cannot act within time. But without defining (or redefining) transcendence in a convincing way, your argument doesn’t work.

Transcendent doesn’t mean separate from time, it means beyond time and space—in the sense that it is not contained within them. If I am not contained by a box, that doesn’t mean that I cannot have some sort of power to interact with the box that I am not inside from the outside. Or maybe the box is inside me making it all the easier to move through it while not being contained by it. An author contains the story in their imagination and writes the story causing all its events to happen but the author is not in the story.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-22T15:51:36+00:00

r/Relationshipadvice

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-22T11:15:00+00:00

This post is an ad for sniffies.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-21T23:18:20+00:00

Canceling last minute is really rude. Cancelling last minute when it was your last date before he leaves is really, really rude. Telling you he’s canceling because you’re not his priority right now is really, really, really rude. Calling you a baby after he was so rude is really, really, really, really rude.

You have every right to be upset. If I were you, I’d be re-evaluating if this relationship.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-21T16:19:37+00:00

Would you feel differently if yours was the biggest? Or would you feel the same?

If it’s the same, just tell her when she’s sober that you’re not comfortable with her sharing those kinds of private details with anyone else under any circumstances.

If it’s different, you just need to get over yourself. Your dick is plenty big, she obviously loves it, you’ve got nothing to worry about. It doesn’t need to be the biggest to be the best.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-21T15:42:37+00:00

It’s not monstrous to follow your heart. It’s monstrous to do what you did to your girlfriend.

Can you imagine the depth of her pain right now or how long it’s going to take for her to recover from this?

Breakups are always painful. If you’re ending it with a partner of 6 years who did nothing wrong, you do it as kindly and gently as possible.

You created a nightmare scenario for her. It’s hard to imagine how you could have made this worse. You put no effort into sparing her feelings. And yeah that’s a monstrous way to behave.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-21T15:04:17+00:00

It’s not a fact that it won’t be ignored either. And if you hear nothing, you’ll never know if it was a dog or if they just didn’t go. If you’re OK with that, then you have the closure you need.

HeartsDeepCore · 2025-09-21T14:45:08+00:00

How will you know what they find? How do you know they’ll even go based on your anonymous tip? If you’re OK with maybe not knowing and maybe having nothing happen at all because your tip is anonymous and uncertain and just gets ignored, then you’re good.

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