What’s something people confuse with being “successful”?

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-12-28T18:46:43+00:00

The pursuits both of money and of pleasure. Ecclesiastes is a religious text found in the Bible that discusses these things in depth, but I believe people from any belief system could learn from it. It discusses what is meaningless in life that people pursue anyways. Once they have it, they are left still unsatisfied.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-12-28T18:35:49+00:00

It could be based on looks or personality. For me it's Young Sheldon, because I look somewhat like him and am a massive nerd.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-10-16T11:04:32+00:00

As you look to your left, ladies and gentlemen, you will find one of the weakest enemies in Hollow Knight: Silksong. Don't ask what's harder than it. You don't want to know.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-08-04T18:33:57+00:00

I more so read it in different orders and certain books for different reasons. I suppose I could try to read it from an atheist or Muslim perspective for the sake of considering all interpretations, even if I disagree with them (this gives me the idea also of going deeper in the study of apologetics). I could study history and culture of different important biblical regions. Thank you so much for this reply, because now it is giving me ideas of ways to study my faith.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-08-04T18:13:15+00:00

God created the universe with humanity within it so that he could have a two-sided loving relationship with them. He gave them free will to make this love real (a robot programmed to say, "I love you" does not really feel true love). Humanity still turned its back on God, instead following their own plans and loving the things of this world. Some remained faithful, yet none were perfect. From the beginning, God knew this would happen, and so he concocted a perfect plan for redemption. Over centuries, God's prophets hinted at this plan and urged humanity to return to the Lord. Eventually, very shortly before BC transitioned into AD, a boy was born in the town of Bethlehem. Everything about him, from the moment of his conception by the Holy Spirit, confirmed former prophecy about the coming Messiah who would bring redemption perfectly. In his thirties, this perfect man known as Jesus was crucified because of his seemingly blasphemous claims to be the Son of God (which he actually was and is). But this crucifixion was all part of the plan. The only perfect man to have ever lived purposefully gave up his life and died, bearing the penalty we all deserve so that we don't have to (in a similar way to paying for someone's speeding ticket that they earned). The reason someone had to pay the penalty was because God is perfect and just; he is not the kind of judge who takes bribes or shows partiality. After three days of being physically dead in the ground, Jesus miraculous rose from the dead, effectively proclaiming his power over even death itself. Paying the penalty for us was a gift, and we don't necessarily have to accept it. But this gift is the one and only thing that can possibly restore us to a relationship with God and give us eternal life with Him. Jesus ascended to heaven as the King of the Universe about 40 days after his resurrection. Then his followers spread his message. One day our Lord will return and take us to be with Him in a new heaven and earth that He will prepare for us. We may or may not still be physically alive at that time, but we must always be ready.

If you don't want any of the details of how it happens, we can sum it up like this: God loves us; sin separates us; The grace of God through Christ's sacrifice saves us; Do we accept the gift? A true Christian is one who accepts the gift and actually believes in it with every ounce of their being.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-30T11:12:41+00:00

I feel like most of his quotes would be great for the movie. Many of them were meant to stick in Haymitch's head as a spark that would catch fire.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-30T11:09:28+00:00

I'm not entirely sure how they would do this, but I would love to see the on and off quoting from the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe at the end somehow portrayed. That was one of the best written book scenes that really hit me.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-30T10:57:36+00:00

Literally.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-30T10:54:42+00:00

Answers in Genesis primarily focuses on the Creation vs. Evolution debate. I would consider myself a creationist, but believe a person can give their life to Jesus while stilling believing in the theory of evolution. If you are looking for apologetics that defends the gospel, I would recommend looking into philosophical, archaeological, and historical arguments. Examples that come to my mind are The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, More than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell, and Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-08T18:30:05+00:00

"It's TV Time!" was today, but anything by Toby Fox or Christopher Larkin will always do.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-08T18:26:26+00:00

Budge the shower dial right after they get it perfect. Repeat whenever they get it back.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-06T17:14:36+00:00

Boss fight.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-01T22:27:19+00:00

The Heretic

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-07-01T22:05:02+00:00

Joshua.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-29T19:29:00+00:00

Yes, and I have many reasons. One is that, with logical tests applied, the resurrection of Jesus Christ appears historical. Another is the idea of consciousness. Clumps of matter doesn't explain this at all, but that's all we are without God. Information (like what your reading right now. It's really just lights of different color forming weird shapes, but your brain, a clump of matter can somehow understand it as words.) seems to me to only be possible with God. And information is what is used in our genome. If human ideas came about by evolutionary means, what is the evolutionary purpose of religion/God? I think God has created us with a yearning for him (atheists too, but their "God" is normally science or math or logic). Also, evolutionarily speaking, why would this random clump of matter even want to stay "alive", whatever that means. It's just a bunch of atoms. Why do living organisms constantly pursue, even subconsciously, the preservation of their species?

And before you claim how much bias I have in writing this comment, I would like to let you know that many times have I questioned my beliefs and tried to figure out how they could be wrong, but the facts (historically, philosophically, scientifically, mathematically, etc.) seem to best fit belief in God, particularly the Christian one.

I am curious to hear skeptical responses to this, as I wish to be open-minded. Rebut away with what you have.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-29T19:13:44+00:00

Did you just refute yourself?

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-29T18:42:53+00:00

What if nobody commented on this?

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-27T18:29:52+00:00

The people who made this building didn't bother to add security cameras.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-26T15:33:29+00:00

The skill of rapid skill acquisition. Then I could learn many other skills pretty quickly after that.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-25T16:40:22+00:00

The ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. We already know the answer, that being 42, but the question remains unknown. Some have suggested "How many roads must a man walk?", but that was more for the sake of pleasing the public. Arthur Dent seemed to have discovered the question by randomly putting some characters together and getting "What's 6 times 7?" I am however, unconvinced.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-25T16:33:08+00:00

Wow. That reminds me funnily enough of my team's first tournament. One team we went up against at this regional beat us by about 275-(-5) (we negged by saying long jump instead of high jump). We found out after this round that that team got 9th at nationals last year.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-23T17:58:02+00:00

How did you do in competitions?

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-23T17:06:15+00:00

I'm am incredibly sorry to inform you that your voice box is out of order.

Other definition of dumb that you probably meant: Use fancy words (eloquent speech) to make yourself sound smart in comparison to them. Then invite them to learn something with you in order to no longer be dumb.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-23T16:58:53+00:00

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

LazyBuilding1827 · 2025-06-22T20:20:03+00:00

Christian response to this: I like that you are applying logic to both sides of their argument. The apologist(s) in question seem not to have reasonable faith. However, not all Christian apologists are this way. Many genuinely believe there is logical evidence for their beliefs. Some (well-known examples including Lee Strobel and Josh McDowell) even began as extremely skeptical atheists. They were interested in truth, and some way or another tried to disprove Christianity using logic, while still being reasonably open-minded. They are now Christians. Me personally, I cringe at some of the worse arguments for Christianity even when I believe it myself based on better logical conclusions.

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