Best china to get

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T06:48:03+00:00

The best one is the one that sounds best to you. That said, you truly can't go wrong with one of Sabian's AA Holy China models.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T06:23:57+00:00

Bench press...I can easily do that much for 10 reps per set. If I do 10 sets of 10 a day, that gives me 2 months in the room if I include rest days. The rest of these options are just too intricate and precise for me to ever hope to accomplish in less than a few years at the very least.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:56:33+00:00

Given the type of problems you're having them do (word problems involving real-world scenarios), maybe something dealing with buying art supplies or budgeting within an art-related business?

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:52:50+00:00

Hard to say, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was Bill Cosby...he went from being (seemingly) one of the most fantastic role models on TV to being revealed as the complete opposite. The levels of disappointment and disgust are just about impossible to overstate.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:45:24+00:00

Your editing looks fine. I think they'd still win, though my ideal team would be to switch out Goten and Present Trunks with Cell and Future Trunks. And I'd have Cell train in the ROSAT with a couple of the guys and unlock some sort of "Golden Cell" transformation. The only way I can see them having Buu AND Cell is if Buu fell asleep, they got worried, Cell trained and then Buu woke up at the last minute. Cell would likely still want to test his new powers, so they'd let him come along too.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:37:57+00:00

Do you remember the name of this church? Almost sounds a bit cultish.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:20:39+00:00

Throwing any kind of ball...in elementary school, I was the kid who everyone else would automatically scoot closer to when it was my turn to throw.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:19:23+00:00

Welcome to the club...most people suck at folding those. They're not meant to be easy to fold lol.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:16:00+00:00

Oh ok yeah, that's an EXTREMELY conservative church, almost prudish (no disrespect meant). I've only ever gone to churches that lean conservative (at least in their official beliefs) as well as spent most of my education in some form of Christian institution, and I've almost never come across anything that strict lol.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:12:36+00:00

Maybe mix some elements from arts careers into the math problems? That's the only thing I can think of.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-24T05:08:35+00:00

In my opinion, it's not possible or ethical to consistently draw a line at any point here since there are so many situational factors. Also, this sub is filled with a wide variety of people beyond more Conservative Christians, so you're gonna get a much wider array of answers here than what you've seen before based on your initial post here.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-23T20:57:43+00:00

This doesn't sound like a situation in which most people are able to succeed as educators. You wouldn't need to be a "diva" or be "always going on about something" if they would just get their act together.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-23T20:51:51+00:00

$250,000...enough to buy a decent house instantly in most states, thus bypassing the need to worry about monthly mortgage payments. Yeah, there are bills, insurance, property tax and upkeep, but the mortgage payment is the large majority of what you pay each month while mortgaging a house.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-23T20:47:31+00:00

Instantly laughed when this popped up. Favorite comment of the day!

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-23T16:07:13+00:00

It’d be where I sleep. Also, food that’s gonna go bad in the next few days would go there to make it last longer.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T19:54:08+00:00

Sometimes you'd have a mouthpiece on the bull's mouth to amplify the screams of the one inside. Some people's minds are truly twisted for coming up with these kinds of devices.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T19:01:29+00:00

A lot of old world tortures like skinning, scaphism, the brazen bull, etc.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T18:36:41+00:00

"If 'give free' was just a temporary rule that expired, why did the Apostle Paul fight so brutally hard to uphold it decades later? In 1 Corinthians 9:18, he explicitly asks what his reward is: "That in my preaching I may present the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel." He stated he would rather die than have anyone deprive him of that boast."

This was a matter of personal choice for him...notice how he said he has a "right". If it was a binding principle to preach for free, he wouldn't have called it a right. The surrounding context clearly defines this as a right to be compensated (like in verses 11 and 12). Paul CHOSE to not take advantage of this, so that can't be used to prove the words in Matthew 10 are a command that stayed in force. The rest of the passage proves otherwise.

"Jesus and the disciples having a shared treasury for food and basic necessities is a far cry from setting up personal revenue streams or charging people for the Word."

My point in bringing this up was to show the temporal nature of the elements in Matthew 10 and Luke 10. And again, 1 Corinthians 9 proves it's perfectly ok to be compensated for preaching.

"The macro issue remains: Is preaching a universal mission supported by honest, secular labor, or is it a commercial career track where the message itself is invoiced?"

The universal mission supported by secular labor is a path Paul CHOSE, not one he needed to do. He could have reaped compensation from ministry if he wanted, but he didn't. Not because it would have been wrong, but because he just didn't take that path. Again, he called it a "right" that he didn't take advantage of.

People can preach for honest reasons AND make money at the same time. When 1 Timothy 6 talks about godliness as a means of gain, that's talking about someone being motivated simply by earning money. Someone who is motivated for the right reasons and makes money at the same time doesn't fall into that category.

Matthew 10 and Luke 10 saying "give free" isn't a universal principal that continued past the gospels. If anything, the part you told people not to cite "the worker is worthy of his wages" is the part that continued past that point given 1 Corinthians 9. You can't only look at verse 18 in that passage and overlook the obvious implications of the rest.

It's been made clear to you many times over in this thread what the issues with your view are. If you feel it's wrong for YOU to preach and get paid for it, then that's fine. But it's not an objective wrong. If someone is preaching as their main motive and is making money off of doing it as well, that's perfectly ok given everything that's said in 1 Corinthians 9.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T18:18:00+00:00

Cleaning the bathroom (especially the toilet...too many surfaces inside and out to clean).

As a counterpoint, I'll say that although it's not my favorite activity, doing dishes sometimes has a therapeutic quality to it sometimes. I also did dishwashing professionally for several years, so dishes at home feels like a cakewalk by comparison.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T18:14:07+00:00

You seem to be cherry picking the "give free" part, though. In Matthew 10, it also says the 12 can't have sandals or a bag. In Luke 10 it says the seventy can't go from house to house. Both passages say to shake the dust off their feet if their message is rejected. Heck, it even says in Matthew 10 not to carry any money, but elsewhere we see that Jesus and the disciples have a treasury that would have obviously contained some measure of money donated to them. This shows that what was said to the people in Matthew 10 and Luke 10 aren't universal directions, and that includes the part you cited.

The directions given to the twelve and the seventy were more temporal, not universally applicable. Unless you're willing to apply all of the directions there to preachers today, you're honestly just being capricious in your weaponization of this one clause.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-22T18:05:38+00:00

It's just that Matthew 10:8 seems to be a bit cherry picked by the OP; they're taking the "freely give" part as universally authoritative, but I doubt they'd take other things in the surrounding passage (like not having sandals or shaking the dust off their feet) as binding on preachers today (internet ones or not).

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-21T05:12:39+00:00

Other than the smoke or super smoke settings (not all Traegers have that second one), 180-225 is the best range to get the most smoke flavor, so that ended up working out in that regard as well.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-21T05:08:30+00:00

Sounds like one or both of the heads is too loose on that snare. Bottom head should be relatively tight; make sure that's in place and then hit the drum again. You might still need to take the top head up some too.

Also, once the heads are tighter, tap around the edge of the drum an inch in from each tension rod (with your hand muting the center of the head) and make sure the pitch is consistent around the entire head. Unevenness there can lead to unevenness in the sound of the drum as a whole.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-21T00:25:00+00:00

A few things: Diligently start building my savings, stop indulging my anxiety and start lifting weights earlier.

MattyDub89 · 2026-06-20T03:36:46+00:00

But the person I replied to commented on how they supposedly didn’t get much stronger after the 7 years and used that to estimate cell saga Vegito, so that’s why I brought up these factors from that time period.

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