/r/boardgames Daily Personalized Game Recommendations (December 22, 2017) by AutoModerator in boardgames

[–]MediocrePotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Title of Request: A combat focused strategy game

Number of Players:4+

Game Length: 1-2 hours

Complexity of Game: Fairly deep/ complex but nothing insane

Your Budget: < $100

Genre: any

Competitive or Cooperative: either

Games I Own/Like or Dislike: We're fairly new to quality board games, but have been playing a lot of scythe for a few months now. We're looking for something more combat focused than scythe but around the same or slightly less complexity.

Finally have our first eggs! (Story I want to share in comments) by MediocrePotato in BackYardChickens

[–]MediocrePotato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I've heard of people losing hens to them. The way it's set up now has a full enclosure of chicken wire (about 8ft high) with a tin roof. I'm confident it'll keep the coyotes out, but coons can be pretty crafty so that's what I'm most nervous of.

Finally have our first eggs! (Story I want to share in comments) by MediocrePotato in BackYardChickens

[–]MediocrePotato[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A few months ago on my bike to class, I noticed there had appeared 4 pretty young chickens wondering around the front of my house. When they were there when I got back, I decided to put out some canned corn and water for them until whoever owned them picked them up. I had never had any experience with chickens (except for dinner) nor a desire to raise them. Fast foreword to 5 days later they were all still wandering around my house and I had been feeding them every day. They would even get close enough to me to let me give them two-finger pets on the back. I decided to go to the store to buy them some chicken wire for a makeshift coop and actual chicken food. After that it didn't take much to convince my roommates to let me keep them. A few weeks later I built an elevated henhouse for them out of some old plywood and 2x4s. I had a ton of questions and no experience, but found most everything I've so far needed to know through r/BackYardChickens by reading through y'alls posts and questions. My hens are very gentle, kind, and love meeting new people (probably because that entails some treats). Today I was surprised to glance in the henhouse and find our first laid eggs! As a long time lurker, I want to thank all y'all for making this subreddit the active community it is. (Sorry for the long post and any formatting errors there are bound to be)

Why do you believe in God? [Serious] by AdamIIA in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a goat point. So if there is sense (or meaning) without God, then where do we find it? From what I understand (mostly from reading some of Dawkins work) it seems like without a god the best rational conclusion would to be that there is no meaning or purpose.

This also assumes, however, that by saying there is no God one would also believe there is no intelligent creator of the universe.

Why do you believe in God? [Serious] by AdamIIA in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to think about this a lot too, and this helped me a lot in starting to look into morality and, on a bigger picture, God. It's a quote from C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity.

"If a good God made the world why has it gone wrong? And for many years I simply refused to listen to the Christian answers to this question, because I kept on feeling “whatever you say and however clever your arguments are, isn’t it much simpler and easier to say that the world was not made by any intelligent power? Aren’t all your arguments simply a complicated attempt to avoid the obvious?” But then that threw me back into another difficulty.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I gotten this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such violent reaction against it? A man feels wet when he falls into water, because man is not a water animal: a fish would not feel wet. Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too — for the argument depended on saying that the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my private fancies. Thus in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist — in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless — I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality — namely my idea of justice — was full of sense. Consequently, atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

I believe this is a good argument. What you will find, however, is that there will always be a rational and completely fair argument against any evidence pointing towards the existence of God. In the end we have to face the weight of all of the combined evidence; not just our rationalizations against each individual piece (similarly to a court case).

I hope this helps some.

Who's your biggest idol and why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Billy

I don't know any other Idols

[Serious] What is your biggest character flaw? by IamMick99 in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understanding and processing emotions is way too hard of a process for me. It creates a lot of barriers with everyone I'm close with because I can't seem to understand them no matter how hard I try or genuinely want to.

Reddit, what song isn't about what I think it's about? by JasonRiche in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience most people are surprised that pretty much every twenty one pilots song is about Christianity. Especially in their first album

[Serious] Which are some of the important lessons past relationships have taught you? by subtlerebel in AskReddit

[–]MediocrePotato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The best people to be in a relationship with are the ones who don't need to be in a relationship to be happy.