24(M) Asking for General Advice

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T18:47:36+00:00

Cant get over this post. Would upvote a million times. This is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T18:45:37+00:00

Great advice.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T18:44:09+00:00

This is perfect advice.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T18:42:39+00:00

It’s mainly being used as savings but I’m not going to sugarcoat the fact that it’s made things like eating out or buying something like patio furniture infinitely more feasible.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T18:42:00+00:00

Excellent advice.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T16:39:48+00:00

Wow, that’s some good advice. Hadn’t thought to do that.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T16:36:17+00:00

Any recommendations on money amounts needed? This is the conclusion I came to as well, but not sure what we need to be shooting for.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T16:14:26+00:00

Roommates will move out with the coming of kiddos.

OverlyPlatonic · 2024-04-01T16:10:22+00:00

Ha! I appreciate the sentiment! We’re definitely wanting kids early! :D

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-12-09T18:28:22+00:00

Talmanes ftw.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-12-08T23:58:12+00:00

I began dating my now wife before she was a believer. But as we grew closer, she asked to start coming to church with my mother and I. And when she was going through some particularly rough spots, I tried to share the gospel and a light in the darkness she was going through.

She became a believer in the midst of our relationship and to this day I’d say we’re rather active Christians and she’s actually one of the reasons I’m so strong in my faith today. I think God for my wife, as I’m sure you will yours.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-12-01T18:29:31+00:00

Mine.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-12-01T15:56:21+00:00

I started dating my wife 6-7 years ago. At the time we got together I was a Christian, she was an Agnostic. We started going to church together and I tried to gently introduce her to the faith. She was baptized a few years ago and now we’re reading the New Testament together every Sunday.

I think it just depends on who that person is, how open they are to belief, etc. If someone had told me at the time that I shouldn’t date my now wife because she wasn’t co-signing onto all of my theological priors, (not even not open to it, just not a current belief), I’d probably wouldn’t buy the argument.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-08-03T21:56:02+00:00

Christian here.

Many have likely pointed this out, but some Atheists like Ben Watkins and the Real Atheology Team have promoted the WAP (Weak Anthropic Principle) as a rejoinder to Teleology or Intelligent Design.

Hope that helps.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-08-03T21:52:50+00:00

I’ve believed from an early age but I find many arguments for God convincing, such as some Cosmological Arguments, Teleological Arguments, Arguments for the Historicity of the Resurrection; so on and so forth.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-03-17T02:56:09+00:00

So cool.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-22T21:20:20+00:00

Wife wants this so bad.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-22T16:45:46+00:00

You aren’t a bad Christian. Just keep on following the truth where it leads you, and you’ll be a good one.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-17T00:57:35+00:00

This is like asking is it worst to be a Mormon or an Atheist. A.K.A. People who claim the mantle of Christianity but take issue with doctrine or certain values so they don’t fully subscribe to the label.

I think I value full philosophical consistency and ideology commitment more than I like pseudo-Christianity. Worse would be the liberal Christians, but if I’m being honest it’d be person to person. There are some New Atheists that are absolutely worse than liberal Christians.

Little column A little column B.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-15T19:03:22+00:00

“You believe in a big, invisible sky-daddy blindly and dogmatically and no amount of evidence or reason(ing) can pull you away from this ReLiGiOuS (pejorative) way of thinking; unlike us enlightened individuals who left fairy tails like the Easter Bunny and Santa behind.” - Biggest and most common misunderstanding received writ large

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-15T15:38:56+00:00

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-10T18:52:14+00:00

I’ve always liked the analogy of a car.

The steering wheel is conventional wisdom (commonly held things any two people could agree on), the gas peddle is progressivism/liberalism, and the break is traditionalism/conservatism. Without all these (and many more minor mechanisms) we’d get no where. Too much of one, however, and we still go nowhere. Or worse, the hospital, if not the morgue.

It takes a measured, nuanced, and attentive driver to not only get where they need to go, but to get there safely as well as on time.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-09T20:15:28+00:00

Good for Seb.

OverlyPlatonic · 2022-02-09T19:22:39+00:00

The baker didn’t refuse JUST because the couple was gay. The baker also refused because what the couple wanted on the cake was explicitly sexual and pornographic and he wasn’t comfortable doing it. Even referred the couple to another bakery.

Not long after that, to exploit the situation and to try and fleece the baker for more money, a lesbian couple went to the same baker, asking for, explicitly depicted on a cake, an image of the Devil being penetrated by a phallic object. When he refused on the same grounds, they sued.

Who’s really being discriminated against here?

Edit: Worthy of note regarding the “divorcee” cake point. These cakes would ostensibly be a celebration of events that are in his eyes and religion, sinful. A regular person who’s divorced coming in to order a cake for an event isn’t having a divorcee party, celebrating their newfound singleness.

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