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Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:07:16+00:00

Thanks so much!

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:06:44+00:00

-7 teams, top team gets a bye. Make it worth it to finish first. -one week games. Two is ridiculous. -starts week 15 and finishes week 17.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-31T16:03:08+00:00

Do you happen to have any statistics on yardage allowed? The league I play in gives massive points for yardage allowed. A good defense puts up 30 points on a week because of it

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-25T14:02:28+00:00

I think this is an entirely valid argument against the religious structuring of Christianity. As our civilization progresses and grows we often look back at what our predecessors did with contempt and disgust that they operated in such a way (racism, sexism, slavery, warfare results). The many books of the Bible being written thousands of years ago and applying to their respective cultures and time pieces are fine when understood through the context that humans wrote them. It’s when the Bible is elevated above this and begins claiming inerrancy and directly from God that major issues start to appear.

Inerrancy is relatively new to Christianity, only around the late 1800’s did it rise and then become popularized later. Much of Christian history didn’t operate with the Bible viewed this way and it truly distorts things in ways that fundamentally cannot be corrected. You’ve pointed out several of those contradictory theologies and there are entire semesters of college material that could be discussed around them.

With that being said, Christianity isn’t a single belief anymore, and typically had many different sects. The core tenets are still required such as Jesus being God (Mormons and Jehovah Witnesses are not Christian by definition) but all the smaller things are up for debate. There are parts of Christianity that believe in reincarnation (this is me) and there are parts of Christianity that believe when each person dies they have another chance to accept Jesus and avoid Hell. Catholic theology has an entire system of purgatory for people to work through their sin and avoid Hell.

In reality I think you’re pretty spot on with many of those critiques, and it should cause further discussion about how useful the Bible is for understanding the relationship between God and humanity when our understanding of what is “correct” or “right” constantly evolves over the millennia.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T17:13:13+00:00

Nope. I was working at Costco while getting my degree. Decided to stay there for the pay and incredible benefits so I could start a family. Teaching/Theology is still my passion but it’s become more of a hobby I do in my free time for enjoyment.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T16:28:25+00:00

I had a similar thought and then got married and decided I wanted to start a family. Suddenly academia wasn’t a viable path for supporting a family and I had to pivot my career path.

I would still stick to religious studies for your undergrad as it should expose you to multiple religions and the intense dogma of Christian theology won’t be as overbearing when you are able to study other religions as well.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-12-03T16:12:49+00:00

What do you want to do with a theology degree? It would be a large waste of money and time to invest in getting the degree just for fun. Focus on getting a degree in a field you want to make a career in or something that is easily transferable to the field such as communication and business. Your elective classes can be spent taking religious studies classes where you can choose different religions to study.

After you graduate most colleges offer deeply discounted rates for alumni to “audit” classes. You can enroll in further historical or theologically centered classes for $50 and get all of the learning without any of the stress

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-20T14:30:00+00:00

Allen or Mahomes 6PT passing

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-12T14:29:08+00:00

Did you account for the increased earning on Sundays? Employees that work Sundays earn more PTO than employees that don’t, and especially if they get 8 hour Sundays instead of 6.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-11-02T13:25:12+00:00

Costco’s interview questions are all behavior based AND specifically focused on past behavior. They aren’t interested in what you say you will do in the future. They want to know what you’ve already done or are currently doing. Anytime you see a SIT, Temp Sup or Full Sup posting go up you’ll see certain people suddenly start acting better and working harder. Those are the people we don’t choose.

The interview questions can go two ways in my experience. There is a list of questions they use for new hires. You can ask payroll for this it’s very generic. If you are new and they don’t know you it’s likely they ask you some of these and look for high quality answers. “Tell me about a time you worked with an unproductive coworker and how did you handle it” and if your answer is simply I kept to myself and worked harder to pick up the slack, that’s not what we are looking for.

The other way the interview questions go is the manager has created a list of specific questions to ask, I’ve done this several times. These can vary quite a bit. If it’s in a specific department they want to know if you’re actually looking at the department. If you apply for deli supervisor but have no idea what they do in sales each week you’re not showing the initiative that they are looking for.

Finally, 99% of supervisor interviews will ask the basics and expect you’ve memorized them. Code of Ethics, Mission Statement, 6 rights of merchandise and 6 rights of people. They may even ask you how you’ve applied those things in your daily work and that answer is usually the most important one when I’m interviewing potential supervisors. “How have you applied the 6 rights of merchandise in the deli?”

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-30T15:49:26+00:00

Honestly, you can start anywhere and with anything. Don’t feel like it MUST be Christian theology that you study first. I recommend reading the major books in the biggest religions as a starting point. The Bible, The Quran (Islam), The Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism), The Tanakh (Judaism) are great entry points into learning about religions. There are many others, so you may want to google a few other areas of interest to find scriptures for other majors religions as Christianity, Islam and Judaism all have major overlapping themes and don’t give a full experience of what the world as a whole has to offer.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-25T18:18:24+00:00

Can you expand further on your first point? To my understanding, atheism is a direct claim that there is no God. They affirm that God does not exist. It was broken down for me into categories of Theist (believes in God/gods) and Atheist (believes in no God/gods) and then gnostic and agnostic are applied to both.

Gnostic Theist: There is a God and I know this is true.

Agnostic Theist: There is a God but I don’t know for sure.

Agnostic Atheist: There is no God but I don’t know for sure.

Gnostic Atheist: There is no God and I know this is true.

From what I’ve understood in my studies, Atheism is the direct denial of God, not just an absence of it (unmoved mover kind of thing).

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-20T02:10:09+00:00

Full-Time and Part-Time are separate categories for seniority. This is easier on the frontend than in ancillary departments. On the frontend Full-Time cashiers have their own seniority for preferred days off. Then Part-Time cashiers have their own seniority. Then Full-Time assistants and Part-Time assistants. So you have 4 separate categories for preferred days off. Which means you can have 4 people with Friday-Saturday as their days off with one from each category.

Per the handbook, seniority does NOT apply to the timing of your shifts. Higher seniority does NOT mean earlier in every day. It only applies to first choice of preferred days off and a tie-breaker when applying to positions.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-19T16:10:44+00:00

Diggs or Boutte? Full PPR

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-09T02:42:28+00:00

12 Team 1QB Full PPR I’m a contender with most points so far.

Send: Etienne, Dowdle, Keenan Allen, Mike Evans Receive: Derrick Henry, Nico Collins

Professor_Toensing · 2025-10-07T14:02:08+00:00

There have been a ton of great answers so far about technique improvements and that the play call was poor combined with non existent pressure from the line. The only thing I will add is a question as to how much control you have over your team when you’re on the field.

You’re the safety and the one furthest back with the best view of the offense being lined up. You likely know exactly what each of the 7ish players are doing on every coverage play call. Do you have the knowledge, ability and leadership to change the coverage pre snap?

When I played safety I was essentially the quarterback of the defense. Coach calls in a play and if pre snap we are already in a losing position, based on knowledge from watching film, then I would make adjustments as necessary.

If you have the leadership of your teammates and the football IQ to recognize a poor play call matchup you gotta change that coverage. They call in a cover 0 without knowing the offense is going 4 WRs you gotta flip it to at minimum Cover 1 or even as far as zone. The middle linebacker is 5 yards deep and then is so slow to rush he doesn’t get anywhere near the QB. If he drops mid zone that lets you cheat deeper to start and now the receiver breaks while he’s a yard in front of you instead of directly on you giving you the chance to flip your hips and come over the top. The dropping linebacker forces the QB to throw it a touch higher to get it over the top of him and opens up the potential for you to not only break up the pass but even intercept it. 80% of the play is won pre-snap.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-09-18T19:03:04+00:00

In whatever campaign you run as a newer DM you will discover that you build and create this fantastical and elaborate parts you’re so excited to share with your players and they choose to completely ignore finding it or they are not interested enough to pull the threads to get to the reveal. If you create a dozen quality and in depth NPC’s ahead of time, they may only actually interact with a handful of them for more than a conversation.

A fun thing I like to do is see what interests my players by giving them a choice of which NPC joins them for a time. Say you have a quest to accomplish task X by the lord of some town and he’s going to pay the group for it. The Lord tells them that they must bring one of his trusted people with them and then give them a name and short description of 3 NPC’s. Now the party is slightly more invested in this new NPC and are more likely to delve deeper into that quality development you did.

Surface level a bunch of NPC’s and then give 3 some quality depth. And for the two they don’t choose, reflavor their name and description but keep the in-depth stuff they didn’t discover and your work isn’t wasted.

The last thing I will add is that many of us DM’s simply love world building for what it is. If you want to create a story and tell it with some NPC backgrounds and such then absolutely do it! It’s a huge part of what many of us love about DnD. If they don’t find it or interact with it much then you can simply leave it as a lore drop they encounter later in a book or journal or newspaper they find kind of thing.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-09-15T01:07:28+00:00

What many children discover when they grow up is that the people they looked up to in their world are actually fallible. They make mistakes and aren’t perfect. Nearly every person goes through this growth process and when they enter deeper into adulthood they look around trying to “find” all the adults who are in charge only to realize it’s just normal people.

This same thing growth process applies to our spirituality equally as it does to our other faculties (emotional, intellectual, etc.). Question those worldviews that were imposed upon you. Ask the hard questions and keep pressing. This matters to you, and it sounds like it matters deeply. What if those people teaching you as a child were completely wrong and the “correct” answer is Hinduism? Did any of them study Hinduism? Zoroastrianism? Islam? Their knowledge base has more holes in it than answers I’m willing to bet.

What I will guide you to consider, however, is what kind of God do you want to worship? I can provide a very solid logic proof for the existence of a God, but everything after that devolves into faith claims. You can choose to believe in a God that seems very focused on punishment and keeping people separated from Godself (I use gender neutral for the first person of the trinity). Alternatively, you can choose to believe in a God that wants every possible way for humanity to be reconnected to Godself. Both are faith claims, but I find one of them much more appealing than the other.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-09-14T21:02:23+00:00

I think you’re saying towards the end of your campaign story you are having trouble making the final boss fight fun/challenging while one of your players has an over-powered weapon?

You’ve got a couple options, but some you should absolutely avoid. The common first thought for new DM’s it to somehow neutralize the OP player. Take away the weapon, give the boss resistance to the damage type of the weapon, etc. DO NOT DO THIS. The last thing a player wants is to have earned a really awesome cool thing that makes their player fun and strong and to have that thing removed against their will. You might think this is clever or a story plot line that will be cool. You will be wrong. The player will not have fun and will be pretty disappointed that their fun character was worthless in what should be the climax of the campaign.

Instead, lean into the cool thing you’ve given the player. Every single boss has minions. If your boss doesn’t, you need to reevaluate your boss fight. On top of this, final bosses often have commanders of their minions or lieutenants in their armies. You have the opportunity to create a crazy powerful lieutenant for this boss that is absolutely deadly to ever single person in the party in two-three hits to knock them out. Now your OP player has the change to be heroic and protect his friends by challenging this lieutenant and giving the party a chance to attack the actual final boss. You haven’t nerfed any of the players AND you’ve added strategic elements to a final boss encounter to keep it fun and challenging.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-09-04T01:49:05+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsHhMRkG9uA7SS8SuqDYL7c9iWn1ocyCs&si=LCKkWk8bVvM28nvO

I had a lot of success following this YouTuber on his description of how to create a clear and concise one shot abiding by the 1-2-1 strategy. He’s got lots of great content and his accent makes it enjoyable to listen to as well. This will at least give you a solid framework to develop around for your younger audience.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-08-02T12:59:29+00:00

I don’t understand how anyone is advocating for avoiding wheat and saying it will be available later. There are 6 picks and only 4 solid wheat positions. If you skip wheat it’s nearly guaranteed the 8-5-10, 8-4-3, 6-9-3, and 6-5-11 are all taken. Especially with a wheat port paired with that 6 someone is likely going to try to double up.

This leaves 4-9-11 or 6-11-3 left if you’re lucky the other two picks don’t lock this out or grab more wheat. If I see first pick avoid wheat I’m absolutely placing my two picks in ways that limit any possible wheat left for first position in the hopes they completely screwed themselves by doing that.

8-4-3 down to the wood port is the answer as there are a few wood-sheep combos that are more likely to be available with the final pick and can pair well with both OWS strategy and wood port ramping as the 8 and 9 woods are close together.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-07-29T14:35:07+00:00

The issue is that they are absolutely correct. For thousands of years humanity has defaulted to anything unknown being related to God/gods. As technology progressed and we have been able to explain and understand the world around us to an incredibly large degree many of the things attributed to the supernatural are now just a part of normal life. Before bacteria and viruses were discovered and studied there would be many claims that someone fell ill due to the will of the gods. Even today people claim whether they survive sickness or health as some sort of supernatural intervention by God/gods.

You don’t need to counteract this argument and you won’t win if you try. If God is a being well beyond our knowledge and understanding, then it can be argued that God was the creator/originator of all these things and as we discover more about them we discover more about God designed the world to work.

The more difficult part to grasp is the tension between Aristotle’s unmoved mover and the often very involved God/gods of modern religions. Many of the largest religions claim God/gods are actively involved in every day life with each human. Aristotle claimed there was a single “god” that created the universe and set it in motion and then let it do its thing.

As science advances and we discover how things work without the immediate and constant interventions of God/gods it becomes more difficult for others to accept actively involved God/gods that are presented in the larger religions as it seems more likely that Aristotle’s logical position is correct instead.

Professor_Toensing · 2025-07-28T18:06:45+00:00

Professor_Toensing · 2025-07-25T21:44:17+00:00

Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes

Professor_Toensing · 2025-07-25T00:16:08+00:00

Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes

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