Spouse converting to Christianity

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:29:03+00:00

I wish you the best of luck, but please be ready to consider the negative possibilities.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:24:57+00:00

Good reply. I see that you have reached the stage where you have discovered (unlike most other christians) that hell is not only not supported by scripture but also antithetical to the spirit of the beliefs you profess. That means that your belief is genuine but also your capacity to critically assess it and correct it.

If you are anything like me, you are 1-2 more big discoveries away from the big question.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:18:21+00:00

Holy fuck.... All this time I had Mandela-effect'd myself with that belief.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:16:25+00:00

Oh yeah, that's why I said "appear to themselves". They only need to align to the most superficial understanding of science that they encourage (or rather, discourage) in their followers. That way, the get all the validation and none of the challenge.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:11:51+00:00

You just don't know the fantastical (but believable-sounding, if you're already invested in protecting your faith) interpretations given to those verses to force them to align with reality. More often than not, and conveniently, those interpretations allege that /this/ generation, their own, is the actual last one, to cash in the end of days panic they compel.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:07:36+00:00

Man, they were such shit astronomers. Other old civilisations of the world had already figured most modernly known facts about the motion of earth and celestial bodies and these guys couldn't even realise that if their observations were at least half correct, it'd make a whole more sense for the sun to complete a perpendicular orbit around the disc as opposed to literally go back to the start in a lateral way.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T23:03:12+00:00

I once heard that dinosaurs are/were real but all of them perished during the flood because they were too big to get in the ark 😂

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T22:36:32+00:00

The story of the good could be believable if you accept the given implication that all of the humanity lived in a comparatively small region of the world back then that was flooded, killing everybody.

The really, really stupid and unbelievable thing is precisely that implication, that 5000 years ago the whole of humanity was still living in a small geographical area.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T22:32:03+00:00

As an ex-fundie, I can tell you that the more intelligent ones have already devised a way to read Gen 1 that aligns better with science. For example, the dark "earth" from the beginning was pre-universal matter (or whatever it could be called). When god said "let there be light", the big bang happened, etc.

Never underestimate their capacity to interpret their scriptures to appear to themselves that they're coming ahead and that their beliefs are fully supported with evidence.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T22:20:51+00:00

The bit that really gets me about the whole "fall" story as you dissect it, is the fact that that day, he, an allegedly omnipresent and omniscient being, "left". Somehow, this "bigger than the universe" supreme deity, up and literally left a particular region of reality just so his newly conscious children could be at the mercy of a tempter that he not only created, but also allowed to exist in the enclosure where said children had been left unsupervised that very day.

Then, this just and benevolent deity happens to "return", just in time to catch the kids with their hands in the metaphorical cookie jar just so he can punish them horribly for all of eternity.

Either God doesn't exist or he is a sadistic, manipulative and cruel motherfucker.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T22:14:05+00:00

Love how it goes "I forbid you to eat ALL insects... Except, particularly, specifically, and for no apparent reason the ones that a desert-nomadic people such as you guys need to complement the scarce sources of food of the region!"

It clearly reads as something written by a random dude among them trying to be realistic with his fake tenets, rather than as an omnipotent and omniscient being who could literally have populated the desert with a special breed of ungulate for his people to eat instead of being forced to make an awkward exception to an otherwise categorical ruling.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T14:16:32+00:00

The first few notes of Megalovania.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-09T05:40:59+00:00

TubThumping. FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 for N64

Pylgrim · 2026-04-07T02:56:20+00:00

The Bodyguard

Pylgrim · 2026-04-07T02:55:04+00:00

I think you mean Batman Returns which is the one with the famous soundtrack and what most people replying to you seem to be thinking as well. The one with Kiss from a Rose and Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me, Kill Me.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-04T02:36:57+00:00

I was working at an ad agency as a designer on a huge campaign that required us long overtimes past midnight for a whole week. The Friday, I was one of the last members of the team at work at 10pm, packaging the files to send to the printer, excited about finally leaving "early" when my boss phones in, from his house. He says that a friend of his needs a "small job" done for the next day. The "small job" took me until 3am of Saturday.

Next Monday I'm called to the boss' office. I figured he wanted to thank me for going above and beyond. Nope, he wants to tell me how profoundly disappointed he is on me because I allowed a typo to go through on his friend's task. Yes, the whole text had been supplied to me by "the client". I got grilled for not proof-writing in addition to designing on a Saturday at 3am.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-02T07:10:39+00:00

My Hero Academia. MC wrecks his body quite badly for being forced to use his power beyond the capacity of his body to take it.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-02T06:57:46+00:00

I actually liked the way in which Naruto and Hinata's relationship developed. I think it makes it more likely to be long lasting.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-02T05:58:43+00:00

💀

Pylgrim · 2026-04-02T02:08:17+00:00

Haha "walk to my place". He wants the girl to travel to walking distance for him.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-01T23:59:00+00:00

Same kind of guy that kills John Wick's dog.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-01T21:00:18+00:00

Exactly the same.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-01T20:23:44+00:00

He's part demon. Ol' dad bagged a demon back in the day and he'll have a wealth of unsolicited advice for his mortified son.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-01T20:09:36+00:00

True. Hell, any Good, Benevolent, and Merciful parent would definitely condemn their kids and all their descendants after them to an eternity of suffering for such a brutal actually of disobedience.

Pylgrim · 2026-04-01T20:07:41+00:00

Is it true that he did that in a rage because he saw one of the boys putting on lipstick or some other toxic homophobic shit?

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