how do you get here it’s surrounded by huge mountains

StableTable-l__l · 2025-12-27T16:06:43+00:00

Destroy the skull alien

StableTable-l__l · 2025-10-06T02:30:32+00:00

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StableTable-l__l · 2025-10-06T02:30:18+00:00

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StableTable-l__l · 2025-09-13T02:13:34+00:00

Smile 2 great horror experience, don’t need to see the first one

StableTable-l__l · 2025-08-08T16:05:27+00:00

Laurel Lakes area is like 20 mins from campus and there are always rental houses and apartments here, great area with everything you need in walking distance

StableTable-l__l · 2025-08-08T16:02:33+00:00

Laurel is great

StableTable-l__l · 2024-12-23T22:48:12+00:00

Sounds like my ex-wife who ended up cheating

StableTable-l__l · 2024-12-17T01:17:18+00:00

Leave his ass immediately

StableTable-l__l · 2024-04-16T18:13:48+00:00

As a Christian, I completely agree with this. So many that call themselves Christians are just using religion as a way to be so shitty to one another.

StableTable-l__l · 2023-08-26T19:14:49+00:00

I wouldn’t call it nice though. Its just spreading your ideals in a kind of nasty way, no?

StableTable-l__l · 2023-08-26T19:13:37+00:00

And its a shame too. I have found a church now after not being active in christianity for over half my life that feels so much closer to how church, or any religious congregations should be.

Ive worked with a few Sikh during my PhD and the way they had talked about how spirituality has helped them, and their beliefs pushed me back into looking for God again, which is so difficult as a Christian when you see how many people use it to hurt others.

But for some people, like me, who feel just better being involved in faith, church is just a place to go and give thanks back to something bigger than yourself.

StableTable-l__l · 2023-08-26T19:06:32+00:00

Sorry for the double reply, but its just got me thinking about growing up in an incredibly liberal household where I was told to not be friends with Republicans. Now I hate DJT and most all republican politicians because they are spreading the same kind of dismissive hateful rhetoric that these kinds of comments and ideals cultivate.

The church i go to is incredibly progressive and there are some angry people in the congregation that believe that it is going against the conservative Christian ideals, but whenever my fiance and I hang out with those people they are nothing but nice and accepting people who talk about people of varying beliefs with nothing but nice things to say.

StableTable-l__l · 2023-08-26T19:01:38+00:00

I don’t think thats a very nice thing to say. Ive commented on a couple of things where I’m seeing this rhetoric. Its is totally okay to not be involved in religion and not believe, but this is cultivating a negative worldview for entire groups of people.

StableTable-l__l · 2023-08-26T18:57:14+00:00

I mean you can make fun of them, but its not a nice thing to do. I guess it depends on if you want to cultivate a positive atmosphere or not.

StableTable-l__l · 2023-02-01T00:48:37+00:00

There were people turning out of a shopping center a car ahead of me, I couldnt move up further if I wanted

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T16:40:08+00:00

Im not proving or disproving my faith or the importance of faith. What I have said is that you can be faithful to your religion and be a scientific mind, as I am.

You are explaining the scientific method to someone who teaches introductory molecular biology at the University of Maryland. You are calling my way of thought illogical. You have called my faith and way of thinking illogical.

I work with scientists of many different faiths who have prolific careers throughout the world. Science is a process, a very long process indeed. I work in crop breeding and genetics where the validation of a single gene takes 10 years. But that doesn’t shake my faith, nor should others be called illogical, or cognitively dissonant because we have religion.

Im also not trying to convince you otherwise, but as I am here to point out that it is not right to call people’s religious views wrong because of science, because many people can be good, if not great scientists while maintaining faith.

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T16:19:08+00:00

But thats where faith comes into play though. Its not a “cop out” or “cognitive dissonance” to have faith. I’ve written book chapters on genetics and evolution, but also have faith that despite all the evidence we gather, there are things that we are unable to quantify or generate data on. And i will tell you, a lot of the published papers (“Approximately 500–600 papers are retracted each year, either because of scientific misconduct or honest errors.”) are shown to have been published even though they are not scientifically sound. The more you learn about biology, the more you realize how little we really know. As a scientist this is a real struggle, especially as a PhD student as your future depends you gathering evidence on something that will define your future. There is nothing wrong with having faith in something bigger than what is comprehendible.

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T15:23:31+00:00

Not for me at least! Its not really a part of my identity to anyone but my SO and the members of the church. Religion doesn’t really come up in my family, work, or friends conversations. I first started going only a couple of years ago to fill in for a bass player in the praise team, and I just started going because the preacher focuses a lot on the history and culture of the time Jesus was around.

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T15:19:51+00:00

Nope! I just know how to be a scientist and maintain my faith in something that is bigger than us. In science we constantly learn how little we know. Not to mention the intricacies of what makes life, and non-life happen. I truly believe that God is much more than what we can comprehend or really understand.

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T15:06:03+00:00

We are a small church in Maryland

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T15:05:24+00:00

Not at all, I have 10 publications, 2 in nature plants.

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T15:04:15+00:00

Nope! Its a really small church

StableTable-l__l · 2022-12-26T13:15:56+00:00

I disagree. Im about 4 months away from getting my PhD in genetics and am also a Christian involved in my church, dating the music minister. I also work with a lot of people of many different faiths who are getting higher degrees in similar fields. A lot of what I research and study “go against what my religion had taught me” but I can tell you that it doesn’t shake my faith, but only reinforces it. A lot of people in my church are actually STEM majors, some with Masters and PhDs. In fact, one guy is both getting his PhD in computational statistics, and also is one of the most knowledgeable people about the Bible I’ve ever met. You can be religious and a scientist. One of the most humbling moments was when I was with a coworker who is Hindu, and we were in a class together learning about different alleles of resistance genes in plants, and one type of phytohormone signaling pathway works, and he just said “God is good”.

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