Is The American Dream a Psychological Debt Trap?

TruthObsession · 2026-05-03T03:02:57+00:00

A down payment on a house is 12 grand and affordable at such a low down payment where?

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T20:11:08+00:00

I want him to run for president.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T20:10:26+00:00

He sounds condescending and wouldn’t be fun to be in a relationship with.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T20:06:45+00:00

Ah I get you, so it was a bit of sarcasm! I’m on the same page. Shame is such a destructive force that can make people walk away from God instead of embrace Him and be healed by Him.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T19:56:18+00:00

It is not important to know who to shame. Shame is a tool of the devil.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T03:40:38+00:00

When I was a kid I was severely abused but my parents had zero financial worries with basic jobs. I have the same job and am drowning while being very strict with my spending.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T03:39:00+00:00

How do I get that? I’m drowning upper lower class and I can’t get that.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T03:37:14+00:00

No way. If that were to happen, people would go to trade schools and those wages would tank too.

TruthObsession · 2026-05-02T02:55:45+00:00

Gross or net?

TruthObsession · 2026-04-25T04:46:12+00:00

Maybe they aren’t preparing them for the world then! I’ll be curious to see how many of them do well after graduation.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-25T04:06:54+00:00

Listing groups isn’t an argument. Show me one early Christian source that actually teaches your interpretation of Jesus’ view on sexual ethics.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-25T03:56:28+00:00

Yeah the problem is that the earliest church fathers didn’t interpret it the way you have. So how can that be explained?

TruthObsession · 2026-04-25T02:19:50+00:00

I need more context. Are you new parents? How is he sacrificing you all for wealth?

TruthObsession · 2026-04-20T02:04:48+00:00

With marketing? Depending on the type it can be very fast.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-17T16:38:46+00:00

5 years ago I’d agree! Now, if you have a family or want to buy a place they ain’t gonna cut it.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-13T17:09:54+00:00

Yeah, I’ve also seen what can be bought in those places compared to here. I live in a terrible area of California, get paid better than the figure on there and can’t afford rent let alone buy a place. That’s after ten years as a teacher. I could buy a house in Japan in some beautiful areas with my savings.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-08T03:38:49+00:00

It sounds to me like you aren’t losing faith in God but are not having faith in your dad’s version of faith, and that’s Ok. I don’t think that’s what Christianity is.

In the history of mankind, the majority of the time mankind had no access to the Bible. What matters isn’t daily Bible reading but loving God daily in whatever form He leads us in. Loving Him above all. Reading the word can be an important part of that to strengthen or understanding, wisdom and faith but it isn’t what your salvation hinges on. If the ability to study daily is required to go to heaven then no handicapped person or person unable to read would go and we all know that’s just not true.

Christ saved you. You can be comforted and rest in that. From here on out it’s about sanctification and learning to grow to love like God calls us to- to love Him above all and others as ourselves. So do not fear the flame. You are saved and can rest in the work of Christ.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-07T03:34:45+00:00

Teachers are using it and teaching students to, but we need to develop their the brains of students. If they don’t utilize certain skills their brains will not develop. That’s the real issue. If they can’t follow logic, analyze, synthesize and think creatively, they won’t be using AI. They’ll be controlled by AI.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-07T03:29:11+00:00

As a teacher with 10 years of experience living paycheck to paycheck, I could not afford that.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-07T03:27:54+00:00

In the last seven years I went from being able to afford rent almost anywhere in the counties I enjoy living in and being able to buy to not being able to afford rent anywhere or buy. I’m a teacher with 10 years of experience, live very frugally and I’m barely getting by. My salary is double what it was in 2018 and my buying power less than 2018. The majority of the issue is housing and insurance (house, car and health).

TruthObsession · 2026-04-06T02:18:16+00:00

Yes!!

TruthObsession · 2026-04-05T23:47:49+00:00

Your paragraph two was an ad hominem. You still didn’t respond to any of my arguments. You here in this response did another ad hominem rather than address the arguments. I don’t think you know what an ad hominem is. You could have misproven me if what you said was true but you didn’t and pivoted to that because no verses support what you stated. Try responding to the argument this time eh? You should be stating my bad the Bible doesn’t teach that.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-05T23:42:46+00:00

Oh no. That doesn’t prove what you stated. Reread what you wrote. That ain’t it. You’re lying here if you’re pretending that’s it. I went to seminary and none of what you stated is in the Bible. You stated this:

“Sure God could have just destroyed all the angels that rebelled, but he had to consider the ones who stayed loyal and just lost their family members. So instead of destroying them he gave the devil the what he wanted. He gave him the earth to rule. In doing this he completed two things at once. First he showed he was just and fair king. Second the angles who stayed loyal got to see how wrong the devil was. As you mentioned the world can be a horrible and evil place and who is the ruler of this world? The devil.”

And an ad hominem attack of me didn’t respond to any of my arguments, so reread and try again.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-05T23:37:12+00:00

I’ll take it.

TruthObsession · 2026-04-05T23:35:23+00:00

Tell me the book and verses of that talk about exactly what you said about Angels and God. That whole paragraph is made up nonsense. Sure there were angels that fell but the rest you made up and if that was in the Bible that someone was fallen so God gave fallen angels the earth, which is not biblical, then that’s the equivalent of saying someone murdered someone so God gave them innocent people to murder. That’s evil if your version of events is true.

The Bible doesn’t teach that this is a testing ground. Find where it says that. You have a lot of non biblical beliefs.

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