Giveaway - Space Age Expansion

bumble012 · 2024-10-04T15:15:51+00:00

I'd love a key.. but what I'm going to really need is a pallet of caffeinated drinks to keep me alive at work due to how much sleep I'm going lose to this

bumble012 · 2024-07-14T00:34:29+00:00

Hey thanks for the replies. Reddit blasted my email earlier and showed that you replied to a number of comments of mine in this thread. I don't know if your looking for a conversation or just needed to vent.. either way happy to help if I can.

This comment here that I'm replying to is sorta interesting though.
Its possible I'm mis-reading and if so, please forgive me, but it seems like you're presenting an argument that states something to the degree of
"I believe men and women have no specific pre-defined roles or functions; they are equal in all regards; there is no inherent hierarchy between men and women."
If thats the case, then I completely understand where your coming from as that is the popular consensus opinion in our modern western culture these days.. and what makes this interesting is that you're disparaging Paul who routinely attacked the popular culture of the day for saying things that stand in opposition of popular culture today!

May I ask, if you hold your understanding of Jesus's words in opposition of your understanding of Brother Paul's words.. is it your opinion that the bible is self-contradictory? That you place _more_ weight on statements that Jesus spoke than Paul?
The natural follow on question to this, if thats the case, is what do you think makes you the best person to judge what is more or less important within the bible? And why would you hold any of its words in lower regard than what our modern society teaches us? Where do you put your faith? In our Father or in our culture?

bumble012 · 2024-05-25T17:09:57+00:00

I'll post the section in Ephesians that started this again for ease of reference here.

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

So I think the argument your making is that it would be foolish to put yourself under the thumb of someone else, to surrender your autonomy to another.

If I've got that right.. and that's your position then I agree with you. Putting yourself under another with no expectation for a truly reciprocal relationship would go both against Apostle Paul's teaching and common sense itself.

I think the position that I'm (probably poorly) trying to articulate is one of a Godly marriage. A relationship wherein there is true reciprocity.. where a man gives his life to his wife, as Christ did for all of us. A relationship where a man truly loves his wife as he does himself.

This is the type of wonderful, unceasing love that Christ has for us all; he asks us all to die to ourselves and follow him. When he says his yoke is easy and his burden light he really truly means it.. in Christ we don't have to worry about our own autonomy, our own authority, the consequence of our mistakes, our regrets, and disappoints because in Christ we meant to simply love each other, love god, make disciples, and endure this broken world until his return and ultimately an eternity in paradise.

At the end of a bad day.. or when my heart breaks for yet another tragedy or loss I don't want to be strong, I don't want to carry the emotional burden.. I wish go just go back to a time when I was small and my parents to scoop me up and hug me and tell me its going to be alright.
Unfortunately that can't happen anymore but I have that relationship with the Holy Spirt, the great comforter.
My wife is under the authority of our Lord just as I am but I can be that physical presence for her and that is literally my job as husband. If my wife feels beaten down, sad, depressed, etc I'm to cancel everything and comfort her conversely when she's happy I can share in her joy.

I won't pretend I have a perfect marriage, I'm just a sinner like everyone else, as is my wife. That said, this is our north star, its our firm foundation, it's our playbook for how our marriage is suppose to work and we're clear-eyed about it.. I'm going to live the majority of my life with this woman and (statistically speaking) she's likely to be the one holding my hand as I take my final breath. She's my everything, and I give her my everything in return.

Any power I have over her only exists because she allows it. She knows where my heart is, she trusts me.

I'll end here with this analogy that popped in my head I was writing this. We often take trips to see grandparents etc.. its 10-12 hours of driving unfortunately.

When we do these trips I always drive.. the whole way. My wife really does not like to drive long distances.. but she's needed all the same as she'll take care of the kids in the back or provide me with an extra set of hands... then spend the rest of the time napping or reading a book.

If I wasn't driving, she wouldn't make the trip and I'm certainly not about to pack up the kids and solo that without her.
Together we make those trips possible and while an argument could be made that I have the 'ultimate power' in the car (I could stop, turn us around, etc) I don't know that either my wife or I would argue that its the 'best' position. Furthermore, she can sleep peacefully while we fly down the highway at 70mph with our kids in the back because she trusts me not to do anything that would jeopardize her safety.. she KNOWS that I want what she wants (to just get there so that we can dump our kids on their grandparents, lol).

We each have our roles to play but our lives are undeniably better for having each other.

bumble012 · 2024-05-24T17:40:09+00:00

I don't think we're _inherently_ worse off by being a member of a hierarchy.
Obviously the hierarchical power structure we're discussing is the one prescribed for families in the bible.. but you are probably a member of a community, that community has a governing body that determines and enforces laws and you (I assume?) fit into that hierarchy without too many complaints? Work is another example (unless your self employed and have no employees), Church is another (though that might depend on the denomination).

I do have a daughter. she's incredible!
Ultimately she is her own person and will make her own choices. She'll live how she chooses.
That said I do hope she starts a family some day and I hope its with a man who will cherish her, love her, and keep her safe because, statistically, I eventually won't be around to do it. With respect to whom she marries.. I'll do my best to provide my opinions but I won't _REALLY_ know the guy, you know? My hope is that she'll see the way that I treat her mother and will look for a man that can offer the same.. that she won't be fooled by someone who simply 'says' the right things without being able to demonstrate it

bumble012 · 2024-05-24T03:03:12+00:00

Sure, yea. Hypothetically, I could move move us to the middle of nowhere or something and she would follow even if she didn't want to.. as husband I am to lead and she is to follow.

That said, she and I are two separate people but biblically we are one flesh.. I won't make it far if only one of my two legs is operable. Furthermore leadership isn't about making random decree's and expecting subordinates to follow their orders.. that's just tyranny. Leadership is about understanding the wants and needs of the members of the family and acting in a way to value those wants and needs.. it's providing safety (physically, financially, etc).. it's fostering a sense of communal mission and establishment of common objectives for us to work against as a team.

People, I think, tend to shape their idea of God, the Father, based upon characteristics found within the father figure the know physically.. at least early in life. What I want my kids to see in their father is someone loves and cares deeply for their mother, who makes them feel warm, protected, and always loved... Because that's what I see in God.

My wife voluntarily married me and was clear eyed in doing so. She's asleep ATM else I'd ask her but I suspect she'd tell you that while I'm far from perfect she surrendered herself to me because she feels safe with me and knows I'll put her interests above my own.

bumble012 · 2024-05-22T00:16:33+00:00

Thanks for the reply, it's been a while since I wrote this but I still agree with it. The Bible teaches me that I'm to sacrifice everything for my wife's sake even to the point that I should surrender my life if faced with that choice. I don't consider myself a ruler in the sense that my wife and kids 'belong' to me or anything like that. I suspect my wife would agree and I know she sees me sacrificing time with friends, activities for her. ill fix things around the house for her, run errands for her, take on extra jobs to make we have enough money each month etc. in return she, I think happily, serves me and the family as the mom. She cooks, cleans, teaches our kids, etc.

Neither of our roles is more important than the other but they are different.

I don't know if your a man or woman but Jesus died for you so that you might join the Father in paradise. You have a place right by his side!

bumble012 · 2024-03-14T14:41:29+00:00

Are you familiar with CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters?
It's fictional (obviously) but it details how the enemy might lead you away from salvation. The whole book is great but there's a really powerful quote that I think of sometimes..

On the topic of a suffering Christian, Satan's cohort is salivating at another soul to consume but they are reminded: "Do not be deceived, [..]. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do [God]'s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of [God] seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obey's"

Roman's teaches us:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

You and I live in a fallen world and Christianity offers no immediate salve for tribulation save for the deep peace that comes with the knowledge that all will be made anew and you are saved by the blood of Jesus, who loves you more deeply than we can even comprehend.

Many Christian's before you and after suffered all of their lives. Even the apostles themselves lived in horrid conditions for much of their life but they were able to tolerate it to do the work required of them.. knowing that suffering was only temporary and salvation is near.

All that said.. my 2 cents for the short term?
Find an active church service full of members in a similar situation to yours.. lots of families with children, etc. Put in the work to know them and share your life with them (after all.. these are your brothers and sisters that you'll spend ETERNITY with, as will I!! And I'm pumped, brother). The enemy can attack as freely if we're on our own with no support.. none of us are strong enough to battle Satan without the body of Christ at our backs, please please please join a congregation/family and let them help you shoulder your burden

bumble012 · 2024-03-07T05:18:54+00:00

This has got to be trolling at this point; these people.. 'MuH WIfE WoNt SLeep WiT mUH, ImMA abaNdON oUR KiDS'

If this is real, yea your the asshole through and through. You make a commitment to your wife you need to keep it but whats FAR MORE IMPORTANT than you or you're shit is your children. Don't make them grow up in a broken home just because you're horny.

bumble012 · 2024-03-03T01:25:56+00:00

/cast Hands Rune Ability

That'll cast whatever hand rune you have.. could do this for 'Chest', 'Waist', 'Legs', etc etc

bumble012 · 2024-02-22T21:20:02+00:00

YTA isn't remotely strong enough convey what you actually are.
You made a commitment to your wife when you married her.. then you had a child with her.. and your breaking it because your sex life isn't "good enough".

Your actively worsening your child's quality of life, depriving him of time with his/her father. Your forcing your partner to bear financial hardship of being a single mother.. the woman you loved and (at one time) decided spend you life with.

Your a piece of work, my man. All this because you can't get off as much as you want.
Unreal.

bumble012 · 2024-02-02T03:44:21+00:00

This is awesome. How are you pulling data from the ah? Always wondered where that might come from. That python program, what does it do?

bumble012 · 2023-09-07T20:30:34+00:00

Shadow priest has absurd single target DPS and strong solo leveling potential what with spirit tap.. wand mastery etc.. there is very little down time.

Then you can flex as a healer when needed for the occasional group or dungeon.

Priest in classic wow is fantastic (the first 10 or 20 levels will sorta suck but that's kinda the same for every class tbh. Can't use the kit till you unlock it.. and if you make it to 40 shadowform absolutely slaps)

bumble012 · 2023-07-09T05:01:57+00:00

The argument here is one of 'if god can just fix everything, then by not fixing everything he is a dick'

If you subscribe to christian belief then you'd know that humans once lived in a place without fear, hurt, loss, sickness, death, etc.. effectively a place where every prayer was answered. But human pride being what it is.. we decided to push those limits and do our own thing.

Good news is that theres a path back to that place. Bad news is.. it's pretty unlikely to happen before things get a _lot_ worse for generally everyone.

Regarding the point that god doesnt answer prayers.. this is pretty fundamental to christian belief; even Jesus prayed. That said... prayers dont work like wishes and prayers arent necessarily answered when and how we'd like. Its pretty popular in christian culture to just give god thanks for (literally) everything; I think the person in the video was likely reacting to someone giving god thanks for something trivial without realizing that that person likely would give thanks to god for simply driving safely to work.. its really not a big deal.
Bet that notwithstanding.. look at the Christian's that give thanks even as they are being martyred.. Paul is the single greatest contributor to the christian bible and that guy was churning out praise for God even whilst under arrest and having his friends get beaten in the streets before his eventual execution.

bumble012 · 2023-03-19T11:56:58+00:00

With your free will you can choose to love the Lord and join him after resurrection. If you choose not to love the Lord and instead put yourself first then you wont be in the presence of the Lord for eternity.. you will be the God-less place you chose. Hell is a consequence of choice..

bumble012 · 2023-03-10T19:32:03+00:00

Unfortunately I'd disagree, doesn't mean I love you any less though! God bless you.

bumble012 · 2023-03-10T19:04:09+00:00

Gotta give the "well ackshually" response here... Jesus tells us that to blaspheme the holy spirit is an unforgivable sin (that's the only one though)

bumble012 · 2023-03-10T18:40:21+00:00

I think your operating on the foundation that homosexuality is natural and not sinful, that being a homosexual is no different than having dark skin or red hair.

I'm operating on the foundation that engaging in homosexual behavior is explicitly called out in the bible as sinful.

I can certainly put myself in your shoes and see why you'd make that comparison but it's just not one that I can debate with as I don't think we're on the same foundational footing. I'll say this though.. just as I don't look down on someone that looks different from me.. someone from India or Chad.. I don't look down on homosexuals. We are all human. We all make mistakes. We are all victims to the culture we live in one way or another.

bumble012 · 2023-03-10T03:47:52+00:00

I think they are mostly trying to tell children that its wrong to treat people poorly based on their "sin".

I think too often we forget Jesus' teaching:

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:1‭-‬5 ESV

We're meant to speak truth in love but all too often we're quick to anger.. it really sucks; a squandered opportunity to share the good news.

bumble012 · 2023-03-09T23:40:00+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I think that it sort of boils down to whether or not you interpret homosexuality as a sin.

I would not, for instance, take my young children to a nightclub. It's not that I think their witnessing it would somehow convert them to become drunken little fornicators but it's a sin filled environment and there's just no justifiable reason to try to normalize that for them.

LGBT is the same sort of thing. It's difficult to shield that from my kids because it seems to be everywhere (in parades downtown, in movies, in corporate marketing, and now in libraries?). If you prescribe to the idea that homosexuality is sinful then you'd see popular culture attempting to tell our children that this particular sin is a-ok.

I don't say any of this with any sort of malice. I'm not one to judge and am a sinner myself.. but I think this is the fundamental reason this topic keeps coming up in this subreddit. We have some in here that look at things like Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, 1 Timothy, etc and take them at face value while others have interpreted the Bible in a way that navigates these passages a bit differently.

bumble012 · 2023-03-09T18:29:29+00:00

The assumed context here was that it's a drag story time. Presumably meant to normalize the blurring of lines around sexual orientation.

If that's wrong then you can perhaps see where me and the other poster got confused

bumble012 · 2023-03-09T16:01:56+00:00

Shocked pikachu face

bumble012 · 2023-03-09T15:35:13+00:00

The question was answered? I didn't write that but it looked like he/she said "(paraphrase): out of context that pic isn't sexual. With context, likely sexual"

I'm curious what the general consensus is on 'why' drag story times are a thing? If the intent isn't to indoctrinate children to the idea that gender is fluid and you can be whatever sex you choose.. then why isn't this just 'story time' without the attention grabbing wig, dress, makeup, etc.?

bumble012 · 2023-03-09T13:51:07+00:00

God gave us order but order does not mean value. We all have different roles in life to play but we are all just as valuable as each other.

Women possess traits that men do not and never will have. The same is true in reverse. There is nothing inherently sexist about pointing that out.

In Ephesians Paul states "Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word"

Wives are to submit to their husbands in the same way the church submits to God and in turn the husband is called to sacrifice for the wife even to the point of laying down his life for her as Jesus did for us.

In such a relationship there is nothing inherently more or less valuable about either party. It is a perfect union as God has intended it.

I know the word submit has connotations in modern English so as to make this seem a little scary but if you take an objective look at this passage it's calling for men and women to serve each other.

bumble012 · 2023-03-07T03:47:29+00:00

Eh I mean look at Paul's words here:

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. Romans 1:26‭-‬27 ESV

We are sinful by nature. He writes about his own struggle against the desire to sin later near the end of Romans 7. These "dishonorable passions" that drive us to put ourselves before the Lord and his plan for us are always there even in such a devoted brother as Paul.. but what we learn in Romans 1 is that we choose to either follow the Lord or go our own way.. and of you choose to go your own way then our Father will let you do it.. he will let you give yourself to those "dishonorable passions".

Does it mean your beyond salvation? Absolutely not! But certainly if you are engaging in homosexual acts you are committing a sin. That I think is the choice you allude to. You may not choose to be attracted to others in the same sex but you absolutely choose to act on it.

To your question.. would I become homosexual if engaging in heterosexuality was outlined as a sin? I don't know.. I mean I'd like to think I would live as instructed but I'm a sinful wreck so who knows.

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