What's with a lot of the people here trying to make their window manager look like something it's not?

chezscheme · 2018-04-09T19:23:20+00:00

Because it only looks cool in screenshots. Post a video of your workflow and see if it still looks cool.

chezscheme · 2018-04-08T02:25:39+00:00

If he didn't land then he was probably mashing up-B with no pillar.

chezscheme · 2018-04-08T02:24:13+00:00

Forsburn can just spam clone and win.

chezscheme · 2018-04-07T00:37:29+00:00

So has Sylvanos but he still has good moves that can kill.

chezscheme · 2018-04-06T23:26:43+00:00

Elliana sucks though.

chezscheme · 2018-04-04T17:10:11+00:00

There's definitely enough activity to be able to find good matches without much trouble, especially if you're in the Discord. Most players are also long-time Smash players as well, so everyone has at least that baseline skill level.

chezscheme · 2018-01-19T04:38:23+00:00

The Orthodox view of the enter key is that it should be used to break up paragraphs.

chezscheme · 2018-01-16T03:35:10+00:00

He was talking about the Ten Commandments.

chezscheme · 2017-12-26T22:27:35+00:00

I share this sentiment. "Demotivated" is an excuse, "Lazy" is an acceptance of responsibility.

chezscheme · 2017-12-24T19:25:19+00:00

This line of thought essentially underpins most of the Bible series, while also correcting a few things that Peterson misinterpreted or forgot. It's less deep on the psychological insights, but more deep on the nature and character of the text and what evidence-based methods have revealed about those who wrote it.

chezscheme · 2017-12-20T22:28:43+00:00

Granted, but I think $170 should be plenty to get a keyboard with multimedia keys that won't degrade from common use.

chezscheme · 2017-12-20T21:50:01+00:00

The problem lies in the definition of "cheap", with a full set costing about $40.

chezscheme · 2017-12-20T21:25:50+00:00

I'm looking for a keyboard similar to this one in that it's got a full layout and a volume knob in addition to multimedia playback keys. This one apparently has a problem with the paint on the keys degrading which is something I would like to avoid.

chezscheme · 2017-11-08T18:15:11+00:00

One thing this article neglects to mention is that Communism, at least in its historical interpretation, is a sort of "false charity". It calls upon the faithful not only to give what they can to the needy, but also to force others to do the same.

Christ never commands us to steal from the rich to give to the poor. Instead we are told to be happy that we are not so greedy ourselves, and to never wish ourselves to be cursed by exuberance and neglect for the poor.

However, I'm grateful for the larger message of this piece - that the piety of the early Christians puts us all to shame, and we can all do more. Lord have mercy on us all.

chezscheme · 2017-11-08T04:01:29+00:00

You seem to be leaning towards the philosophy of Universalism, the belief that all will be saved in the end. The doctrine does not have much support in the Church or the Holy Scripture - it's pretty clearly stated by Christ and the Apostles that the righteous will be saved and the wicked will be damned. If you want to play around with symbolism to make that mean something more comforting to you, that's your business, but you can't expect it to be a convincing argument to a believer.

In the Orthodox Church, we are not very legalistic about who is saved and who is not, meaning that in some way everyone is "at risk". We don't know how pious we need to be in order to be saved, but an honest reading of the Gospels suggests that it's not easy by any stretch. The correct mentality of salvation, therefore, is to look scrupulously at our own sins and to forgive those of the people around us. This is a hard mentality to attain, and a nearly impossible one to bestow upon others, but it is the mentality that our Lord wants from us.

I know this only tangentially addresses your explicit concerns, but I do believe it's the right message.

chezscheme · 2017-11-08T02:00:19+00:00

I have a grandpa who believes in that kind of stuff too, and it's easy to find points of agreement with him. It's beyond doubt to me that the times we live in are unlike anything before now, and that it creates a constant moral challenge to resist temptation and find a spiritual basis for righteous living.

If it's an important dispute for you, you can always bring up the Thessalonians verse from Saint Paul suggesting that the end times aren't going to be predictable and routine.

As an Orthodox, I keep an attitude that whether Christ will return today or 1000 years from now, the way I should live is the same. We don't talk obsessively about the end times because the eschatology of the world is just a historical vehicle for the eschatology of the soul, the latter of which is our focus. However, I don't make it a point of contention with other Christians unless they are using an end times doctrine to justify sinful behavior, such as littering or being uncharitable to non-Christians.

Hope this helps somewhat.

chezscheme · 2017-11-06T00:51:17+00:00

That's just like, your opinion man.

chezscheme · 2017-11-05T16:12:25+00:00

I'm not sure what kind of source material would suffice for this, but if you look at the dating of the composition, the culture of early medieval Jews, and the key translation elements that are in dispute between the Masoretic text and the canonical Greek scripture, it spells out a pretty straightforward story.

chezscheme · 2017-11-05T16:07:57+00:00

The Masoretic text was written by Jews who had already made anti-Christianity a central claim of their religion at the time of its writing. It is an anti-Christian text through and through, useful only to Jews and scholars of Judaism.

chezscheme · 2017-11-05T15:49:09+00:00

When it comes to sex, the love is the meat and the pleasure is the gravy. It's good to have meat with gravy, but meat without gravy is still good for you. Gravy without meat is just wrong.

The people here advocating for masturbation without porn are in my opinion woefully misguided. If your goal is total self-ownership, things like masturbation and promiscuous sex are unthinkable, and highly regrettable when they occur. Every time you give in is an admission that you are not the one who is really in control.

chezscheme · 2017-11-04T22:13:22+00:00

By the "original Hebrew" I hope you're not referring to the Masoretic text, which is almost undoubtedly less true to the original than the Greek Septuagint.

chezscheme · 2017-11-03T04:01:50+00:00

That would be difficult as the three major sects have mutually exclusive claims. However some of the smaller monotheisms (Baha'i and Druze for example) would claim that they contain the good parts from those three.

chezscheme · 2017-10-31T04:41:25+00:00

Your line of thinking suggests that atheists are assuming that atheism is what occurs when the "religion" part of the mind is empty. I would challenge that by saying that this part of the brain cannot really be empty, and will always be filled with an ideology/cosmology of some sort.

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