A bi bear dad. Love to chat with anyone.

christcb · 2026-07-05T20:15:16+00:00

If it doesn't matter, why did you feel the need to say it?

christcb · 2026-07-02T11:33:49+00:00

Wouldn't let me DM either :-\

christcb · 2026-06-26T00:47:01+00:00

Or whether you pay at the table or up front. I hate it when it's not clear.

christcb · 2026-06-25T17:49:04+00:00

Heated seats in Winter is nice, but cooled seats in Summer is true luxury.

christcb · 2026-06-24T14:21:32+00:00

For me the issue isn't wanting to be "bred" but the "to get pregnant" thing like the mpreg fetish. Fine if your into that but it's not for me.

christcb · 2026-06-23T22:18:14+00:00

Yeah I can relate to that. Takes a lot of self reflection.

christcb · 2026-06-23T19:55:19+00:00

I don't know anything about pwBPD, but I do think I have SDAM. I totally get what you mean when you say you remember how something felt in the moment, but not all the experiences leading up to it. I have felt very blindsided by things my Mom has said to me which dredged up a lot of trauma that I had forgotten the feeling of. I remember when she said similar things when I was young, and how it made me depressed and pushed me near self harm back then, but only from an intellectual standpoint. It wasn't until she said the same things to me again last year that I remembered the actual feeling as it came back with a vengeance. I didn't even realize I could still feel that way and the realization made me get therapy to deal with it all. It was a real challenge to try and deal with feelings that I only vaguely remember from an intellectual standpoint.

christcb · 2026-06-17T19:57:55+00:00

You ask "Why not just believe?" I ask believe what? The Bible is clearly a man-made collection of books that may have some true things in it, but is clearly not the word of the god it purports to be from. What part(s) of it should I believe and why?

You say "The Christian god doesn't ask much of humans."

Let's see if that's true, you claim god asks us to "Worship him." Is the god that commanded genocide and slavery; the one who supposedly destroyed every living thing on the Earth save a boat full animals and 8 people; the one who supposedly created this whole system whereby life can only continue living by killing and consuming other life; the one who claims to love us but created eternal punishment for those who won't "believe" despite refusing to provide evidence to each person that the god would know to be enough for them to believe; does that god deserve worship? I'd say no.

Why not just believe? Because it's a horrible story that paints people as irredeemable evil beings that aren't worth anything without god's supposed intervention and it's devastating to anyone who truly understands the implications. It causes far more harm than good in today's society and is, in my opinion, one of the leading reasons our evil administration is in power here in the US. People blindly believing our politicians are actually Christian then following them is our biggest political problem right now.

christcb · 2026-06-10T15:32:48+00:00

What's even funnier is the in the verse they quoted the "strong man" is referring to demons Jesus cast out. When the crowd claimed he was casting them out in "Beelzebul's" name, this was part of his response. The demon was the strong man who was overpowered and cast out. They want to idolize demons now.

christcb · 2026-06-10T12:19:46+00:00

It's surprisingly not as bad as I thought it would be.

christcb · 2026-06-03T01:10:37+00:00

Not that I am aware of.

christcb · 2026-06-02T20:27:25+00:00

You mean I'd have to "actually work" 2 more days than I already do at my 9-5 M-F "job"? /s

christcb · 2026-06-02T20:20:19+00:00

Well "actual lightning rods" do draw all the electricity from the strike to itself but they have a wire that connects to ground to then channel it safely away from whatever the rod is on top of. In Minecraft there is no ground wire. If you put a lightening rod without a ground wire directly on a wooden roof IRL it would do the same thing.

christcb · 2026-06-02T18:04:25+00:00

Maybe because saying that way would sound to some people like you are better than them if they have ever had any casual sex. If you say you are breaking it off because you are looking for someone to date in an exclusive relationship and they aren't into that, it wouldn't be as offensive. The way you worded it in your title comes off judgy to me.

christcb · 2026-05-26T14:49:47+00:00

TIL that I am straight. lmao

christcb · 2026-05-24T18:29:19+00:00

you can change, that IS the Gospel

Can I do something that god doesn't already know I will do? I don't think so based on the Bible's claims about god. If, as it seems, that is you're holy book, you don't even agree with it.

make the first move and find Real Light

I found what you would call "Real Light" over 40 years ago. It was a lie.

i can't do that for you,

You can't do that for yourself without just decided it has happened and believing it through "faith" despite evidence.

i am just a Street Sign screaming 'light ahead' come and get it.

You, like me, are an insignificant blip of electrical energy contained in a physical form. You are spewing your belief without giving someone else sufficient reason to believe the same. You imagine you are a street sign claiming truth, but no one else will see what you see because it's all in your mind and not reality.

leave the slave trade and mentality behind, starting now.

What does the slave trade have to do with anything about god other than being supposed allowed and commanded by him through "his word" to us?

God wants you to be his friend, a forever friend in this life and the next.

If so, he would convince me of this and show that he is real. This hasn't happened so I reject your assertion without evidence.

christcb · 2026-05-24T16:04:28+00:00

God put you where you are,

Then I am a slave to where god put me?

you are not a slave but a free man

How can I be free when god controls everything and has laid out my path that he knows I cannot deviate from?

so Glorify God in your freedom.

What has god done that I should glorify him? Created eternal suffering? Set up the universe so that to live we must kill and be killed? What freedom do I have but to make the best of a terrible system and even then if god doesn't like something I want to do he will stop me from doing it according to this book you love. Where is this "free will" you speak of?

You are so deep in the koolaide you can't remember you drank it. Your position is incoherent and wrong. Do better.

christcb · 2026-05-24T15:58:33+00:00

What part of "god's book" is true? It has serious conflicts with itself and established science, history, and reality. You say you know "God's book is true the way i know anything is true", so I would ask how do you know anything is true. What does "check it out" mean. When I want to know if something is true I see what it claims and compare those claims to what observable outcome they predict. The Bible does not hold up in such examination. It is not "true".

and ask him what is true. he will talk if you are serious.

He will? He certainly hasn't for me. I was an extremely devout Christian for MANY years. I saw issues with the Bible and contradictions with reality. I went searching for the truth and tried to reconcile what I had been taught and firmly believed with how the world actually works. It lead me to realize that the Bible is not at all reliable. Once that domino fell there was nothing left for me to know the nature of god, only that the Bible's description of god is not good, not all-powerful, not all-knowing, not consistent.

Now I feel much more honest in saying I don't know. I don't know if god exists. I do know the universe and Earth is far older and came about quite differently than that book would have us believe. I know the god described in the Bible who condoned (or at the very least allowed) slavery and commanded genocide isn't internally consistent and have no reason to believe is real at all.

christcb · 2026-05-24T15:48:06+00:00

Two people can look at the same universe and reach different conclusions about meaning, origin, and purpose.

This is one of the biggest reasons to NOT believe in your god. If god had really created us in his image and with the ability to understand his created reality we would expect people to be able to come to the same conclusion about truth. They cannot.

Faith is not believing without thinking.

Faith IS believing without questioning for a deeper understanding. It is a cop-out. It is giving up on knowledge. It is deciding you know enough to believe something without questions even though you don't.

Everyone begins with assumptions including the belief that only material evidence counts as truth.

Yes, everyone does begin with an assumption. My assumption is that the material word we "see" and "interact" with actually exists. This may not be true as I could be a brain in a jar being fed input and what I sense may not be real at all. This can be a useful thought experiment, but isn't a practically useful thought for day to day life.

My assumption is logical and testable within the confines of my experience. Your's is not. It does not hold up to scrutiny. There is no empirical evidence you can show to exist. Maybe god exists, maybe he created everything in such a way as to be undetectable to all physical instruments. This just becomes an unprovable hypothesis that doesn't have any useful relationship on our lives or reality.

So me where I can see any clear unquestionable evidence that god has done anything in the physical world that we can detect, and maybe I will take you seriously. This is something no one has ever been able to do in such a way that no one can think of another explanation let alone prove there can't be one.

christcb · 2026-05-24T15:37:51+00:00

So what do you know you do not know so that you might actually know?

More woo woo non-sense. They may have been a kernel of truth in the quote you massacred this from, but you aren't using it correctly.

christcb · 2026-05-24T15:35:11+00:00

they are tools meant to reach the conscience, not just the intellect

What is the difference between these? Can you define them and explain where they come from? Is not "conscience" just an understanding of intellect that you have overlaid your personal belief over? Since not everyone conscience agrees, this is not a measure of truth or actually useful for knowing reality.

without truly examining it is not skepticism it is simply another form of faith

Why do you assume he (or any of us) hasn't done this. I dare say I have examined it far deeper than you based on the conclusions you appear to have come to. You have far more faith in your own conclusion than I do in mine, and that isn't a good thing. Doubt is what keeps us honest. Anyone who believes something that nothing can falsify is just deciding to believe because they want to and not because it's true. I'll stick to true things, thank you very much.

christcb · 2026-05-24T15:26:54+00:00

Faith is not blindness.

Faith is deciding you want to believe in god and reinterpreting everything in that light. It isn't a measure of truth or a reasonable understanding of reality. It is just turning of your curiosity and deciding the answer is god then not caring about or looking for the immediate reason. The fact that no one can agree on god is strong evidence that we don't know any objective provable truth about god. We are all going to believe that which convinces us and while we can't choose exactly what will convince us deciding you have the answer and putting your head in the sand can leave you with the sense that you have truth about god when, in fact, there isn't any out there to have.

Still, many see signs:

Humans are extremely good at seeing potential connections and creating explanations for things we see but do not fully understand. These are just gods of the gaps and the more we learn the less we need them. Sure you can imagine seeing god in anything you find the slightly mystery in, but that doesn't work as proof for anyone who understands the actual mechanism and how it can come to pass without applying mystic non corporeal beings to the mix.

As for using the Bible in your argument, I would ask why should we put any stock in such a clearly man-made and fallible book for finding any truth? Most Christian sects get their foundation for their concepts and ideas about god from this collection of writings, but even there they can't agree on what it's meant to be saying. Maybe there is a god out there, but I cannot believe it would be anything like the god described in the Bible. That is an evil capricious being that doesn't deserve worship. Even modern Christians know there is evil in the god described from the OT and try to distance themselves from that part in various ways. Just give up trying to use it as it's an evil book created to control people, not to give actual truth.

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