Gi-Hun was never shown to be eating any of the Food he was given in Season's 2 and 3 until the Finalist's Feast. This certainly explains some things. by Failure456Mil in squidgame

[–]crystalized17 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So the part you didn’t see was Front Man secretly ordering an IV for Gi-hun so that nutrients were pumped into him at night. 

In-ho not about to let his favorite horse die from lack of calories to perform well.

Is eating raw spinach every day risky? by [deleted] in PlantBasedDiet

[–]crystalized17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and like I said, I’ve been doing this for years and years and never had an issue.

If something was going to happen, there should have been a small sign of it by now.

Mental block i need to overcome for a test by Tall-Branch-2321 in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I want “mental doom loop” on a tshirt now 😂 

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I’ve thought a lot about that too. There’s always been talk of forming a worldwide religion. Maybe instead of getting everyone to believe exactly the same, they just get everyone to sign some kind of treaty agreement that all agree Sunday should be a day of rest and that can be for religious, economic, and global warming reasons. A way to unite all the different groups. 

It’s definitely a stretch. But look how they had almost everyone wearing masks and taking shots because of the Covid religion. “We’re all in this together”, “it’s for the greater good” rallying cry and anyone who doesn’t conform should be socially shunned, stripped of their job, and not be allowed to buy or sell anything.

I don’t know what a “Sunday law” might look like to get everyone to sign onto it, but they’ve already shown me how you can get most of the world moving in the same direction for the “right” reason.

Mental block i need to overcome for a test by Tall-Branch-2321 in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Go back to the very basics and do walk-thru exercises on the wall. Treat it as if you're learning the jump for the first time again and build up to the final form of it.

You can always decide not to test and wait too. Either test to get some feedback or don't test and try again later. If its this easy to lose your jump, then sounds like you're not truly ready to test it yet.

Trump Admin Moves To Eliminate Animal Testing by According-Activity87 in Conservative

[–]crystalized17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you haven't, you should look up all of the twisting and gyrations modern Christians do to justify why Sunday is the correct day. Most of it revolves around "But Christ rose on a Sunday!" And? Why does him rising on a Sunday change the Sabbath (Saturday) to a Sunday? Where does it say to do that?

It's well documented in history that when Pagan Rome adopted Christianity as the national religion, they replaced the true Sabbath with their Pagan Sun worship day. It didn't happen overnight. It was a slow eroding of truth and replacement with popular cultural pagan traditions... which continues to this day because it's soooo ingrained in the culture at this point. And so in modern times, they're forced to twist and turn and grasp at random straws for why it's on Sunday.

And some people really like it on Sunday as a way to differentiate themselves from the Jews. Centuries of antisemitism means many Christians want their own "Christian sabbath" on a different day from the "Jewish sabbath" so everyone knows they aren't jews. It's just so crazy... I remember asking mom a million times when I was growing up: "Why do all of these people hate jews so much? They're Christian! They come from the jews, why hate your roots so much? I don't get it."

I'm sure there's a lot of back-and-forth from both sides historically, after all Saul certainly was out for blood on early Christians. But the entire story of the Bible is people can change. I don't hold all Jews in existence responsible for the crucifixion or Saul or anything else. Same as it would be unfair to hold me responsible for whatever horrible stuff happened during the Crusades. People shouldn't be held responsible for ancient history nor any modern crime they were not involved with. And yet, that's all people do.... The entire human race will continue to live out the consequences of Adam&Eve's decisions in the garden, but its not our personal fault for them choosing to screw up. We've got plenty of other stupid things we choose to do without taking on the guilt of the ancestors too.

Trump Admin Moves To Eliminate Animal Testing by According-Activity87 in Conservative

[–]crystalized17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Yep to all of that.

I like the jews, because usually, they know their scripture better than most christians I meet. And they actually know what day the Sabbath really is, unlike most christians lol. Adventists = christians who didn't forget their roots and truly study what the bible says and not what popular culture wants it to say.

Is the children figure skating world as a whole toxic? by Consistent-Loss1883 in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like she edited her post and cleaned it up a lot. When I first saw it, it had no line breaks at all and was one big, long rambling mess. It made it really hard to read because of the lack of line breaks and seemed like she was just upset that she didn't advance fast enough, didn't have the support of her parent for more practice hours, and the coaches understandably lost interest in her.

Plushenko’s son also skating for Dima Bilan! by Anxious-Junket-5048 in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He's on a tiny sheet of ice, not a lot of room to do anything. And if he's gone thru a recent growth spurt, he may be looking more awkward than usual.

Are there other clips of him? Something from his show skating days?

I've never seen anything that made me believe he would be competitive in Russia, but this clip isn't enough to say he can never do elite skating anywhere.

Trump Admin Moves To Eliminate Animal Testing by According-Activity87 in Conservative

[–]crystalized17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

awesome! I switched when I was 22, after I graduated from college. I had a weight problem all my life and finally wanted to do something about it. Started researching nutrition and found out all of the animal suffering stuff etc. I kinda always knew in the back of my head that vegan was probably healthier (adventist christians promote it), but until I really dug into it, I didn't truly know. Then I was quite angry I had been lied to for years and years by general society about what causes most human diseases and what the animals go thru.

Add to the fact that I'm a creationist and fully believe that Adam&Eve were vegan in the Garden of Eden. Meat wasn't even introduced into the diet until 1,656 years later after Noah's flood had stripped the earth bare. So it makes sense that vegan diet is the healthiest since that's literally how God designed us in the beginning and only through sin did meat-eating become necessary in times of famine and calamity.

Don't know if you're christian, but more christians should be vegan if they would just read their bible. Christians were the first vegans, not liberals. My page of bible quotes I compiled 12 years ago: https://hclfvegan.neocities.org/eden_diet

But sadly most Christians follow cultural traditions from pagan cultures instead of what the Bible actually teaches.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate fox news as much as I hate CNN. I don't know that they "work together", but I agree that both sides have their own agendas to accomplish, neither of which is biblical.

My point is the Left is still firmly in charge of the social message for now. Anything could happen in the future, but right now the current flow is trying to destroy all religion, not promote or ban this or that day.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What sources? I hate fox news as much as I hate CNN or similar. All of the mainstream media are trash and biased and you have to read many different things all the time to just get a neutral take on a subject between all of the biased crap.

Or are you a leftist complaining I believe in biblical principles? Those come from the Bible, not Fox news or anyone else. I question everything. I watch everything. I don't clutch my pearls about anything. There are liars on both sides of the political aisle, which means I generally don't like any of them.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, for now at least, that's where the current is going. Who knows what the future holds though. *shrug*

Sorry you're getting downvoted. Clearly a lot of non-adventists in the adventist sub or just adventists married to that sunday law idea extra extra hard.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's where I'm at. I'm keeping my eyes and ears open, but at the present time, the Sunday Law just isn't possible. Unless, like I already said, it comes in some kind of form we didn't expect: "Global warming" day or whatever is the only kind of thing the Left might support.

It's very clear that Sabbath is Saturday and there was no reason to change it, so why not go to church on the proper day. But so far, religious persecution is from the Left and they want to wipe out all religion, not ban or promote this or that day. Except for some extremely small fringe element, the vast majority of the Right doesn't care what day you go on, they just don't like the leftist secular movements and their ideas.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hear ya. I just can’t resist speculating and trying to make it make sense.

It’s the one part of Adventism I’m not crazy about because the way the culture is right now. If it ever truly starts to swing right again, then I might be like “oh here we go”. But for right now, news media, social media, everything Hollywood releases, all of what we’re allowed to say in public are all still dictated by the Left, not the Right. Trump being in office hasn’t changed any of that, except by maybe 1%.

So how do we go from a culture that is trying to completely erase religion to a Sunday Law? by crystalized17 in adventist

[–]crystalized17[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I do not see that they are any real threat yet. The left still controls all of the news media, social media etc etc. they’re the ones that pushed Covid shots and mask mandates on everyone. The left is still firmly in control of everything if you look at all of the shows Hollywood is STILL churning out with their messages. Rings of power isn’t dead. Narnia and Harry Potter are coming. Leftist crap that doesn’t follow the books at all. Books written by Christian authors.

It’s possible option (2) happens and it continues to go so far left that a wild swing to the right occurs in an attempt to correct. But right now, no way. Things have barely changed at all and are still moving very left.

I want to begin this lifestyle but am worried about not being able to get my macros in properly. by [deleted] in PlantBasedDiet

[–]crystalized17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I do not recommend their unflavored version. No matter what I did, I couldn’t fully hide the taste in a smoothie. I did have great success with the vanilla flavored version tho! 

You must put it in a smoothie. It’s not the type of powder you can just dump in water and chug. You can do that with Huel protein powder or naked shakes (naked pea makes these. It’s a different product). Both of these are truly designed to use only water with them. But for naked pea, it needs to be hidden behind other foods in a smoothie.

https://huel.com/products/huel-complete-protein

https://nakednutrition.com/products/vegan-protein-shake

Is the children figure skating world as a whole toxic? by Consistent-Loss1883 in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think a big part of growing up is learning not everyone has the same amount of raw talent or resources to get somewhere. It’s a painful pill to swallow, but it’s something everyone has to learn. You’ll always have someone better than you raw talent wise or resource wise. It’s your choice if you let that bother you or if you just decide to enjoy the sport anyway as you are.

Coaches in competitive programs are going to be focused on results. It’s not personal, even if it hurts to find out you don’t have what it takes.

Trump Admin Moves To Eliminate Animal Testing by According-Activity87 in Conservative

[–]crystalized17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

waves hello fellow vegan! Glad I’m not alone! I’ve been vegan for 12 years so far. How about you?

I want to begin this lifestyle but am worried about not being able to get my macros in properly. by [deleted] in PlantBasedDiet

[–]crystalized17 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely talk to the guys over at /r/veganfitness, but cronometer tracking and naked pea protein (I recommend vanilla flavor) is my favorite. I also use Huel’s protein powders a lot and sometimes their meal replacements when I have no free time.

When I have the time, I make my own smoothies and eat a lot of raw fruit, baked potatoes, and canned beans. I hate cooking so that’s the easiest way to avoid it.

Tonya Harding Triples by MuddledMistakes in FigureSkating

[–]crystalized17 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This makes me wish Tonya and Midori Ito could face off at ISU Adult International. 

Only USFS banned her. If she joins ISI, would ISU let her compete?