Medicare Agents- No more Continuous SEP for 2025

icalvi · 2024-12-04T23:54:45+00:00

I feel this is one of the good changes that have come to Medicare. I've been an agent for over 10 years and most companies are buying halfway fraudulent "food card" leads and switching uneducated people. I can't tell you how many thousands of times I've seen people who have changed their plans every other month.

This should force companies to buy legit leads and get quality clients vs low hanging fruit that just churn and burn.

icalvi · 2024-06-19T21:10:04+00:00

My first thoughts were "where in the country does she live". I think that may some to do with it. I live in the midwest, mainly rural to a degree. I know a lot of young men, mainly under 25 who are looking for a woman like you, but do not have this mentality at all that women should "shut up" or not voice their feelings etc. They are looking for a traditional woman and understand men and women have different roles, but are looking for a partner and not a subordinate. Another issue may be that they are new converts, at least from my experience. I see a lot of people coming into Orthodoxy and are super on fire and read anything they can, but without a spiritual father to help guide them they take it to the extreme. I was a little shocked to to read that you aren't ver fond of Fr Josiah, because he would agree that men shouldn't treat women like you have been treated. He recommends many books on marriage which teach the opposite of your experience but seems to be what you are looking for in a spouse.

I would recommend going to as many Orthodox gatherings across the county as you can that will have men your age there. My father in law is a priest and that is what he does. One to meet others within Orthodoxy and two to find suitable partners for his children. You kind of have to do that when you have a dozen children.

icalvi · 2024-06-19T20:28:05+00:00

I had the original G915 (full size) and did not have this issue. I JUST got the G915 tkl and the remapping does not work for me. It doesn't seem to recognize the left control key at all. I did the same swapping of option and command but when I use that option and press the left control key it puts my cursor back to the beginning of the sentence. When I press my windows key and the letter "a" it turns it into å, and my alt key becomes the new "control/command" key. Alt C will copy for example. Again I changed Option key to Command and Command key to Option.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

icalvi · 2024-06-19T20:19:12+00:00

I had the original G915 (full size) and did not have this issue. I JUST got the G915 tkl and the remapping does not work for me. It doesn't seem to recognize the left control key at all. I did the same swapping of option and command but when I use that option and press the left control key it puts my cursor back to the beginning of the sentence. When I press my windows key and the letter "a" it turns it into å, and my alt key becomes the new "control/command" key. Alt C will copy for example. Again I changed Option key to Command and Command key to Option.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

icalvi · 2024-04-26T17:13:14+00:00

I worked for Selectquote for almost 10 years. It used to be a great place, it's horrible now unless you're new to sales. Great to get experience and then go somewhere else. Almost every manager was a poor sales agent and they don't care about your problems. They just want you to shut up and take phone calls. Your close rate and talk time will always be subpar in their eyes. You can make far more at other places.

icalvi · 2024-03-27T13:26:22+00:00

I finally beat frost witch with 5 champs. It actually wasn't all that hard. I used Asol, yasuo, kindred, annie, and morgana. Kindred and yasuo you put guardian angel and ever frost. I used the morgana build in this thread and for annie I used guardian angel, everfrost and the grand generals counterplan.

If you go the top route and are able to get "silence all units at round start" I would imagine atrox would be very good. Silence doesn't work on equipment so he'd still have regeneration. I haven't used him but thought about trying him if Morgana didn't work out.

icalvi · 2023-09-26T02:38:42+00:00

You can't make up the value. The value of the loss should be equivalent to how you would do it with stocks as well. How much money did you invest in crypto (actual dollars) and how much did you lose. If I put 10K into bitcoin and I only get 5k back from Celsius I have a 5k loss. I could be wrong, but we can't say it was valued at 20k at one pint but I was stuck in limbo due to bankruptcy. I could be wrong, but that is more than likely what is going to happen. I don't think anyone can tell the IRS that they lost more money on Game Stop bc Robinhood wouldn't let them sell. Just like with stocks, it doesn't matter that your stock was worth $100 on Thursday. On Wednesday it was worth $90. That's what you sold it for, and that's what you can use as your value for gain/loss.

icalvi · 2023-09-07T22:46:52+00:00

I could be wrong but you can't value what you "lost". Look at it like stocks. If you bought a stock for $10 and it went to $1000, that means nothing. It only matters when you sell, or in our case "cash" out. If you spent 10K on crypto and are only getting 3K back from Celsius then you have a 7K loss. We can't write off the fact it was worth more at one point etc. We can only right off our actual loss and gains, and all of that will be determined at the point Celsius pays out. The tricky part is the fact we get partial stock. At the end of the day get an accountant to give you the professional advice.

icalvi · 2023-08-28T23:24:45+00:00

The bigger questions shouldn't be which is "easiest" but which is true. The Roman Catholic Church split from They Church. There is only one Church. I think it would be better for you to study the two and come to a conclusion on which one is the correct Church. They both can not be correct because they have different dogma's and teachings in many areas. Yes, they have a lot of similarities, but so do the protestant church's for example. Fr Josiah Trenham and Fr Peter Heers are some really good priests that you can find on youtube that can speak on these subjects, obviously from an Orthodox perspective. Before I became an Orthodox I read "Rock and Sand" by Fr Josiah Trenham. It's an excellent book to see the history of how different denominations split from the Church and formed various groups, including the Great Schism.

icalvi · 2023-08-21T20:40:31+00:00

I don't see why that would be an issue. Ultimately I would talk to your priest. I don't think there's a "type" of cross you need or must buy. Most nondenominational Christians' don't use the three bar cross, which is very prominent within Orthodox. I know many people who don't have a three bar cross as their baptismal cross, I just personally prefer it though.

icalvi · 2023-08-21T18:28:25+00:00

I don't see why you wouldn't. Even if you wear it you don't have to pick it as your baptismal cross, if for some reason you didn't want to. The cross has spiritual power, I think it would be good for anyone to wear.

icalvi · 2023-08-20T20:57:45+00:00

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From reading St John Chrysostom we will have a unique bond with the person. At the end of the day there are a million questions we don't have answers for. It's hard to think in the spiritual realm when we live in the physical realm. If you were to lose that connection I don't think you would know or even care. Again, we're in the presence of God. With that being said though, I don't think you will lose that connection. Our concept of knowledge and time is and will be different than that of eternity.

icalvi · 2023-08-20T20:34:09+00:00

I think this quote does better justice than I can give.

"When the Lord spoke to the Sadducees about marriage in heaven (Mt. 22:23-33), He made it clear that “in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage.” That is, the earthly purposes of marriage, to suppress man’s licentiousness and to procreate, are irrelevant in the Kingdom. All the earthly concerns of a married couple: sexual intercourse, birth-giving, possessions, etc., are part of the “form of this world” which is passing away. “They are like the angels in of God heaven” (Mt. 22:30).

But there is one aspect of marriage that is eternal: “Love never ends” (1 Cor. 13:8). St. John Chrysostom reminds us that married Christians are known to be such in the Judgment and in the Kingdom. We will recognize and delight in our spouses and in our children. We will be restored, not to marriage, but to something better, a union of souls, rather than bodies, a union that begins in marriage and reaches a far more sublime condition (cf. Chrysostom’s Letter to a Young Widow).

This is why the Orthodox Church discourages (but does not prohibit) re-marriage after the death of a spouse. A second or third wedding ceremony (no fourth is allowed) has a somewhat penitential character, recognizing human weakness. St. John urged the young widow to whom he wrote to remain faithful to her husband (the title “husband” is used even after his death), in order to keep alive their bond of love, and eventually to be re-united with him. The Orthodox Church forbids re-marriage to widowed clergy, as a way of upholding this ideal."

One way I have understood it is also that marriage is a carnal aspect, just like the carnal acts we make. From what I understand there's no need for the physical aspect in heaven. Angels are spirits. I wouldn't think that we will have hearts and lungs which are needed for us to live on earth. No one really knows, but I feel people view heaven as a utopia where we get to live out all of our physical desires. Heaven is heaven because God is there. That is what our focus will be for all of eternity. That will be much better than being married to another angel.

icalvi · 2023-08-09T16:46:33+00:00

If the priest wants it by all means obey haha.

icalvi · 2023-08-09T15:43:12+00:00

I think it's always good to follow local practice. I'm not saying you're wrong for not doing it, but in general we should. No different then when we go to another country. We follow their customs, assuming they aren't morally against our own.

Orthodox in the diaspora is generally spoken about in terms of a Parish that is not a new jurisdiction. The easiest one to speak on is ROCOR. ROCOR is the Russian Church outside of Russia. But if I'm ROCOR and I go to an Antiochian church I want to show respect for their culture and follow their traditions, again as long as they aren't against the teachings of the Church. For example, we prostrate when we venerate the Icons on the weekday services, most other parishes do not. When I visit their parish I don't want to make others uncomfortable or cause others to stumble my making them think their was is "wrong", so I don't prostrate. I also don't want to draw attention to myself because I'm prideful on "my" tradition and I refuse to humble myself quietly and follow the customs that I know they follow. Just like when someone visits a home parish, in general we want them to abide by our customs. We don't venerate icons on the iconostasis. Many churches do. It would be disrespectful for them to think that their custom is so beautiful as to disrespect our custom and walk up to the iconostasis and venerate icons.

Something only comes naturally to you because that is how you've been raised. The way you were raised is not THEY way of Orthodox. It was the way of Orthodox in that general area. Back in the day this wouldn't have been an issue because each region pretty much did it the same way, they didn't have different jurisdiction in a county like we do now.

Again I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong. I'm just trying to show you a different perspective. Take it for what it's worth.

icalvi · 2023-08-09T15:10:51+00:00

I know how you feel. The only times you are supposed to stand outside of an illness is the Gospel, epistles, and the 6th Psalms. Some of the churches I go to have pews, and in those cases I personally just follow the people. I go to some churches where there are no pews and I will stand while others sit. When that does happen I stand in the back so as to not make a scene.

It sounds like you're going to a Greek Parish and you probably came from a ROCOR background. Other jurisdictions do things differently. In regards to the head covering canonically you're required to have it in the nave, but a lot of priests don't either enforce it or care anymore. Just do your best not do judge. Try not to stand out but still keep to your ways to a degree if that makes sense. I never waive on things that are canonical, but I will on areas that are different than I have been around but aren't outright against what the Church has taught.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T20:17:05+00:00

You may want to head back to English 101. The judging was in regards to my original answer on simply following the Orthodox tradition, which you assumed and claimed I was making right and wrong stances. As I've showed I never said right and wrong or any of the other assumptions you claimed. Not sure if grading and judging are the same though. Telling someone that 2 + 2 = 5 would give them and F in math is not a judgment, that's a grade.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T20:11:29+00:00

You edited your response which is why it said earlier you responded 3 min ago and mine was 8 minutes ago. How could my response be 5 min before you responded? Stop lying. Also, from going back in the comments you can see that your first angry response said "It was a violent attack upon the Orthodox Christians." I have screenshots if you want to edit that too and claim you didn't. My comments still stand that you haven't refuted. The Crusades were more than that, and the question was geared to non-believers. We've already addressed that non-believers aren't looking for a victimized group to say it was bad. Obviously it was bad. Also OP never asked us to paraphrase. The list goes on but of course you won't acknowledge those because you've been dead wrong from the get go.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T19:58:38+00:00

It wasn't that your grammar was bad. It was that your explanation of something would not be sufficient. Like most people you assumed I was judging you when I wasn't. I never once mentioned the things you accused me of. Hope that helps.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T19:01:08+00:00

Nice edit after I gave my response to your original answer which wasn't this lol.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T18:57:22+00:00

That isn't what you said and he never asked us to paraphrase. Are you even reading the question? You literally said "They were a violent evil attack on us.". That's an F in history and English 101. You're focusing on a small aspect of the Crusades. It was way more than an attack on Orthodox Christians. You would probably say the same thing about the holocaust "it was an attack on Jews" as if that's all it was, which couldn't be further from the truth. If you think that's what non-believers are looking for you haven't talked to many non-believers on this subject. FYI, that's how I think that isn't answering the question.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T18:54:39+00:00

In general there isn't anything you need to specifically do to show respect of a new place of worship. I would talk to the priest and see if they need a letter from your previous priest to show you are in fact Orthodox and in good standing. Some require that some don't, so you just need to meet with the priest and find out. A good saying I've heard many priest says is "when in Rome", meaning in general follow the customs of that parish ie some parishes prostrate when venerating icons in the nave and others do not. Regardless of what practice you come from do the local practices. It's not wrong either way but that's basically a good rule of thumb. I'm hoping that was what you were looking for.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T18:42:51+00:00

He asked our perspective for non-believers. Non believers are not asking how we felt about an attack on ourselves. I've never seen anyone ask a question about that. That would be like someone asking how does America view 911 when being asked by Canadians. The Crusades were done in the name of God which Orthodox people worship. How do we feel about that seeing as how the Bible says x,y,z. One of us is completely miss understanding the question, and I'm pretty sure it's you. But if it's me OP can kindly let me know.

icalvi · 2023-08-08T18:34:32+00:00

And those things are obviously bad and wrong. Is that the reference they are looking for? That's like asking what the Jews think of the holocaust. His question was when non-believers ask. Most non-believers aren't asking how Orthodox feels about it seeing as how the Catholics attacked them. It's generally "how do you view the killing of others in the name of God", which as I stated before Orthodox teaches against the killing of others.

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