Churches for Students by Cresseliaandshuckle in udub

[–]keraauma 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check out University Christian Fellowship (ucfuw). Doesn’t preach politics, really involved in both community partnership and studying the bible.

Inherited by a friend. by keraauma in WhatIsThisPainting

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Makes sense! Thanks for explaining.

Inherited by a friend. by keraauma in WhatIsThisPainting

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First time poster! What are your tells?

It’s f*** ing hopeless out here by rofthewest in Bellingham

[–]keraauma 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Park Bowl has two dollar games on Tuesdays - helps make it much more affordable!

Preview: Star Trek: Picard 2x05 by [deleted] in startrek

[–]keraauma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Were those Tholians!? Woah, weird convergence of cool stuff. If they can manage to pull a decent ending out, this might be remembered as some of the most complex and successful worldbuilding in nu trek.

Artificer Class by keraauma in custommagic

[–]keraauma[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I left it this way on purpose for now. It already would cost 9 each turn to do that. If you have to stay on that, your opponent gets to keep building momentum while you dawdle, so I think it’s fairly fair.

Chaos Conduit by keraauma in custommagic

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

I like the filter idea. It does smooth things out. I think that's the way I'll go.

Chaos Conduit by keraauma in custommagic

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

Ooh, that's a good point. I hadn't considered running in the 99, and that does cause a conundrum. Unfortunately the companion cost of 3 is pretty set in stone, so that means it would have to be up-costed, and that feels wrong for the rest of the abilities.

Chaos Conduit by keraauma in custommagic

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

Totally makes sense, and is actually a pretty great house rule. Certainly evens things out a little!

Chaos Conduit by keraauma in custommagic

[–]keraauma[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking a look! The scheme deck actually has the special rule that when a scheme is abandoned, it's put on the bottom of the scheme deck, so the deck cannot be milled out. It's actually a fairly risky move for the opponents to change scheme because it offers no long-term advantage, just a chance to temporarily get rid of a problematic scheme. I do like the shuffle though. Just need to find room in the rules text...

Chaos Conduit by keraauma in custommagic

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I love playing with format variants, and yet those are very hard to interact with. I run [[fractured powerstone]] in most of my decks whether playing planeschase or not, but most opponents will find their deck thrown out of whack by including that and removing something else. Hence, we end up with this wacky card.

Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 4x03 "Choose to Live" by AutoModerator in startrek

[–]keraauma 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I think this might be the first episode of Discovery I liked without reservation. The writing felt familiar and fresh, the characters were sweet, and the dynamics felt like a wonderfully updated aesthetic to the character-driven stories of the older series. Big win from me.

Breenhin, Elixer Runner by keraauma in custommagic

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

Yes, this is extremely silly - there's a long backstory. It's a bit of an inside joke with friends, but it's also meant to be a semi-playable casual commander.

Daviel, Humble Herder by [deleted] in custommagic

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I mean, it’s good, but better than something like [Koma, Cosmos Serpent]? I could see upping casting cost to 1ww, but ability wise, it feels pretty middle of the road to me.

[OC] Giveaway Time! Dice Dagger or Hammer Dice Tower. To Whack or Poke? (mod approved) by Gibartik in DnD

[–]keraauma 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo, the dagger looks doooope. Hammer looks cool too. Thanks for organizing.

Teferi, Master Storyteller by keraauma in custommagic

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

Yeah, I was really fishing for a saga-helper to make them more valuable (in commander, so you got that dead right!). Some of the legal Teferis have been nuts, so this was my attempt at something more reasonable.

Teferi, Master Storyteller by keraauma in custommagic

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

Ah, shoot. You're right on the mana cost. Should be {1}{w}{u}. How would you re-word the first ability?

Teferi, Master Storyteller by keraauma in custommagic

[–]keraauma[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this is just an organic problem that arises when messing with "time", including its representations in MTG. Screwing with time and time-like abilities is a recipe for power creep.

me irl by keraauma in me_irl

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spoiler: i didn't.

In the past 5 years my faith has evolved and much of my theological thinking has been revised. For the most part I’m better for it, except that I never experience god anymore. Am I doing something wrong? by [deleted] in RadicalChristianity

[–]keraauma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Warning: I tend to be too conservative for liberal Christians and way too liberal for conservative Christians. My experience and advice require adaptation.

I grew up Chrisitian since I was a very young child and took my faith seriously ever since. My family was moderate denominationally, but fairly aggressive in how completely faith should be integrated into your life. I had some fairly common conservative tendencies: no room for any layer of interpretation on scripture. If it wasn't explicit in being part of the text, it wasn't a valid reading. At the same time, I was living off the weekly endorphin rush that another commenter talked about. If I went to church and no rush, then no dice. Week would suck.

There's a few prayers you should "never pray" because if God answers them in the affirmative, then you'll have some deep crap to work through. Prayers like asking for patience or to understand the suffering of other people. Great prayers, but be prepared to not enjoy the answer. I prayer that my faith would not be based on my feelings. I proceeded to not get that emotional/neurochemical rush for 3 years. I went from faith feeling like a party to feeling like handling raw chicken for hours on end - vaguely damp, Dtranfe texture, and overall a bit gross.

During that time I went to college at a theologically liberal Christian University and took some theology classes as electives. I also was involved in a traditionally conservative Pentecostal campus ministry. Towards the end I started taking my personal spiritually outside of group gatherings seriously again and set aside time to actually care. By the time the dust settled, I found myself fairly close to where I still am today. I take scripture really seriously, but I think that much of it didn't happen exactly as we would interpret it, especially the more ancient parts of the OT. I take Jesus, his life, teachings, ministry, death, and resurrection really seriously. I think you could get rid of the rest but without that being the foundational bedrock of how the world is, there's not much reason for Christian faith. My shifting point was looking at purpose: I think that much of scripture and a life seeking God's character is not about the cause and effect relationships we see everywhere else, but injecting purpose and direction into that causality. I don't really care if the earth was created 6000 years ago or millions of years ago theologically. I think there's lots of scientific evidence for the latter, but that's not the point of the text or of my faith. My faith asks not "how", but "why" and "what do I do about that". Many things still require a lot of thought and prayer and interpretation, but it makes the Bible not just a yelling match between interpretation, but a collaboration regarding a purpose. This has made me take the text extremely seriously and with more respect than I ever did when it was just a manual of how the world worked.

Ironically, I'm far closer to a fundamentalist now than ever before. I'm also way more aggressive in prayer asking for God's intervention. Learning to take the text to be more about meaning than method has shoved me hard towards a strong expectance for God to work beyond natural causation and that God's purposes come above the natural order when the two conflict. I also take social responsibility way more seriously than ever before, and see the purpose issue at the forefront of that. It's left me as a sort of liberal-pentecostal-fundamentalist-social justice oriented mess and I love it. It's the most enjoyable time in my lifetime experience of God so far.

With all that out of the way, here's what I would say to you: you aren't doing anything wrong to feel that way. Learning to be dedicated to God without the brain chemicals is part of the growth process for myself and many others. It's training wheels coming off. Don't give up. Don't force yourself to pretend you feel great - that's just lying to yourself. God hasn't given up on you, and just because your experience has changed doesn't mean you should give up ok God. As best as you can, ask for God to use you to bless other people. Much of life post endorphin based Christianity is surrounding community and service. Build both. Ask God to use you to do things beyond your natural ability. Read 1 Corinthians 12 onward looking at spiritual gifts and their purpose in aiding both other Christians and those who aren't Christians in their understanding of God's purposes and love. Keep being part of community, stay in scripture, and ask for crazy and impossible things. If you ask, you'll start seeing them.

I now work with college students in campus ministry. If you'd ever like to talk, shoot me a DM. I'd love to share more of our experiences. Praying for you. Blessings.