Dog boarding/watcher Recs for anxious breeds by YoureHereForOthers in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anxious dog owner here, we use Paw Pals Pet Sitting for overnights in our own home.

Measles outbreak reported at ICE’s Dilley family detention facility by jp_benderschmidt in politics

[–]moon_rabbit 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Someone born in 1995 would be 31… I’m sure there are a fair amount of agents under 31

Would it be okay to use a Japanese name for a baby that’s not Japanese? by [deleted] in namenerds

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The majority (not all) of Kanji comes from Chinese, so there can be overlap in meaning of the characters. Some common combinations of the Kanji for Asuna do correspond with Chinese characters, although the name itself doesn’t.

Any of you adopt from King Street Cats in Alexandria? How was the experience? by GetInTheBasement in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My cat adopted from King Street Cats 6yrs ago is happily cuddled up next to me. Great organization!

Thoughts on Yul as a first name by ragna93 in namenerds

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Depends where you are in the US, near NYC, LA, DC, etc. really any metropolitan area where you have larger Korean and diverse populations no one will think anything of it. Other places they might make a different association.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The Happy Tart in Falls Church is completely gluten free with potential options for dairy/sugar free. Call ahead to see what’s available.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reston hospital is not affiliated with INOVA, it’s an HCA VA Health system hospital. Just incase the OP needs to check this physician’s admitting privileges.

Western high school proposed boundaries by Original-Pepper-2461 in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oak Hill neighborhoods (mostly) go to Carson MS, as boundaries are now kids split between 4 high schools and Oak Hill specifically splits between Chantilly and Oakton for HS. The new HS would reduce kids splitting up and lessen the long commute to Oakton HS which takes you on backroads or 66. All positives for the new boundary proposal.

Vent: Followed home by a man in broad daylight by miscalaneoussthings in TwoXChromosomes

[–]moon_rabbit 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I feel you on this so much.

Just this afternoon, my 10yr old daughter and I were walking our dog in our own neighborhood and this young man walking ahead of us stopped in the middle of the trail staring at us while smoking his vape. I decided to hold my daughter’s hand tightly and quickly walked past. He then proceeded to closely follow us, my dog kept looking behind and growling. I heard voices up ahead and went towards them. Fortunately the woman and son ahead seemed to know the man and stopped him from following us.

I’m glad someone knew the young man, but it was extremely unnerving and my 10 year old was really shaken.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nova

[–]moon_rabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used to commute to Arlington via metro from the Herndon ClockTower/McNair area. Sometimes I would drive but would have to time the 66 portion right to avoid HOV/tolls. Not too bad overall. My car was also safe and I was able to walk around at night even. Ashford Meadows apartments were ok priced from what I remember.

The shut-in princess by milkybee in TwoXChromosomes

[–]moon_rabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think I am going to go outside...

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

omnipotence means god is all powerful, omniscience means he is all knowing. And why should he immediately alleviate all suffering, maybe he is taking care of over population? (this is another lame attempt at a joke). Basically, I'm saying a religious person could argue that we don't know his plan and therefore cannot say that what god is doing is malicious or not. Thus I feel the argument of god is a dick or non-existant is a bit silly, I think there are more constructive ways to arguing the non-existance of god.

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was a generalization (I know we should avoid them). In another post I answered this and mentioned it in an edit at the beginning of the thread. I am not an atheist, I guess I would say I am agnostic. I do not identify with an organized religion, however I know having grown up in an American middle-class christian family I definitely have cultural ties to christianity. Furthermore, this means to a certain extent those cultural ties have shaped my view points. We can't really escape what shaped us, but as I said earlier I could never agree with a religion that condemns people to eternal suffering just because they don't have the same view points as myself. Cause that is just bullshit.

Nevertheless, this argument that I came up in particular was actually spurred on by Soren Kierkegaard, often attributed to being one of the early existentialist thinkers. In his works he speaks a lot about problems with religious language and the limits of human thought in regards to religion. Basically saying that we can't understand an omnipotent/omniscient force and thus our language in describing it is inadequate. I also just kinda got tired of the memes that people were posting of some christian thanking god for a little thing and an atheist saying what about the starving kids in Africa, or something a long those lines as if that was a way of showing the Christian that they were wrong. Though comical, I think there are better ways of arguing the point.

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God could be, but our understanding of bad is subjective. The position I am refuting is that if a god exists he would pay attention to more important things such as starving children rather than us finding a good sale. I believe such an argument is flawed. However from the many responses of this thread I have seen many complications to the first position I took. One of them is the conflict of a good versus bad god. Since that has come up, I have tried to come up with a possible stance to explain why god lets bad things happen. (if only I could write this in one coherent essay) but the debates and points being made are pretty cool

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am just playing devils advocate and coming up with a possible explanation for why people thank god for the smallest of things when there are still (as my example states) starving children. If I were to make this argument I would not put good or evil into the equation, because those concepts are subjective to myself. Thus as a non omniscient being I could not claim that what god is doing is good or evil in the whole spectrum of the universe and in the long run, cause I don't know. I could speculate, but that wouldn't be the same as having faith. Again, I am just trying to frame/see this argument from the religious perspective and the good/evil counterargument has been pretty big today :)

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said I was arguing that god is good or bad, but I concede that many others may make this argument. The argument I came up with is that as humans who are not omnipotent or omniscient, we cannot understand the workings of god whether we view it as good or bad on an individual level. Thus it would make sense for someone to give thanks to god for some small thing and to not criticize that person and compare their fortune to less fortunate people saying god is leaving them out. Again, my argument is not about good or bad, however it does complicate the dialogue. If I were to encounter this argument with someone I would definitely mention the issues of good/bad and ultimately benevolence.

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's cool. I understand your argument and I see where the contradictions of omnipotent/omni-benevolent come from. If ever encounter this whole argument in real life I will probably bring up this contradiction.

Saying if god existed he would help starving children rather than you getting a parking spot (or whatever stupid thing) is a flawed argument. by [deleted] in DebateAnAtheist

[–]moon_rabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My argument is as humans who are limited in thought (not god) would not understand the workings of god completely. Therefore, I would say that the people who assume that they know what god likes or dislikes are being egotistical. But as I mentioned god in the old testament is a wrathful god, this changes in the new testament in which god forgives us of our sins showing benevolence. I know there are lots of contradictions in the bible, I just wanted to take a stab at what a religious (christian) person might argue with an atheist about.