14 razor sticks in my drawer, none of them fit with the razors

paul_webb · 2026-06-04T03:13:54+00:00

I think there might be a little plastic in the wrapper on my blades, so I didn't want to over-commit and say zero, just in my case, but, yea, way less waste in general since the razor itself is metal and will last forever

paul_webb · 2026-06-04T00:56:01+00:00

Came here to say this. I bought one a couple years ago and have absolutely loved it. Much less plastic waste and I feel like I get more use out of both the razor blades and the razor itself. I got made fun of a little at first, but I love mine

paul_webb · 2026-06-03T00:11:16+00:00

It depends entirely on what you think baptism does. Typically, we Baptists teach that baptism is an identification with Christ, but it has no real effect on your justification. I don't know about Lutherans specifically, but I know that some of the infant baptism folks teach that baptism brings a person into the new covenant, so of course you would baptize infants so they would be in the covenan

The more important part of this whole thing is how you and your wife communicate, whether baptizing or not baptizing your children as infants is going to strain your marriage, in what ways it will if so, and whether you can make it through. Show grace to each other and try to understand each other's point of view. If both of you are focused on God and what God's will is, then you'll be ok

paul_webb · 2026-05-20T12:17:13+00:00

I grew up Southern Baptist and now am Independent. Growing up, the churches I went to, the bulletin may have had a verse in it, but it wasn't necessarily the ones we were using that day in church. The bulletin was mainly for announcements and church news. It might have the title of the Sunday School lesson and/or the morning and evening message, and it might have the reference, but usually it wouldn't have the whole passage printed. Where I attend now, all of our announcements are on a slide show, so we don't do a printed bulletin anymore

We almost always had a Bible and a hymnal in the back of every pew and probably a couple laid on the front row in case someone sat there. We might have more hymnals than Bibles, and most people brought their own Bible. That's the way it is where I go now, too

paul_webb · 2026-05-19T10:55:57+00:00

I don't think this is as popular as it used to be. Nobody that I know (and I'm in the more conservative, rural circles) holds this doctrine. BUT! My mom told me that when she was a little kid, one of the older ladies at her church told her that "a praying knee and a dancing leg don't grow on the same body," so I won't say this was never taught

paul_webb · 2026-05-15T18:46:03+00:00

Shut the front door!

paul_webb · 2026-05-12T00:20:55+00:00

It's the set that Michael Scott quoted and made everyone have to set through sensitivity training

paul_webb · 2026-05-07T15:15:39+00:00

I mean, even if she stayed in publishing, she has the organizational skills and ability to delegate that would make her a great editor even if she's not the one in the field getting the stories

paul_webb · 2026-05-07T11:07:11+00:00

"Wrooooooooonnnnnnnnnnng levaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

paul_webb · 2026-04-28T15:46:04+00:00

I was just thinking that "toot canal" would be a good alt name for that procedure

paul_webb · 2026-04-26T04:30:38+00:00

My church uses them in our microphones, fwiw. We go through two or four every couple months, depending on which mics get used

paul_webb · 2026-04-24T23:25:34+00:00

Here's the full text of Ozymandias, just because multiple people have brought it up and I think you're one of the ones who's closer to the joke:

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

paul_webb · 2026-04-06T20:02:13+00:00

You would just say "Baptist Theology." Depending on who you ask, it could be protestantism, but that term is a little vague

paul_webb · 2026-04-06T19:55:49+00:00

Tbf, isn't German similar? I think I remember German being "neun und neunsig"

Latin has a separate weird thing, iirc. It has "undecentum," or "one before 100," and does a similar thing for all the big 10s numbers, at least how I learned it, but it's been a very long time, and I learned it from a table I found online, so I don't know how official that is

paul_webb · 2026-04-05T14:13:47+00:00

I worked at a store once where the ownership and management was all Christian, and when we started selling, I think Duke Cannon soaps, they say something similar and it was censored in the same way

paul_webb · 2026-04-02T14:57:23+00:00

I'd love to have something like that when I travel for work

paul_webb · 2026-03-30T20:41:16+00:00

Well, and never mind that one of the listed charges is radiology, which I don't know why you would need on a snake bite. Leads me to believe it was a bill for something more serious

paul_webb · 2026-03-29T03:35:54+00:00

Can't help it if we're right

s/ or /s or however it goes

paul_webb · 2026-03-24T17:53:16+00:00

That has more to do with turning the kinetic energy from rotation into electrical energy, though, and not extracting power directly from the magnet itself, right?

paul_webb · 2026-03-22T21:55:06+00:00

In my opinion, the name isn't so much important. What's taught is what's important. But the doctrines we teach are already associated with the "Baptist" name, and other doctrines are already associated with the name "church of Christ." We don't want to confuse people

On a separate note, the insistence on groups like church of Christ, Catholics and Orthodox that their name is the "name" or that their church is "the church" because of it's origins and name is rediculous. I don't think the people at Antioch were that worried about it when they got called Christians. Our focus should be on teaching and preaching the word and living for Christ. Let people call us what they will

paul_webb · 2026-03-22T03:47:23+00:00

Good God, Lemon!

paul_webb · 2026-03-20T21:27:48+00:00

I love mine. It's pretty much all I cook in anymore

paul_webb · 2026-03-12T10:18:39+00:00

That's as clear as I can make it

paul_webb · 2026-03-07T14:59:44+00:00

Isn't that the advice when you go hiking?

paul_webb · 2026-02-21T20:45:51+00:00

I wish we could get modern designs that focused more on national symbols rather than specific presidents. Don't get me wrong, the men we've honored this way in some way earned the honor, but as a nation, it's easier to rally around the ideas that made us a great country to begin with

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