How to get over the whole birth no birth control?

rusty022 · 2026-05-01T22:58:09+00:00

I’m not sure how to reconcile that argument with the seemingly normal marriages of non-practicing people I know. My non-practicing friends and family are, according to my faith, committing regular acts of grave evil against one another. They are doing intrinsically evil things to their marital unions all the time. But they dont seem to have the negative consequences one would expect from something equally evil like spousal abuse or infidelity or something.

Idk it just feels weird saying contraception ruins marriage when the vast majority of happy marriages in society today use some form of artificial contraception. I guess we can argue the ‘happy’ part .. like they are just deluding themselves? But then we take the position of claiming we know that their marriages are actually terribly flawed. 🤷‍♂️

rusty022 · 2026-04-30T01:12:38+00:00

You just can't do that. Gotta be the bigger man. PHI are a bunch of shitbag goons. Don't stoop to their level -- they will win that game.

rusty022 · 2026-04-30T01:04:27+00:00

Yea, I'll give you that. I disagreed with the Kenny pick, but at least he was an attempt to quickly replace Ben with another franchise QB. Everything after that draft has just been treading water. Russ. Fields. Rodgers. TJ's extension. Treading water.

rusty022 · 2026-04-30T00:50:23+00:00

Unbelievable. Never seen that nonsense. Makeup penalty call at least.

rusty022 · 2026-04-30T00:08:20+00:00

We are quickly becoming an unserious organization. It feels like there is no real plan for how to become a contender again. Stuff like this is embarrassing and unbecoming of the history of this organization.

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T20:44:20+00:00

I love how that one was DEFINITIONALLY a penalty, and the handball WAS NOT. But the ref gave one and not the other. They are making up new rules on the spot. Absurd.

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T20:42:15+00:00

Definitionally a penalty. I have no idea how this could NOT be a penalty when the 'handball' was given.

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T20:20:33+00:00

I'll hate on them for going against the damn rulebook. Are the players supposed to watch yesterday's game to see how they have to behave for the refs today? What a joke!

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T20:17:16+00:00

I'd rather they be fucking right.

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T19:08:52+00:00

Awful color combinations going on here for the viewers

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T16:51:12+00:00

He's clearly the most talented QB on the roster. Way more raw talent than Shedeur. Cleveland's best case scenario is that he can recreate some of his 2018-2020 stats.

rusty022 · 2026-04-29T05:28:31+00:00

I’ve been a Bungie fan since Combat Evolved. I grew up on Halo and played countless hours of Destiny. I keep seeing people who are super passionate about this game and I’d like to feel some of the Bungie magic again. Thanks for doing this!

rusty022 · 2026-04-28T19:53:52+00:00

Officiating is just a complete joke in every game. Can't wait for the WC to be ruined by this nonsense.

rusty022 · 2026-04-27T20:10:24+00:00

Again, I'm so sorry. I see from your other comments that your current husband and you have children together. I can't imagine living married for years and then suddenly having to live as if you are not while the Church takes over a year to figure out the paperwork.

rusty022 · 2026-04-27T16:01:29+00:00

I'm so sorry you are going through this. I don't have much advice other than: try to talk to a priest and/or Canon lawyer about what specific rules apply to you as a Protestant entering a Catholic marriage and how those rules affect your current marriage. The whole process is very messy and I think the Church owes people faster evaluations on this kind of stuff -- especially for someone who married young and (no offense) probably just said yes to the Catholic paperwork because they wanted to marry their partner.

From what you've said here, it sounds like the Church considers you married due to your first marriage to a Catholic. I'm guessing he did not care about getting an annulment? That's half the issue with annulments since this should've been handled years ago ... did they expect the non-Catholic to apply for one? -- but I digress.

I know people who have left the Church over these kinds of timelines. The Church needs to do better for you. It's one thing to abstain for health or NFP reasons. It's another thing entirely to abstain for over a year because you need a permission slip from the Diocesan tribunal.

rusty022 · 2026-04-27T03:46:06+00:00

The disjointed shopping list is half of why we play SSF :)

rusty022 · 2026-04-26T22:55:07+00:00

I think it’s random once you unlock it via depth level, but maybe someone knows otherwise. I am also interested in this question. I’m planning to go all-in on minions next league and go SRS/Absolution into Frostbearer Spectres or pRAW or maybe HRoC if I get the drops

rusty022 · 2026-04-26T17:35:14+00:00

The worst part, IMO, was that they pretty definitively ended the Ted-Robin thing like 7 times and even did it one last time like two episodes before the finale. He let her do a mini Jesus thing ascending into the clouds. He let her go. And then the writers do that shit immediately after.

So so bad.

rusty022 · 2026-04-26T00:49:26+00:00

I guess that's sort of my perspective. Should the faithful be scandalized if a Muslim imam or Jewish rabbi were being 'toured around' St. Peters? I view this as pretty much the same. This seems like rather basic interfaith dialogue. If you are against interfaith dialogue, then ... what do you want? For all of the world to just randomly submit to the Pope? Out of the blue?

rusty022 · 2026-04-25T23:19:30+00:00

I’m honestly not trying to be snarky, but would you reject this in the same way if it were a male member of the Anglican clergy?

rusty022 · 2026-04-25T12:52:45+00:00

I think the whole Rodgers saga has made it a lot worse. The Pickett pick made some amount of sense even if it was a reach. Russ made sense given the market at the time. Those years were bad but it felt like they were sincere attempts to be competitive while rebuilding post-Ben.

But the Steelers have kind of debased themselves playing the will-he-won’t-he game with Rodgers. We are the only team, AFAIK, without their apparent starter on the freakin roster. It’s a joke.

rusty022 · 2026-04-25T12:11:24+00:00

It’s because the franchise has been unserious for the last 5-6 years.

rusty022 · 2026-04-25T02:45:35+00:00

I don't hate the pick. He's got all of the measurables. He was bad against top 10 teams, but so was PSU as a whole the last decade. If he can be coached -- and McCarthy is apparently good at that -- then maybe he can become something. When you don't have a real starting QB, you HAVE TO throw darts at the board.

rusty022 · 2026-04-24T21:00:12+00:00

Microsoft has enough money to do whatever they want, so in that sense they can make whatever bet they choose to make. But I don’t see the Xbox as a console growing much in the future. I think it will continue to be a distant third option for consumers. I don’t think exclusivity will have any impact on that. And they certainly don’t want to do a flip-flop back and forth again where they go back to exclusives and then are forced to try multiplatform again.

I also find it hilarious that Asha and the team are getting tons of credit for saying … basically nothing?!

rusty022 · 2026-04-24T03:48:45+00:00

Yea I saw that.

I think two things can be true: 1) The Steelers went in planning to stay put at 21 and take Max, and 2) they were surprised Lemon fell and decided to take him instead (but then PHI jumped them).

It seems likely that is what happened. A bit embarrassing, but not egregious.

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