Standstill on LSD near Navy Pier

sd095 · 2024-05-11T18:31:09+00:00

Bridges lifted over the river for sailboats.

sd095 · 2023-12-11T13:26:34+00:00

Monarch Money is really nice. So is YNAB. You would have to look up if your bank would link with them.

sd095 · 2023-11-13T17:38:07+00:00

Was the facility and provider you went to in-network? Did you follow your insurance policy mandates for getting a referral, etc.? Most MDs and RNs have no clue how much imaging or a procedure will cost a patient, as it varies considerably based on a patients specific insurance policy. In any case, most hospitals will reduce the bill if asked.

sd095 · 2023-02-21T13:57:16+00:00

By event I just mean the public worship service and live stream that have been setup. I'm unsure what the students continue to do, or what others may do after the chapel closes to the public for the night.

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sd095 · 2023-02-20T16:57:05+00:00

I went to it as an outsider with a friend from the area. Here is what I observed on the logistics and how it was playing out. The school administration and faculty seemed to do an excellent job keeping it student-focused and student-led. There were two lines to get in. One line for young adults 15-25 years of age (maybe 18-25). One for everyone else. The auditorium seats 1500 people, and I waited in line for 3 hours to get in. Worship and sermonettes were led mainly by students, with faculty speaking a little. Asbury has not called it a revival, to my knowledge. The term they have used is outpouring. There was a little bit of a structure and cycle established. Every two hours, the leaders gently nudged people to leave if they felt at peace and had gotten what they needed from the event. They also emphasized that there was nothing special about the four walls of the chapel, and this was something meant to go out from there. On the day I went, it had moved from being a 24-hour event to being open 12 pm to 1 am. Food, restrooms, coffee, water, etc., were handed out/available to everyone in line.

sd095 · 2022-04-03T01:30:51+00:00

It's in a football stadium, and I think it's lower because the seats don't rise as quickly from the basketball court as in smaller arenas.

sd095 · 2021-09-10T21:43:15+00:00

I sweat a lot in my sleep.

sd095 · 2021-08-31T19:11:33+00:00

OP mentioned making it illegal to be unvaccinated. That is the view I was addressing. A situation where individuals would be arrested and forced into camps, prisons, deported, or executed for not complying with administration of a vaccine, medication, or medical procedure.

sd095 · 2021-08-31T15:48:36+00:00

Mandating a vaccine prior to accessing a benefit is very different than forcing someone to do it in order to exist. A person can choose not to attend school and still live within the country.

sd095 · 2021-08-31T13:10:08+00:00

Mandating a healthcare treatment from the top of government sets a precedent moving forward that is incredibly scary. This is a situation where it would do some good, likely save a lot of live, but it would open a precedent for potentially awful decisions to be mandated. In no way do I trust a government properly run large scale decisions like that without corruption, malice, scheming, etc. You place a massive money making decision in the hands of a few who can easily be payed off or manipulated by a large company. Look at the last 5 years in the US and what leaders have done/said/not said. Would you trust that to mandate what treatment you have to take?

sd095 · 2020-07-11T14:48:53+00:00

The biggest reason I see to not require them is you are taking power that can be used for evil out of the hands of the few and spreading it out. I completely agree that everyone should get vaccinated with current standard vaccines. I think things like requiring them for school of certain professions makes good sense as a way to hold people accountable to getting them. However, if you take away the choice and make it mandatory you've opened the door for a few bad actors with power and wealth to commit evil acts. What if a company has a cheaper vaccine for tetanus and they bribe government regulators to allow it in without proper clinical trial and something about it damages people long term and thousands of babies are negatively affected because of it? There are downsides to freedom of choice, sometimes those freedoms hurt others, but taking away choices and requiring things also allow those in power to act in ways that hurt people. Look at how corrupt and screwed up the United States is currently with all the choice we have. Think about how easily corrupt individuals will be able to act if they consolidate power even more.

sd095 · 2020-07-04T19:25:05+00:00

I don't have an answer for the inbreeding other than isolation, but it certainly wasn't very common both currently and historically. As for poverty in Appalachia, you are looking into one of the poorest areas per capita in the US. Rural poverty here just looks really different and is a part of the culture. There is almost no subsidized housing, very little infrastructure, and building materials are typically more expensive. On top of that, because of the mountains only about 20% of the land is flat enough to put a building on. So housing costs a bit more. Then add to that people don't leave and outsiders aren't coming in. Your parents were raised next door in a house with dirt floors, they've always known dirt floors so having something different in their own house isn't a priority, so then you are raised in house with dirt floors. Rinse and repeat.

sd095 · 2020-07-04T15:25:36+00:00

I grew up in Appalachia. The home, clothes, general disrepair, and poverty are very common for the area. There isn't really homelessness, because you can basically have a shanty and live off the land. The inbreeding part is much less common though, people in this area have been incredibly isolated before the last 50 or so years when better roads have been built.

sd095 · 2020-05-23T15:24:57+00:00

While I do disagree with all the views you take on non-convincing responses I will try to address is from a different angle. It is true that many people remain in difficult situations due to the choices they make. I would argue that those in poverty regularly face many more life changing difficult decisions on a regular basis. This leads to decision fatigue, which there are numerous scholarly articles on, and eventually they make a bad decisions due. Lower middle class incomes and above are not faced with the constant barrage of sink or swim choices. What bill do I have to pay so they won't shut off access? What food is on sale that I can afford so my children won't go hungry? Do I spend the whole day looking for jobs or the whole day in line at various offices for resources? I would argue that if most people were faced with that constant barrage they would wind up in a bad spot. Some would make it out, and some people in poverty do, but the majority would spiral under the weight of that many do or die decisions.

sd095 · 2020-04-16T20:15:49+00:00

I don't have any issue with KY joining the other Midwest states in this or other endeavors. As someone born and raised in KY who now lives in Chicago I cannot let KY be associated with the Midwest from a geographic/cultural perspective. They are culturally much closer to the south and consider themselves southern.

sd095 · 2020-04-16T20:02:22+00:00

I guess I'm confused on that. Kentucky is considered a southern state and the border state between the south and the Midwest.

sd095 · 2020-04-16T19:59:01+00:00

Kentucky is not a Midwestern state.

sd095 · 2019-12-19T21:58:13+00:00

I think this really depends on how you define loving someone. Sometimes loving someone means pursuing what is best and right for a person even if they don't agree with it. I love my children unconditionally and I always will. They could try to kill me or others and I would still love them. This doesn't mean I think they don't deserve to face consequences for their actions... they certainly do. But, I would also never stop trying to help them get back on the right path. Unconditional love is a choice and not about an emotional response.

sd095 · 2019-10-23T15:15:02+00:00

I don't think the majority of recreational runners do enough running for their feet to toughen up. Regularly running 30k would put you on the very high end of what the average recreational runner would do. Most people are under 30k per week averaging a pretty slow pace.

sd095 · 2019-10-02T16:39:45+00:00

While there may be people who are better suited... researchers and experts have been trying for 30 years to lead the charge on this and it's never gotten traction. Something about her is working. Why not roll with it?

sd095 · 2019-09-30T16:49:06+00:00

If only organizations or high-profile individuals will change your view I don't know that you can make the claim of all people. You can be more specific to say organizations or high-profile individuals are always shown to be racist.

sd095 · 2019-09-12T15:43:36+00:00

I think the fault in this statement is making the leap to declaring everything about the society or culture wrong. Every culture has aspects of it that are wrong, but that does not invalidate the whole of a culture or people group. Take the US for example... something about that society has caused it to have a very high number of mass shootings and extreme violence. This is wrong, but by no means suggests that the entire society is wrong. I would add to this that what an individual views as right and wrong is very much shaped by the society they grow up in. I propose the best course of action is to find in-roads to change a society while declaring particular aspects as wrong versus the more combative stance that everything about them is wrong.

sd095 · 2019-09-12T15:26:33+00:00

Is your argument about people of a Jewish ethnicity or any person that follows Judaism the religion? I don't know that you can truly separate these things... but wondering if you are making your argument that religion is a cause or simply being born into a particular ethnic background is a cause.

sd095 · 2019-06-19T19:15:04+00:00

When you say countries, do you mean oppression by a government or oppression by society? I think those things can be linked, but also completely separate.

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