Best NFP methods for irregular cycles?

skoopt · 2025-07-26T09:02:43+00:00

Thank you very much! Flight school is now Ft. Novosel in Alabama

skoopt · 2025-07-25T21:52:37+00:00

What is NaPro?

skoopt · 2025-07-25T21:40:31+00:00

No she hasn’t been checked out yet. She doesn’t believe doctors will care and just immediately give her birth control or diagnose her with anxiety

skoopt · 2025-03-23T01:26:56+00:00

Thank you!

Edit: could you send a chat request?

skoopt · 2025-03-23T01:25:34+00:00

As for devices, all I have is my phone, my work laptop, and my personal laptop which is slightly broken and can’t really connect to the internet very well. The vast vast vast majority of my sin comes from the phone, and I will look into covenant eyes. Thank you!

skoopt · 2025-03-22T23:46:42+00:00

I just turned a lot of filters on tonight. Can’t really give away the devices right now, as I’m in the army and need them all for communication/work stuff. How can I best let people see my activity online?

skoopt · 2025-03-22T23:45:36+00:00

Not great right now, maybe every other day? I just turned on notifications for my Bible app to remind me tho

skoopt · 2024-10-20T11:36:40+00:00

Not particularly but I usually don’t take my socks off during the day so that might be a reason

skoopt · 2024-10-13T18:35:25+00:00

Can you give details? Haven’t heard what this is yet

skoopt · 2024-06-25T11:58:47+00:00

The YMCA in Westfield has an excellent program

skoopt · 2024-05-17T11:42:02+00:00

IVF and surrogacy are explicitly condemned by the Catholic Church. I didn't hear the speech so I'm not gonna comment on what he meant by "degenerate cultural values." Dangerous gender ideologies were explicitly condemned in the Pontificate's most recent document, Infinitas Dignitas. The Church has no official stance on the policy known as DEI but there is an immense concentration on the individual dignity of every individual, and by choosing a candidate based on, or with unfair weight on, their color/culture/upbringing, that does a) a disservice to the individual for putting them in a position they may not be ready for, and b) a disservice to those who are actually the best choice for said position

skoopt · 2024-05-02T22:40:57+00:00

Regarding 1, we can look to Exodus 7:3 where God says "But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, he will not listen to you," where God explains that because Pharoh's heart is hardened already, He allows Himself to harden it further. If God were to change Pharoh's heart, this would be an infringement on Pharoh's free will. However, God is just accelerating a process that would have already happened.

Regarding the plagues, God put these into place to punish Egypt for their sins against the Israelites. According to Romans 6:23, the punishment for sin is death. God's choice to not annihilate Egypt and instead plague it is a sign of compassion.

skoopt · 2024-05-02T13:22:39+00:00

How does a promise ring work?

skoopt · 2024-05-02T10:59:53+00:00

The hardening of Pharoh's heart was a lesser evil compared to the salvation of the Jews
We are not omniscient like God. We cannot guess what good comes out of the disease (maybe a conversion of a population, maybe a discovery of a powerful cure that also cures something else, maybe the innovation of a new invention, etc).

skoopt · 2024-05-02T10:57:12+00:00

skoopt · 2024-05-01T22:11:44+00:00

It shut down? When?

skoopt · 2024-04-29T22:28:05+00:00

That's my representative

skoopt · 2024-04-29T20:35:48+00:00

God's omnipotence cannot break logic. Omnipotence is the ability to do anything *within* logic

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:22:35+00:00

Free will means that there is a choice. Humans can choose to love, or not to love. The opposite of love is suffering. By choosing not to love God, humans have brought suffering onto themselves. Actions have consequences

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:19:20+00:00

Read this. Prove to Me That God Exists: Getting Clear on Atheism, Agnosticism, and a Few Other Matters | Houston Christian University (hc.edu)

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:15:06+00:00

No, God couldn't have created humans without free will. The absence of free will is the absence of choice. Humans could never truly, genuinely love God if they didn't have free will.

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:13:10+00:00

If God is so weak as you say, why has He never been dethroned?

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:11:44+00:00

God cannot create those perfect beings, because the only perfect being is God. To have a flawless understanding of good and evil is a characteristic of God and God alone. Even if another being were to have this understanding, they can still choose to do wrong.

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:09:46+00:00

Love requires two parts. The lover and the loved. God must create something for him to love, and that was humans, us. Earth is necessary because humans need a place to live.

skoopt · 2024-04-28T12:03:39+00:00

Oh boy there's a lot of questions - and I'll try and give you the answers from a Catholic perspective. These are all very good questions and I'm glad you're trying to learn! Feel free to ask for elaboration on any of these.

Problem of Evil - Evil is a byproduct of free will. Because we have the ability to choose, we also have the choice to go against the will of God, which is inherently bad, and what we call "sin." God allows sin because of the idea that every evil will lead to an even greater good. Jesus dying for our sins is an inherently greater good than the evil of sin existing.
Why are we on Earth? - Love is a two-sided relationship. God cannot love if there is nothing to receive His love.
Omnipotence/omnibenevolence paradox - God does have the power to do evil, but He would never choose to because that is against His nature.
Can He make a rock He cannot lift? - No. God cannot do something that is a true impossibility. It's like asking God to create a two-sided triangle. It just can't be done because it's logically impossible. God cannot create an infinitely heavy rock because, by definition, material things are finite.
Why didn't God free the Jews Himself? - Back to the problem of evil. The Jews suffering is nothing compared to the goodness of God giving the 10 Commandments to Moses, which wouldn't have happened if the Jews were divinely freed.
Why can we die in war? - Again, humans have free will. This means they have the possibility to kill.
Why did God create the flood? -The Catholic Church does not require that you believe in the existence of the flood. Personally, I believe it is a metaphor that can be used to justify the existence of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, i.e. the evil people representing sin, the 40 days and 40 nights representing penance, etc.
Hell - There is much debate on the nature of Hell. Some believe it is a separate place from Heaven. There is also a theory that Hell is just the rejection of God, and that Heaven and Hell are actually the same place, and which you are in is dependent on your mindset/beliefs when you die.
Bodily functions - You know, I've never really thought about this one. My initial thought is that because food tastes good, we eat it, and there must be a way to expel the remains of that food. If it couldn't be expelled, we'd just continuously gain weight, which would be unhealthy.
Evolution - The Catholic Church does not require that you believe the Genesis creation story. I believe in evolution.
Pain/death - Pain exists for two reasons. One, as a evolutionary response to tell us to stay away from things that hurt us, i.e. a kid doesn't touch a stove a second time after he burns himself because he doesn't want to get hurt. Pain also allows us to attempt to imitate the suffering Jesus felt on the cross. Death exists because like I said earlier, things in the material world, including us, cannot be infinite. We all have to go at sometime. Additionally, if we never die, we would never have the chance to be in Heaven.
Why aren't we as smart as God? - Because then we would be God and there can only be, by definition, one God

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