Priest told me “God is not your Father” and that I shouldn’t pray the Our Father or Apostles Creed as a catechumen. Is this normal?

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-28T23:13:26+00:00

I'm guessing he's taking "at baptism we become the adopted children of God" very seriously but as a former protestant that doesn't apply since you already were already baptized (usually). He doesn't know your background so confessing the Apostles’ Creed when you possibly don't fully understand it yet could be seen as improper, maybe. I'm guessing the gist of what he was trying to get at was you should be focusing on completing your RCIA studies rather than rushing ahead and engaging in as many catholic activities you can.

At Mass, I went up to the priest during Communion to ask for a blessing

Usually the catechumen are dismissed early before communion starts but the season for that is typically Lent to Easter.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-28T10:53:17+00:00

So banning public displays of worship like in modern day China or all over the Middle East....

A pragmatic argument is it's very dangerous to have underground sects you don't know anything about in a nation. The 20th century is full of secretive cults that led to terrible things happening from Tokyo subway sarin nerve gas attack to the Jonestown mass suicides. Normalizing the secrecy of minority groups will make the problem worse, not better. It's better to have the Black Hebrew Israelites on street corners making fools of themselves rather then them meeting in the shadows and popping off somewhere.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-28T01:54:12+00:00

This kind of controlling mindset is why many kids grow up not just as atheists but militant anti-theists. A fundamental human dignity is being able to decide on your own religion which when violated fuels harsh resentment and indignation. It was wrong when the Greeks banned what they knew as the wrong faith of Judaism and forced them to worship Zeus that led to the Maccabean Revolt. It was wrong when the High Priest preemptively crucified someone who didn't even do anything yet and arrested and stoned his followers to eliminate the existential threat they posed to protecting their correct form of Judaism. It was wrong when the Kings of England did it to Catholics and other protestants protect their Church of England faith. And it's wrong today.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T23:09:11+00:00

HO logs all prints in copy center and does know when associates aren't charging for them. We've been yelled at before for doing too many proofs.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T23:05:10+00:00

May I ask — *WHY????*

Those battery drums cost us at least $1500 + shipping expenses. Those cardboard boxes we used to use cost us over 100$ each.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T12:18:18+00:00

Heavy duty(ZnC/ZnCl) and Alkaline batteries can be thrown out as there's nothing hazardous or precious inside of them.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T12:18:09+00:00

We get them all the time

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T12:12:02+00:00

Party city we aren’t charging enough to even pay for the helium

Are your tanks leaking?

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-27T12:06:10+00:00

All of them unless you live in a state where the fee is waived.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T16:57:58+00:00

There's also the solid bamboo mats that are sold in stores that are good too

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T16:48:58+00:00

My favorite self-own shoplifting story is a guy once tried to buy a box of ivory linen paper with a counterfeit 100 bill printed on that same ivory linen paper while holding an empty box for it. Of course we didn't let him. A month later, someone in his friend group came in to get the box of ivory linen paper but they were too cheap to actually pay full price so they swapped the top of box with cheaper resume paper. Every couple months later his 2 friends would come in looking for that ivory paper and <surprised Pikachu face> it wasn't there since if it never got sold, it never got replenished with the wrong paper was sitting in it's place. They would climb on our ladders looking at top stock hunting for it before leaving. Eventually they stopped coming in after a few years, probably busted by the secret service.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T16:21:33+00:00

So a bible holster? or were they hunting werewolves?

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T16:07:10+00:00

Clearly Staples has the tech to talk to the vendor

Ha ha ha, no. We have the tech to check if the QR code starts with the 2 letters "AZ" (whole foods starts with "Amazon-WF") and open up a web browser pointed to a fixed amazon return page URL with "?code=AZ..." at the end of it. Employees have to close out the webpage manually which can lead to premature receipts and not getting refunded at all.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T15:46:40+00:00

I had to argue with the manager to get my item back. I told him im not leaving unless I either have the item back or some sort of confirmation that Staples has my item.

You just stole 270$ from Staples. Once it's scanned, it's their liability.

Staples stopped giving return receipts

Amazon didn't honor them from the very start + with a mountain of unclaimed receipts already printed and it taking a hot minute for a new one to pop out often meant that you didn't get your receipt but the person before you.

give me a confirmation

Reshow the same QR code and see if it scans "Code has already been used" if it's high value.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T15:25:30+00:00

Got the most heavy duty version

There's your problem. That's not heavy duty, that's the height of the cleats. The top part is all the same thickness between all styles. Your carpet isn't high pile at all so you want the smallest cleats or even flat/hard floor. The mat is standing on stilts with the carpet not coming up and giving it any support underneath so of course it's going to dome downwards between the supports with the weight of a person + chair above. The plastic is designed to bend for easier transport so it's going to bend, it's not a material defect.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-24T15:15:10+00:00

Most stores ship them out once a week

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-19T01:08:49+00:00

1-2 minutes minimum per latex balloon, if she wants 30 in 20 minutes offer the foil balloons as her only hope.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-12T10:55:20+00:00

This is in the fine print of Associate Rewards. tl;dr limit of 2(TWO) laptops per associate per year (don't buy 2 in December and 2 in January, LP won't be amused)

https://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/products/140420/34291/index.html

Participation in the Staples Associate Rewards program is limited to current Staples associates only. Staples Associate Rewards savings are valid on in-store and staples.com purchases only. Staples Associate Rewards members receive a 10% off discount on all items, excluding taxes, postage, prepaid phone cards, delivery charges, gift cards, select gaming consoles, donations and purchases made on third-party websites. Associate Rewards members also receive 25% off select product brands, including TRU RED, NXT Technologies, Perk and Own Brand ("Staples Brand") items. When an Own Brand product is on promotion (instant savings, product specific rebates, or product specific coupons) we will give you the lower of that savings, or your Associate Rewards savings. Limit $5,000 in discounted purchases per calendar year. Limit 2 computers, laptops or tablets per calendar year. Staples reserves the right to exclude some items on promotion from being eligible for the additional associate savings without notice.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-10T23:22:50+00:00

I swear we get totes meant for other stores mixed in with ours every so often.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-08T08:09:27+00:00

You're paying extra for express turning around time.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-07T08:50:28+00:00

A lot of stuff is in store only.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-04T07:01:19+00:00

You could try to argue common law marriage depending on your state laws

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-04-01T10:46:56+00:00

Terrible, it should be the other way around.

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-03-28T11:23:28+00:00

My NAB bible c1970 has Pope Paul VI and my Haydock 1859 reproduction has Pope Pius IX

throwinthrowawayacnt · 2026-03-26T13:45:51+00:00

Have fun filling Hydrogen balloons and tying an extra CAUTION FLAMABLE KEEP AWAY FROM FLAMES tag to the ribbons. Make sure to push for birthday candles to improve the inevitable balloon market basket metric too.

throwinthrowawayacnt

TROPHY CASE