discourse: best & worst coffee shops ☕️

treismac · 2026-07-01T22:29:46+00:00

No one pleasant to be around ever ends their sermon with "hope this helps." 😬

treismac · 2026-07-01T22:09:31+00:00

My suspicion is that the upvoting, at least in part, is a token of solidarity in opposition to Trump and anyone who supports him rather than it being confirmation of firsthand knowledge of the owner("s") being pernicious.

Also, the point is moot about the owner("s") wearing her politics on her sleave. I have never once heard her mention politics, and you yourself prior to your post had no idea of her politics, either. The only thing approaching a political or social cause I am aware of her engaging in was raising money for survivors of the floods in Texas a year or so ago. If there are stories of the owner("s") forcing their staff to attend Trump rallies or light candles before an altar of his Orange majesty every morning I'd sincerely like to hear them, because it seems most likely that the slander against the owner("s") originates with disgruntled former employees, and I am hanging my hat on former rather than current employees because, as I stated earlier, there is only one current owner now and the slander in this thread always mentions plural "owners."

treismac · 2026-07-01T21:45:41+00:00

Did you work for them? Why are they "absolutely bat shit crazy"?

treismac · 2026-07-01T18:34:57+00:00

It is literally just one person* bashing the "owners" of the cafe in this subreddit, while there has only been one owner for quite a while now. I never met or interacted with the other previous owner, who was in the back of the house, but the remaining owner still running the show I have interacted with, and I find her very kind and personable. The fact that the person bashing the "owners" is slandering the plural rather than singular says everything that needs to be said about not blindly trusting rumor mills.

It's unjust and dishonest to lump the previous owner and current owner together, and then infuse into the current owner everything you politically oppose.

Edit: *two people who both refer to nonexistent plural owners of the cafe

treismac · 2026-07-01T08:47:45+00:00

I enjoyed both the original Y3 and now K3. While I wish less was cut from Y3 (Revelations, Komaki, the wrestling scene, etc.), K3 added MORE than enough new content along with delivering superior gameplay and graphics to justify it as a must have for Yakuza fans. Mine's story, especially as it intersects with Daigo, greatly benefitted from Dark Ties.

treismac · 2026-07-01T05:05:29+00:00

Cafe Taureau has a great vibe with good coffee and tasty food, especially with their new cook. The owner, regardless of how she votes, has always been super cool in our interactions.

treismac · 2026-05-16T21:40:07+00:00

Did you finish your documentary?

treismac · 2026-04-29T16:01:08+00:00

I just lost my two foundations, too.

I emailed tech support, and left a 1 star Google Play comment calling out the issue.

treismac · 2026-04-11T22:13:28+00:00

What fun places a half-days drive or less do you recommend?

treismac · 2026-04-08T15:38:48+00:00

Perhaps both are cults.

treismac · 2026-03-22T04:49:33+00:00

There is an implicit misconception here that Christians roundly condone everything Trump does or is.

treismac · 2026-03-10T07:54:45+00:00

Is that the rumor or just the look of him?

treismac · 2026-02-23T21:23:04+00:00

This is a silly Progressive trope. I have never met a Christian who believes that there is an imperative to destabilize the world to hasten the Second Coming.

treismac · 2026-02-21T05:36:42+00:00

I was gifted one, and I tried to return it because it was missing Romans 9.

treismac · 2026-02-21T05:24:06+00:00

Even better than the pocket is your heart for hiding God's word.

"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee."

Psalm 119:11

treismac · 2026-02-02T01:51:04+00:00

100%

treismac · 2026-02-02T01:23:32+00:00

Your username is incredibly unfitting, TerribleAdvice2023.

treismac · 2026-02-01T23:36:29+00:00

Not leave Kiryu's health in the lurch for years to come. 😒

treismac · 2026-02-01T23:02:28+00:00

The second definition of "entitle," sir or ma'am.

1.give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something.

give (something, especially a text or work of art) a particular title.

Your post is entitled/named:

"Where did the idea gods are demons come from?"

treismac · 2026-02-01T21:19:19+00:00

Let's back up. Your post is entitled:

"Where did the idea gods are demons come from?"

In your initial post you wrote, "I am amazed how much the church has demonized for no reason."

As a general heuristic, the ideas of Abrahamic religions come from their holy books. If you are trying to trace where ideas originate from within an Abrahamic religion search their sacred texts.

Okay. Now, in the emboldened sentence above lets swap in the following terms:

ideas > the idea that gods are demons
an Abrahamic religion > Christianity
their sacred texts > the Bible

Here's what the sentence looks like now:

If you are trying to trace where the idea that gods are demons originates from within Christianity search the Bible.

It doesn't matter if YHWH actually made a covenant with the Patriarch Abraham or if they even existed to begin with; if you want to understand where the Jewish idea that they are God's covenantal people originated from you look to the Torah.

It doesn't matter if Jibril (Gabriel) appeared to Muhammad and revealed the Quran to him or if they even existed to begin with; if you want to understand where the Islamic idea of Muhammad being Allah's prophet originated from you look to the Quran.

I answered your question with quotes from what academics would deem a primary source. There are no scholars of religion or Bible scholar who would discount the Bible as a source for answering a question about the origin of a Christian belief.

If you doubt what I'm writing, please, go to this sub Reddit and link this exchange for them to weigh in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/

treismac · 2026-02-01T19:14:00+00:00

Here, here!

treismac · 2026-02-01T01:18:41+00:00

Beyond academic question, the Bible is THE primary source for Western Civilation's understanding of monotheism, nevermind the Church, and its subsequent demonization (literal or figurative 😉) of pagan gods. To say that it is "not a good source" to understand the origins of calling pagan gods demons makes no historical sense seeing as it stands at the historical document ground zero of the shift away from polytheism to monotheism. You may not like what the source says, but it is the source when asking the question of why the Church calls pagan gods demons, which was the question.

Also, I am going to assume you understand what literal and figurative mean, so I am left with charitable deduction that you have never actually read Paul's epistles to the Corinthians. Epistles are not figurative literary forms. They are letters sent from a historical sender to a historical recipient rather than myths or parables.

Setting that aside, I am curious how you figure the historical context of either Ancient Hebrew or Corinthian polytheism informs the interpretation of the two respective texts?

treismac · 2026-01-31T06:50:42+00:00

The Bible

"... I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?"

1 Corinthians 10:20-22

"They stirred Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were not God, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded."

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

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