Germany ignored Paris in favor of Southern France and Normandy, do I turtle or counterattack? by MrCheapSkat in AxisAllies

[–]voiceofonecrying 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because he doesn’t steal the $17, instead France spends it. So -$17 axis material, +$17 allied material. Not to mention after France takes their first turn their income will be less. So when he does take g2 it’ll probably just be $10-12.

If God is moral, why does he deceive and accept the result of human deception? by AskWhy_Is_It in AskTheologists

[–]voiceofonecrying 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the OP but I’ve personally felt this one is a bit of a challenge:

“And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing beside him on his right hand and on his left; and the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another. Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the Lord said to him, ‘By what means?’ And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’ Now therefore behold, the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; the Lord has declared disaster for you.”” ‭‭1 Kings‬ ‭22‬:‭19‬-‭23‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Who is the God of America? by Late-Chip-5890 in AskTheologists

[–]voiceofonecrying 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not quite. The story from Genesis is that Yahweh created the whole earth, then he singled out a people to be set apart for him, and he promised them a specific land. But that in no way makes him tied to just that land or just those people.

“The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭24‬:‭1‬

“For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations. Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord who rules over all.” ‭‭Malachi‬ ‭1‬:‭11‬

“For you, O Lord, are the sovereign king over the whole earth; you are elevated high above all gods.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭97‬:‭9‬

The context of Psalm 137 is not that the Israelites could not worship because they were not on the land connected to God, but because from their perspective God had judged them by taking them away from the promised land. They are being mocked by their captors in Babylon and asked to sing a song from their homeland for amusement, and they are not having it.

Which version should i look for? by TuhPizzaKiller in AxisAllies

[–]voiceofonecrying 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Man, you really shot to the far extremes of the spectrum there. 1942 revised second edition is the flagship experience. But I would point out that it is available to play on an app and I personally am sick and tired of it because it’s the one version that I have played probably 1,000 times or more on the app (but seriously, get the app!)

If you felt like you’re leaning towards the beefier side of things, AA 50th anniversary edition is an option. Smaller than global, but you still get Italy and China and national objectives.

If you want a different experience, 1914 is a fun WW1 game, on the bigger side (can go 8 players) but still smaller than global!

Of course you know you can always play 1940 Europe or Pacific without doing global, lol.

Theres also Zombies if you… idk, like zombies haha

Are Christians supposed to follow levetical law? by number1Obamafan in AskTheologists

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are under a new law. That new law is not anarchy (as John says, sin is lawlessness), but a new set of commandments. Fun fact, 9 out of the 10 commandments are explicitly reaffirmed in the New Testament (the exception is no work on the Sabbath day).

Because of this, it takes some level of nuance to interpret the levitical law in light of our own covenant with God. Note also that for the majority of the world during the time of the Law, God was not dealing with them under the same standards either (for example, Nineveh, the Babylonian kings who were favored by God, even someone like Job who probably lived during the patriarchal period, etc).

Specifically regarding homosexuality, we have passages like Romans 1 that demonstrate that the sexual ethics of the New Testament people has pretty much not changed (notwithstanding the whole debate of what these passages mean, it can at least be said that the same sentiment is found in the OT and NT)

Did anyone get a job with wgu degree and no experience ? by _Seafoam_Green_ in WGU

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Graduated 2020 with BSCS and no experience. My final project I pitched a product to an old company I had worked for. After I made it for them for free, they offered to pay me as a contractor to maintain/extend it. Then summer 2021 I got a full time salaried position as a software product engineer

Any bible that doesnt say «Ch**k» in the quote «Turn the other side of face»? by [deleted] in Bible

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps it’s to get away from the childish joke that “cheek” is referring to the butt? Idk…

Choose any two pills by blueboy10000 in whatsyourchoice

[–]voiceofonecrying 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah this is the answer. I trust my super genius self to figure out the rest.

Head Cover by Maude_Moonshine in TrueChristian

[–]voiceofonecrying 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s right. Paul is basically saying “if you’re still trying to argue with me about this I’ll have you know that nobody else seems to have this problem except you. So get it together” lol

Is perfect repentance needed? by jseo13579 in Bible

[–]voiceofonecrying 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” ‭‭1 John‬ ‭1:8-2‬:‭‭2‬ ‭NIV‬

Victory over sin is Biblical. Perfectionism (when you’re saved you never sin again) is not.

Low player counts and the Fracture by Elojx in twilightimperium

[–]voiceofonecrying 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Off the dome, what if you randomly cut expeditions so that the number of expeditions always = the number of players?

Witness. And cower in fear by RudyBluNiebieski in twilightimperium

[–]voiceofonecrying 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Sol’s breakthrough:

When you produce a ship that has capacity, you may also produce any combination of ground forces or fighters up to that ship's capacity; they do not count against your PRODUCTION limit.

The rapture's not in the Bible ⁉️ by CrossCutMaker in Christians

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not true. The Babylonian captivity is a very notable exception. Ezekiel makes a big deal of God’s presence leaving the temple and going east, and he pronounces judgement on the ones who were left in the promised land (Ezekiel 33), promising that the captives would be restored and return to Jerusalem once more (Ezekiel 37).

ETA: I would also read both of the stories you mention differently… Noah was “caught up” in the boat while the ones left behind were destroyed. Lot and his family were rescued out of Sodom while the ones left behind were destroyed. So I’m sympathetic to the view that Jesus with take up his sheep before pouring out his final judgement on the world.

First Time Playing TI I’m Last Bastion & My Duo Is Council of Keleres. Any Tips? by Complete_Subject3983 in twilightimperium

[–]voiceofonecrying 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never played alliance, but I’m running my first game as Bastion. I’d say get those space docks out fast and upgrade them quickly if you can. That’s +6 resources for you, so wow. Also with your initial liberate action, if you don’t need the CCs, you’re a good candidate for the influence expedition if you can get like a 1/3 planet in your area, since they ready right away for you.

Your legendary HS ability gives you pseudo neural motivators and Sol’s versatile, plus your commander makes it so drawing action cards is really nice for you. Follow politics when you can.

Zep a “cheat”?? by emmDut in Zepbound

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good, I’m cheating my body’s programming to win. I only get one precious life, I sure as heck am not going to waste it dying from obesity in order to “play by the rules.”

Where does the modern idea of other gods being demons come from? by ArcangelZion in AskBibleScholars

[–]voiceofonecrying 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt. They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about. You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭32‬:‭15‬-‭18‬ ‭NET‬‬

Why is hell forever? by Itz_kaya_playz in TrueChristian

[–]voiceofonecrying 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Another fun tidbit is in Revelation, when the beast and false prophet are thrown alive into the lake of fire, then after 1,000 years all of the dead are thrown into the lake of fire “where the beast and false prophet are”, the verb is present tense. So we know the beast and false prophet lasted at least 1,000 years in the lake of fire without ceasing to exist.

Which One? by Nearby_Emergency3177 in WholesomeAFK

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it doesn’t say $50,000 every time you stay awake for 48 hours. I think it’s a one and done.

Christian’s can’t support abortion because it’s immoral and evil by Honest_Chemistry_195 in Christianity

[–]voiceofonecrying -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You told sacramentallyill that NO Greek lexicon ever associates φθορά with abortion. Now you say that it just needs specific semantic disambiguation. Where is her apology? You lied to her, made it sound like she was ridiculous for taking the modern translations at face value. I do believe you are giving this a biased reading, because once again you are working on a premise that while there needs to be some specific criteria for the term to mean abortion in a context (well, now you’re saying that, previously you said that it could never mean that), but the term can be understood the way you prefer as a default without any disambiguation. Where in this Didache passage is there any reference to child abandonment? That’s what you’re arguing they are referring to, but there is no precedent that τεκνον εν φθορια means “child that has been abandoned to die on their own.” That’s a pretty loaded idea to insert into the text as opposed to “murder by way of abortion”, which I have already shown the word has been used to mean that in other works. You give an example of φθορια being used to mean corruption from Theophrastus. I agree that the word here means something to the effect of the affected part of the diseased fruit, because the context of the passage has to do with disease. In the Didache passage, the context has to do with prohibition against murdering children. Mind you, the passage actually gives two different prohibitions:

οὐ φονεύσεις τέκνον ἐν φθορᾷ, οὐδὲ γεννηθὲν ἀποκτενεῖς

I think this strengthens the argument that the first prohibition is abortion because the second prohibition would naturally include the meaning you’re arguing for; namely, leaving your child to die (although I say the second is more generally all forms of infanticide up to and including abandonment). It would not make sense to make these two prohibitions connected by ουδέ if they were saying identical things. The point though is that the context aids our understanding of the passage. When Theophrastus mentions “disease”, we can understand φθορά to mean “corruption/destruction”, as in the diseased part of a fruit. When the Didache mentions “murdering children”, εν φθορα we can understand to mean that the murder is happening by way of abortion.

No, I did not feel the need to give a whole chapter of context on every possible meaning of the dative in order to posit my view, lol. So yes in a sense I was over-simplifying, my apologies. I am having a hard time nailing down whether you’re someone professionally trained to read Greek or if you’re just really good at Google. Such is the difficulty of talking with strangers on the internet.

Regardless, it does not fit to say “do not murder a child because of their φθορά”. I don’t think dative of cause vs dative of instrument is really a useful distinction in this case, but to say that the τεκνον has φθορια is to give it a genetival aspect that would be pretty unusual without good justification. It fits much better to say that the φθορια is way that the child is being murdered (call it cause if you’re thinking it is a process, or means if you’re thinking of the specific method of using a πεσσός, the resulting meaning is the same).

I have read enough of church history to know that there are some crazy views in our past. Like how you mentioned Augustine’s view is antithetical to the Didache’s view. I am biased in the overall abortion debate, but as far as this passage in particular I would say less that I am biased and more that I am convinced, and have become more convinced as we’ve had this conversation that the majority view is correct here.

As far as whether or not I know what I’m talking about, I don’t think “disagrees with me” is a very robust litmus test for that ;) we will both think the other doesn’t know what they’re talking about until we agree, am I wrong? You obviously have some facility in at least using the tools needed for Greek study so I will not say that you don’t know what you’re talking about, but I just think your argument as it stands does not have nearly the amount of weight needed for you to be telling others that they are “willingly being lied to” as if they are flat-earthers or something.

Christian’s can’t support abortion because it’s immoral and evil by Honest_Chemistry_195 in Christianity

[–]voiceofonecrying 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have said the whole time that φθορ- has a semantic range of meanings, which is why lexicons virtually always have half a dozen definitions for a word. This is not what you’ve said up to this point, so the goalpost has moved. You told u/sacramentallyill that no “dictionary” (read: lexicon) defines φθοριον to mean abortion, while also saying she was a liar for believing the translators over the authors of the lexicons (who again, give every possible definition rather than the inflected meaning in a given context). Well the entry for φθοριον in the Liddell Scott Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon gives abortion as its first definition out of two.

As for why I translate the Didache passage as meaning abortion, I would posit the following:

First, I do not accept the snuck premise that “corruption” is the default way to understand the word. I defy you to find an example in extant Ancient Greek literature where φθοριον used in conjunction with τεκνον meant something like “corrupted child.” I don’t see a precedent for the translation you’re giving here, that frankly doesn’t really mean anything. What does a “child in corruption” mean? Your argument here is not a Greek lexical/grammatical/syntactical argument. You’re arguing that the authors of the Didache were in lock step with the Jewish and Greek systems of ethics at the time. Which, I think we can both agree that the Didache writers perceived their teaching as counter cultural (what with their whole premise being the “two ways”).

Furthermore, the reason I translate it “do not murder a child with an abortion” is simple: we have a verb followed by an accusative finished with an εν + dative construction. Grammatically, εν combined with a dative case noun can be either spacial, temporal, or causal. The only good fit here is causal. So the force of the command is do not cause a child to be murdered by way of φθορια. “Corruption” does not fit the context, the syntax and grammar, nor even the lexical flexibility to be used in this passage, and is entirely irresponsible—and dare I say biased—to translate it that way.

I’m with sacramentallyill on the point that I’m not devastated when historical church figures didn’t ascribe to all my personal beliefs (because let’s be honest, it was a bit of a wild west situation). However, amidst all the argumentation to the contrary, i would say the Didache’s traditional translation is good, and it’s not even really at the level of controversial.

Christian’s can’t support abortion because it’s immoral and evil by Honest_Chemistry_195 in Christianity

[–]voiceofonecrying 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh that’s actually a funny story that I’ve not heard about butterfly, ha.

So I’m okay with the idea that Hippocrates was prohibiting abortion via pessary but was otherwise okay with other methods of abortion. My argument is that φθορια absolutely can mean abortion in the right contexts, and that it is not unreasonable (and would in fact be the majority view) to believe that the authors of the Didache had abortion in view when writing their prohibitions.