I’m very sorry about what happened to your parents and in turn the effects these schools had on you and your family. From everything I’ve heard the Canadian government has treated the indigenous people terribly.

Nothing in Jesus’s teachings or the New Testament says “Running torture centers is what you should do”.

There are a lot of bad people who want to claim what they’re doing is what God told them to do because it makes it easier to get away with or easier for them to stomach themselves.

Yeah, I suppose I should have clarified the Christian collection plate, but I didn’t think that was necessary because OP asked what we think Jesus would think about tithing.

Yeah, there are definitely bad people out there trying to take advantage of Christians and make money off them. I think that’s exactly what Jesus was mad about. If Jesus was born today he would probably be chasing televangelist’s phone operators away from their desks with a whip and flipping computer desks of the people trying to scam Christian grandmas.

Like any other organization if you look hard enough and if it’s what you’re looking for then you can see people doing bad things but I do not think organized Christian religion is bad as a whole.

No he did not invent tithing. Sorry if it seems that’s what I suggested. There are a few things the church does in the Old Testament that Christians specifically do NOT do so imo it’s important to point out where in Jesus’s teachings these practices are reaffirmed.

Christian religions follow the teachings of Jesus so if Jesus had said something contrary to the idea of tithing it is worth noting. Likewise if he had done something to reaffirm it then that is worth noting.

They had turned the church into a marketplace. So if you’re in it just for the money then yeah you’re a problem.

Jesus actually sent out the disciples to teach without any money and expected them to live on the generosity of the people they taught so that’s where the collection plate likely originates from.

Yeah, and there are a bunch of different translations. I know Catholics and Orthodox Christians also include different books in the Bible. I do think it’s possible to view it as a living document. What is included/how it is translated is what is needed at the time.

If God is real and we believe that God has the ability to interact with this world I don’t think it’s a stretch to think He could divinely inspire writers to write His word and to divinely inspire librarians and conservators to keep the Bible as He intended it.

That’s a really terrible anecdote. Real life quantity group would find ways to do less and less for the same reward. You would end up with fifty pounds of clay with a fist shape indention. Call it a pot and be done.

Your landlord buys his air filters at the Freeze & Breeze where they sell frozen meats and HVAC supplies and their freezers have failed

Refrigerant slow leak?

Punch a hole in your refrigerant line and if the escaping gas smells the same then you know that’s what it was.

Likely because they were once upbeat and positive people too and it didn’t get them what they want so they have changed their ways to be less positive.

So anybody who is still positive, in their experience, hasn’t learned yet that that isn’t going to get them what they want.

It might be a defense mechanism. They were taken advantage of when they were more open and positive.

It might just be bad learned behavior. The people who have what they want aren’t very positive to them.

It is also not easy to stay positive so a lot of people choose not to. Sometimes we like to make excuses for why people are able to do the harder things that we’re not doing. “Oh I would volunteer too if I had as much time as them.”. “Oh I am just not naive enough to be that positive”

It was a significant event where the good guys won. We like our revolutionary war too but there are fewer Americans victories in it and fewer places touched by it.

I can go visit civil war forts and battlefields any time I want. There is no other war I can do that to and I think the same is true for a lot of Americans. It touched everyone’s lives at the time and I don’t think there is any other war that so completely affected the mainland states.

It’s also one where we’re told that the good guys acted like good guys. Apart from Sherman the union behaved nobly and fought for a righteous cause of unification and freedom and after the war was over Lincoln was merciful and gracious in victory. His reward for humbly leading the States through their most trying time? Assassination. It’s a good story.

I built an Unraid Box that has a number of docker containers for silly little servers.

Currently I do not connect when I’m not home because the little servers are too silly to merit that.

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water. Nobody has ever liked everything about the US. Not even George Washington. If you can’t appreciate the good about the country just because you’re paying attention to the bad currently then you should have never celebrated it in the first place because the bad was always there.

The things you dont like about America don’t have to be your complete view of the country or its history. If there is even a small thing you have ever liked about the country then the 4th is for celebrating that.

Celebrate our victories. Celebrate our culture and our successes. Celebrate how mad people are going to be at you for celebrating. Celebrate that there are like-minded people elsewhere in the country. Real Americans in hard times and with doubts. Celebrate our history and our positive contributions to the rest of the world.

Celebrate a possible and hopeful future of what comes after.

Didn’t see what community I was in when I read the post and thought there were just a lot of people here who hate stand up comedians doing crowd work

From a far enough view point anything can be “simple”. Anyone who has ever had to design, build, or program something for a client can tell you that what is “simple” in concept can be very complex to execute.

Life happens to everyone and finding ways to fit in “doing the thing every day” can become a very complex problem.

There is nothing simple about “keep doing it every day”. There are so many reasons not to and it’s up to you and you alone to find the reason or the will to “keep doing it every day.”

In my experience, waiting for the carrot on the stick is much more likely to result in the whip

The US is pretty big man and things are different in different regions. England is only as big as Alabama.

In the cities you can walk to places or take much more limited public transportation.

Every one outside of the city has a car though. Drive through banks, fast food, pharmacies, and even liquor stores are a real thing.

My commute to work is ~40 minute drive and some of that is at 129 kph.

I rarely walk anywhere for anything besides pleasure. There is a restaurant within ~10 minutes walk but most roads don’t even have sidewalks here and people don’t always pay attention while driving

Hmm