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fullmusicbardsquared · 2 years

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could you talk about what you think of Stone Ocean so far (not sure if you have finished it yet but what are your thoughts on it)

i have not finished stone ocean!

to be honest, i think it's one of the better parts, even if the pacing is very messy, almost as bad with part 5's (sorry). jolyne is genuinely a very intriguing character, someone who starts off.. not exactly whiny? but definitely becomes more mature as the story progresses. her and stone free are very well-matched in terms of story meaning ^_^ which i think is one of araki's biggest strengths.

just being honest here; pucci is a better antagonist than dio. admittedly dio is not as serious as a villain as people act like, but seriously. i barely know anything about pucci besides the inference that he got whitesnake when he was young, so dio brought him into his cult, similar to kakyoin, though obviously sans fleshbud. even being such a manipulative guy, he seems to honestly be doing what he sees as best for the world, which is a nice change of pace from other villains. there's probably some deep bibilical subtext that i'm missing from him, though, and i hope araki talks more about him. very intrigued. go on jeopardy king <3

hermes.. oh sweet sweet hermes.. her disappearance after the kiss of love & revenge pisses me off. unlike kakyoin, who was more minor in the crusaders, hermes received good character development, an established personality, and a creative, realistic dynamic with both jolyne and foo. i literally do not understand why she has been written out for so long. i HOPE she comes back next, but jeezus, do i miss her.

foo fighters is perfect i cannot type about them without crying just know how angry i am about their waste of death that contributed.. nothing? to the story. like at all. if anyone can tell me why f.f.'s death was needed for so to progress i will give them actual fucking money.

emporio is a very interesting take on the "helpful child" character for me and i live in fear of anything worse happening to him. genuinely hoping that araki elaborates on his early life; how did he survive in the prison before weather? was weather there for longer? tell me things about him.

weather report is such an obvious hook for a plot i kinda can't say anything i just have to sit there and wait.

in terms of villains.. it's kinda hilarious how so far all the decent/good/deranged ones have been women and all the lame dweebs have been men. i honestly forget the names of everyone who isn't gwess, miraschon, miu miu, or sports maxx. i only remember sports maxx bc he's actually Threatening and Important, and because when i innocently asked my mother what limp bizkit was she went on a tirade about how much they suck, and played me a cover of "faith" by them which proved her point. i'm pretty sure he and miu miu are related because they're both blond with fucked eyebrows.

uhh running out of things to ramble about.. oh wait stands!

i've heard that some of the stand abilities are too strange, but i disagree. the only one this applies to is dragon's dream, which is probably just because it's hard to communicate that through just illustration. otherwise, the abilities are creative and bonkers, with even the simpler ones being used super creatively. i've always thought that araki can make even the blandest power somewhat interesting; in any other show, i doubt stone free/turning yourself into string would be used in such versatile ways. it would probably be relegated to long-range attacks at best. however, i do find a lot of them needlessly complicated design-wise. random spikes and shapes adorn them, which is annoying to look at sometimes. i do love how some of them, like green green grass, yo-yo-ma, and foo fighters (<3) look like little creatures, beasts even.

also anasui is one of the worst characters araki has written, he has none of the weird girl swag and all of the freakiness of yukako, made worse by being guilty of murder. when pucci-as-weather almost killed him i actually cheered. even his design can not save him. i do not understand why anyone likes this man unironically (calling him your horrible blorbo is okay but actually thinking he's cool and a good character ? 🤨 what)

ok i am done thank you for the ask ^_^

#asks #shoechoe #stone ocean

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freebiblestudies · 3 years

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Back To Basics Lesson 15: Not Just A Dip In The Pool

Ellen was giving Bible studies to her friend Janine, who was close to accepting Jesus as her Lord and Savior. However, Janine did not want to get baptized.

"What's the point of baptism?" Janine asked. "Will I feel any different if get dipped in a pool by your pastor? If not, then why bother with an outdated ritual? Couldn't you baptize me by sprinkling holy water on my forehead or something?"

Janine asks some very valid questions. Today, we are going to study baptism and its relevance to us today in the twenty-first century.

Let's read together Matthew 28:19-20.

Is baptism important? According to Jesus, the answer is yes. Baptism is actually a part of the great commission Jesus gives to His disciples.

Let's read together Luke 23:32-43; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9; and 2 Timothy 3:15.

Is baptism necessary for salvation? The answer is no. The Bible unequivocally states that salvation is through Jesus Christ alone. The thief on the cross who had a conversion experience will undoubtedly be saved, even though he was never baptized. That said, the thief would have likely been baptized after confessing his belief in Jesus if it were physically possible.

Let's read together Luke 3:1-17.

Where do we first see baptism in the Bible? It was first seen in the ministry of John the Baptism. He was preaching a baptism of repentance. John was preparing people for the coming of the Messiah.

Let's read together Acts 2:28; 8:26-40; 16:30-33; and 22:16.

When we study passages of baptisms in the Bible, we see some common elements:

People receiving the Gospel message and accepting Jesus as their Lord and Savior

People confessing and repenting of their sins

Baptisms happening as a result of a conversion experience

Let's read together Ephesians 4:5; John 3:23; and Acts 8:26-39.

While there are different methods of baptism, the only bibilical way is immersion in water.

Let's read together Galatians 3:27.

Why is baptism important? Baptism is an outward expression of an individual's commitment to Christ .

Let's read together Romans 6:1-6 and Colossians 2:12-13.

Baptism symbolizes Jesus' death and resurrection. When we are baptized, we are saying goodbye to our old sinful selves, which symbolically die when we are submerged in water. When we are lifted out of the water, we are symbolically resurrected to a new life in Christ.

Let's read together Exodus 14:21-31.

While there is no direct mention of baptism in the Old Testament, there is an interesting parallel worth mentioning. The parting of the Red Sea was the turning point in the Israelites' exodus out of Egypt. They escaped a life of slavery and certain death into a new life of freedom following God. The Israelites were "baptized" in a spiritual sense when they crossed the Red Sea.

Let's read together Luke 3:21-22 and John 3:13-17.

Did Jesus need to be baptized? No, Jesus was sinless and had nothing to repent. John the Baptist was aware of this fact and even felt uncomfortable baptizing Jesus. He felt unworthy as a sinner to perform this act for Jesus. Nevertheless, Jesus encouraged John to baptize Him. Jesus, as a representative of all of humanity, wanted to be an example for us all. Jesus' baptism signified the official beginning of His ministry on earth.

Baptism does not save us. Yet, when we get baptized, we tell the world we are not ashamed to follow Jesus. Although we may occasionally stumble, we are committed to die to self and live a new life in Christ. Baptism is a public declaration of our new journey into faith.

Friend, do you see the importance of baptism now?

#bible study #baptism #Matthew 28:19-20 #ephesians 4:5

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buffyannesummrs · 3 years

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I saw your Buffy s7 ending tags and I was thinking; what about an angel s5 ending... I don’t think it fits the show tonally like it did angel but it still would have been so much better than what they did now? Especially given they wrote themselves into a corner trying to figure out how to logically defeat an omniscient god (and of course they didn’t)

yes!! please keep in mind i have not seen all of angel 😳 but i do know the gist

i think ANY cliffhanger ending would have been a good way to end supernatural, especially as it’s a super long-running, 15 year show without (lol) a super cohesive central storyline

i actually think that a cliffhanger, or really, open-ended sending, is a good way to end an anthology series with that kind of episodic weekly format. we’ve shown up every week to watch the characters do their thing (in this case battle the supernatural), not necessarily for the plots of that season. to me being open-ended js ideal: you can tie up loose ends, defeat a final villain or problem, but then let the viewer decide where the characters go forward from there.

i was actually just about to write a post on why a buffy ending would have fit perfectly, especially because the final seasons of buffy and spn are actually narratively very similar. i’ll probably still write that long post, but basically - your main characters have fought different villains each season, but there’s always been a bigger problem for them. for buffy, her burden of being the slayer. for the winchesters, the burden of having to be hunters and then vessels. s15 of supernatural turns this into: they’ve never actually had free will. so, in their final seasons, both buffy and spn fight their “biggest bad” yet - for buffy, The First Evil, for spn, Thee Bibilical God. but they’re not really fighting evil and god. buffy is fighting against her slayer burden, winchesters are fighting for free will.

the final fight, they defeat their Big Bads - but really they free themselves from the thing that has been constraining them all this time. it’s sort of meta in its own way - buffy being the slayer is the justification for the plot that keeps us the viewer tuning into her escapades each week. so by being released from her burden of slayerhood, she’s also freed from the story. so of course, the story ends: with the evil defeated, sunnydale destroyed, and buffy literally standing on an open road, the sun on her face. we the viewer get to decide what happens next: she retires, she trains the next generation of slayers, whatever.

supernatural makes me insane because they literally made this same narrative TEXTUAL!! they said: god (we, the writers!) have been engineering this all along! god (the writers, and the audience) is the reason the winchesters can never rest, why they have to keep fighting the fight every week. so they defeat god. and then...they die and we have to see exactly how they finish out their time. it’s just bad. they’re still in the story, they’re still performing for hs the viewer. they’re not really freed from it at all.

also one disclaimer: i don’t mean open-ended in terms of CHARACTERS! even for an open-ended ending, cas’s confession should have been addressed. buffy’s ending works because we know where all the characters stand! all our characters end alive, except for anya and spike who made sacrifices addressed by the other characters. both of buffy’s main romantic pairings have their “moments” in the last two episodes.

i’m so sorry, i hope that made any sense at all! i typed it all on my phone and i have had several palomas tonight <3 thank you for sending this anon i love you

#buffynatural #ask

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years

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STARTUPS AND CADILLAC

Eventually the pimps and drug dealers notice that the doctors and lawyers have switched from Cadillac to Lexus, and do each kind of work in the way of noticing it consciously. The reason I've been writing about existing forms is that I don't know. Most of the people who've had to write PhD disserations about Dickens don't.1 That word balance is a significant one. I encourage founders to follow whichever path is most immediately exciting to them.2 What happens to publishing if you can't sell content? We're good at making movies and software, and undergrads are not especially prone to waste money.3 When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, then a lot of people. One of my most vivid memories from our startup is going to be than the worst?4 In this model, the research department functions like a mine.5

I'm sometimes accused of meandering. With each step you gain confidence to stretch further next time.6 You had to for guests. Perl. If they get something wrong, it's usually not realizing they have to be inferior people.7 Of what? And because of supply and demand, they pay especially well.8

If free copies of your content are available online, then you're competing with publishing's form of distribution, and that's why they do it so well.9 Another trick I've found to protect myself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to customize something for an individual client's complex and ill-defined needs.10 I make a note of what surprises me most about them is how conservative they are.11 It didn't seem to harm us. He redefined the problem as: make one that's beautiful.12 Prediction is usually all we have to rely on. As you accelerate, this drag increases, till eventually you reach a point where the adults sit you down and explain all the lies they told you. It's exciting to chase things and exciting to try to guess answers.13 Combine this with the confidence parents try to instill in their kids, and every year you get a valuable new resource you can use to figure out what he meant. One, the CTO couldn't be a first rate hacker, because to become an eminent NT developer he would have if the founders had given the VCs what they wanted, when they wanted it, and focus our efforts where they'll do the most good.

A few steps before a Rubik's Cube is solved, it still looks like a mess. There were a lot of false positives. At least, that's how they see it. If it fails, that is. But it's certainly possible to do things that make you stupid, and if you can, as Steve Jobs does, make satisfying you the kind of productivity that's measured in lines of code: the best programmers can solve a given problem in a tenth the time. Hackers & Painters. Particularly to young companies that are growing fast, but haven't been doing it for long enough to have grown big yet. Do we want to get the resulting ideas past other people's. Well, there precisely is Montaigne's great discovery. Note too that determination and talent are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the 1960s.14 It's one of the most spectacular lies our parents told us was about the death of our first cat.

But no one those days was paying a lot more than Yahoo. Conversations with corp dev is not doing a bad job of talking to them before they are. And I think we may be good at what we're good at for the same reason we're bad at.15 When you're too weak to lift something, you don't need either of those. It's something they plunge into, working fast and constantly changing their minds, and why companies pay now for Bloomberg terminals and Economist Intelligence Unit reports. The time was then ripe for the question: if the study of ancient texts became less about ancientness and more about texts. If they're only paying a twentieth as well. But this harmless type of lie can turn sour if left unexamined.16 We want kids to be innocent so they can get the most done. The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago.

If you're really productive, why not modern texts? The place to look is where the line ends. I think founders will increasingly be the fate of anyone who wants to get things done. When you see something that's taking advantage of new technology to give people something they want that they couldn't have before, you're probably better off thinking directly about what users need. And I think this sort of thing it becomes national news. The less it costs to start a company. In the hundred meters, you know in 10 seconds who's fastest.

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I know when this happened because it doesn't change the meaning of life.

Currently we do at least 150 million in 1970. Patrick Pantel and Dekang Lin.

Just use the name Homer, to a car dealer. A supports, say, but no doubt often are, but those are writeoffs from the most difficult part for startup founders tend to use some bad word multiple times. Ii. I'm not against editing.

Of the remaining outcomes don't have enough equity left to motivate people by saying Real artists ship.

But if they do for a patent troll, either. If our hypothetical company making 1000 a month grew at 1% a week for 4 years.

It should not try to get elected with a screw top would have disapproved if executives got too much. Another tip: If doctors did the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to believing anything in particular made for other reasons, the switch in mid-game.

Good and bad technological progress, however. Y Combinator makes founders move for 3 months also suggests one underestimates how hard they work. This is the accumulator generator benchmark are collected together on their companies took off? But that doesn't seem to have to talk about startups in Germany.

I may be exaggerated by the government to take board seats by switching to what you really want, like selflessness, might come from meditating in an urban legend. And if you know Apple originally had three founders? When you're starting a company if the students did well they do now.

After Greylock booted founder Philip Greenspun out of business, having spent much of the biggest winners, from hour to hour that the worm infected, because investing later would probably only improve filtering rates early on?

We Getting a Divorce? Perl.

Don't invest so much from day to day indeed, is a huge, overcomplicated agreements, and b when she's nervous, she doesn't like getting attention in the sense that there were about the same reason I stuck with such tricks will approach.

But it's useful to consider behaving the opposite way from the CIA. There are successful women who don't like to invest at any valuation the founders. But while this sort of things you waste your time working on is a dotted line on a scale that Google does. 0001.

But try this experiment is that you're not going to create a great deal of competition for the future.

VCs thus have a standard piece of casuistry for this essay will say that it refers to instant ramen would be more likely to come in and convince them. But this seems an odd idea.

You're going to drunken parties. I have no real substance. VCs should be working on Viaweb. But iTunes shows that people get older.

After a bruising fight he escaped with a slight disadvantage, but in practice money raised as convertible debt is a shock at first, but this sort of person who would never have left PARC. Again, hard work is in the Valley has over New York, people who did it lose?

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thesarosperiod · 4 years

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Thank you, that story is really beautiful! I really don’t know a lot about Wilde yet and I think most stories I’ve heard about him at this point were about him being extra af, so this one really makes him seem even more intriguing of a person to me. If you have the time, I’d love to hear some more about him!

yes ofc! so i just did an overview of his life here (and it may be riddled with typos, my apologies), but i didn’t talk too much about details, so here’s a list of a couple other interesting things about wilde:

during his ongoing feud with the marquess of queensberry, wilde had finished his most famous play, the importance of being earnest. he’d gotten word that the marquess was planning to show up on opening night and just. straight up throw him a bouquet of rotting vegetables onstage. wilde found out about this and, being pissed and knowing this would cause a major scandal, had the marquess barred from attending the play.

he wrote a play called salome, which is by far the least known of his theatrical works. it depicts the story of salome, the stepdaughter of herod, who requests the head of john the baptist as a boon from the king. since the play depicted bibilical characters, wilde did a lot of work-arounds to try to keep the play from getting banned- never using the names “jesus” or “christ,” calling john the baptist “jokanaan,” etc. unsurprisingly, this didn’t work out very well for him and the play was banned for a time.

wilde wrote salome in french, and when it was published, he credited bosie douglas as the translator- in truth, bosie had translated it but wilde thought that (in my words, not his) it sucked, so he did it himself and gave bosie the credit.

wilde had a lot of respect for women, inspired by his mother from a young age. at one point he was an editor of a magazine called the lady’s world- wilde promptly renamed it to the woman’s world, put more serious articles in the magazine instead of solely fashion and arts, and also took contributions from women, including his wife and mother.

wilde wrote a lot of so-called aristocratic comedies, but these comedies can be read as a mockery of the false moral code of english upper class in a lot of ways. for example, a woman of no imporance shows the double standards for morality that existed between women and men at the time. he would also include taboo subjects, such as extramarital relationships and illegitimate children, in his plays in a way that was meant to shock his morally upright audience. because of this, wilde would basically write plays making fun of the aristocrats, and those same aristocrats he was making fun of would pay to see his plays and treat them like comedies, often completely missing the messages underneath.

#i just love his life man #there's so many cool things to learn #i don't know the half of it #also just to be clear: i'm not saying he was 100% a good person #he was a white upper-class christian male #there's a lot about him that's not great #but i judge him with a historical lense yk #anyway thank you for the ask!#hatesbananas #asked and answered #oscar wilde

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aesthetic-uni · 5 years

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World building for my Good Omens Au

First off I can’t believe I’m writing an AU for FUCKING BIBILICAL FIGURES-

Alright I am working on my designs form Crowley and Aziraphale, but it might take a bit so here’s some world building!

Gabriel is Zeus, with a lot less fucking around. He does have the hots for one god, Beezlebub, the god of magic

It’s between Uriel and Sandalphon for being Hermes.

As previously mentioned, Beezlebub is the god of magic, and because I love them they have a bigger role in the story. Mostly being blunt and saying “My boss wants to fuck you. Please fuck him im so tired of hearing his pining.”

Just to clarify my reasoning as casting Crowley as Persephone and Aziraphale as Hades, it was a really tough desicion, but eventually I decided on Crowley being Persephone for screaming at his plants.

“Oh! There is Lady Persephone! May we-“ “YOU MOTHERFUCKERS BETTER GROW BETTER OR ILL FEED YOU TO THE DEERS!!!” “.....we’ll just go pray at her temple”

Crowley is as genderfluid as he is in the show. He’ll mostly be referred as “Lady Persephone” by mortals due to the fact he’s also a fertility god.

Aziraphale does love food still, and he cooks often.

Aziraphale will try to come off as a good king to his dead subjects, but is an absolute bastard to Gabriel. This is why you got sent to the Underworld

Aziraphale is less focused on the “King of the dead” and more focused “God of Wealth”

The rich one? More like, the one with rich taste!

Ligur is the god of death because he’s the only competent motherfucker in the show (I think I still haven’t seen it)

Micheal will be Athena because, duh.

I think I’m making the character too OOC whatever

I don’t know who should be Demeter yet! Please leave suggestions!

Edit: thank the wonderful @foxtamer113 for suggesting Hastur to be Demeter! Hastur is now Demeter

Because of this, I have made some changes (if it’s crossed out it’s changed)

Ligur is now Hermes because he’s still the only competent motherfucker in this show

Uriel is now the god of death and like Beezlebub is just tired that her boss won’t ask Crowley out already.

I’ll figure something for Sandalphon later.

@foxtamer113 pulling a Ligur and being more competent than me, suggested Sandalphon as Hephaestus. I fully support this idea

I’ve also decided to add Dagon as Ares. Dagon and Sandalphon won’t really have a role in the au, but it’s fun to assign roles netherless

More info about Crowley, he loves to turn into a snake and slither away from the nymphs assign to protect him. This is how he’ll meet Aziraphale, but not all the facts are worked out yet

I have decided the Them will be Cerberus. No I will not take constructive criticism. In form one (one head) his name will just be Adam. In form two (three heads) their name will be Pepper, Brian, and Wensleydale

Anathema will be Hera, and is not married to Gabriel (obviously). She’s just watching all of this play out, amused. She will fully support the idea of marrying Crowley and Aziraphale

PFT SPEAKING OF YOU KNOW THAT ONE PRETTY DEMON THATS GOING AROUND?! PEOPLE CALL HIM ERIC I THINK?! HE’S GONNA BE APHRODITE

I got more shit so here’s So more shit!

So, I’m not sure if I’ll change the roles of the them, but for now, Warlock will be Eros

Both Warlock and Eric HATE Hastur, and Warlock loves Crowley. Crowley often takes care of Warlock since he’s still a young god

“The mortal named you Kore? That’s stupid, and degrading.” “Well I don’t get much of a say do I? Plus it was my father who began calling me that and it stuck.” “Well why don’t you change it?” “To what.” “Persephone.” “...”

Five seconds later

“WHY ARE THE MORTALS CALLING YOU PERSEPHONE?!”

#uni talks about the universe #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #gabriel #beezlebub #uriel #micheal #ligur #sandalphon #hades and persephone au #hades and persephone #persephone!crowley #hades!aziraphale #pls help

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udoudochukwu · 5 years

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What not to Do When Your Partner Cheats on You

Infidelity in marriage I guess should be as old as the marriage institution itself. It is the act of going contrary to the consented sexual exclusivity in the relationship. Once this happens and the cheated partner realizes it, it breeds animosity, hatred, regret, anger and the likes.

Bibilically, morally and by the standard of the society, infidelity is not acceptable. Yet people continue to…

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dalyunministry · 5 years

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How was JESUS towards unbelievers?

Let's take a look at Bibilical relevation at How was he towards unbelievers?

Matt. 11:19, "The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.”

Luke 5:29-32, "And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax-gatherers and other people who were reclining at the table with them. 30 And the Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, 'Why do you eat and drink with the tax-gatherers and sinners?' 31 And Jesus answered and said to them, 'It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.'”

John 2:1-2, "And on the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there; 2 and Jesus also was invited, and His disciples, to the wedding."

As you can see in Matt. 11:19, Jesus was accused of being a "gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners." The simple fact is that Jesus was apparently keeping the company of unbelievers. This doesn't mean that Jesus was sinning or that he was being gluttonous or getting drunk. The point is that he was in their company enough that he was accused of being like them.

In Luke 5:29-32, Jesus went to Levi's house where there were tax gatherers and sinners. A tax-gatherer was a Jew who worked for the Roman government collecting taxes in Israel. They were so hated by the Jews that they had their own category. Think about it, there were "sinners" and there were "tax gatherers." These reviled and often hated people were, apparently, found in the acquaintance of Christ himself. He didn't mind being around them, but we have to understand something very important that Jesus said. In Luke 5:32, "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." The righteous were the self-righteous, who were too blind to recognize their own sinfulness. Jesus was saying he was talking to the sinners, those who were in need of him, those who recognized their need to be delivered from sin.

Finally, in John 2:1-2 we see that Jesus went to a wedding. There were a lot of people there, and we can be sure there were those present who were "less than sanctified." In fact, in the wedding of Cana Jesus performed his first miracle where he changed water into wine. Jesus was not so self-righteous that he would not drink, go to weddings where unbelievers were, or hang out with people who were labeled as sinners.

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ippyg · 7 years

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MDW '17

It’s Wednesday. By now BBQ parties have been cleaned up, sun headaches and hangovers are gone, and most people are back to work. There’s nothing wrong with any of those things; I’ve partaken in all those activities. In fact, we should really make the most of that weekend, why? Because troops of our armed forces made the ultimate sacrifice, giving up their lives, so that we could live ours in a free and glorious country: the United States of America.

For this reason, we should enjoy this weekend we're blessed to have. Furthermore, we should honor our fallen heroes. Although our brothers and sisters may be gone, it's up to us to keep their memory alive and well. Below you'll find a text written for NPR by my former Company Commander. He is also author of a new book: Do Good and Fear No Man (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1478787244/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Ua5lzbN8N275D)

I highly recommend it and without further ado, here's his story for NPR.

This story was written for National Public Radio's Storycorp program in 2007.

This story is about some of the finest men I've ever had the distinct honor of knowing and serving with. They are what I consider to be one of the best Infantry units in the Marine Corps, Echo Company, 2d Battalion of the 6th Marine Regiment. I was fortunate enough to be the commander of this unit from 2004 through 2006 and deployed twice in that brief time to Iraq and Afghanistan. This story is about those men while deployed to Fallujah Iraq in the winter of 2005/2006.

While deployed to Fallujah, we lived in the maintainence bay of the Fallujah Train Station located on the north side of the city. Our area of responsibility was the northwestern part of the city which included the slums, the open air markets and the bridege of the Euphrates River made famous by four unfortunate Blackwater employees, and a rural stretch of countryside that bordered the Euphrates known as Azragia. The majority of the city's population, to include some of its most dangerous streets were in our sector. All of our sector was patrolled almost exclusively on foot. There was no better way to know your area and the people in it than a foot moble security patrol.

We chose the call sign "Bounty Hunter" for our mission in Iraq. In Afghanistan, the company adopted the company call sign "Infidels" as a direct result of the beheadings that Al Queda was doing at the time. If those guys considered themselves holy warriors by cutting the heads off helpless non-combatants begging for their lives, we stood for the exact opposite and wanted to make sure we were counted among their enemies. Once in Iraq however, we worked closely with the Iraqi Army and police and didn't have time to explain to each new organization why we chose such an inflamitory call sign, even though when we explained it, it made sense to them. In the end, the call sign "Bounty Hunter, was the choice of the company, narrowly beating out the call sign "Rick James" and "Raider."

The Company First Sergeant is the senior enlisted advisor to the company commander, ours was First Sergeant Zickefoose. He came up through the ranks as a sniper and was a Silver Star recipient from the first gulf war. He was an amazing Marine who led by example in all things and really held the company together. In October, he had the foresight to write to an organization called Operation Santa, which sends Christmas presents to servicemen overseas. All though the months of November and December, boxes filled with wrapped Christmas presents slowly arrived addressed to the First Sergeant. The unopened boxes were kept in a storage container, out of sight from the Marines until Christmas Eve. That night, after our evening meal, the First Sergeant, company radio operators and I unloaded each box and went down the list of names of everyone in the company to ensure each Marine had a couple of presents to open on Christmas morning. By morning, all the presents were scattered around a decorated Christmas tree that someone sent from home. At 0700, everyone in the company was called into our chow hall for a company meeting, unbeknownst to them the presents that awaited.

The First Sergeant and wished everyone a Merry Christmas and served breakfast while the platoon sergeants handed out presents with santa hats on their heads. The presents weren't much, mostly deck of playing cards, socks, candy, a few board games, etc. But the coolness of opening a wrapped Christmas present in the spartan conditions of a forward operating base in combat cannot be understated. Presents and hot chow were taken to the men on post and to our observation post in the city. That evening, we cancelled our patrols, had a special Christmas meal of roast beef, turkey, masched potatoes , dressing, green beans, corn and even chocolate cake. We let the Marines smoke cigars and cigarettes in the chow hall while we watched the only Christmas movie anyone could get their hands on...Elf with Will Ferrell. It was a good day, and we needed a good day.

About a month earlier, we lost one of the best Marines in the company, Corporal Joshua Snyder was killed 30 November 2005 by an enemy sniper. Up until that point, IEDs, grenades, RPGs and small arms ambushes were just a nuisance to us. They were a concern to our patrols, but largely ineffective. Accurate sniper fire was the only thing the insurgents found that could affect us. The Marines set aside a Christmas present with Corporal Snyder's name on it. At that point, we were still optimistic that we could finish our deployment with minimal casualties. That attitude would soon change.

On a night patrol in the city, late one night in January 2006, PFC Kyle Brown kept seeing something following him from the rooftops. There was a curfew in the city at night, so there was absolutely no movement that was not friendly forces moving around. He later told his fireteam leader that he thought he saw a winged creature jumping from rooftop to rooftop, 30 feet or more at a time. He said he could see it with his night vision goggles on and with his naked eye, but no one else on the patrol reported seeing such a thing. He said he wanted to shoot at it, but wouldn't be able to accurately say what he was shooting at. What ever it was scared him enough to talk to the battalion Chaplain and the most religious kid in the company, Corporal Felipe Barbosa. Corporal Barbosa was a devout Christian and could often be found reading his Bibile when others were watching movies or playing with their personal playstations. After several conversations with Corporal Barbosa, PFC Brown, who was previously unreligious, converted to Christianity and was saved. But in the following days, he still seemed distant and distracted like he couldn't get what he'd seen out of his mind. We never found out what it was.

I woke up on the morning of January 7th 2006 with the radio watch in our command post yelling, "QRF! QRF!" which meant for the quick reation force to get ready. We always had a platoon of Marines on standby with gear staged and manifested, ready to leave at a moment's notice. As i was putting my gear on, the radio watch stuck his head in my room and said that one of our patrols was ambushed and had taken two killed and one wounded. I rushed into the command post as the quick reaction force assembled. I tried to make radio contact with the patrol to pin point their location and let our higher headquarters know what was happening but was unable to reach the patrol and could hear the firefight growning in intensity outside. The QRF was ready in minutes and we zoomed out of the gates and through the narrow and winding city streets towards the sound of the guns. It was about 0630 in the morning, it has just rained and there were hardly any civilians on the street yet.

The patrol in the firefight was made of two squads on foot with 10 men in each. They moved along indepedent routes a few blocks from each other using a technique called satelite patrolling. If one squad got in trouble, the other would always be in a nearby position to assist.

In this case, one squad had been ambushed by a group of insurgents using sniper fire and automatic weaons, which put the squad in a very difficult position. The squad not caught in the ambush was quickly able to maneuver behind the insurgents and fire on them, forcing them to withdraw. The whole ambush lasted about 5 minutes.

As the enemy withdrew from the fight, the Marines caught in the ambush had moved into nearby houses to treat the wounded as best they could. When the QRF and I rolled up on the scene, the streets looked like they'd been hosed down with blood. The squad caught in the ambush was clearly distraught by trying in vain to save the lives of their best friends. The squad leader, Corporal Gagliano quickly relayed to me that a sniper shot one of his Marines, Corporal Brett Lundstrom, who immediately collapsed unconscious in the street. Without hesitating, the platoon Corpsman, Doc Engles rushed into the open to get him when he too was hit. The bullet went into the side of Doc's upper chest,through his side and hit his arm on the way out. He ran for cover on the opposite side of the street from his squad and rested behind a parked car. When Doc saw Marines about to rush across the street to come to his aid, he motioned for them to stop, that he would run back across the street to them to prevent them from needlessly exposing themselves. He made it about halfway before he collapsed from his own wounds. The squad threw smoke grenades and returned fire to cover the attempted to rescue Corporal Lundstrom. The enemy opened up a heavy volume of fire into the smoke which struck and killed PFC Jeriad Jacobs instantly. At this point, the insurgents were forced to withdraw by the platoon's maneuvering squad. That's about the time the QRF and I rolled up on the scene. While coughing up blood, Doc Engles had given directions on how to best treat the other wounded Marines before going into shock himself. Looking at his face, I thought he was dead when they carried him from the building. The wounded were quickly loaded onto trucks and driven off to Fallujah Surgical hospital, known as "Charlie Surg" and an immediate search was set out for the insurgents. All available assets were called in, to include helicopter gunships and mounted platoons in Hummvees from adjcent units. The entire area was cordoned off and a house by house search followed.

The helicopter gunships overhead gave the direction and distance of two military aged males running south from our position. As the Marines pursued the fleeing insurgents south, a report came over the radio of a Marine down in the rear of our formation. The command vehicle quickly turned around and rushed to the scene where I could see an M-16 lying in the street and several Marines taking cover behind a small corrugated aluminum kisosk on the south side of a large 4 way intersection. PFC Kyle Brown had been seriously wounded and needed an urgent medevac. We positioned the command vehicle as best we could to provide protection to the Marines coming under increasingly heavy fire. As it turns out, when the Marines crossed the intersection headed south, two RPGs were fired at vehicles on the cordon and sniper and automatic weapons fire began to engage the rear of our formation from buildings on the north side of the road. Just like a scene out of a move, First Sergant Zickefoose exited the command vehicle on the enemy side and under a hail of bullets, calmly signaled to all available Marines in the area what buildings the insurgents were firing from. He then assessed our casualty and let me know we needed an urgent medevac.

Thanks to the First Sergeant's efforts, the buildings occupied by the insurgents began to disappear in a wall of smoke from the impaces of the Marines' suppressive fires just as the medevac vehicles arrived. The medevac vehicles that carried the last group of wounded Marines to the hospital were just blocks away when Gunnery Sergeant Stewart heard the call over the radio and headed toward our position. Despite all the firing by the enemy, PFC Brown was the only man hit and he was quickly loaded on a Hummvee and off to the hospital. But as the vehicle departed, it was struck several times by enemy fire and disabled. Aware of the dire circumstances, the vehicle commander, Staff Sergeant Donnie Bridges, commandeered a passing Iraqi Police truck in order to expedite the trip to the hospital. The Marines left the shot up Hummvee at a U.S. checkpoint and quickly loaded everyone into the police vehicle. The Iraqi police truck was nothing more than a Nissan pick up truck with armor bolted on the sides for the bed to better protect those riding in the back. It was both faster and more maneuverable than the Hummvee, but being mistaken for insurgents and being shot by friendlies was now a significant possiblity. To prevent this potential fratricide, one of the Marines in the back, Lance Corporal Delillo, contacted the battalion Watch Officer to advise him of the unorthodox medevac vehicle now being used and hoped like hell that the word would make it down to the guards at the gate by the time the speeding Iraqi police truck came into range. Simultaneously, Lance Corporal Delillo also assisted the Corpsman, Doc Routson, by applying hand pressure to PFC Brown's wounded neck while a tracheotomy was performed. The Marine's later recalled that standing in the back of a speeding Iraqi police truck, waving to the guards as they approached the gate was one of the scariest things they did in Fallujah. Thanks to their teamwork and quick thinking, the word did get passed to the gate guards and they arrived at teh hospital without further incident. Sadly, PFC Brown's wounds were too great to overcome and he died upon arrival.

Back to the firefight... Once the medevac was on its way to the hospital, First Sergeant Zickefoose quickly coordinated with me and led the squad that was pinned down in an assault on the buildings occupied by the insurgents. His quick thinking and decisiveness in the face of sniper and machine gun fire forced the enemy to withdraw and prevented them from inflicting further casualties on teh company from a position of advantage. As the enemy withdrew, we pursued them through the city for the next several hours, clearing all houses in the area of any remaing insurgents. As the fighting moved from house to house, First Sergeant Zickefoose remained with the lead squad and constantly exposed himself to enemy fire in order to protect the Marines around him. As a direct result of his stellar combat leadership, there was not a single Marine or civilian casualty during the remainder of the fighting, despite receiving small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire for the rest of the afternoon. At the end of the day, 23 insurgents were sent to the regimental detention facility for further processing.

We held a memorial service for our falllen brothers a few days later. It's the best way for the Marines to begin putting closure on the loss of some of their closest friends. After the eulogies have been said for their fallen by the commanders and friends, the roll is called. Names of some of the Marines in the company are called and they all answer present. Then the name of the fallen is called three times, each time with more emphasis to make sure he's not present. "Corporal Snyder. Corporal Joshua Snyder. Corporal Joshua D. Snyder." Taps is played after the third calling of the name while the entire formation presents arms to the rifle, boots and helmet memorial. All the talent in hollywood cannot capture the emotion and drama at this moment. I've seen tears stream down the faces of some of the toughest men I know. PFC Brown was eulogized by Corporal Barbosa, the Marine who led him to Christ. Sadly, three weeks later, Corporal Barbosa was killed in a tragic vehicle accident. It's almost as if his work in this world was done when he led PFC Brown to Christ and he was called home to the Lord.

The rest of the story in a nutshell, we didn't have another combat casualty after the morning of 7 January. Yet everyday, several times a day for the next 3 and 1/2 months, the Marines still had to put their gear on and patrol the same streets and walk among the same people that took the lives of their friends. They didn't always enjoy it, but the got the job done. By the end of their tour, the Marines of Echo Company had captured or killed more known insurgents than just about the rest of the battaion combined. The incredible resilience and professionalism of the men of Echo never ceased to amaze me.

We later learned that the sniper that stung us so badly that January morning was firing from a modified vehicle much like the DC sniper in 2002 and we adapted our techniques to deny him any additional opportunities. And much to our chagrin, we never caught or killed him. He was killed however, on the outskirts of Fallujah by 3rd Battalion 5th Marines just after we left. It would have been nice for us to get him, but in the end, I'm just glad he's dead.

The majority of the Marines I had the honor of serving with in Echo Company got out of the Marine Corps in the months after we returned to the states. I still run into a few on active duty here and there and its always good to see them. Doc Engles recovered fully and greeted us on the tarmac when we got home.

Before handing command of the company over to the new guy, I tried to leave everyone with what little wisdom I've gained from our experience in Iraq. "In the end," I said, "your life is not about you. You're in the middle of it, but believe it or not, your life is about everyone else around you and how you choose to influence them with the short time you have. It's your responsibility to make the most of each day and each breath that God puts into your lungs. Remember Josh Snyder, Jeriad Jacobs, Kyle Brown, Felipe Barbosa and Brett Lundstrom who left their futures in Fallujah intersections of Henry and Fran, Cathy and George and Cathy and Frank streets. Tell their stories and how they died for their country, and for their brothers in this company. " They are all my heroes. The best example of selflessness in teh company was Sgt Joshua Frazier, who ran out under fire on the morning of 7 January to drag PFC Brown to safety. He volunteered to return to Iraq for a third tour when he was killed by a sniper, 6 February 2007.

I closed with part of a speech stolen from a past Marine Commandant called the Eagle and the Wolf. "Inside me, inside each of us, there is a battle raging between the eagle and the wolf. The eagle represents everything you ever hope to accomplish in life... love, money, happiness, success, accomplishment, power, etc. The wolf represents your accuser, the little voice inside your head that constant tells you that you're not good enough. You can't make it. You're not smart enough. They'll never accept you. You don't belong here. You're not good looking enough. In the end, who wins this battle? ....the one you feed.

Link: https://facebook.com/notes/david-pinion/echo-company-national-public-radio-fallujah-story/163595290343730/

#USMC #NPR #facebook #fallujah #iraq #fallujah iraq #marines #united states marine corps #united states marines #devil dog #2nd mardiv #echo company #2/6 #Do Good and Fear No Man #memorial day #mdw2017

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ofsingingviolas · 7 years

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I have a Stalker || Dear Athena

Hello, my dear.

Guess what? I don’t know if I told you about the girl who came into my ask box, asked a question without context about my beliefs, then unfollowed me? After that, her mutuals started making posts about me. Never mentioning me by name, but calling me homophobic, a moron, hateful, and a few other nasty things.

I made two posts. One said, “I don’t understand why people unfollow me, for things I never even post about.” To which I was told that I was terrible for making lgbt people ‘feel like they have a false sense of security when I secretly hate them’… the girl who was attacking me used to be one of my favorite mutuals. Also, I never posted about my stance with the lgbt community because it didn’t matter on a PJO blog… That’s partially what they’re mad about. I’m apparently a liar.

I began to get anons, calling me a horrible person, a bitch, and a liar. Of course, they also called me homophobic and claimed I was using Christianity as a crutch to spread hate.

I had never spoken about the topic until she asked me. I didn’t want to lie to her, but I’m not going to hide from my beliefs. You know that.

My other post was directed at the people making posts about me. It was a call-out to stop vaguely posting about me and talk to me directly. The Original girl seemed to let the subject drop. While a certain person (of whom we have spoken about before) began answering asks and basically rallying people against me. (Though they claim they would never do that.) They called me a moron, said I deserved 0 followers, said I was hateful, and a terrible person. This person had already blocked me weeks before, making vague posts about me back then too.

Frustrated, I made a post on my personal blog. I believe it was along the lines of “why are you going to ask me things when you know you won’t like the answer?”

While answering one of the anons, I made the mistake of mentioning my personal blog where I post my Christian and political views. Three people came onto my personal blog and began sending me cruel messages there. By now, I had told a friend what was going on, and he went to the person posting crap about me and spammed their ask box. The person posting crap about me just got amused, thinking it was me.

By then I’d had enough. I posted an apology for my passive aggressiveness, but not for my beliefs. About five people blocked me. Three of them former mutuals. But the iconic thing is- the original girl who came into my ask box and started this didn’t block me. I had assumed she did. But no.

Now, months later… I accidentally ended up at her blog, and look what I found.

#this person i’m almost starting to deeply hate is also racist#and homophobic#and transphobic#and generally a complete dick disguised as a sweet person#god why#it pisses me off so much that she calls herself christian#but she isn’t even close to being actually good#i am an atheist#but my family is deeply catholic#my mom has a degree in teology#so trust me when i say i know the bible#and i know what jesus said#and it wasn’t what she is saying#nghhh i hate her so much

… She not only is still posting about me. But because I do not post anything about my beliefs on my pjo blog, this means she has been looking at my personal blog for reasons I cannot fathom. This was May 7th.

But that’s not all…

you can see that i’m still pissed at a thing that happened a while ago bc literally all of my blogs have switched from casually gay to Super Gay™. no one ever will be able to see my blog and think “hey how nice this is a fellow straight i can talk to about my prejudiced bullshit ideals” the amount of lesbianism will drive them away first

#also friendly reminder that if you follow me and/or are my mutual #and you also happen to believe i’ll go to hell bc i like girls #you must unfollow me right now #i do not have time for your thinly disguised homophobia

This was May 11th.

What I find amusing about this post is the fact I knew she was a lesbian when I followed her. Months ago. I never treated her any different than my straight followers. Why would I??? I don’t treat lgbt people different. I don’t agree with them. That doesn’t mean I hate them. (I unfollowed her after she came into my ask box. We have had no contact in months- except for her spying on my personal blog apparently.)

How do I know she has been on my personal blog?

#she is even islamophobic!!!#ugh#tbd

May 14th.

I had not posted anything about Islam for at least two days. Meaning she actually scrolled through the blog.

She’s stalking my blog and trashing me.

Now, I have some points I would like to make. Because frankly, I am frustrated, amused, and generally shocked. I had completely moved on and never mentioned anything. She is stalking me.

In reply to her first post about me.

“Is also racist-”

Please point me to where I have been racist. Also, note that I am a POC. I know that people of color are racist too, but I believe she assumes I’m white. Because I don’t think black people are oppressed by the government? Sure there are racist people who are wrong and should be held responsible for their actions. But as a whole, POC aren’t oppressed by a nation or by whites.

“homophobic, transphobic-”

I can’t really deny this one. Though I despise what the words imply. They imply that I’m afraid of them because I do not understand them. They imply that I hate them. I. Do. Not. Hate. Them. Disagreeing with someone does not imply you hate them! I disagree with Mormons. I disagree with people who think it’s okay to watch the movie before the book. I disagree with people who think it’s okay to have sex before marriage. That does not mean I hate them.

“and generally a complete dick disguised as a sweet person-”

Okay, I understand that you thought I accepted the lgbt community as this wonderful thing just like the rest of Tumblr. But besides the day that people were actually attacking me, when have I ever been a d*ck? I was passive aggressive that day. That was wrong of me. But I was also being attacked. You and your friends obviously have no problem with trashing someone that disagrees with you. I have left you alone, and yet you’re stalking my blog and making horrid posts about me behind my back. You seem sweet until someone disagrees with you. How am I the one being the terrible person here, Darlin?

“It pisses me off that she calls herself a Christian…”

No no, I AM a Christian sweetheart. Why does that make you angry? Christians are not supposed to get along with everyone.

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” - Matthew 10:34

“but isn’t even close to being actually good…”

Well, obviously I am not good.

“And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.” - Mark 10:18

Christians aren’t good. We strive to live according to the Word of God- imperfectly. But, I don’t think good is what you really mean. I think you mean nice or accepting or -dare I say it- tolerating. If that’s your intention, then you are right. I do not change my convictions. But when- when before you came into my ask box did I treat you unkindly? When have I treated anyone rudely?

“I’m an atheist- but-”

No, no, no ‘buts’… You lose your right to a ‘but’ when you admit you’re an atheist and have not asked me anything about my belief (other than one question about hell) -therefore have a bias and most likely do not properly understand what I believe. If you are not open to talking to me about it, do not tell me ‘but’. Also, if you are an atheist, why does my saying I am a Christian offend you? You do not even claim to believe as I do. How are you upset? Is it because I do not meet your standards of what a Christian is supposed to be? You are not my standard, Darlin.

“My family is deeply Catholic-”

Hon… Catholics don’t believe the same thing as reformed Protestants… They’re so so different… Also, this shows that you may not know the history of the church or anything other than your family’s Catholic beliefs… Why are you making yourself a standard of what a Christian should be? Also, what do your family’s beliefs have to do with me or this conversation? Unless they taught you what Reformed Protestants believe in detail, I do not see the connection.

“My mother has a degree teology. So trust me when I say I know the Bibile…”

Okay, this one I’m 90% sure is just a typo- but it’s theology….

I have three pastors I have classes with- seminary graduates. Three of my teachers have degrees in theology. My dad didn’t study theology in college, but has two books bigger than Order of the Phoenix on Reformed theology, and has read countless other smaller books on the subjects… He’s no pastor… but my dad knows his stuff.

But I still don’t see how this applies to the situation. You claim to be an atheist. Are you trying to compete with me? To prove you know more about the Bible than I do?

“I know what Jesus said, and it’s not what she says-”

…. Obviously. Obviously, it’s not what I say. Never listen to my opinion of what Jesus said. I’ve only posted actual bible verses. I’ve posted what the scripture says about itself.

(Also it’s kinda a known fact in the church that Catholics don’t read the scriptures personally- but I’m not sure how true that is for her family since her mom has a degree- but still… she’s an atheist I have my doubts…)

Another thing, Hon. Your mother has a degree. You don’t. Have you studied as much as she has? Have you dedicated time and work into learning what the Bible truly says? Or do you form opinions based off what you hear your mother say? Have you been through lessons and classes and genuinely tried to learn? To understand?

My guess, because you are an atheist, is no.

Also, I would like to point out that I have studied scripture since I was a child. I’ve had many different teachers with degrees in theology, Bible studies with my father, personal classes with the pastor’s wife who taught me and my best friend and equipped us well enough to write six essays which I then had to read in front of my church elders confirming that I know what I believe and that I am a full member of my church.

I know what I believe, Hon. Don’t worry about that. I’m grounded. I’m also being taught personally by my pastor every Wednesday night.

“She is even islamophobic…”

Well… Yeah. I disagree with Islam. That’s kinda a given. We’re two separate religions based in two separate gods, with two separate messages.

There were literally wars because Christians and Muslims don’t get along.

I’m not saying I hate them. Once again, disagree and hate are two separate things. But I do strongly disagree with everything about Islam. Frankly, I don’t understand how you are their ally, considering Isalm is the religion that says to kill all homosexuals. Also, you consider yourself a feminist, and Islam thinks a woman is equal to a dog. Have you every looked into their beliefs? I’m not talking about this stupid “accept everyone” American stuff - which is not true Christianity or Islam btw - but what they actually believe? My guess is, no. You haven’t.

What was she trying to accomplish? Why is she so mad?

Why is she still stalking me???

She’s this mad, and I haven’t spoken to her in months.

I’m… actually amused.

#DO YOU FEEL THE SALT #CAN YOU TASTE HOW BITTER I AM #WHAT EVEN IS THIS #WHY #I DON'T UNDERSTAND #dear athena #mumble bumble bee #christianity

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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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BUT THE MORE INVESTORS YOU HAVE IN A ROUND, THE LESS YOU CAN PREDICT HOW PEOPLE WILL USE IT

Most of the companies they started would hire more employees as they grew. They call the things that get discovered this way incidentalomas, and they worry that they'll have less leverage over the founders if the founders have any money. That has worked for Google so far. Programming language design will not be about whether to make your language strongly or weakly typed, or object oriented, or functional, or whatever, but about how to design type systems may shudder at this. Perl 5 if then that the language was suitable for writing serious programs, and yet it was already massively popular.1 They're like property management companies run by madmen. The most naive version of which is the one that matters. And in particular, the rich have gotten a lot richer.

The 2004 presidential election, though a disaster in other respects, conveniently supplied us with a county-by-county map of such places. But they're forty miles away.2 That hurt Microsoft a lot starting in the 90s. Server-based applications. And we know from experience that some undergrads are as capable as most grad students. Before us, seed funding came primarily from individual angel investors.3 My professor friends, when they're deciding where they'd like to work, consider one thing above all: the government.4

Notes

A round about the Airbnbs during YC. What I'm claiming with the founders of failing startups would even be tempted to do right. But filtering out 95% of the startup. But there's a continuum here.

He adds: I should add that none who read this to be a distraction. We managed to get endless grief for classifying religion as a naturalist. Their opinion carries the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to rejecting it. Though Balzac made a million dollars out of the causes of poverty.

Part of the lies we tell. This technique wouldn't work if the value of their assets; and with that additional constraint, you create wealth with no environmental cost. The ironic thing is, so the number of big companies weren't plagued by internal inefficiencies, they'd be called unfair.

Which means if you're attacked in this respect. That will in many cases be an open source software.

Thanks to Trevor Blackwell, Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, Hutch Fishman, Paul Gerhardt, and Paul Buchheit for sharing their expertise on this topic.

#automatically generated text #Markov chains #Paul Graham #Python #Patrick Mooney #constraint #Fishman #sup #Which #founders #applications #dollars #source #Balzac

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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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RETURN OF ARTISTS SHIP

And beneath that there's edge-finding, which makes images with definite shapes more engaging than mere blur. Robert and I both knew Lisp well, and nothing changes slower.1 In those countries, people color inside the lines. 7% and we have 11. This is especially true in a startup. Surely one had to force oneself to work on Y Combinator so much. Mostly they crawl off somewhere and die. Alcohol is a dangerous drug, but I'd forgotten why I hated it so much. For some reason, the more a project has to count as research is so narrow that it's unlikely that a project that satisfied that constraint would also satisfy the orthogonal constraint of solving users' problems.

There's more to do than anyone could.2 Knowing how to hack also means that when you have a smaller pool to draw from this is not a bad way to think about the whole experience. We put little weight on the idea. Did they explain the long-term goal of being the market in accommodation the way eBay is in stuff? A startup doing something related to entertainment might want to be using with respect to startup ideas is hard. That's the absent-minded professor, who forgets to shave, or eat some delicious food, than work on hard problems, but necessary. Even tenure is not real freedom.

Prestige is just fossilized inspiration. But you don't regard this time as the prize and the time you spend working as the pain you endure to earn it.3 I like. I didn't mean by this that Java programmers are dumb.4 I have wanted to do things right they should all just move to America. Because they begin by trying to ensure you get some of the hardest questions founders face.5 So I think it can scale all the way down to machine languages, which themselves vary in power. And it's clear why: there are an increasing number of things we need it for. You're getting things done. College is an incomparable opportunity to do that they can't?6 Both took years to succeed.

If not, you're in trouble.7 If there was going to be a property of objects after all. There is something very American about Feynman breaking into safes during the Manhattan Project.8 A lot of people aren't sure what's the top idea in their mind at any given time.9 They're bolder because they know what they're avoiding. I don't want to sell, there's another set of techniques for doing that. Running your own business offers neither.

So if you're ready to clip on that ID badge and go to work. But though it can sometimes be annoying to be surrounded by people who only think about one thing, it's the place to be if that one thing is what you're trying to solve problems where there might not be smart enough to realize this so far. When you're deciding what to do, there's a clear watershed at about age 12, when he got interested in maths. There are many exceptions to this rule. I cooked up this rather grim talk.10 Actors don't face that temptation except in the rare cases where they've written the script, but any speaker does.11 TV for a monitor, which seemed intolerably déclassé to a high-level, we wouldn't need a big development team, so our costs would be lower.12

I don't want to sell your company right now and b you're sufficiently likely to get an offer at an acceptable price.13 It's painful to keep them separate: you have to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. It was the usual story: he'd drop out if it looked like the startup was taking off.14 Because the list of n things, this work is done for you.15 They were mistaken. Entrepreneurship is something you do with a gleeful laugh. In fact, possibility is too weak a word. What's going on? There is a bit of a problem with retirement, though. And if the answer is no, tell them Sorry, but we're not willing to admit that to ourselves, because that's what it means. Sounds like a good plan. Let me mention some things not to do is turn off the filters that usually prevent you from taking one apart to see how it worked.16

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I'm not saying, incidentally, because the outside edges of curves erode faster. Obviously, if you tell them to be employees, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris points out that there were about the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to believing anything in particular took bribery to the biggest company of all, economic inequality is really about poverty.

Determination is the accumulator generator in other Lisp dialects: Here's an example of applied empathy. If they were going back to 1970 it would annoy our competitor more if we couldn't decide between turning some investors away and selling more of the VCs buy, because investors don't yet get what they're doing. Seeming like they will only be willing to provide this service, this is an interesting trap founders fall into two categories: those where the richest of their due diligence for VCs. I wonder if they'd like it takes more than determination to create giant companies not seem formidable early on?

People seeking some single thing called wisdom have been in preliterate societies to remember and pass on the critical path that they have to talk about distribution of income and b was popular in Germany told me about a form that asks for your protection.

We didn't let him off, either as an expert—which is the proper test of investor who says he's interested in us!

They say to most people will give you 11% more income, or Seattle, consider moving. Even now it's hard to say that a startup at a time machine, how could I get the rankings they want to trick admissions officers. I started doing research for this purpose are still expensive to start a startup. I'm not saying friends should be easy to read an original book, bearing in mind that it's boring, we found they used FreeBSD and stored their data in files too.

But this seems empirically false.

Why Are We Getting a Divorce? Delivered as if it were Can you pass the salt?

In fact, for the first phase of the year, he was skeptical about things you've written or talked about before, but I have no real substance. Which means if the growth rate to impress investors.

Prose lets you be more alarmed if you don't know yet what they're going to distinguish 1956 from 1957 Studebakers. In many fields a year for a really long time in your own. No one in a startup: Watch people who had been campaigning for the more educated ones come up with much food. The brand of an extensive and often useful discussion on the Internet.

Founders rightly dislike the sort of stepping back is one of those most vocal on the programmers had seen what GUIs had done for desktop computers.

He had such a statement would merely be eccentric.

What makes most suburbs so demoralizing is that in fact they don't know which name will stick. For example, if an employer.

All he's committed to rejecting it. But while such trajectories may be underestimating VCs.

Surely no one can have escaped alive, or at such a low valuation, that must mean you suck. Note: This is not to.

Economic inequality has been in the grave and trying to figure out yet whether you'll succeed. By buzz. But be careful about security.

Family, school, the jet engine, but its inspiration; the point where it does, the partners discriminate against deals that come to accept a particular number. Parker, William R. We didn't let him off, either as an employee as this place was a refinement that made steam engines dramatically more efficient: the editor, written in C and Perl.

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Should you hire another programmer? Essayer is the French verb meaning to try the cousin of our word assay, and an even stronger inverse correlation between performance and job security. How much does it mean even now? After sex, death is the default thing to do, and even so I didn't do it because they genuinely like to program in it? The existence of people like Douglas Bader and R. But no more ambitious than it was 25 years ago. We take for granted things we would consider shockingly luxurious. Intellectually, it is still incredibly unlikely that you get instant feedback from changes: the number of startups that raise money do it more than once. But startups often raise money even when they could just walk outside and check. Sometimes I can't think of a phrase to convey how extreme your attention to users should be, and I also ignore html comments, not even a nationalistic one.

Why do patents play so small a role patents play in the NBA, I'd feel like I was on vacation. Not even being a tax haven, I suspect. I studied click trails of people taking the test drive. Gradually our machines consist more and more programs may turn out that byte code is in itself a good thing. From their point of view. But events like Demo Day or AngelList and have access to the best deals, the way to make my files live online. Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of venture capital firms in the 1990s, except then people who liked it would have died anyway.1

But there are a lot of money it gets harder to find them early. I don't know if Plato or Aristotle while watching over their shoulders for the next release. I think, without macros?2 Splitting deals thus has similar advantages to confusing paternity. They just wanted to keep people from getting spammed.3 Maybe they can, because fundraising is a function of the number of startups does mean is that their users have money. When you can convince investors, and time always more than you could out of just Japanese.

There's no other name as good.4 One test adults use is whether you make something popular that we can't talk about yet. That's why I'm so optimistic about HN. '' When you decide what valuation to offer?5 No one can break that without breaking browsing. It's possible to have fun doing what we do. In 2002, most people who lead a precarious existence, they tend to do particularly well, because in the middle of the abstractness continuum.

If you do make users register, unless you want to act on new ideas, you produce something that seems like it's going to take money from investors one at a time till they feel they have the right kind of business, you can't outsell an Oracle salesman. 11:08 AM subject: Re: airbnb already spreading to pros I know you're skeptical they'll ever get hotels, but there's a good chance the person at the next table would know some of the most obvious examples is Santa Claus. There's never a point where the adults sit you down and why they're mistaken. But it's the same reason, as a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum takes just a click away.6 It's hard to give general advice about this, because there's only one restaurant left on the entire West Coast that still requires jackets: The French Laundry in Napa Valley. There just has to be a doctor. Nearly all good startup ideas is to get kids into better colleges, I mean type I startups.7 I think about the great hackers I know write programs. If you're building something differentiated from competitors by the fact that they value open-mindedness. We avoided dying till we got rich.

There's a name for people who didn't want them, we need to introduce now is valuation.8 If you throw them out, you find they'd often make good startups. Obvious comparisons suggest themselves, both to the process and the resulting hybrid worked well. If half the startups we fund to work this way. Options have largely been replaced with restricted stock, vesting over four years. I don't feel like you have a moral obligation to respond in a reasonable time. If you have something real to say, at the core of which was something called an inference engine. In fact they might have been 2400 years ago. 99. At first literature took a back seat to philology, which a seemed more serious and b was popular in Germany, where many of the first.

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And perhaps even worse, they are in a way to do. VCs will offer you an asking price. Some want to avoid using it, and if it gets you there sooner. Distribution of income and b I'm satisfied if I can hear them in advance that you're talking to a partner, including that Florence was then the richest country in the nature of an outcast, just that everyone's the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to rejecting it.

Mozilla is open-source but seems to be careful about security. One advantage startups have exits at all. Come From? In 1800 an empty plastic drink bottle with a real partner.

99 to—new things start to be higher, even thinking requires control of scarce resources, because the Depression. In practice the first question is only half a religious one; there is at fault, since that was the reason this trick merely forces you to stop, but I wouldn't say that intelligence doesn't matter in startups tend to be able to give them up is the lost revenue. Related: Reprinted in Gray, Donald J.

Robert in particular, because the rich paid high taxes during the Ming Dynasty, when politicians tried to lowball them.

When we work with the best ways to do due diligence tends to be like a month might to an audience makes people dumber. If the startup after you, what if they become well enough to do right. I'm going to have them soon.

The main one was drilling for oil, which usually revealed more than you otherwise would have gotten where they all sit waiting for the correction.

Apparently someone believed you have to deliver because otherwise competitors would take another startup to engage with slow-moving organizations is to write every component yourself, but essentially a startup in question usually is doing badly and is doomed anyway. A round VCs put two partners on your thesis. When I talk about real income, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris says that 15-20% of the word philosophy has changed over time, which is not how much would you have to turn into other forms of inequality, and should in some cases e.

Obviously this is certainly not impossible for a number of users comes from ads on other investors. And no, you should avoid raising money. The way to create giant companies not seem formidable early on? Build them a microcomputer, and mostly in Perl, and Reddit is derived from the moment; if anything Boston is falling further and further behind.

Thanks to Garry Tan, Langley Steinert, Jon Levy, Jessica Livingston, and Trevor Blackwell for sharing their expertise on this topic.

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