Comebacks when someone laughs at you

I didn't think to purchase parking at the presale, now I cannot find where to purchase parking anywhere for SPAC. Do they let you pay when you arrive. Does anyone have parking expierence at SPAC. My first visit coming up for the shows.

I made two different orders through temu last month. Both times speedx was the delivering (company). I never heard of them before and have never had anything be delivered by them so I went and did my research as anyone would. I noticed they have one number and one email. Both that they do not answer back to. Their website gives no further information In explaining what they do, who they are, when they were founded etc. My tracking information has been stuck on “carrier delay” at so and so facility. Each day it’s updated to that. From my understanding I’m never going to receive any of the things I ordered because one, they steal them, or two, they drop them off where they can be stolen. Luckily temu finally refunded me. It’s just a shame that they hired a third party company to deliver people’s belongings without any care just to save money on their end. I have reported the company numerous of times now in hopes that temu will drop them and go back to using usps like they always have for my packages. If you’re skeptical on whether you will receive your items, you should be because this company is definitely not one to be trusted. Good luck.

So there's this person the same age as myself I've become relatively close friends with over the last year. They are nonbinary but haven't come out yet, so most of their friends thinks they are a girl. We've got to know each other pretty well, and we met during a month-long event that made us close friends from the very beginning.
Recently I invited them to a Minecraft server I play on with my other friends and they also got invited to the general hangout Discord server for the friend group. We were playing Gartic Phone in Discord and there were some sentences/things including my name, created by my other friends, that I didn't really appreciate. I tried to tell them that but I didn't feel like they listened. It also wasn't the first time that kind of joke including me occurred and I've had to tell them to stop a couple of times before too.
Anyways, after both me and the person I think I'm in love with had left the voice chat, they called me in DM's and apologized for even continuing on the word with them being in the middle of the "chain". I told them that it was alright and not their fault, that it's my other friends, that started it, that I'm irritated at.
After that call ended I realized how compassionate and nice they was and I just kinda felt how much better they was than my other friends (who I to be honest are starting to get tired of). I think it was at that moment I fell in love with them. In the days since then I just have been inable to stop thinking of them, today I must have done it like at least 10 times!
And the thing is they will probably move to study at a school in the literal other end of the country! I've made them promise they will tell me when they visit my city (where their family will stay), but I still feel like I will have to act quickly on these feelings for it not to be too late. And I'm not even 100% sure I am in love!! Like conversation doesn't always flow very easily between us, sometimes it's hard to find something to talk about. However it kinda feels like that with other people for me also, so maybe it's nothing.
I should probably tell you about my other love, a girl that I was in love with for over a year without doing anything. I stopped being in love with her the same summer that I met the person I wrote about above. But anyways I met this girl a couple of years ago and I gradually started falling in love. The thing is that I overanalyzed it all and therefore alway doubted wether I actually was in love with her or not. So an entire year went with me thinking of her like every day or something crazy like that but without ever telling her. Then it became summer, during which we didn't meet, and after the summer I realized I wasn't in love with her anymore.
I'm afraid of doing the same mistake with the person I think I'm in love with now. Overanalyzing and not trusting my gut, and not daring to tell them until it's too late. So I really should just tell them right away but I am still thinking that maybe I should meet them one more time before making my decision. And then I'm also a little afraid that they will say no and stop being my friend, which would really suck.
Another thing is that I didn't consider neither the person I now have feelings for nor the girl I was in love with earlier especially beautiful. I think I fell in love more with their respective personalities and wit rather than their looks. I think it's worth considering though.
That was abou it, It's almost 1am now, I should really sleep, but I just had to vent this somewhere. I've probably also missed something important. There is no tl;dr because the post wasn't made with the kind of purpose that requires a tl;dr. If you want to give advice, you're welcome! Or just words of support or something IDK I just feel a little lost in emotions right now.

For me he is still the best player that I saw play the game but I feel like his careelegacy really tok a hit wit his move to PSG. There are a few reasons for it.
Firstly I think if he stayed at Barca (I know in the end he was pushed away so it wasn't his fault that he had to leave) he would be a "one club man" and I think everybody loves players who stay at one club no matter if they are successful at the club or not.
Secondly his first season there was really poor by his standards. And while his second season was better PSG as a whole didn't really achieved anything new (UCL). To be fair this isn't his fault alone but from the start there were talks that now that PSG have Messi they will/have to win the UCL. So when that eventually did not happen the transfer was seen as a failed one.
Lastly, durring his time there he never really seemed to get involved with the club like he was with Barca. Be it with the fans or with the club's off the field stuff. He just seemed like he is there to work (play football) and as soon as he is done he wants to go home.
Now again I still think he is the best player that I saw play but as a Barca fan as soon as he left the club he became just "another" football player in my eyes. So what are your oppinion on this? Did you continue to follow him/watch PSG games just because of him?

Chapter Four

1. … we were enslaved [משעבדים, MeShoo`eBahDeeYM] to fundamentals [ליסודות, LeeYÇODOTh] [of] the world.

“The word τα στοιχεια [ta stoikheia], the elements ... meant (a) the letters of the alphabet… (b) the elements of which a thing was composed, as the fire, air, earth, and water of which the world was thought to be constituted; (c) the elements of the universe, the larger cosmos, including the sun, moon, planets, and stars; and (d) the spirits, angels, and demons which were believed to ensoul the heavenly bodies, traverse all space, and inhabit every nook and cranny of earth, particularly tombs, desert places, and demented persons. These spirits were said to be organized like human governments. In Rom. [Romans] 8:38 Paul calls them ‘principalities’ and ‘powers.’ And vss. [verses] 9 and 10 of our present chapter indicate that he has them in mind in vs. 3. …
Paul … includes in ‘the elements of the universe’ all sub-Christian ideas and observances, both Jewish and Gentile. He regards these ‘elements’ as slave drivers who frighten men with curses for not propitiating them by observance of special days and seasons, food taboos, dietary fads, and circumcision. In Christ he declared his independence of Fate, Fortune, Luck, and Chance, and from astrology, the counterfeit religion and bastard sister of astronomy, whose practitioners exploited the superstition that the stars controlled men’s lives from birth to death.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 521 & 522)
“The elements of the world] A mere Jewish phrase, יסודי עולם הזה yasudey ‘olam hazzeh, ‘the principles of this world;’ that is, the rudiments or principles of the Jewish religion. The apostle intimates that the law was not the science of salvation; it was only the elements or alphabet of it.” (Clarke, 1831, vol. II p. 387)

1. But [אבל, ’ahBahL] as that was filled the time, sent forth, Gods, [את, ’ehTh] His son, born [of] woman, and subject [וכפוף, VeKhahPhOoPh] to instruction.

“The four words, το πληρωμα του χρονου [to pleroma tou khronou], the fullness of the time, express a whole philosophy of history. The Hebrew prophets and Jewish apocalyptists believed that their God was the creator of the universe and arbiter of the destinies of all men and nations. Nothing could happen that was not his doing, either directly or indirectly through angels and men. He had a time for everything, and everything happened exactly on time. … The completion of this present age would be marked by a blood-red revolution, in which all good men and good works would be ground under the heel of the tyrant, while the wicked reigned supreme. Then suddenly God would intervene with the lightning of judgment to snatch the world from the mouth of the bottomless pit and restore it to Paradise, whence it had fallen with the sin of Adam. Sorrow and sighing would flee away, and the Messiah would reign with the perfection of a theocratic king.
At this juncture, says Paul, when the appointed period of history was ‘full,’ god sent his Son γενομενον εκ γυναικος, γενομενον υπο νομον [genomenon ek gunaikos, genomenon upο nomon], ‘born of woman, bοrn under law.’ … Jesus was not only born under law, but was subject to it all his life. ...The ‘yoke’ of the Torah demanded that he observe the customs of his forefathers, such as wearing phylactery and prayer fringes, ceremonial washing of hands before eating, giving thanks at mealtime, praying at stated times, bringing tithes and sacrifices, and obeying the Ten Commandments.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 522 & 523)
Not to mention circumcision, kashrut, and the prohibition of associating with gentiles.
“Sent forth refers to God’s sending of his Son from his pre-existent state in heaven (I Cor. [Corinthians] 8:6; Phil. [Philippians] 2:6-8; Col. [Colossians] 1:15-17). Yet this Son was born of woman. There is nothing in these words, or elsewhere in Paul’s letters, to prove or disprove that he knew the story of the miraculous conception. His point here is that the Christ, although he was the pre-existent Son of God, did not come into this world with a body composed of celestial substance, but was woman-born like all other human beings. … It was very different from the conception of royal sonship in Ps. 2, where the king is called God’s ‘Son; because he has been chosen to be the Messiah. In Paul, Jesus is God’s Son by nature, and his Christhood follows by virtue of this sonship. This belief was the fundamental cause of the split between the Jews and the Christians. The lowly birth, the obscurity of Nazareth, and the fact that Jesus was a common laborer, constituted a grievous scandal in the eyes of all who were expecting their Deliverer to come riding on a chariot of clouds wielding the lightning of judgment. Paul’s gospel contradicts every form of hyperspirituality that fixes a gulf between God and his material world. On the other hand, his conception of the coming of Jesus was poles removed from the pagan stories of the births of heroes, savior-gods, and kings, whose legends were freighted with illicit relationships and lawless conduct like the lives of the devotees who had created them in their own image.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 523-524)
“Nothing is said explicitly about the Son’s preexistence, which is at most implied … born of a woman: … The phrase is derived from the OT [Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible] (Job 14:1 …). So born, Jesus submitted to the law by being circumcised and thus became capable of falling under its curse. But lest the Galatians draw a wrong conclusion, Paul [and The Interpreters’ Bible] does not mention Jesus’ circumcision. Instead of genomenon, ‘born,’ some patristic writers read gennomenon, and understood this ptc. [participle] as referring to Mary’s virginal conception; but this is anachronistic interpretation.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 787)

1. Accordingly [לפיכך, LePheeYKhahKh], you are not [אינך, ’aYNKhah] a slave anymore [אוד, ’OD], for if [כי אם, KeeY ’eeM] a son, and, if a son, then [אזי, ’ahZahY] also heir from favor [מטעם, MeeTah`ahM] [of] Gods.

“This is Paul’s proclamation of emancipation.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 528)
………………………………………… Worry of Shah’OoL to Galatians [verses 8–20]

1. In [the] past, in a time that you did not know [את, ’ehTh] Gods, you slaved [את, ’ehTh] who that in their nature [שבמנהותם, ShehBeMahHOoThahM] were not Gods.

“The Jews never ceased to ridicule idols and denounce idolaters… They demoted the old gods to the rank of demons and made a list of detractive names for them: angels, shepherds, princes; kings, emperors, benefactors, heroes; demons, personifications, idols, nonentities. Some were living, some dead; some were good, but were not God. Most of them were bad, and their idols were but images of ‘things of nought.’ …
Paul did not deny the existence of these beings whose ignorant worshipers called them gods, but he declared that they did not partake of the nature of God (I Cor. 8:4-6). God permitted them to plague mankind to punish sin, especially the sin of participating in the sacraments of the Gentile cults (I Cor. 10:19-22; 11:28-31). But Christ had conquered them and no Christian needed to fear them.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 529)

1. Behold, you are honoring days and new-[moons], seasons [מועדים, MO`ahDeeYM] and years.

“Days like the Sabbath and Yom hakkippurim [“Day of Atonement”] are meant; months like the ‘new moon’; seasons like Passover and Pentecost; years like the sabbatical years… Paul can see no reason for a Gentile Christian to observe these.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 788)
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Two the covenants [verses 21-26]

1. Say to me, you, the wanters to be subject to Instruction, have you not heard [את, ’ehTh] the Instruction?
2. Is it not written that to ’ahBRahHahM there were two sons, the one from the maid [האמה, Hah’ahMaH] and the second from the woman the free [החפשיה, HahHahPhSheeYah]?
3. But [אך, ’ahKh] [the] son [of] the maid was born according to [לפי, LePheeY] the flesh, and however [ואילו, Ve’eeYLOo] [the] son [of] the free upon mouth of the promise.
4. The words the these, they are a parable to two the covenants: the one from Mount ÇeeNah-eeY [Sinai], the birther to slavery, and she is HahGahR [“The Sojourner”, Hagar].

“It is well known how fond the Jews were of allegorizing; every thing in the law was with them an allegory: their Talmud [ancient commentary] is full of these; and one of their most sober and best educated writers Philo, abounds with them…
It is very likely, therefore, that the allegory produced here; St. Paul had borrowed from the Jewish writings; and he brings it in to convict the Judaizing Galatians on their own principles: and neither he, nor we, have any thing farther to do with this allegory, than as it applies to the subject for which it is quoted; nor does it give any license to those men of vain and superficial minds, who endeavour to find out allegories in every portion of the Sacred Writings; and by what they term spiritualizing, which is more properly carnalizing, have brought the testimonies of God into disgrace. May the spirit of silence be poured out upon all such corrupters of the word of God!” (Clarke, 1831, vol. II p. 390)
“Allegorical interpretation rests upon the belief that every word, figure of speech, and grammatical form in scripture has a special ‘spiritual’ significance besides its literal meaning. The theory is that the God who dictated it meant more than rests on the surface and that while he said one thing, he also meant something else in addition to the literal sense… The Greeks had long since applied the method to explain away the immoral things which the gods said and did in Homer… Then Greek-speaking Jews, like Philo Judaeus, employed it apologetically to read Greek philosophy into the O.T. [Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible], proclaiming that Moses had said all these good things long before and better than Homer and Plato.
The wonder is that Paul has so little allegory. His restraint is explained partly by his training as a Pharisee. The rabbis were suspicious of any interpretation of scripture that tended to make Jews lax in their observance of the law. Jews with Gnostic leanings, and those who considered some of their ancestral customs outmoded, could resort to allegory to justify their philosophy and conduct, while maintaining that they were the spiritual superiors of the conservatives who held to the letter of the law … His argument, however, is never strengthened by allegorical symbolism and typology, for these are convincing only to those who by imagination can find them so. Rather, as in Rom. 9-11, he introduces unnecessary complications such as the moral difficulties involved in predestination. His gospel does not rest on the quicksands of allegory, a specious method of interpreting scripture. Its interpretations are of interest to the historian not as correct representations of what the writers and first readers of the Bible had in mind, but only as source materials for understanding the life and thought of the allegorists themselves.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 540)

1. Hagar signifies [מסמלת, MeÇahMehLeTh] [את, ’ehTh] Mount ÇeeNah-eeY, that is in Arabia, and parallels [ומקבילה, OoMahQBeeYLaH] to Jerusalem of our day, for she is in slavery with her sons.

“… why does Paul mention Arabia…? Possibly because Mt. Sinai is in Arabia[?], which is Ishmaelite territory; he thus associates the Sinai pact with the eponymous patriarch of Arab tribes … Paul thus suggests that the law itself stems from a situation extrinsic to the promised land and to the real descendants of Abraham. Paul’s Jewish former co-religionists would not have been happy with this allegory.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 788)

1. But [אבל, ’ahBahL] Jerusalem from ascended [מעלה, Mah`eLaH], [the] daughter [of] freedom [חורין, HOReeYN] is she, and she is mother to us.

“The Jerusalem which now is was a most unholy “Holy city”, full of injustice, violence and murder, and subject to the cruel and wicked rulers imposed by a Gentile empire. But over against this Jerusalem of slavery lay an ideal celestial city, unseen at present, but destined soon to supersede it. Paul called it the Jerusalem above. Sarah, the free-woman, was the ancestress of its citizens, who were the people of faith and of freedom in Christ…
Paul speaks of Jerusalem above, because this new city of freedom already exists in heaven where Christ is, where dwell the souls of those who have died in Christ. But it also exists on earth as the church, the body of Christ, whose members are colonists from heaven sent to prepare men for the full establishment of God’s kingdom at Christ’s second coming (Phil. 3:20; Col. 3:1-3).
The biblical root of this conception of an ideal future and heavenly Jerusalem is Isa. [Isaiah] 54. Other descriptions appear in Ezek. [Ezekiel] 40-48; Zech. [Zechariah] 2:1-13; Hag. [Haggai] 2:6-9; Tob. [Tobias] 13:9-18 Ecclus. [Ecclesiasticus] 36; Pss. Sol. [Psalms of Solomon] 17:33. Historically the expectation assumed three forms. According to the earliest hope, God would build the new Jerusalem in Palestine and make it the capital of his theocratic world government. The plan of this glorious city was graven upon the palms of his hands (Isa. 49:16). From this idea it was but a step, especially for those influenced by Greek ideas, to think of this ideal Jerusalem as already existing in heaven. According to the Apocalypse of Baruch, God had shown it to Adam in Paradise before he sinned; to Abraham on the night mentioned in Gen. 15:12-21; and to Moses on Sinai, when he gave him the heavenly pattern for an earthly tabernacle (II Baruch 4:1-6; cf. [compare with] Heb. [Hebrews]12:22). The third conception combined these two ideas. The Jerusalem which was ‘above’ would come down to earth to be established in Palestine in place of the city that ‘now is’ (cf. Rev. [Revelation] 3:12, 21:2; II Esdras 7:26; 13:36; 10:54).
So the new Jerusalem belonged to both worlds and to both ages, to heaven and earth, to the present and the future. Its constitution was the new covenant, and its citizens were the men of faith in Christ, a new kind of freemen who traced their spiritual ancestry through the line of Isaac and his mother Sarah as heirs of God’s promise to Abraham. As for Ishmael and his tribe, they were the men of law, predestined to be slaves forever. Needless to say, the Judaizers found Paul’s allegorical exclusion of themselves utterly unacceptable. They believed that the Torah was God’s blueprint for all creation, and that it would be observed forever in the new Jerusalem. That, they said, was why God was going to purge the old city – to establish an order of life in which perfect obedience to his law would be possible.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 541-542)
“…it was a maxim among the rabbins, that, ‘Whatsoever was in the earth, the same was also found in heaven; for there is no matter, howsoever small, in this world, that has not something similar to it in the spiritual world.’ On this maxim, the Jews imagine that every earthly thing has its representative in heaven: and especially whatever concerns Jerusalem, the law, and its ordinances. Rab. Kimchi, speaking of Melchisedec, king of Salem, says, זו ירושלים של מעלה Zu Yerushalem shel me’alah – ‘This is the Jerusalem that is from above.’…
There is a spiritual Jerusalem, of which this is the type; and this Jerusalem, in which the souls of all the righteous are, is free from all bondage and sin: or by this, probably the kingdom of the Messiah was intended; and this certainly answers best to the apostle’s meaning, as the subsequent verse shows.” (Clarke, 1831, vol. II p. 391)

1. That see, is written:

“Chant, barren, not birthing, [רני עקרה לא ילדה RahNeeY ahQRaH Lo’ YahLahDaH] burst chanting and shouting, not travailing, [פצחי רנה וצהלי לא-חלה PeeTsHeeY ReeNaH VeTsahHahLeeY Lo’-HahLaH] for multitudinous are sons of her deserted than [מי, MeeY] sons of her mistress [כי-רבים בני-שוממיה מבני בעולה KheeY-RahBeeYM BeNaY-ShoMahMeeYHah MeeBeNaY BeooLaH].”
“A telling item in the counterpropaganda of the legalists was the argument that even among the Christians only a radical fringe consisting mainly of foreign Jews, of whom Paul was one, were proposing to abandon the law of Moses. …
In one respect his quotation of Isa. 54:1 does not fit Paul’s allegory. It was Sarah, the mother of freemen, who possessed the husband, and Hagar, the slave, who was the deserted woman. As usual with Paul’s illustrations (cf. Rom. 7:1-4; 11:17-24), the details cannot be pressed without making them go lame …
The Isaian figure to describe the plight of Jerusalem during the Babylonian exile grew out of a common experience in Hebrew family life. Childlessness, particularly the failure to bear sons, was great grief and disgrace. Such was the sorrow of Jerusalem; but the prophet bade her look forward with courage to the time when all her scattered children would come back to her (Isa. 54:3). God was her ‘husband,’ and he would treat his faithful remnant with everlasting lovingkindness, making them more numerous than the former population and giving them a heritage of great peace and prosperity (Isa. 54:13-17).” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 542)
“The prophet’s words are addressed to deserted Zion, bidding it rejoice at the return of the exiles.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 788)

1. But you, my brethren [τεχνα, tekhna, “children”], you are the sons of the promise, as was YeeTsHahQ [“He Laughed”, Isaac].

“The Judaizers claimed that Abraham had obeyed the law of Moses by anticipation, and that God’s promise was his reward. Consequently the descendants of Isaac were children of promise only if they followed Abraham’s example in obeying the law. Paul turned it the other way about: the promise must be taken on faith, not as credit for obedience.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 542)

1. And just as [וכשם, OoKhShayM] that then pursued, [רדף, RahDahPh] the son that was born according to [לפי, LePheeY] flesh, [את, ’ehTh] the son that was born according to the spirit, yes, also now.

“In Gen 21:10 Sarah, seeing Ishmael ‘playing’ with Isaac and viewing him as the potential rival to Isaac’s inheritance, drives him and his mother out. Nothing in Gen is said of Ishmael’s ‘persecution’ of Isaac, but Paul may be interpreting the ‘playing’ as did a Palestinian haggadic explanation of Gen 21:9 (see Josephus, ANT. [Antiquities] 1.12.3§215 …” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 788)
“A rabbinical tradition of the second century A.S. interprets the Hebrew participle מצחק [MeeTsHahQ, “play”] (LXX παιζοντα [paizonta] in Gen. 21:9 to mean that Ishmael’s ‘playing’ became so rough that Isaac’s life was in danger. This son of a slave is said to have shot arrows at Isaac to kill him, and Paul’s statement shows that some such tradition was current in his day. He applied it to the Judaizers who were trying to force the Christians to observe the whole law of Moses, and to the unbelieving Jews who were excommunicating the Christians and their families and getting them into trouble with the civil authorities (1:5; 4:17; 5:10; I Thess. [Thessalonians] 2:14-16).” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X p. 543)

1. But what says the Written [Scripture]?

“Banish [גרש GahRaySh] the maid and [את, ’ehTh] her son, for not will inherit [יירש, YeeYRahSh], son [of] the maid [האמה, Hah’ahMaH], with son [of] the free.”
“The quotation is from Gen. 21:10 … The speaker of these words is Sarah, who is filled with rage against Hagar and Ishmael. Abraham is represented as greatly grieved, but God is said to have sanctioned the demand of the cruel and jealous wife….
This story was one of the effects and one of the causes of the perpetual feud between the Israelites and the tribes that descended from Ishmael. The Hebrews were so sure that God wanted them to have Palestine that they found no moral difficulty in saying that it was God himself who had overruled Abraham’s conscience (Gen. 17:18-21). They affirmed that Ishmael’s character and destiny had been predetermined (Gen. 16:12). Consequently, even his circumcision at the age of thirteen could not make him a member of God’s chosen people. However great this innocent victim of a family feud might become by virtue of the halfhearted blessing conceded by an uneasy conscience (Gen. 17:20-21), he and his descendants were barred forever from the higher blessing. Theirs was to submit to the religious imperialism of the most favored nation or die. Moreover, all Abraham’s other sons except Isaac were barred from the promise and sent away ‘unto the east country’ (Gen. 25:5-6). And yet while all this was said to be the Lord’s doing, it was in the same breath declared to be the doing of the human actors in this drama of the nations. Sarah herself was said to have suggested that Abraham become a father by her Egyptian slave girl. Then, too, it was explained that Hagar’s flight from the cruelty of her mistress was voluntary, making her, rather than the callous compliance of Abraham, responsible for her plight ‘in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur’ (Gen. 16:7).
Paul’s use of Abraham’s expulsion of Hagar and her child has its parallel in the equally heartless treatment of Esau which he employs in Rom. 9-11 in his longer discussion of the divine process of selection. Here too it was assumed that the hatred generated by centuries of war for the possession of Palestine lay in the heart of God. “I hate Esau,” said Malachi (1:3), making God the speaker; and Rom. 9:6-13 presses it to the utmost limit of predestination. But the love of God in Christ Jesus made Paul’s heart better than his inherited doctrine … When the history of the struggle for the possession of “the Holy land” is allegorized to justify a doctrine of “election” which foredooms countless souls to an eternity of torment in a future hell, it becomes as morally atrocious as it is irreconcilable with Paul’s gospel.
Nevertheless Paul’s allegory gives the historian an insight into Paul’s mind as he wrestled with the insoluble problem of God’s sovereignty and human freedom.” (Stamm, 1953, TIB vol. X pp. 543-544)
“Paul bids the Galatians rid themselves of the Judaizers – and, ironically enough, obey the Torah itself.” (Joseph A. Fitzmyer, 1990, TNJBC p. 788)

I run some games at a local club where we do weekly one-shots. It's a lot of fun coming up with very short adventures but I am finding myself stuck in one particular area.
We have a few set levels that we run adventures for to enable people to turn up with characters, and for the higher-level (8), I am finding a lot of monsters I want to use as bosses have resistances to non-magical damage. This is fine sometimes, but I have found myself wanting to use larger enemy groups and the effective HP of these monsters starts to become a real issue when all the weapon damage is halved.
So, does anyone have any cool ideas to get magical weapons into the hands of the party at the very start of a one shot adventure (or soon after starting), that isn't just "you all start with a +1 weapon"
Ideas I have been toying with:
-falling through a loose floor into an abandoned (but not empty) vault
-a reverse heist where you can teleport in to the wizards lair but not out again
-an extraplanar entity of some kind appears, thrusts magical items at the party and says "hold these for a sec!" before vanishing.

Title.
I never learned how to flirt in middle school or highschool and never knew how to approach girls in a flirtatious sort of way (or any way for that matter). I was/am really oblivious to when a girl is flirting with me and trying to show interest, so I don’t know what is considered flirting or just being friendly.
Also, body language; idk what I should be doing to convey interest or what to pick up on if someone else is trying to show interest. I know that’s not really in the realm of OLD, but I’m pretty sure that should be something to know on dates.
I think I’m too serious of a person, but I’d like to be more playful when talking to people, especially if I’m trying to flirt with someone. I just don’t know what to say or do to communicate that. I can never think of anything funny or clever to say that would make them laugh. My mind just blanks and I default to having a serious conversation about boring shit that never goes anywhere. There’s no spice, it’s just kind of dull.

me and my partner have, after giving it some thoughts, decided that we'd be open to the idea of keeping a squirrel as a pet or rehabilitating him. My family and I have some experience domesticating oand rehabilitating wild animals. I know it's not the same but we did have racoons more than once and we successfully rehabilitated them every time. I informed myself quite a bit on the reality of owning and rehabilitating a squirrel and realized that we would be more than capable of giving him all the ressources he needs to be happy and to strive. our lifestyle also means that there would be someone home pretty much all the time and thus would be able to satisfy the needs and entertain the squirrel.
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Pretty much what the title says haha.
I have a mortgage with $680k outstanding on a variable (yes I am dumb) rate. It was 1.35%, now 5.85% with today's increase. Renewal is in October 2026 so there's more than 3 years still.
I was paying $1300 biweekly at the start, I've consistently made adhoc payments towards the principal and also increased biweekly payments to stay ahead of the trigger rate. Today I increased it from $1510 biweekly to $1640 biweekly. This will put my trigger rate at 6.27%, hopefully putting it out of reach of any further rate hikes through the summer.
My wife was on maternity leave and goes back to work next week. When she does, our take home pay will be $11,400 per month combined. Our current expenses and bills etc including mortgage is $7,300 so we have roughly $4,000 'saved'. We put $450 of that to a work RRSP which is matched and $300 to TFSA so we have about $3,000 remaining.
I see the following options:

1. Lock in at a fixed rate so I don't need to worry about any further rate increases for now. I don't know if I can make ad-hoc principal payments under that though.
   
2. Continue paying $1640 biweekly and use about $1000 -$1500 of those savings per month towards the principal to bring it down quicker.
   
3. Increase our biweekly payment further to close to $2000. That will be $700 more but we are fortunate to afford it. This way, we don't have to worry about adhoc payments. It would also put the trigger rate at 7.65% . Never say never, but hopefully rates don't hike 1.8% from what they are today. Also if rates do start going down a bit next year or 2025, more will start going to principal anyway.
   

What would you do? We do not have any major purchases planned other than a yearly vacation which costs about $5,000. We have an emergency fund which will last us 18 months if BOTH of us were to lose our jobs and not earn anything.

Recently discovered this issue with N-Able, and the comedy of errors has grown to a size that I simply cannot keep contained. I opened a ticket a month ago outlining the fact that Intuit (Quickbooks) is no longer connecting to their ticketing system. <> This app no longer meets our guidelines and standards. It's no longer available and you can't connect to it. Reach out to the app developer for support. <> I thought this would of course cause a flurry of activity in order to get properly sorted out. After all - the whole reason to have a ticketing system is to be able to create invoices. I have a month old ticket open on this issue, multiple phonecalls into their support desk, and have been met with promises of callbacks, escalation and prioritization if this issue. Today I called Intuit to discover if anyone from N-Able has opened a support ticket to get this matter dealt with.
No support ticket ever opened.
I'm livid. Typing with trembling fingers, its hard to really believe that support doesn't understand the nature of this problem, nor who to call about it. I have explained that I cannot invoice my clients without the QuickBooks integration feature. Lots of sympathetic assurances have come my way over the phone, in the Live Chat feature and through e-mail.
None of that can really make up for the fact that they haven't even contacted their B2B vendor. Having quite a bit of life experience, I know not to believe the initial sales pitch. Its a hook to get your attention, and (whether buying a car, or an appliance) I always like to find out what support is like before I sign on the bottom line. I have no idea what changed inside of the world of N-Able, since I've used the product from the days when it was called GFI.
I know lots of people rant about the little quirks and changes that come with their RMM's interfaces, but breaking the ticketing system and not chasing the issue at all is a bit of a stretch too far. Lots of you are looking at various spreadsheets of RMM solutions, busying yourselves with building the perfect software stack, and assuming that all vendors are created equal.
Clearly, they are not.

It's been over a year since I moved to Bangalore, I'm 23yr old and now it's hitting me hard, I recently got diagnosed with ADHD and I realised—I seriously suck at basic stuff necessary for survival. I desperately need someone to push me (like my mom used to force me to eat at home) or else I'll have to put in a hundred times more effort just to accomplish simple tasks like eating three meals a day, getting enough sleep, doing laundry, cleaning up, and even waking up in the morning. It feels like almost everything you can think of is a struggle for me. As a result of all these challenges piling up, I'm 20 kilograms underweight and I look incredibly unhealthy. I'm constantly drained of energy and my job is on the line, I got warned twice already. It's so much disheartening because I've worked tirelessly for years to be in this position, and now I can't bear the thought of failing at something I'm so passionate about. I still have a mountain of work to complete, but I can't seem to bring myself to do any of it. It's just feels impossible to fix all these things at this point of life. It's mind-boggling how I'm still hanging on with just shreds of hope left in me.
Sure, I do interact with people. I meet a few folks for work every now and then. I live with two other friends in the same place, but it's baffling how they haven't noticed my struggles. I don't blame them though; everyone seems to be caught up in their own hectic lives these days.
I'm curious, how do you guys manage to handle the basics when you're living alone, without anyone to push you, especially if you're a freelancer or have an unpredictable schedule?

Hi, it's my first time using Reddit. And English is not my first language. Sorry for any mistakes. Sorry if it's too long. So my sister 27 and I 20f looks quite similar.. people often calls us twins.. but we're NOT. We have the same height, weight, face ... Literally. I don't know how my parents use the same formula for me which they made my sister 7 years back.. but we're really different.. she's good at studies, sports and everything.. which I'm not . I was a good student with straight A's till grade 7. Everything just changed since then. I was assaulted by by uncle. I never mentioned anything to anybody about it till one of the teachers noticed and kept asking me , so I told her and asked her not to tell anyone else cux it would cause problems within the family and I did not wanted to be the reason my family falls apart. Guess what the next day I went to school and everybody was giving me the look, like I'm just something disgusting. She went and told everyone.. and yet none of my family knew about it. I live under the same roof as my parents and they never noticed anything nor ask me if anything was wrong, I haven't ate for days, stopped going out, failing from all subjects. After I failed my exams my mom kept telling me how my sister was always good at studies and never made them disappointed, and I should be like her . From it's always been like how I should do as good as her. After a year to that incident my mom got to know about it and the first thing she said was " why did you have to go there? " Like really? Not even asking how I was feeling, or even if I'm okay. Fuck. And my sister, she'll wear the clothes and jewelleries that I get for my birthday from my aunt, and tell me I should share . But does it go the other way round? No. Why? because it's hers.. you're such a btch . Whenever I would go out with my friends (3girls) you would go to mom complaining that I'm going around the whole city for look for boys. Like how many times did I cover up for you and your bfs. How pathetic are you , going and telling people that I've got eye surgery to look different from you cuz I hate you! Yeah I do hate you . I've never got my eyes done and you know damn well. For context, I have small Asian eyes. We're Asians but people here do not have small eyes. I was born with these eyes. The biggest difference between you and me. When I was younger they always have said that I was adopted and I used to believe by how they treated me. But the more I grew I started to look exactly like you. I hate myself that I look like you.. I fcking hate myself for it. And mom, if you never wanted me , then did you gave birth , why not just kill me before I was born ? Why not abandon me ? Why not put me for adoption? Why .. could have just swallowed. I still remember the day you told me that I was the biggest mistake you've ever made .. it fcking hurts. It still feels like you just now said that to me.. it hurts that I have to come home early from report giving day , not because I failed just because how I see my friends parents talking with teachers, taking pictures and having a great time. I come home fcking crying with A's and still feel like a failure. Now that I want to move out you ain't event gonna let me do that either. Whenever I'm applying for a job it's not any job that you approve. It's suffocating to live with you people. I hate this . I hate everything.. idk. I don't want be around you people. I just want out. If not by getting job then I'll k!ll myself. At least I won't have to suffer everyday by living with you. I fcking hate it

ive sometimes vented about how insanely anxious i am about every possible scenario and about how no matter what i do i get really bad "what if" ideas and intrusive thoughts. for example if im in one city visiting friends i get awful "well what if this bad thing happens to x family member and youre away?" and then when i AM visiting family i get "what if (roommate) is having a mental breakdown and im not there to help?" ideas and every time i tell someone i get "well just stop worrying! take deep breaths!" and im just. well geez thanks didnt think of that! im fixed. it doesnt need exactly to be about anything like what i said or anything, maybe to another problem youve had, but whats a piece of advice that has genuinely helped you instead of just the "im sure its fine" stuff people usually say?

I attended the JCP (Journey Cohort Program) run by the Brooklyn Psychedelic Society this past winter.
There were three group meetings (about 15 people), spaced a week apart. The first focused on intention-setting, and the last was about integration. Cool conversations and a strong sense of community.
The middle meeting featured the cannabis ceremony. We met in the spacious loft, laid down our blankets and sleeping bags, and cued up the music (a beautiful and varied playlist). The BPS facilitators passed out the joints -- fat masterpieces sprinkled with kief -- and we smoked them together silently with a ceremonial vibe. Then, super high (at least I was), we sat or lay down in the dark, breathed with the music, and pursued our individual healing journeys.
I had taught a couple of pranayama techniques to the group at the request of BPS. (See the video I posted here earlier -- I prepared it for these JCP participants.)
But as I sat on my meditation cushion, so high, I began to struggled with the old social anxiety. I know this state well -- It's as if all eyes are on me, rendering harsh judgement. My breath seizes up and I feel the strength and confidence drain from me. This time, though, I was prepared!
I performed the energetic pranayama I had taught to the group earlier: A series of deep belly-breaths in rapid succession, followed by a long final exhalation -- and then a very long rest at the very bottom of the breath. I have trained myself to linger there on empty for so long that my breath rushes back in on its own after a period of discomfort, when I want to inhale but will not let myself.
As soon as the breath rushed back in, I could feel the energy transform. Rather than anxious, I was elated. Rather than obsessing on themes of social paranoia, I radiated out compassion to everyone.
I continued to practice pranayama for the two hours of the ceremony. I wept and laughed, releasing emotion. I felt deeply connected to my fellow journeyers -- not a shred of paranoia nor anxiety. Afterwards, in the sharing circle, I talked about how I have struggled to trust people -- due to abusive parents -- and now I can feel trust returning. I joked around with folks as the event closed, feeling totally relaxed and flowing with love and affection.
I am grateful for the transformation of my relationship to cannabis. I used it as a drug, to escape, and dealt regularly with intense negative emotions. Now I take it as medicine -- or a spiritual tool -- and it opens my heart and stokes my creative energy!
Do you have practices that transform your cannabis experience in positive ways?

I was going to do 300mg but my tarot cards said to remove 2 pills and just try 10. The highest dose I had tried before this was just 175mg.
Within 30 minutes I felt very stoned and heavy throughout my body. It felt very relaxing as someone who's typically tense and uptight. My hands moved real slow and there was also a numbing effect. This helped silence the pain of my shoulder (I recently had a steel plate screwed inside).
Within 1 hour or a little bit more I lied down on my couch, and saw a very massive spider sitting next to me. The spider was black with thick strong legs. It disappeared as soon as I looked at it. Not very animated. Then I closed my eyes and heard a weird rushing sound deep in my ears like an air raid siren. I proceeded to snap out of any drowsiness and look at my (closed) blinds. I SWEAR i could see through my blinds and it was snowing outside. Very beautiful. Of course it wasn't, it was like 70 degrees.
The most persistent hallucination I had was hearing my own voice in my head very vividly saying things with no context that didnt make sense in response to my own thoughts. I would think about the spider for example and I would hear myself say "oh you know I thought about doing it but it happens" and that very audible thought felt like it came from a source foreign to myself. These thoughts continued, in my voice and nobody else's.
The trip pretty much peaked 2 hours in or so, and continued for over 4 hours when I went to sleep.
250mg at 145lbs bw, no hangover and didnt need much sleep. Planning on trying 300 mg in a week or two, maybe...

They started last year on Instagram she has a fan page I clicked it and she started follow me we hit it off or cause that's who I'm fun she asked me what I do for a living I said I'm trying to get my job back at the janitor he said to me until I get it back this lady is very smart she taught me to Bible we FaceTime four times can we call each other three times I should never erase the conversation a I got this lady on video very nice at first and think I it got to a point she said she has a charity Foundation do you help me within us I don't got no money sorry and then she said $5 $10 fine I'll give it $10 a $5 and I went up to 20 30 50 100 150 another 150 $60 enough is enough I told her she said to me I'm crying because you don't want to be my friend no more she calls me call husband husband she said she wants to name the kids Erica and the boy Eric 2 soft hold on I love to take you out to the movies and drink coffee and walk around Manhattan okay was writing and she text me saying she cannot go she has to go to Ohio something about election day she never did that's okay when we do it at that time about Christmas she said fine she coming to my house and Christmas she's going to stay with me so she said to me I'm leaving to Washington d.c. I said how about a date she said can athletes Washington DC they're going to transfer me and she was right about that and I seen her want you to be seen doing her thing so I asked the web to your mom she said her mother died in the car crash her father it was bad so huh and I looked in the Google I see your mother's day and new pictures with you and your mom why you have to lie to me she said I didn't mean it like that I said my aunt died this is not good anyway that's okay forget about it so she called me last time when she send me I have a life insurance problem I still cannot help you with that I'll give it too much already Amazon gift cards too much apple $100 she said has $700,000 if you help me take this out the briefcase will go straight to your apartment so buddy will bring it over there he will keep $50,000 she's already talked to my lawyer mr. Beth and Greg I'll tell you my husband that's a really nice house okay I got up at 6 in the morning to brushing you and then I'll pay them can the lady from Western Union saying this looks like a scam you should never done this I said I know the lady of course I know the lady is FaceTime just lady we talked in the phone the man that lady was writing but she knew name I'll pay $485 I went home I'll show the picture of the receipt and everything my ID picture she said you going to get your money sweetie I promise you two days later she text me back how do you pick up how you pick it up so she call me FaceTime me she said to me play we got scammed I said by who she said about this man I'll talk with my lawyer mr. Branson Gray she say this lawyers a black guy he was scanning us how she really she said don't worry about it you with your money don't worry about it you want some money now say yes give me $485 right now she's have to go to work I'll call you back later and she called me back like nothing happened like nothing happened she said to me to give me a gift, and I'll set you crazy I don't got no money $485 + with my $50,000 he promised me that's how I'm going to the carnival Samba call to talk don't talk to me no more so and then she text me she said don't do that please my lawyer is here if the Bronx and Greg are you show me pictures of him I was talking to him texting back and forth which I got your money here on I want to know stuff about you awesome 43 years old open New York City I'm married to this lady I want to do the best thing for her he said good okay that was kind of funny the one you have been catching this lady she wake me up at 6 in the morning 6 in the morning 5 in the morning she's a reporter Hershey Kiss out but that man Mr Baston gray we was just texting that sounds just like her that text me that man doesn't sound very professional it sounded like huh trying to be a lawyer by profession I told her stop doing this I know this is you you going to hurt your family going to hurt your friends you going to get yourself fired from a call the cops in that yard on you he said to me I'm sorry so why are you doing this you shall forget about it forget it I'm sorry I said one more 50,000 she show me pictures of the money and a briefcase lots of pictures of fake waste my money she's not dropping my dick come down she told me videos some guy open a briefcase that was fate I reported to Fox fine she said she text me back she said to me you reported to Foxfire yes a yes I did and just the beginning and then she said don't do that please imma get your money today's date she still texting me she thinks it's a joke Yoshi has different emails seen using different faces of the people and she said it's a lot of hackers out there hacking us not me you the ones doing this to me I'm entitled to that money I want my money my paycheck was $3.67 okay from Chase I don't have no job I was my life savings I told him before Thanksgiving I can have no turkey this lady down the hallway she did my mom turkey I was so embarrassed me but thank you God thank you for that lady this lady doesn't care this lady he's going to pay for this he's going to jail for this she's always calling me sugar plum sugar plum somebody called me last week saying stop calling me stop calling me I said to the lady I'm not calling you she said hell yes you are you loser that got to be one of my friends but I'm going to get them back I got a big surprise ball New York on talk talking to the Washington cops hopefully FBI will be part of this because this is happening worldwide this smell funny if you think about it what's going on these days it's a lot of sick people out there that's my story you don't got a camera so I could show you pictures

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