Leather needs to be maintained (oiled or polished), even if you’re not wearing them.

Wow, I can’t believe I never put that together before.

Right, with modern context we can figure it out pretty quickly, after we learn that the term torch is used for flashlight. The first time I saw it i thought they were talking about a cigarette lighter

Because we have actual torches too. You guys don’t have actual soccers to get confused by. Given the right context we can figure out when you mean flashlight, but said torch.

I bought her the best macha I could find. I’m just not a fan of the way it tastes. She drinks it, so she seems to like it just fine.

My wife makes macha tea with just water. It’s not very tasty.

If you’re a senior engineer, then you should have a team of juniors doing most of the coding. Your job is to architect, peer review, meet with stakeholders, etc… At least that has been my experience. Unless you are on one of those small teams with all senior engineers and then you have to do all of the above, and the coding too. I’ve had that experience as well.

The point is that you’re not tortured for eternity. That idea didn’t become popular until Southern Baptist started traveling the states with their fire and brimstone sermons. You are killed, obliterated, dead, for eternity. Game over.

That’s the point I was trying to make. It’s a mistranslation, or even worse, an intentional change. Even with the word there, there’s enough context to make it clear that the punishment for denying christ is death, not eternal life. “Hell” is eternal, in the sense that you’re dead forever. Those who are not written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death. That’s what it says. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to change the definition of the word death to mean eternal life and torture, where it takes none to acknowledge that you die.

You are absolutely correct. The original Hebrew word in the Bible for hell is Sheol, which means grave, or place of resting. He even says “this is the second death”. You don’t get eternal life, except through accepting him, according to the scripture.

I must have shut it off before then. That’s too bad. I kind of wondered if he would later explain it away. What a dummy.

In the one I saw, he was definitely contemplating his beliefs after the second failed test. But that doesn’t mean he didn’t justify and explain away the results later. It is very difficult for people to change core beliefs, even to the point of being painful for some people. In the case of this guy, idk what he eventually decided on, because the show didn’t show it.

Yup. That plus steal all your contacts and anything else they can get direct or indirect permissions for.

Definitely! I work at a computer 8-10 hours per day, 5 days a week. The last thing I want to do when I’m done working is sit at computer some more. I do almost all of my browsing on my phone. Firefox Mobile Nightly, plus NextDNS, plus Nord VPN, plus uBlock origin, plus a fake user agent string. I’m pretty secure on my phone.

“Here’s a website that you needed to install on your phone to see!”

Since the USSR was currently an ally, they leaked information to them.

This is what I mean by compromised.

Your family isn’t real either. Neither is your house. This is all a product of your nascent consciousness.

Pssh. You still believe in the moon?

If you’re in on the biggest conspiracy in the history of the world, you don’t tell anyone about it. There are CIA agents who live their entire lives without their spouses knowing they work for the CIA. How much more powerful must the round earth agency be than the CIA to maintain such a conspiracy for thousands of years? I don’t want to say illuminati, but it sounds an awful lot like the illuminati.

They’re protecting the turtles. If people like Bezos knew that it’s turtles all the way down, they’d certainly harvest the turtle shells to make fancy hair combs. That would spell the end of the earth.