Lopen's Left Arm @ LopensLeftArm @sh.itjust.works

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The Orthodox understanding of hell differs from how it's commonly understood in the West. We understand hell to be essentially the same thing as heaven, only experienced differently. After death, everyone is surrounded by the infinite love and presence of God. For those who are turned toward him in faith, they experience this as the epitome of joy and peace, while those who are turned away from him toward their own sinful corruption experience this as pain. The difference lies not in God but in how the individual, shaped by the choices they have made and the person they have become, receives and experiences him.

In addition, while it is a minority view, universal reconciliation is a perfectly valid Orthodox position, one based on the teachings of venerable Church Fathers such as St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Isaac of Nineveh. Under this understanding, God's love is ameliorative as well as perfect, and it cleanses and purifies even those who stand in rejection of him. Hell is seen as a state of purification rather than eternal torment, and will eventually bring all created beings into a full and blissful communion with him. Some may have a longer journey to take, but everyone will eventually be saved and experience God exactly as he intended for us.

God, at least according to the Orthodox, Christian understanding, is not a sin calculator programmed to mete out punishment for actions which fit specified criteria. Rather, he is a person (three Persons, technically, but one Being), and he is one who is good and loves mankind, and is intimately familiar with every detail of your life and motivation for your actions. His relationship with each individual is personal, and he acts towards them in full understanding of who they are and where they were coming from. It is not a one size fits all rulebook.

If you're looking for the most believable conspiracy theories out there, I'd say the one that says Jeffrey Epstein was murdered and it was covered up as a suicide is way up there.

Not to be confused with "Smith, eh" which is most commonly found in Canada.

Pendragon

One party in particular makes a habit out of blowing up literal non-issues into doomsday political theater though.

All it would take would be Trump dropping a single line in one of his rambling diatribes about how he ate a guy once, and folks like this would do an immediate about face and push to legalize cannibalism.

The real story here is that North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Robinson is pro-public urination. Never realized that was an official GOP platform.

That's exactly the goal people like OP are pushing for - generate enough discontent with Biden by pretending to be a concerned leftist that Trump wins the election. It's a classic form of bad faith manipulation that conservatives and Russian agents have been engaging in online for at least the past couple elections.

Anyone telling you not to vote for Biden is aiming for a Trump win, period.

Basic 1st edition maybe? It looks too old to even be 2E.

Ah yeah, that looks like an ancient edition, probably Advanced 1st Edition? I am utterly out of my depth with versions that old I'm afraid.

The current edition, 5E, has a max level of 20.

What edition goes up to level 36?

This is such an obvious bad faith reading of that post, literally no one was confused as to what it was in reference to.

That ramen sounds delicious actually

I think OP could care less who the Democratic nominee is, they're absolutely desperate for Democrats not to vote for them so Trump wins the election. This is a textbook concern troll.

Life and death are a seamless continuum. Mmhm.