u/CalzonePie

I am hoping I can finally find someone who was as irrationally irritated as I was.

The Crucifix may be the holy symbol of non-iconoclastic Christian denominations, but in Rome it was just an execution method, and it was their favored method for slaves and non-citizens due to its degrading and painful nature.

Crucifixion was very common for instances of revolts and rebellions of any kind. Spartacus' rebellion famously ended with thousands of rebels crucified along a highway all at once.

The "killing stake" did exist as an execution method but it was far less common than the crucifix, and it contradicts the story of the crucifixion as found in the Bible. The idea of the condemned having to carry the wooden beam they are to be killed on through the streets exists in other stories about crucifixions unrelated to Jesus.

The primary reason that the "killing stake" myth was even adopted is that the New Testament was written in Greek, where "stauros" could mean an upright stake... but was also used to describe a crossed beam.

The mistranslation of a single word does not rewrite all of the additional evidence that goes along with it. If the word could mean pole or cross, and the rest of the story very clearly describes the cross, then you can't just declare that part is fake and it really means pole.

The real reason that JW doctrine rejects the cross is iconoclasm and a way of distancing itself from other Christian denominations, it has no real basis in actual history or scripture.

I am not a veteran, but at one point in my life I needed to use a gun in self defense.

The gun was a revolver, it came to me as a gift just two weeks earlier and I carried it when going to the wilderness because it was cool, but I had not yet taken it to the range to learn how to shoot it nor did I just try it out in the woods.

The situation involved an angry drunk man with a shotgun who had intent to kill me. I was able to get into cover quickly and draw my revolver, and it was dark out so I lined up a shot and pulled the trigger.

Except it was a fucking single shot revolver and I didn't know what a single shot revolver was. I pulled and pulled but the trigger wouldn't move.

Luckily as the individual was drunk and it was pitch black out I was able to run away safely.

But every single night in some dream I have need to use a rifle or pistol and every single time I pull the trigger it is stuck and nothing happens.

I have met and spoken to many individuals with BPD, and I dated one for some time.

What I noticed is that while most individuals with BPD I have spoken to were in therapy, a large portion of them were under the impression they had autism, anxiety disorders, or bipolar disorder despite expressing very few symptoms of those disorders but having textbook examples of BPD.

Why is it so common for BPD to be misdiagnosed as something else when many of the symptoms are so easy to spot and unique?

60w fiber laser. For some reason the framing tool is about 1mm off of where it actually cuts on both axis. What could the problem be?