u/Lumpy_Bee_800

Just forfeit the rest of the games. Idc that they won today just gross. I feel dirty after watching that game.

To start, I’m from the USA. I usually only watch baseball and occasionally American football, but all I have to say about the World Cup is wow.

I have a pretty good feel for the basic rules of football offsides, handballs, and how the clock works. To be honest, I don’t necessarily find the sport itself that captivating, but the fans… my goodness. If the fans weren’t so crazy, I probably wouldn’t even be watching.

The first game I caught was Argentina vs. Uzbekistan, and I just remember watching the anthems and seeing the fans screaming with pride. Stuff like that gives me chills. And just the sheer madness during the game the singing, the chants, and the whistling? (I finally figured out that the whistling means the fans are mad, lol).

It’s just a totally different world from US sports. I did see a video of some Norway fans going to a New York Mets game, and they had a blast, but in US sports, the action on the field totally dictates the crowd noise. I'm not saying we don’t have chants and stuff, but it's nothing like a whole stadium singing together.

What are they actually singing? Does anyone have any examples? Fans in football are just constantly partying, and it makes the game so enjoyable to watch.

I think in America, we care way more about our individual city's sports teams than a national team. For example, we had the World Baseball Classic, and while I rooted for the US, I wasn’t emotionally attached to that team at all. I was just ready for my regular team to start playing again. That deep passion is really what we're missing over here.

Any other Americans want to chime in on this? Or any international fans want to explain the stadium culture to an American?

It seems every team we play has guys that take major league at bats and put the ball in play make things hard on the defense. Their pitchers make big pitches when they need them. Are the Mets this poorly constructed that it’s just a walk in the park for other teams to play us?

Was very nice to see him use the big part of the field tonight for that homer. His swing when he just puts the barrel on the ball is so beautiful. Has too much pop to be selling out for pullside homers definitely encouraging to see a nice balanced swing from him.

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To start I’m a fairly new Christian. Just under a year of being saved. I used to drink and smoke weed like a maniac before Christ and since he came into my life I had been sober. Within the past month for whatever reason I started to take THC gummies. No reason in particular I just did. I don’t necessarily think they hinder my worship.

However, last night I had this strange feeling come over me. It was an evil feeling I was cursing other people and I just felt something pulling me from Christ and to the world. I was having a battle within my mind and it felt like a truly evil force. I did have a thought that I was becoming a slave again to these gummies. That I had been free and now when I take the gummies I have to change who I am to compensate for it. I also had a dream that night that I was watching pornography, something that I also haven’t done since Christ.

I guess my question is, am I trying to serve two masters by taking these gummies? I think I already know the answer but I just want to hear from my fellow brothers & sisters in Christ who have gone through something similar.

There’s nothing better than working all day and looking forward to the ballgame, only to get home and find out they’re already down 9-0 before you’ve even seen a single pitch.

How is Soto the only one in this entire organization that can put a barrel on a baseball? It’s not a mechanical issue. This offense needs a better approach. They’re in “let me see” mode instead of “yes” mode.

Explains why everyone is getting fisted on fastballs and taking hanging breaking balls over the meat off the plate. Play with some pride ffs instead of going up to the plate like a bunch of soy boys.

If a washed college player/coach can see this there’s no way their professional hitting coach can’t see this. The longer this softness goes on the more I feel it’s the lack of fire coming from the coaching staff. Idk, I’m not getting paid to fix this. See you tomorrow.

I’ve spent a lot of time stuck on the "Problem of Evil." It’s the one that usually ends the conversation if God is so powerful and so good, why didn’t He stop the gas chambers? Why didn't He stop the massacre at Nanjing? It’s a brutal question, and honestly, a lot of the churchy answers feel like they’re just dodging the reality of the pain.

But I was looking at the Parable of the Weeds in Matthew 13, and it just impresses me every time the master teaching of Jesus.

In the story, an enemy sabotages a farmer's field by sowing weeds among the wheat. The workers first instinct is the same as ours, "Should we go pull them up?" They want the They want the evil gone now. But the Master says "No." His reason? If you pull the weeds now, you’re going to uproot the wheat with them.

That’s a heavy logical "seam." It suggests that we are all so interconnected socially, genetically, and historically that if God performed a mass-delete on every "weed" (every person or action that causes suffering), none of us would be left standing. He’s not being passive, He’s being protective. He values the potential for the "wheat" (the good, the innocent, and the people who might actually change) so much that He’s willing to tolerate the presence of evil until the very end.

It also ties into why the New Testament is so obsessed with being "sober-minded." There are two Greek words for it (Nēphō and Sōphroneō) that basically mean being a watchful sentry and having a sound, self-governing mind. Jesus describes a world where human choice is so sacred that He refuses to be a puppet master. In Matthew 23, He’s literally weeping over a city because they "were not willing" to be protected.

He’s basically saying "I am the shelter, but I won't force you inside." It’s not a soft answer. It’s real. It means the stakes of our free will are fatal, and God is patient enough to let the game play out until the harvest, even when it breaks His heart.

When we talk about the problem of evil, we usually treat it like a logic puzzle or a court case where God is on trial. But, the Parable of the Weeds shows a God who is more like a eternal gardener who knows that reality is tangled. I feel like it is more than a sufficient answer and I don't hear Christians bring it up enough.