u/Nicole_0818

I thought that 3:11 was a great support for fire as a cleansing purifying fire like in metal making. As in fire doesn’t mean torture forever in hell.

Then I read on to verse 12. Doesn’t that sound like people getting tossed aside and burned away into non existence? Whatever that’s called. The one where people think sinners just disappear instead of being in hell forever.

Is there some sort of understanding of first century technique that I’m missing in order to understand this better in a way that isn’t discouraging?

I feel like maybe I’m just reading what I want to hear into the text when I read things like that.

My whole life, I thought "Severitus" referred to a ship name...so now that I realize it is not in fact a pairing, I have a whole entire genre of fanfics to explore!

I love the found family theme in general.

I don't want to see Severus as Harry's bio dad.

I don't want any "wrong BWL" fics.

No character bashing.

I also want both Harry and Severus to still be in character. If Snape wants to be the guardian to his students that he never had, sure, I'd love to see it, but he needs to keep the rest of his character intact. No sappy Snape. He needs to still be the same awful teacher he is in canon, bad remarks at kids and all. Same goes for Harry. I don't want to see him being a timid, overly anxious kid. There's a difference between writing Harry to be realistic given his abuse in the fic and writing him to be OOC.

I don't even mind if the student isn't even Harry. If you have fics where he has a similiar mentor adoptive father type of role with someone else as the main character I'd be down to read that, too.

Bonus points if you can find one with Theo. You know how everyone writes Draco to act in Dramoine fics? Put that on Theo instead and there's a good character. You can easily write him as the nerdy, smart bookworm with a bad home life who had no choice but to be in the situation he was thanks to his dad and even make him and Hermoine fall for each other and it still works cause he's canonically got no lines.

I'm used to the Kindle app, but I'd rather give a bookstore my money. But I have mild vision impairment and I had some questions to ask before I buy an ebook, if that's alright?

1. Can I adjust the font size when I'm reading a book?

2. Can I read books in dark mode?

3. I love to read manga. Can I zoom in on the page to read it better?

4. Can I organize my purchases into folders? Like, I can have one series in its own folder, one folder for each genre, that sort of thing.

It’s almost the Fourth of July and I haven’t heard any yet but I know I will. I hate it.

I’ve been wanting to buy some classic books. I got some samples on kindle and I really enjoyed them so I would like to purchase the full book, preferably paperback. Preferably with - what’s it called? - annotations that explain words or phrases that we don’t use anymore.

What brand would you recommend? I only know of penguin classics. I know Barnes and nobles often has their own special editions of classics as well.

I would like to have a matching set if at all possible. That’s why I ask.

I googled it but I wanted to ask real people, too. Google says the process with which to make it means its naturally low in lactose and often well-tolerated. I wanted to ask before I bought some. I mostly eat sharp cheddar cheese. My family has always used vegetable-oil based margarine.

I've never used real butter sticks from the store, like Land O' Lakes or Kerrygold or Great Value for example. How does it compare, lactose content wise, to sharp cheddar cheese?

I partly want to do this to test if I have a soy intolerance; the spread we use is mostly soybean oil. Idk if it's fats that are the issue or if it's a simple soy intolerance, and I'd like to know that before I go to a doctor.

I highly suspect high fat meals are bothering my stomach so I'm trying to limit that. But I also don't know if i have a soy intolerance? Our margarine uses soy as thes econd ingredient so that could be it too. Or its simply too much oils/fats, idk.

Hence, I want a substitute to use over rice or on mashed potatoes that is low in fat/oil and soy free just in case. If any such miracle food exists, that is. I could be asking the impossible. Also please tell me how to store and use it safely.

I know for a fact I am lactose intolerant. I doubt it's dairy proteins because I experience no immune symptoms when consuming dairy in moderation, just gut symptoms.

Besides chicken with either rice or pasta or egg noodles. It gets painfully boring.

The triggers I've been able to identify so far are:

- garlic and onion

- spicy things

- lactose intolerant

- fried foods

- high fat meals

- tomato sauce, evidently? Even a garlic and onion free one. This can apparently be either fructose or nightshades, and I've yet to determine what it is. I will be very disappointed if it's a fructose thing, cause all the fruits I like are high in it. But if its nightshades, that means I can't have potatoes. I'll test it when my schedule is clear and I'm feeling brave.

- beans make me gassy, but its nothing a gas x doesn't cure, so I don't really count it as something to worry about. I have been limiting them, though.

Stupid question, I know. I’m at work and a customer bought a bunch of cold soft stuff for her son who is getting his out. It got me wondering.

I imagine they would be fine but I wanted to hear what other people thought.

Also curious, to what degree do you think werewolves can avoid dying of normal everyday things like a stroke or heart attack?

Do you think a werewolf’s health affects their healing rate? Or anything else, really. Iirc when Erica got hurt by a kanima one time, she had a seizure. So there are things that can suppress their healing. If I remember right.

So far I have read (or started!) the following books that fit what I’m looking for:

- Identity by Nora Roberts
- Are You Sara? By S.C. Lalli
- the Final Target by Nora Roberts (just started this one)

Does anyone know of any other books like these? Is there a specific name for this type of book I can be typing into Google to get results?

I like books like these cause I relate to them a lot. I see myself in them and it’s cathartic to read them when a book at the store brings up bad memories.

I want a simple and easy to use app to track my symptoms related to what I eat so I can try to identify trigger foods. I’ve been using the notes app but I use that for everything already.

I love a small bowl of cereal in the morning or as a late snack.

So far I’ve established that lactose, fatty/fried things, and tomato sauce (no alliums) bother me. The tomato thing could be fructose or nightshades or even histamines apparently idk yet. So I’m continuing to avoid fructose, which therein means I have to avoid molasses as an ingredient too right? Wheat doesn’t bother me.

I love chocolate and cinnamon cereals. But if I have to keep ingredients simple and avoid molasses cause fructose, then idk that I can eat anything besides plain cereals.

I've heard of John H. Walton's books, but I was wanting perspectives that didn't still fall back on the argument that the bible is literal, written history in some way. I've read that his books do end up going that way despite his discussing ancient near eastern cosmology, unfortunately.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I don't want a religious perspective on the books, I want to understand better topics like how the original audience would have read them, what creation stories (or other flood stories, etc) other nearby cultures had and how Genesis compares to them and what that is supposed to say about their god, etc. Cause at the end of the day, the god of the bible began as a tribal god, right? I want to understand more about that part of it.

I think by completely ignoring a work's historical context and such, you miss a lot. I wonder how much I've missed this whole time. But I'm just a random person who's uneducated on how to like actually scholarly study the bible and ancient works and stuff, so I'd prefer suggestions that are easy to read for someone who is going into the subject blind for the first time.

To clarify, if an author argues that the original and historical audiences of Genesis would have read it to be speaking of a literal Adam and Eve, that's fine if that's what's really happened of course. I just want to read a more scholarly, unbiased approach.

I'm having to stop buying chips cause even plain chips either corn or potato don't agree with me. I'm almost certain its the oil/fat content. I also have no restraint so its healthier for me to find other alternatives. I also can't do milk.

I was thinking popcorn, but doesn't that use oil too for all the store bought ones? Can you pop your own without oil or anything else on it?

Here are my snack ideas.

Nuts: peanuts, pecans, almonds

Fruit: Oranges and strawberries

Grain: rice crackers, rice cakes, Synder's sourdough nibblers (are these actually low fodmap??), popcorn (what brand do I buy if milk and oil/fat bother me?)

Dairy: I have some extra sharp cheddar options

I want to follow this and see if it helps my stomach feel better. I was diagnosed by a doctor with IBS.

Here’s my grocery shopping list for this weekend. Idk what herb and seasoning mixtures taste best on these dishes either so input is welcome!

- chicken
- eggs
- rice
- sourdough bread
- pasta noodles
- spaghetti noodles
- potatoes
- carrots
- green beans
- swanson unsalted chicken stock (the company says it explicitly lists garlic and salt now!)

I’ve ordered some fody and smoke and sanity products like their taco seasoning and chicken bouillon powder. I’m debating getting the garlic infused olive oil.

I’m just so new to this. I have some meals I’m excited to try to make low fodmap and see if it helps, especially without garlic and onion, but idk where to start? Monash is great for how much of each to make but idk what’s too much for a meal. I just got their app.

Meal ideas:
- chicken and rice with green beans
- chicken with roasted potatoes and carrots
- tacos (should I use hard shell or soft shell tortillas? What about toppings?)
- spaghetti (I found a sensitive spaghetti sauce that doesn’t have garlic or onion)
- Chicken noodle soup

Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out what bothers my stomach and make some meals that help with that but feel satisfying. Snacks are my biggest thing tho in a big snacker.

I know going into this that lactose, garlic and onion, and high fat meals bother my stomach and cause symptoms.

A lot of the ones I can eat, even the Peter Pan creamy regular one, don’t have preservatives now but the jar doesn’t say to store it in the fridge or anything. What do I do? It’s just plain not natural. It just doesn’t have preservatives

I’m new to this and I don’t really cook but I’m gonna have to learn.

Does anyone have recipes including seasonings for chicken recipes for the oven or crockpot or air frier? I was gonna have it over rice or noodles or potatoes.

I like Mexican food and Italian pastas if that helps. Like rice bowls and enchiladas and casseroles and stuff.

The brands my store sells that I'm interested in are Smuckers Natural creamy peanut butter and Crazy Richard's 100% Peanuts peanut butter. I've only ever bought regular peanut butter before.

1. What should I expect to see opening the jar for the first time?
2. What do I need to know about how to safely store this type of product?
3. What are normal things versus signs that this type of peanut butter has gone bad?

I love peanut butter. Thanks in advance if you can help. If this is not the right place, please let me know where else I should post.

No milk in it, I'm lactose intolerant.

Idk what to buy and I'm buying groceries tonight! I was gonna get Rustik sourdough bread but then I realized it's only available to order online, it doesn't appear to be something the store itself stocks.

Just starting out so I have no idea what my triggers are. Idk if its even the bread that gets me yet. But I read that buying sourdough helps naturally make it easier on the stomach for IBS/low fodmap,. If that's true, then I'd rather try that first instead of the gluten free ones with tons of stuff in them that I know taste bad by comparison (and for all I know, something in it won't agree with me either idk)

To my understanding, sourdough is supposed to help with fructans and gluten free bread if it's gluten that's the problem. Right?