u/Odd_craving

154k trouble free miles. I’m getting an odd misfire at highway speeds. There’s no pattern to the skip and it Idles fine. It takes off from a stop perfectly. It doesn’t throw any codes.

It might skip once or less in a mile, and only in the highway. It feels like a quick jolt. I put fuel treatment in and topped off the tank. No change.

Any thoughts?

Curiously, God’s thinking seems to echo the current beliefs of any random date you look at. For example, God is now good with same sex marriage, along with science and multiple denominations of Christianity. However, there is one hard and fast rule that the Christianity is left defending. When it has no defense.

The fact that God’s love is 100% conditional. I believe that this will be the next tenet that Christians will leave behind. By 2035, it will be normal to believe that God doesn’t hold your belief (or non belief) against you.

A quick ‘back of the envelope’ calculation tells me that modern humans (Homo sapiens) have been mass producing the automobile for over 120 years. Granted, many early models didn’t have electric lights. So I’ll be fair and say that we’ve been producing automobiles with electric lights for roughly 100 years.

During this time, we’ve gotten pretty good at making bulbs work. We regulate the voltage, weatherproof the electrical connections and weatherproof the bulbs themselves. Pretty bulletproof.

However, the Jeep Renegade’s DRLs are an unmitigated design disaster. The wiring harness produce too much voltage - which causes the bulb’s soldered connections to melt. This also causes the wire socket to burn and melt. Adding to this, the bulbs are located in an arm-chafing location that will draw blood at each bulb replacement.

The replacement bulb will last a month at best. I’ve had several bulbs last only days. The replacement bulb socket may last a year, but eventually, they will all fail. Replacing everything fixes nothing. The new bulbs laugh at such folly. The replacement sockets joke amongst themselves at our efforts to fix this situation. Most renegades that I see driving toward me usually have one DRL bulb out.

A 1978 Toyota Corolla could go its whole life with the same directional or marker light bulb.

I love this car, but my soul is gutted.

I’ve decided that it’s silly to keep paying hundreds of dollars every fall when I’m completely capable of doing this. I’ve researched everything that I can think of. Does anyone have any tricks or tips?

If the Bible were even somewhat factual, it shouldn’t matter who studies it or why they study it. Like a science book or an anthropological resource, the Bible should be the first and primary source for everything humanity related.

This has me wondering whether people have attended any of the various Bible colleges in order to study - not as believers, but as scholars.

Edit: Folks, Folks, I know that the Bible isn’t true! This post is to illustrate what things should look like if it were. You see, if the Bible were true, it would be the greatest and most important scientific document ever known. Except it isn’t.

I can see where this could be an escalating situation. They miss their jury duty date, then refuse to cooperate with the court. A perfect SovCit standoff.

Yup, three guilty verdicts and two not guilty verdicts. I know it’s true because I was in the courtroom when the verdicts were read. About weeks later, his attorney successfully petitioned the judge to reverse the jury verdict. His argument was that one of the guilty verdicts couldn’t be correct in the face of one of the not guilty charges.

In other words, you can’t be guilty of Conspiracy to Violate Federal Drug Laws and not guilty of Conspiracy.

I’m thinking that this has got to be ultra rare.

Thesis: A perfect God comes with difficulty that can’t be ignored. That difficulty is well illuminated in the Adam and Eve story. 

Argument: God knew Adam and Eve would sin, there’s no escaping this as God’s knowledge is perfect. Whether it was a week in the garden, or twenty thousand years, Adam and Eve had no choice in this matter. 

A perfect God can’t be surprised, nor angry about an event he knew would happen before he even made Adam or Eve. Then there’s the supernatural forces that tempted Eve. How can mere humans defeat a supernatural being who could come back an unlimited amount of times until God’s foreknowledge proves true? 

If the Adam and Eve story were true, God would know the world would fall and that we would all be one sinful in nature. And with all of this knowledge, God went forward and created the world anyway. How guilty are we in this mix when all of our sins were known to God before he made us. 

The Adam and Eve story is nothing more than one more magically-based creation story.

In your day-to-day court experiences, how often are SovCits gumming up the works or dragging out other proceedings? It seems that MI, TX and KS are especially overrun.

I grasp the basic premise of the crazy “I’m the authorized representative of…” argument, but who the hell started this insanity? Which head of crazy mountain invented this?

SovCits embrace many odd legal folk art philosophies - like dragging civil law defenses into criminal proceedings and bringing imaginary contracts as a defense, but the idea of a person being two entities seems uniquely unhinged. The notion that a paper document is the actual named party and that the living person is a separate entity seems nothing short of a 7 year-old child dreaming up imaginary super powers.

This dual personhood belief is so weak that 30 seconds into a hearing, virtually every SovCit is left stammering at the podium as the judge threatens a bench warrant for their failure to appear. It’s as if they were completely unprepared for an ounce of legal pushback from the court. Did they actually believe that the judge would breakdown and dismiss the case because this argument is so solid? Do they understand that this pretend, make believe nonsense has worked exactly zero times?

In my 63 years on this planet, I’ve discovered that most people are very unlikely to believe the unbelievable. And even if they do, a good wake-up call from a person in authority (like a judge) usually rattles them enough to question their beliefs. This unearned arrogance and baseless confidence of SovCits seems unique. The only thing that seems to come close are flat earthers and moon landing hoaxers.

With a 1 to 10 scale (1 being the least fearful and 10 being the most) where do you fall?

She has a music reaction channel and has fallen in love with WZ. She’s done about 20 Zevon reactions . Show her some love.

* With no judge or prosecution in the room, do they keep up the “I don’t comprehend the nature or cause of these charges” claim?

* Do they know that no court case has ever prevailed using this kind of defense?

* Do they actually believe that each person is two people - the living person and the straw man?

* Do they think any court has jurisdiction over anyone?

Thesis Statement: If a person behaved like the Christian God is said to behave, most Christians would shun that person. In fact, most people would shun that person.

Argument: Having the absolute power that God is said to have (including perfect foreknowledge) and choosing to threaten people with eternal torture instead of helping is evil. There’s no reason to condemn people when their actions are already known - everything they will do before they’re even born is known. Demanding “belief” from all people while hiding is manipulative and in bad faith. No one can force themselves to believe something that they don’t, so this demand in itself is narcissistic, illogical and cruel. It’s not what people do, it’s whether they believe. It’s not whether people help, it’s whether they believe. It’s not what sacrifices they make for others, it’s whether they believe. To know the future and demand that people do something different is insane. To do so under the threat of violence is diabolical.

Creating a lying supernatural foe who attacks people instead of using that same power to heal people or solve problems is psychopathic. And at the core of this, demanding to be worshiped and loved is evil. And to communicate these demands, regular people are used to write all of this down so these communications of yours look suspiciously like what fake communications would look like.

Finally, not using these powers to eliminate all of those alternative (wrong) beliefs that cause confusion is also diabolical.

Let’s say that you woke up one day and discovered that you have the power to both condemn and save people. You have the power to solve the world’s worst problems, and feed the starving. Cure cancer, stabilize endangered species, end racism, solve all energy problems, end pollution, heal the sick and bring peace and prosperity to all.

Instead of doing these things, you decide to focus on whether people believe in you or not. You demand to be worshiped and loved. To add the final nail, you hide. To communicate your demands, you use regular people to write all of this down so these communications of yours look suspiciously like what fake communications would look like.

The single most important thing to you is whether people believe in your hidden-ass. Not what they do. Not whether they help. Not what sacrifices they make for others. The eternity of the whole world’s population hinges on whether these poor souls believe that you’re real. Of all things that you could demand, you choose belief.

You don’t use your powers to eliminate all of those alternative beliefs that cause confusion. Instead, you use your powers to create an evil enemy and allow this enemy to run roughshod over all people. You could stop this evil, lying trickster, but you don’t. All you care about is being worshiped and being believed in.

I’ve never been religious, but I was raised in a Christian house. Seeing that members of this sub have left (or are thinking of leaving) Christianity, I wanted to ask this group about this issue.

I recently attended a funeral via a church broadcast. This was because I’m 3,000 miles from the church. It’s been a while since I’ve sat through an entire church service and this one shocked me. This is a baptist church in a wealthy area of southern CA. Several people spoke and very little attention was given to the deceased, but instead attention was poured on Jesus.

I get the Jesus thing, but by the 4th or 5th person saying the same things but in slightly different ways, I got to wondering about the direction Christianity is heading. The repetitive and stagnant message is un-relatable and silly. It’s the same stuff over and over. The death, the resurrection and the meaning.

I seriously wonder how people sit through this craziness every week. Why doesn’t the story stand on its own without constant reinforcement? Why does it need to be retold like a public figure propping up a lie? How do people handle this?