u/Unlucky-Drawing-1266

This is a thought that’s been tormenting me for awhile now. Allah is explicitly recorded as tricking and leading astray people for the fun of it, ie. Faking the crucifixion of Jesus. I believe there is a concept in Islam that Allah actively tests his followers faith. For any and all mistakes in the Quran, couldn’t it be argued that Allah did it on purpose to mislead people? Corrupting the Bible on purpose, or purposefully planting the “true” stories among folklore to make Muhammad look like he was copying from it, or wording the Quran in such a way that you have to perform crazy mental gymnastics to make it not seem like it’s making basic scientific mistakes?

More of a yap than a random thought. I live on a “farm” with chickens, three horses, two dogs and a barn cat, and work at a dog boarding place. I’ve seen people come and go from the dog boarding job because they apply thinking it’s gonna be fun and games playing with dogs all day and then are overwhelmed when it’s not. I’m not trying to call anyone out or shame anyone tho, just sharing that the reality is different from what most people would think.
A normal work day includes about like 50 dogs all in at once, and each dog needs to have their kennels cleaned and sanitized, fed whatever their regular schedule is, each with their individual instructions because food is provided by the owner, bowls all need to be cleaned, water bowls cleaned and refreshed, each dog let out to potty in the morning and we try to give them two 20minute periods of exercise per day, 50 dogs all wound up from being cooped all day and only 1 of you. And that’s the regular stuff, not accounting for every time each dog has an accident and needs their kennel sanitized all over again, aggressive dogs, scared dogs, fence jumpers, and all the little random problems dogs can have- I’ve had to clean kennels bloodied up like a murder scene more times than I care to admit cause a dog snagged a claw or got happy tail. And I’m regularly covered in bruises and scratches just from normal play, because a lot of big dogs don’t realize how they big they are and body slam me at mach speed, and littles have tiny devil claws that maul my back when I’m carrying one in each arm. So many people bring in dogs with fleas it’s astounding, and then there’s a whole lot of nonsense bathing the dog, contacting the owners, and then trying to decontaminate myself so I don’t give fleas to my own dogs.

Farm animals to add on to it are notoriously chaotic. They apparently think vet care is free. The chickens keel over dead for literally no reason, the horses scratch their butts on the fences and break them, the barn cat mauls my leg trying to jump onto my shoulder for pets and missing the target.

I wouldn’t trade it for the world, I couldn’t imagine life without animals. But it’s definitely not for the faint of heart. Even something as simple as a betta fish will have a cycle crash and send you into a panic trying to fix the waters ammonia levels.

I’ll never forget one of those people coming and going from work who quit on the second day because they applied for the job thinking it would help with their anxiety. Animals will give you crippling anxiety man. Don’t ever choose a job with animals thinking it’ll be relaxing, it’s most certainly not.

Semi vent post I guess. Ever since I was a kid I loved dragons and I was working on an art project heavily involving them. But I got hit with a bad case of religious OCD in the past few months and it attacked my love for dragons, because in the Bible their often used as symbols of evil, and modern depictions of fire breathing bat winged dragons came about from Christian artists as depictions of demons. I’ve talked to some Christian mentors of mine and they say it’s fine and I really want to return to my passion, but I just can’t bring myself to do it and it sucks

Not talking about the spoilers here- but they did bring something to mind. The fandom is so picky and the show has been of such good quality now that no ending could ever possibly satisfy this community. No matter what Goose did, people are going to call it bad. It just bothers me because goose put so much effort into the show and already suffers so much at the hands of the fandom, I feel so bad for goose, and I can anticipate that whatever fallout the fandom has from the ending is gonna hurt. And again, I just don’t think it’s possible to write an ending that the community isn’t going to call “bad” because people are so picky nowadays.

Dog is already scheduled for a vet visit tomorrow, soonest he can be seen, but I’m asking here because the anticipation is killing me. My family dog developed a huge lump on his head, on his cheek/lower jaw. Don’t know when it developed as we were out of town but I’d guess within about a day or so. It was noticed last night and its definitely bigger today than it was- it’s about the size of a fist. It’s firm, easily moveable, and he doesn’t seem to be in pain and isnt bothered when you touch it. He’s acting fine and normal. The fact it’s painless makes me really fear its cancer. My family seems like our dogs have been cursed with it as we’ve lost two to cancer before, the last a case of insane osteosarcoma that developed into a beachball sized tumor on the ribs within the span of a single week. He’s a 10yr pit mix so cancer wouldn’t be uncommon with his breed and age.

So, any guesses as to what it could be?

called a vet to ask what OTC topical flea treatment is best in my area. she recommended Frontline Shield. Is it any good? I know frontline has been said to not work anymore but this isn’t frontline original or plus

I don’t know if this is the right subreddit to ask but some other posts referred to it for finding people.

I had two foster siblings back in 2014-2015. The girl was suspected to have been sexually abused and custody was given to a home where the suspected abuser would still have access to her, when a safe and healthy home was available and fighting to adopt the pair. I dont know what’s happened to them, only discovered the full story many years later, and have no resources for finding them. I recently uncovered their last name through an old yearbook. All the info I have to go off of is their names, what grades they should be in, and the area we all used to live. Is there any way I can find and contact them? I just want to know if they ended up okay.

I’m familiar with all the typical explanations for the parable thing- fulfilling prophecies, making sure only the people who really wanted to seek the truth would find it, etc. etc., but none of these explain why Jesus said “lest they be saved” as though them understanding and being saved was a bad thing and something he wanted to prevent, and I’m hung up on that

This might be specific as I’m sort of picky so I’m sorry. Looking for songs to daydream a character of mine to whose story is currently revolving around getting hunted down by a villain for witnessing a crime. I’m not looking for songs that capture the panic of being chased- it’s more an urban situation where the villain can’t just outright send a nuke or something, but pulls strings in a way that the character can’t reach any help. Stuck in a stalemate where the character is simply being worn down and suffering more and more injuries the can’t heal from after surviving several murder attempts.
So sort of looking for songs that have a more tame vibe and aren’t rock “blast this while you’re working out” songs. Indie folk and folk rock are my favorite genres. Examples of my vibe, The Dead Come Talking by Roe Kapara or August Moon by Gregory and the Hawk or Wolf by First Aid Kit

My gremlin brain so badly wants to eat a stick. I know about sweet birch but I live in North Texas and there’s none here, any other edible sticks?

This is super silly and stupid but honestly one of the ways I cope with Christianity being under fire in our current media is by pretending to be in some fun Christian themed apocalypse story, because that’s more fun than watching the slow decline of society on social media just waiting for the day it erupts into probably all out war and violence, in my country as it already has in others- so I want to make myself a “secret” Bible by replacing the cover of one with the cover of like a dictionary or something to disguise it. And I’m also not convinced the world WONT try to make Bibles illegal someday so this is somewhat in preparation for a worst case scenario.
I do understand the Bible is just an object(in the manner of the physical book, not the teachings of God itself) and I’m always concerned when I see people talk about how to handle Bibles because I worry about the object itself becoming an icon, but I do still want to check; would it be disrespectful?

I live in a rural area out in Texas so you know, fleas are a pain. My dog had her monthly flea meds a week or two ago. I gave her a bath today and used dish soap- I know it’s not good to use but I didn’t have any pet shampoo and she was super filthy.
anyways, I know topical meds work by being absorbed into the oil glands and the concern with dish soap is it strips oils from a dogs coat. Don’t know if it makes any difference but I used mane and tail horse conditioner on her after soap. My concern is- will the flea meds stop working and should I reapply them?

I have a lot of really soft orange fabric leftover from another project that I want to use, but have no ideas for. So, suggestions?

The verse says if you hate you do not have eternal life. But I feel like to never hate anyone is simply impossible, no matter how we try not to feel hateful. How do we achieve this? I know the answer is “with God’s help”- but I don’t think a single Christian can say they never felt hatred again after accepting Christ. Or am I mistaken, and that just means if you struggle with sin you just aren’t saved?

1 John in general is rather challenging because it almost makes it seem as though you’re only saved if you’re absolutely perfect. It makes me feel as though salvation is impossible, or that struggling with sin means God just doesn’t want to save me and has left me behind

I need a “statistical methods” class for my degree, but any online statistics courses I see are all intro to statistic. Is there an online statistical methods class with transferrable credits out there?

This is a new one for me. We all know Muslims like to claim the Quran is all about science. In recently come across the claim that the Quran is good for health. Thing like the breathing required to recite are just normal things not related to the Quran, but then there are other things like brain wave activity or pain management that Muslims like to claim that I don’t know enough about to look into.

So, someone who does, thoughts? Debunkings?

Not a Muslim to be clear, don't support Islam. But I just saw a refutation to the Islamic Dilemma that's given me pause

Tldr on Islamic Dilemma; The Quran says "If you are in doubt about what we have revealed to you, ask the people who have been reading the book before you." Quran says it affirms the Bible and Torah yet Bible and Torah contradict the Quran- So If the Bible is true Islam is false, but if the Bible is False then Islam is still false for affirming it.

The refutation claims that Allah was referring to the fact that the general stories of the prophets- Abraham, Joseph, Moses etc.- are shared between all three Abrahamic faiths, so Allah was saying the proof of his revelations truthfulness is found in the fact the stories he's revealing are found among the other scriptures.

Opinions? Arguments?