u/ballzach

I’m a layperson who has recently taken up an interest in philosophy and trying to understand the world around me. I’m a physician and in my day to day life I see a lot of suffering.

I have been trying to square this with the possible existence of God, and I always come up short. It just doesn’t make any sense that we would be intentionally created and then made to suffer. Suffering is putting it lightly actually. Natural selection has forged us in a fire of death, competition, scarcity for millions of years. Seems to me that this could be avoided.

How can so many people see this and then believe in a loving god? Especially in earlier periods.

I find the whole thing terribly depressing.

Can anyone point me to any particular conclusions on the topic? To me, this is the fundamental problem of theism, yet I haven’t found any answers particularly compelling.

Hear me out

I am well aware that the cat DD is designed for semi auto 308, while the cat ODB is designed pretty much for 300 blackout and is the cat's pajamas. I have read article and listened to the podcast episode and bought the T shirt.

HOWEVER, I am in the process of building a semi auto 308, but that build is realistically 6 months out. I am planning on using cat's QD system and getting something I can put on both.

In the meantime, this will live on my HD 8 inch 300 blackout.

What I really care about the most is gas tied with length/weight, then sound, then flash.

Will be running exclusively supers - don't care at all about subs.

The DD is about 3/4s of an inch shorter and is a little lighter. The ODB just sounds like such a long can to me. I have tight hallways in my house and when I'm LARPing like I'm clearing my house, a short can seems much more appealing.

The DD is also less backpressure. I currently have an omega 300 on the gun, so near zero gas sounds lovely.

As far as sound goes, I'm really just looking to not completely fry my/my family's hearing after a few rounds in an emergency. outside of that I'm not looking for super duper quiet.

Am I nuts? anyone have experience with this?

Good morning all

Over the past few weeks I have realized that I need to protect myself and reduce my stress if I want to survive. My job is not particularly bad all things considered, but I find myself feeling rushed and stressed pretty much every day.

I figured I’d stop by here to share some strategies that I find helpful, and to ask you for help and strategies that you find helpful.

One thing I have been reminding myself is to focus on the patient in front of me. I’m generally a people pleaser and I strive for positive feedback. I need to stop this. I need to stop thinking about metrics. I’m not a shareholder in the hospital. Metrics are literally not my problem. My problem is taking good care of the patients in front of me. That’s it.

I’ve also stopped thinking about what my patient experience scores will be. I remind myself that there are people out there that will be unhappy, no matter what. There are a lot of people out there that are just not reasonable. This is also not my problem.

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