arkey

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by arkey 3y ago
> Being able to do literally anything and not face cosmic consequences so long as you say you're sorry is mind-boggling to me. If it truly was like that, wouldn't everyone be doing it? There is, however, a bit more to it: Acts
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by arkey 3y ago
I think you laid a very good explanation of one of the essences of the Gospel here, the forgiveness from God, so essentially the true message of Christianity. Real repentance only comes through God: John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the
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by arkey 3y ago
And do you? Do you actually understand what and why it happened?
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by arkey 3y ago
Are you, by "scripture" referring to the Bible, or just in general for religious texts? I acknowledge that a lot of people do very bad things and supposedly justify them with the Bible. But I suggest that if they did something bad
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by arkey 3y ago
By which standard are you (blasphemously) attempting (and failing to) judge God by, though? Because you clearly don't understand the context or reasoning behind any of the situations you listed, you resort to simply condemning God upon
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by arkey 3y ago
I am not a Christian to avoid eternal damnation. That's just a very good consequence. I am a Christian because Christ is God. This is bigger than me. This is outside, and regardless of me.
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by arkey 3y ago
Indeed, and I would even say that this applies to any meeting you can think of. However if you get the purpose of the meeting straight and somehow manage for everyone to properly collaborate, you'll get a 3-5min daily meeting that easi
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by arkey 3y ago
As others have pointed out, that's not what a standup should be for. Any tool, process or structure that is not being used properly tends to be annoying and useless. The problem is therefore not with the concept of a standup, but rathe
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by arkey 3y ago
Same here, add to that some office equipment at a huge discount, when they had to close the office during the pandemic, a one-time fair amount of cash for spending in home office equipment, and a smaller but nice yearly amount for the same.
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by arkey 3y ago
Why do you think standup meetings are useless? Maybe they are not run properly? I find them to be a pillar of our workday, within our team.
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by arkey 3y ago
> Learning to plow through uninteresting books for the sake of it doesn't sound like a worthwhile use of someone's time. Of course not, but that's just a very specific edge case of "go read books". When I recomme
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by arkey 3y ago
That's why OOH (Out Of Hour) On-call Rotas are a thing. I work as a SWE and when I'm done, I'm done. Except one week a month when I have my OOH shift, which is on a voluntary basis in the company I work for. If something brea
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by arkey 3y ago
Of which many have turned out to be, surprise surprise, very real and true.
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by arkey 3y ago
Personally I really reject the notion that an area of knowledge is strictly reserved only to those who are "officially", if you will, acknowledged as experts. On the one hand, there are many, many studies and bodies of research an
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by arkey 4y ago
You should see the wonders of the smoke breaks some 'senior' people had in the first consulting firm I worked for. One cigarette here, one cigarette there... aaand that wraps it up for the day, here's hoping the interns did s
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by arkey 4y ago
To be completely honest, I am, as you probably might have already guessed, biased in the sense that I accept and believe the Bible. Still being as honest as possible, I'll attempt to respond constructively to the details you provided:
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by arkey 4y ago
Could you give some evidence for that? Could you reference specific inconsistencies and contradictions?
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by arkey 4y ago
Imagine you have a child. You give that child a toy and you give them instructions to be careful with it and to play well. The child is careless and stubborn and misbehaved and breaks the toy. Are you a bad parent for giving that child a to
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by arkey 5y ago
You're not taking purpose or context into consideration. It is legal to smoke. It is legal to go into a restaurant. However, it is not legal to go into a restaurant and smoke. That's neither arbitrary nor ridiculous, it actually m
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by arkey 5y ago
There are many, many cases in which home-school can lead to a better education quality than a public school. It's not the same to have the parents purposefully owning and caring and dedicating to the education of the children and on th
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by arkey 8y ago
Hey, thanks for the constructive reply. Reading everything a day later I do feel like my comment was maybe a bit too intense in tone, although I still stand a couple points: > A more robust/practical approach is that I act the way I
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by arkey 8y ago
I just want to comment in a constructive way on this. Do you have kids? If so, have you thought about, sorted out and covered all the things that would be unacceptable? What about what other people might think unacceptable, but you don&#x27
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by arkey 8y ago
Yes and no. I think parent has a point in the fact that the predominant idea seems to be to patch a "current ailment" and get on with life (reactive mentality), instead of actually investigating a root cause of whatever causes tha
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by arkey 8y ago
Useful mechanism. And I really like the Monday morning "timestamp" thing. I remember this appeared around HN some time ago, you might find it interesting: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-cal
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by arkey 8y ago
I also do that, but without really having any expertise besides interest in the subject, I'd say this is different from intrusive thoughts. Intrusive thoughts are not voluntary things, they seem to come randomly and by accident, so to
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by arkey 8y ago
It's very correlated to OCD but afaik it's not exclusive to it, it is its own thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought > To me, these thoughts were just part of the normal what-if and should-
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by arkey 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but for example an introspective person IS the computer that it pictures, so to say.
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by arkey 8y ago
I did the same for a time, except the pattern was simply number 5. If I snapped my fingers for some reason, I had to snap them 5 times, or anxiety would chip in, in the beginning not so much, but towards when it got worse, I had some bad ti
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by arkey 8y ago
That's a very practical and straightforward way of addressing it, a really good idea. In my case I very occasionally worry about having left the gas stove on in the kitchen after cooking, and what usually works, in a way similar to the
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by arkey 8y ago
There are several other articles about this dating from 2016 [0][1]. Still, the articles back in 2016 also come as a big surprise for me, since I remember having a kids encyclopaedia back in 1994 [2] that had a small snippet mentioning a ce

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