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There are a few people I’ve met through dating apps that I made friends with and still message from time to time (memes and conversation, nothing romantic) even though dating didn’t work out. What would you think about that if you found out something similar about someone you were dating?

Jesus tells the Sadducees that after the resurrection there will be no marriage. To me, romantic love and the participation in the creation of new life (in their proper places) seem like one of life’s greatest joys. I can’t imagine someone meeting their spouse after the resurrection and finding they are now only friends to be anything but saddening. Can someone help me understand?

So the portrayal of Hell, Heaven, and the final judgement I most often hear from modern apologists and theologians is that it’s not so much a judgement as God allowing the unrepentant sinner who rejects him to distance himself as much as possible from God, and purifying through purgatory those who wish above all things to be with God so that they can achieve that. Usually this is a response to the accusation by atheists that God is cruel because no crime can warrant eternal torture.

But the Bible portrays the final judgement as God accepting the truly good and justly punishing the evil and faithless. And that seems to be how the medievals thought of it too.

How can it be both?

Note: my gut instinct is that the Church is right about this, but I have a hard time justifying it to myself logically.

The judgement in the case of a pet or working animal put down early is that the suffering of the pet outweighs whatever value to that pet there is in living a little bit longer. But God has forbidden human beings to choose suicide—essentially forbidden us to make the same judgement about ourselves that we do for animals. Considering we know our own inner lives better than that of an animal, why are we equipped to make the first judgement but can’t be trusted to make the second?

I can’t really find any I’m a huge fan of

Considering the wardens have the death korps of Krieg, shouldn’t the colonials have the ASL, especially since they field so many tanks?

Sorry if this seems a bit of an odd question, but it’s one I’ve been struggling to find the answer to.

For context, I’m an engineer in my early 20s. Right now I’m very satisfied with my life—I have a great job, I sing in the choir at church, my relationship with my family is great, and I’m starting to plan a life together with a girlfriend who I think is the best thing to ever happen to me.

But there’s one thing that’s bothering me, and it’s bothered me for a long time. I’m a naturally nerdy person, and I spend most of my free time on reading novels (off and on), more or less educational YouTube videos, video games, and playing board games (the ones you’d find on r/boardgames) with friends

I’ve been having a ton of fun with multiplayer campaigns recently, especially ones where we create our own victory conditions, like holding Karak 8 peaks for a certain number of turns. But the lag and slow downs that happen in battles are crushing, and turn off a lot of the players that might otherwise join me. And I don’t think this is just a selfish request either—Im sure if YouTubers were able to stream smooth multiplayer campaigns that would become a very effective way to attract new players. What do you guys think? Is it too much to hope for when it took us this long to get more than 2 players?