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The store is open secretly, but only those brave enough to check will find out.

Did you make the ice hockey table? That sounds like fun, and something I could do pretty easily in northern Michigan.

Thanks for the indepth answer. I'm not trying to bait you by replying again, my other reply was more rhetorical, with this one I just want to make it clear what I see as the conflict.

I'm not trolling. As someone that grew up very christian, I'm interested in the ways that abrahamic believers think about love and abuse.

Abusers use complicated reasoning to explain how the damage they inflict is actually helping, how everything is done out of love, and how the rest of us don't see that because we're too dumb to understand the complexities so just stay out of it.

A loving god would never make the rules so crazy that you need to be a theologian to really understand them. That's the kind of crap an abuser does.

Love is simple. Control is complicated.

It's hard for me to see how such a complicated control structure is really about love underneath it all, especially when the control aspect is usually used for pain.

Thanks again for the chat.

Hells ya! Perfect spot for some dillionaire's next hotel.

Do you think a loving god would create a world that requires such weirdly complicated reasoning to explain why their love isn't abuse?

Seems like love should be pretty easy to recognize.

Almost as if it's a large group of people with various opinions 🤔

Hey it sounds like you know about this stuff, can you help me understand a question I've been thinking about?

Imagine a dad saying this to their kids: "If you stop loving me, I will make your life Hell."

That isn't love, it's abuse.

Why isn't it abuse when god says it to us?

Governments give tax breaks to families because they are literally raising the future of the country. They're trying to encourage stable relationships that will result in new citizens, otherwise the country will die.

Like talking about boogers and stuff?

dog owners vs dog lovers

Then they'll introduce a safety feature to detect that and completely lock the engine because bypassing existing safety features "has unexpected and unreliable results"