🌽🎈Todd Thacker 🎈🌽

If you're visiting my profile from some other post, hello! I get along with pretty much everyone. That probably includes you, even if we disagree. Remember, the measure of a person isn't politics; it's how they treat others, especially those who can do nothing for (or to) them.

@AmorProximi @NeverReformed @OpStCyprian @farmingandJesus As with everything, context is important.

@NeverReformed @OpStCyprian @farmingandJesus No one is debating what Jesus considered the grounds for divorce, the point is that adultery is a lesser possible penalty (divorce) over murder (put to death). Thus in a just world is a person allowed to remarry if their spouse dies. That's the argument.

Christians, would this be grounds for divorce?

@OhYouKnowMqrel @JokicToMurray Nebraska has almost built an entire brand out of passionately caring about losing programs lol.

@JokicToMurray They only care because they are winning. That’s it. The rest of the time they are just annoying losers who complain all the time

Observation from the shitshow of the B1G tournament the last 2 days: Nebraska fans are annoying as hell but at least they give a shit about baseball unlike the rest of the original schools lol

@scaredycat102 @souljagoyteller @Mr_Elephant2004 I mean, Rome had some pretty intense persecution of Christians up to (and even after) Constantine

@souljagoyteller @Mr_Elephant2004 Because they wanted to show Roman officials that Christianity wasn't a threat to Rome and so Rome should stop killing Christians and instead officials should convert. Unlikely Christianity would have survived without that decision.

Why is it that Pontius Pilate is not more of a villain in Christian history? When reading the New Testament for the first time, I was shocked to see that Pilate is depicted more as doing his Roman duty and not as a satanic force

@cljack @galooticus You get a like solely for the exquisitely appropriate classical reference. 👍🙂

@galooticus lmao I am truly a modern day Cassandra

before you waste a lot of time in therapy trying to understand men, consider that Napoleon got volunteers to man a battery position with an almost 100% casualty rate by simply renaming it "the battery of not being a little bitch"

@LavinaRicky @DefiantBaptist @WickedWolverine @ShamelessPopery If Joe is a top Catholic apologist Catholicism has hit upon hard times.

@DefiantBaptist @WickedWolverine Joe @ShamelessPopery comes to mind

After nearly two hours of discussion and debate, mainly centered around the Marian dogmas, Lila Rose finally realized she was overmatched by Gavin Ortlund. So, she opted for a purely emotional and subjective argument: “Have you ever asked God, ‘If it is true, give me the grace to believe it’?” Lila is very fortunate that Gavin was so kind to her here. This sounds like something you’d hear from an LDS elder.

@nevermindhl @thedarkcuck I was asking more about the latter part of the movie, which you found, if I'm reading your above post correctly, "fanfuckingtastic." I'm not here to argue, I just haven't found anyone able to explain to me why they think it's so good.

@todd_thacker @thedarkcuck I hate Sean Penn. But you saying worst performance of his career then maybe its just enough to say you didnt like it, wasn't for you, didnt click. Im not going to argue for it, like I said I fucking *hate* the opening half hour. I couldn't get through it, some people loved it.

discourse surrounding this movie reminds me of how much smarter i am than the average person

I'm seriously interested about what you found so fantastic about it? Because I don't have time to watch too many movies anymore, went to see OBAA based on the rave reviews, and thought it was just . . . so . . . bad, all the way through. Just the tonal whiplash was off-putting. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be a heartwarming family drama, a super-farcical political satire, or something else. Also the worst performance of Sean Penn's career.

@thedarkcuck the first 30 minutes were so bad and cringe it took me 3 watches to get past it and finish the rest of the movie which was fanfuckingtastic.

@Fugleberg420 @tmusales31 @Jared_Carrabis

@todd_thacker @tmusales31 @Jared_Carrabis It was actually a single, dumbass.

Going from thinking you’re about to throw a no-hitter in the big leagues to giving up a walk-off bomb. Baseball is a cruel and devastating game.

@Fugleberg420 @tmusales31 @Jared_Carrabis Because walks are a thing.

@tmusales31 @Jared_Carrabis How was he pitching a no-hitter if there was a guy on 1st already?

Diane, coffee first dates are the best thing for both parties, especially if you don't know each other that well. Expectations and initial investment for both are (and should be) pretty low. If you hit it off at the coffee shop, things can expand from there. If you don't, nobody's awkwardly stuck for two hours at a restaurant.

Refusing a coffee date invitation is a clear sign a woman doesn't have 100% genuine desire to meet you. She might be 90/10, 80/20, 50/50. But she's definitely not 100%

@MalekJake @WhyWeDrinkHere $10,000 can get more than 1% interest in a high-yield savings account between now and December, without risking any principal.

How much money would I make if I put 10k on this not happening?

I think it kind of depends. If the lack of desire for sex comes from some sort of rift in the relationship, that 100% needs to be fixed, and both partners should be zeroed in on that. But if the lack of desire is, as it often can be, a result of busyness, the vagaries of life, etc. (i.e., when there's not such a rift), I think we have a responsibility to get ourselves into a space/make decisions where we can share intimacy with our partner, or at least to work with them on it and not just essentially say "I don't feel like it and you're an entitled jerk for wanting that right now." More like "I'm exhausted right now but I love and want you; how about I rock your socks off [insert some good time coming up in the next day or three]." I suppose it mostly comes down to good communication and caring for each other. Both partners' needs should be a priority for the other partner.

@todd_thacker @balkanBo1 @RealDianeYap Yeah, I agree that if sex isn't happening then something has likely gone wrong, but it is the thing that caused sex to not happen that needs to be fixed, not the lack of sex itself. The conditions need to be created for both partners to "feel like it", not just do it without it.

Almost all men agree that without sex, it's not a marriage or romantic relationship and he should dump her and seek sex elsewhere. So why are so many men trying to deny the fact that men are more likely to ditch their terminally ill wives than vice versa? How much sex can they get out of a terminally ill woman?

I would agree that each partner in a marriage should generally expect the other to strive to meet their emotional needs and make them feel loved. Just like they should generally expect sex. And you seem to agree that if sex isn't happening something has gone wrong in the relationship, so I don't know that we're really that far apart here. "Expectation" is different from "the other partner should be forced to do 'X'." But I think partners in a marriage should definitely have expectations of each other and themselves. We make vows for a reason, right? There are times when, e.g., my partner needs to be listened to and cared for even though, due to work responsibilities/stress/etc., I don't really feel like it at the time. But I still do it, because I love her. And because I love her, I can still enjoy the experience even though I may not really have wanted to do it at first. 🤷‍♂️

@todd_thacker @balkanBo1 @RealDianeYap Yeah, but it's on both partners to meet each other's emotional needs and make them feel loved, and that would naturally lead to sex, rather than sex being given "dry" in and of itself.

I completely agree re: reluctance, but it's still a reasonable expectation, right? Just like I think it's reasonable to expect your spouse to love and care for you (and those things shouldn't be done reluctantly either). Not that there aren't marriages without love/care/sex (there 100% are), but I hope we can agree that something in the relationship has gone very wrong when that occurs.

@todd_thacker @balkanBo1 @RealDianeYap Not really, no. Sex is not something you reluctantly do for the sake of your partner, not in a healthy relationship anyway. Sex is an activity that both partners should look forward to and enjoy.

@inquisitrix @balkanBo1 @RealDianeYap Nobody's entitled to anything in this life. But when we agree to get married to someone else, sex (along with love/care/companionship/etc.) seems like a reasonable expectation on their part, doesn't it?

@balkanBo1 @RealDianeYap "Denying" sex. As if you're entitled to it to begin with.

Source for this claim? While Greeks 100% interacted with and learned from older civilizations like Egypt and Phoenicia, and some Greek writers admired Egyptian antiquity, the Greeks were also famously ethnocentric and often defined themselves in contrast to non-Greeks (which is where we get the term “barbarians”). I've never read any Greek talking about their civilization as “beholden to Black Africans” as you're stating here. That said, I certainly haven't read the entirety of ancient Greek literature either so happy to check out the source for your statement.

@C_3C_3 The only problem with your argument is that the Greeks themselves told us their whole civilization is beholden to the Black Africans. So all your race baiting is just that. Race baiting.

This is exactly how you deal with the “lack of diversity” claim. You need to mock the absurdity of it. Push back. Do not give the woke an inch. This should have been how Christopher Nolan dealt with it. Instead he followed the woke guidelines and desecrated a masterpiece.

@RabbiWolpe @handm57 @jpodhoretz @DavidAvromBell Satanic?

@handm57 @jpodhoretz @DavidAvromBell Ok, I’ll bite — what’s worse than psychotic?

Two of the silliest feuds going on here right now are the ones involving the casting of Nolan's Odyssey and the Guardians's 100 Best Novels. No film is ever going to recreate exactly how early audiences imagined the story. No list of "best" novels is ever going to be definitive.

@RachelXReads @EmmaRSotomayor @A_Kings_Journal Sounds like an awesome guy! Good choice. 🙂

@EmmaRSotomayor @todd_thacker @A_Kings_Journal Yes! Along with the Bible, my husband reads C. S. Lewis every single day. Every day.

I've noticed the men I know who read fiction fall into 3 categories: - Guys who read military sci-fi, thrillers, or MAYBE LotR but little else. - Guys who don't read above middle-grade level fiction - Guys who are literally reading 600 page Russian novels in one week.

@CalebJHoell_01 @41KOOR What does "break context" mean here?

@41KOOR I like these policies. I would add to them a fifth: "If we have an argument that cannot be resolved in one day, neither party is allowed to break context until it is resolved."

A few expectations that I expressed to my wife while we were dating. 1) No arguments in public. 2) No degrading speech about the other, publicly or privately. 3) Publicly defer to me in an honorable manner (even in disagreement), and if you deem the matter to be important, bring it to light in private. 4) I demand and ensure you are treated with honor by all who interact with you. Zero tolerance policy.

@huskersjames How is their RPI 8 with only one Q1 win?

Does USC deserve to host a regional? - RPI: 8 - DSR: 20 - 4th place in B1G - 1 Q1 win - Best win: Oregon - Worst loss: Oregon State