Rooted phone = cheating?

No cheese in an omelet?

If you read it, though, they have been dependent on friends and family helping them out, a common theme of families with a lot of kids. They had family help them gut and fix up their home, give them hand me downs, help out when things got tight. They also don’t seem to do anything entertainment-wise.

It feels like that typical day isn't so typical anymore.

Could also be a symptom of depression.

“You create your emotional responses, and you can turn them off if you choose to do so.”
Always important to remember that this isn’t true for people with mental illnesses. Depression and anxiety aren’t controlled or created by the person and it’s harmful to suggest they are.

You, um, do realize that more than half of those quotes don’t mention Hell at all, right? Reaching a bit there, brah. Let’s look at the few that do use that word in the faulty translation you’re citing:

Unfortunately his advice is still bad. He still refers to the girl having made ‘mistakes’.

But what if there is a good that had infinite intelligence coupled with infinite pettiness?

What you wrote made some sense until the second-to-last paragraph: “someone who has made some mistakes sexually in their past”. Here you’re missing an incredibly important point.

I’m not offended. I worry my responses may sound like they grade into condescension, which I certainly don’t intend. While I’m an atheist, I’m not the evangelical type. I have no intention of breaking anyone’s faith. I’m trying to focus strictly on the letter writer and some of the responses in this thread,…

Abstaining from sex until after marriage isn’t “Christlike.” It’s a product of the commoditization of women and women’s sexuality. If you married very young and were not ready for sexual activity until then, good for you. I waited until I was nearly 20 and felt very good about that decision. But that isn’t a…