i ran so far away

i think the big question is continuity of consciousness. when you sleep or especially when getting surgery and dont dream you just sort of accept that you now are the same you that existed before the disconnect. if when you went under and we tossed you into a teleporter would you know?

the one pictured could play mp3 cds, you could actually walk with it. i want the OG where even thinking of a bump would make it skip.

Why attack a nice state like michigan? it’s the pile of crap under the bridge no one cares about.

sadly if you study up on more than the passages taught on sunday, much of this destruction is in line with jesus and the rest of the bible.

the path up in many companies is an upside down pyramid of incompetance. you use to fail your way up but now it is about how much koolaid you drink.

java was my 5th language, having just missed it as the AP CS language in highschool by a year. oddly i could not get behind such a massive standard library having come from BASIC, Pascal C++, ASM, VHDL. now after 30 years of programing i write Java web services for a living. feels strange.

the intern in my story is not white.

we just picked up a new intern this month. they did ok in the interview but it was mostly that their dad works with us that they got a job this summer. this week while we were waiting for a meeting to start one of the other devs asked him about the tools he typicaly uses.

he started talking about these vibe coding IDEs and i had to look them up. WTF! but now it is all making sense. who goes to a 4 year uni getting a cs degree and can’t navigate a terminal? this is going to be a long summer.

this should be the default stance when using any built in encryption. always separate the mode of encryption from the mode of transmission.

tbf even the elite aren’t really elite

it amazes me when the elite think this moron will ever do anything for them unless the actual act is benefitting trump. you paid for a cheap dinner and to praise him. that’s it.

nah they just need to survive the storm for a yeas and a half and start funding dems house races. far cheaper than allowing you to repair your device.

they sent us a big box of CDs to the CS department an uni. ran it as a daily driver for a semester.

I’m saying that your timeline is wrong as you’re thinking temporally which is incorrect. Before Jephthah existed God knew he would make this bargan. God decided to render services and take payment. None of these things needed to happen but they did. So God takes human sacrifice as payment. Full Stop.

As for the rest of your comment, I find it funny that you were hung up on context when you’re showing you have no grasp of the historical context of this story. You ask why wouldn’t she run away. If you read the laws about slavery you’d understand that without being tied directly to her father or given to a husband she would be ripe for the picking into slavery. She has no rights as a single woman. Be she one of God’s chosen or one of the heathen around them, she would become someone’s property for life with no chance of being set free.

Further more your lack of historical context shows why you’re falling for such an obvious male author statement with her going off into the woods. She states she wants to morn the loss of her ability to get married. Marriage at that time was a financial contract between the father and the husband. Her value to the family is what they can sell her for. She was not mourning some true love she will never find. The claim is that she is sad she won’t be sold off to some man for a handful of goats.

And the heaven part, again missing context of what was believed at that time. Judges was prior to the Second Temple period so the afterlife concept was drastically different than the christian style heaven. Sheol was a place where good and evil alike went. This was no paradise, just a place where the souls go to rest.

So no, your idea that she’d just be cool with being exsanguinated and then go on for eternity in bliss is just flat out contextually wrong.

as a waiter in a past life this doesn’t really help a lot. i didn’t double check your order, you are potentially in the way. if you drop shit you are fucking up so much i’d be kicking your ass out that door and you are on the list.

You apparently don’t understand the Problem of Evil. I’m not asking why would he kill his daughter. I’m saying why did God accept human sacrifice as payment for beefing up his army? God knew payment would be given and then performed the task. God could have not beefed up the army. He could have not rendered services, and yet he did. He accepted human sacrifice as payment plain and simple.

An eternity of bliss? I think you mean spending all eternity remembering how she was brutally murdered. Will see see her dad there? Because that is some PTSD triggering shit waiting to happen. And being around God all the time knowing that your last moments on earth could have been totally different but God needed a good story for his book so she gets her throat cut all for her dad to gain more riches. That’s horrible.

No I’m not blaming God in those instances. I’m saying that God steps in and causes punishment TO THE OFFENDERS. And yet in the case of Jephthah no only is he not punished, God grants his wish and then doesn’t reject payment.

It’s not really a Problem of Evil situation. Its about God taking payment for services rendered when the payment is evil. The fact God was with him before doesn’t matter because God already knew what the payment would be. It would be the equivalent of me telling someone I’m going to pay you to off someone and you overhearing. You decide to take the job before I actually ask you in person. When I ask you to do you you never say no, you perform the act and then I pay you. How is that not services performed for payment? You had the opportunity to not take the job. You had the opportunity to tell me you’d do it for free. Instead you did the job knowing fully well I’d pay you.

As for the heaven, you’re skipping the important part. Jephthah told his daughter he was going to kill her. Not in the moment but months before it would happen. She woke up every day knowing soon she was going to be killed by her father. Every time they saw each other they thought about that future moment. She couldn’t make plans because soon her father was going to kill her. She was a dead woman walking.

Then when the day came it wasn’t some quick, painless put you to sleep kind of act. Burnt offerings were a specific ritual. You bleed out the offering. She probably laid there choking on her own blood with her father looking down at her. All for the sake of allowing her father to win a war. He could have sacrificed himself, could have disobeyed God. But instead she was laying there dying for her father to win.

My point of the other scenarios, they are all examples where God stepped in and changed the natural order of things. None of those people were dying. God turn a woman to salt, took control of bears to eat children, smite a guy. God has the ability to step in and change reality and yet here he didn’t knowing full well before any of it happening what would transpire. To equate this to the image, God nudged the bullet knowing full well the firefighter was going to be killed. He could have nudged it in any other direction, could have given the shooter a heart attach, could have let it hit the Cheeto. But instead he performed the necessary action to make someone else be killed.

It is odd that God never stops these horrible acts. Especialy the ones where the one being harmed isn’t the one fucking up. The daughter is killed when she did nothing wrong.

The whole book of Judges is essentially “Here’s what not to do”.

Pretty messed up that the only way to teach this lesson is to kill an innocent girl and set her on fire. You would think an all powerful being was more capable than that.

Not once did God command him to offer up his daughter. He decided to try and work for God’s support, and to try and earn it. But it bit him back harshly.

Here is where the BS comes in. Throughout the book God stops people from doing things. He kills people who sin, makes them fall out of favor with their tribe, stops their actions. None of that happens here. God helps win the battle knowing an innocent girl will be murdered that serves no purpose and God is complacent.

Pull out early instead of impregnating your sister in law, God kills you. Make fun of a bald guy, God kills you. Turn around to look at your home being destroyed, God kills you. I guess having a warmongering father is worth your life too. There just wasn’t anything God could do.

You are skipping the part where God knows all before it happens and nothing can go against God’s plan. God beefed up that army knowing full well the eventual outcome, the human sacrifice in his honor. he did nothing about it.

first thing that came out of his house. (not his daughter

God knew what was coming through that door