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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Luke 2:14 [14] “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

I think I do prefer the KJV here. Has the classic familiarity.

The ESV is the translation I have used since it came out for personal reading and study, though.

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Shall we showcase our trees? * | /.\ /o..\ /..O\ /.o..o\ /...o.\ /..O..o.\ ^^^[_]^^^

* /^\ /* *\ /+@o* \ /o*+*o+*\ /* @+*o@+*\ /+*o*+@*o*+*\ /@o+*o@+*o+@o*\ /*+@o*+@*o+*o@+*\ /o*+@o*+@o*+@o*+o*\ /@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@\ ||| |||

That's the first tree that rendered properly on my mobile, Merey Christmas and good job! Also nice bottom layer of ampersands, looks really festive for some reason!

Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Shall we showcase our trees? * | /.\ /o..\ /..O\ /.o..o\ /...o.\ /..O..o.\ ^^^[_]^^^

` _\/_ . - /\ /|\ ` . / /*|O\. . /*/|\*\ /X/O|*\X\ /*/X/|\X\*\ . /O/*/X|*\O\X\ /*/O/X/|\X\O\*\ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |X| |X| Merry Christmas! merry Christmas to all you people out there :)

Merry Christmas! Nice touch with the snow, makes for a cosy and homely atmosphere! (It's 25⁰C here. Please send help >.<)

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Weeks ago a local newspaper had the headline: "keep the big bang until later for your children, the bible is really a great set of fairy tales" Im not religious at all, actually "implicitly fighting against it", though I have to admit: This sentence made sense and Im thinking still until today about it, because actually I think its quite true - for smaller children, the storylines in the bible are much more "real" an…

If you think the Bible is childish, then I can only assume you've never studied it in earnest. These aren't fairy tales. They are a collection of books written in numerous styles and languages belonging to various genres drawn from many cultural contexts spanning thousands of years and whose canon was determined by the Catholic Church in the 4th century (most famously, at the Council of Rome when the 73 books were li…

Did you copy this from catholic.ai or some similar domain? :-D

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I don't understand that tweet, I'm not sure if it is something dismissive for you to lose respect over or not? He says it's 'not a disease' but that people with it 'are sick'... I'm not sure if the point is simply that it's not a single well-understood thing with known causes, but more of a description of a state of affairs. ( Sort of like 'cellulitis' is just 'a skin infection of some sort'.) But I think that would…

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Re: Tell HN: Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas, This has been a wild one. On the way to my sister's house we got a call from her sister saying their dad needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia is not getting better and needs 24/7 care. But this will cut off the income my wife was bring in for caring for him.

As the call is on our car throws a red light: Transmission malfunction: Service now. We take the next exit and happen to find a Big O Tire place which is where we get most of our car work done. The transmission is seized, but it's Christmas Eve and no one is open to get an estimate on a replacement. But that's okay a couple of cousins are able to pick us up to get to the party.

We get home and find big pile of presents on our doorstep but we find they are addressed to names we don't know. So we bring them in for safekeeping. Today I look around the apartment building and finding one with a dollhouse on the balcony give a knock but its the wrong door but they knew the family which was downstairs so the right family got the presents finally.

Now cinnamon rolls are baking for breakfast and starting dinner prep soon.

But somehow I have to figure out if I should replace the transmission on a 13 year old car which needs $4500 in suspension work too or replace the whole vehicle.

And find a way to make more money since the part-time job I have right now to open up time for caregiving won't be enough for all this, and it looks like caregiving won't be necessary for much longer anyway.

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