For sure. Especially when travelling. I’ve gotten into some neat cultural experiences like that.

Tankie? Is this a new racial slur I’m not aware of?

Yeah, just a little jealous. That’s all.

Maybe for you. Here, the snow starts to melt the end of March.

Leave us out of it, please. Canada

TIpping. Receptionists take crap all the time. Fire fighters risk their lives. Cooks slave in a hot kitchen. Garbage people take our garbage, and yet we chose to give extra money to the people who carry our food from the kitchen to our table.

I can’t answer that. I know some things about some denominations in my country, but I don’t have the knowledge to make that generalization worldwide.

Smoking, drinking, and obesity

I’ve actually been doing a lot of thinking about this lately. Reading the gospels and trying to leave my preconcieved ideas out of it. The conclusions I’ve been coming to are: You can call yourself a Christian, but if you don’t live like it, you’re not. Acceptance of Christ’s teaching is intertwined with what you do. Acceptance of Christ’s teachings has to be an inner thing, not just doing the right thing and staying bitter and angry inside.

A Christian is a follower of Christ’s teachings. He taught humility, acceptance of others, non-violence, truth, helping others, non-hipocracy, love, and peace. Just because people in power call themselves Christians, doesn’t mean they are.

I upvote posts I enjoy reading or hearing about. I upvote comments that are intelligent and/or well said. I rarely downvote.

Nope. He said no one would know the hour or the day but he also said there would be signs and, if people watched for them, they wouldn’t be caught unaware.

I had an idea once but it left because it got lonely.

In my 70s. In response to the U.S. aggression, I switched to Lemmy.ca, a Canadian owned media. Not many other Canadian owned social media sites out there.

I can whistle without moving my lips. I’d trade that for the ability to play football at a world competative level.

Great idea. I used to put bandaids on mine.

The design was taken from knights’ helmets.

It’s cheaper than gambling.

You’re a hero.