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DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT TO BASH ANY RELIGION OR DENOMINATION. IT IS JUST MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, AND SEARCH FOR ADVICE. ALSO SORRY IF THIS IS NOT THE BEST PLACE TO POST THIS.

(Shes not my girlfriend) (Im a male btw) but me and my girl best friend, around the same age, have always been good friends for 4 yrs, and always wanted to go to church together. (She is non denominational), (I am eastern catholic). We both have a very deep relationship with Christ. I have decided I would go to her church first, after going twice… I have notice many things that arent right and seem wrong and I dont know how to mention them to her. (I might be wrong though so I dont know)

1. Baptisms: They don’t baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
2. Pastors: They have female pastors (not sure if this is a bad thing, but I don’t see this commonly at other non denom churches and I thought Timothy already talked about this being wrong, correct me if I’m wrong plz.)
3. They talk about the sign of the cross (head, shoulders, chest), being demonic.
4. Finally, they say how salvation is only through faith alone like ONLY

and how works doesn’t matter.

I want to point out that none of this is to go against non-denominational people. I used to actually be a non-denominational myself and some of these things that I’ve listed have not actually happened at the non denom- church I went to, I think the church im talking about in this post might just wrong be for some reason though. I love all brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless you all.

I’m asking for advice because every time I try to bring up something that needs to be talked about either about Catholicism or what she believes in; since I’m Catholic, she likes to say how I’m wrong on many things and how the Bible says I’m wrong. (Also want to say that she likes when I try to debate her on many things and question her on things even if its not religion).. anyways, when I prove her wrong, and correct her mistakes on what we believe when it comes to mary, or the pope.. She usually just backs out of the conversation and either leave me on read/does a “👍” or “💗” sticker emoji on my message, or says that she has to go and that we will talk about it later…then never follows up on the conversation, or tries to avoid it. And if I try to talk about it, she usually says she doesn’t have time to talk about it. Which I respect.

I just wanna say that we are very good friends and I feel like maybe I’m going too far or something? But I don’t feel like it’s fair.. Like she told me she goes by the Bible and when I quote from the Bible to help my argument since it’s right, she doesn’t like it, or she just doesn’t agree. Which makes no sense because shouldn’t you be learning about truth instead of just staying in the denial?

I have a feeling she is very agreeing with sola scripture. Or not even the concept of the word but she just is saying things in sola scripture context when we talk, not realizing about the word of “sola scripture”.

That’s why I’m kind of worried to talk about the church with her. I don’t wanna get into an argument, just to be ignored. I want her to learn about Catholicism. My goal isn’t to just in ONE day, convert her. My goal is to just help her learn about misunderstandings, that her church teaches, and help correct them with the bible. And also to help her learn about Catholicism.

I know her intention is NOT to purposely ignore me, I think the reason why she backs out because she does not want to argue or hurt our relationship. She has a great heart.

Anyways, my point is I really want her to learn many truths from the bible that she misunderstands, and also I would like to talk to her about the church. But I don’t know how to approach it with her.

Should I just pray about it instead? Thanks. (Btw I could be wrong on many things here so please correct me and help me with any misunderstandings that I could have said.)

Edit: (4.)

Edit: I also am not here for debate. I am here for advice to talk about some flaws I thought were wrong.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT TO BASH ANY RELIGION OR DENOMINATION. IT IS JUST MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, AND SEARCH FOR ADVICE. (REPOST BECAUSE OF A SECTION WAS FORGOT TO BE ADDED IN)

(Shes not my girlfriend) (Im a male btw) but me and my girl best friend, around the same age, have always been good friends for 4 yrs, and always wanted to go to church together. (She is non denominational), (I am eastern catholic). We both have a very deep relationship with Christ. I have decided I would go to her church first, after going twice… I have notice many things that arent right and seem wrong and I dont know how to mention them to her. (I might be wrong though so I dont know)

1. Baptisms: They don’t baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
2. Pastors: They have female pastors (not sure if this is a bad thing, but I don’t see this commonly at other non denom churches and I thought Timothy already talked about this being wrong, correct me if I’m wrong plz).
3. They talk about the sign of the cross (head, shoulders, chest), being demonic.
4. Finally, they say how salvation is only through faith alone like ONLY.

I want to point out that none of this is to go against non-denominational people. I used to actually be a non-denominational myself and some of these things that I’ve listed have not actually happened at the non denom- church I went to, I think the church im talking about in this post might just wrong be for some reason though. I love all brothers and sisters in Christ. God bless you all.

I’m asking for advice because every time I try to bring up something that needs to be talked about either about Catholicism or what she believes in; since I’m Catholic, she likes to say how I’m wrong on many things and how the Bible says I’m wrong. (Also want to say that she likes when I try to debate her on many things and question her on things even if its not religion).. anyways, when I prove her wrong, and correct her mistakes on what we believe when it comes to mary, or the pope.. She usually just backs out of the conversation and either leave me on read/does a “👍” or “💗” sticker emoji on my message, or says that she has to go and that we will talk about it later…then never follows up on the conversation, or tries to avoid it. And if I try to talk about it, she usually says she doesn’t have time to talk about it. Which I respect.

I just wanna say that we are very good friends and I feel like maybe I’m going too far or something? But I don’t feel like it’s fair.. Like she told me she goes by the Bible and when I quote from the Bible to help my argument since it’s right, she doesn’t like it, or she just doesn’t agree. Which makes no sense because shouldn’t you be learning about truth instead of just staying in the denial?

I have a feeling she is very agreeing with sola scripture. Or not even the concept of the word but she just is saying things in sola scripture context when we talk, not realizing about the word of “sola scripture”.

That’s why I’m kind of worried to talk about the church with her. I don’t wanna get into an argument, just to be ignored. I want her to learn about Catholicism. My goal isn’t to just in ONE day, convert her. My goal is to just help her learn about misunderstandings, that her church teaches, and help correct them with the bible. And also to help her learn about Catholicism.

I know her intention is NOT to purposely ignore me, I think the reason why she backs out because she does not want to argue or hurt our relationship. She has a great heart.

Anyways, my point is I really want her to learn many truths from the bible that she misunderstands, and also I would like to talk to her about the church. But I don’t know how to approach it with her.

Should I just pray about it instead? Thanks. (Btw I could be wrong on many things here so please correct me and help me with any misunderstandings that I could have said.)

For a while, I’ve been very confused on how tattoos could or could not be a sin. I do not know how to answer this question myself. There’s many good convincing arguments that goes straight to the Bible on how it is a sin and then says how is not a sin. I really don’t know what the answer is myself and I’m thinking about praying about it, but I just wanna get people’s opinion and best arguments on how to convince me if it’s wrong or right. Thanks.

Question is in the title, what is the best news app to use for trading? And also best trading platform BY experience?

If I wanted to start trading, and to have financial freedom in the next 10-15 yrs and many other reasons, should I go to college first? Or should I slowly start trading my own capital and become more consistent.

I dont know if I want to have a career in a trading Job as in an actual 9-5 because ill have more trust if I had college degrees, or if I want to stay back, keep my part time job and slowly work with trading low amounts of money.

I know having a back up plan is also valid too

Any advice and any of your own stories you have that can help?

Edit: added that I have other reasons why I would like to be into trading.

Long problem short, I have a 2025, Lenovo yoga seven. For the last month, my laptop has been lagging whenever I use Bluetooth. It doesn’t matter what kind of headphones I use. I even did the bios update. Nothing was fixed. It’s really pissing me off. It’s like the video is playing, and then it just cuts out and it’s like I can see the people talking and the video still playing, but the audio is just not playing. And then it comes back in, and sometimes it doesn’t even come back. To where I have to reconnect my AirPods just for it to do it again.

And I’m not going to disconnect any Dolby audio, because I want to use what my computer was meant to be used for, idc.

Just to clear up if any questions about any apps, it does this on every single app. Every website, you name it, youtube, spotify, hbo max, netflix, etc.

Does anybody have any tips? I literally have no idea what to do. I’ve done like everything. I didn’t go anywhere to get it fixed though and I do still have a warranty coverage. I did Bluetooth tests and everything said it was working right and even Lenovo vantage tests, which all said to be right.

And also, before anyone asks, I already tested the Wi-Fi, it is not the Wi-Fi. The speeds dont match how bad the audio cuts are.

If anyone has had something happened to them before or even has fixed it, please let me know and please I ask you that I can have some advice.

The title really just says the whole point.

Basically in the past months or two, I’ve been starting to get very addicted to my phone and scrolling until about 12-1 AM (only when it becomes near bed time) (i make my own bed time and my time is 10:30-11) And I haven’t been able to stop. No matter how many times I say that “I’m going to go to bed early” or “I’ll go to bed early tomorrow”, I get looped back into the same thing where I just scroll and scroll. I do use an app called Opal to help me with my screen time. It has helped maybe a little bit.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Recently moved to a new house. Got tmobile. Bad home int. So went back with verizon after that.

I switched back to verizon home internet after my brother had really bad ping issues while gaming when it came to T-Mobile. And really bad throttling. And also bad tv connections all around the house

Having hiccups even after coming back. Had a guy come and do a heatmap and I guess put the main router in the basement and we have an extended router on the top upstairs floor, where his room is at.

The ping is a lot lower and very good. Avg on tmobile was around 40-60 ms. Now average is 9-15ms.

There’s been one problem that we have not been able to figure out and it is ping spikes. We also got the throttle issue figured out and there’s no more throttling, or not as bad.

But ping is still constantly having spikes. He games on Pc. And he does not have a great Wi-Fi card (wifi 5 a520m-plus) so he uses a ethernet cable to our extended router. CAT 6a cable. He also said on the back of his PC where the ethernet plugs into, there’s a orange blinking light that often blinks two or three times every second.

The spikes have definitely gone down since switching back to Verizon, but not gone away. And are still a noticeable problem.

We’ve also had a problem before where the fire sticks we had on each different TVs would not connect right. For example, like one or two TVs in the house would work with the fire stick, and then after that, another one would stop working. And then we would have to reset the router every 20 minutes. The tv problem is solved.

PING SPIKING is the only bad thing that keeps happening no matter what.

I also want to point out that they used to be an old very old 2015 Verizon FiOS box in our basement. Which makes me think that the basement is probably the best spot for the router.

If anyone has any ideas on what I can do, please help me.

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