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11 Jun 2025, 12:41 am

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Tithing was originally a tax system in the fertile crescent area thousands of years ago.....Judaism had tithing many years before Christianity and their tithe rate was way more than 10 percent.


So, the word tithe itself is a couplet of tenth.

From a quick overview, it reads like the concept of it being 1/10th comes from Jewish tradition, but that Jewish tradition normally includes 3 separate tithes, which would be like ~28% total.

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I think tithing, and the emphasis on simple-living, charity and rejection of worldly concerns are pretty fundamental to Christianity. They're also a reflection of how early Christians believed the end was near. It's a lot easier to sell the message of abandoning worldly concerns and earthly possessions if they'll be irrelevant soon anyways.

Tithing is both a tax to support the church, and an easy logical conclusion if you accept the general message of charity.


I dont think the early Christians practiced tithing. Tithing in Christianity came centuries after Jesus. in the first church in Acts the amount you gave was 100 percent instead of 10 percent. Christians in the first century gave everything in many cases....I think a more biblical way to practice giving in Christianity than tithing is the free will offering. I just view tithing as part of the Mosaic Law that was nailed to the cross. There is no record in the New Testament of tithing after the death of Jesus.


For what it's worth, I only called it an easy logical conclusion from their broader teachings about charity.

The church seems like a pretty easy-to-sell charity case for it's members. If members believe in it's message and works, it seems easy to convince them that financially supporting the church is an expression of that belief.

That's what I mean when I say it's an easy logical conclusion.

Oh okay.....Thats a good way to look at it....It seems like giving in most of Christianity has shifted into paying for the staff and real estate and leaving very little for actually ministering to the poor and needy.



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11 Jun 2025, 1:06 am

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I thought I was the only one who made fantasy wildcat rounds. I think the main thing limiting the 7.62x39mm in deer hunting is the lack of soft point ammo because most of the ammo is Full Metal Jacket.


There's a handful of people on NationStates who get really into the details of their militaries, mostly because the meta is somewhat different from real-life, so adopting gear that's suitable for the conflicts one will actually engage in makes more sense than just specifying real-life gear.

That said, designing some killer kit doesn't mean much if the doctrine isn't aligned with it. Like say, I've got a F-104/Mirage 3/MiG-21 contemporary fighter with a design emphasis on defeating enemy fighters. Hypothetically it wouldn't be that much of an advantage to an air force that didn't also have substantial training in air combat manoeuvring. But, an air force that tenders an air superiority fighter will probably have a doctrine that values training pilots to perform that mission.

Since my infantry doctrine was based around an essentially intermediate cartridge since the 30s, that left room for a 8.5mm round for medium machine guns and some special purpose guns. Because MOAR DAKKA is always good.


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11 Jun 2025, 1:09 am

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Oh okay.....Thats a good way to look at it....It seems like giving in most of Christianity has shifted into paying for the staff and real estate and leaving very little for actually ministering to the poor and needy.


I can't disagree with that at all.

It seems like once the idea that the end of the world was about to occur started to not be the focus anymore, worldly concerns took over again.


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11 Jun 2025, 3:06 am

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11 Jun 2025, 8:19 am

Apple's "Liquid Glass". This iPad is already a baby toy of a computing device, compared to no-nonsense, actually productive Operating systems like Linux. Apple can't resist turning up the baby toy dial a couple notches with Liquid Glass, necessitating dumptrucks full of unnecessary labour from the treadmill trudging software devs in their ecosystem.


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11 Jun 2025, 8:34 am

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11 Jun 2025, 11:42 am

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12 Jun 2025, 6:07 am

I wish that gun control was never invented.



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funeralxempire wrote:
Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
I thought I was the only one who made fantasy wildcat rounds. I think the main thing limiting the 7.62x39mm in deer hunting is the lack of soft point ammo because most of the ammo is Full Metal Jacket.


There's a handful of people on NationStates who get really into the details of their militaries, mostly because the meta is somewhat different from real-life, so adopting gear that's suitable for the conflicts one will actually engage in makes more sense than just specifying real-life gear.

That said, designing some killer kit doesn't mean much if the doctrine isn't aligned with it. Like say, I've got a F-104/Mirage 3/MiG-21 contemporary fighter with a design emphasis on defeating enemy fighters. Hypothetically it wouldn't be that much of an advantage to an air force that didn't also have substantial training in air combat manoeuvring. But, an air force that tenders an air superiority fighter will probably have a doctrine that values training pilots to perform that mission.

Since my infantry doctrine was based around an essentially intermediate cartridge since the 30s, that left room for a 8.5mm round for medium machine guns and some special purpose guns. Because MOAR DAKKA is always good.

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