cactusflinthead
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PGA Tour 2025
Gotterup played college golf at Rutgers University from 2017 to 2021.[3] In 2019 he won the Metropolitan Amateur and New Jersey State Open, and was given the Metropolitan Golf Association Jerry Courville Sr. Player of the Year Award.[2] He transferred to the University of Oklahoma for 2021–22, where he won the Haskins Award and Jack Nicklaus Award as the top college golfer.[4] It also says that he lives in Edmund, OK now. I guess we might have to be on the lookout.
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Your cat is awesome. Damn straight
I still do it. I know he's going to bite me and latch on with all the claws. Don't care. I'm getting some belly rubs.
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Darkness and Doubt Above all, there was a sense of distance from God, what the sixteenth century Spanish monk John of the Cross called the “dark night of the soul” or the sense that the “heavens were like brass” bouncing back any prayer sent heavenward. Lewis says, But go to Him when your need is desperable, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double-bolting on the inside. After that, silence. Worse than that, there were doubts about the goodness of God. It wasn’t that Lewis was in any danger of becoming an atheist: “The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not, ‘So there’s no God after all,’ but, ‘So this is what God’s really like. Deceive yourself no longer.’” ---I can't just leave it there This smashing even applies to some of our questions. Some of our questions are unanswerable, at least in the way we ask them. Lewis says: When I lay these questions before God, I get no answer. But rather, a special kind of ‘no answer.’ It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, ‘Peace, child; you don’t understand.’ . . . Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask—half our great theological and metaphysical problems—are like that. --- It is hoped that these insights might be helpful, although I am aware of the dilemma Lewis described in The Problem of Pain: All arguments in justification of suffering provoke bitter resentment against the author. You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. When we all experience pain, a little courage helps more (Lewis observes) than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all. https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/c-s-lewis-on-grief/
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Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Fire it up. I've got thoughts about other religions that have to deal with the random ass bullshit of existence just like the rest of us over here in Christian land. And I'm saying that as someone that just reaffirmed his beliefs to join the Presbyterians because the Baptists don't recognize anyone else as having it right so there's no saying to them, "Hey, he's going over here now." Fwiw the same thing applies to the Catholic guy that was sitting next to me at the session. I got thoughts about old Abraham Heschel and Lao Tzu that probably belong in a different thread. But, while I'm here. The OT has more than a few souls that wrestled with the idea of a just and loving God when confronted with the people around them. There's a reason why the Cistercian Father had us read No Exit in our last year. We had already made the journey with Dante through all nine circles of Hell, might as well take a look at Sartre's version too. Zechariah got up there to get ready for the questions back. Job got it out of a tornado. George Washington Carver wanted to know everything there is to know about plants. It's too much little man, but I will tell you about the peanut. That's how big it all is. I don't know much of anything. But, I do know to help other people and don't brag about it.
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I was just mugged
That's fucked up. Glad you survived to tell the tale. "I've got a lighter! I want us to die!" is the most masthead worthy quote ever
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
I'm pretty sure he was guilty of breaking more than two laws. Unless he was rolling down the road with a fat ass jay hanging out of his mouth, he probably did something to get the attention of the cops and the other laws were found to be in violation and the first offense was disregarded.
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4th of July Texas Flood
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- 2025 Thread of the Rains
Don't. Just don't- 2025 Thread of the Rains
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I don't get it. This is how many names? You're not the first person to point out that it's Rex again but I'm going to consider this confirmation of it. I usually wait until he shows up in the Oil Baron's thread before I'm completely convinced but, two or three unrelated posters saying the same thing and him whining about it is enough this time.- The Climate thread
It's also how they can say that out loud. Gonna be a lot of finger pointing- The Climate thread
Oh it must be because someone is injecting chemicals in the atmosphere Just not the ones that we know about. Those are fine You don't need that data. We're saving money!- The Climate thread
- 2025 Thread of the Rains
Yeah, from what I can find on the lake level and release they are catching it all and letting next to nothing out. Plenty of room for a bunch of water. https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/lake/status.htm- 2025 Thread of the Rains
Yeah, I'm up here in Denton and I don't know what to say except this is horrible.- 2025 Thread of the Rains
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OC Fisher has gone up 8.78 feet in the last 24hrs. https://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/lake/status.htm- 2025 Thread of the Rains
Yeah, it's not much consolation but it's 31 feet down. It has a lot of room.- Fuck the YouTube Algorithm - Long Live the Surly Algorithm (YouTube Video Thread of Dominance)
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- NHL offseason 2025
- Dallas Stars Offseason
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/07/stars-gulutzan-nill-deboer-hire/ For starters, this is a far bolder hire than people want to acknowledge. Nill pushed for this coaching change, not owner Tom Gaglardi, and while Nill has goodwill with ownership—he has been named the NHL’s GM of the Year three straight seasons—he’s taking some considerable risk in removing a coach who had a better track record than everyone except DeBoer’s old friend Paul Maurice, who has led the Florida Panthers to the last two Stanley Cups. As Robert Tiffin noted on Monday, he’s taking an even greater one by replacing that coach with a man he happened to fire a dozen years ago in one of his first acts as general manager. “Honestly, this tells me a lot about Jim,” one NHL executive said in a text. “He’s willing to hire someone he fired for the same job. In this league, that never happens. You might get a second chance with the same organization, but never with the same GM. Most GMs don’t have the ego to ever be willing to go back and bring someone back like Dallas is now.”Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate DonationsBack to top - 4th of July Texas Flood
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