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Hello all,
I'm in the process of converting. I was months along in the process with a Reform rabbi but due to health issues had to stop, as I couldn't give the process the appropriate time and respect. I continued studying and learning and am now back to much better health. During my personal study time I learned I wanted to be more observant and want to convert Chabad. I reached out to the local chabad rabbi, told him my story, and he seemed enthused to meet. I'm not sure if I'm in the "dissuade" part of the process, he's just busy as things are reopening from Corona, or if I should just move on to another rabbi. I'm happy to keep going, I just don't want to waste anyone's time.
I initially reached out via email and he immediately told me to call him to set up a meeting, so I did. I left a voicemail with no return. I waited about a week, and emailed again saying I still wanted to meet. He immediately responded and asked me to call him. Again, I called him. He asked where I lived, and I told him. He said he was busy at the bank and couldn't focus right that minute. I told him it was fine if he called me once he got out and was free. He never called. It was Friday afternoon, so I wasn't surprised. I emailed Wednesday and now he won't respond.
I understand different rabbis have different methods of the dissuade portion before they agree to begin the conversion process, and I am devoted to seeing it through, so I have no problem continuing, but is this a normal form? Thank you for any insight. Have a wonderful Shabbat.
For background, I have been working with Java, Python and a bit of Jscript/HTML/CSS for a past couple years. I have heard a lot about C# and how Microsoft is expanding their contributions to open source community and their embracing of linux system (recent windows update implied this). However, I was told my many people and many users on reddit that C# isn't that great of a language (compared to Java or other OOP) and it is strictly restricted within Microsoft's Windows ecosystem. They said that .NET Core is still barebone so it will take ages before getting anything done with C#/.NET on a non-Microsoft environment.
I would be glad if someone clarifies the facts I mentioned and whether they are authentic. I am interested in learning C# but I it won't be viable for me to make Windows exclusive programs and webapps, especially with the outrageous Azure pricing.
If anyone out here is legitimately on the verge of a crisis and seeking the slightest nudge of a signal from the universe that they ought to just go through with it, I'd strongly urge them to not read any further because I would never dream of being that catalyst to anyone. I'm a miserable, wretched and broken person with the unfortunate burden of being paralytically self-aware which makes me incapable of doing anything that I can poke holes of rationality in.
I fucking hate the entire existing system and lexicon of suicide-support. The hollow meaningless and empty cliched routine that everyone instantly spews at you is just nauseating to me. In a strange way I think it is an effective deterrent because the second someone hears words like "you're not the only one going through this" or "you have so much to live for" or "things will get better", I imagine that even at least a tiny part of their brains is so revolted by what they hear that they're momentarily distracted from their hopes to end it all. For gods fucking sake could people shut the fuck up for one second and stop talking to me like I'm a fragile little toddler having the news of my parents impending divorce broken to me or something?
If you'll bear with me and be patient, let me explain myself. We're all fully realized, functioning adults here. We don't get to the point of contemplating suicide because our favorite boyband broke up. We don't need banal paltry consolation from random strangers on the internet who will say to us "Your'e not alone, we understand", before vanishing and never having any form of meaningful contact with us again. What is the point of some arbitrary words of kindness from a person who has absolutely nothing to do with your life? The reason we're in this fucking mess here is because of people in OUR own lives, tragedies in OUR own lives, failures, loss, heartbreak, devastation, clinical depression that you can't afford to treat and even if you could afford to treat it, the side effects of the medication include even more suicidal thoughts.
I wish people would just respect that we all have our own troubled journeys and we all have our reasons for posting here. It is incredibly short-sighted, offensively stupid and patronizing for someone else who has no idea what you have been through to just tell you that everything is going to be hunky dory. I wish people would just say "You know what, I hear you. I get it. You do what you need to." Because that to me is exponentia
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