Mark 9:49-50. I can't find a consensus on what exactly this means. Some of the commentaries cite the Levitical command to salt meat before making it a burnt offering. In this interpretation, people are made a burnt offering before God (metaphorically; I said METAPHORICALLY, Jephthah). So I guess a less metaphorical reading would be something like "All shall be made holy (salted) and offered up to God. Holiness is good, but if holiness is made unholy, how can you make it holy again? Keep yourselves holy, and be at peace with one another."
So I guess that settles that.
Except, no, that raises even more questions. Remember, this is the Gospel of Mark, where the gospel writer feels the need to explain to his audience that the Jews wash their hands before eating. Why would he expect his audience to be ignorant of a fact of everyday life, but be familiar with a relatively minor aspect of the making of sacrifices, which were only made by the priestly class in the Temple in Jerusalem? Was salting a sacrifice a universal practice in the 1st century Mediterranean, so he didn't feel it needed explaining? Was there some reason that his audience would be completely familiar with the ritual laws of the Judaean religious elite, but unfamiliar with their daily lives?
Also, if the idea of making a burnt offering of oneself was theologically important, why doesn't it appear anywhere else in the gospel (that I can find)? Unlike in John, even Jesus isn't portrayed as being analogous to a burnt offering.
And for that matter, in the surrounding text burnt offerings aren't mentioned at all. The preceding discourse (which the salt discourse may be part of?) is "if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off," and talks about how sinners will go to Gehenna, the place of unquenchable fire. So in context it seems there's good reason to believe that the fire referenced isn't sacrificial fire, but the fire of Gehenna. But if it's the fire of Gehenna, what the Gehenna is the salt doing there, and why does it matter if it loses its saltiness? Also, fact that all shall be salted with fire would seem to undercut the previous warning. "If you sin, you'll be cast into eternal fire, so don't sin. By the way, EVERYONE will be cast into eternal fire."
What's going on here? Secret Mark? Koine pun? A basic failure of reading comprehension on my part?
I posted this in many communities
Title: Genuine question: any software devs willing to help us all with cryptocurrency tax software creation or improvement in general ? (Not a job post but a comment of a pain point)
I'm asking because there's a bunch of software for people to use to report crypto taxes. And it all sucks to some degree or another.
There's a subreddit specifically called cryptotaxes for anybody curious enough to figure out what those grievances are.
Mostly the fact that we make new coins that aren't able to be properly tracked by these softwares and we are stuck in a strange limbo.
Stake.tax is the closest thing we have right now to bridge some things.
But all in all the closest things we have to good software is koinly and they still don't have terra luna, harmony one, etc.
We crypto people are suffering because there is a gap in the market for GOOD CRYPTO SOFTWARE for taxes that works universally with most if not all coins. I know it's asking a lot lol.
I'm wondering if anybody would either make a product that could read the blockchain explorers of any coin and produce a CVS file (stake.tax only supports like 3 coins right now)
Or maybe get hired by some awesome software that already exists and make it better.
We need y'alls big brains in conjunction with people smart with taxes (accountants, CPAs, etc)
Do it for us.
Again I'm not hiring nor do I have a job offer. This is a genuine request from a crypto lover. Thanks
Nexons update about Karma Koin
We get this update 2 MONTHS AFTER THE CHANGE happened, even though this was pointed out 2 months ago in my other post.
Still no update on the horrific exchange rates for UK or EU based customers, please spread awareness once again.
I'm in a the process of writing a short review about Kionos and I had a few questions.
- Is all Koin already mined?
- If so, why is has another post mentioned a 15% inflation a year?
Thanks for your time
I feel like I spoiled my gaming experience started playing around black Friday once I get hooked up with the game I couldn't resist and spent IRL koins for some diamonds cards deals. And I'm kinda upset now I won't have that hype once I get my first diamond legit way I don't even play any other hero other than the diamond team and all others LVL 1 to 5 pretty much never used them don't know what they do and how good they might be. Did I fucked up? Should I start fresh and forget about that one? Maybe 2 accounts one legit and spoiled one? Or do I overreact about it and I should keep playing?
What do you think MK champions?
If I could advise a new player as tempting those card packs might be don't buy it just play and enjoy the game.
Made a post earlier but accidently deleted, so going to put back up
Basically you can do this via augments, i have been doing it for a few fights and over the past hour have racked up 5 million Koins
What you need to do is put these augments on any character of your choice
Level 3 - Spoils of War
Level 3 - Spirit Collector
Level 3 - Have Mercy
Level 4 - Dark Magic
Level 3 - Heart and Soul
Level 4 - Death Benefit
Basically how it works is all augments bar 1 are geared towards getting souls, the dark magic augment changes 1 soul to 1000 koins, now all you have to do is show mercy once and perform a fatality and you will get 250,000 Koins every time
Been doing it for the past 2 hours and it works every time, i must have gotten about 35 skins from just dumping 100,000 koins each time into the shrine, although now 100,000 is only getting me augments, but i don't know if this is because i have done too many in the one day, so i will test it again tomorrow
But, yeah just wanted to tell everyone, if you didn't already know about it, easiest way to get koins i have found
