Sda Puns

When I was in highschool I went to Campion Academy an SDA boarding school in Colorado. My junior year of high school I had this man for my Bible teacher his name was pastor Joe Martin. His lesson that particular day was this. He said and I quote "If a women walks into the church dressed immodestly and a married man looks and lusts after her, it is her fault for making him commit that sin." I wish I would've gotten up and walked out right there. I was just so used to hearing stuff like this that even though it infuriated me it was the norm around me. This is only the tiniest tip of the iceberg for things I experienced at this hell hole. Let me know if you want to hear more. I have an ungodly amount of stories from going to school there.

I have work at fast food before, I hate that job, I quitted in less than 2 weeks. Scummy pay to be surrounded by deep fryers and shit customers. Hair smelling like fries after each shift which sucks.

We shouldn't hate on SDAs because we find their pay doesn't correlate with their "efforts". We should hate on bosses who thinks $8/hr is market rate where transport costs, GST, basic necessities etc are ever increasing. If I see another post talking about some MNC receptionist being paid $10/hr, I'll probably scold that person. Being a receptionist means the girl needs to spend money on makeup and hair to look GOOD for the company. $10/hr is not enough.

We need to stop being scabs and hating on our fellow salaryman.

I grew up SDA and worked in the system for close to a decade. And in my experience SDA kids and young adults just don’t seem to have normal or healthy maturity levels, boundaries, insights, etc those who recognize this I feel like are always trying to fix what being raised in the system did. Is it just me? And it just seems to be getting worse.

Ever since when I was little, I always hated Saturdays. I hated that I couldn't watch TV or play games. My mom wouldn't let us do anything fun. I also really REALLY hated wearing dresses.

You see, I was an extremely introverted kid (I still am now but I was a lot worse back then) and had a lot of insecurities with my body. Puberty was not kind to me at all and I liked wearing shirts and baggy jeans to hide those insecurities which is why Saturdays was always a nightmare to me. I also really freaking hated that Sabbath was a whole day thing. Like, just sitting there the entire day pretending that you're listening to all the bullshit they're preaching about. They really expect kids to just sit around the whole day and do nothing?

And also, because I'm super introverted, I hate being surrounded by strangers all day and being forced to interact with them. Mingling with people constantly is really tiring to me and takes out a lot of my energy. I mean talking to people is fine but doing it all day? My introverted ass can't take it. Now that I am no longer an Adventist, I still have that feeling of hating Saturdays. It's become a mental thing now.

There's a whole lot more reasons why I hate Saturdays but I don't wanna put it on here bc it would be too long. So yeah, I freaking hate Saturdays no thanks to Seventh Day Adventist.

We all know that the SDA churches are dying. Youth have left in droves. And reading about this recently caused me to remember an event that happened in my early youth in a small church in Missouri.

The youth pastor there had managed to bring in droves of pre teens and teens from the small town the church was in. A class of a half a dozen turned into two dozen plus. Which was just unheard of in that region at the time.

He was passionate, loud, charming, animated, and really connected with the youth. They loved him. But he was also extremely conservative on a particular subject: he did not allow tv in his home. He, his wife, and his kids lived a life void of television. In his words he made this decision to be closer to God. He never once claimed anybody else should do the same or that they were bad for doing so.

Well to make a long story short, I recall a huge meeting being called by the leaders of the church to vote on whether to continue to allow this man to lead the youth class or not. I was a kid so I wasn't allowed in but I always heard it could have been because of multiple reasons. He was too loud and passionate. He didn't watch TV and that is weird. Other people were jealous of his natural connection to the youth. Older folks not wanting all the riff raff (sinners) he brought into the church.

I remember that he begged them with tears in his eyes to not take it away from him. But they did. The youth instantly left. The class shrunk to less that five kids. Later, this man's wife and kids left him and I heard that he had great depression after this, which also caused him to leave the church.

I think this was one of the first events in the church that made me second guess the whole thing. I haven't been an Adventist for around 15 years now. Maybe there was more to the story but stuff like this is why this religion is dying. They literally ran off the essential life blood the place needed to grow and flourish.

It was just a random memory that popped into my head that I thought I would share today. It has always stuck with me. I mark this as the first time I started feeling "off" about the religion. I believe there are good and bad people in all groups and affiliations and this is one time I felt like the bad showed itself.

I definitely don't go anymore. Mainly due to the fear mongering conspiracy crap they spout.

I was talking to a friend who's also an ex-SDA and she was telling me how she thought her parents were getting more radicalized and how they were consuming much more prophecy related media. She told me that throughout her childhood her parents were firmly SDA, of course, but that they didn't seem to care too much about end times prophecies. Now, when they're getting into their 50s, they are seemingly diving even deeper in the prophecy rabbit hole than before.

And that got me thinking of a reason for that. Of course, today's technology makes easier for people to receive links, videos and other media than before, so it's understandable that people will consume more of a thing that they already liked before. But it got me thinking how weird things must be for a fifty-something SDA who spent their whole youth being told god would be back in their lifetime.

I mean, imagine that you're approaching the end of your life and the sunday law is nowhere to be seen. The catholic church progressively loses power as it drowns in controversies. There's no hint of SDAs being persecuted in most of the world. But you were told for certain that Jesus was thiiiiis close to coming back! How can that be?? Jesus must be coming back, we just have to pay extra attention to the signs. I think it must really be a desperate situation. I remember hearing a saying that "Jesus has already come for those who died on the faith", but no one really wants to die and "sleep" until Jesus comes. When I was at the church everyone talked about how much they'd like to be alive to see Jesus coming in the clouds. And mind you, every generation thought Jesus was coming back in their lifetimes. EGW famously stated in a conference back in her day that "the investigative judgement was almost ending". I'm sure SDAs who got to see WWI, WWII, the cold war and many other conflicts thought Jesus was really close to coming back. My grandpa thought that, my dad thinks that and I'm sure that most young SDA people right now think that.

It's no wonder some people double down on their fanaticism later in life. It's hard to realize that nothing you believed in your whole life actually came to fruition. Jesus is still there at the most high judging people at a turtle's pace, and it doesn't seem like he's going to pick up the pace. But maybe when these people look at the "signs", they might feel better,

Mine? Canned tomato soup over nutena baked in a casserole dish...yuck!

Also whatever they do is just them doing their jobs. Don't like it, don't make their lives difficult. They're not the one making the rules/policy also.

As title states - I used to defend SDAs and their role in the COVID pandemic when this all first started, but recently as the situation has grown more tiresome, and the rules start to make less and less sense, SDAs have REALLY been rubbing me the wrong way.

I've started seeing them as power-tripping assholes who are just trying to compensate for not having any marketable skills besides walking around and pointing at people to follow random obscure rules, or to tell someone who's all alone at a rooftop enjoying the breeze to mask up despite them being nowhere close to anyone.

Hi all,

First off want to start by saying i am very lost. Recently i decided to get back into the church, i truly believe that Christ is coming again and soon and i dont want to be left behind. Back 7 or 8 years ago i was in the church but got caught up on being a teenager and doing pointless things. Flash forward to now and i find myself in a relationship of 4 years with a girl i 100% love with all my heart, but is not a believer.

Throughout the years i still have had a relationship with God but it was not nearly as strong as it shouldve been, so she knew that this might happen. I dont know what to do with this becuase i feel so torn between good and bad and i feel like there is no correct answer. She has told me and i know for a fact i am the only person in her life that she trusts 100%, not even her parents does she trust half as much as me. Shes also told me the reason she does not believe is because everytime shes asked God for something it has been taken from her (multiple family members). Now of course i try to explain that this isnt Gods doing, it is Satans but she doesnt comprehend that.

I have read on the subject a bit since finding out i wanted to return to the church and i found Ellen Whites writing on the matter clearly stating that the relationship between a Christian and non is "Forbidden" within the Bible, but since i havent been in the Church for so long i understand i know very little and am asking for some help.

The things i am scared of is

1. Breaking her and my heart causing her to resent God and the idea of it even more.
2. Leaving her alone becuase she has no one else.
3. Staying with her and then when it comes time to marry and have kids clashing heads on what to do.

And many more than that. I just dont know what the answer is. All i can do is pray on it but it is occupying 100% of my mind right now i cannot get it to leave.

Is it Christ like to abandon the person who needs me in life begging me that shell do anything for me to stay. I dont know. And on the other hand is it Christ like to make excuses for this relationship when its not Gods will. That one i know is a no. Please any advice would be amazing help.

Thank you in advance brothers and sisters.

I remember when I was a little kid members of my church claimed Obama was the last president and when Pope Francis visited the US they were all convinced Obama was going to enact the Sunday law. Then Trump was elected and they said that he was the one that was going to enact the Sunday law and when Trump pledged to repeal the Johnson Amendment SDAs saw it as the beginning of the end (of course that attempt was struck down) and now just because Joe Biden is a Catholic they are now convinced he's the one who's going to enact the Sunday law

Download link 1, Download link 2. Maybe 1 or 2 of you musicians will find this useful, or if you prefer a tablet/Kindle to hymnals.

Original from Archive.org was an unusable plain PDF. I worked really hard to add an index, which should make it much easier to find hymns within the file. That said, I encourage you to use a hymnal instead and avoid distractions like technology on Sabbath and/or in church.

Hello!

I'm just starting out and ready to order most of the EO's however I have some trouble with finding perfumers acohol. Specifically: 200 proof SDA 40B Ethanol.

Are there any good sources in Europe? i can't find any. Im based in NL if that makes a difference.

This is the list that i'd like to begin with;

• Cederwood EO
• Lemon CP EO
• Lavender EO
• Orange Sweet EO
• Cypres EO
• Bergamot EO FCF
• French Rose PO
• Cedramber
• Benzyl Salicylate
• Ethylvanilline
• Galaxolide 50% in IPM
• Iso E Super
• C12 Lauric
• Dihydromyrcenol
• Hedione
• Geraniol
• Ethylene brassylate
• Linalyl acetate
• C12 MNA
• Calone
• C12 Strawberry
• Vetiveryl Acetate
• Cashmeran
• Oud (Firstbest)
• Cis-3-Hexenyl Salicylate
• Floralozone
• Nextarate
• Ethyl maltol
• Ambrettolide
• Clearwood
• Habanolide subst
• Sandalore
• Suederal LT
• Allyl Amyl glycolate
• Hexyl Acetate

The list seems quite long to me, so is there anything that i dont need or that i absolutely need that isn't on here? I'm just starting out and am an absolute beginner.

On the website of hekserij they say with certain ingredients that it can be used undiluted. All the videos i've seen so far dilute their materials. What is better? Always dilute it or situational depending on the strenght of the material.

Thanks!!

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Hi, I have a new Pi4 (4GB) installed from the Retropi image, put it into the DeskPi Pro V2 (installed their scipt), followed the instructions from here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/

And then installed my M2 SSD, and that's when things stop working properly...

I have created a image right before this point, and have tried many combinations of HD formatting, and then alternating between the Automatic & Manual mount methods (and gotten nowhere), rolled back my SD card, and attempted again.

I am most successful when I attempt the Automatic Mount (easiest method), however not entirely.

I can confirm that the files are copied to the SSD using PuTTY & WinSCP, but am still hitting this message upon bootup, and also can confirm that roms are not running off the SSD, in emulation station.

I will also add, that every time I used the Manual Mount method, and edit the fstab, then reboot, Emulation station usually freaks out with a message 'no emulators' found, and then kicks me out of Emulation Station. At least with the manual method, I can get into Emulation Station.

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I am way over my head here, looking at similar threads, I noticed that I could provide additional information to hopefully assist:

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Any advice is appreciated - I am super lost!

Thanks,

In about 1975 I was invited to a friends SDA school reunion who was a bit older than me it was unexpected as even though I had recently left the school (expelled actually) I was not in the same classes as my older friend

My friends SDA mother had invited me to their house to repair a old radio then they said "oh tonight we are going to our son's reunion this evening would you like to come" So I thought why not so of we all went

Anyway during the evening a group of us ex students were talking and the Deputy Headmaster ( Mr W) approached us and began to chat, I politely said good evening Mr W how are you good to see you again, well he turned his back on me and stormed off in a huff !

I was really hurt by this even though he had caned me in the past for talking in class I had no animosity towards him and always respected him, well of course probably since I had been expelled from the school probably is why but surely the Christian thing to do was just at least say hello Peter then walk away even if he had of told me I am not welcome at the school I would have accepted that and left, talk about being unchristian !

Similar thing when Facebook was in its infancy I found one of my ex SDA teachers and messaged him just to acknowledge he was a good teacher and thanked him for taking a personal interest in me and helping him and his father to, well he didn't even respond probably because of my expulsion, I know he received the message and he continued to post for years after

SDAism and forgiveness they don't seem to do it that well, I am a Atheist and I forgave my SDA abusive parents in the final decade of their lives and to there credit they apologised, Thanks for reading

Trigger warning: Abuse

First of all, I'd like to start this post by saying Happy Christmas to you all! Even though it's fallen on a "sabbath" this year, I hope you all have a peaceful day to celebrate and enjoy.

Unfortunately, it looks like my own Christmas isn't going to be so "happy". I'm a student right now and I live away from home but I decided to come back for the holidays. I spent most of Christmas Eve doing my own thing whilst my family had their devotional time downstairs. Once they were done, conversations started flowing and lets just say it didn't end well.

For context, I am bisexual (which is something I discovered after leaving the church almost three years ago). This past summer I ended my relationship with my first girlfriend and after some time, I realised that the relationship was quite toxic on both ends. Unfortunately, during the relationship my gf violated an intimate boundary (that's the only way I can phrase it without literally losing it) that took me a while to even realise and then process before I could even talk about it.

So anyway, a few days ago I told my younger sister about what had happened and she was really supportive. I won't go into too much detail, but I've been having trouble remembering the full incident and really doubting certain parts of it which makes me feel as if I am lying about it. I didn't go into too much detail with my sister either because she is only a teenager and the conversation we were having revolved around how pretty much every other girl we knew had something like this happen to them.

Afterwards I felt a bit bad for talking about it with my sister, so I told my mum. My mum was the first person I told and she'd been really supportive in helping me not doubt my memory and process some of the emotions.

well tonight she completely flipped.

My mum told me that she didn't want me telling my sister about "worldly" things. Ok, fine fair enough....but how is assault "worldly?". I told my mum that during the conversation I told my sister to let me know if anything I said made her uncomfortable or if she wanted me to stop talking about anything (but again I did not go into great detail with her). I guess I may have been wrong for sharing that with my sister. She's told me that she's glad I told her and that she wants to be there for me, but now I'm worried that I may have traumatised her in the future. So yeah, I think I was wrong for telling her.

My problem, however, is with what my mum said afte

Just a weird thing I started noticing. I've left the church for some time now, and my parents know. I've just started working as a waiter in a friend's restaurant, and as I told my father that this friend got me the job the first thing he asked was "is he adventist?". And then I realize that pretty much every time I talk about a friend or an acquaintance who did something for me, the first thing my parents ask is "are they an adventist". I mean, if feels like being an adventist tells them everything they need to know about the person, as if there are no SDAs who are also bad people.

How’s this Bschool? Your reviews?

Hello!

Is there anyone here that has got SDA approval to build homes able to please help me with a few questions regarding audits and the approval process? We are a small cleaning business + a few investment properties so far and looking to get into SDA style home building!

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask so if it isn’t please accept my apologies and if you know anyone that has gone through this process - please let me know!

Thanks in advance! 😊

Probably its bizarre isn't me being a ex SDA & a Atheist

So I watched the 11am live service online which was the well known Avondale, NSW, Australia as I live in Australia and was there at that very church with my parents in 1971 which back then the Xmas day of '71 fell on a Saturday, As I recall the Pastor from our local Church said how special this church was so it must have got my parents motivated to go at the time which would have been a 2 hour drive (not sure if E.G. White would agree on travelling well outside local area to attend Church)

Anyway they must have spent a bit of coin with the on stage nativity scene, as I expected plenty of cringe moments all about Jesus birth and endless carols, What's up with the endless prayers the opening prayer must have lasted about 10 minutes I give kudos to the Pastor for the creativity to keep a prayer going non stop basically just praising God anyway there were a few other shorter pray sessions during the 1 hour service

Thanks for reading

Edit: Thanks everyone who helped out, i was really struggling with this. Im a Seventh Day Adventist, 18 yo, and go to a Spanish speaking church. Being Mexican and enjoying Mexican music, I bought an accordion to learn how to play. I want to play some hymns that I’ve learned in church because I truly want to praise god with my music, but I feel like I’d receive a lot of black lash/hate because the accordion isn’t necessarily considered a instrument right for church or “holy.” I kinda just want to see what peoples opinions on this topic is, for reference the diatonic accordion I own is typically used in norteño music (a regional form of music in the northern part of Mexico.)

I'd like to know what criteria I would need to have to get into SDA housing in regards to mental health.( along with anyone's experiences )

My main mental health issues are schizophrenia and CPTSD when it comes to everyday living. I am in need of 24 hour care and cannot live in most homes due to certain triggers.

I understand that only a small percentage gets in.

As the title says I ran sudo sgdisk -og /dev/sda on my hard disk. it said the kernel will use existing partition layout for now and will use new layout after reboot. so is there any way to recover this? or should I create a bootable USB before shutting the laptop down and use it to install the OS?

Anyone here from Istanbul and Malta?

I will be staying in Istanbul for 2 weeks and then leave for Malta for work. Just hoping to get in touch with the brethren on these places.

I was having a drink with my coworkers (accidentally posted to my public story instead of close friends) and she confronted me in the DM’s asking if I still believed in God because I drink.

Wait until she finds out most of her SDA friends are drinking too (and probably having premarital sex) and doing you know….normal shit

It’s no secret that the SDA church is in the midst of a demographic collapse. Go to pretty much any small to mid sized church and you will see that the average age of the congregation is 60+. There are very few young families with kids and most of the kids you do see are attending with grandma. There is almost certainly no young single adult church members at the average small church - and this I believe spells doom for all but the largest congregations.

You see adventism has lost its identity (which is great for those still in, but not great for the organizations continued existence). The feeling of uniqueness, the “i’m right because I actually follow the bible” attitude and the deep mistrust of other christian denominations has faded over the generations. I think if you asked most young adventists if it was wrong to be another brand of christian, you’d get “no” as the answer (which was not what you have heard 30 years ago).

So as a young adventist, you are faced with the choice of continuing to attend a dying local church with no one else your age, trying to move to an adventist hotspot (e.g. loma linda), joining another christian church in your vicinity which has people your age or just leaving religion altogether.

I don’t see many people opting for option 1 and option 2 isn’t going to be practical for everyone. I think this will lead to a pretty constant high outflow from the church, and I think we’ve already been seeing that. The young people leave and the old people die and one by one the small and medium sized churches close. The big ones will probably survive based purely on international influx.

But who knows. I’d love to hear your opinions and future predictions.

Does anyone know how SDAs/HSST is taking the new Tattoo Policy? Specifically Recruiting. I’m HSSTd and have a class date already and was wondering if they’re still being strict on allowing Marines with tattoos. I don’t have any tattoos as of right now and was wondering if I got one that’s in regulation with the new policy, (half sleeve from elbow down), would they have an issue? Obviously don’t need the tattoo any time soon if it’s gonna cause issues.

I was having a think this morning why after 40 years I am still not that interested in Christmas;

c1970's a typical Xmas SDA sermon was mainly all about Jesus birth the reason for the season ok fine if that's what they think , one particular pastor quoted verses like Jeremiah 10: 1-5 condemning cutting down trees & decorating as Xmas trees ok some members had Xmas trees other didn't, I didn't think the Pastors & congregation were joyous there was no Xmas spirit everyone was solemn it was almost like a funeral service compared to my Atheist relatives who enjoyed a secular Xmas

As mentioned prior on this sub my SDA parents were abusive, most of the time I was never allowed to eat at the table with my parents instead it was just go to your room read the Bible or you will get a belting but on Xmas Day they allowed me to eat "tasteless rations" but they had long sad faces and my only gift was a damn religious book sometimes a 2nd hand cheap toy, my parents said "we feed & cloth you that's enough"

Despite our local SDA pastor not happy about Xmas trees my father would illegally cut down a pine in a nearby forest for Xmas decorations a ranger warned him next time he will be fined

After I left home I never could bring myself to spend Christmas with them except for the few years I was with my ex wife she said we should go to visit so begrudgingly I agreed, my ex wife brought food and gifts for them, after our divorce (my Mother said Satan causes marriage breakups lol ) I stopped going at Xmas but visited them a few times a year until they died