Mechanical Engineer turned Project Manager. Nigerian at heart. Lifelong Learner
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Yeah, no.
Look for elsewhere to build it.
You never want to start making people believe they are entitled to additional incentives to have enterprise in their community.
That's how madness start.
If they say no, dust you slippers and go to places with sensible people
On its surface this looks silly and easy to make fun of but what data center builders are not clocking is:
in the minds of people who live in these places data centers represent massive wealth creation for someone who doesn’t live there. While they don’t get to directly participate. It *feels* like extraction.
These are working class people, some at the margins, so pushing back *feels* like taking power back. These are people who have been promised the run and the moon by new Casino projects, jobs and property values from a new highway overpass projects, all of which did nothing and in some cases harmed their community. They’re jaded and have heard it all
If data centers actually want to get their projects built in communities like this, hate to say it, but they are going to financially incentivize the people there. Do things for them *before* any shovels. Communicate that these benefits will continue as the project succeeds. Give each house hold some financial or quality of life incentive to support it. Not theoretical, tangible and presently available
Just my 2 cents
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Based on your Islam btw…your Sister and Uncle are both going to hell.
How do you cope interacting with them knowing fully well they’re sinners and will not see Paradise ?
I also have a sister who is a Christian. I even have an uncle who is an "Araba", if you know what that title means in traditional idol worship.
They know my red lines. Yet out of all of us in the family, they are closer to me than anyone else, and I have been of more benefit to them in their lives. Part of the jokes my sister cracks at family gatherings is calling me "Alfa Tirimithiyu" because she says I am quick to quote Hadith lol.
That is by the way, though. Still, none of them will ever ask me to step over my faith's boundaries, because respect goes both ways.
Nobody is asking Yorubas to fight their relatives over religion. The lines in Islam are not blurry, so stop trying to blur them in the name of culture.
Look at how wide the door of family kindness is: you can visit your non-Muslim siblings at home, send them money, pay their school fees and bills, buy them gifts, attend their weddings and naming receptions, sit and eat together at family gatherings, care for them in the hospital when they are sick, help them build their businesses, shelter them, defend them from injustice, and stand by them when life gets hard. The list is infinitely uncountable.
Compared to all of that, what you cannot do is very small: do not sit inside their church service, do not pray in Jesus's name, do not join traditional shrine festivals, and do not participate in any act of worship that contradicts Tawheed. Simple.
So ask yourself, why do people ignore the ninety-nine lawful ways to love their family and hang onto the one forbidden line of shirk just to call it "tolerance"?
It is now obvious Shaitan is hiding behind that word. Just like he promised in the Quran to ambush human beings from their front, back, right, and left, he now dresses up compromise as love and family peace.
I pray the Almighty counts us among His protected servants who see through the traps and whispers of Shaitan.
Allah knows best.
This is it.
Modern machines are too complex. You cant learn how to repair them as a side skill
even the famously 'hands on' american dad prototype is dead. the cars are too electronic, locked in for any garage tinkering even if any dad wanted to - the coastal elite kids anyway have no interest. in the midwest probably some 'germanic' dads still teach their children
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A reason for this is that the machines from 75 years ago are in no way comparable to what we have now.
Nobody wants a mechanical engineer that can repair a 2004 Camry. If you're going to be a repair man, be able to repair a G3516k.
one of strange things about modern education is a mechanical engr from a top univ may not be able to do this; but 75 yrs ago they would be quite able to
the split between engineer (design, supervision) & technician (hands on) has widened, sometimes by union rules also.
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Again, when Jesus drew sinners in, there was one common thing there, those sinners showed a willingness to repent. They didn't go to Jesus to seek justification for their sins.
The church is for sinners ✅
The church isn't a place to trivialize sin.
Your second and third paragraphs do not align. When Jesus drew sinners in, he acted with love rather than condemnation; this distinction defines the difference . Many aspects of that video remain unclear to most of us. Was it a standard service? Is it a singles service? Did they invite people to attend only in bare form? Did you view the full service, or is it a one-minute clip we used to judge?
When Jesus invited those without sin to throw the first stone, the lesson remains relevant today. We hope the body of Christ will expand, yet when people arrive with their struggles, we fail to meet them where they need help; instead, we claim they are living in sin even though we are in sin too. Perhaps because you hide your faults better and avoid exposing them, you feel superior to the other person, don’t you?
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I love this argument.
Now after committing Murder, will you come to church to casually tell your Pastor "Oh I had to kill him..."
And your Pastor will hug you because "Church is a hospital"?
Christianity is not univocal and is quite amenable to doctrinal flexibility.
But a lot of Christians take this beyond reason and believe that they can create essentially their own dogmas.
A lot of things are simply not debatable in Christianity, and you either have to accept it
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There is simply no honest way to look at Christianity and say that "all sins are equal". That is the extraneous doctrine of who is unwilling to contend with the extent of what they do.
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1 John : 16-17 (New Testament) : is another highly debated one among theologians
But this is basically alluding to the reality that different sins have different weights and consequences.
These aren’t referring to heavenly consequences per se… more so spiritual ones or spiritual death
The idea that all sins are equal is an ascriptural fabrication. You cannot read the bible- Old testament, The Gospels, and the epistles- and come away thinking sins are equal in weight.
It's a fabrication made to ease the conscience, rather than a spiritual truth.
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One of the reasons I stopped going to church was that I couldn’t reconcile the lifestyle I wanted to live with what the Bible taught.
The Bible has clear positions on premarital sex, modesty, drinking and several other things. I couldn’t imagine going to church every Sunday, reading my Bible and constantly feeling guilty because I knew I was living in ways that contradicted what I understood Christianity to teach.
What I find interesting tho is when “Christians” try to water down or reinterpret biblical teachings to make room for the very things those teachings condemn, picking and choosing parts of the Bible they like. The recent debate on the timeline about whether premarital sex is a sin is a good example. I find it quite funny, honestly.