I declare that Christmas time has officially begun!
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Saint Nicholas is a Turk, or at least from Asia Minor.
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I thought he was Greek, since there are a lot of Greek churches named after him. Have you been naughty or nice this year? I’ve tried to be really nice! (੭ˊᵕˋ)੭‧˚₊̥✧
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Well, he is popular with the Orthodox Christians!
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Sup??
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My abuela wants to know more about the bugs I’m studying, especially spiders
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I like her 
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Amberlynn: ME and my wife spend $70 on a takeout meal
My family: Spends $18 for a starter and enough to feed the three of us there! 
Amberlynn really needs help, sorry. She shouldn’t be eating that much, she really needs to be kept on track. Gaining 10lb in 14 days… wow.
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She doesn’t want to admit she has a problem
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Exactly but she should, and should get some help.
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I had a lot of mostly minor stuff distract me from here. Don’t worry, I missed here, too.
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Supposed to be wolf in sheep’s skin? Looks more like a sheep-rat to me.
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Big assumptions:
Sin is an archery term. I can miss a bullseye while aiming for it, or I could turn around and shoot into the aether behind me, wholly losing count of where the target is in the first place. This means that the word has varying degrees of severity built in.
The reason why we got the idea that “sin is sin” is because on terms of perfection, not making a bullseye is a failure. You only wing your prey, or you miss altogether, and you’re not eating tonight–you should have hit the target right.
So the concept that “all sin keeps you from God” is an accurate concept to have on the level of “you’re not eating tonight”, but inaccurate on the level of “you’re not even trying to aim”.
So, now we have a dancing stickbug:
Does it have reasoning to know if it’s trying to aim or not?
No.
So, if dancing is a sin, then a dancing stickbug misses the mark, but has no concept of a bullseye to be deliberately sinning in the first place.
But this is just the absolute justice side, trying to label where the fault it. It’s not dealing with mercy. Mercy is aware of “innocent sin” or “ignorant sin”. It’s a bell curve of grading sins. So, those who absolutely know where the target is and miss have a bigger burden from “sin”, and those who aren’t sure of how tight the bullseye actually is being frustrated, and so turn around and shoot off into the aether, are in full rebellion from practicing their aim.
So, is dancing a sin? If I’m not sure, and I aim at “no dancing”, then my practice is towards a target, but if I get frustrated and dance all over the place, then I actively am sinning even if dancing is a God-given right.
And that’s really why most “own their sin”, from just breathing the wrong way on out to things where we all agree on such as murder (we may argue over what constitutes murder, but the end outcome of extremes, we will be on the same page). Just willfully: “I did it my way!”
As far as what sin “keeps you from heaven”, we always look at “but the severity!” instead of “rules of Tennant living”.
“I have no intention of being a good roommate” doing all the small annoying things intentionally vs " oops! " and breaking your favorite cup or eating leftovers you planned on? Yeah, both may be the starting point for not having people live with you, but the malicious intent has to go more than the one trying and failing to be a perfect roommate.
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Stickbugs dance as part of their instinct to blend in with twigs swaying in the breeze. I don’t know if this changes much, except that now it’s harder to make a remake of Footloose in the insect kingdom, as dancing is part of their survival strategy, so banning dance would be like condemming them to death.
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