When I spilled boiling water on my foot some years ago, I discovered the magic of moist burn pads [link] while I was randomly buying anything that might help the screaming pain in my foot. Now I wouldn't be without them. They reduce the pain and probably halve the healing time.

In a pinch, a baking soda paste will help the pain. But you have to refresh it when it gets warm.

I didn't go to the doctor, though I probably should have. But between my friends having a baby last week, me having a seizure last Friday, discovering that my brother has a lesion on his brain on Monday, and falling headlong into my two busiest weeks of work of the year, I just let it go. Given my transportation issues, I wasn't even bandaging it the first day or so, so my boss went out on her lunch hour last Monday, and bought me giant gauze and tape, because she decided that I was ridiculous. I've been cleaning it and putting Neosporin on it regularly, and changing the bandages, and it seems to be healing in spite of me. But it's damn gross.

And it's definitely affecting my concentration, at home and at work, at a time when I can least afford it. Hence petty arguments on Facebook when my to-do list is a mile long!

But I'm glad that you weren't hurt as badly this time!

So my argument in facebook about the Islamic community center has now taken an odd turn.

The new argument is that the building of this is a provocation.

I asked why and I was told it would be similiar to this scenario:

For example: suppose I accidentally(maybe) ran over your cat(or friend or whatever) one day. Now if I was already your neighbor, driving daily in front of your house is not really an act of provocation...now if I actually live across the city and knowing where you live then moved to your neighborhood after the accident and as a result I drive in front of your house daily - you may have reason to believe I want to get you upset. This may or may not be my intention to aggregate you, but one questions at the VERY least my wisdom in doing such a thing.

And if the police chief publicly tell me I have every right to move into your neighborhood and not say a word to you, you might get a little upset about this.

I pointed out that this doesn't track because in his scenario the person who killed my cat also moves next door.

It would be more like if he ran over my cat and a Christian moved next door and I flipped out because omigod! A christian killed my cat and now one has moved next door and they are trying to provoke me into -- - something!!1

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is a hotly contested subject.

True, and I have no idea what it's supposed to mean; but the point is simply that, per the text, it is possible to lose salvation.

Failing to develop talents or help the needy is something Christ condemned in the Gospels, but it's also still addressable (it can be repented of and atoned for) and therefore wouldn't mean the death sentence for one's soul.

Two points:

1. While I have no issue with this position, it's contradicted by the text. The sheep in that passage, the ones who enter paradise, are not the people who repented; they're the people who actually acted compassionately in the first place.

2. With respect to the conversation at hand, this position doesn't differ at all from the position of the Catholic Church, nor does it contradict the notion that one can lose salvation - it just says that one can find it again.

Also I'm not sure what to make of this so I need some Buffistas opinions.

His other argument is that this is the same as if a sushi restaurant opened right next to Pearl Harbor, it would be a provocation and disrespectful and should not be allowed.

Bwahaha!! Does he know how many sushi restaurants there are in Hawaii?!?!

meara, I was going to SAY!

t not really here I'd be pretty shocked if there ISN'T a sushi place in or at the Pearl Harbor memorial. Hawaii has a HUGE ethnic japanese community. Has had long before Pearl Harbor was a historical event. In the 20s, they were almost half the population. t /not really here

It's okay for Sushi restaurants to be in hawaii, they just couldn't be 4 blocks from Pearl Harbor.