Recent content by FireDragon76

I'm not surprised. I live in Florida and see his politics up close. DeSantis's politics are so clumsy that he recently had to walk back the book ban he was in favor of, because it lead to bans of the Bible in libraries. DeSantis had is 5 minutes of noteriety, but voters nationwide have mostly...

My HRV was good today, so I went to the park and spent about twenty minutes on the air walker. Yesterday was just a one off bad day: maybe I had been exposed to a virus/cold, or the cool air in the room did not agree with me. I'm learning to rely less and less on the Body Battery score. It is...

Reformed churches do have corporate confession of sin and declaration of the forgiveness of sin. Our churches are liturgical, albeit not as high as Anglicans or Catholics.

I took my HRV this morning and it was terrible, and EliteHRV suggested a rest day. I've been feeling "under the weather" a little, I had a cough this morning. Hopefully I am not coming down with anything. The wierd thing is that this came out of the blue. The only thing I noticed: maybe my...

If we let lawbreaking in the abstract set the standards, why bother having any laws at all?

She implied that they were weakened by their desire for meat, and the story in Exodus actually seems to support this, since they wanted meat so bad, they regretted leaving Egypt.

There isn't any good evidence people eating a plant-based diet are at increased risk of dementia. Admittedly, there haven't been alot of good studies on this issue due to limitations in these types of studies and small sample sizes, but what little evidence exists doesn't show an increased risk...

People must become more technologically literate. I doubt the current generation that are Trump's biggest fans can wake up, they live in their own bubbles and think that propaganda is reality. Critical thinking isn't high up on their list of skills they value, either, they listen to whatever...

Attacks with assault rifles tend to be more deadly in terms of body count and often are terroristic in nature, so I would argue that their cost to society and to individuals isn't comparable in a one-to-one manner like that.

18 million is alot for a denomination that started relatively recently, but it's still relatively small by global standards. The World Communion of Reformed Churches represents over 80 million Christians (including the United Church of Christ, it's still broadly Reformed). The Lutheran World...

From my research, I'm not sure Graham actually advocated for the "Graham Cracker" in any form. Others attached his name to their product. He advocated using unrefined flour in baking, as did many physicians in previous centuries (which was common in the bread of the poor, but wealthier people...

People that eat vegetarian diets tend to have significantly high heart rate variability, which is a generally accepted biomarker for better stress adaptation, among other things. So perhaps White's words aren't so ridiculous after all. At any rate, White's thoughts about meat eating were not...

There's an indie film that's out called Christspiracy, about the historical Jesus and his real motivations for cleansing the temple. It has some interviews with biblical scholars like James Tabor, who argues that Jesus cleansed the temple because he was opposed to the sacrifices there, and that...

We live in an era in transition. A minority of the population are emerging that are seriously engaged in systemic thinking, but there are still alot of people engaged with an egocentric perspective, and are reacting to technological and social changes by trying to appeal to past modes of...

We must have a shared reality, because communication wouldn't be possible otherwise. Words have to have some correspondence to reality, even if it is mediated by symbols and structures.