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A myth repeated so often in museums, textbooks, and nature documentaries that most people accept it as dogma is that humans and chimpanzees share 98% to 99% of our DNA. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., for example, cites this statistic in its Human Origins exhibit as confirmation that “modern humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 8 and 6 million years ago.”

The only problem is the statistic is wrong, likely by an order of magnitude. Even more, the science community has known that it is wrong for a while now, and new methods of comparing the genomes of humans and great apes show just how genetically different the two are. In fact, the cited 1% to 2% difference hasn’t really been defensible in years.

As far back as 2007, authors in the journal Science called on fellow researchers to retire “the myth of 1%.” Geologist Casey Luskin explained, in a 2023 ID the Future podcast, that the estimate was derived decades ago from a single protein-to-protein comparison before the chimp genome was even fully sequenced. Since then, genetic science has become far more precise, and almost no modern comparisons between human and chimp genomes yield the famous 98% to 99% statistic.

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I have been on this Christian faith journey (half-heartedly) for like 12 years now. I am still struggling with lust. Currently I feel weighed down by my problems, by my sins, by my past and by the hopeless & meaningless life I am living. I believe in Christ, but I am very wounded in my soul and heart and my relationship with Him is very dysfunctional because I have OCD with blasphemous thoughts that started last year. Last year was terrible for me and many spiritual things happened however I've lost the ability to interpret them, I think I have a darkened understanding. Nothing in my life seems to make any sense whatsoever. Only a few years back I was a young man full of ambitions and grand visions, yet seemingly I was punished for this by life, God, or evil spirits? And my own mistakes broke me completely. I also fear because the girl of my dreams will probably never be mine because of the things that happened last year. I am working with two Christians for my full deliverance and healing. One of them, a priest, told me he thinks I was cursed and he prescribed what I need to do to break the curse and be delivered. I've had spiritual visions that would indicate this as well. The doctors told me I have schizophrenia and I have been hospitalized 7 times as well as severe self-harm. I also have bodily problems that do not have any healing or resolution (I've tried literally every doctor), and there is no progress at all in my life, just unemployment and doctor's visits. What I need is a breakthrough in all areas in my life: spiritual healing, bodily healing, mental healing, relationship healing, deliverance, financial breakthrough, etc. But why did God make these things so unattainable for me? It's like it's far out of reach. Sometimes I think my enemies did this to me (those who hate me without reason) because it's like my life is too bad if you compare it to just the average Joe. I have committed very many sexual sins in the past too (but I confessed almost all of them), in my despair and in the meaninglessness of my life I gave myself to different women. I am sick of this life and of all of my problems that I cannot seem to resolve. I have become double-minded too. If the problem really is a malfunctioning brain chemistry, why must I suffer with this for the rest of my life, with no remedy for this condition except for death, even when I pray for healing? Why can't I be healed like Jesus healed the sick people in the Gospels? There is a lot of history here too. I go to the Catholic Church but it's like I don't feel the Holy Spirit there. I am sick of being the person who I am, it's like I should have become another person but something just threw a wrench in my own (or God's) plans for me.

We wake this week to a new reality. It’s one we have prayed and longed for. Though painful, this historic moment carries with it a deep spiritual clarity.

Last week, darkness was challenged. Not by hatred, but by the strength to say ... enough. We won’t let the darkness rule over our lives any longer.

For decades, the Islamic Iranian regime has waged war. Not only on Israel, not only on America, but on the very foundations of Western civilization that we hold sacred.

On the parliament floor and every platform they occupied, this regime called Israel “the little Satan” and America “the great Satan.” And they meant it — because what they hate, what they have always tried to destroy, is not just a people or a place; it is the light of Judeo-Christian values — the belief that human life is sacred, that freedom is holy, and that God created every person in His image.

These are the values that hold up everything we cherish: justice, compassion, dignity, and truth. These are the values that extremists fear most.

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The Trump administration has joined litigation against Washington state's recently passed law that requires Catholic priests to report abuse confessions made in the confessional or risk excommunication.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint in intervention on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Tacoma in opposition to the state's Senate Bill 5375.

The complaint argues that SB 5375, scheduled to take effect on July 27, "unlawfully targets clergy and, specifically, Catholic priests" by requiring mandatory reporting of abuse for clergy, without exempting the confessional, which is supposed to be confidential.

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So, who are these “perverse and evil men” today? (And they aren’t just men.) And why do we need to be rescued from them? How are they impacting us who are serving the Lord Jesus with our lives and who are spreading the truth of the gospel of our salvation to the people of the world? Well, depending on where we live, it could be different from one another. But if these people are perverse and evil, they are against God and his word, and they are opposed to all of us who are speaking the truth of God’s word.

I don’t know about other nations, so I can only speak for the USA, which is where I live. But I was brought up from birth to attend church gatherings, and the gatherings I attended were very focused on the truth of God’s word and on holiness and godly living and repentance and obedience to the Lord. They had their issues, too, but they were very God-focused and truth focused, and that is where I received my biblical foundation. They did have some things wrong, though, which I discovered much later in life.

But in the past 26 years of my life, I have had my eyes opened to a slow transition which was taking place within the gatherings of the church, I believe in the majority of them, for they had now incorporated (merged) with the state (the ungodly world) and they were now marketing their gatherings to the people of the world. And so they were focusing their attention on attracting the world to their gatherings, and so they began altering the character of God/Christ, his church, and his gospel message.

Now this had been going on for a long while, but this is when I became aware of it. For the church had now partnered with the ungodly, which God forbids, and they had turned the church gatherings into a place of business, which God also forbids. And in an effort to grow their numbers, and to “draw in large crowds of people from the world,” they diluted the gospel message to make it less offensive to the ungodly and much more acceptable to human flesh. And many gatherings were turned into “stage productions.”

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2-3; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

The church, the body of Christ, let “the state” into their gatherings to influence their gatherings and their messages. And by altering their gatherings, the character of God, and the truth of the gospel to attract the ungodly to their gatherings, they invited the ungodly into their gatherings which were designed by God for the purpose of followers of Christ using their spiritual gifts given to them by God to encourage and to exhort one another in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands.

In the USA, so many of these gatherings called “the church” have become very flesh-driven and very market-driven to the point to where they have pushed the Holy Spirit right out of their gatherings. So many preachers are preaching these “canned” sermons they get off the internet or via their church denominations, some of which they pass to one another. Thus they are not being led of the Spirit in what to preach, but they are being led to preach what will attract the people to their gatherings. God forbid!

And so many of them are now opposed to those of us who are still teaching the truth of the Scriptures and of the gospel of our salvation, as best as we understand them, as being led by the Spirit in what to say. And they are challenging us in what we are teaching and/or they are just ignoring us and hoping that we will go away. And if we happen to still be a part of one of their gatherings, some of us may be invited to leave and to go “someplace else where you will be a better fit.” But we don’t fit in such gatherings.

Now if we are those who share the gospel on the internet, we are going to face opposition from those who are following after this altered gospel message, who believe that a confession of faith in Jesus Christ is enough to secure them forgiveness of all sins and heaven as their eternal destiny. Or if we are in a church gathering where they have diluted the gospel, we will also face opposition from those who are believing the lies and who are rejecting the truth. For not all have biblical God-persuaded faith in Christ.

So we need prayer that we will continue to have an open door to share the truth of the gospel and that we will not be hindered from being able to share the gospel with the people of the world. We also need wisdom in knowing how to respond to those who oppose us or whether to respond at all. And we need people to pray for us that the perverse and the evil people of this world, some of whom are within the gatherings of “the church,” will not be able to prevent us from continuing to share the truth of the gospel.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

Seek the Lord

Based off Isaiah 55
Musical Instrumentation by Mark Bradley
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

“Come to Me all you who thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s good today,
And your soul will delight in richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will live.
I have made an eternal covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the Lamb.”

Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.

“My word that goes out of My mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all that I desire,
And achieve the goal I intend.
You will go in joy and be led forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into song… before you,
And all of the trees clap their hands.”

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An Original Work / June 24, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Last year, the American TFP sent a few young volunteers to join local Catholics to hold a prayer protest against the blasphemous Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Guerneville, California.

These “sisters” held a drag queen storytime event for children of all ages, including toddlers, at the local library.

What makes this so outrageous is that the group is known for its public debauchery that attacks the Catholic Faith in acts that include pole dancing on crosses and declaring pedophiles as “saints.”

This is the last thing any faithful Catholic—especially children—should be exposed to, and the TFP set out to make that clear.

We expected some resistance to our presence. However, when the volunteers and local activists arrived outside of the library last year, they were met by a large counter-protest wielding pride flags and anti-Catholic signs. The opposition thought that such a big display would intimidate us. We did not back down and continued with our single bagpiper playing.

They Came Back

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Unhinged Woman Arrested as TFP Protests “Drag Nuns” in California

Last year, the American TFP sent a few young volunteers to join local Catholics to hold

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I don't listen to Desiring God resources as often as I used to. There was a time when I would read every article, listen to every podcast, and watch every video. I still love Pastor John. He is a man without blemish in his 60+ years as a serious Christian. However, the title of this podcast stuck out to me and I checked it out. As I was listening, I was nodding in agreement with pretty much every single thing he was saying. It is so crucial for the church to understand what he is saying here. This is what the Christian walk of faith is about: In the world but not of the world. Please check this out.

The parliamentarian's ruling means that under Senate rules, the provision is subject to the 60-vote threshold. Republicans can still try to add it in, but they have 53 seats and Democrats have enough votes to block it.
A spokesperson for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, slammed Democrats for challenging the provision, saying it shows they are clinging to an "open borders" mindset, referring to the judges who have blocked parts of Trump's immigration and deportation policies.
Time to eliminate the position of parliamentarian. It's not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.

In Jesus life on Earth, and in the Garden of Gethsemane did Jesus know He was to die for the salvation of a faceless crowd, or, did He know a bit more, recognising each face, or even more, feeling the events of each soul's life in full? What do you think here? You can mention if you believe Jesus died for the elect only.

Loneliness and longing,
Feeling not belonging,
Fit not in the picture,
Wond’ring ‘bout the future?

Needing much endurance
And much of assurance
God is fully sovereign
O’er to Him belonging?

News brings much confusion,
With it much illusion.
Who then to be trusted?
Not those who’re corrupted.

Need much of discernment,
Know who’s of the serpent.
Wolves now in sheep’s clothing,
Saints of God they’re loathing.

There is much deception
And not much exception.
Liars now are plenty,
Of the truth are empty.

Pray to God for wisdom
And to have good vision
To discern the liars
And their sin’s desires.

Would you now be willing
God give you a vision
Showing you the liars
And what God requires?

Listen to the Savior.
Yield to good behavior.
Sins no longer savor.
God’s will now you favor.

An Original Work / June 23, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Vatican has endorsed a report calling for reforms to alleviate the global debt crisis affecting billions of people in developing countries.

The document, titled “The Jubilee Report: A Blueprint for Tackling the Debt and Development Crises and Creating the Financial Foundations for a Sustainable People-Centered Global Economy,” was presented at the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on June 20 as one of the main initiatives of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Supported by Pope Leo XIV, the publication is the work of the Jubilee Commission created by Pope Francis in June 2024 in order to find a way to carry out sovereign debt restructuring based on ethical principles. Thirty international economic experts were on the commission, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Argentine Economy Minister Martín Guzmán.

$97 trillion in global public debt​

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Hello everyone. My name is Magdalena. I’m grateful to have found this space and wanted to introduce myself, even though this is admittedly a little outside my comfort zone.

Earlier this year, my little brother Joey went home to be with the Lord after fighting childhood cancer for six years. He was just 14. I was his big sister and caregiver through most of his journey. Walking with him through that valley was both heartbreaking and beautiful. In the hardest moments, God’s presence was the only thing that carried us.

Since losing Joey, I’ve been learning to walk through grief one day at a time. But even in this season of loss, I’ve felt God quietly nudging me to share the prayers, scriptures, and songs that have brought me comfort. With the help of my two best friends, I started a YouTube channel called Healing Prayer Songs. It's a place where I share soft prayers and peaceful Christian music, hoping it can minister to others walking through their own hard seasons.

I’m not very good at social media, but I know the Body of Christ was made for times like this — to encourage, uplift, and walk with one another through both joy and sorrow. I would be so grateful for your prayers as I continue on this path, and I hope I can be a blessing here too.

Thank you for reading.

Magdalena

Sometimes there really is a bunny.

However, since bunnies cannot be proven theologically, but they exist .. this creates a heretical paradox.

HTML can get messy, and become very hard to read. it's like a thousand knitting threads totally tangled, or like
drowning in an ocean of HTML codes.
When you are writing a complex Html page, how do you handle it ??

Representative Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 and needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her ectopic pregnancy.

Florida's ban took effect on May 1, 2024, making abortions illegal after six weeks with narrow exceptions. The penalties for those who violate the ban are steep, punishable by up to five years in prison, fines of up to $5,000 and loss of medical licenses.

Though doctors estimated that she was just five weeks pregnant, there was no heartbeat and her life was at risk, Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that staff had resisted giving her the drug because they were worried about losing their licenses or going to jail after Florida's near-total abortion ban took effect. Hours later, doctors agreed to give her the drug, she told the newspaper.

[Cammack] told the newspaper that she did not blame the Florida law for what she experienced. Rather, she lay the blame on messaging from abortion-rights advocates, which she said made hospital staff afraid of giving drugs even in circumstances where it was legal.

Alison Haddock, the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, told the Journal that it is common for doctors in states that have restriction access to abortion to be concerned about "whether their clinical judgment will stand should there be any prosecution."

"CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE,'' Trump proclaimed in a social media post, adding that the truce would take effect in about six hours after both parties have completed military missions.

Thank you President Trump!

Donald Trump approval rating: New polls show shakeup over Iran bombing​

The results were that the majority of people are unhappy with the move.

In a question posed to 2,824 adults on Sunday — a day after the bombings — YouGov found that a clear majority, 53%, disapproved of the way Trump is handling Iran, with 35% approving and 12% offering no opinion.

It may seem a strange thing to say, but I say it after considerable thought, and some years of experience in talking to people of all kinds, that there is hardly anything so little understood by Christians generally as the love of God

When I say “the love of God,” I do not mean His love to the world, His love for those who have sinned against Him with hard hearts and a high hand. That love is beyond comprehension—too great, too utterly stupendous for mere words to set forth. I refer rather to that special love which God has to us His children, the Father’s love to those who belong to His dear Son.

Ask the average Christian how he knows that God loves him? “Well, God has been very good to me: He has brought me through many a trial, and though I have had many ups and downs, yet here I am today, still trusting and following.”

Perhaps some reader of these lines is rather astonished that one should regard such a reply as anything but very right and good. Well, we do not find fault with it; we thank God for all the causes He gives us to speak of His abundant delivering mercies in times of a trial, and of His abundant goodness and constant care. But I ask, what about those who have not been delivered in the hour of their trouble?

A Christian, who intended to go from Europe to America by the ill-fated Titanic, but prevented by some unforeseen event, took it as a great proof of God’s love that He allowed that event to hinder him from taking that vessel. But what about the Christians who were not thus providentially hindered, who did take that vessel, and who went down with her in mid-ocean? Were not they equally the object of God’s love?

God has mercifully and providentially intervened in times of persecution and distress on behalf of one another of His poor troubled people. The readers of such a book as “A Thousand Miles of Miracle,” will be at no loss to quote instances of this. On the other hand, numbers were not delivered; no “miracle” of providential mercy was wrought on their behalf. They were left to be cruelly slaughtered by their savage persecutors. Did not God love them as much as those that He was pleased to succor and deliver?

The mercies which we enjoy every day, and which we are accustomed sometimes to speak of as “our common mercies,” were often denied to the Apostle Paul. He knew what it was like to lack food and clothing, to have no roof over his head, and to go from day to day in danger of his life (2Co 11:23). Did not God love Paul?

Let me go further. Let me speak for a moment of Him who came from eternal riches to be poor from love for us. He was acquainted with grief (Isa 53:3); worse off than the foxes with their forest lairs and the birds with their roosting-places. He had nowhere to lay His head (Mat 8:20). Others could go to their homes, while He spent the night on the lone mountain side. Mercies which you and I take as matters of course were withheld from Him. Why? Was He not ever the worthy subject of His Father’s infinite and everlasting love? Aye that He was. Then why the poverty, suffering and grief during His lifetime on earth, when it was no question of making atonement?

Mark the answer: Because the Father’s love does not express itself in the form of earthly and temporal mercies, or at least, is not to be measured by them, though He may give us many , and we may rightly take them all from His gracious, loving hand. God is good to all creatures. He bestows His mercies on the unconverted as well as upon those who belong to His Beloved.

There is a well-known story of Charles Spurgeon’s visit to a Christian farmer. I was relating it to a God-fearing widow by whose fireside I was sitting. She had been passing through sore and bitter trial, and the enemy had taken advantage of this to sow in her heart the seeds of distrust and doubt. She felt that God had forgotten her; that at all events, His love was not such a reality towards her as towards others.

So I told her of Spurgeon’s visit to the farmer, and of his inquiry when he notices that in the place of the usual bird, fish or arrow, a text “God is Love,” had been placed upon the old barn as a weathervane. “Do you mean to say by that,” he asked, “that God’s love is as changeable as the wind?” “Nay, nay,” replied the farmer, “my meaning is that God Is Love, whichever the wind blows!”

This is the lesson we need to lay at heart. We must in no wise measure God’s love by circumstances. The gentle breeze from the south may blow upon us, bringing ease and prosperity; or the biting blasts may sweep down from the frozen north, bringing trials, grief, suffering and disappointment. But nothing changes the love of God. The grand truth is that He loves us as He loves His Son. Wonderful words, and they are true; for read the precious words for yourself in John 17:23. It is the Son of God, our Lord Jesus who says: “Thou … hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me!”

Lying before me on a table is a picture of a small hotel. Stretched across the full width of the building, above the door, is a long board bearing these words: “Free Board Every Day The Sun Doesn’t Shine.” If an unwary traveler should enter the hotel on some gloomy day and demand a meal, free of charge, on the strength of this inscription, he would of course, be blandly asked by the proprietor, “Why, sir, do you imagine that the sun has ceased to shine? It may be gloomy here, but the sun is shining in all its glorious brightness!”

And so with us. We might make the most extravagant promises for the day upon which the sun of God’s love does not shine. For such a day will never be, in winter as in summer, on dark days as in bright ones, for the Father’s love to us abides in its infinite greatness, because His love to His Son ever remains the same.

—Harold Primrose Barker (1869-1952)






MJS daily devotional for June 23, 2025


“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God” (Phil. 4:6).

“Ignorance insures insecurity; scriptural knowledge secures strength. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7).

“In mechanics, wobbling is weakness. Power issues from God’s restfulness. Are we resting in the Lord? Can we wait patiently for Him to act? Anxiety reduces spiritual energy. Lack of rest of heart is one of the most serious hindrances to Christians.

“Fret of soul when wronged, or fuss over financial or other concerns, is a depletion of power, a dissipation of energy. From the rock basis of rest in Him we can put forth the whole of our energies. Perfect peace is our promised portion.

“Martha gets instruction; we all get that, for our Lord neglects none of us; but she did not get His company; company is what gives rest to the heart.

“Nothing can separate the believer from the love of God, and under no circumstances whatever can he come under the infliction of wrath from God. He may have to correct His saints for their sins, and where there has been no failure He may chasten (child train) them for their profit, that they may become partakers of His holiness; but all this is in love, not in wrath. Every action of God toward His saints is in grace and blessing; it is ever the outcome of His love.”


—Miles J Stanford


“And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ." Jhttp://www.abideabove.com/hungry-heart/esus (Phil. 4:70)

Trump made clear that Iran shouldn't have any serious attack on us. Maybe more will come, but for now, they listened. They told us where they would strike and we got everyone out of harm's way. They attacked two bases. There were ZERO dead or injured.

Iran has said that they cannot come the negotiation table while being bombed by Israel. Hopefully, those strikes will be over within the next ten days.

Trump will then offer a deal. We would BUY the enriched uranium or have an Arab state do so. The cost would be removal of sanctions on Iran.

Trump might even get Iran to withdraw support to their militia in trade for a trade deal with the US (but that might be a SECOND agreement.
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"“Thanks to God and the vigilance of the armed forces personnel and the precautionary measures taken, the incident resulted in no deaths or injuries. The Ministry reaffirmed that the airspace and territory of the State of Qatar are safe and that the Qatari Armed Forces are always fully prepared to deal with any threat."

The countries of the world need to come together against Iran.

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The Iranians never saw them, nor heard them.

A police officer has been filmed confronting a pair of Christians in London for street preaching.

Mon B, a preacher with Mad 4 Jesus Ministries, told the Daily Mail that the officer informed them that they could not stand in front of the barriers and that they were told to move on.

In the confrontation, the British Transport Police officer tells the evangelists, "These people just want to do their journey, they're not coming here to listen to you."

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An essay I recent wrote using ChatGPT, based on what embodied cognition can tell us about wisdom, and on the uncanny, liminality, and modernist architecture's fascination with the younger generations, and the deeper spiritual meaning of this kind of fascination with disenchantment, specifically in the context of the Backrooms internet folklore and gaming:


In the beginning, the Backrooms was just internet horror—a bit of digital folklore that began with a simple prompt: "If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms..." What followed was a strange vision: a vast, liminal space of endless beige hallways, dingey yellow carpets, flickering fluorescent lights, and a terrifying silence broken only by the soft buzz of electrical humming.

But in the years since, the Backrooms has grown into something more. Through games, mods, memes, and collaborative storytelling, it has evolved into a strange, shared mythos—a liminal world that speaks, almost by accident, to deep spiritual and cultural conditions of our time.

At its core, the Backrooms is a wilderness narrative—a retelling of the 40 years in the desert, except instead of sand and tents and the voice of God, we have Brutalist corridors, broken vending machines, and the aching absence of meaning. It is a place of exile shaped not by divine mystery but by modern architecture, trauma, and disconnection. And yet, in its very sterility, something sacred begins to stir.

What makes the Backrooms feel so deeply unsettling isn’t just the silence or the looping spaces—it’s the recognition. The environments are eerily familiar. These aren’t haunted castles or Gothic ruins. They’re office parks, data centers, hotel conference rooms. The horror here is not ancient. It is contemporary and institutional—spaces we’ve already been trained to inhabit, but never to love.

In this sense, the Backrooms evokes what scientists and theologians alike now understand: our minds are not separate from our bodies, and our bodies respond to space. Embodied cognition tells us that we perceive meaning through physical patterns—symmetry, light, color, curves, texture, human scale. The brutalist geometry of the Backrooms strips all that away. The result is not just visual discomfort but a deep, existential disorientation. This is what dissociation looks like in architecture.

The space echoes trauma, not melodrama. It reflects what many people feel already: overstimulated yet undernourished, surrounded by noise but deprived of depth. It is, quite literally, a temple of absence.

And yet—despite all of that—something remarkable happens in the Backrooms:
people play.

They don’t just survive—they cooperate. They explore together. They tell stories. They share tips. They form communities in a place designed to deny community. “Stick to the left wall.” “Don’t look at the Smiler.” “Shine your flashlight—it’ll keep them away.” “Take some almond water. You’ll need it.”

That last line—"Take some almond water"—carries unexpected weight.

In the mythology of the Backrooms, almond water is a healing substance found in vending machines and crates. It’s sweet. It restores sanity and stamina. And though it’s fictional, it feels real—because it plays the part of sacramental grace. It is the Eucharist of the uncan ny: unexpected comfort, mysterious provision, a gesture of care in a landscape of indifference.

In a world where God seems absent, people still reenact communion—imperfectly, intuitively. Even in digital exile, the liturgical instinct survives.


The Backrooms functions, whether knowingly or not, as a Christ-haunted space. The narrative structure mirrors deep theological patterns: descent into darkness, testing in the wilderness, survival through community, and the slow rediscovery of hope. It's a parody of transcendence, yes—but also a sincere search for it.

The players who enter the Backrooms do not merely entertain themselves—they engage in a form of spiritual resistance. They reject the horror’s premise of isolation. They laugh. They help each other. They mock the monsters. In a subtle but real way, they mock death itself.

Theologically, this is not far from the Christian understanding of Christ’s descent into hell—not to suffer it, but to fill it with presence, to disarm the powers, to make a public spectacle of fear itself. Even the demons become playthings when joy refuses to bow.


But there’s a warning here, too—one embedded deep in the logic of the game and its mythos:

You can visit the Backrooms. You can even play there. But you cannot live there.

To remain in the Backrooms indefinitely is to lose your identity, your name, your sense of time and direction. The space offers survival, not return. It can host initiation, but never homecoming.

This mirrors a cultural temptation: to live forever in liminality, irony, alienation. To aestheticize exile. To treat numbness as wisdom. But we are not made to dwell in absence. The mysticism of emptiness—popular in 20th-century theology and modern art—has its place. But without nourishment, without joy, without beauty, without almond water—it becomes death by fasting.

We are embodied souls, not minds floating in space. We need warmth, color, song, rhythm, bread, presence.


In the end, the Backrooms functions as a kind of parable for our generation. It shows us the shape of the world we have inherited: strange, disorienting, traumatized, and yet full of longing.

The Backrooms are not Eden. They’re not even Egypt. They’re the wilderness.
And the wilderness is only holy if you remember to keep walking.

Can someone please provide a logical argument to justify Iran's hatred for Israel, and the reasoning for their constant funding of terrorist groups to "wipe Israel off the map"?

Why is Israel the "Little Satan" to Iran?

What confuses me the most, is that Iran is not the same type of Muslim as 'Palestine's' population. And they're not even neighbors who share borders... Please explain this Iranian hatred.

Father I am always
Praying for you
Every single night
I never miss a night
That I just don't pray
For you my Father
And in my prayer
I ask you to remove
The stress
That I am having
Every single day
Father I just have a hard time
Coping with my stress
Father
Can you teach me
How to cope with my stress
Because I would love
To be able to cope
With my stress