Good Monday Morning!
- Question – Which foods should I try to avoid because they have the most calories?
- Thought – A gram of each contains a different number of calories:
- 1 gram of carbohydrate equals 4 calories.
- 1 gram of protein equals 4 calories.
- 1 gram of fat equals 9 calories.
“If I can’t fit in at least 10 minutes of exercise a day, I don’t feel centered.” (The Engine #2 Diet by Rip Esselstyn)
AND: Mark
You need to go to see the Hillary movie. A great history lesson.
AND: In regards to religion, God doesn’t need us to please Him. I see earth as a testing ground of faith. God watches for the faithful. It may take a lifetime for a person to finally commit in faith to God. But He is willing to give that lifetime so that one soul will. For the souls He already knows will not commit, He lets nature takes its course. Yes, every day is numbered just like the hair on our heads. God already knows. It is the individual soul that needs the time to grow and know.
AND: It has been said that a Faith is not a Religion until it is immersed and accepted as a culture. This is why Christianity is not a religion; it is a following. We have dozens of manners in which we practice Christianity. That can’t be said of Islam, Hindu, Buddhist, Tao, maybe even Judaism. You have to think about that for a moment and when you do, you see or can understand how all of these Religions are in conflict with Freedom. In short, God-given Freedom can not exist under the light of these Religions. A following can co-exist with Freedom.
Perhaps too simplistic of a perspective, but I think early on in any discussion of the world’s faiths and religions, you have to decide if that faith can tolerate Freedom or if it is in conflict with Freedom.
Second thought for you brain:
I’ve always associated the concept of ‘borderless’ nations to have originated in Europe…and that it was a socialism-type agenda item to achieve with the world. What happens if the ME went borderless? Chaos? Yes, most likely…but what does it look like after the chaos subsides? If the ME went borderless, IMO it would return to tribal rules and ruling. War factions would be tribal in nature. Islam would further divide, fight, then consolidate once again. The Kurds would cease to exist. The Israelis might disappear first…completely. New geographical boundaries would more than likely emerge. Turkey…?…who knows. Saudi…?…who knows. Could the ME truly desire to return to tribal organizations?
Weird thought, I know. But I’m not certain we’ll see the huge Sunni v Shia muslim battle….then again, maybe it will be sooner vs later.
AND: “By craving to be more, man becomes less; and by aspiring to be self-sufficing, he fell away from Him who truly suffices him.”
Hmmmm. Very interesting. Love it
AND: What does the Bible say about humans’ divine potential?
Several biblical passages intimate that humans can become like God. The likeness of humans to God is emphasized in the first chapter of Genesis: “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. … So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”3 After Adam and Eve partook of the fruit of “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” God said they had “become as one of us,”4 suggesting that a process of approaching godliness was already underway. Later in the Old Testament, a passage in the book of Psalms declares, “I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.”5
AND: Interesting question…
Taking Job as an example, it would appear he only needs to build an argument before the Judge. And no matter how hard he were to work – he could only accomplish what he was allowed.
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
Question & Thought & ANDs.
