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Mark4-40 2 points ago +2 / -0

Aluminum altering brain chemistry? This is a new one to me... I should look this up.

Toxicity aside, would you guess there are more sociopaths per capita compared to say the Roman empire or French Revolution eras? Obv we have larger global population, so the gross number of sociopaths would be higher than in the past even if the ratio remained the same. Otoh, we could have the same ratio and bigger megaphones so it seems like there are more... Hmm... Thoughts?

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Mark4-40 5 points ago +5 / -0

How true and unfortunate. I wonder if such creatures are bereft of the capacity for empathy? If so, would that make this a religion for sociopaths?

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Mark4-40 10 points ago +10 / -0

Except this is demonstrably false. Like everything satanic, a lie.

The body is not inviolable. People are raped every day.

The body is not subject to ones own will alone. See rape and murder statistics.

The hypocrisy of these statements while ignoring their application to the first stage of human life is astounding but unsurprising. Liars gonna lie. Murderers gonna murder. They are children of their father, after all.

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Mark4-40 6 points ago +7 / -1

Kings of the East coming together. Accept Jesus as your King today and live.

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Mark4-40 1 point ago +1 / -0

Cool. I'll be happy to see him. Not expecting him in two weeks, but I'd be happy to be wrong in that case :)

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Mark4-40 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nah, I'm good. I'm content with my King. I've got my job to do and I do it. Why are you bothered about what I'm doing? Is what you're doing not working for you?

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Mark4-40 1 point ago +2 / -1

You are right. He does the heaviest lifting though. You just have to ensure you are yoked to Him. He says His yoke is not heavy and His burden is light. It's cause He's the bigger oxen and we're still training to follow His lead. We've already won. We just have to keep walking beside Him until the mission is accomplished for today.

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Mark4-40 2 points ago +3 / -1

You're not the only one in biotech who has gone through these realizations. He doesn't give us battles we cannot handle. Trust Him. He is worthy. We have already triumphed over these lies because our King has conquered the father of them. He forgives intentional and unintentional shortcomings. He knows there are those of us who get mired in traps camouflaged by the enemy as havens of light, and has already outlined the remedy for this before we were born. Take comfort that He knows all, loves still, and will take what the enemy meant for our undoing and use it for our good.

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Mark4-40 3 points ago +3 / -0

Am a scientist, can confirm. Mostly stupid.

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Mark4-40 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Bible is the authority for contextual definitions of certain words for Christians. I gave the verbatim definition of faith from the Bible for your collective reference. If one is going to disparage various groups via a comparison, one would do better to have more accurate perspectives of the respective groups to form a more accurate troll. Those are funnier when they're closer to the truth.

it doesn't work with scientists at all

I'll let you in on a little secret. I've been a scientist for decades, and it is very much run on faith. Hypotheses are faith driven until disproven by experimental data to the contrary. I think (or believe or "hypothesize") the world works like xyz based on my observations of abc. I can test it any number of methods, but until the data comes in to disprove my belief, the hypothesis still stands. Or I still believe what I believe about reality based on my observations of such. Spiritual faith is no different. The Bible instructs it's adherents to test circumstances to determine whether they are good or evil, and says faith will be tested daily, and generate observable data to demonstrate whether ones faith "hypothesis" is correct or not.

I still hold that spiritual faith and scientific faith are quite similar.

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Mark4-40 1 point ago +3 / -2

This is not how Christians define faith. Faith is the certainty of things hoped for, a conviction about things unseen. Things unseen and hoped for can have evidentiary support for their existence and manifestation.

But Q is an oddity that borders on idolatry for some, which is why the dovetail, per your OP, seems odd. The two faith concepts are mutually exclusive.

Curious... If faith based groups don't fit here well, then you must not get along with the scientists and atheists either, right?

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Mark4-40 3 points ago +3 / -0

It does increase radiation. And there's an increase likelihood of clotting due to pressure. Honestly surprised more pilots haven't kicked it after injecting themselves with vaids