Really interesting video on how diet, especially sugar and food additive intake, affects brain function and behavior.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/russell-blaylock-nutrition-and-behavior-aspartame/
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Jesus is weird.
Jesus is weird. Daily Audio Bible (www.dailyaudiobible.com) today somewhere around the end of Mark... just picture this in your head...
Jesus tells a couple disciples to go into town, where they'll find a donkey, and untie it and bring it to him. If anyone asks whhhyyy they are taking this donkey that's not theres, he tells them to say, "The Lord needs it. He'll bring it back." They do it, and people ask, and they tell them that. And they are bewildered, or something, and let them go.
Then Jesus rides it into Jerusalem, and people welcome him like he's a parade. He does some sightseeing at the temple, then turns in for the night. The next day when he gets up he's hungry and sees a fig tree. But when he gets to it, it has no figs and he says "Let no one eat from you again." Later, the disciples come back and the tree had shriveled up and died. Then Jesus goes back to the temple and sees money exchangers and merchants set up in there like they usually are, selling animals for people to sacrifice, making some money off the congregation and whatnot. And Jesus proceeds to flip over everybody's table and not let any more merchants in, saying "this is a house of prayer not a den for robbers!" And as you can imagine, "the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching." (from Mark 11)
I also find it amusing, in the paragraph right before that, a blind man is calling and yelling for Jesus through a crowd. Jesus calls him over and asks-- this is the good part-- "What do you want?" duh... the guy answers "Rabbi, I want to see!!" and Jesus heals him. Why did Jesus ask him that? Don't you think he already knew, that everyone in the crowd already knew? And why, for this guy, did Jesus just say "Your faith has healed you," and he was healed, but for other blind people, Jesus put spit or mud or his hands on their eyes and then they were healed? Its bizarre.
Jesus tells a couple disciples to go into town, where they'll find a donkey, and untie it and bring it to him. If anyone asks whhhyyy they are taking this donkey that's not theres, he tells them to say, "The Lord needs it. He'll bring it back." They do it, and people ask, and they tell them that. And they are bewildered, or something, and let them go.
Then Jesus rides it into Jerusalem, and people welcome him like he's a parade. He does some sightseeing at the temple, then turns in for the night. The next day when he gets up he's hungry and sees a fig tree. But when he gets to it, it has no figs and he says "Let no one eat from you again." Later, the disciples come back and the tree had shriveled up and died. Then Jesus goes back to the temple and sees money exchangers and merchants set up in there like they usually are, selling animals for people to sacrifice, making some money off the congregation and whatnot. And Jesus proceeds to flip over everybody's table and not let any more merchants in, saying "this is a house of prayer not a den for robbers!" And as you can imagine, "the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching." (from Mark 11)
I also find it amusing, in the paragraph right before that, a blind man is calling and yelling for Jesus through a crowd. Jesus calls him over and asks-- this is the good part-- "What do you want?" duh... the guy answers "Rabbi, I want to see!!" and Jesus heals him. Why did Jesus ask him that? Don't you think he already knew, that everyone in the crowd already knew? And why, for this guy, did Jesus just say "Your faith has healed you," and he was healed, but for other blind people, Jesus put spit or mud or his hands on their eyes and then they were healed? Its bizarre.
Monday, February 22, 2010
We don't know very much
I got a book from the library today on the science behind low carb diets (Living the Low Carb Life by Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.)... and pretty much everything I thought I knew about gaining and loosing weight, metabolism, and diet is being challenged. And I thought I knew a good bit... obsessively reading about it for years, taking college nutrition classes...
Then I watched this video about how some people decided to point the Hubble telescope at a little point in space that was thought to be "empty," and 1,000s of new galaxies were found in it. (its a little dramatic but still intriguing... http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm)
And basically I'm coming to realize, though we tell ourselves differently, we don't know very much.
Then I watched this video about how some people decided to point the Hubble telescope at a little point in space that was thought to be "empty," and 1,000s of new galaxies were found in it. (its a little dramatic but still intriguing... http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm)
And basically I'm coming to realize, though we tell ourselves differently, we don't know very much.
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