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What is the importance of self-care?
What are some common misconceptions about self-care?
How do you prioritize self-care in your life?
Can self-care be selfish?
How has practicing self-care improved your life?
How can self-care benefit those around us?
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This is our first question of the week.
Hello, I wanted to ask people their favorite resources for listening to the Bible read aloud in English (or in its original languages). Links are very appreciated. For context, I feel frustrated hearing the Bible read in bland monotone or "cheaply" dramatized and I want to experience new ways of listening to it.
I am not aware of any myself (I vaguely remember something having audio version - it might have been the Sword Project). Let’s throw this open to the community and see what we will find.
Hey followers, does anyone have any recs or suggestions of where to look/who to ask?
Why do modern miracles seem arbitrary? One person who is suffering gets healed or rescued but someone else who is suffering does not. I don't understand why God would do that.
You are not alone in wondering this. I simply do not know despite thinking about this very question for many years.
Does anyone have something approaching an answer for us?
Is the devil real or imaginary?
I think we’re supposed to behave as if he was at the very least. Treating the evil that crops up in life as a personal, and defeatable, enemy is part of what gives Christianity its flavor. I’m not certain about the existence of a single conscious entity called the devil though. I’m somewhat convinced of the existence of demons from personal experience, but it seems a little bit far fetched to think that they all have a unified goal or serve some demonic, anti-god overlord.
Of course, I’d have to do more research on the theology behind it. The OT seems to imply that what we call the Devil is more of a generic title that many different spirits or even circumstances can hold at any given point. The NT, however, seems a bit more consistent in depicting the Devil as a single being whose entire identity revolves around opposing God, and I’ve never really looked into why that is.
What does it mean to dwell in the shadow of The Most High and how might I go about dwelling there?
At what point in your life would you consider yourself an adult?
I think growing up is overrated.
Why do we continue to let the same people hurt us?
Change can be painful. It scares us.
Is the devil real or imaginary?
Are humans just an accident?
Not at all but a little bit yes.
Evolution is part chance but mostly not.
That is, the mutations in DNA are happenstance, but whose adaptations get passed on is not.
For the most part, only genetic mutations that are neutral or advantageous have a high chance of being successful, so it’s not so much chance as what works in that environment. If it works or has no major effects, it gets passed on, if it’s very negative it typically gets weeded out over time.
That’s why people with degenerative disorders or unique health problems are rare – in the environment our species is adapted to, the odds of you surviving long enough to reproduce are way smaller if you can’t feel pain or are allergic to sunlight, so those quirks in your DNA are far less likely to be passed on.
Drinking milk past infancy, for example, is a fairly new ability that we’re still in the process of evolving. Drinking milk past infancy is an advantage because it’s an extra source of energy, so those of us able to process lactose in adulthood have a source of nutrient-rich energy that lactose intolerant members of our species do not. If a time of starvation comes, those of us able to ingest dairy without getting sick have a way of getting food that certain members of our species do not, so we’re more likely to survive.
Our bipedalism comes from the time we lived in grasslands, where seeing over the grass to keep an eye on predators is a massive advantage. If you look at grassland creatures, being tall is a common theme.
This also why certain body plans recur across time in entirely unrelated species: what works for that niche is what’s successful because, well, it works.
A great example of this is pterodactyls,
bats,
and Archaeopteryx.
They’re not closely related to each other at all, but they all feature those little hooks on their wings because at one point they all covered the same niche and used those appendages for climbing up trees like teeny grappling hooks when evolving the ability to fly (well, Archaeopteryx was smack dab in the middle of bird evolution for flight, so they themselves never could fly).
Another example of this is mudskippers vs tiktaalik, both of which also share the same niche (albeit millions of years apart):
^ a reconstruction of tiktaalik
^ modern mudskippers
Do you believe in ghosts?
Is writer’s block real?
Yes.
Are you an extrovert or introvert?
It depends on how tired I am. No seriously, I buzz like an extrovert sometimes but after a while, I just need to get away and recharge. I’m both at once which is as confusing for me as everyone else.
At what point in your life would you consider yourself an adult?
If you were offered the power to write one perfect book and then never write again, would you take that deal?
Author’s guide to Tumblr
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