Podcasts about innoculation

Rafi Kohan's new book, "Trash Talk: The Only Book About Destroying Your Rivals That Isn't Total Garbage," covers sh*t talking and its relatives: bench jockeying, the dozens, and sledging; as well as its variants from ancient times (think Odysseus and hubris). Rafi discusses the complexity of trash talk in its levels of teasing, threat, trust, and going "too far," but delves further into its effectiveness in competition, or lack thereof. He goes on to explore the research about these psychological tactics, their use in coaching, and the training used to build up mental toughness in the Special Forces. We also have a good laugh about the rivalries between siblings and between the Padres and the Dodgers. A wide-ranging fun episode with something for everyone. The book:https://www.amazon.com/Trash-Talk-Destroying-Rivals-Garbage/dp/1541788915Thoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://booksshowstunes.discreetguide.com/contact/Sponsored by Discreet Guide Training:https://training.discreetguide.com/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/books-shows-tunes-mad-actsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguideJennifer on Post.News:@JenCrittendenJennifer on XTwitter:@DiscreetGuideJennifer on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferkcrittenden/

Site-107 are freeing themselves from the threat of Dash Threes. This episode was written by Anna Maguire and features the voices of Logan Laidlaw (Harley), Jackson McMurray (Lancaster), Tasch Ritter (Klein), Tabi Bardall (Love), and Anna Maguire (Raddagher). Original music by Jackson McMurray. Sign up for our newsletter at findusalivepodcast.com for updates, info, art, and more. Join us on Patreon for exclusive behind-the-scenes content! Word of mouth is the best advertising, so be sure to share with your friends if you like the show! This podcast and all content relating to the SCP Foundation are released under a Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 license.

Immerse yourself in peace during your most stressful times with an affirmation to calm your thoughts. This week you're guided in a meditation series to innoculate yourself against some of the top stressors you experience each day. You'll discover how to transform stress into growth opportunities and harness peace in the face of adversity. This is part 2 of a 7-part Series Stress Innoculation, Episodes 2952-2958. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Identify your top stressors and select meditation techniques to manage them. A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME: You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation. FREE TOOLS: For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey. Enjoy access to nearly 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app! Listen on iTunes for 1-Week Free! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone   1-week Free Access to the Android app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom   ***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.   RESOURCES Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.   I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.   **All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate!

Cultivate Resilience in stressful times. This week you're guided in a meditation series to innoculate yourself against some of the top stressors you experience each day. You'll discover how to transform stress into growth oppoprtunities and harness peace in the face of adversity. This is part 1 of a 7-part Series Stress Innoculation, Episodes 2952-2958. THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Identify your top stressors and select meditation techniques to manage them. A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME: You are guided with a different meditation technique every day that is customized for the week's theme. Weave the techniques into the most stressful times of your day to manage difficult emotions. The meditation techniques help to calm the "monkey mind," when your thoughts continuously interrupt your meditation. FREE TOOLS: For free meditation tools to help you start meditating please head over to my website at www.SipandOm.com, and there you'll find a multitude of free resources to help you on your Meditation Journey. Enjoy access to nearly 3,000 guided meditations without ads on the Sip and Om app. Try it for 7 days of free access to the full app! Listen on iTunes for 1-Week Free! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sip-and-om/id1216664612?platform=iphone&preserveScrollPosition=true#platform/iphone   1-week Free Access to the Android app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sipandom.sipandom   ***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.   RESOURCES Music composed by Christopher Lloyd Clark licensed by RoyaltyFreeMusic.com, and also by musician Greg Keller.   I'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU I'd love your feedback! Please let me know how you're enjoying the meditations by leaving me a review on iTunes.   **All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any kind of medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate!

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Wendy Smith chats to Catherine Edwards about animal care and common misconceptions.Catherine is a Biologist & Holistic Health Practitioner & Coach for Animals & Humans.Most importantly, she is passionate about learning. Her main focus is looking at achieving mind-body-spirit balance, and how people can empower themselves to use the best of nature & science & common sense to live the best, healthiest & happiest lives possible for all animals and humans.Catherine Edwards:TELEGRAM: https://t.me/CatherineEdwardsLifeTELEGRAM: https://t.me/CatherineEdwardsHealth YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/CatherineEdwards007TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/@Catherinelife17Presented by Wendy Smith:https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FmOxoTinz5Ti/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXSIY_CG_LXwA-w-nmt4mwwendysmith.me.ukultimateretreats.lifehttps://www.facebook.com/CoachWendy72/Tune into Reality Bites live on KindaSound Radio every Sunday: https://KindaSound.orgConnect with the KindaSound team on Telegram: https://t.me/ksradioNew podcast episodes every Thursday.

If there's been one silver lining from the pandemic, it's that over the past two winters, flu cases and deaths had dropped significantly as we've all been in lockdown, washing our hands more and wearing masks. But with nearly all restrictions removed ahead of this winter, there seem to be some very mixed messages about how the flu will interact with Covid-19 as we prepare to enter the colder months once again. The Quicky speaks to a medical professional and a woman whose uncle died from the flu pre-pandemic to find out what you really need to know about keeping safe and well this winter. CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to: Dr Brad McKay - Science communicator, TV host, podcaster, GP, and author of Fake Medicine: Exposing the wellness crazes, cons and quacks costing us our health Annique - Lost her uncle to flu in 2019 Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Jacob Round Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading or listening to our content, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au  Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 1796, Dr Edward Jenner delivered the world's first inoculation to his gardener's eight-year-old son who was suffering from the deadly smallpox virus, but his scientific breakthrough also sprouted the first seeds of an anti-vaccination movement.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved the Novavax vaccine for use in people aged 18 or over, becoming the fourth brand of COVID-19 jab that is being deployed in Australia to fight the ongoing pandemic. But why do we need another vaccine, how does it differ to the ones we already have, and why are some people saying it could convince anti-vaxxers to finally get inoculated? The Quicky speaks to an expert in immunology to answer these questions and find out everything you need you know about Novavax. CREDITS  Host: Claire Murphy With thanks to:  Professor Cassandra Berry - Professor of Immunology at Murdoch University in Western Australia Producer: Claire Murphy Executive Producer: Siobhán Moran-McFarlane Audio Producer: Ian Camilleri Subscribe to The Quicky at... https://mamamia.com.au/the-quicky/ CONTACT US Got a topic you'd like us to cover? Send us an email at thequicky@mamamia.com.au GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening! Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at podcast@mamamia.com.au Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Just by reading or listening to our content, you're helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We're currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au  Support the show: https://www.mamamia.com.au/mplus/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anyone over the age of 12 is already required to show proof of vaccination for most public spaces in San Francisco, and they'll soon be adding those 5-11 to the list. For more, KCBS Radio news anchors Dan Mitchinson and Holly Quan spoke with KCBS Radio Insider Phil Matier.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AMA CXO Todd Unger reviews COVID-19 vaccine numbers and trending topics related to the pandemic over the past week with AMA Director of Science, Medicine and Public Health Andrea Garcia. Also covering the booster roll out, mask studies in schools and the continued politicization of the pandemic.

The Multi-Culti-Level Episode: Two Boxes of Tapes, Concentrated Evil, Organized Groups and Our Nature, A Concert and a Phone Call, Innoculation, Cynical Forever, What I Look Out For, A Hard-Won Allegance, The Tapes, The Fundamental Pitch, What We Gain, What the World Will Be. That time that two large boxes of multi-level marketing tapes showed up in my possession and what that all means to me. My pal (in the story) is doing fine and is a home renovator. 

Jared Brock's Future Faith podcast is also available for free on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.I've been avoiding publishing any articles on vaccines because it's an absurdly contentious subject that wins you no friends and makes you quite a few enemies.It's an issue plagued with political ideologies, conflicts of interests, bad faith arguments, issue conflation, terrible research, and appallingly stupid false dichotomies.But alas, my inbox has been flooded with good folks asking me my perspective, so hopefully, I can lay it all out in one article and never have to discuss it again. My guess is that this will be one of the most contentious pieces I ever publish, so even if you disagree but can manage to stick with me through this one, I think we can continue our relationship for years to come!In this piece, I'm going to try and lay out a biblical framework for approaching issues like this. I have no financial incentives in this fight, and I want to make it clear that my goal isn't to make you get a vaccine or not get a vaccine, but to help tune up our reasoning and look at this highly-contentious subject through a Christ-centered lens.Let's start at the beginning“A very good place to start.” — Maria von Trapp in The Sound of MusicThere are a lot of people out there who think vaccines are “inherently dangerous because there is no long-term safety data.”These people have never read a history book.Let's go back in time…The year is 1774. Smallpox is ravaging the world. Sore throats, headaches, and difficulty breathing are the nice symptoms. Instead, disfiguring rashes cover most infected people's faces, feet, throat, and lungs with pus-filled pustules. A third of adults infected will die. Eight in ten infants will die. At least 400,000 people will die per year for decades, and survivors will be marred with blindness and lifelong scars, driving some to suicide.Here's what that looks like in real life:People tried everything to halt smallpox outbreaks — hot rooms, cold rooms, avoiding melons, wearing the color red, drinking twelve beers per day. None of it worked, of course, but there was one genuine cure — an ancient practice from India and Africa called “variolation” an early form of inoculation. We even know the name of the African slave who brought the life-saving practice to North America. His name was Onesimus, likely named after the slave mentioned in Colossians and Philemon. The American Onesimus's master convinced 287 Bostonians to get variolated — among the inoculated, their rates of death fell sevenfold.Variolation is pretty freaky by today's standards: People just took pus from someone suffering from smallpox and scratched it into the skin of healthy folks. During the American Civil War, people would take the dried scabs of smallpox survivors, grind them into powder, then sniff it up the nose or drink it in tea.Variolation worked… ish. People would usually get a mild case of smallpox and survive, thanks to their well-prepped immune systems. Some people still got full-blown smallpox and died, but variolation increased your chances of survival.Over in rural England, one class of person seemed completely immune to smallpox: milkmaids. The women occasionally suffered from a cattle disease called cowpox, but they usually survived with little scarring. In 1774, as a smallpox epidemic once again swept his nation, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to scratch some cow pus into his family's skin.None of them got smallpox.The science was and is simple: The cowpox pus — vaccinia — could create antibodies and genetic memory that would trigger the human body to create immunity against life-threatening pathogens.Ben Jesty renovated his garden cottage into a “Temple of Vaccinia” and invited locals to visit after church for their life-saving doses. For his generosity, he was labeled inhuman, “hooted at, reviled, and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighborhood,” with some neighbors even worrying he'd turn them into horned beasts.Because of a lack of widespread and effective vaccination, 300 million people died in the 20th century from smallpox alone.A resounding successWe now have nearly 250 years of data and it all says the same thing: Vaccination decreases your chances of dying from deadly pathogens.* We no longer have regular rolling rounds of smallpox, whooping cough, scarlet fever, polio, hib, cholera, and other deadly diseases that have killed tens of millions of people across time.* Since 1962 alone, 4.5 billion virus cases have been averted thanks to modern vaccinations.* Tetanus mortality has been reduced by 96% since 1988.* 17.1 million lives have been saved from measles since 2000.* Smallpox has been completely eradicated.To be anti-vaccination is the same as saying you're anti-medicine.Thankfully, the vast majority of the world understands that vaccination is medicine. 9 out of 10 people in the world think that vaccinating children is important.But there's a small but vociferously vocal minority — typically white, right-leaning, Westerners who have never lost a child to a life-threatening pathogen — who would rather risk their family's life and safety than give them this particular form of medicine.They have about five major reasons, but none of them are Socratically sound:1. Therapeutics aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapySome of our more earthy brothers and hippie sisters think we should stop playing God and just let nature do its thing, building our immune systems naturally.Which is exactly what vaccines do.Innoculation comes from the Middle English word “inoculaten,” which means “grafting a plant part to another plant.” When we get a vaccine, we're essentially grafting some of the enemy pathogens into our immune system, but in a way that teaches our body to do the miraculous work of defending itself when the real pathogen shows up.Most football coaches don't let their teams go onto the field until they've analyzed the competition for weaknesses. Most militaries don't send their soldiers into battle until they know their enemy's setup. I hate to use computer terms for something as gloriously biological as a homo sapiens, but human bodies are old hardware in need of constant software updates.Some people think our updates should only come from therapeutics and not inoculations.But don't forget Brock's Rule! Avoid false dichotomies.When given two bad options, choose neither.When given two good options, choose both.Don't fall prey to the false dichotomy that it's one or the other, therapeutics versus vaccinations.Clearly, governments should have instituted a two-year ban on fast food, high fructose corn syrup, added sugars, processed foods, and everything non-organic, then sent everyone to the woods and beaches for exercise and sunlight while scientists worked on a vaccine.And if you're so inclined, go ahead and take therapeutics — sniff all the essential oils and eat all the vitamins to try to build a killer immune system, and also get the vaccine… which is just another natural immune booster.If our rationale for therapeutics is truly to boost our natural immunity, then vaccines are the #1 weapon in our arsenal for doing so. The Cambridge dictionary defines a therapeutic as anything “tending to make a person healthier.” Vaccinations are therapeutic.2. Big Pharma profits aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyBig Pharma is awful.Life-saving medicine shouldn't be a money-making industry.There should be zero for-profit vaccines.Pfizer and the other drug cartels are making billions off Covid, and it's not right.I wonder how many more anti-vaxxers would take vaccine therapy if it was owned and administered by democratic governments, not-for-profits, and charities. Imagine how many more people would get vaccinated if the Red Cross did the deed at their local church.But alas, here we are.We need to ask the same question as Cicero and the ancient Romans:Cui bono? Who profits?Clearly, Big Pharma is reaping a waterfall of cash from their vaccine. That's a huge issue we must address.But it doesn't mean vaccines are any less effective.What's interesting is that many anti-vaxxers are happy to take all sorts of other for-profit products — literally anything under the sun, including anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine and a mostly Chinese-producedlice medication (and horse de-wormer) called Ivermectin.Who do they think is paying for all the marketing and social media posts they're reading about these products?Who do they think profits from every single therapeutic purchase they make?It's just shadow Big Pharma.(Ironically, one of Ivermectin's biggest manufacturers… is also a vaccine maker.)There are profit motives on both sides — clearly, Big Pharma's profits are far larger because they have so many unfair advantages — but it doesn't mean vaccines are any less effective. Vaccines don't care who makes money off them; they simply decrease our chances of dying from deadly pathogens.3. Economic re-engineering isn't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyCorporate elites have used this pandemic as an excuse to enrich themselves to the tune of $5.5 trillion and growing.We clearly have to deal with this.We need a wealth tax, a global minimum corporate tax, and a robot tax.Otherwise, the Great Reset will leave us all as full-time wage-slaves and rent-slaves.But wealth inequality and systemic impoverishment also have nothing to do with vaccination efficacy.Vaccines decrease our chances of death, regardless of who dominates the economy and tries to grind the middle class to dust.4. The risk of a superbug isn't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyThere's also the very bad argument that taking vaccines will eventually create some sort of vaccine-resistant superbug. While the odds of such a pathogen eventually existing is extremely high, the argument itself is extremely poor for two big reasons:First, this argument naturally forces the anti-vaxxer to admit that vaccines have, up until this point in time, indeed worked.Second, when that vaccine-resistant pathogen does arrive, millions of people will die and no vaccine will help — and neither will the immune systems of millions of anti-vaxxers. There's no evidence that says people who've avoided vaccines their whole lives will magically be granted immunity from the superbug.I've met people who literally believe no one should take vaccines and we should risk the annual loss of millions of lives in an effort to boost our collective immune system. This, frankly, is unacceptable in a pro-human society. Sure, it would be great if our immune systems naturally adapted as fast as viruses do, but they don't. Christ-followers can't in good faith permit millions of deaths when we have a suboptimal but effective immune-training technology in our possession. That would be like withholding a life-preserver from a drowning person today because there might be a tsunami in the future.We cannot allow the delusional perfect to be the enemy of the concrete good. The Bible is very clear that the earth is currently in a fallen state. In heaven, we won't need vaccines. On earth, we clearly do.5. Covid passports aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyThis is the big one, isn't it?It's certainly the thing everyone keeps emailing and calling me about.“Aren't Covid passports just the tip of the spear for government surveillance?”No, they're not.We're way past that.A vaccine passport is a joke compared to your smartphone, your digital bank, your social media, your Internet usage history, and especially the coming central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and social credit systems.Don't lose the plot, friends. Vaccines aren't the “tip of the spear” whatsoever. That weapon belongs to the elite monopoly control of money-creation. Everything else is secondary.And here's a big thing a lot of non-travelers have forgotten:We've already had vaccine passports for years.My wife and I have traveled to plenty of risky places including North Korea, Transnistria, Honduras, Ethiopia, and West Texas. Tourists who only go to Florida and Hawaii and Caribbean all-inclusives may not realize it, but much of the world has required proof of vaccination for decades.As any missionary kid knows, you can't get into many countries without showing your doctor-stamped visa that proves you've had your yellow fever shots. 124 nations require you to show a yellow fever vaccine visa to get across their borders. We've shown ours many times. (We've also never had yellow fever, which still kills 30,000 people per year, because our vaccination gave us 99% immunity 30 days after injection.)Yes, future vaccine visas will likely be logged on the blockchain and movement will be automatically restricted by robots and algorithms. This is anti-human and should rightly be outlawed. But avoiding vaccination itself won't change this. It's the wrong hill to die on.Tyranny isn't defeated by leaving your immune system under-educated.Why vaccines are so politicalIf Covid had a 100% transmission rate and a 100% kill rate, we wouldn't be having this conversation.If any disease spread to everyone and killed everyone, everyone except suicidal sociopaths would be in favor of mandated vaccination and proven containment measures.Conversely, if a “disease” had a 0% kill rate and a 0% transmission rate, none of us would be in favor of any vaccination or any containment measure.Clearly, it's just a sliding scale, based on personal risk tolerance.So the question is: Who gets to decide when we should mandate vaccines and when to implement containment measures?Ebola has a 50+% kill rate, but a low transmission rate. The vaccine is effective 97.5% of the time. If it had a 90% transmission rate by simply breathing in public, would you mandate a vaccine and/or try to implement containment measures? Even though we live in a troublingly individualist anti-culture, most people would say yes.(If it were solely up to me, for the sake of stopping variants, vaccines would be mandatory for any contagious disease with an R-nought of more than 1.27 and/or an Infection Fatality Rate of more than 0.038%. If someone doesn't like it, they can move to Arkansas.)But it's not up to me, of course.And it's not up to you.Because we can all infect each other, it's only fair that we all get to decide.Vaccine regulation is democracy's job.And people are actually furious because they don't live in a democracy.Let's be honest about what this is really all about:Thisisallabouttrust.The vaccine debate has almost nothing to do with health:People don't trust Big Pharma.Nor should they — if it were up to Big Pharma, we'd all die unless we could pay top “free”-market dollar for their wares. They already do this in unregulated nations in Africa.People don't trust Big Medicine.Nor should they — the American for-profit healthcare system is the biggest scam in global health.People don't trust Big Government.Nor should they — we live in an undemocratic corporatocracy ruled by private interests with anti-commons agendas.The Bible is quite clear in Psalm 146:3 “Do not put your trust in princes; there is no hope for you there.”But our distrust of government has nothing to do with vaccine therapy.We need to think clearly about the big picture: We're rapidly approaching the age of the panopticon surveillance state.So long as we continue to buy from giant corporations and vote for their corporate-captured political parties and candidates, social credit systems are coming, with or without a vaccine passport.Vaccines are an opportunityAs far as I can see it, vaccination provides Christ-centered people with five intriguing opportunities:1. The opportunity to serve othersJust because some of us feel young, strong, and healthy doesn't mean we aren't surrounded by more vulnerable people, especially the elderly brothers and sisters in our churches. In Philippians 2:5–7, Paul encourages us that, “In your relationships with another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus by taking the very nature of a servant, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Supercharging our immune systems is yet another way we can serve each other.One thing is for certain: Vaccinations aren't worth losing unity over. As Paul wrote to the Corinthians: “I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.” The reality is that vaccine passports are just the next technology that secularist governments may try to use to control their citizens. These new technologies are emerging at a faster and faster rate, which suggests Jesus-followers actually need to slow down, get in step with the Holy Spirit, and wrestle together as Christ-centered communities on how to honor God in this cultural moment.2. The opportunity to obey our governmentsThis one is very, very tough for those of us who've been raised in this hyper-selfish individualist anti-culture.But Scripture is brutally clear on this point: we are to obey every government law that doesn't disobey God's law. Titus 3:1 — “Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.” 1 Peter 2:13–15 — “Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors… For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.”Clearly, getting vaccinated doesn't go against the word of God and the gospel of Christ. In fact, it creates obedience to 1 Corinthians 6:19, where Paul insists our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. But if you're like me, you have a deeply rebellious spirit! This is our opportunity to submit to the government. Believe me, there will soon be plenty of reasons to glorify God by practicing civil disobedience, but avoiding vaccination isn't one of them.3. The opportunity to honest and truthfulWe don't need to delude ourselves into thinking we're “educated” on vaccines. The vast majority of us don't have a doctorate in the subject, and no amount of online article-reading will ever get us there. We don't argue about whether or not houses reliably stay standing — they generally do, and we don't need to research the intricacies of house-engineering to trust the experts. In the same, we know that vaccines have proven to boost our immunes systems for the past few centuries, and while they aren't perfect, that's probably all a lay-person needs to know. This is an opportunity to lay aside the notion that we are experts on this subject. As Mark Twain said, “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”4. The opportunity to practice wisdomPastor Andy Stanley says that the best question ever is, “In light of our past experiences, current circumstances, and future hopes and dreams, what is the wisest thing to do?”This isn't a question to answer alone. Followers of the Way will naturally do what we always do when faced with tough questions: Go to the Word, get on our knees, and meet with other believers.Only the Holy Spirit can guide us into all truth.5. The opportunity to wear a cloak of humilityThis is our chance to not think better of ourselves than we should. Having the vaccine doesn't make you a better person — it just means you're less likely to die from Covid-19.In the same way, not having the vaccine doesn't make you better than your vaccinated brothers and sisters — it just means you're putting them and yourself at a greater risk of infection.Remember: Christ-followers don't have human enemies. We are called to love those who hate us, and pray for those who persecute us. As John Mark Comer says, we are to make our bodies a graveyard for hate.For pastors and elders, there is a huge opportunity to disciple your believers toward a less individualistic outlook on life, re-orienting your people to a communal framework for living, and a proper understanding of the government's role in the life of a Jesus-follower.In ConclusionRegardless of mandates or economics or passports, I would've gotten the Covid vaccine anyway. Why? Because vaccination helps train my God-given immune system to be awesome, and because this vaccine is proven to significantly decrease my chance of death by Covid.That's it.Vaccines just aren't political for me, at all. I can't fathom why anyone makes them political — vaccines are therapeutic medicine that trains your body to fight pathogens, pure and simple. Sadly, ours is an age of outrageous conflation. Rather than thinking clearly and tackling the real problems of tyranny, we endanger our children because we think it's magically “creating change.”My track record shows that I'm extremely anti-partisan, anti-politician, and anti-corporatocracy, and I'm not going to let any tyrannical earthly institution weaponize my own health against me.We need to stay strong so we can take down the powers and principalities who are actively at work in the spiritual realm.This often ugly debate should make us ask important questions:* Am I placing my trust in the government, myself, or my Savior?* Am I spending more time on social media than in God's word?* Do I spend more time researching vaccines than I do in prayer?* Would I rather fight digital people on the Internet more than commune with local believers in the flesh?At the end of the day, everything always comes back to the gospel. The good news is that the kingdom of God is here in our midst; that Christ has taken our sin on his shoulders; that through Him we can be restored to God. This has massive implications for how we live and move and have our being.As you wrestle with the Word and the Holy Spirit and your church through this issue, I pray that you will find unity and peace in the bonds of His love. Get full access to Future Faith at jaredbrock.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Surviving Tomorrow, a podcast, newsletter, and publication that helps you navigate life in an age of democratic destruction, ecological collapse, and economic irrelevance, available for FREE on Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Facebook, and Youtube.I've been avoiding publishing any articles on vaccines because it's an absurdly contentious subject that wins you no friends and makes you quite a few enemies.It's an issue plagued with political ideologies, conflicts of interests, bad faith arguments, issue conflation, terrible research, and appallingly stupid false dichotomies.But alas, my inbox has been flooded with good folks asking me my perspective, so hopefully, I can lay it all out in one post and never have to discuss it again.Lucky me.Let's start at the beginning“A very good place to start.” — Maria von Trapp in The Sound of MusicThere are a lot of people out there who think vaccines are “inherently dangerous because there is no long-term safety data.”These people have never read a history book.Let's go back in time…The year is 1774. Smallpox is ravaging the world. Sore throats, headaches, and difficulty breathing are the nice symptoms. Instead, disfiguring rashes cover most infected people's faces, feet, throat, and lungs with pus-filled pustules. A third of adults infected will die. Eight in ten infants will die. At least 400,000 people will die per year for decades, and survivors will be marred with blindness and lifelong scars, driving some to suicide.Here's what that looks like in real life:People tried everything to halt smallpox outbreaks — hot rooms, cold rooms, avoiding melons, wearing the color red, drinking twelve beers per day. None of it worked, of course, but there was one genuine cure — an ancient practice from Africa called “variolation” an early form of inoculation. (We even know the name of the African slave who brought the life-saving practice to North America.)Variolation is pretty horrific by today's standards: People who take pus from someone suffering from smallpox and scratch it into the skin of healthy folks. During the American Civil War, people would take the dried scabs of smallpox survivors, grind them into powder, then sniff it up the nose or drink it in tea.Variolation worked… ish. People would usually get a mild case of smallpox and survive, thanks to their well-prepped immune systems. Some people still got full-blown smallpox and died, but variolation increased your chances of survival.Over in rural England, one class of person seemed completely immune to smallpox: milkmaids. The women occasionally suffered from a cattle disease called cowpox, but they usually survived with little scarring. In 1774, as a smallpox epidemic once again swept his nation, farmer Benjamin Jesty decided to scratch some cow pus into his family's skin.None of them got smallpox.The science is simple: The cowpox pus — vaccinia — could create antibodies and genetic memory that would trigger the human body to create immunity against life-threatening pathogens.Ben Jesty renovated his garden cottage into a “Temple of Vaccinia” and invited locals to visit after church for their life-saving doses. For his generosity, he was labeled inhuman, “hooted at, reviled, and pelted whenever he attended markets in the neighborhood,” with some neighbors even worrying he'd turn them into horned beasts.Because of a lack of widespread and effective vaccination, 300 million people died in the 20th century from smallpox alone.A resounding successWe now have nearly 250 years of data and it all says the same thing: Vaccination decreases your chances of getting and dying from deadly pathogens.We no longer have regular rolling rounds of smallpox, whooping cough, scarlet fever, polio, hib, cholera, and other deadly diseases that have killed tens of millions of people across time.Since 1962 alone, 4.5 billion virus cases have been averted thanks to modern vaccinations.Tetanus mortality has been reduced by 96% since 1988.17.1 million lives have been saved from measles since 2000.Smallpox has been completely eradicated.To be anti-vaccination is the same as saying you're anti-medicine.Thankfully, the vast majority of the world understands that vaccination is medicine. 9 out of 10 people in the world think that vaccinating children is important.But there's a small but vociferously vocal minority — typically white, right-leaning, poorly-educated Westerners who are addicted to social media and have never lost a child to a life-threatening pathogen — who would rather risk their family's life and safety than give them this particular form of medicine.They have their reasons, but none of them are Socratically sound:Therapeutics aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapySome of our more earthy brothers and hippie sisters think we should stop playing God and just let nature do its thing, building our immune systems naturally.Which is exactly what vaccines do.Innoculation comes from the Middle English word “inoculaten,” which means “grafting a plant part to another plant.” When we get a vaccine, we're essentially grafting some of the enemy pathogens into our immune system, but in a way that teaches our body to do the miraculous work of defending itself when the real pathogen shows up.Most football coaches don't let their teams go onto the field until they've analyzed the competition for weaknesses. Most militaries don't send their soldiers into battle until they know their enemy's setup. I hate to use computer terms for something as gloriously biological as a homo sapiens, but human bodies are old hardware in need of constant software updates.Some people think our updates should only come from therapeutics and not inoculations.They're forgetting Brock's Rule: Avoid false dichotomies.When given two bad options, choose neither.When given two good options, choose both.Don't fall prey to the false dichotomy that it's one or the other, therapeutics versus vaccinations.Clearly, governments should have instituted a two-year ban on fast food, high fructose corn syrup, added sugars, processed foods, and everything non-organic, then sent everyone to the woods and beaches for exercise and sunlight while scientists worked on a vaccine.And if you're so inclined, go ahead and take therapeutics — eat all the essential oils and Ivermectin and vitamins to try to build a killer immune system, and also get the vaccine… which is just another natural immune booster. And we know for certain that the vaccine boosts our immunity response to Covid-19: Over a vaccine test group of nearly 28,000 participants — half vaccinated, half placebo — the unvaccinated group had sixteen times as many Covid-19 cases.If our rationale for therapeutics is truly to boost our natural immunity, then vaccines are the #1 weapon in our arsenal for doing so. The Cambridge dictionary defines a therapeutic as anything “tending to make a person healthier.” Vaccinations are therapeutic.Big Pharma profits aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyBig Pharma is awful.Life-saving medicine shouldn't be a money-making industry.There should be zero for-profit vaccines.Pfizer and the other drug cartels are making billions off Covid, and it's not right.I wonder how many more anti-vaxxers would take vaccine therapy if it was owned and administered by democratic governments, not-for-profits, and charities. Imagine how many more people would get vaccinated if the Red Cross did the deed at their local church.But alas, here we are.The question we need to ask, just like Cicero and the ancient Romans: Cui bono? Who profits?Clearly, Big Pharma is reaping a waterfall of cash from their vaccine. That's a huge issue we must address.But it doesn't mean vaccines are any less effective.What's interesting is that many anti-vaxxers are happy to take all sorts of other purchased products — literally anything under the sun, including anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine and a mostly Chinese-producedlice medication (and horse de-wormer) called Ivermectin.Who do they think is paying for all the marketing and social media posts they're reading about these products?Who do they think profits from every single therapeutic purchase they make?It's just shadow Big Pharma.(Ironically, one of Ivermectin's biggest manufacturers… is also a vaccine maker.)There are profit motives on both sides — clearly, Big Pharma's profits are far larger because they have so many unfair advantages — but it doesn't mean vaccines are any less effective. Vaccines don't care who makes money off them; they simply decrease our chances of getting and dying from deadly pathogens.Economic re-engineering isn't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyCorporate elites have used this pandemic as an excuse to enrich themselves to the tune of $5.5 trillion and growing.We clearly have to deal with this.We need a wealth tax, a global minimum corporate tax, and a robot tax.And thousands of Wall Streeters probably need to go to jail.But wealth inequality also has nothing to do with vaccination efficacy.Vaccines decrease our chances of death, regardless of who dominates the economy and tries to grind the middle class to dust.The risk of a superbug isn't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyThere's also the very bad argument that taking vaccines will eventually create some sort of vaccine-resistant superbug. While the odds of such a pathogen eventually existing is extremely high, the argument itself is extremely poor for two big reasons:First, it forces the anti-vaxxer to admit that vaccines up until this point have, indeed, worked.Second, when that vaccine-resistant pathogen arrives, millions of people will die and no vaccine will help — and neither will the immune systems of millions of anti-vaxxers. There's no evidence that says people who've avoided vaccines their whole lives will magically be granted immunity from the superbugs.I've met people who literally believe no one should take vaccines and we should risk the loss of millions of lives in an effort to boost our collective immune system. This, frankly, is unacceptable in a pro-human society. Sure, it would be great if our immune systems naturally adapted as fast as viruses do, but they don't. We can't in good faith permit millions of deaths when we have a suboptimal but effective immune-training technology in our possession. That would be like withholding a life-preserver from a drowning person today because there might be a tsunami in the future.We cannot allow the delusional perfect to be the enemy of the concrete good.Covid passports aren't a good enough reason to reject vaccine therapyThis is the big one, isn't it?It's certainly the thing everyone keeps emailing and calling me about.“Aren't Covid passports just the tip of the spear for government surveillance?”No, they're not.We're way past that.A vaccine passport is a joke compared to your smartphone, your digital bank, your social media, your Internet usage history, and especially the coming central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and social credit systems.Don't lose the plot, friends. Vaccines aren't the “tip of the spear” whatsoever. That weapon belongs to the private monopoly control of money-creation. Everything else is secondary.And here's a big thing a lot of non-travelers have forgotten:We've already had vaccine passports for years.My wife and I have traveled to plenty of risky countries including North Korea, Transnistria, Honduras, Ethiopia, and even West Texas. Tourists who only go to Florida and Hawaii and Caribbean all-inclusives may not realize it, but much of the world has required proof of vaccination for decades.As any missionary kid knows, you can't get into many countries without showing your doctor-stamped visa that proves you've had your yellow fever shots. 124 nations require you to show a yellow fever vaccine visa to get across their borders. We've shown ours many times. (We've also never had yellow fever, which still kills 30,000 people per year because vaccination gives people 99% immunity 30 days after injection.)Yes, future vaccine visas will likely be logged on the blockchain and movement will be automatically restricted by robots and algorithms. This is anti-human and should absolutely be outlawed. But avoiding vaccination itself won't change this. It's the wrong hill to die on.Tyranny isn't defeated by leaving your immune system under-educated.Why vaccines are so politicalIf Covid had a 100% transmission rate and a 100% kill rate, we wouldn't be having this conversation.If any disease spread to everyone and killed everyone, everyone except suicidal sociopaths would be in favor of mandated vaccination and proven containment measures.Conversely, if a disease had a 0% kill rate and a 0% transmission rate, no one would be in favor of any vaccination and any containment measures.Clearly, it's just a sliding scale, based on personal risk tolerance.So the question is: Who gets to decide when we should mandate vaccines and when to implement containment measures?Ebola has a 50+% kill rate. The Ebola vaccine is effective 97.5% of the time. If it had a 90% transmission rate by simply breathing in public, would you mandate a vaccine and/or try to implement containment measures? Even though we live in a troublingly individualist anti-culture, most people would say yes.(If it were solely up to me, vaccines would be mandatory for any contagious disease with an R-nought of more than 1.27 and/or an Infection Fatality Rate of more than 0.038%. If someone doesn't like it, they can move to Arkansas.)But it's not up to me.And it's not up to you.Because we can all infect each other, it's only fair that we all get to decide.Vaccine regulation is democracy's job.And people are furious because they don't live in a democracy.Let's be honest about what this is really all about:This is allabout trust.People don't trust Big Pharma.Nor should they — if it were up to them, we'd all die unless we could pay top “free”-market dollar for their wares. They already do this in unregulated nations in Africa.People don't trust Big Medicine.Nor should they — the American for-profit healthcare system is the biggest scam in global health.People don't trust Big Government.Nor should they — we live in an undemocratic corporatocracy ruled by private interests with anti-commons agendas.But this has nothing to do with vaccine therapy.We need to think clearly about the big picture: We're rapidly approaching the age of the panopticon surveillance state.So long as we continue to buy from giant corporations and vote for their corporate-captured political parties and candidates, social credit systems are coming, with or without a vaccine passport.Regardless of mandates or economics or passports, I would've gotten the Covid vaccine anyway. Why? Because I believe in vaccination therapy's ability to help train my immune system to be awesome, and because this vaccine is proven to significantly decrease my chance of death by Covid.That's it.Vaccines just aren't political for me, at all. I can't fathom why anyone makes them political — vaccines are medicine that trains your body to fight pathogens, pure and simple. Sadly, ours is an age of outrageous conflation.Rather than thinking clearly and tackling the real problems of tyranny, we endanger our children because we think it's magically “creating change.”My track record shows that I'm extremely anti-partisan, anti-politician, and anti-corporatocracy, and I'm not going to let any tyrannical institution weaponize my own health against me.You shouldn't either.We need to stay strong so we can take them down. Get full access to Surviving Tomorrow at www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe

This week, we speak with Dr Jerome Kim, Director General, International Vaccine Institute, about vaccines. The conversation covers the nuances of the vaccine development process, the pharmaceutical industry's role in addressing vaccine hesitancy and refusal, and equitable distribution. He also shares his experience of working within the US military.

In this episode, the social experiment of fear and acting upon it. Christians are labeled as prudes, but are they?

Across Europe, vaccine hesitancy has become a common phenomenon. Research shows that neither fact-checks nor experts will tilt the population’s attitudes towards vaccines. Freelance journalists Daiva Repečkaitė and Eva von Schaper have been investigating vaccine hesitancy for over a year. In this collaborative episode between Are We Europe and their own podcast The Inoculation, they look into how parents find their way with so much confusing information online, and what approach to vaccine hesitancy works. This report was supported by a grant from Journalismfund.eu. If you want to hear more stories about vaccine hesitancy, you can tune in to The Inoculation wherever you like to listen to podcasts. You can also follow them on Facebook as @theinoculation, on Twitter as @TInoculation, or on Instagram as the underscore inoculation. You can also follow Are We Europe on all these social networks or become a member at www.areweeurope.com/member. Hosts: Eva von Schaper and Daiva Repečkaitė Interpreter: Romina Spina Editor and producer: Daiva Repečkaitė

This incredible message will fill you with hope for all that God is able to do in your life as Ps. Matt explains how hope precedes vision!

Mama Heidi got her first shot today - How did she do that? How can you do that? The Heartland Mamas unroll the Get The Shot vaccine conundrum. www.heartlandmamas.com#DemCast #DemCastIL YOU DO NOT HAVE TO STAY IN YOUR OWN COUNTY to use these sites: Try these: www.vaccinespotter.orgwww.vaccinefinder.comOther chain pharmacies: www.Walgreens.comwww.JewelOsco.comwww.CVS.comwww.Kroger.comwww.HyVee.comwww.WalMart.comCheck back 2 times per day as they constantly up date. Need a ride? Civic organizations such as Indivisible are offering free COVID safe rides to LOCAL appointments. Also local county Democratic organizations are also offering free LOCAL rides to and from appointments - reach them through Facebook messager. Be persistent and patient there will be enough vaccine for everyone.

The head of the gun control group Ceasefire PA says lawmakers need to "innocuate the public" against the scourge of gun violence, but as Cam explains, the remedies proposed by anti-gun activists are more snake oil than science.

Doug and Felicia discuss hitting the Covid lockdown wall, Doug rants about the inauguration of Czar Biden, the hot new app Clubhouse, Eddie Huang’s new film BOOGIE, and plans for the future. Recorded: 1/20/21

Good morning and welcome to Montrose Fresh, from The Montrose Daily Press. It's MondayDecember 21st and we're here to bring you a closer look at our top stories, events and more that matter to us here in Western Colorado. Today, our focus is on the COVID-19 vaccine, and what Montrose County officials are saying. Today's episode is brought to you by Elevate Internet. Whether it's for your home or your business they offer the best speeds at the best price. Right now, if you refer a friend you can get $25 off! Give them a call for more information at 844-386-8744 or visit them at elevateinternet.com Before we begin, here's an event going on in Montrose this week that we're looking forward to.  Montrose Botanical Society volunteers were hard at work the past few months, preparing for the annual Garden of Lights. Although the community won't be able to take a tour through the garden this year, residents can still check out the lights throughout the week. The garden will be lit every night until the 26th from 5 to 9 p.m. You can drive past on Pavilion Drive to see the lights set on the east side of the garden. And if you're still searching for the perfect Christmas gift for someone special, a digital subscription to the Montrose Daily Press is just $1.99 right now.  Now, our feature story. Montrose County should begin receiving doses of the COVID-19 vaccine this week. County officials have urged the public to sit tight.  Vaccine doses reached Colorado last week, here's Governor Jared Polis announcing the arrival.  For Montrose County, where 21 people have died of covid, the vaccine cannot come soon enough. The County vaccine task force — made up of public health officials, hospital staff, specialist Dr. Joe Adragna, and others — has developed a prioritization plan. First on the list are health care workers and individuals deemed the highest risk. These are people who have direct contact with COVID patients for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period as part of their jobs. This category, called 1A, includes long-term care facility staff and residents. The 1B category, next on the list, are moderate-risk health care workers and responders, who do not have prolonged, direct contact with infected patients, but still work in direct patient care. The 1B category also includes firefighters, law enforcement, corrections officers, and other first responders and COVID-19 response personnel. Phase 1A and 1B inoculations are expected to take place over the next few months, of course.. depending on the availability of the vaccine. At the start, vaccine administration is set up to take place at Montrose Memorial Hospital. But once the county has reached Phase 2 or 3, that location could change to Friendship Hall. Phase 2, includes everyone at an elevated risk of becoming severely ill from the virus. This includes anyone 65 and older, and adults with obesity, diabetes, cancer, or lung, heart, or kidney disease. Phase 2 also includes people who have direct interactions with the public because of their jobs. So.. people that work at a grocery store, or a school.  Phase 2 vaccines are expected to begin in spring of 2021. The general public will be waiting until Phase 3 kicks in.. which is probably not until summer, 2021.  Next, here are a few other things going on in our community that you should know about. Southwest is set to launch service at Montrose Regional Airport, which means local residents who want to take that quick weekend trip to Denver without long-term hassle are getting their long-awaited wish./Frontline health care workers at Delta County Memorial Hospital made history on Thursday morning, as the first people in Delta County to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. And before we go, we'd like to take a moment to remember Delta's Mike Bitonio. For anyone who graduated from Delta in the early 80's there's a good reason to keep up with the Browns this NFL season. The team's starting left guard is the son of Mike Bitonio, who graduated in 1983 from Delta. Mike lit up any room with a huge smile and booming voice. He was an outstanding athlete in his own right, and attended Fort Lewis College on a football scholarship. He eventually went on to become a flooring specialist and had a claim to fame as one of the early pioneers of MMA fighting. He was tough, but kind and loved his friends. Mike passed away in 2010, which was devastating news. But like his father, Joel took the life-changing event and used it as fuel to become the best player and person he could be. Ten years later he blossomed into a Pro Bowl caliber NFL lineman. And now, his dad's classmates from Delta are cheering him on.  That's all for today, thank you for listening! For more information on any of these stories visit us at montrosepress.com. 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Predictably, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warned on Tuesday that people who don’t take the Covid-19 vaccine will become a “weak link” that allows the coronavirus to spread. Bourla, whose company is in late-stage testing for a potential inoculation, said he understands the public’s concerns about vaccines, which are being developed in record time. He said Pfizer will only request authorization from the Food and Drug Administration after data shows that its vaccine is safe and effective. But should you take the vaccine? Mark and Pete have the answers.

Predictably, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warned on Tuesday that people who don’t take the Covid-19 vaccine will become a “weak link” that allows the coronavirus to spread.Bourla, whose company is in late-stage testing for a potential inoculation, said he understands the public’s concerns about vaccines, which are being developed in record time. He said Pfizer will only request authorization from the Food and Drug Administration after data shows that its vaccine is safe and effective. But should you take the vaccine? Mark and Pete have the answers.

Predictably, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warned on Tuesday that people who don't take the Covid-19 vaccine will become a “weak link” that allows the coronavirus to spread. Bourla, whose company is in late-stage testing for a potential inoculation, said he understands the public's concerns about vaccines, which are being developed in record time. He said Pfizer will only request authorization from the Food and Drug Administration after data shows that its vaccine is safe and effective. But should you take the vaccine? Mark and Pete have the answers.

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Welcome to Episode 3! It took us a bit longer to get this out than we would have liked, but the holidays definitely messed up our schedule and there is a lot of research we wanted to get together to share during the episode and to put in the show notes. We appreciate your patience!!In this episode we discuss the biological reason that we might, as human animals, be inclined to put ourselves and our offspring through painful ordeals. We ponder what exactly the benefits of such experience might be and also why we continue to do so today.We thank everyone for their continued support! Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you'll see as soon as we post a new podcast! We really appreciate the feedback we have gotten so far, so please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve the podcast, or if there is anything that you are loving about what we're doing. If you have any questions or comments, you can always email us at artanddiscordstudios@gmail.com.Reference Notes:Bastian, Brock, Jolanda Jetten, and Fabio Fasoli. "Cleansing the Soul by Hurting the Flesh." Psychological Science 22.3 (2011): 334-335.Bastian, Brock, Jolanda Jetten, and Laura J. Ferris. "Pain as Social Glue." Psychological Science 25.11 (2014): 2079-2085.Bergland, Christopher. “New Clues on Rewiring Your Brain.” Psychology Today March 28, 2012, www. Psychology today.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201203/new-clues-rewiring-your-brainCraig, A.D. “A New View of Pain as a Homeostatic Emotion.” Trends in Neurosciences 26 (2003): 303-307.Day, Melissa A, Charles LWard, M DawnEhde, E BeverlyThorn, John Burns, Amanda Barnier, B JasonMattingley, and P MarkJensen. "A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Mindfulness Meditation, Cognitive Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain." Pain Medicine Advance Article (2019).Fischer, Ronald, and Dimitris Xygalatas. "Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies." Journal of Cognition and Culture 14.5 (2014): 345-355.Gapp, Katharina, Ali Jawaid, Peter Sarkies, Johannes Bohacek, Pawel Pelczar, Julien Prados, Laurent Farinelli, Eric Miska, and Isabelle M Mansuy. "Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice." Nature Neuroscience 17.5 (2014): 667-669.Henrich, Joseph. "The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion." Evolution and Human Behavior 30.4 (2009): 244-260Hughes, Virginia. "Sperm RNA carries marks of trauma." Nature 508.7496 (2014): 296-297.Levi-Strauss, Claude, The Raw and the Cooked. Introduction to a Science of Mythology. Volume I., (1969).Stein, Murray B., Laura Campbell‐Sills, and Joel Gelernter. "Genetic variation in 5HTTLPR is associated with emotional resilience." American Journal of Medical Genetics part B 150B.7 (2009): 900-906.Tatta, Dr. Joe. “How the Brain Creates Pain— and How to Stop It.” Integrative Pain Science Institute Blog. www.integrativepainscienceinstitute.com/brain-create-pain-stopTurner, Victor, “Body, Brain, and Culture” Zygon Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 18, issue 3, Sept 1983, p.221-245.Vågerö, Denny, and Kristiina Rajaleid. "Does childhood trauma influence offspring's birth characteristics?." International Journal of Epidemiology 46.1 (2017).

We have a tendency to romanticize Bible stories. As each unfolds in our mind, they do so on a big screen with an epic soundtrack and dynamic visual effects. We often miss that each one took place on an average day, in a regular neighborhood, and in the lives of common people, just like you and me. But they were common people with remarkable qualities. And it was those remarkable qualities that positioned those common people to experience God giving birth to the miraculous in their lives! This series is to draw your attention to those common people, to see the us in them, and do lean into their remarkable qualities so that His eternal purposes can come to life in our lives.Matthew 2:1–12 (ESV) Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: “ ‘And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’ ” Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him.” After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.A Few “Myths” In Our Manger Scenes:The word for wise men is MAGI. The word describes people with an unusual capacity of understanding based on astronomy, science, alchemy and spirituality functioning in the service of the King. These men were from the region of Babylon, part of ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day city of Baghdad in Iraq. This was historically a breeding ground for such individuals as seen in the Biblical narratives of individuals including the prophet Balaam and the likes of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They were in service to the king and served as liaisons to the surrounding nations. There were likely not three men. There were at least two because “MAGI” is plural. The idea of three MAGI is likely based on the three gifts given, but there was most likely a small caravan of MAGI and their team.The wise men did not arrive at the stable. They did not greet Jesus while He was lying in the manger. Realistically, Jesus was two years old and was visited by the MAGI while living in a house (Matthew 2:11). That means that the depiction of MAGI standing in the stable, with angels, with shepherds or with barn animals is inaccurate.The depiction of their journey being across grassy hills and sloping meadows under a bright star is incorrect. The MAGI crossed some of the most extreme desert areas and conditions on the planet, mountains, cliffs and extreme freezing temperatures.While they saw the star initially, it disappeared. As a result, they headed to Jerusalem where Herod, the current king resided. While they knew what the star represented, they did not know the prophecies stating that the Messiahs’ birthplace would be in Bethlehem. After dialoguing with Herod in Jerusalem, the made their way toward Bethlehem, and in the process, the star reappearedMatthew 2:9 (ESV) After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.The star that appeared in Matthew 2:9 was clearly not an astronomical star. Stars don’t rise in the west, nor do they hover in the earth’s atmosphere and come to rest over residences. It was likely a supernatural sign they experienced, much like the Israelites experienced with the pillar and cloud while travelling through the wilderness. Common People With Remarkable Qualities:The Wise Men Continually Positioned Themselves To Hear From Heaven.They were not necessarily godly men, but they WERE listening to Heaven.They knew about a significant star that was to appear when the Messiah was born.They were knew scripture because they knew the significance of the star: Matthew 2:2 (ESV) saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”How did they know about the star?Balaam contracted by Balak, king of Moab from the region of Babylon to curse the Israelites as they travelled through to the Promised Land.Balaam was a wise man based in Pethor near the Euphrates and close to Babylon. Balaam was warned by God not to curse Israel, and instead blessed them three times: Numbers 24:17 (ESV) I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: A STAR SHALL COME OUT OF JACOB, AND A SCEPTER SHALL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL; it shall crush the forehead of Moab and break down all the sons of Sheth.Balaam was likely of the ranks of wise men from that region.Their understanding of the coming Messiah would have been further informed by Daniel’s oversight and teaching. Daniel, after being deported to the same region, and after being thrown into the lions den, rose to become chief of the wise men, shaping their teaching and instruction.Daniel 9:25–26 (ESV) Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem TO THE COMING OF AN ANOINTED ONE, A PRINCE, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed. The star stirred something, but they leaned in further, and further, and further. They researched, the gathered a team, they journeyed to Jerusalem. They talked to Herod. One step led to the next and the next.Hearing God’s voice becomes easier and easier as you intentionally lean in to Him. Matthew 2:10 (ESV) When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.Jeremiah 29:12–14 (ESV) Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord… Hebrews 11:6 (ESV) … and that he rewards those who seek him.2020 will be a year of pressing in, and finding the better than you can imagine, the unexpected, the miraculous! The Wise Men Were Guided By Strong Conviction, The Result Of A God-Breathed Vision.The Wise Men heard something from heaven and believed it.They were not satisfied to have the head knowledge, they wanted to experience it first-hand.There were committed to experiencing it, regardless of cost.it cost considerable energy: approximately 732 miles; 239 walking hours; 30 travel days of 8 hours a day.it cost considerable time: preparations beforehand, the time gone.it cost considerable resources: the cost of a caravan over that periodtoo often we believe things about God that don’t actually affect how we act.KNOWLEDGE only needs information but VISION is impartation! Impartation happens as you get close enough for something to become a part of who you are.The Wise Men didn’t just hear about heaven, they leaned in far enough that heaven began to rub off on themThe wise men got a dose of VISION.VISION develops conviction that cannot be deterred by things like distraction, cost or even opposition! The Wise Men Were “Worshippers”worship is so much more than what we during the music on a Sunday, but it is a part of it. Are you guilty of being a worshipper???Matthew 2:11 (ESV) And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.fall down – prostrateworshipped – to express by attitude and action ones allegiance to and regard for deity.gave fits of gold, frankincense and myrrh – great expense!In their case, Jesus did them no miracle, had answered no prayer, had healed no disease, had saved them from no dire situation, had not forgiven a single sin.In their case there was no Holy Spirit for them to have a sense of His presence like we doAnd yet, they worshipped Him for who he was ALONE! and it was extravagant!Unlike them, we not only know who He is, but we’ve experienced what He’s done! “RESERVED” worship runs the risk of INNOCULATION instead of the INFECTION of heaven.Passive worship goes just far enough to satisfy the internal itch and external expectations. It never goes far enough to be the appropriate response that unlocks all that heaven has!I want to worship in a way that is an appropriate response: physical, audible, visible, emotional, energetic, faith filled, cost me something, expenseivethey gave gold, frankincense, myrrh. gold: customary for royal visits.Sheba visited king Solomon = 120 talents, 7936 lbs or $186,273,792How much gold would the wise men have brought Jesus?Jeremiah 33:2–3 (The Message) “This is God’s Message, the God who made earth, made it livable and lasting, known everywhere as God: ‘Call to me and I will answer you. I’ll tell you marvelous and wondrous things that you could never figure out on your own.’

How can i become one of those fearless people who kicks ass at everything they do? There’s so much advice on how to become more confident - but none of it really works for me. * The secret is in the word ‘become’. You have to change who you are. * It starts with having a clear and unshakeable vision that is selfless and authentic * From there, you can go at your own speed, finding opportunities to knock down fear and build confidence that suit your risk and comfort levels * Innoculation through Exposure - keep doing things that scare you.

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