New Scientist Article

This article shows the stats that having older brothers increases the odds of being homosexual, indicating that it is a social defect. However, they also point out that non-biological brothers don't have the same effect and draw conclusions from this stat.

This is erroneous because of the usual time during which people grow up in foster care and the social differences of being a foster child and naturally born into your family. Only the number of biological older brothers affects the statistic.

I'd like to point out the early age these effects occur at, and the formative perceptional sexually shaping experiences at these ages. Even if the person was born and with their family for 6 months it would affect their outlook, experience, and expression later in life.

Family treat one another and feel differently based on whether they are foster children or natural. Foster and transitional experiences may affect this. The study really cannot be sured up without recognizing these factors. Furthermore, this appears suspiciously like a disindividation of human experiences. Healthy and properly wired and formed sexual centers and experience are uniformly Biblical in ethics.

Et Romans

Consideration for the Weak Conscience

Let us no longer judge one another, but rather resolve never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, still, it is unclean for someone who thinks it is unclean. If your brother is being hurt by what you eat, your conduct is no longer in accord with love. Do not because of your food destroy him for whom Christ died. So do not let your good be reviled. For the kingdom of God is not a matter of food and drink, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the holy Spirit. Whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by others. Let us then pursue what leads to peace and to building up one another. For the sake of food, do not destroy the work of God. Everything is indeed clean, but it is wrong for anyone to become a stumbling block by eating [partaking]. It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble. Keep the faith that you have to yourself in the presence of God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself for what he approves. But whomever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because this is not from faith, for whatever is not from faith is from sin.

ROMANS

To live and die for Christ

Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. One person believes that one may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. The one who eats must not despise the one who abstains, and the one who abstains must not pass judgement on the one who eats, for God has welcomes him. Who are you to pass judgement on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgement on someone else's servant? Before his own master he stands of falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. For one person considers one day more important than another, while one person considers all days alike. Let everyone be fully persuaded in his own mind. Whoever observes the day, observes it for the Lord. Also whoever eats, eats for the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while whoever abstains, abstains for the Lord and gives thanks to God. None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord, so then, whether we live or die, we re the Lord's. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Why then do you judge your brother? Or you, why do you look down on your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgement seat of God, for it is written: As I live, says the Lord, every knee shallbend before me, and every tongue shall give praise to God.

So then, each of us shall give an account of himself to God.

Sex vs Hunger

Folks get hungry, so they eat good food. This is a function of the stomach organ for the goal of making the body well. Other times, folks get feelings from their crotch organs. This is a similar organ function which pursues the health of humanity and social health of families and individuals. It is to be done properly. You wouldn't eat poisoned fruit, would you? No. Maintain sexual health.

God and evil

God wants to engage evil through humanity. The lessons you encounter are those intended for evil and the rewards those intended for good. Jesus Christ is the example of the perfect human and his death the purchase price for us all.

The sixth seal of the scroll is broken by the lamb in Revelation 6:12-17. I believe it foretells of nuclear war, after righteousness in victory, brutal slaughter, economic ruin, and multitudinous death, and the petition of numerous martyred saints who testified to the word of God.

"Then I watched while he broke open the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; the sun turned black as dark sackcloth and the whole moon became like blood. The stars in the sky fell to the earth like unripe figs shaken loose from the tree in a strong wid. Then the sky was divided like a torn scroll curling up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place. The kings of the earth, the nobles, the military officers, the rich , the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in caves and among mountsin crags. They cried out to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their wrath has come and who can withstand it?'"

This is the coming of nuclear war. A huge earthquake would be perceived from a single nuclear explosion, let along the amount triggered by a global nuclear war. The sun would turn as dark as sackcloth from the fallout and combustion and fires, likely over much of the earth. Where it was night, the fires would cover such a substantial portion of earth and pollute and carbonize the sky to such a degree that the moon would reflect the earth's firelight. Intercontinental ballistic missiles entering the atmosphere look and shine like stars falling, just like the space shuttle did. In a shooting war, they would be as numerous as "unripe figs shaken loose from the tree in a strong wind". A torn scroll curling up is distinctly a mushroom cloud. The other possible explanation for this would be a major asteroid shower hitting earth. The torn scroll curling up could be from plumes of debris from impacts. That would likely be described in more detail and directly, though. Then everyone on earth hid underground and begged the rocks to fall on them because the great day of wrath had arrived and who can stand up to it? This could be asteroids or it could also be nuclear war. I'd hide in a cave from asteroids, or nuclear fallout. Even kings would hide underground. But the great day of wrath? Judgement Day? It has historically been nuclear armageddon. I believe this is a Biblical passage describing nuclear war at the endtimes when Jesus Christ is returning. I believe humanity has been graciously spared nuclear war on several occasions during the Cold War.

Then the winds are held back by four angels, the righteous remaining are sealed, and a great multitude stood before the throne and the Lamb in heaven...

Love

I've often seen people think that someone else is stupid because of the things they say or do. This is as bad as saying or thinking they are stupid without stimuli. They believe in something wrongly or lack faith somewhere, which is the culprit of their imperfection. But to focus on the negative in them is something wrong. Have patience and do not follow what your perception and judgement find. Follow God.

Vibrancy and Forum

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. These before all are what is important.

Love is good, evil is lack of love. Some expressions of love are good and some are not. Some things that we think of as love contain thoughts that are selfish or fearful and therefore are not fully love. Lust is not love. Envy is not love. Anything you do where you fail to love yourself is not full love.

Before anything went wrong with mankind, Satan fell from faith, stopped loving himself, and began lying for whatever reasons. This is the root of making bad choices. Do not do this. Love God, love yourself. Ask forgiveness for the times you've failed to follow God's commandments and be restored to full goodness with Jesus Christ. Be vibrant and with God!

Podcast: Better Godliness Through Love

I have completed the first 'Podfishers of Men' sermon here.

Where can I host this 6mb file on the internet for easy downloading and linking to this page and podcasting?

Love Sex and Reproduction

This society has distanced itself from the normal and eternal human functions of love sex and reproduction through reproductive science, social elitism and supercompetition and fear, and family and international distancing and sectification.

Know that we have the ability, under God, to live together as one. That this planet can sustain us and our love is for one another through God. Population can increase exponentially in the same way that CPU speeds can increase and have increased exponentially since the early 1980's. There is enough room and love for all and enough love to help accomplish any project that is done in the name of the Lord.

Gender liberation can occur even without reproductive science if social structure is arranged correctly for children with education and social support and ethical social integration. You need not fear for your children or yourself when you have them with this love.

God please deliver us from doubt and fear, taught to us from early ages.

You need not fear stranger families, or nations if you love the Lord and love them through the Lord. Act in the name of God for what is best for you all, inclusive to everyone. God lets us all live. If God says it's time to come home you will die. This is not in the hands of man. War is failure. Fear is failure. Failure leads to all wrong things. Forgiveness is divine. Love is the only winning solution.

Leadership not from God is wrong. Listen only to the love of God and through hearing and feeling God's lessons in your heart do what honors Him.

Urban Greenspace Rocks

Ecopolis Now

This article's proposals seem to plentifully mirror mine made in Better Godliness Through Chemistry about urban greenspace, decentralization, and ecological reform. Blessings upon you, www.newscientist.com!

NPR has also done an article on rooftop farms and urban greenspace. Rooftop agriculture helps protect buildings from weather damage, insulates them thermally, and improves urban air quality! Aside from that, it just plain looks nice.

Still, society needs to be loving and warm or all earth's technology won't save it. Factor that into your heart, government and nanoscientists, and get back to me with the truth.

John

'When returning to Cana in Galilee, where Jesus turned water into wine, there was a royal official of the Roman Empire whose son was ill in Capernaum, a few days' walk away. When the official heard that Jesus was there he went to see him and ask him to heal his sick son, who was near death. Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said and left.

While on the way back to Capernaum, his servants met him and told him his boy would live. He asked them whe he began to recover, and they said yesterday at about one in the afternoon. The father realized that was when Jesus has said that the boy would live, and he and his whole household began to believe.'

John 5:46-54

Has something like this ever happened to you?

The Goods

This is my belief.

I am a Christian. I believe in the life death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe God made the world in 7 days, and I keep the 7th day holy. I believe we are saved by faith and not by works. So all of this evangelizing and education I am doing is not getting me closer to heaven, but I do it for your benefit and the worldly benefit of many.

I am not a man of consequence. I know that God does not need my help exacting justice when evil is done or desired. My actions are not required to force justice, but I am a servant of God and do what is right by God's name. Life and death are not in my hands. I will not kill except in direct self defense. I wish not to accuse anyone of anything, for only God knows the truth, but I will study and know and do what is right in God's service. I believe that incarceration and rehabilitation are possibly solutions, but I do not believe in forcing religion on others.

But how can I be with a woman who is not following God as I am following God? We would be unevenly yoked. I will not break a promise and I am told not to promise by Jesus, nor to worry. God will assemble everything that should happen, and by following God's word and trusting in Jesus Christ I will make it.

So it seems that by reincarnation and 'Abraham's bosom' pre-christians were judged and kept alive or banished to hell. There is no one time to be here, but upon death we are judged, and on the last day we will all be judged by Jesus Christ and God forever.

A Break From Policy

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I keep Saturday the holy day. This is one of my ways of having a little fun. Rock out.

Ethical Sex and the HPV Vaccine [at last]

http://thinkprogress.org/
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/08/major-defeat-for-the-religious-right/

"I don't think this is a defeat for the religious right. it is a victory for medicine. Removing the apparent ill consequences of sex does not make immoral sex any less damaging. Immoral sex stimulates damaged emotional centers in their opposite. This does not stimulate healthy emotional response and exacerbates emotional injury with its opposite form."

On that tone, I am disappointed in the religious right for what they are characterized as. I heard a radio sermon in Kentucky/West Virginia indicating that supporting your nation is paramount to loving God. This is not the case. Do not become like those of your time, even in 2006. Be holy like the Lord and have compassion even for your enemies and those who are confused.

God's justice is perfect and God does not need your help exacting justice. Do not raise a hand and become guilty as well, reserve judgement for victory is the Lord's. Instead pray for guidance and love and what is right with faith and the Lord will deliver it.

War is failure.

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