Welcome.
This is an archive for things I'm interested in or want to share.
Recommended External Resources
Readings
Podcasts
- The Lord of Spirits
- The Burning Bush
- The Whole Counsel of God
- Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast: Against Method and For 'Pseudoscience'
- Not Related! A Big-Braned Podcast: When You're Too Rational to Be Rational!
- JRE MMA Show: #32 with Firas Zahabi
- The Joe Rogan Experience: #2254 Mel Gibson
- The Joe Rogan Experience: #2252 Wes Huff
Youtube Channels
MMA Instruction
Health & Fitness
Technology
Technical Analysis/Finance
Entertainment/Education
Youtube Videos
Core Memories
Religion
- Additional religious videos included here in Addressing Athiests/Agnostics section
- How God Used Pagans To Accomplish His Plan | Biblical History Documentary - ThinkingWest
- The Orthodox Spirit: Ep. 11 Deacon Mihret Melaku
Health & Fitness
- Vertical Diet Overview l OPERATION FATTEREST - Stan Efferding
- Why 10 Minute Walks Can Change Your Life - Stan Efferding
- Mixed Martial Arts Fundamentals by Georges St-Pierre
- Back To Basics | Technical Beginner's Guide To Kickboxing - Gabriel Varga
- The Wrestling Video I Wish I Had Day One | Wrestling Fundamentals- Martial Breakdowns
- Powerlifting Technique - PowerliftingToWin
Addressing Athiests/Agnostics
The Forgotten Logic of Christianity | Explained in 3 Minutes
Q: Does God exist?
- How to Prove God to an Atheist: What is the Transcendental Argument for God? - David Patrick Harry
- Questions to ponder: Do numbers exist? If so, how? Before or after the Big Bang? Is math invented or discovered? Would mathematical principles exist without humans to comprehend them? Since numbers don't have physical form, how do they "exist" without "proof"? Can anything be non-material and still exist?
- Questions to ponder: If the universe is purely materialistic (deterministic), and we hypothetically could calculate with infinite precision the position of every particle from the time of the Big Bang and how they would all interact up to the present moment, then there is no free will. If there is no free will, then you would be unable to decide whether or not you adhere to "truth" if it exists. If your brain state operates on chemistry/physics alone, then "reason" either doesn't truly exist or doesn't correlate with "truth". If free will is a "illusion", then is "belief" real?
Q: If God is real, why do bad things happen?
- Q: What is your view of what evil is? Is there some kind of universal standard? If so, why?
- The Moral Madness of Atheism - The Counsel of Trent
- Why Atheists Can't Blame Christians for Anything - The Counsel of Trent
- Jay Dyer Discusses Problem of Evil Charitably
- Problem of Evil Refuted - Jay Dyer
- Best of all possible worlds - Leibniz
- "Are YOU SAVED?" & What is Hell? - Fr. Zechariah Lynch
Q: Did Jesus exist?
Q: Was Jesus crucified, dead, buried, and resurrected?
Q: Did Jesus claim to be God?
Q: Are the Gospels reliable historical documents?
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If a hypothetical, reliable, historically rooted religious document were to exist and truly originate from a divine source, it would be reasonable to expect that it wasn't produced by just one individual in one particular place, at one particular time, and in one particular language. Instead, one might expect a collection of writings composed by dozens of authors from different professions, living in different places, addressing different audiences, written over the span of over a thousand years in multiple language. If such a document formed a coherent narrative grounded in real, verifiable historical events and contained prophecies recorded before the events they describe, then such a document would naturally draw some degree of credibility. If one were to imagine what a real divine text might look like if it existed, it is difficult to imagine a more compelling one than what was just described.
- The Gospel According to St. Luke - Fr. Stephen DeYoung
- Undesigned Coincidences - Testify
- Is there any evidence for the historicity of the Bible? - Wes Huff
- How the woman at Jesus's tomb help prove the resurrection - Sanctus
Q: Is there evidence of biblical prophecies that were written before the events they describe?
- Dead Sea Scrolls: Great Isaiah Scroll ~125 BCE
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Psalm 22 ~587 BCE - ~4th cent. BCE
- Quoted by Jesus in Mat 27:46/Mark 15:34
- Events of The Crucifixion Referenced
- Zechariah ~6th cent. BCE
- 33 reasons Jesus was the Jewish Messiah
Q: Ok... but I wanna see something...
- Q: What should blind people believe about the world?
- Article here on miracles
- Note regarding evidential justification: Luke 16:19-31, John 20:28-30
- Shroud of Turin
- Myrrh Streaming Icon of Hawaii
- Our Lady of Zeitoun
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- Miracle of the Sun
Q: Is Trinitarian theology a non-biblical 4th century innovation from the Council of Nicaea?
Doctrine & Practices
- Note: I am currently an Orthodox Christian catachumen
- The Nicene Creed
- What did Christians do before the Bible? - harmony
- Dismantling Sola Scriptura Through Orthodox Theology | Ben (Luigi) - Cloud of Witnesses Radio
- How did we get the Bible? Orthodox Vs Protestant - Kyle
- Thief on Cross Proves Faith Alone? - Kyle
- Are We Saved By Faith Alone? - Trisagion Films
- What Early Christians Believed About The Eucharist - Matt Fradd
- Why Orthodox Christians Venerate The Mother of God "Theotokos" - Fr. John Valadez
- An Orthodox Christian Catechism (2022) - Fr. Paul Truebenbach
Tentative Goals
List
- ✔️ 1000lb Powerlifting Total
- ✔️ Amateur Muay Thai Fight
- ✔️ BJJ Tournament (Gi)
- ✔️ Muscle-Up
- ✔️ Engineering Degree (BS CompE)
- ⏳ BJJ Tournament (No-Gi)
- ⏳ Amateur MMA Fight
- ⏳ BJJ Black Belt
- ⏳ Backflip
- ⏳ Dragon Squat
- ⏳ Standing Ab Wheel
- ⏳ One Arm Pullup
- ⏳ Learn Chinese (Improve Cantonese/Mandarin), Spanish, Latin, Koine Greek
- ⏳ Learn sign language
- ⏳ Grow Kickin' Combat
- ⏳ Get second passport
- ⏳ Reach 1000 Chess Elo
- ⏳ Install Gentoo
- ⏳ Build software with users
- ⏳ Build Gameboy SP Mod
- ⏳ Learn Video Editing
- ⏳ Learn Graphic Design
- ⏳ Improve Mathematics Skills
- ⏳ Improve Drawing Skills (Medieval Art / Illumination / Urban Sketch)
- ⏳ First Aid / CPR / AED Certification
- ⏳ Security+ Certification (OSCP optional)
- ⏳ HAM Radio FCC Technician License (General optional)
- ⏳ Private Pilot License
- ⏳ Tactical Firearm Training
- ⏳ Basic Level Skills (Electrical / Welding / Carpentry / Plumbing)
- ⏳ Horseback Riding
- ⏳ Cooking / Brewing / Fermentation
Notes
Potentially hot takes
- Sin feels liberating, until one tries to stop it. Only then does one realize they are slave to it.
- Scientific observational data is viewed in paradigmatic lenses
- Historical events are viewed in paradigmatic lenses
- We are not in a "post-history" world
- "Human progress" is a one-dimensional illusion; we can regress in many areas while seemingly progressing in one. And by what standard is that one-dimensional progress anyway?
- Questions about metaphysics should be left to philosophy, not science
- There are no "neutral" worldviews in the negative sense. A lack of belief in one worldview is a postiive belief in another, or an incoherent worldview
- The future of AI is model collapse, the decline of informational quality on the internet, erosion of digital privacy, and further growth of hyperreality (Baudrillard)
- Time-tested heuristics > new-age optimization