How would you summarize what you believe about the Bible? I believe that in the year 2025, if an incident happens and you ask 4 people what happened, you’ll get 4 different stories and often they will conflict with one another. This is in this day and age - so the idea of 4000 years ago, people witnessing events were able to remotely reliably convey what happened is rather ludicrous. So, I think the bible has been pained over for thousands of years trying to understand and interpret the word of God and what it means for humanity, etc, but ultimately, it’s written by unreliable witnesses and lore that is up to 300 years after the fact before it was recorded. It therefore seems to me that the bible should be looked at as something that traditions, bonding, family, and a sense of community rally around to support one another and to give positive regard to. I think its value is more so in the unity that it brings within its church and it works as a good guidebook as to how a responsi...
Why do American laws seem to be regressing? Does is feel for anyone else like we are going back in time? The best example of regressive laws in the US that I can think of is the law around Flakka. Flakka or bath salts as some call them, is a synthetic drug that causes wakefulness, high sex drive, hallucinations, a rush, and euphoria. When taken over a long period of time a person will not be able to sleep and similar to methamphetamine, after enough time of being awake the person will develop extreme paranoia and can turn aggressive. Truly, there is no difference between Flakka and any of the other stimulants that exist out there. It’s literally one of a thousand options that end up doing the same thing - keeping you awake and making you want to have sex while at the same time you can be hallucinating. In Florida, a man went berserk and started eating a homeless man's face just like a zombie would. The man was killed and the homeless man was mangled terribly as his face was liter...