Author: Doctrines in Genesis. WCF. PCA. Reformed to a fault. Six days. Spicy polemics. CFI. MBB. Asking dumb questions that some find annoying.

Lufkin, Texas, USA
This lesson examines the theological significance of the Fall in Genesis, arguing that the serpent's primary weapon was the introduction of doubt regarding the authority of God's Word. By questioning ... sermonaudio.com/sermons/1024…
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J.R. Dickens / TAMU '90 (MEEN) retweeted
Replying to @ScottC1517
Funny that we seem to treat the study reports as binding and the WCF as a suggestion.
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Makes sense because of any demographic, infants ought to be the most healthy. But a heavy vaccination schedule keeps them coming back, and as a bonus, the jabs make many of them sick. What if we don't actually need the pediatric specialty?
🔥PEDIATRICIAN TELLS ALL: ‘70 to 80% of our practice income comes from vaccines.’  For some reason, many people can’t wrap their heads around the fact that pediatricians DO MAKE MONEY from vaccinating.  Here is yet ANOTHER report from a pediatric doctor that their offices CANNOT FUNCTION without vaccinating.  “If we stop vaccinating, we basically don't have a practice anymore.” “We have a strong financial incentive to believe what we're told about the vaccine program being safe, effective, and necessary.” @CHDTVLive
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And . . . here we are. All we did in the PCA was set the clock back a few years. Confessional discipline is optional because there is no enforcement mechanism. Without good faith there is no compliance. Entire presbyteries have already been lost. Tick, tock.
"Change in the Presbyterian Church in the United States came as a gradual thing, and its ascendancy in the denomination, over a long period of time. We confess that it should not have been permitted. Views and practices that undermine and supplant the system of doctrine or polity of a confessional Church ought never to be tolerated. A Church that will not exercise discipline will not long be able to maintain pure doctrine or godly practice." - Morton Smith, 1973
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There is no longer any meaningful opportunity for informed consent in this medical industry. You will be given drugs that harm you because the risks are never explained. And you will sign forms that make it possible for the medical industry to do literally anything to you.
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 🚨 American Medical Doctor in Chicago is blowing the whistle on a new practice that’s taking place It’s called “close your eyes and immunize.” He says it’s becoming very common to vaccinate children when they go under anesthesia WITHOUT PARENT CONSENT often times because the parents are signing to do what’s best for the child under anesthesia, but doctors are now including vaccinations as necessary Again, you take your child in for a surgery, sign the paper saying to do what’s best for your child, the hospitals are now using that consent to vaccinate your kids without your knowledge. Including with the COVID vaccine “I'm a family doctor who practices in the suburbs and the city of Chicago. I wanted to offer some practical advice tonight to those of you who, like me, might be angry and very concerned about the news reports detailing the rise of what one hospital is calling, close your eyes, we'll immunize. This is a growing practice, perhaps pioneered at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, but something that's been around longer than the powers that be would like us to know, where children are undergoing elective and emergency medical surgeries and being immunized while they're away from their parents in the operating room” “Parents have often given consent unknowingly or under duress for these vaccinations to be performed. And one of the things that's clear from the reports is that informed consent, which should be one of the hallmarks of medical ethics and practice today, is rarely being provided to the extent that it should be” “Flu shot seems to be the most popular thing to administer, but RSV, COVID, and some other things are now being administered without the parents knowing while their child is in the hospital. So imagine you take your child to the hospital because they have terrible belly pain. Turns out they have appendicitis and any of appendix taken out. You sign a form saying that the surgeon and the medical team can do whatever they think is necessary to help your child. You didn't know your child's getting a flu shot 15 minutes later before the first incision is made” Okay this is CRIMINAL in my opinion so I did my own research and found out what states this is happening in, Pennsylvania at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia . Official “Close Your Eyes, We’ll Immunize” program running since 2023. It gave 2,054 influenza vaccine doses in the 2025–2026 season to children already under sedation anesthesia Colorado at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Offers influenza vaccine under general anesthesia to eligible patients since 2020. More than 18,000 patients have received it. Additional vaccines are sometimes given at the request of a primary care clinician Illinois at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and its ambulatory surgery centers. Offers flu shots under anesthesia for eligible patients age 6 months and older during scheduled surgeries and procedures California at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center in Northern California. First KP facility in the region to offer flu shots to pediatric surgical patients ages 6 months–18 while under anesthesia for planned procedures
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My argument is that 2020 didn't change anything, it only revealed what was already there.
Life feels different after 2020. I used to think I could mind my own business and be happy while the world burned around me. Then I saw how nasty people could be. How easily misinformation could fracture families and friendships. How cold people in government and healthcare could be toward people who needed help. I used to believe that if I ended up in a hospital, someone would care and try to make me better. I don’t have that confidence anymore. I miss thinking that there were more good people in the world than bad people. Maybe the world isn’t different. Maybe I’m just more aware?
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J.R. Dickens / TAMU '90 (MEEN) retweeted
Replying to @ZacharyGarris
Maybe this is where you end up when you have adopted a feminized definition of masculinity.
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If you have to go to the hospital, here's another reason not to get any sleep.
I'm a Board Certified anesthesiologist and have been in practice for 24 years. I just learned that the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia where I trained has launched a program to increase flu vaccine uptake among children by vaccinating them while under anesthesia. The program is called "Close your Eyes. We'll Immunize" This is stunningly irresponsible. Here's why: Anesthetists are extremely risk avoidant and endeavor to minimize patient exposure to anything which carries potential side effects. This is particularly true of pediatric patients who very often have never been exposed to anesthetic medications. We simply cannot know how an individual child will respond to these drugs for the first time. Every single medication we administer during an operation can potentially trigger untoward or allergic responses. When this occurs our primary responsibility is to stabilize the patient. Our secondary responsibility is to identify the offending agent. There is absolutely no justification of introducing another agent, in this case a flu vaccine, which carries a risk of harm and contributes nothing to the success of the operation. Some of the more common side effects of flu vaccines are fever (11-16%) and less commonly, a rash (1%). There is also an non-zero risk of severe allergic reactions and high-grade fevers which can develop over the course of minutes. What if a child under anesthesia receives a vaccine and develops a rash and/or fever? Is it from the antibiotic that the surgeon requested? Is it from the narcotic? The anxiolytic? The barbiturate? Anesthetic gases can also (rarely) trigger a life threatening response called Malignant Hyperthermia which commonly presents as a high fever. Without subsequent testing we cannot know which agent was responsible. Most commonly the testing is never done and the child’s record will forever reflect the possibility that some or all of the drugs which were used are responsible for their reaction. This makes future anesthetic care significantly more challenging and will require the use of alternatives which may not be necessary. Advocating for a flu vaccine while a child is anesthetized reflects the pervasive yet inaccurate attitude among the medical establishment that vaccines are perfectly safe. I simply cannot believe that my mentors would have ever supported this initiative when I was a resident there. Close your eyes indeed.
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J.R. Dickens / TAMU '90 (MEEN) retweeted
Replying to @TanneriteCortez
Here let me fix this image. Done.
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This is what happens when you presume guilt and the accused must now prove his innocence. The presumption of innocence is sacrosanct because--among other things--it protects men from the abuse of power by the state.
A TSA supervisor cleared grandfather Kermit Warren to fly with $28,000 in his bag. Then the DEA ROBBED him of every dollar. His crime? Nothing. The government calls it “civil forfeiture.” Everyone else calls it theft. Kermit Warren flew to Ohio to buy a truck so he and his son could haul scrap metal for a living after losing their jobs during COVID. The truck was too big for what they needed, so they headed home with the cash. At the airport, he told TSA exactly what was in his bag. A supervisor said he could travel with it and waved him through security. Then the DEA showed up. Warren tried to show the agents the truck he’d flown in to buy. He offered to call the seller. They weren’t interested. “We think y’all are up here doing something illegal.” That’s it. That’s the evidence. A man’s life savings, gone on a hunch — and they wouldn’t even let him make a phone call to prove them wrong. WARREN: “When they seized my life savings, every penny that I’ve worked for, every honest dollar that I earned over the last 25–30 years, it made me feel like I was the dirt on the ground.” CONTEXT: Fortunately, the government didn’t get away with this one. After roughly a year without his savings, federal prosecutors agreed to return all $28,180 to Kermit Warren and dismissed the case.
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If we do not admit an Intelligence behind the intelligible universe, its beauty is purely arbitrary and ultimately meaningless. Accidents produce neither objective order nor subjective beauty.
Why does a scientist study nature? by Henri Poincaré 💭 The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp. -- as mentioned in The Selection of Facts, p. 22, Ch. 1 [Image courtesy: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis]
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This feels like a crackdown on general aviation. Centennial is a busy Class D mixed use airport that sits under the Denver Class B. It is probably the most important reliever airport in the Denver area because it can handle large business aircraft.
The FAA ordered the sudden prohibition of touch-and-goes, restrictions on parallel departures, and limitations on pattern work at Centennial Airport, near Denver, around the first weekend of October. According to an email sent to airport tenants by the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, air traffic controllers were ordered by the FAA to “immediately cease simultaneous parallel departure operations at Centennial until approved mitigations can be identified to reduce the associated safety risk to an acceptable level.” AOPA contacted the FAA, which said it has concerns including that departing IFR traffic is conflicting with VFR traffic departing from the parallel runway. However, on October 8, AOPA expressed concern about how the FAA went about implementing its decision. “While we appreciate the FAA’s role in ensuring safe operations, the sudden decision to ban touch-and-goes and other pattern work without notifying pilots is concerning and appears to be unprecedented,” said AOPA Northwest Mountain Regional Manager Brad Schuster. “After nearly a week, the FAA has yet to issue a notam or update the airport’s ATIS with this critical information at one of the nation’s busiest general aviation airports.” Link to the full article in the comments.
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This lesson examines the moral failure of the crowd and Pilate in condemning Jesus, illustrating how group pressure and pragmatic expediency can override individual conscience and divine law. It argue... sermonaudio.com/sermons/1019…
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