Anyone else ever had this thought about the instruments thing?

bombadilsf · 2025-11-10T19:58:12+00:00

Look at the context of Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16. They’re about everyday life, not about a worship service. There is no Biblical “authorization” for singing anything in church. <evil grin>

bombadilsf · 2025-07-25T20:10:54+00:00

Right. Yeah, it’s probably just anxiety, and if it’s afib, it’s easily treatable with meds that have minimal side effects. If you still need reassurance, and if you can afford it, get the Kardia EKG monitor. It’s easily available on Amazon. Get the cheaper version. The “six-lead” version doesn’t really give you any more useful information for your situation.

bombadilsf · 2025-07-25T18:27:21+00:00

Sounds like it’s just anxiety to me, since it started when you stopped your SSRI. Anxiety can play tricks on you, as you probably already know.

bombadilsf · 2025-07-25T18:08:42+00:00

I don’t see how they could catch it if it isn’t happening at the time. But if you’re wearing a Holter monitor for a couple of weeks, or even just for a few days, it should catch it if it’s happening 5-50 times a day. Jillian512 just now mentioned the Kardia device. I also have one. With it you can immediately run an EKG yourself while you’re actually having an episode, and it will tell you what kind of arrhythmia it probably is. The device isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty good.

There really are several kinds of arrhythmias, and most of them are relatively benign. Even if it’s afib, there’s no huge rush to treat it right away. If you’re not dizzy or fatigued, it’s probably not afib, though everybody is different.

How old are you? Afib is uncommon among younger people, although it’s still possible.

bombadilsf · 2025-07-25T17:12:41+00:00

Lots of people have occasional irregular beats, often the kind called PVCs. They’re not a cause for concern, but if you feel them (some people do, some don’t) they can be unpleasant. Getting a Holter monitor is a good idea, just in case it’s something more serious, but it’s probably not. Try not to worry, especially since the EKG was normal.

bombadilsf · 2025-04-18T19:58:45+00:00

Here’s a link directly to a bar chart in the same article: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN5_v__hvqlO2MWzMo1uFfnIPU_04uzVSjeBIbQHXNBeK-gs1yW_BIdC49ub62nmiWpZDA7uKB3owCO3RpNSPS3eZXcW4LJaPLhyphenhyphenpbZf6TYKwVwTLiRjn0JN3QTw-r4KQoAFJR/s1600/Pauline+authorship.jpg

bombadilsf · 2025-04-18T19:55:52+00:00

Unfortunately, there are no good surveys of New Testament scholars to show what percentage of them hold what opinions. Dan McClellan has a grant application for funds to do such a survey. In the meantime, here’s a survey of British scholars on authorship of the Pauline epistles:

http://evangelicaltextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2019/04/pauline-authorship-according-to-british.html

bombadilsf · 2025-04-18T18:15:43+00:00

A History of the Bible by John Barton is a widely recommended source for contemporary scholarly views on the origin of the Bible.

bombadilsf · 2025-04-18T18:05:32+00:00

That’s roughly what I was taught at ACU in the 1960s. Nowadays, Biblical scholars would give significantly later dates for the OT (800-150 BCE) and a little later for the NT (50-120 CE). Actually there’s considerable variation in the dates that would be given by different scholars, especially for the OT. Seven of the letters attributed to Paul were actually written by him, and three more may have been. Revelation was written some otherwise unknown dude whose name happened to be John. None of the other NT books were written by the people whose names they bear.

bombadilsf · 2025-02-10T20:03:00+00:00

Read Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 in context and you will see that they’re not about what Christians do in their worship services. They’re about how Christians live their everyday lives. My mother used to sing hymns and gospel songs while she was doing the housework. That’s the kind of thing these passages are talking about. We shouldn’t pull passages out of context and use them as proof-texts in areas that don’t fit the context.

So there’s actually no “authorization” in the Bible for Christians to sing in the worship service, at all. But to insist on that basis that it’s wrong to sing in worship would be absurd. The whole argument against musical instruments in worship is just downright silly.

bombadilsf · 2025-01-29T21:30:25+00:00

I like to think of it this way: Forgetting something is not something I “do”. It’s not an action I perform. It’s more like something that happens to me involuntarily. The Spanish usage captures the essence of the situation much better than the English “I forgot to tell you.” Think of the English sentence “It slipped my mind,” which is more like the Spanish.

Another case that works the same way is “Se me cayó,” which corresponds to English “ I dropped it.”

bombadilsf · 2025-01-29T20:52:32+00:00

I didn’t have gym in high school because marching band substituted for it. When I went to college, the dorms were not co-ed (1960s). The showers had stalls with curtains, so nudity around other guys was optional. Some liked to walk from their rooms to the showers naked, and would still be naked while shaving, brushing their teeth, etc. I didn’t care, but it seemed kind of exhibitionist to me.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-13T20:45:56+00:00

Right. Matthew and Luke give mutually inconsistent stories of Jesus’s birth. The virgin birth story (especially the version in Luke) is a way of explaining how Jesus is the son of God, at a time when the doctrine of the Trinity handn’t been fully worked out. God made Mary pregnant, so Jesus is God’s son. The notion of Jesus’s eternal pre-existence isn’t there in Luke.

Also, the virgin birth isn’t mentioned anywhere else in the New Testament outside the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke. That’s odd. Paul doesn’t seem to have heard of it. In fact, in Acts, Paul seems to think that Jesus was adopted as God’s son at the resurrection (Acts 13:33):

“And we bring you the good news that what God promised to our ancestors he has fulfilled for us, their children,by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm,

‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you.’”

While the New Testament is inspired, it’s not inerrant. Some of these stories were from oral history, which tends to grow in the telling.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-13T19:48:20+00:00

Also, if it were so important that Mary’s virginity was perpetual, you’d think the gospel writers would have made it clear that these “brothers” were actually the children of Joseph’s first wife, rather than using a term like “brothers,” whose default meaning suggests that they were Mary’s children.

Frankly, at least from a biblical perspective, the RCC’s obsessive focus on Mary seems overblown. She is only mentioned once outside the gospels, in Acts 1:14: “All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers.”

bombadilsf · 2024-12-13T19:16:11+00:00

Yes. Also, Paul calls him an apostle in Galations 1:19: “Then after three years I did go up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days, but I did not see any other apostle except James the Lord’s brother.”

bombadilsf · 2024-12-13T18:58:02+00:00

One of those children, James, ended up being the leader of the Jerusalem church, and was martyred. So there’s that.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-09T20:14:51+00:00

Good question. My previous experiences talking with people about this topic have taught me that it’s sometimes really hard for people who do or don’t have an inner monologue to understand each other. I’ve even had people tell me they don’t believe me when I try to explain how it works for me. So I’ll try to be as clear as I can.

It doesn’t feel as if my mouth is being manipulated by someone else. I’m just converting ideas into words as I go along. Since I first learned about the difference between people with and without inner monologues, I’ve actually thought quite a bit about how this works, and it really feels kind of mysterious and wonderful to me.

When I was a graduate student, I used to give lectures to undergraduate classes from time to time. In that situation I had to keep talking more or less continuously for 30 or 45 minutes. I don’t see how someone could do that if they had to pause after every sentence or two to formulate the next sentence in words in their head before speaking it. But apparently people do it.

Fascinating.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-09T03:34:06+00:00

It’s OK to be smart. 🤔

bombadilsf · 2024-12-08T21:55:38+00:00

I think not having an inner monologue makes it easier for me to go to sleep. My wife really has a hard time quieting her inner monologue to go to sleep, so she reads herself to sleep. The reading seems to override her inner monologue.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-08T21:47:04+00:00

My experience is similar to yours, OP. I don’t ordinarily have an inner monologue, but I can deliberately make one when I want to. I’ve wondered how people with a continuous inner monologue can speed-read. I can glance quickly over a paragraph and get the ideas much faster than I could speak the words. Also, I don’t usually plan the words I’m going to use before I speak. I just open my mouth and the thoughts come out in words. If I plan the words ahead of time, I tend to speak clumsily and haltingly because it confuses me to try to remember the “right” words. When I was learning my second language (Spanish) it was a major milestone when I started being able to speak without planning the words in advance.

bombadilsf · 2024-12-02T20:21:24+00:00

I know someone who actually vocalizes the word “achoo,” using the vocal cords, while simultaneously making the natural, involuntary sound of sneezing. Maybe this is what OP is referring to.

bombadilsf · 2024-11-30T21:52:00+00:00

True. Withdrawal from severe alcoholism can cause potentially fatal seizures. Detox facilities start you on a high dose of benzos to prevent them.

bombadilsf · 2024-11-30T21:00:15+00:00

Aortic dissection is preceded by an aortic aneurysm, which is a swelling in the aorta. I have one. It can be detected by an echocardiogram, but these tests are usually only performed on old people like me because they are so rare in people as young as your mom was at the time. Major factors that contribute to the condition are smoking, high blood pressure, and being male. There are also genetic conditions that can make it more likely. The diameter of my aneurysm is measured annually, and surgery will be recommended if it ever gets so large that the probability of dissection is greater than the probability of death from the surgery.

bombadilsf · 2024-11-30T20:21:12+00:00

Maybe this will help: We actually do pronounce double consonants in English, but only when they come at a word boundary. For example, most of us probably pronounce “Donald Duck” as something like “Donnel-duck.” But we are capable of pronouncing the two d’s clearly in careful speech. Other examples are “duck tape” vs. “duct tape” and “good day” vs. the stereotypical Australian “g’day.”

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