May God expose the evil that was done to smear him, may Christ be glorified, the Spirit listened to, and may the memory of Ravi Zacharias be a blessing.
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"The lot of all who wish to be saved is to suffer. Therefore, if we suffer, let us rejoice, for our salvation is being accomplished." - Elder Nikon of Optina
@_bblood@Brew_man84@MikeWingerii So you’ve never heard of the Siberian Unicorn.? You mock because you’ve already decided to not believe. How about doing a little more looking into before pre deciding what you’ll believe or not.
@noetechnesis@Fatherspyridon Darkness exists because men are evil. However, in Christ, God has redeemed the world to Himself and there will be a day when evil will be no more.
"If you live badly, no one will touch you; but if you begin to live well, there will immediately be afflictions & temptations." - St Barsanuphius of Optina
"As St Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always.' We rejoice because we have something which all the death & corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ." - Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
@GreenGoldOfOld@Fatherspyridon Right. He met with the Apostles and they gave him their approval but you - 21st century man - you know more and better than they did. Thank goodness you came around to shore us how we’ve been wrong for 2,000 years!
"Those persons prove themselves senseless who exaggerate the mercy of Christ, but are silent as to the Judgment, and look only at the more abundant grace of the New Testament; but forgetful of the greater degree of perfection which it demands from us" - St Irenaeus
A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.
Her name is Audrey van der Meer.
She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.
The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.
Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.
Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.
When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.
The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.
When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.
Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.
Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.
The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.
Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.
Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.
Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.
Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.
Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.
A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.
The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.
The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.
The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.
That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.
Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.
Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.
Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.
You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.
The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.
Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.
España va a recibir un buque con infectados de Hantavirus en Canarias.
Una gran idea para comenzar ls temporada de verano en las islas y atraer turismo.
Una Cepa que aun no ha sido estudiada y que potencialmente se transmite de humano a humano.
Es el gobierno que tenemos.
@KenRoth Why is it that it’s non Salvadorans that are the ones who “care” so much about gang members? Go live with them in the jails of you do care that much. Actual Salvadorans are very happy with the turn around their country has seen.
@nayibbukele: “I ask these organizations, I ask the governments of these foreign nations, I ask Journalist: why do you want them to kill us? Why do you want to see Salvadoran blood spilled? Why aren’t you happy to see that blood doesn’t run in our country as it did before? Why should we die? Why should our children die? So that you can be happy that we are respecting your false democracy, which you don’t even respect in your own country.”
Hace unas semanas, un grupo de “expertos y expertas”, financiados por Open Society (Soros), acudió a la CIDH y a la ONU a, básicamente, pedir la liberación del 100% de los pandilleros arrestados durante el régimen de excepción.
Estos videos fueron vistos por el pueblo salvadoreño, lo que generó un fuerte rechazo hacia todas las ONG, “periodistas” y políticos que apoyaron el informe. Fue un desastre de relaciones públicas para las organizaciones de supuesta defensa de los derechos humanos.
Sin embargo, al ver la reacción y ser cuestionados por la gente, su excusa fue que no defendían a terroristas, sino a supuestos inocentes.
Así que decidieron intentarlo otra vez, esta vez ante el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. El plan era presentar al Gobierno de El Salvador como un violador de derechos humanos. Sin embargo, les salió peor: cuando les preguntaron directamente si estaban de acuerdo en que la MS-13 es una organización terrorista, no pudieron responder, y luego afirmaron que, independientemente de los crímenes cometidos, ellos estaban ahí para defender los derechos de esas personas.
Vean el video. Vean claramente cómo defienden a terroristas. Vean cómo dicen que, aunque hayan cometido crímenes horribles, ellos están ahí para defender sus derechos. No lo digo yo, lo dicen ellos con sus propias palabras en el Congreso estadounidense.
Que no los engañen: no están defendiendo a supuestos inocentes, están defendiendo a terroristas. Están diciendo que la MS-13 no es una organización terrorista y que, sin importar sus delitos, ellos igual defenderán sus derechos.
Que no quede ninguna duda: lo que buscan estos supuestos “periodistas”, organizaciones de “defensa de los derechos humanos” y políticos nacionales y extranjeros que los apoyan, es la liberación de estos criminales, para que puedan volver a someter al pueblo salvadoreño a su régimen de terror y volvernos a convertir en el país más peligroso del mundo.
Pero se dispararon en el pie, otra vez.
Vean el video y juzguen ustedes mismos.