Dr. G

Canada is a dumpster fire and I guess that makes me flaming hot garbage.

[Philosorapper @Philosorapper_]

Canada’s immigration policy has given the definitive answer to Theseus's Paradox. It’s not the same boat.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@Chicagomike666 @Philosorapper_ @JulianaLung Woman: Posts pregnancy announcement in terror. Can’t stop crying due to decades long history of miscarriage and stillbirth. Pleading for prayer.

Twitter guy: lolol your husband probably shoots blanks

Same guy: waah why are you being mean to me I didn’t do anything wrong

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@sam_gzstrength HLM

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@sam_gzstrength SPLIT

[Philosorapper @Philosorapper_]

medical advice, no matter if reasonable or not, becomes the default, people unconsciously weigh the risks of eschewing the advice as more risky and risks realized as more blameworthy.

This way even bad advice, even when proved to be bad, becomes extremely difficult to defeat.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@sam_gzstrength Stall

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@IanDJbrown2 @JohnThomsonSK Here’s a few ways, in song form

https://t.co/MXijFCAYh1

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@JohnThomsonSK Someone even wrote a song about it

https://t.co/MXijFCAYh1

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@ngdpc1 Well… losing weight did exact violence on my former fat self.
It’s just that, that’s a good thing.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@willspencer @Philosorapper_ your original post said “Single, unmarried, childless women over 30 have lived in willful rebellion from God’s design for them. “ Which is clearly not true. Saying that it isn’t true has nothing to do with advocating people stamping their feet and “doing whatever they want”

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@TuckerGoodrich Every time I see FFQ I automatically read it as f#cking food questionnaire…

“The semi-quantitative 237-item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ)”

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

Today is the sickest I’ve felt in years.
First time today I can keep my eyes open long enough to even see my phone.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@ngdpc1 And did it look like she was?

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@tednaiman The worst (based on years of dedicated research) are popcorners. No contest.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

Sounds about right. Not that I’ve eaten many varieties of birds.

[Philosorapper @Philosorapper_]

If I had to guess, I would say that penguins are probably the most delicious bird.

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

Didn’t know this. Added to the pile of things to research…

[Benjamin Bikman @BenBikmanPhD]

One of the most fascinating aspects of metabolism is the generally overlooked effect of bile acids on fat cells. Few realize that bile gets absorbed into the blood (after being released into the gut), fewer still appreciate that bile activates fat cell #mitochondria to increase metabolic rate in the fat cell. This is one of the reasons why I often quip: you burn what you eat. By eating fat (especially long-chain fatty acids), you increase bile in the blood, which increases fat burning. https://t.co/sej93bR63a

[Benjamin Bikman @BenBikmanPhD]

Vaping is one of more harmful habits a person can engage in. New evidence (linked below) suggests that acrolein (a product of vaping and a component of commonly-used herbicides) is capable of damaging #mitochondria and inducing #insulinresistance in two very important tissues--#muscle and #fat. https://t.co/tazbpMkJjZ

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

Any good resources out there regarding POTS treatment?

[Dr. G @LowCarbivoreMD]

@SimmonsBart @StickmanBleedin Beef is one of the few foods resistant to the corruption of modern agriculture. It remains amazingly nutrient dense and retains its preferable fat profile even when grain fed. The same can’t be said of non ruminant livestock. Wonder if that has anything to do with the war on beef

[Philosorapper @Philosorapper_]

Luke 19:40
“I tell you,” He replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

You’ve probably heard that this means something like “Jesus is really awesome. In fact, he’s SO worthy of worship that if people refuse to worship him, then inanimate objects will”. Throw in a reference to Psalms 19:1 and you’ve got yourself a nice, feel-good message.

Jesus is awesome, so I don’t have a problem with the message, but it isn’t really what the passage is about.
Anytime there’s a funny phrase that you don’t know what to do with, you should always first look to see if it could be a reference to an Old Testament passage (because 9 times out of 10 it is).

In this case Habakkuk 2:11 “The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.”
The context of this verse is God assuring Habakkuk that he sees the evils of the nation of Babylon and that justice is coming to them.

This comes amidst a number of verses calling out specific injustices of the Babylonian empire. Such as “Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion”.

The pattern of this chapter is that a verse or two will call out specific injustices, and then a resulting judgment is described. Some of these judgements are: After the previous verse about stolen goods, “Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey”. Also, “Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you” And “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies! You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed!”.

The very types of injustices that the nation commits will come back around and be turned on them. They will reap what they sow.

“The stones of the wall will cry out” comes after “Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain” and is paralleled by the other judgments in the passage. The stones of the wall will cry out means this: A system cannot escape the consequences of the sin it was founded on (there is likely also a reference being made to immurement/human sacrifice, but that’s a whole ‘nother rabbit hole). The victims of the founding violence that created the power structures in the first place will not be silent and subjugated forever. They will cry out. They will arise. They will make the nation tremble.

What does this all have to do with the triumphal entry?
Jesus is calling out the Pharisee's expectation of a conquering messiah who would drive out violence with violence. He was calling out their being complicit in the violence of Rome, the Babylon of the day. He was calling out the entire system of power built on violence, of empire built on injustice and bloodshed. He was predicting the destruction of Jerusalem as a result of this violent foundation.

Most of all though, this was a prophetic allusion to what would happen days later. The people then worshipping him WOULD be silent (or even join in) as Jesus was falsely accused and executed. Jesus joined with the victims of empire. He was a victim to “those who build their house by unjust gain”.

Like the judgements pronounced in Habakkuk, in which the victims rose up and inflicted judgement on their tormentors. Jesus is killed by the same systems of power, rises up, and in doing so judges and defeats these powers. He is the creditor rising up. He exposes their nakedness and shame. He is the stone that cries out. And for the victims that came before, He is their justice, their vindication, their voice.

The very stones will cry out.