@Brian_Sauve Have never met you, so this is not personal, but I will say that I no longer trust American pastors because they loathe young Christian men. No pastor I personally know accepts the historical Christian views. I've moved on from church.
God is good, maybe He will send fire.
@ChristisKing123 Waiting for the tradcons to swagger in and call everyone losers that need to toughen up.
Salt the earth where they built their house btw.
If no leader supports you, it's totally understandable to try to find those that will.
No major leader in America supports the young men of America. Many claim to, but have loyalty to foreign people.
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@MikeWingerii I have asked people to point me to a resource that gives a robust defense of Mike Winger's authority from Scripture.
I have not yet seen a source that even attempts this.
Therefore I will not be listening to Mike Winger until I receive what I asked for from a trusted source.
The lore surrounding hydroxyapatite is rife with rumors, myths and falsehoods (from both sides!)
It's gotten so bad, that I don't blame people for opting out completely because of how confusing it is. My hope is that I can simplify it for you here, with some history of the politics.
Disclaimer: I am biased towards hydroxyapatite as I am an owner of a brand that uses it, @nobsroutines
Myth 1: It's dangerous
Hydroxyapatite is the mineral your teeth are made of. Enamel is about 96% minerals and nearly all of it is hydroxyapatite. Your bones are built on it too.
The fear comes from the word “nano.” The EU’s SCCS first reviewed nano-hydroxyapatite (nHA) about a decade ago, their answer was basically “we don’t have enough data yet.” Somewhere that became labeled "it's not safe"
The follow-up reviews got a lot less attention. The committee drew the line at particle shape. Rod-shaped particles cleared, needle-shaped particles were out. In 2025 they concluded rod-shaped (this one is important, we'll come back to it), uncoated nHA is safe in toothpaste at up to 29.5%.
You’ll also hear “the EU banned nano ingredients.” The 2024 regulation people point to did ban 12 nanomaterials. Hydroxyapatite wasn’t one of them. It was approved with conditions. That's the main takeaway; Nano is a size, not a specific thing. There are good nano particles, and bad ones.
And if you swallow meets stomach acid, which breaks it down into calcium and phosphate. The same minerals already in your food. Basically a harmless and under-dosed supplement.
Myth 2: It heals cavities
This one mostly comes from overzealous influencers trying to get engagement, equally as harmful to the mission as the people who lie against it.
A cavity starts as a weak, chalky spot where acid has pulled minerals out of the enamel. At that stage the surface is still intact and the tooth can take minerals back in. That’s the type of remineralization where nHA does its best work at reversing.
Once decay breaks through the enamel and becomes an actual diagnosable cavity, no toothpaste/gum/mouthwash/powder is fixing it.
nHA can help an early weak spot get stronger, a true cavity still needs a dentist.
Myth 3: It doesn't work
Japan has been putting hydroxyapatite in toothpaste since for almost 50 years and officially approved it as an anti-cavity ingredient in 1993. That’s over 30 years on shelves.
Since then, over 13,000 randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews have shown it remineralizes early enamel lesions and reduces tooth sensitivity.
Sensitivity is usually what people notice first. The particles plug the tiny open channels in exposed dentin, the ones that carry cold and sweet straight to the nerve. This is my magic trick for patients in the dental chair, it works almost immediately.
When someone says “it doesn’t work,” they’re usually reacting to one of two things. The wild claims from Myth 2, or the fact that it isn’t FDA approved for cavities. That second one is a regulatory story, and I’ll get to it more later.
Finally, if I may brag a little bit, we've been at this for 4 years, with millions of people that have used it and if it didn't work, we'd probably know by now.
Myth 4: More is better (arguably the most important one)
Spend a few minutes googling hydroxyapatite and you'll see two wildly different opinions, either:
ITS DANGEROUS or YOU NEED TWICE AS MUCH
The percentage number tells you how much is in the tube. It doesn’t tell you:
- how small the particles are
- what shape they are
- what else in the formula is working with or against it
- whether the finished product was ever tested on actual teeth
Those are the things that decide what ends up on your enamel. A formula with published data behind it tells you more than the biggest number on the shelf.
Same goes for how you use it. A pea-sized amount (or one tablet) is plenty, brushing harder doesn’t push more mineral in, and you want to spit, not rinse, so it has time to sit on your teeth.
10% gets thrown around as the "minimum for efficacy" This is a lie peddled by a few brands that picked concentration as their marketing angle. The myth has become immortalized and will live on long beyond those lying brand owners.
It's simply not true, while NOBS uses 5%... 2-3% is shown to be sufficient at preventing cavities in certain studies. Not only that, some studies even show that LESS concentration has more protection (this is explained by the fact that shape/size etc are equally important).
Most times brands that use 10% are buying second rate raw materials, so it's basically bunk.
Myth 5: Everyone is lying
It's a seven front war out here, and candidly, I'm one of the fighters.
Fluoride people scream that it doesn't work.
Certain brands scream that you need more.
Other people yell that it's dangerous
At this point, no one can stop talking about nano hydroxyapatite for better or for worse. This may come as a shock, but I'm tired of the ingredient even though I love it and will always use it... leading me to my next point....
Myth 6: Nothing Else Matters
Somewhere along the way people get so emotional about hydroxyapatite that there is no mention of other ingredients. Kind of like how everyone forgot about other viruses during covid. Remineralizing agents are super important, but they aren't the only thing that matters.
In fact, the peer-reviewed study we conducted on NOBS ended with the following conclusion: cavities are a bacterial disease, and while mineral loss is part of that disease... there are many ingredients that control the pathogenicity and colonization of the cavity causing bacteria.
I hope this cleared some things up, and that you take my opinion with a grain of biased salt.
This may be shocking news to some Republicans, but It turns out, when the voters have the overwhelming impression that your party
1. protects pedophiles,
2. is compromised by a foreign country, and
3. starts wars on behalf of that country that destroys the U.S. economy ...
voters aren't huge fans of yours, and don't reward you.
Who could have guessed?
This is actually great cos it forces people to slow down and think through their position. People think moral belief is a license to terminate thought, hence the term moral fag
it's a basic tenet of normfagnigger posturing that you are owed nothing, the world is tough, you are meant to eat shit, attacked, to be servile and hyonotized by some abstract ideal that means everything and nothing, and you deserve whatever bad happens to you.
Humans are a pack animal.
This may be hard to understand if you are evangelical and think the book of genesis is literal rather than allegorical, but humans are a pack animal.
What this means is that the human desire for the acceptance and support of a tribe is as fundamental as the desire for food, for air, for water, for sex, for sunlight, for love.
If you tell young men that they cannot have a tribe, they're not going to accept that.
Ever.
Especially if you tell that only to the young men of one tribe in particular. They're going to wonder why everybody gets to have a tribe and they don't.
And they're eventually going to decide that you are the enemy.
Because you are. Anyone who stands between young men and what they need for a healthy, fulfilled life is their enemy.
That includes you.
And if you manage to convince them that god doesn't want them to have a tribe, it will also include god.
The more you push back against their healthy and natural desire for a tribe, a homeland, and a birthright, the more they will hate you, and the more exclusive their definition of that tribe will become.
There is no way you can stop this. The only thing you can control is how far they have to go, how radical they have to become, in order to get it.
Because this can go all the way from enforcing immigration law, and shutting down corrupt visa programs right now, to gangs of young White men in balaclavas with Ar15s going door to door ten years from now.
We have to do something about the 14th amendment. I don't care if that makes you uncomfortable or unhappy. It's not a choice. The constitution exists to serve Americans, not the other way around. If that sentence confuses you, read the first paragraph of the constitution.
If we do not, young men of the future, the same little boys who are being radicalized right now by your malicious indifference, will treat a piece of paper that says they cannot have a homeland the way they would treat a piece of paper that says that can't eat food, or a piece of paper that says they can't own a home, or have a wife and children.
You may think that you offer them a tribe in the form of the universal kingdom of god, the community of all believers, but that's just a word game and you know it, which is why you are so defensive about the whole thing.
Where was the universal community of believers when these young men needed help? When they needed not just the surface appearance of a tribe, but someone to do the things that tribes actually do for younger generations they care about?
The pack serves a concrete set of functions in the life cycle of the human species, and you cannot perform those functions with a cardboard cutout.
Young men are sick of religion that offers them responsibilities with no rights, lectures with no help, demands with no love or empathy.
It's odd, in a way ironic, that, I, the man of zero faith, should have to be the one standing here telling self-styled religious leaders how they failed both their people and their god.
But having no faith does give me one advantage. It frees me from the delusion that Jesus is a puppet that I can pull out of my pocket, slip over my right hand, move his mouth and make him say what I want.
I used to wonder, as a child, what the phrase "taking the name of the lord in vain" actually meant.
But I no longer wonder, because when I became a man, I looked around me and saw all these people who talk to god and somehow get told exactly what they want to hear.
Then I understood that the key phrase here wasn't "in vain". It was "taking". Taking the name of god and using it as a tool for one's own goals.
Joel, here, is sad that his friend is getting sent home. This personally inconveniences both him and his friend, which effects Joel in a way that young men being denied their birthright does not.
So he finds an interpretation of scripture that says that god wants him, Joel Berry, to get his way, and that god wants all the young men who want a homeland and a birthright to go get fucked.
I'm not terribly impressed.