Faith Seeking Understanding - by bionic mosquito

 Call it faith seeking understanding.

I would like to develop my thoughts on this a bit further. Perhaps this post might end up in the hands of my friend. I want to begin with the grounding in the early Church, in the first centuries after Christ – in those who knew Greek, who lived in the same culture as did the apostles, who learned from the apostles and those who learned from these (as my text above makes clear)....

Full text:

https://achristianhall.substack.com/p/faith-seeking-understanding?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2189155&post_id=211343613&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

....Conclusion

Why “faith seeking understanding”? God gave us this Church; it is the Church passed down to Christians. Whether or not the various denominations recite the Creed, they all fundamentally believe about Christ what has been handed down in the Creed.

I am accepting the God that the Church handed down to me; my friend is not. Either my friend is or I am worshipping a false God. I don’t know how to say this in kind terms.

One of us will have to answer the question: why were you worshipping a god other than Me, the true God? If it is asked of me, my answer is simple: I am worshipping the God handed down through the Church. This is the Church that God preserved. He did not preserve an Arian Church.

My friend will have a more difficult time if he is asked this question. What will he say? “I disagree with what the Church has always believed”? “I could not understand the idea of one God in three Persons, so I didn’t believe it”?

My faith is seeking understanding – as those of you who have been with me on this journey recognize. My friend seems to have a desire for his understanding to seek faith. He is searching for a God that makes sense to him, one that he can comprehend.

I think God is much bigger than what my mind (or my friend’s mind) can hold.

Epilogue

Now, because I write the above, does this mean I am beholden to all Church councils, called everywhere at any time? Regular readers know the answer to this is “no.” I am not going to get into why or when, as I have done this all in the blog. But I offer it for completeness, in case it is read by my friend.

But this first one especially, given the character of the men and the persecutions they were willing to suffer when Christianity was illegal, seems pretty close to unimpeachable to me.

The Tail That Couldn’t Keep Up: How the US Navy Ran Its Own Sailors Short on Food and Soap

 https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/the-tail-that-couldnt-keep-up-how?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225061&post_id=211379066&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

The bottom line

It is tempting to read what happened aboard the Lincoln as a story about one ship or one deployment. The more useful reading is that it was a symptom surfacing at the end of the supply chain. For fifteen years the United States kept its Combat Logistics Force at a roughly constant size while cutting its most capable replenishment ships, aging out its oilers, and delaying their replacements — all while asking the fleet to sustain longer deployments in more distant and more contested waters. A force stretched that way does not fail loudly at first. It fails quietly, in the galley and the shower and the laundry, on ships operating at the far end of the longest supply lines the Navy has.

The shortages off Arabia were not an accident, a rumor, or a supply officer’s bad week. They were the predictable result of a decade and a half of decisions that let the margin preventing them erode — and then, when the consequences reached the mess deck, an instinct at the top to insist everything was fine. A fleet that cannot be reliably supplied cannot be reliably sustained. The hunger and shortage aboard the Lincoln were the sound of that margin finally running out, and the sailors who lived it deserved better than both the shortage and the denial.

Henry Ford saw it and warned the public over a century ago.......

 Miro23 says:

The conclusion seems to be that the US can no longer do effective manufacturing.

The root cause has to be that manufacturing doesn’t interest the US elite. They’re billionaire paper-shuffler “hedge fund guys” with not an engineer in sight.

Henry Ford saw it and warned the public over a century ago:

“Then came that new thing, Industry, which expended to a degree unguessed by the shrewdest prophets and analysts. As industry gathered strength and power it became a powerful money magnet, drawing the wealth of the world in its train, not, however, merely for the sake of possessing the money, but of making it work. Production and profit on production, instead of loans and interest on loans became the master method for a time. The war came, in which the former broker-masters of the world had undoubtedly their large part. And now these two forces, Industry and Finance, are in a struggle to see whether Finance is again to become the master, or creative Industry.”

Henry Ford “The International Jew” The Dearborn Independent May 22 – October 2, 1920

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/netanyahus-reprise-of-the-iraq-wmd-deceit-re-launched-to-promote-war-on-iran/#comment-7736167 

MYC: The Master Driver of Cancer Growth

 ...Recent advances, however, are changing this landscape. Indirect approaches targeting BET proteins, CDK7, Aurora kinases, glutamine metabolism, and synthetic lethal interactions have renewed interest in MYC-directed therapy. Simultaneously, the metabolic theory of cancer offers a complementary framework for understanding MYC. Rather than viewing MYC solely as a mutation that drives uncontrolled proliferation, it can be seen as a master regulator that rewires cellular metabolism toward glycolysis, glutamine addiction, mitochondrial remodeling, and anabolic growth. This perspective integrates MYC naturally into the Five-Axis Metabolic Trap, where metabolic pressure rather than mutation-specific inhibition becomes the central therapeutic strategy.....

...8MYC supports mitochondrial remodeling and stem-cell survival.

Potential adjunctive agents include:

• doxycycline

• ivermectin

• EGCG

• sulforaphane

• curcumin

• melatonin

• resveratrol or pterostilbene....

• ....MYC promotes angiogenesis, inflammation, and immune suppression.

• Potential supportive agents include:

  • propranolol

  • omega-3 fatty acids

  • curcumin

  • modified citrus pectin (selected settings)

  Axis 5 – Immune Restoration

  MYC suppresses antitumor immunity through PD-L1 induction and cytokine remodeling.

  Supportive strategies may include:

  • vitamin D optimization

  • melatonin

  • regular exercise

  • restoration of gut microbial diversity

  • adequate sleep and circadian regulation

  Rather than attempting to inhibit MYC directly, the Five-Axis approach seeks to exploit the metabolic dependencies that MYC creates, reducing the tumor’s ability to adapt and survive.....

https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/myc-the-master-driver-of-cancer-growth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=5737269&post_id=209293174&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

...Conclusion

MYC occupies a unique position in cancer biology. Rather than functioning as a single oncogenic switch, it acts as the master conductor of malignant growth, integrating signals from diverse pathways into a coordinated program of proliferation, metabolic reprogramming, protein synthesis, genomic instability, stemness, and immune evasion. Dysregulation of MYC contributes to the development and progression of the majority of human cancers, making it one of the most important oncogenes ever discovered.

Despite decades of research, MYC has remained an extraordinarily difficult therapeutic target. Nevertheless, advances in indirect MYC inhibition and synthetic lethal strategies are beginning to challenge the notion that MYC is “undruggable.” Equally important, understanding MYC through the lens of cancer metabolism highlights opportunities to exploit the very dependencies it creates. By combining standard therapies with rational metabolic interventions that target glycolysis, glutamine utilization, mitochondrial function, inflammation, and immune suppression, it may be possible to weaken the metabolic foundation upon which MYC-driven cancers depend. As our understanding of MYC continues to evolve, it is likely to remain at the center of both molecular oncology and metabolism-based therapeutic strategies.

The average age that parents noticed their children became autistic shifted dramatically after the MMR shot rolled out

 

You can also watch the full testimony: Dr. Bernard Rimland, Dr. Michael Goldberg & Dr. Mary Megson - Autism & Childhood Vaccines - April 2000.

Here are some more uncomfortable posts on autism.

330 years later, nobody has EVER identified a single unvaccinated Amish child with autism

If there was such a child, the child would have a name.

There is no such child. The gaslighting on this one is amazing.

Every single Amish kid with autism was vaccinated. The trolls fail to notice that “subtle” distinction.

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-average-age-that-parents-noticed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=211267854&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

A Dependency Decades in the Making: How Washington Let Five Minerals — and China — Take the US Arsenal Hostage

 There is a single sentence in a 2025 defense-industry study that ought to end a certain kind of complacency in Washington. Researchers at Govini, a firm that maps the Pentagon’s supply chains, found that more than 80,000 parts across roughly 1,900 weapon systems incorporate just five processed minerals — and that the global supply of all five is dominated by China. The conclusion, in the report’s own words: nearly 78% of all Department of War (DoW) weapon systems are potentially affected. Renaming the department the “Department of War” changes the letterhead, not the arithmetic. Nearly four out of five American weapon systems depend, somewhere in their supply chain, on materials controlled by the country they are most likely to be used against.

The five elements are antimony, gallium, germanium, tungsten, and tellurium. None is a household name. Together they form a chokepoint on American military power more absolute than any adversary’s missile, and the uncomfortable part of the story is not that China built it. It is that the United States handed it over — deliberately, incrementally, and with ample warning, across decades of procurement decisions that treated the cheapest supplier as the best one.....

https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/a-dependency-decades-in-the-making?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1225061&post_id=211264004&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=y7h5a&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

....Whose choice was this?

Here is where accountability has to move from the abstract to the specific, because “the supply chain runs through China” is a passive construction that hides a chain of decisions made by people with authority.

For thirty years, American defense procurement optimized for cost and efficiency in a globalized market that assumed supply would always be there. Refining these minerals is dirty, energy-intensive, low-margin work, and the United States was content to let China absorb the environmental cost and the capital expense while American primes bought the finished material cheaply. Every acquisition officer who picked the lowest-cost qualified part, every program that declined to fund a redundant domestic source because it blew the budget, every administration that treated critical-minerals warnings as a problem for the next one — each made a locally rational decision that added up to a strategic catastrophe. The Govini data showing 23% annual growth in these contracts since 2010 is the paper trail. This dependency was deepened on the watch of multiple administrations of both parties, long after the risk was understood.

And it was understood. The vulnerability of rare-earth and critical-mineral supply chains has been the subject of government reports, think-tank warnings, and congressional testimony for well over a decade. China telegraphed its intentions too — it demonstrated mineral coercion against Japan as far back as 2010. The information was never the missing ingredient. Political will was.

450,000 U.S. Soldiers Diagnosed With Traumatic Brain Injury Since 2001 - (Remember - all wars are bankers' wars - and they need YOUR participation with YOUR blood and treasure to make a profit - GOT IT YET? - CL)

 

Those who enthusiastically support US "forever wars" should visit veterans who suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries during the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/08/no_author/450000-u-s-soldiers-diagnosed-with-traumatic-brain-injury-since-2001/