Hiking In The Light – Pressing on the upward way

Rockhounding Locations in WY/MT/UT. (Rough Draft)

September 19, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Bula, y’all! This will be updated to be pleasant to read as I have time. I’ll include pictures of specimens and also maps. Until then, follow the links. Fossilized leaves near Miles City, MT: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Miles+City,+MT+59301/@46.4056794,-105.6607652,219m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x533a1b79bbac00fb:0xa3f69bf1b672ee7e!8m2!3d46.4083362!4d-105.8405582 Belemnites and other fossils near Bridger, MT: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.2162061,-108.8309428,175m/data=!3m1!1e3 Note: stramatolities can be found in some…

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“Children Raised Without Religion Are Kinder and More Empathetic, Study Finds” (Thankfully, we then studied the study.)

September 11, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

❗Read the link towards the bottom.❗ Confirmation bias can be a tough thing to overcome, especially if it is combined with intellectual laziness, or simply an unwillingness to “think about our thinking.” I am habitually guilty of this, and constant vigilance is required to combat such bad habits. Read the…

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God’s Foreknowledge (Class)

August 19, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

How can God know the outcome of the world? How is it that we are predestined? Do we have free will? Above, I go over the three, big theories on this. The class notes follow: What are the three views commonly called? 1.______________, 2._______________, 3.______________ ________ JC, early-mid 1500s Often…

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The Honest Truth About Dishonesty (Part 1)

August 19, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Lucas goes through a fun lesson that’s interactive—you can play along as you listen, too! We learn about the lies we tell everyone, and especially ourselves, as well as how to overcome them, using scientific studies by Dr. Dan Ariely and others. Attached to this link is the slideshow in…

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The Most Pain I’ve Felt While Hiking! (Also: Darby Canyon, String Lakes, and Green River Lakes.)

July 23, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Part 1: The Text My Peruvian friend Yue texted me and asked if I’d like to come and visit her in Jackson. She reckoned that we could perhaps go hiking on Friday, then do something on Saturday and part of Sunday, too, and that her friend Beatriz (Chilean) could accompany us….

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Snow Jobs and Certainty

July 23, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

We need to be honest about our convictions and reasons for them. I’ve seen (and have done this myself in the past, to my great discredit) people hold a certain view, and proclaim it, while at the same time ignoring any evidence to the contrary, or even sweeping the contradictory…

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A Belligerent Gospel of Hate

July 21, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Be careful of how you spread the good news! “If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not…

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Kent West on Worship

July 21, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Kent West writes the following article. If you’d like to see more of his thoughts, visit http://kentwest.blogspot.com/ ****************************************************************** You would not use the word “baptize” in an unscriptural manner, to mean “sprinkle”. Neither should you use the word “worship” in an unscriptural manner, which most of us have done all…

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The Stick of Righteousness

July 21, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

Sometimes people feel that it’s ok to be harsh toward others. A common line you might have heard or said is, “The truth hurts, deal with it.” In the same way, we can sometimes be very rough with a person who has some sin in his/her life. “Don’t you know…

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Transgenderism and the War on Women

July 21, 2019 Lucas Necessary Comments 0 Comment

The linked article is about about a male-to-female transgender athlete. I consider this to be a part of the war on women, but in a much newer way, and starkly more deleterious. In essence, a young man didn’t do stunningly well when competing against men, but upon “becoming” a woman,…

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