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The Real Eating & Drinking

I am reading a book by Adam Gazzaley titled The Distracted Mind. Brain researchers have shown that human brains, when searching for and finding information, light up in the same way that animal brains light up as they graze for and find food. 

So in a sense, our brains are eating as we gather information. 

Upon reading this I immediately was reminded of the creation story. Remember in the creation story God told Adam & Eve to eat from the tree of life, which contained his own life and to not eat from the tree of knowledge (see Gen 2:16-17). 

In a very real sense God in the beginning linked eating to himself (the tree of life) and to knowledge (knowledge of good and evil). Just like what is referenced in the Gazzaley book.
New and interesting information feed us in a mental and even a spiritual way.  Brain scientists are just beginning to see what God alluded to in Genesis.

I also think this is why social media can be so addicting. Social media is a constant flow of new and customized information. In a sense we are eating as we scan our social news feeds.
Jesus understood this when he told people to seek him first and to eat his flesh and drink his blood and for his disciples to feed his people and one another. 

“For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.”‭‭ – John‬ ‭6:55-57‬

Paul understood this when he taught his churches to look to Jesus, and as he constantly re-focused their attention on the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

It’s almost as if God responded to our choice of knowledge of good and evil by sending Jesus Christ, and now we both eat of knowledge, (specifically knowledge of Jesus Christ) who happens also to be the tree of life itself.

In Jesus Christ, eternal life and knowledge are summed up unified in one person.

“Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.” – 2 Peter‬ ‭1:2-3‬ ‭NASB‬‬

We are to constantly center our lives on feasting on the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and feeding others. In this way we are well nourished and do feast on the tree of life, the real eating and drinking, just as God intended.

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Can You Take the Heat ?

 

 

This post might fall under the useless information category for some people however I find this interesting and educational.

A friend of mine grows hot peppers, some of the hottest peppers in the world, he starts these in January from seed and harvest’s them in September. The chemical in hot peppers that causes them to be ‘hot’ is called capsaicin. It is the same chemical that is used in police and military grade pepper spray.  This chemical binds to the heat sensors in our face and causes the sensation of pain.  The body is tricked into thinking it is being burned but in reality no damage is inflicted

Capsaicin (/kæpˈseɪ.ɨsɪn/; 8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is an active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus Capsicum. It is an irritant for mammals, including humans, and produces a sensation of burning in any tissue with which it comes into contact. Capsaicin and several related compounds are called capsaicinoids and are produced as secondary metabolites by chili peppers, probably as deterrents against certain mammals and fungi. Pure capsaicin is a volatile, hydrophobic, colorless, odorless, crystalline to waxy compound.

I ate a portion of a ghost pepper just to see how hot it was.  Doing this caused a pain in my tongue which felt like someone drilling into my tongue with a drill press.

Some people however have a high tolerance to pepper pain, not sure how they are able to do this, it may be a capsaicin tolerance or a genetic predisposition to not feel this sort of pain.  Carolina reapers are among the hottest if not the hottest pepper in the world at 2,000,000 scoville units.

Several of the hottest peppers with capscacin scores.

Several of the hottest peppers with capscacin scores courtesy of David Maack.

Here is how my kid reacted when I whipped out the hottest pepper in the world at the dinner table.

Carolina Reeper... at the Dinner Table

Carolina Reeper… at the Dinner Table

It is fun to watch tough-guys bravely eat these peppers then be in agony for 30 minutes on youtube.

 Thank you to David Maack for supplying the peppers and the pepper education!  

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Duckweed, Watermeal
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Watermeal – A Fascinating And Maybe Useful Problem

Watermeal – A Fascinating Problem

August 2020 update: An updated version of this article can be found on my niche pond site, check it out. WeedyPond.com.

This post is about a problem that we faced starting in 2013. This problem damaged the view in our back yard and it even killed some fish in our pond. The name of this problem is Wolffia (otherwise known as Watermeal, a form of duckweed). 

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