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Is Partial Plausibility the Same Thing as Impossible?

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Lenticular Cloud over Harold’s Cross Dublin Ireland, Omnisource5 – 2015

My friend Bee,

I hope that you are beginning to see that this entire enterprise truly is all about you.  Is it evident to you that I am not trying to glorify myself?  This is all a pretty strange way of going about things, if that was my intent.

Please understand that I have never wanted to cause you stress, anxiety, fear, anger, or any other unpleasant feelings or emotions.  I know that many of the things that I have written to you have caused you grief, sorrow, and pain.  There are certain things that I knew at the time that I wrote them would be a discomfort to you, but there are other things that I have written where I did not foresee tears in your eyes.  However, I have always been careful to be as truthful with you as I could possibly ever be to anyone.  I have leaned very heavily upon God to lead me as I write to you, to be certain that I really am being truthful with you.

This is the problem.  Often times, the truth can be painful, but it is only by facing up to the truth that we can understand what is wrong and where the deception, the lies, and the subtlety exists in our lives.  The truth is a light that reveals the darkness.  Without the truth, we are unable to see the darkness in our lives.

In all soberness and sincerity, I have never knowingly allowed myself to say anything to you that I thought would cause you pain unless it was for the specific purpose to help you understand the truth.  It is out of love that I have thought to cause you to suffer, so that you might know the truth and to be able to see the darkness and to be free from that darkness.  Is it not better that you suffer sorrow and pain for a season in order to discover and to take hold of eternal joy and light, than it is to live in an undisturbed darkness until you finally realize that you will never ever be free from that darkness – a adarkness that continually becomes ever more dark?  I have only ever wanted you to be happy and filled with joy, but you will never be able to find true happiness and to live in untethered joy as long as you are living in darkness.

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Science is a Wherry

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When I first began this blog, I did not anticipate that my struggles with my health and my diet were going to be quite as extreme as they have been.  Neither did I expect the Bible Study effort to be so all-consuming.  Do not get me wrong. I fully anticipated that both of these aspects were going to be exceedingly difficult to handle, yet they both turned out to be far greater challenges than I expected.

I knew that the battle with my gastrointestinal affliction was going to be exceedingly difficult.  After all, I have been battling with this affliction for 20 years.  I knew that it was going to be insanely difficult, but I had no clue that, in the process, I would be uncovering this long-standing body-fluid balance issue.  The whole situation has been a huge surprise to me. It is an incredibly complex problem, and it is not a situation that can be resolved quickly by any means.

With the Bible study, it just never occurred to me that the beginning of the Scofield Bible would contain so many comments to grapple with, as well as comments of such complexity and depth.  With the Scofield Study Bible, well over 10% of all the comments in the entire Bible are contained in the book of Genesis.  Moreover, some of the most complex and comprehensive comments that Dr. Scofield includes in his Bible are situated in the first half of the book of Genesis.  Therefore, the effort to produce these Bible studies, here at the beginning, has been about three times as great as what I anticipated.

As a result, I have had no choice but to completely neglect the care and feeding of my blog, and, more importantly, I have not been able to focus my attention on you as I feel that I should.  As I stated in my most recent blog post, “The Waiting Drives Me Crazy,” God has let me face these difficulties for very definite purposes.  There are reasons why these difficulties have come about, and they are very good reasons.  Furthermore, they are all reasons that need to be explained; however, I cannot explain them to you until you understand more about the quest itself.

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Dale’s Recovery – Status

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Sorry for the delay in updates! I was finally able to get most of the information updated, although I am missing observations for a lot of days. The Bible Studies have been a lot of work. If you have not yet listened to any of them, please take a moment and check out the most recent study: Bible Read & Study … especially Program 0003! I you have not listened to the third Bible Study, I urge you my friend … please listen to it: Program 003.

4/30/2020 … I’m still praying for you … more than ever!

After four weeks of fasting from food, I finally began eating on March the 23rd of 2021. The charts you see above include the fasting portion of my treatment for the fungal infection in my intestines. However, the tables below do not contain the data for the fasting portion of my fast. If you would like to see the detailed figures behind the fasting data in these charts, please refer to the previous post, “Dale’s Fast – Status.” For a background and an explanation of that fast read: “The Great Physician.”

The following table shows the aggregate values for the different indicators of the recovery portion of this healing process, beginning with my first meal following the fasting portion of the healing process. The counters are all pretty much the same as they were for the fasting portion of the process, with a few tweaks here and there. For background on this whole ordeal with my gastrointestinal issues, begin with the post, “Spilling my Guts.”

For more detailed information, simply click on the column heading descriptors which will take you to the detailed table from where the aggregate values are derived. (See the legend below.)

DayDateWeightVigorVision
/Rest		Gut
Score		Body
Function		Inflam-
mation
/pH
38Thu, Apr 29, 2021155.5 lbs.8.2“8”/20/24
/4:25/8.0		0.90.10.3
You can see by the chart that most everything appears to have stabilized; nonetheless, most everything is actually still improving. The improvements are in significantly smaller increments. In fact, many of the improvements are smaller than my scale can register; therefore, it appears that there has not been any improvement for several days on a particular reading when in reality there has been. One of these areas is my gut readings. I am still experiencing improvements. This is rather remarkable. I am definitely eating more calories each day than my body is able to burn, which is why I have been gaining weight so rapidly. In the last twenty years, I have never been able to sustain consistent weight gain for several days without my symptoms getting worse. Yet now I am gaining weight, and my symptoms are continuing to improve. I wish that they would improve faster, but how great of a blessing it is that they are even improving at all!!! God is so good to me! I am just a worm! I am not worthy of the smallest of blessings imaginable, yet for some reason He is slowly moving me towards a new lease on life. It’s funny too; because, the main reason why things have been going so smoothly in the last several days, is somewhat of an accident. (Not to God, of course, but to me it seems like an accident.) I wish that I had time to explain. Unfortunately, that explanation will have to wait, but I will tell you what it is. About 10 days ago, I started increasing one of the anti-fungals that I have been taking for years now. It is a supplement called Undecylenic Acid. I slowly starting increasing the dosage from the original 450mg/meal, and now I am up to 5,400mg/meal, with room to increase even more. Ever since about the third day that I started increasing the dosage I have seen notable improvements pretty much every day! All of this is even more amazing, when I consider how much time and effort I have had to put into producing the Bible studies. (Bee … :-b … speaking of Bible studies, you should listen to number 14. I realize that it is the longest one of all, but I think you would really enjoy it. I get into some deep discussion about the origins of the universe, quantum physics, and the actually length of the days that are in the account of creation in the book of Genesis.) Anyway, ever since I started working on the Bible studies (about 35 days ago) I have only managed to average 5:20 of sleep each night. But despite the lack of sleep and despite the overwhelming workload from the Bible studies, my health and my gut is continuing to improve! … I just … I simply do not have the words that can possibly express how blessed I am feeling right now. Jesus is worthy! He is worthy of all praise and glory!
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