More Precious Than Our Bags

More Precious Than Our Bags

This blog centers around the most precious thing in life.


Good car?

24 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

Imagine a car that starts nine times out of ten. Is that a good car? Imagine if the breaks on that car work 99 times out of 100. Are those good breaks? Imagine a blockchain where 999 out of 1000, the crypto you send arrives to the wallet you specifie...

Mary's Room

17 May 2026 1 minute read 8 comments Yttrandefrihet

Meet Mary. She was born without the ability to see or experience color at all. Jealous at her peers who could see color, she set out to learn everything there is to know about color sight. The physics of light, wavelengths, photons, refraction, refle...

Don't Do Scientism

19 Apr 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Yttrandefrihet

Scientism is the view that science or the methods of the natural sciences represent the only or best reliable source of knowledge about all of reality. There are several problems with this view. The most blatant issue is that it is a self-refuting. T...

The first witnesses of the Resurrection

5 Apr 2026 1 minute read 3 comments Yttrandefrihet

When Jesus rose from the dead, the first people to discover the empty tomb and see the risen Lord were not the twelve Apostles. They were a group of women. All four Gospels record this detail. Mary Magdalene is named in every account, often joined by...

Blind, died, saw, came back, and was blind again

11 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

Vicki Umipeg Noratuk was born prematurely in the early 1950s, weighing just three pounds after only 22 weeks in the womb. Due to excessive oxygen given in an incubator, a practice common at the time, she suffered permanent optic nerve damage and was...

The Denture Man

8 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

A very intriguing and well-documented near-death experiences (NDEs) comes from a prospective study published in 2001 by Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. It occurred during a night shift in a Dutch hospi...

Pam Reynolds

1 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Yttrandefrihet

In August 1991, Pam Reynolds Lowery, a 35-year-old singer-songwriter from Atlanta, underwent a high-risk brain surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, led by neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Spetzler. She had a giant basilar artery a...

The Chinese Room

25 Jan 2026 1 minute read 10 comments Yttrandefrihet

The Chinese Room, created by philosopher John Searle in 1980, is a famous thought experiment about understanding. It goes something like this. There's a room, completely sealed off, with a person inside who speaks only English and knows absolutely no...

The Ship of Theseus and identity

11 Jan 2026 1 minute read 15 comments Yttrandefrihet

According to the ancient Greek historian Plutarch, the Athenians preserved the wooden ship on which the mythical hero Theseus returned from Crete after slaying the Minotaur. Over many years, as the original planks and timbers rotted, they were gradua...

God's love and strands of hair

4 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

There's a quote by Jesus that is really revealing of how God values animals and humans, and that's Luke 12:6-7. "Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbere...