More Precious Than Our Bags

More Precious Than Our Bags

This blog centers around the most precious thing in life.


Pam Reynolds

1 Feb 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.04

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 $0.03

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 $0.09

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 $0.04

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...

Merry Christmas - What We Celebrate

24 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.03

Luke 1:26-38In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. And he came to her and said, “Greetin...

What Is Love?

16 Nov 2025 2 minute read 2 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.06

Baby don't hurt me! But no, this is not an article about the nineties one hit wonder by Haddaway. Instead, I want to have a deeper look at the concept of love. In our modern world, at least in the west, we think of love as romance. Or even just sex....

Can you trust your own mind?

19 Oct 2025 1 minute read 10 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.11

Physicalism, also known as materialism, holds that reality is fundamentally physical. Do you think that's the case? If so, human minds are the product of unguided evolutionary processes driven by natural selection. Under that assumption, our cognitiv...

Mathematics is not an invention

13 Jul 2025 1 minute read 15 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.08

Whether mathematics is something man has invented, or if it is something we discover, has been a debate for centuries. I find this to be strange, as the answer seems so obvious to me that there should be nothing to debate. The semantics of mathematic...

Wrapping up on Undesigned Coincidences

10 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.02

I think the time has come to wrap up my series on undesigned coincidences, and lay them to rest, at least for now. This is in no way a definite last ever post on the subject from me, but I intend to move on to other topics for now at least. What I ha...

Alms to the poor that give evidence for Acts and the Epistles

5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet $0.03

I have previously covered some undesigned coincidences from the Gospels, specifically four from the narratives that describe the feeding of the five thousand miracle, and also an undesigned coincidence from the Old Testament. Next I would like to cov...