Comments by "John Heers FTF" (@johnheersftf4537) on "Heavy Things Lightly" channel.

  1. I feel responsible for not getting that story on air. It's coming!
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  2. To tell the truth I had the same vision, nearly, and part of it comes from having spent time with Richard outside say, the pod box. And I do mean this in the best way: There are lots of good laughs to be had when talking about Church history (my brother's gonna kill me).
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  3. Wait. Can I too be a father? Or are you just commenting on the wrong pod? I mean... for sure this can become a series. It seems it must! And many blessings to you! (Which takes on a different meaning if I am a father all of a sudden... yikes)
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  4. I dropped that as he was taking his shirt off
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  5. Thanks for being on board and little by little... it was a most interesting moment.
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  6.  @ChristIsKingPhilosophy  This made me laugh
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  7. Balkans! You guys don't forget us but mostly DONT FORGET WHO YOU ARE
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  8. Agree big time. We are talking about doing something more often.
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  9. I love this comment. And yes... there is much about! But not all that is about will be about good things. Such is life!
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  10. Mikhail, consider it done. But remind me weekly. My prayer list is either growing too long, or I simply forget because I am a sinner and also growing old. Mikhail. You are loved indeed!
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  11. This is the truest comment on any platform offered by anyone who has ever listened to rabbits or heavy things. I repent of the voice, and yet, I may return to it like a dog. Please let me know return to it....
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  12. A hint indeed
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  13. Caleb! Here's the thing, animals have parents.... they are animal parents. It is indeed misanthropic. Like... by definition. I think you are over the target good brother.
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  14. Human extinction wouldn't be "not a bad thing" because it wouldn't be known as a thing without the human being to make such a thought meaningful. In that way you can't really judge human extiinction as anything unless you are somehow seeing it as if a god. Outside and beyond the extinction. And that alone makes me think that anyone who holds the idea that human extinction is like just a "meh"... well that person kind of sees life as just "meh" too. And well, a whole bunch of just "meh" people around seems llike one of the worst kinds of human culture we could create. Wait... we've created it!
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  15. Much love David!
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  16. What's up?!
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  17. Next time we get him to go in at the beginning. My bad!
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  18. I wrestle with this but your comment is very helpful. I keep getting different takes on this. Personally Ilike the longer ones. Tell me more sister!
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  19. Oh Lord I love you. This needs to happen. Thank you for giving me some cahones to have a great pod about this. Look for it. May it be blessed!
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  20. The "ism" in capitalism tells me all I need to know brother. Capitalism is a belief that capital is good. Capital ain't nothing if not material wealth. Go ask wealthy people. They know. Capitalism is the perfect embodiment of materialism, equal to and unrivaled except by communism. Both care only for the material world.
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  21. I think you think that science and reproduction are sort of just outside of the realm of good and bad? A scientist offers facts and those facts are untainted with judgement? There is no thing, no thought, no action, no nothing that exists outside the realm of value. The only question is, from whence does the value judgement come? Scientists have convinced themselves they are like gods, seeing things as they truly are and in turn they are just "people measuring reality". And that is just untrue, and has been since we were all supposedly "enlightened" by science. Scientists are simplly the priestly class in a religion called rationalism. When modern people wake up to this (and they are now) they will either double down on their faith like priestly autocrats or they will begin to see the hypocrisy of their ways. A new god will emerge. A new good is emerging. May it please have everything in common with true reality, the one offered by The Creator. Science is not that religion. It mistakes a method for the truth, and elevates those who practice the holy method to the rank of saints.
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  22. Be nice
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  23. But it was kinda funny also... the irrational squirrel part. I think Malcolm might even agree with that... the squirrel part anyway.
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  24. Brother, I can't really disagree with what you are saying here! There were many people indeed sharing stories of their "waking up" and speaking of Christ directly. It would be unfair to say otherwise. I think my problem (if you can even call it that) is that the flavor of it all comes out of the oven called the Enlightenment. People are good, but principalities can be good or bad. I kept remembering that the only cultures on earth that again and again try to run their culture on a secular chassis are western in nature (communist countries are obviously trying to do this but even when in China, they do it as per a western idealism born in the bowels of western culture). Put simply... atheism and secularism as operating manuals for society are exclusively western in nature. And I think the Christianity of the west is deeply imbedded in this story. In other words... there has to be a reformation within western Christianity that looks... um... like a celebration of Orthodoxy. And that ARC joint is pretty far from that "flavor". And yet people are GOOD!
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  25. treeeeeeeebeard is the man!
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  26. Agreed. In fact, maybe that's the point of statism.?
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  27. thanks for this chad!
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  28. You are at work here sister! The quick and dirty thought I have as I read your words is: Name another "civilization" that has spawned atheism in spades like we have. Like... name an epoch and a people whose "building" ends in lots of humans openly pushing for a space where God isn't allowed. In Europe those non believer numbers are massive. In America they are growing and will soon be the majority. The spiritual legacy of "the west" is atheism. Obviously. I'm cool with atheism as an operating manual for "civilzation" but at that point you really can't claim Jesus as some sort of center for the secular culture that claims the word "Christianity". You kinda gotta choose, you know? And if a whole bunch of us Christians, like the great big majority, truly embrace the Christian part of our history, we will quickly sound like a culture which plans civilization with phrases like "As God wills" and "May it be blessed" and "Inshallah"... oops, that's "Muslim" but you get my point. Old world shit means an entirely different paradigm of being. There is a reason medieval life looks medieval, as in backwards, as in a "forgotten" civilzation and an odd way of living. "Christian civ builders" is an oxymoron in the mind of a modern person. Modern atheistic people are like, "Why do we need the Christian part again?" And that's not fixable by simply embracing "the good stuff we had". One day we will all wake up to the fact that modernity IS atheism. It will be a big "duh" for all of us.
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  29. Let's do it!
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  30. You may be right indeed. But that may also be true about the other 15 personalities we aim to interview, including you. We all have track records. Few of them are very wonderful. Our goal is to interview track records on all sides of the hate and love divide. You know, love our neighbors as if they were ourselves. Cuz... you are Tucker Carlson in lots of ways. Just like I am (pick famous awful person name and place here) in lots of ways. We'll try and let the audience decide. And God. He's good at deciding things, better than say... me or you.
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  31. Yes sister.... for sure. But the problem still remains for me, "I exist. I exist as a person in time and space. How do I know what to do?" First, do the good. It may end badly, but do the good. Trying to save whales is still "a good". A far away sentimental good ish thing... but good. It could manifest itself in some weird ugly unnatural naturalism that ends up adding to the killing of children, indeed. It could. But God will still honor your intention as per it's relationship to Himself. Your ignorance on the other hand, well, that's a different conversation. Maybe the next podcast! A good intention done by a man filled with hubris is still a good intention! (I am going to feed all the homeless in my hometown because I want to serve the poor as Christ asks!). His ignorance about the homeless and his own ability to solve problems is the problem. He needs humility to solve that, and that might come THROUGH his dumb plan to feed all the homeless as if he could blot out poverty. But his intentions... seems like they remain good. I think... I think.
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  32. I did. But at the same time, would it really matter? As he is taking off his shirt and you and I are watching and he has some kind of mark or doesn't, does that really move the dial? Won't you or I or someone just say "dogs" or "fingernails"? I wanted to ask but I waited, and I think I waited mostly because I didn't want to have a half naked man on camera all of a sudden. Which is hilarious! My puritan self kicked in! My point is this: We love the idea of proving shit. Mostly, the proof of things is in the love we have for the thing. Evil exists because I see people (me included) embrace it and love it and pursue it and then bam, like a ton of bricks it is real. And I know goodness exists bcause I was of it, a part of it, in it, as my mother and father offered it to me. It is indisputably true that love exists. I think the point of this interview is that a man with everything to lose spoke craziness out loud. And in the end that courage will help us all uncover the truth about evil and good and God. A well written science paper with documents and pictorials ain't doing nothing for nobody these days good brother. It's just another science experiment that no one believed in the first place.
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  33. This is a most intriguing and helpful comment. Just my ability to conceive of things this way tells you how confused I am, and we are. The they/them thoughts we've nurtured need to shrink.
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  34. riversideFM...
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  35. straight up rolling...
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  36. That made my entire February! Wait... really, January as it just so happens that my comment here which is deeply meant and an act of love toward you, is happening like two days into February. So.. .basically, this made me whole year!
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  37. It's coming Mr. DJ. Guys, don't trust this man except for when it comes to all the wonderful stuff in life. Then... trust away. What up my brother?
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  38. May it be so!
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  39.  @isabel4981  helpful! Me too as per how Iisten. Okay. Noted and thank you!
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  40. Coolest and most important part for me is the notion of taking seriously what we say we believe, as in... allowing the implications to become clear. And when they do (thanks to Richard and Matthew), the world gets suddenly big and incredible and hopeful and also awe-full.
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  41. Slow boy is the best! There is more to be said and I'm going to try and bring on great people to say it (and add some of my own sauce along the way). Guys, a super interesting former fraud investigator who investigated preachers doing exorcists and then realized that this sh%# is real, and became a pastor... well, he's coming on soon. We are going to start doing certain pods from Keipi restaurant, and he will be our first on location try. Mostly I'm gonna screw up the set somehow. But it will also be good by God's grace!
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