Rafe discusses all things surrounding donating blood.  This episode has it all: from understanding your blood and what is in it, to how it moves around your body, to the history of blood donation, to how it is carried out at present, to how wonderful nurses are, to how all this demonstrates the power of human touch.

#bufnagle #blood #erythrocytes #leukocytes #thrombocytes #plasma #redcross #williamharvey #richardlower #karllandsteiner #transfusion #bloodtypes #apharesis #nursing #myelofibrosis #anesthesia #dyingwell #thepowerofhumantouch 

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Rafe finally gets around to tackling the third chapter of Genesis, the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

The serpent is a dastardly character, using his cunning to trip up the child-like and unassuming Eve and Adam.  They get tricked by his chicanery and violate one of God's first assignments: they eat the forbidden fruit.

While Adam's and Eve's sins are understandable and relatable (the nature of how they fall into sin is all too familiar to us, even today), the serpent tricking them is far less comprehensible.  What the serpent does to our first parents is not "good for food" or "pleasing to the eye" or "desirable for gaining wisdom"; it is only an act to bring destruction to the pinnacle of God's creation.  Like Joker in the Batman film "The Dark Knight", we find that the serpent in Genesis 3 "just wants to watch the world burn".  

#bufnagle #adam #eve #fallofman #genesis3 #forbiddenfruit #treeoflife #treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil #satan #God #eden #sin #nakedness #redemption #expulsionfromthegarden #batman #joker #brucewayne #alfred #darkknight #watchtheworldburn #evilisasevildoes

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Rafe sits down for a conversation with Big Brain Smart Head™ Roland Warren, president and CEO of Care Net, to discuss healing the culture.  In a world filled with material abundance, more people than ever are suffering and despairing, the widows and orphans are being left behind, and we are mired in a culture that produces anything but flourishing.  

With Father's Day just around the corner, Roland touches on a lifetime of ministry and experience to describe a style of ministering that focuses on rebuilding the family: father, mother, and child — the cornerstone of thriving and flourishing cultures.

Directed by Love and using the Holy Family as a model, Roland steers troubled souls to return to a place where men serve women, women serve men, and both serve children, thereby allowing children to grow up seeing aspirational models of men and women in their own homes and then reflecting the resulting Christian love outward to their neighborhoods, cultures, countries, and the world.

#bufnagle #rolandwarren #carenet #holyfamily #widowsandorphans #love #rolemodels #familyfoundations #abundantlife #benotafraid #fathersday

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In this redrop of a classic episode from nearly four years ago, Rafe and Harry tackle the question of "Why is the US so  reluctant to embrace the metric system?"

To answer this question, they go back to the basics of where the metric system comes from ("There were five definitions of the meter???"), where Imperial units come from ("The Romans did what???"), and how things got to be how they are in the US ("So this is a history class???").  

Join the fun to find out why the US struggles so much to fully implement metric and why that answer turns out to be the Land Ordinance of 1785.

#metricsystem #imperialunits #arbitraryunits #frenchrevolution #romans #landordinanceof1785 #bufnagle

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Rafe is fully enjoying the arrival of summer, in particular all the plants producing flowers and leaves and, soon, fruit.  What follows is a discussion of angiosperms (plants that produce flowers and seeds enclosed in fruit) and their wondrously rich variety, which leads to a discussion of the 1981 film Time Bandits in which the Evil One mocks God for producing "43 species of parrots" when he could have been focusing on lasers and high tech.

In the end, we learn that Goodness blossoms and expands to higher and higher amounts of diversity while Evil, the absence of Good, decays and devolves into nothingness, represented in the film as smoldering blackish grayish ashy rock.

#angiosperms #bufnagle #parrots #greenplants #asters #orchids #grasses #leaves #fruit #agriculture #timebandits #goodandevil #God #supremebeing #evilone #satan #kevin #mostfabulousobjectintheworld #fortressofultimatedarkness #infinitudeofthevarietyofthegood #seanconnery

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With Summer looming, so are summer things like weddings!  In this re-drop of a classic Buf episode from way back in 2023, Rafe, heroically fighting a cold, talks of a wedding he attended in Iowa and the lessons that were learned, most importantly how children and grandchildren are the greatest blessings one can receive and how they fulfill our duty as Imago Dei.

#bufnagle #weddings #imagodei #iowa #children #grandchildren #blessings #creationstory #goodthings #verygoodthings #genesis

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Rafe discusses thoughts around some snarky twitter posts, some cultural issues plaguing us, lament for old times, the understanding that one cannot go back, the situation with Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, Heinrich Heine, the definitions of belief and conviction, modernist Man's terrible predicament, and what to convict yourself of in order to do your part to turn things around.

#bufnagle #paris #notredame #snarkycaptions #barbarians #ruinsofagreatcivilization #lossofdirection #badfood #dressinglikeslobs #vapidyouth #LOL #noisymusic #disturbingart #uglyarchitecture #emojis #corruption #problemsofthepast #antonigaudi #sagardafamilia #spanishcivilwar ##heinrichheine #burningbooks #opinions #convistions #imagodei #greatcivilizations #whatdoyoubelieve #truth #beauty #goodness

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Rafe talks about the coming of summer from solstices and equinoxes to cross-quarter days to Memorial Day and Labor Day.  Learn why 2026 is a special summer that comes around (on average) only once every (approximately) seven years!

#bufnagle #calendar #summer #equinox #solstice #quarreterdays #crossquarterdays #memorialday #laborday #threedayweekend #theaverageisnotadatum #microsoftcopilot #ai #artificialintelligence #thisisnotausefultool #makehaywhenthesunshines

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Rafe updates things from last week, in particular, how did the waiting go?  Did God make Good from Bad?  Did the baby arrive?  And have you made any mathematical advances in that time?

Spoiler: the waiting went well.  God made Good (as usual); the baby came out just fine (as usual); and I discovered something I probably learned long ago but forgot.

#bufnagle #seekthegood #waiting #patience #updates #answeredprayers #childbirth #grandchildren #namingkids #cardinals #spiritsfromanotherrealm #therearethingsthatarerealbutarenotmaterial #squaresandcircles #areaofacircle #areaofasquare #squaringthecircle #many-sided-geometricfigures #mathformulas #trigonometry #pizza #pizzaboxes #don'tusetriangularboxesforpizza #virtue #adventureoflife

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We do lots of waiting; such is the nature of life in a world moving through space and time.  Is waiting a virtue or is it waiting well?

Let's look at all the waiting that we do and how to deal with it.

#wait #waiting #patience #sprinklersystems #searching #grass #seasons #winter #spring #summer #autumn #holidays #birthdays #baseball #basketball #hockey #football #soappantry #nowaiting #frozendinner #drive-thru #puns #suffering #waitingwell #poetry #andrewmarvel #coyness #tohiscoymistress #worldenoughandtime #timeswingedchariot #fineandprivateplace #amourousbirdsofprey #proverbs20 #psalm27 #justiceandmercy #waitforthelord #allsnowmelts #allbleedingstops #imakeallthingsnew #bestrong #takecourage #makinggoodoutofbad #allshallbewell 

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