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Dementia

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/even-dementia-not-dark/ https://www.biblicalcounselingbooks.com/products/finding-grace-in-the-face-of-dementia  READ https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/some-thoughts-on-dementia-and-the-gospel/

Sacrificing Family on the Altar of Ministry? - Paul Washer

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnbGOn-eTk  Very important to keep in mind:

Graham

 Image is courtesy Wiki  Paul Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement is a concept proposed in his 2008 essay "How to Disagree"[1][2]. It categorizes different levels of disagreement, ranging from least to most effective: 1. DH0: Name-calling 2. DH1: Ad Hominem 3. DH2: Responding to tone 4. DH3: Contradiction 5. DH4: Counterargument 6. DH5: Refutation 7. DH6: Refuting the central point The hierarchy aims to help people make better arguments and have more constructive disagreements[1]. The lower levels (DH0-DH3) are considered fallacious or weak forms of disagreement, while the upper levels (DH4-DH6) are seen as more productive and convincing[1][6]. ## Recent work on similar concepts 1. Slate Star Codex: In 2018, Scott Alexander wrote "Varieties of Argumentative Experience," which expands on Graham's hierarchy by considering different types of arguments and their connections to provable or refutable points[2]. 2. Ingrid Taylar: In 2013, Taylar discussed the hierar...

Villagers

 Just as there is a village atheist: "A "village atheist" refers to someone who openly proclaims their atheism in a community where the majority of people are religious, often seen as someone who might be overly vocal or antagonistic about their non-belief, particularly in a setting where expressing atheism is considered unusual or even controversial; essentially, the "token atheist" of a small, religious community." So also are there village calvinists, village young-earth Creationists, village presuppositionalists and village cessationists.