Rafe talks about catch-phrases, punchlines, Fig Newtons, soft rains, Martians, talking dogs, and caring, but not necessarily in that order.

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Rafe entertains (or is entertained by?) his sister, Big Brain Smart Head™ Maura Donahue. Together they discuss horses and frogs, stagecoaches and getting to where you want to go, the forthcoming hurdles awaiting higher education, the joys of learning new things in new ways, trusting your gut, hitting a curveball, and much, much more.

Maura can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/maura-donahue

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In a follow-up to Episode 239's discussion of Sin, Suffering, and Death, Rafe pursues the question of the source of your suffering. Is this certainty of life due to punishment? Temptation? Testing? or simple Consequence?

Rafe looks at each one of these and comes to the conclusion that it's not divine punishment; it's probably a combination of simple consequence of living here in this broken world magnified by Satan's temptation but then tempered by God not giving you more than you can handle. Suffering will come; Death will come; just don't let them turn you to Sin.

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Rafe does a solo discussion of the concept of naming, a uniquely human thing to do and a necessary component of our status as Imago Dei. Along the way we'll learn the reason for Rafe's four names, discuss naming conventions, investigate Adam's assignment to name the animals (and Eve!), and the nature of God's name and why it should be hallowed.

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Rafe is joined by author and Big Brain Smart Head™ Annie Holmquist to discuss her learnings from Russell Kirk about four principles for childhood success: happy family, extended family interactions, regular reading exposure, and the freedom to explore.

In classic Buf style, the conversation drifts on and off the topic and wanders into other realms like playing games with toddlers, Dostoevsky, baseball, and jumping on and off of moving trains...

Check out Annie's substack at https://annieholmquist.substack.com to read more about how she is "countering the 'great cataract of nonsense' in our world with good ol' fashioned common sense."

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Re-dropping a classic episode from Lent 2023, Rafe takes a short solo episode to discuss the Passion and how it is the oldest and most common story in history: power is threatened by Truth so Truth gets killed. But Truth has that odd little habit of coming back, which gives us Easter.

Technology may advance but Man stays the same: driven by power and thus corrupt. There are no new problems; all the problems are old. The solutions are old too: practice the virtues.

"We live in enemy-occupied territory, fighting a war of sabotage."

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As always, you can reach the Buf at bufnagle@bufnagle.com

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Harry and Rafe discuss three things that people seek to avoid: suffering, death, and sin and where we ought to put our priorities. And along the way, we come to understand the nature of sinning and why it is the worst of these three things, as the other two simply cannot be avoided except at great peril to one's soul, and also to see ourselves as rocks that, for some inexplicable reason, think it might be a good idea to actually roll uphill, against their own fundamental nature...

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Rafe goes after time zones and daylight time and how things are so complicated and goofy that it defies belief.

We start with understanding Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), address the sun moving at 15 degrees per hour, and then drop in a dash of summer time adjustments and we get the wacky time settings in place today.

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