The Christian Origins of Hospitals

Things I learned on the Week of June 10th

Articles I read

  • While there have always been healers and people who master the art of treating others, the concept of a hospital and the institutionalized medical field as we know it today started from and was propagated by the Church. To get the full story, check out this article on the Christian origins of hospitals.

Media I consumed

  • The NBA finals were on over the last week, and so was Summer of Gaming, so most of the media I consumed were basketball games, analyses of said basketball games, and new videogame announcements and previews. However, this newsletter is meant for sharing things I learned, so I will have to share another tech discovery. For those who might now be too interested in tech, you’ll have to bear with me as my research and learnings in this period are focused on tech. The first video shows why split keyboards are much more ergonomic than traditional keyboards, and the second shows the experience of someone who used split keyboards to write code (a typing-heavy task) for 5 years.

Spiritual Lessons

Symbolic things have more reality and significance in the spirit than most of us realize. While I still need to do a deeper dive to search for the principles that govern symbolism in the spirit, here's a short story that shows just how serious it can be. It's one of those things in which one must first acknowledge an observed fact before trying to figure out why it is the way it is.

“15 Elisha told him, “Get a bow and some arrows.” And the king did as he was told. 16 Elisha told him, “Put your hand on the bow,” and Elisha laid his own hands on the king’s hands.

17 Then he commanded, “Open that eastern window,” and he opened it. Then he said, “Shoot!” So he shot an arrow. Elisha proclaimed, “This is the Lord’s arrow, an arrow of victory over Aram, for you will completely conquer the Arameans at Aphek.”

18 Then he said, “Now pick up the other arrows and strike them against the ground.” So the king picked them up and struck the ground three times. 19 But the man of God was angry with him. “You should have struck the ground five or six times!” he exclaimed. “Then you would have beaten Aram until it was entirely destroyed. Now you will be victorious only three times.” “