Wesley Huff
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And it wasn't a debate in one sense. It wasn't. We didn't do opening statements and cross-examination and rebuttal. It really was a conversation. And it only kind of turned into a debate in the sense that Billy, I think, got caught out, and so the things that were talked about kind of showed that he needed to go on the offense.
Yeah, so I grew up in a Christian home. My parents were missionaries. So I was born in Pakistan and spent a portion of my childhood in the Middle East with my parents working in Amman, Jordan. And then we came back from the Middle East when I was pretty young. And so I grew up in this very diverse home in the sense that my mom was a missionary kid who grew up in India.
Yeah, so I grew up in a Christian home. My parents were missionaries. So I was born in Pakistan and spent a portion of my childhood in the Middle East with my parents working in Amman, Jordan. And then we came back from the Middle East when I was pretty young. And so I grew up in this very diverse home in the sense that my mom was a missionary kid who grew up in India.
Yeah, so I grew up in a Christian home. My parents were missionaries. So I was born in Pakistan and spent a portion of my childhood in the Middle East with my parents working in Amman, Jordan. And then we came back from the Middle East when I was pretty young. And so I grew up in this very diverse home in the sense that my mom was a missionary kid who grew up in India.
And so we had a lot of worldview kind of perspectives around represented in our home. Like I often say, we had the Bhagavad Gita and the Book of Mormon and the Quran on the shelf. Yeah. And I think, you know, that always, although my parents were never overt with this kind of stuff, they always had the perspective that, you know, we're Christians.
And so we had a lot of worldview kind of perspectives around represented in our home. Like I often say, we had the Bhagavad Gita and the Book of Mormon and the Quran on the shelf. Yeah. And I think, you know, that always, although my parents were never overt with this kind of stuff, they always had the perspective that, you know, we're Christians.
And so we had a lot of worldview kind of perspectives around represented in our home. Like I often say, we had the Bhagavad Gita and the Book of Mormon and the Quran on the shelf. Yeah. And I think, you know, that always, although my parents were never overt with this kind of stuff, they always had the perspective that, you know, we're Christians.
We believe that this worldly perspective is true, but hey, this stuff isn't scary. This stuff isn't, you know, off limits. You know, we can investigate these things. And they never said that outright. But I always felt this kind of attitude of that kind of perspective. And, you know, having been exposed in majority Muslim contexts and seeing that kind of stuff and my mom having like a pretty β
We believe that this worldly perspective is true, but hey, this stuff isn't scary. This stuff isn't, you know, off limits. You know, we can investigate these things. And they never said that outright. But I always felt this kind of attitude of that kind of perspective. And, you know, having been exposed in majority Muslim contexts and seeing that kind of stuff and my mom having like a pretty β
We believe that this worldly perspective is true, but hey, this stuff isn't scary. This stuff isn't, you know, off limits. You know, we can investigate these things. And they never said that outright. But I always felt this kind of attitude of that kind of perspective. And, you know, having been exposed in majority Muslim contexts and seeing that kind of stuff and my mom having like a pretty β
Good knowledge growing up in India of things like Hinduism and Sikhism and that. And I don't know how much of the kind of testimony stuff you watched of mine, but just before my 12th birthday, I actually was diagnosed with a neurological condition that left me paralyzed from the waist down.
Good knowledge growing up in India of things like Hinduism and Sikhism and that. And I don't know how much of the kind of testimony stuff you watched of mine, but just before my 12th birthday, I actually was diagnosed with a neurological condition that left me paralyzed from the waist down.
Good knowledge growing up in India of things like Hinduism and Sikhism and that. And I don't know how much of the kind of testimony stuff you watched of mine, but just before my 12th birthday, I actually was diagnosed with a neurological condition that left me paralyzed from the waist down.
Yeah. So that's a condition that's called acute transverse myelitis. which I often say is a word you can forget as soon as you hear it, because it's a complicated one. But what happened was that I had the flu and my body's immune system attacked the nerve endings at the base of my spinal cord and caused swelling and cut off the communication between my brain and my legs.
Yeah. So that's a condition that's called acute transverse myelitis. which I often say is a word you can forget as soon as you hear it, because it's a complicated one. But what happened was that I had the flu and my body's immune system attacked the nerve endings at the base of my spinal cord and caused swelling and cut off the communication between my brain and my legs.
Yeah. So that's a condition that's called acute transverse myelitis. which I often say is a word you can forget as soon as you hear it, because it's a complicated one. But what happened was that I had the flu and my body's immune system attacked the nerve endings at the base of my spinal cord and caused swelling and cut off the communication between my brain and my legs.
Yeah, basically. I'd gone down for a nap. I was camping out in the bathroom floor for flu reasons. And when I woke up about 30 minutes later, I couldn't feel my legs. And so, yeah, that's the acute part of the acute transverse myelitis was that it was basically instantaneous. And that's what made the diagnosis as severe as it was. Like they said, there's a 30% chance. It was like...