Hruodperht

Sir, the fact that you have chosen to make not simply a broad-based assumption, but a rather insulting one based solely on disdain for obesity, gives me pause to continue any further conversation with you. If that is how you treat others whom you consider inferior on some level, then there is no further thing I can (or wish) to discuss with you. I merely pray you repent of this heartless nature before you cause serious harm. I would recommend this topic be closed and locked up tight.

Hmm... I would say, wait 30 minutes after eating before swimming in the ocean?

How would you ensure every border were closed? And what of nations such as Iran, North Korea and China, who would most likely not listen?

From my own experience, entering into a physical condition that endangers the electrolytes and nutrients in one's body for such an extended time is not what G-d would want. In the instances that you have mentioned, Walking Chipmunk, they were the exception and not the rule. If one fasts, they should begin slowly and safely, and refrain from "40 day" anything that would risk their good health. One also must ask: is this fast for a clear communing with G-d, or is it seeking one's own glory in claiming "I did this thing!"?

I would be careful about intruding too much concerning the weight of others, as one never knows what medical issues may lay behind them. I had a close friend who had a metabolic disorder that had been diagnosed and were under a physician's care. Yet her friends had all tried to tell her "all you need to do is (place idea here)...", and it made her cry with how badly they hurt her with non-stop suggestions. She had even brought two of her friends with her to the physician's office on her appointment, and they insisted the doctor did not know as much as they did. As of this day, I do not speak to them due to the great harm they did to her.

If you desire an audience for your work, I would recommend ArtStation. It is free to join, you can set your account to exclude "mature" content, and the community there is very helpful (I have a friend who is an artist and frequents the place). But I do not do anything with Instagram, due to many things I have heard about the site; it does not hold much for me, nor anyone else I know of.

I would find that thinking G-d used evolution to "make man" would be limiting Him in His power and ability. After all, if G-d is almighty (as the Scriptures describe Him to be), they why should He constrain Himself to use a means of making anything (let alone man) that required Death had to be present even before Death came to this world via sin? When He created everything, G-d called it "good" and "very good" in the Scriptures, with no mention of other things being "not so good". This would mean then that as these creatures "evolved", the former would no longer be present, lest things that were "not as good" be mentioned. As for the making of man, would G-d confer His divine image to what had once been an ape (if evolution were true)? I find that to be a bit insulting to G-d, given that at no time do the Scriptures ever liken Him to one!

A thing I have seen in the past several years is that young believers are taught more about "feeling good" than solidly knowing what they believe and why. Can they even defend the basics of their beliefs against those who would question them? Far too many in our world seek to tear down, and the young do not know how to defend from this.