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SERMON: Lessons Learned |
We have all had to learn a number of lessons in our lifetimes. Some have been good lessons about humanity and how to battle our own demons, and some have been surprisingly hard lessons about the evil and hatred that exist in this world. Some lessons you only have to learn once, like to take a rain poncho when you are backpacking, otherwise you will be miserable. Other lessons seem to have to be learned over and over.
The hardest lesson we ever have to learn is that we are not in control of our lives. And it is a lesson we have to learn over and over.
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EDITORIAL: Gun Control Amidst Genocide?
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There are 2.2 million victims and 4.5 million refugees attempting to survive the political violence in Darfur, Sudan.
The International Gun Prohibition Lobbies and their United Nations Allies insist that there is no personal right for self-defense.
Rather, people should rely on and trust their governments for protection (just like the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto under the Nazi Regime or the American Revolutionaries before the Boston Tea Party).
The Gun Prohibitionists insist that there should be no human right for possession of fire-arms, even as a means of self defense.
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OPINION: Flag Burning: The Wrong Moral Lesson
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It has been over 140 years since we had the Civil War that claimed the lives of at least 600,000 Americans, and over 40 years since we had the Civil Rights Movement which resulted in the deaths of such important leaders as John and Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Still, we have a long way to go in terms of genuine peace. In fact, some experts argue that we Americans are now experiencing a cultural civil war
with so many rigidly held opinions and so many sides.
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GOOD NEWS: COOLpix Puzzler: West Ireland
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Ireland (Irish: Éire; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland.
It is bordered by Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) to the north, by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and by the Irish Sea to the east.
Incredibly picturesque in the rural areas, particularly out West, the peoples of Ireland have migrated all over the Western world, due in large part to the deep poverty once suffered countrywide.
Today, Ireland is a member in good standing in the European Union and is particularly active in various fields of technology which until very recently was making Ireland one of Europe's fastest growing and most prosperous nations.
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FICTION: Tails of Aspabibia, Part 77
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Just as she could hold her breath no longer, her face broke through to the surface.
Praise Grace, she had been going up. She hungrily gulped damp, spray-filled air as she spun along on the back of a raging current.
A dim light reflected off the sparkling crystal-dotted walls and stalactite punctuated ceiling of a large cave.
She was floating in a water-filled sluice suspended inside of it.
Scrambling to stay afloat, she peered around for her siblings.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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My girlfriend of several years has never been much of a drinker but during a weekend recently with friends, she slipped over the line and got really drunk. And she changed before my eyes from the agreeable gal I think I love to a really hurtful hag.
She made fun of me, belittled my looks, brains, lovemaking and, in general, hurt me terribly and damaged my esteem and love for her.
The next day she claimed not to remember anything she said and blamed it on the devil possessing her while she was drugged by liquor.
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