Selling your life away

Article from Reuters Press.
You know, when you engage in any attempt at putting a price tag on your “life”, you will always disappoint. This dude, an Aussie named Ian Usher decided to put his worldly possessions on E-Bay (his friends also, who I am sure are pleased to know they have a price on their [...]

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Don’t vote Jesus for president

The worst part is, he is soft on crime, with all that clap-trap of “love your enemies”. Watch this incredibly good satire:
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Thanks to Mark Fiore.

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Can anyone not be forgiven?

I believe that those who can’t be forgiven are those who are either

not aware they have done something wrong
or, refuse to admit they have done wrong.

In the first case, it is relatively easy to resolve. You make the person aware they have wronged you, and they say they are sorry, and you forgive.
In the second [...]

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These are the good old days

Worked myself nearly into delirium today, and decided to go home and do other things rather than being driven to distraction by work.
These are the good old days. Other people have them in the past, but I have them now. I see it
in the smiles and hugs I get;
in the smiles and hugs I return;
in [...]

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Temptation III: Choosing a name

I was writing about a fictional person named Denise in the “Temptation” entries, who resembles someone I know in real life. I don’t know why I chose the name. It’s just the way it came out. Somehow, it doesn’t reveal her essence. I could have named her Suzanne, because she reminds me of Leonard Cohen’s [...]

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Temptation II

Denise and I talked about the time we hugged, and I asked about her hugging back. She said that when she was among members of her church group, they would hug, and for a while she didn’t hug back. After a while, after enough people raised a concern, she began to hug back, but from [...]

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On Cheesburgers, love and loving cheeseburgers

Hmm… I am not sure that I would agree that every relationship can be healthy. Just like knowing cheeseburgers are unhealthy doesn’t make them healthy. Similarly, if a person reacts to me in a negative way too often, I don’t think the secret would be to anticipate their negativity and to “socially engineer” only positive [...]

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With love, without love

We are all different. Some people have certain properties about themselves that arise from an interplay between genes and environment which confers upon them certain strengths but gives them some vulnerabilities.
This gives us each a unique set of needs arising from our environment, and from its interplay between that and our physical being. Indeed, we [...]

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Potter and the Common Man

To add to the “Welcome Back Potter” idea, there may also be students in Harry’s class that, you know, may be into illicit “elixirs” or maybe they bought a “potion” they weren’t supposed to have from some wicked witch down the road. There would be cases of potion abuse that would likely involve administrators and [...]

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Renewal

Today in Church we heard about the tale of Lazarus and of how Jesus brought him back to life. The homily given was how this illustrated the possibility of hope and renewal in all of us. Not only can we be brought out of our sins, but we can also be brought back ouf of [...]

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Forgiveness made manifest

I have a tape of John Vanier giving a lecture on CBC Ideas regarding the concept of Forgiveness. I have played it to death, and still I find what he has to share with us humbling, and very deep.
I listen to it and imagine an ideal world where the guilt of rejection for either real [...]

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Forgiveness

As I understand it, forgiveness is something that is given after the other party has admitted wrongdoing. If they had not, then forgiveness is futile, except maybe in one’s mind. In other words, if I had wronged you, and I don’t say I am sorry — in fact, I refuse to even acknowledge that wrong [...]

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Letting it go

I once had to confide in someone about something deeply personal, and I was told to “let it go”. It was one of those casual off-hand remarks, but later, I just got into this “letting go” groove.
Something about what he said just sunk in. It wasn’t said very powerfully; it was said offhandedly. But it [...]

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The separation of Man from God

I tend to treat God as a separate being with His own will. I believe that the goodness of Jesus can never be fully revealed to us, and until it does, if it ever does, we don’t really have any idea of His thoughts. I am not happy with our separation, but I feel it [...]

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