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SERMON: Hurting Ourselves Hurts Others |
There's a common myth that a person's actions only affect them. The examples range from the reckless teenager to the hard partying college student, all the way up to the family man who doesn't invest in life insurance or drinks just a little too much.
Perhaps it's a matter of putting off a responsibility, or being naïve with thoughts of being an invincible island, these cases are not uncommon.
It's a nice thought, that smoking or experimenting with drugs doesn't do any harm to anyone else, but the ripple effects have a very wide range.
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EDITORIAL: The Face Of Adversity
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Everyone puts their best foot forward to make their lives the best they can. So what is it about life that requires people to put their "best" foot forward? It is the difficulty and the adversity each and every person faces.
In Zen philosophy, there is the Yin and the Yang energy, one good, and one bad, each a part of the whole. Without one, the other cannot exist.
Along this line of thinking, without the obstacles a person faces, they would not be able to define the smooth periods and the happy times.
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OPINION: Compare And Contrast
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Compare And Contrast: Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and Edna Millay's Recuerdo"
"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written in 1894 by Kate Chopin, a famous American writer, and "Recuerdo" is a poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a talented American poet. "Recuerdo" was part of the poet's second volume known as A Few Figs from Thistles, which was published in 1920.
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GOOD NEWS: COOLpix Puzzler: Rockefeller Plaza
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Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller Jr. ("Junior"), who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it from 1930.
Rockefeller initially planned a syndicate to build an opera house for the Metropolitan Opera Company on the site, but changed his mind after the stock market crash of 1929 and the withdrawal of the Metropolitan from the project.
It was, in the nineteen thirties, the largest private building project ever undertaken in modern times.
Construction of the 14 buildings in the Art Deco style (without the original opera house proposal) began on May 17, 1930.
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FICTION: Tails of Aspabibia, Part 43
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Sick to his stomach, Rue Shadow stumbled into the morgue. His eyes darted aimlessly as he tried to fill his head with images, any images, except the image of his dead brother. He must shut that one out.
Shadow had never been in the morgue before. He had never even really thought about it and here he was, forced to see it for the worst of all possible reasons. He felt hollow, vaporous, completely without substance.
This was no science class. This was real.
It was a large, spotless room. On two sides, small, steel doors punctuated the walls from floor to ceiling.
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ADVICE: Dear Angel
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As I understand it, the bride's parents should shoulder the cost of the wedding and the groom's parents should pay for the rehearsal dinner; the groom pays for the engagement ring and the honeymoon; the bride pays for nothing.
Do you feel that this traditional way of paying for a wedding is the best way when all is said and done?
I wonder in this day and age, with many women earning equal or better than men, why the bride gets off Scot free. Shouldn't the bride and groom split the cost of the ring and honeymoon?
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