From Allusions to Illusions
All love is unrequited. Even if love is returned it is not of the same nature and quality that you experience. The love is filtered and experienced through some else’s unique perspective. Informed by their parents and youth. What is returned is not what is sent. It is something different.
The […]
I can’t speak for everyone, but I do know that I felt safer on September 12th 2001 than I will on September 12th 2005 if all this continues.
–oldstrat on a slashdot forum in regards to the latest attempt of the Government to spy on citizens under the guise of “security.”
You’ve all seen the “W.W.J.D.” bracelets and T-shirts that remind teens and adults alike about a good rule of thumb for living a holy life. Many, however, ask themselves these questions: Does Journey know about my battles with the enemy of my soul? Do they understand the fierce temptations that challenge me? Do they have […]
A woman goes to the post office to buy stamps for her Christmas cards.
She says to the clerk, “May I have 50 Christmas stamps?”
The clerk says, “What denomination?”
The woman says, Oh my God. Has it come to this?
Give me 6 Catholic, 12 Protestants, 32 Baptists.”
Via tedhimself
Let me ask a question because I’m not sure I fully understand. In this example the student takes 3,000 with him and leaves $3,000 behind. If it costs $6,000 to educate the student in the first school (the one that he is leaving) then it would seem that it would cost more than the […]
“The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to […]
“It’s a curious thing. As long as we’re talking about white men competing with each other, we tacitly acknowledge that we live in a realistic world of a Balzac novel, a world in which we know perfectly well that Harvard C’s beat A’s from Brooklyn College, in which family connections and a good tennis serve […]
Quite simply, morality as a product of religion is a myth.
–John Bice
Religious majority doesn’t understand atheist views, http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=14243
We are a long way from establishing anything like the Taliban in America — but not far at all from having imposed on us a version of truth that would justify the suspension of our civil liberties and other constitutional inconveniences. We won’t stone anybody to death for objecting to having their computers downloaded, or […]
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