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Joshua ben Joseph Project 15:55:29
The Joshua ben Joseph Project is dedicated to the illumination of the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it. The project involves capturing high definition video and still photographs of regions in which Jesus lived and worked and using them to dramatize and illuminate the magnificent story in Part 4 of The Urantia Book.
Five in Tow 16:16:26
Many smart people have spent many long years researching a strange phenomenon related to birth order. [Amusing comparative chart]
Roxeanne de Luca at Haemet 12:51:19
Now, let’s cut through the drivel: play-acting at being married with someone to whom you have not committed will delay that commitment, or finding the person you really want to commit to. Acting like someone’s wife, when that person has not wed you in front of his family and friends, will just make you feel like you’re in a perpetual audition – because you’re in a perpetual audition. Not to go all Ayn Rand, but you wouldn’t take that from an employer (it would be “hire me, enough already, or I’ll find another job”); why do you take that from a man?
Melanie Phillips 17:53:08
At the heart of this great argument lies the assumption on the part of the anti-religion camp that this is a battle between reason and obscurantism, between rationality on the one hand and knuckle-dragging ignorance and prejudice on the other. And of course, that anti-religion camp is on the side of reason, and thus of intelligence, science, progress and freedom; whereas religious believers would undo the Enlightenment and take us all back to the dark ages of credulity, superstition and the shackling of the mind.
Legacy 18:41:13
Richard Clark Rodgers was born January 1, 1916 and died March 14, 2012. He is survived by Lillian, his wife of 70 years. He is also survived by sons Dick (Linda), Bozeman, MT, Stephen (Mary), Edinburg, VA, and Greg (Mikki), Tucson and by his daughter Mary (Jim), Tucson and many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Richard was the rector at St Luke's Episcopal Church in Bartlesville from 1947-1966 and was involved in the transition of Jane Phillips Hospital to Jane Phillips Episcopal Hospital. Richard and Lillian retired to Tucson in 1983 after his career as an Episcopal priest in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Memorial Service were held at St Alban's Episcopal Church, Tucson, AZ at 2pm on Saturday, March 17, 2012. [Father Rogers, thank you for answering my silly childhood questions about God in a way that told me, even if we can't know the whole truth, we can find answers. Thank you for being there that strange day when I reached out for help. Your smile continues to light my heart.]
Daily Mail (UK) 17:29:15
[A horror story of an ending to a beautiful marriage. What their attacker deserves, only God can justly mete out. They deserve to be remembered and honored.] An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun. Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, who was nearly blind, died from her injuries.
greghousesgf at Comics Curmudgeon 09:03:54
Remember, it’s only premarital sex if you get married afterwards!
SarahM at Comics Curmudgeon 09:01:56
I was raised Catholic myself, so I’m well familiar with the guilt/shame spiral that causes adherents to cherry-pick which “sins” they commit – Catholic guilt certainly doesn’t stop people from engaging in premarital sex, but it does sometimes prevent them from seeking proper birth control, because only a “loose” woman would be so brazen as to go that far. So then they are more likely to get pregnant, compounding their sense of shame… and perhaps will even go so far as to get an abortion rather than bear the public ignominy of being a “fallen” woman. Saw this happen with friends and relatives. It’s a weird, counterproductive mindset that causes a lot of misery that could be avoided if they weren’t taught by the Church to be so hung up about natural urges.
Steve Chapman at Reason 14:10:25
Modern technology allows prospective parents to learn the sex of a fetus, and many of them use that knowledge to exercise a preference for sons. Absent such intervention, about 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. But as Mara Hvistendahl reports in her 2011 book "Unnatural Selection," the number for boys per 100 girls has risen to 112 in India and 121 in China.
It was once assumed that the general preference for male offspring would subside as countries became richer and women became more educated. But in country after country, that has proved false. … "female feticide" is so common in Canada that he believes "doctors should be allowed to disclose this information only after about 30 weeks of pregnancy — in other words, when an unquestioned abortion is all but impossible…."
Selective abortion, however, does not target only girls. Recent screening advances now make it easier and safer to detect Down syndrome in the womb… A survey reported in the American Journal of Medical Genetics found that only 4 percent of parents with Down syndrome children regret having them — and nearly 99 percent of the people with the disorder said they are happy with their lives&hellip.
Scientific American 12:04:58
In one experiment, just telling a man he would be observed by a female was enough to hurt his psychological performance.
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Decades back, I read a great retort about alleged linguistic sexism, a woman who said she had no problem at all being called the chairman of the board! Heh.
Thanks for this, Patty! So many things lately have been making us say, is this for real? Living in the future is so much fun (except for the killer nano bacteria wars... oh, wait, they haven't happened yet).
We CAN do this. We OUGHT TO do this. And per the comments I saw on YouTube, people are seriously discussing how to mine asteroids to build it. Yes! We WILL do this! Okay, it's fun to think about, anyway.
Wow, I had completely forgotten about Biden faking his records! Joe the bully is no surprise, but I do like the description of his sucker-punching. Assuming someone's going to fight you, that's the way to do it. Thanks again for all the diggin' & postin' you do, thehyphenated!
Goober lives! isn't really fair, because Goober was kind-hearted.
I think I have a couple dangling threads back there somewhere. Real life, it's so distressing when it gets busy and takes us away from virtuality! :D
Just from the artistic standpoint: I learned the hard difference between original work and franchise that month when I picked up Spider-Man and it wasn’t by Ditko! I was young and naive, and I might have recovered from that, but not the loss of Ditko on Dr Strange, too! And then Kirby left Marvel and my childhood ended.
Yes, kids! Now you can be mistaken for Doctor Zoidberg or perhaps Cthulu!
"Office"-ially designated. SWIDT? :/
Half-a-million googlits for "stapler accidents" ... o geez, "Accident w/ Pneumatic air Stapler"!...