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I was baking cookies today and had no time to write an article. Please enjoy this platter of tasty morsels until I can whip up a proper meal for you to dine on:
Time and again they brag about how shiny their machine is and how fast it goes. But never do they bother to answer when you ask them where it’s going.
The difference between driving your car up a curb in order to run over a bunny rabbit and flying to Africa to shoot an animal is merely the degree of commitment required.
As insightful as The Matrix is, they got it wrong. It is the illusion that is always the painful place to live in, though it can appear to provide comfort or at least refuge. It is ALWAYS better to know the truth, because when you know the truth, the subtle lie does not weigh on your conscience, poisoning the sweetest joys that are available to even the poorest and most set-upon of us.
Here is the paradox of life: if you want to stay young, you have to keep taking chances, but if you want to grow old, you will have to stop.
You really can’t blame people for making bad choices until you make sure they have good ones available.
When most non-Christians reject Christianity they concentrate on the mystical aspects while ignoring the revolutionary teachings of Christ. When most Christians embrace Christianity, they too concentrate on the mystical aspect while ignoring the revolutionary teachings of Christ. Both sides give lip service to such notions of non-violence, forgiveness of…