Tag: family
group name: philosophylovers
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June 27, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
Those of you who know me through my writings on Gather are aware that I am a fallen-away Catholic. Rather, a fallen-away believer period. Based on my up-bringing (Catholic) and career history . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:00 PM EDT --
Initially I called it my bog garden, but I came to realize that the bog was in the pond and the pond was beside or a feature of the garden, but not the garden. So with my sixth son, I began to imagine . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
Background:
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. George Lundberg, the editor of MedGenMed, the largest online open-access (free) peer-reviewed medical journal. Lundberg is a bit of a crackpot, but very . . .
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July 05, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
I often get the feeling that I'm not making a difference in the world. We all want to feel that we are giving something back, leaving more than we're taking. I am stuck often penniless . . .
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June 20, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
I recently watched a Frontline show outlining the first few weeks following the fall of Saddam in Iraq. It was one of the most frustrating shows I have ever seen. The main focus was on Paul . . .
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July 13, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
Exactly how clueless does Bush think the American people are? He continues to talk about U.S. citizens as if we were as ignorant and naive as he is. The latest is that we are all suffering . . .
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July 16, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
Yesterday evening I attended a forum for the constituents of U.S. Representative John B. Larson (D-CT), my federal Congressman. The forum was specifically held to address H.R. 2956, Responsible . . .
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August 03, 2007 09:57 AM EDT --
As most of my friends here know, I am a long-time practicing Buddhist. We believe that the vibration produced by repeatedly intoning the phrase “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” underlies and . . .
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August 20, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Parents spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year on videos such as 'Brainy Baby' and 'Baby Einstein', hoping that these so-called made-for-infant lessons on music, math and vocabulary . . .
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August 29, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
The other night my 20-yr-old came bounding down the stairs, all excited, with car keys in hand. It seems he had just gotten the long-awaited email from a store that his reserved copy of "Bioshock" . . .
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July 03, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Since 9/11, many articles and spokepeople in the media have addressed the fact that Bin Laden has publicly stated over and over again that his main focus is to bring the United States to its knees. . . .
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July 05, 2007 01:03 PM EDT --
As I ponder our republic during this celebration of our independence, I can't help but wonder what the founding fathers would say about our current state of affairs, especially the War in Iraq. . . .
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July 02, 2007 10:42 AM EDT --
In all the recent litigation-mania going on in the United States of late, it seemed at least love was above all the muck. Not so. Last week, a Cook County, Illinois judge ordered German . . .
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August 21, 2007 12:46 AM EDT --
Lately death has been on my mind. Death is always on my mind, really, as much as life is on my mind. Have you lost anybody you love and felt an enormous hole that you feel can never be refilled? . . .
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December 18, 2007 10:38 PM EST --
I guess my generation's, when it was younger, objection to our parents social culture was that it had one heck of a lot of hypocrisy in it. Kids don't drink but it was fine for the parents . . .
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September 24, 2007 02:21 AM EDT --
Many moons ago I had a friend who, like myself, had a passion for gardening. That might not mean much, but in these parts it means alot when it is the suburbs, and most women have "careers"; . . .
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June 05, 2007 05:54 PM EDT --
Dear Gather friends,
My group (1 of 3 I have started) "For the Sake of Peace" continues to gather more and more peace-minded people. I hope that the articles that appear . . .
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April 28, 2008 09:25 PM EDT --
Be ye not conformed unto the world. What was Paul trying to tell us. That is a question that bounces around Sunday School from time to time. Instructors normally are talking about . . .
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March 20, 2008 10:13 PM EDT --
The supposed power and appeal of capitalism is that it focuses on the most efficient manner of producing goods and services needed and desired by the populace. This of course has been . . .
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