Cleaning

I found these two quotes while going through my paperwork:
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
-Jonathan Swift
“You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
-unknown
Amen.

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Eightmaps

I’ve written in the past about gay marriage. I see no reason why it is anyone’s business. If a same-sex couple wants to marry, they are US citizens first, and they should be granted the same rights.
Prop 8 backers in CA who gave more than $100, by law, had to disclose their name and address. [...]

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Secrets

I always wondered how people live with secrets. We all have them-big and small. But how do you live with yourself for decades, knowing you killed two people? A 60-year-old woman admitted to killing two coworkers in 1967. She killed them after they had supposedly taunted her for being lesbian. I suppose that’s a mitigating [...]

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Mean Girls II

This is an interesting article.
It relates to an earlier post, Mean Girls. The article states that women who feel good naked are “kind to other women.”
REDMOND: They can genuinely take pleasure in other women’s success, happiness — and beauty. Just the other night I was eating dinner with a group of women who were [...]

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The Whipping Tree

I used to live in Cary, NC. It’s a beautiful town, and while very progressive in some ways, also very traditionally southern. I remember when its main mall was built.
When all the trees were clear-cut to make room for the mall, one was spared. It was a majestic tree, big and symmetrical. It was elevated [...]

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God in Global Warming

I’ve been reading a text about Global Warming. It’s a technical book that describes how to calculate temperature, energy into our atmosphere and energy out. So I was surprised to see religion as one of the author’s solutions. He believes if people viewed the world in the original sense that god intended (humans as gardners), [...]

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The true “uniter”

Once again, I was in awe of Obama. In his inaugural speech, he included us, the “nonreligious” in his speech.
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and nonbelievers.
But that’s not what brought tears to my eyes. (I know it’s a little sappy.) What really moved me was that he [...]

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Obama: Not Black or White

A recent CNN poll finds:
In November, a majority of blacks for the first time believed that the U.S. would eventually find a solution to its racial problems; now a majority of blacks believe that race relations will always be a problem in this country.
Please, don’t. Don’t give up the faith that race relations will be [...]

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Clifton…Here’s your comment

Clifton, I have no problem posting your comment. Thank you for taking the time to write. The question you ask is an interesting one. Since I know there are some really smart atheists and agnostics–much smarter than I–who might read this, I’m going to welcome them to comment on this very common, long-standing question of:  How [...]

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Are You Paying for Someone’s Lap-Band?

OK. Have a seat.
If you live in Collin County, TX, you have paid for nearly 9% of the county’s employees to have lap-band surgery. Collin County is self-insured, which means health claims are paid out of the general fund budget. Last year, 14 surgeries costs taxpayers $350,000.
Holy crap. How many underprivileged kids could have been [...]

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