Tag: living
member name: John M.
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December 08, 2006 05:27 PM EST --
The Unretired Mind
In our hysterical, problem centered society, affliction and perversion get more attention than those things which indicate the enhancement and the richness of the human experience. Take . . . more
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December 08, 2006 11:09 AM EST --
Not everyone can go. If you want to make this journey with us you will have to get to your favorite quiet place, away from the TV and shut off the music on your ipod, for it requires that you turn inward, . . . more
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November 22, 2006 06:36 PM EST --
Habits of a lifetime rarely, if ever, change. Under ordinary circumstances, habits develop because they seem to work and they continue just so long as those benefits recur. What happens when something . . . more
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November 20, 2006 11:02 AM EST --
The Milford Mall sits roughly equidistant between the cities of New Haven and Bridgeport Connecticut. During the week shoppers from the surrounding suburbs mix easily with those who drive in or take public . . . more
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February 22, 2007 12:34 PM EST --
I was driving home late one night with my wife and oldest son. It was a heavily wooded setting we had traveled thousands of times before. There were no man-made landmarks along the curving country road. . . . more
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October 29, 2006 07:55 AM EST --
Architects design buildings to house particular functions or activities. A school is constructed to gather people in clusters we call class rooms in which the chairs face toward the front blackboard. The . . . more
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November 18, 2006 09:25 AM EST --
We have grown terribly cynical about the possibility that people (some politicians are people ) who have done some questionable things in the past can ever be trusted again. We assume that if similar temptations . . . more
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December 11, 2006 04:11 PM EST --
Over the past four years the foundation upon which the whole Iraq enterprise has been built has been coming apart brick by brick. From the original rationale for the war, to our repeated failures to achieve . . . more
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November 27, 2006 10:53 AM EST --
Attorney Stanley Fish in a column in todays New York Times clarifies, with some exceptions, the limits of the "free exercise of religion clause". Generally speaking there is absolute freedom . . . more
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December 21, 2006 10:20 AM EST --
I wish the world was a simple place where matters were straight forward and obvious. Wouldn't it be satisfying if everything was exactly the way it appeared on the surface? But no, more often then . . . more
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January 16, 2007 10:04 AM EST --
What is to be done about below average academic performance in our schools? Any serious attempt to address this question has to consider the major causes. Some of the culprits identified and targeted by . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
You get to know a rural or suburban neighborhood differently when you jog through it rather than drive. For one thing, there are no car windows nor a blaring radio to muffle or totally block the surrounding . . . more
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December 11, 2006 02:43 PM EST --
Today's papers tell us that Walmarts' roll out of a discount drug prescription program, first introduced in Tampa, will very soon be introduced throughout Florida and then, almost immediately, . . . more
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January 05, 2007 04:35 PM EST --
Study group on World Religions
We will next be discussing "Christianity". I found an interesting treatment of the subject in Wikipedia. This treatment looks at Christianity by contrasting . . . more
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January 19, 2007 03:28 PM EST --
Can civilization survive contending religions each of which is convinced of it's own exceptionalism?‚
The wall of separation between church and state that worked so well among the Western . . . more
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May 25, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
Motor trips to distant places can stir up wonderfully exciting fantasies about the many appealing possibilities of living in those strange and frequently exotic places, and being able to start out fresh, . . . more
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January 11, 2007 10:28 AM EST --
Why did Barbara Walters, so obviously, read her simple statement about Donald Trump from a cue card in front of her on yesterdays showing of The View? It seemed odd in this otherwise spontaneous format, . . . more
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January 17, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
People reveal themselves in many ways but the things they choose to be surrounded by can provide particular insights about them. Implicit in this view is a corollary: the things not chosen can also be . . . more
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February 13, 2007 10:24 PM EST --
I just heard a National Public Radio broadcast on the subject of Decriminalizing Drugs.
The entire argument was framed and limited by one desired outcome: The elimination of drug trafficking. The end of . . . more
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December 12, 2006 03:08 PM EST --
This article is written and directed only to members of the gather group "Independent Bent" Challenge questions for articles
What does it mean to be independent? . . . more
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