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Apocalypse: Greek for "removing the veil"
Dear Fred,Your first two paragraphs are spot-on.Concerning your latter observations...At regular intervals I must remind myself that life is intrinsically problematic. (We gringos are both Pollyanish...
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BBC: Half of treatment-resistant depressives improve markedly with CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy 'can reduce depression'Continue reading the main storyCognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can reduce symptoms of depression in people who fail to respond to drug...
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Tea Party Quitters: First Palin, Now DeMint
Now the pork's all gone, DeMint heads for a greasier trough.Tea Party Quitter DeMint Cashes In, Exposing DC's Dark SidePosted: 12/06/2012 They say "walk before you run," but for politicians like Jim...
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The most anti-Obama place in the United States. Perfect re-settlement area...
November 14th, 2012CNN's Gary Tuchman heads to King County, Texas, where President Obama won only five votes.Video...
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Man Wants Romney Face Tattoo Removed
December 4th, 2012An about-face lands a tattoo-loving Romney supporter on the RidicuList.Video at http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/04/ridiculist-man-wants-romney-face-tattoo-removed/?hpt=ac_t2Post...
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Thomas Merton: Hoping for Results? Facing Despair and False Notions of Success
In this letter to a friend, Thomas Merton addresses a frustration every person has known, or will one day know: the sinking feeling that one's efforts (in whatever arena they are) are not succeeding or...
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Thomas Merton: "The religious problem of the 20th century... chiefly one of...
My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith...
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Jesus Approves Bombing
Alan Archibald, 2001If you would not be robbed, do not fill your house with jade. Lao TzuIt is not strange that such an exuberance of enterprise should cause some individuals to mistake change for...
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Thomas Merton Quotations
Thomas Merton, Trappist monk, priest"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are...
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Fareed Zakaria: "End the war on terror and save billions"
Murrah Building, Oklahoma CityExploded by domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, United States veteran, using fertilizer and petroleum.***Fareed ZakariaOpinion WriterDecember 6, 2012As we debate whether...
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Ancient Jews and Animal Sacrifice. "This American Life "
"Purity, Sacrifice and the Temple"by religious studies scholar Jonathan Klawans...
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Former Sen. Bob Dole, right, in wheelchair, during Senate vote on disability treaty. (C-SPAN /December 6, 2012)By Michael McGoughDecember 6, 2012Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line...
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Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky
December 7, 2012Posted by Gary MarcusNoam Chomsky turns eighty-four today, more than a half century after he exploded onto the scene of linguistics, in in the late nineteen-fifties, as a young...
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Warren Buffett: Labeled "socialist" by Fox News
Warren Buffett’s tastes haven’t changed much over the years. “I like today what I liked fifty years ago,” he told me the other day. “I like reading 10-Ks. I like playing bridge. I haven’t acquired a...
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Shame Culture Is Responsible For Honor Killings... And Other Tragedies
Broadly speaking, human societies are divided into "shame cultures" and "guilt cultures." In "shame cultures" individuals are motivated by the impact their actions have on their family (and other...
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"The Best of Youth" - My high school sweetheart says this is "the best movie...
Ebert: Users: Jasmine Trinca, Luigi Lo Cascio and Alessio Boni in "The Best of Youth."The Best of YouthBY ROGER EBERT / April 1, 2005cast & creditsNicola Carati: Luigi Lo CascioMatteo...
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Wild Chinese Leopard "caught" by "camera-trap"
Leopard PathPhotograph courtesy Zhou Zhefeng, BBC Wildlife MagazineA leopard seems to strike a regal pose in China in the winning photograph of the annual BBC Wildlife Camera Trap...
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Worldwide Causes of Death, by Rank
Science andConsciousnessSpiritualAwakeningEarth andEnvironment(NB For the first few days of a month, the days passed in the month may be less than those in the current week.)World Clock Created by...
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How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
A Tokyo "gun" shop owner, who mostly sells air rifles, displays one of Japan's relatively few licensed rifles. (Reuters)A Land Without GunsMax FisherJuly 23,...
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University of Utah Medical School: Guns, Public Health and Safety
Gun Control Issues, Public Health, and SafetyGunshot wounds impact severely on the criminal justice as well as health care systems. Some basic statistics are important in understanding the magnitude...
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