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vmipsychmajor 
I would totally watch this.
For what it's worth, I finished reading Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" recently. Excellent novel about the battle of Thermopylae.
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Sometimes I do this for other things that people tell me, too, just so they have the experience of telling me without me cutting them off mid-sentence...
What she fails to understand is that God allows us freedom of choice, so much so that our choices -- good and bad -- impact others. No, not everything is fair in this life, but God has promised that "evildoers shall be cut off... for yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yes, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be" (Psalm 37:9-10). Those who commit evil WILL suffer the consequences of their actions, & yes, we can intervene, but judgment rests in the
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The point is to find balance and not work yourself to death -- because, let's face it: our value is not primarily found in our work nor out play, but in who we are and the impact we leave on others.
With our moral values diminishing it's important to fight for our gun rights. Conceal and carry, exercise your 2nd right amendments. pro gun rights
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oh I offended you? sorry I don't speak "politically correct"...
Renailed to House Rules via Terry Van.2 weeks ago
Interesting, as this reminds me of LTC Dave Grossman's "On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" article: http://www.killology....ep_dog.htm
"The ones that are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most." ~ Peaceful Warrior
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"Not every one that says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? And in your name have cast out devils? And in your name done many wonderful works?' And then will I profess unto them, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you that work iniquity.'" ~ Matthew 7:21-23
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As a public school teacher, giving everyone a trophy just for showing up is fundamentally WRONG. "Fairness" means (1) everyone gets it, (2) you get what you earn, or (3) you get what you need. Trophies fall into #2; participation certificates (which we've done for sports I've coached) fall into category #1.
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I remember seeing a young woman who worked as a stripper asking to be respected like any other woman. What came to my mind was, "You display yourself in provocative ways and degrade yourself to the point of simply being an object of lust, and then you want to be given respect that you haven't earned?" Not saying she didn't deserve it, but it seemed that there was something fundamentally wrong with how she spent her time and what she said she wanted / was looking for...
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How does the saying go? "Forgiveness is setting the person free and then realizing that the person was yourself"? Something like that...
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Respectfully disagree; life is about finding out who you truly are under the surface, which involves soul space for self-discovering. // "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life." ~ Proverbs 13:12 // What are you looking for? Why?
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Check out Episode #40 of the Art of Manliness podcast on iTunes: "Undefeated Mind with Alex Lickerman."
The problem with this quote is that God's standard is perfect, and if you break one law, you are guilty of breaking them all. // Good deeds don't matter when the murderer is on trial for taking an innocent life...
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"He has the victory who, in the midst of pain and weakness, cries out, not for death or for the repose of forgetfulness, but for strength to fight..." ~ George MacDonald
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"A plugger's greatest catch is the one he caught for a lifetime."
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"There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard; what's hard is sitting down to write." ~ Steven Pressfield ~ The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde.
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The original word for "help meet" (such a poor translation) in Genesis (describing Eve) is "ezer," which might be better translated "lifesaver" since it is also used of God when you really need him to come through for you.
This works great up to a point. When are others able to decide that what is "right" for you is actually "wrong," though? Surely the rapist believes that what is right for him is okay, but what about the woman who is his victim? Relativism is morally bankrupt because it doesn't hold up to people's innate sense of right and wrong -- their God-given conscience.
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Introverts catch a lot of flack, but what people don't realize is that social interaction wears us out. I sequester myself to recharge my batteries, not because I'm antisocial...
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I teach 7th grade. At the beginning of the year, we had surveys for ice breakers. One of the questions was "If you could be any age, what would you be?" Pretty much all the kids decided to be grown-ups; I chose 8 years old (I'm 30).
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Hey, Charlie: Something may happen regardless of whether or not you're happy, so you might as well be happy...
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Not posting this to be sketchy, but as a contrast to what our culture used to hold up as attractive. Women of all shapes & sizes have beauty to offer if we will but look beneath the surface...
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"Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same."
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