The reason women love to spend hours browsing in shops while men prefer to be in and out of the high street in minutes is down to their hunter-gathering past, claim scientists.
It explains everything.
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit will send e-mails to each other creating action plans and purposely not CC or talk about it with any of the angels. After about two weeks of this, Gabriel over hears a "private" phone call between JC and the Lord and immediately sends a scathing e-mail to all the angels (It is a small office which they all share after all). The angels then decide to organize a meeting WITHOUT the Trinity to figure out how to handle the whole mess.
You just can't forget to CC the Horsemen!
Commercial society did not eliminate the self-interested aspects of making friends and influencing people, it just changed the way we went about it. Now, in the age of the entrepreneurial self, even our closest relationships are being pressed onto this template. A recent book on the sociology of modern science describes a networking event at a West Coast university: "There do not seem to be any singletons—disconsolately lurking at the margins—nor do dyads appear, except fleetingly." No solitude, no friendship, no space for refusal—the exact contemporary paradigm. At the same time, the author assures us, "face time" is valued in this "community" as a "high-bandwidth interaction," offering "unusual capacity for interruption, repair, feedback and learning." Actual human contact, rendered "unusual" and weighed by the values of a systems engineer. We have given our hearts to machines, and now we are turning into machines. The face of friendship in the new century.
Very interesting article on the history of, and modern incarnation, of friendship.
That's it.. I don't want to hear any arguing, it's the most incredible photograph ever taken. It's lightning. And it's a volcano. At once.
A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.
What? What do you mean I had something to do with it... all I did was simply fill this building full of gunpowder and gasoline... well, yes, I did setup a "make your own flame thrower" stand next door.. but it's not MY fault!
So this more conservative conception of sin was truly alien. What I came to understand, however, is that Sin is our essential brokenness – it is that within us that simply doesn’t work, our greed, our hate, all those nasty things – the dark side of human nature. Made in the image of God, but as an image we are essentially always idols. For me, being a Christian is necessarily more than just good works and rainbows. I believe in good works more than just about anything, but I would not lay the whole Gospel at its feet; for if Christianity is to be anymore more than a bunch of do-gooders it has to be more. To me this more is a very real acknowledgment of sin, our sin, our brokenness, and our teshuva, our turning back towards God despite it. We are saved from it, reconciled to God through Christ, but an apology only means something if you strive to do more, to be better, to sin no more.
Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen, whose understanding of the Constitution derives not from a close reading of the document but from talk-show pundits, books by television personalities, and the limitless expanse of his own colorful imagination. "It's time for true Americans to stand up and protect the values that make us who we are.
Heh.. awesome and SO true.
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