Many of us have heard or been told about, the experiment in which supposedly Coca-Cola was used to dissolve a nail in four days. I know that I first heard of it as a teenager. This experiment was supposed to show us that Coca-Cola was bad for us to drink, and how it would damage […]
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Moderation in all political things
There is a good article on the Renew Democracy Initiative website regarding moderation in all things political. If you click on the image above, it will take you to the article. It is called “Defining Democracy: Moderation” and it is a much-needed corrective to the way in which we have been approaching politics from both […]
Coming to know who you really are
“Abba Abraham told of a man of Scetis who was a scribe and did not eat bread. A brother came to beg him to copy a book. The old man whose spirit was engaged in contemplation, wrote, omitting some phrases and with no punctuation. The brother, taking the book and wishing to punctuate it, noticed […]
My generation has never seen America win a war
My generation, and the ones after that, have never seen America fully win a war, as they did in various previous wars. We have seen America lose two wars: Vietnam and Afghanistan. Korea was a stalemate in which the UN troops were driven back to the 38th parallel before an armistice was reached. Technically both […]
On Vietnam and Afghanistan
I was drafted toward the end of Vietnam. I was in the barracks on 23 January 1973 when President Richard Nixon made his peace with honor speech about the coming end of the Vietnam War. Within two years South Vietnam had fallen. In April of 1975, the famous photo was published of the Huey helicopter […]
A simplified manga view of the current economic arguments
As many of you know, I am a fan of manga from the Far East countries. It is always interesting to read stories written from a different cultural and religious viewpoint. As these are manga, they are not trying to win converts nor make philosophical arguments. Rather, they are trying to present a readable story […]
Native American folk tale
My grandfathers told me this story when I was a boy, so it must be true. In the Before Times, this world was covered in darkness, and all the Peoples of this world kept getting hurt because they bumped into each other in the dark. Fox, who had been everywhere, looking and spying with his […]
The danger of changing understandings
Indeed, one lesson of history is that religious beliefs evolve in response to changing cultural attitudes. The transformation, in part, reflects altered interpretations of scripture and tradition. Some Faith Leaders Call Equality Act Devastating; For Others, It’s God’s Will, 10 March 2021 The quote above is from an article in an NPR story about The […]
Telling God what he already knows
Am I bothering You too much? I’m sorry. As the good book says… aaahh, why should I tell You what the Good Book says? Tevye speaking, Fiddler on the Roof, film, 1971 Tevye, in the movie, had the right of it, “why should I tell You what the Good Book says?’ I can remember in my younger […]
The last warrior standing wins
A brother asked Abba Sisoes, ‘What shall I do, abba, for I have fallen?’ The old man said to him, ‘Get up again.’ The brother said, ‘I have got up again, but I have fallen again.’ The old man said, ‘Get up again and again.’ So then the brother said, ‘How many times?’ The old […]
