Monthly Archives: July 2022

Mike and facts

July 30, 2022Get on your feet, HomelessnessAttitude of gratitude, Choosing happiness, Ideology, Power, Presence, Race, Racial ideology, Racism, Responsibility, Risk, Trumpers, What Is, WorkWilliam Tell

One never need face the ultimate authority. It is, nonetheless, in charge.

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Guilt porn

July 28, 2022Media, Motivations, National media, Thursday postsAutism Speaks, Feeding America, feedingamerica.org, Food stamps, Heifer International, Prayer, SNAP, Susan G. KomenWilliam Tell

My patience ran out when a display ad for Feeding America appeared on my e-mail inbox page.

I am seeing their ads and their public service announcements (PSAs) everywhere. Like certain other charities, notably Autism Speaks and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, I wind up wondering if they engage in any activity beside fundraising. In recent years, Breast Cancer Awareness Month had such media saturation it seemed impossible to be aware of anything else.

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Sherri Papini

July 23, 2022Clippings, MediaBeauties, Gabby Petito, Hoaxes, Laura Wallen, Missing white woman syndrome, Sherri PapiniWilliam Tell

Would she lie?

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What you “see” is what you’ll get.

July 21, 2022Thursday postsAmbrose Worrall, Choosing feelings, Choosing thoughts, Meditation, Prayer, SilenceWilliam Tell

This story from Ambrose Worrall’s The Gift of Healing[*] illustrates that not all prayer, however well-intentioned, will necessarily bring about the desired results. Some prayer may even interfere with obtaining the desired results.

Ambrose Worrall had been asked to intercede for a six-year old girl named Kay, who had developed encephalitis following measles. At the time he began, she was completely paralysed.

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Love with absolutely no conditions

July 16, 2022The Way of Peace, UncategorizedChrist-likeness, George Ritchie, Jesus, Love, NDE, Near-death experience, OOB, Out-of-body experience, Unconditional loveWilliam Tell

George Ritchie’s Jesus

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Bible contradictions #05: Jesus’ genealogies

July 14, 2022Bible, Thursday postsBible contradictions, Jesus' genealogies, Messiah TruthWilliam Tell

The New Testament provides two genealogies of Jesus, one in Matthew and one in Luke. Matthew’s genealogy begins with Abraham and moves forward in time: “A was the father of B, B the father of C,” and so on. Luke’s genealogy begins with Jesus and moves backwards in time all the way to Adam: “C the son of B, the son of A.”

Let’s compare only the portions from Abraham forward.

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