Category Archives: Thursday posts

Was there a Jesus? If so, what was he like?

June 20, 2019Bible, The Way of Peace, Thursday postshistorical Jesus, Jesus, Jesus Seminar, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Presence, Scott Morrison, Synoptic GospelsWilliam Tell

In many cases, you can strip away the fictions surrounding a legendary figure, and discover the historical original.

For example, there probably was a King Arthur.

Troy was a real place, and the Trojan War a real event. Achilles, Odysseus and Agamemnon were probably real people.

What about the Jesus of the Bible?

Circumstantial evidence exists to suggest there probably was such a person. Textual evidences are available to suggest what he may have been like. He may or may not have been as Christianity presents.
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Two Men Use Girl As Human Shield — Until Her Father Guns Them Down

June 13, 2019National news, National politics, Poverty, Squalor, Thursday postsCrime, Gun control, Handguns, Honeybees, Immigration, Manhood, McDonald's #2763, Prayer, Prisons, SexWilliam Tell

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Two Men Use Girl As Human Shield — Until Her Father Guns Them Down •
Less incarceration could lead to less crime • Four Pinocchios for yet another Democrat ‘Mediscare’ ad • Why women love bad boys • Someone’s been sleeping in my bed. • Child immigration crisis • Pray for the honeybees

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Nemesis of the morning glories

June 6, 2019Bible, Get on your feet, Job search/Job prospects, Motivations, Thursday postsGardening, Morning glories, Philippians 3:14, Pride, self-esteem, Sublimation, Volunteer work, Your Heart's DesireWilliam Tell

The job search feels like an endless exercise in futility.

I recently launched a new hobby that may help me persevere.

It involves the unusual tactic of seeking emotional discomfort.
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Unlocking the vision

May 30, 2019Bible, Career goals, Get on your feet, Motivations, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsEvangelism, Proverbs 29:18William Tell

Proverbs 29:18: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

I saw it any number of times while teaching: give a child a musical instrument, or the discovery of any other talent, whether art, or sports, or some special interest; and it just transforms that life. The vision of the excellence he or she can achieve, the beauty she or he can create, unlocks vast positive energies. The mediocre-at-best student comes to excel in every subject. The child who was awkward and socially withdrawn begins to shine.
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Conspiracy theorists: America’s lost sheep?

May 23, 2019Clippings, National news, OUR BEST POSTS, The William Tell Show, Thursday postsAlex Jones, Conspiracy theories, Conspiracy theorists, Gun control, Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Presence, Sandy Hook, Talk radio, Timothy McVeighWilliam Tell

Man who helped Sandy Hook kids is harassed by conspiracy theorists

Sooner or later, something like this will happen.

If someone were to call “The William Tell Show” proposing that the Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax perpetrated by the Obama administration as a pretext for seizing all Americans’ guns, and that Gene Rosen and the others were all “crisis actors;” I would be strongly tempted to dismiss the caller quickly and perhaps even hold up his or her beliefs to ridicule.

That would be exactly the wrong response.
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Sexual violence in India and Pakistan; and other news

May 16, 2019Thursday posts, World media, World NewsCaste system, Dalit, Gang rape, Honor killing, India, Iran, Lindsey Beaver, Masih Alinejad, Misogyny, Pakistan, Propaganda, UntouchablesWilliam Tell

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Sexual violence in India and Pakistan • Bizarre Iranian propaganda

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Un[b]locking the spirit

May 9, 2019Bible, Science, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsAuras, Chakras, Edgar Cayce, Jesus, Mark 5:30, Mark 9:2-3, Meditation, Prayer, Serotonin, Silence, The TransfigurationWilliam Tell

Pray for yourself first.

When you pray for someone, you become a channel through which the Holy Spirit (or “Life Force”) flows to address that person’s needs. (See Mark 5:30.) You may or may not perceive this flow as it happens.

The Spirit must first address any deficiencies in the channel itself, before it can optimally address the other person. In particular, the Spirit must address any emotional imbalances that may exist in the person who intends to pray. Without this adjustment, at best the Spirit’s flow will be constricted; at worst, the channel may project his or her own needs (e.g. anxieties, aches and pains) onto the patient.
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