Confidence and secrets
Why do we keep secrets? (It is said that a secret is something you tell one person at a time…) Perhaps to protect someone, or to gain advantage. What if there were no secrets? What if everything in your mind …
Author: Stever
This song was playing in my mind when I woke one morning
Forget your hexagrams, you’ll soon feel fine. Stop looking at the stars, you don’t live under the signs. Don’t mess with Gypsies, or have your fortune read. Keep your tables on the floor, and don’t listen to the dead. The …
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We don’t Mayan
Why do we have 7 days in a week? The Bible opens with the 7 days of creation… which is why there are 7 days in a week. Case closed. We call Saturday and Sunday the weekend. I think we …
I was patriotic in my youth
My boy scout days helped cement the “God and Country” ethos. I wore flag related everything during the Bi-centennial in 1976. I wore USA related everything in 1984, during the Los Angeles Olympics. I proudly stood and recited the Pledge …
Things I remember about my dad
The earliest job I remember my dad having was when he was a policeman for the city of Toledo. I remember he worked hard at everything he did, and always managed to have fun too. It was 50 years ago …
Fleeting thoughts
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form. I am …
Babel on and on
Incredible: it means hard to believe. It doesn’t mean it is false. So, some people think that going to the root of a word will clarify the meaning. I don’t think so. Language is an agreed upon code. The transmitter …
I dug out my old bible from the garage
1 Thessalonians 5:21 and Judges 4:21 are referenced on my rainbow decorated cover. If I remember correctly, the first reference tells us to “test all things and hold fast to the good” and the second is about the widow nailing …
The world has changed dramatically since 1977, by George
40 years ago, Star Wars was released. The world has changed dramatically since, partially because of it. The story line has permeated cultures around the world. The universality of it is based on the writings of Joseph Campbell. The hero’s …
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I was thinking about being verses doing
Often, I am asked about myself. The question is sometimes asked to see if I focus on what I do or if I focus on who I am. A valid distinction which points to personal values. Some people point out …