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PsalmOneCares @everwonderwhy (7355) 19 Jul 21

Last weekend, Australian Wool and Sheep Show had to cancel bookings made many months before for this big event. So, the caterings, Airbnb and hospitality canceled, which my sons and their business partners have been managing....

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 8 Dec 19

Day 125 Promise 174 Psalm 10:16 The LORD is King forever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:...

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Do you agree with faith schools?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5217) • Northampton, England 27 Feb 18

To avoid confronting the extremely device religious schooling debate here in Britain the feeble U.K Education Department inserted a clever rule that stopped them shutting these places down if they were unregistered. As long as...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 8 May 17

Day 241 Proverbs 22:8 Proverbs 22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail. How many people do you know who sow crops of contention in their lives? They seem to know everything about...

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Ghost Story Review: "The Shadow in the Corner" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 4 Jul 16

Michael Bascom, the master of Wildheath Grange, is described thus: “At three-and-thirty [he] he seemed a middle-aged man; at fifty-six he looked and moved and spoke like an old man.” He’s spent his adult life quietly, secluded and...

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Let us all hope for a world that does not need a Women's Day!

Ajmal @aju007 (1460) • Thiruvananthapuram, India 8 Mar 16

Yes, I mean it. Why we need a women's day today? Because there is still rights of women being denied. There is still women who are oppressed all over the world. So we have a day for women to look at their status in the world,...

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Toxic People

echoforever @echoforever (5180) • United States 18 Oct 12

I do believe that people can be toxic to others. I am living with one every day that is toxic to me. I don't know how to explain this other than his presence alone sometimes can make me feel degraded, ill, oppressed. The worst...

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Why do people tolerate oppression?

Awinds @Awinds (2468) • United States 11 Jul 11

Justice and liberty are praised virtues. We cite the American Revolution as a successful rebellion against the oppression of the British empire. At the time of the start of the French Revolution, there were many Americans who saw...

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Terrorism

bostonphil @bostonphil (4459) • United States 18 Jun 11

I am watching Carlos on The Sundance Channel. It is a three part series about Carlos The Jackal. And it is very good. It has caused me to think about terrorism and my younger days. In my younger day, I was around a lot of left...

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Patriarchy is a human construct that wok against women

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 6 Dec 09

our world today is patriarchical-men rule this world and as far as i see it, it is a learnt construct that should be unlearned if gender fairness is to be experienced in a world where men have more then a fair share of their...

If the innocent are the victims then who do 'they' follow?

TheGreatWhiteBuffalo @TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822) • United States 4 May 09

The liars that cheat make the innocent victims, stealing from the innocent makes the world poor both in material and spirit. The truth leads to the knowledge and wisdom that to raise our world up out of despair we need to know...

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White House requests references to Jesus be covered

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 16 Apr 09

when President Obama spoke at Georgetown University. For some reason I can't paste the link to the article here but they claim it was so that the name of Christ wouldn't be seen out of context. Does this scare anyone else...

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Easter a time of new beginnings

TheGreatWhiteBuffalo @TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822) • United States 12 Apr 09

My thoughts on this subject really focus on the institution of Religion and how Saul the one time Christian hater became the Paul of the New Testament and yet if you know these texts they are heavily influenced by a conditioning...

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The War on Drugs as a means of organized oppression

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85137) • Shingle Springs, California 7 Apr 09

I was reading Sunday's paper and there was an article on legalizing and taxing marijuana in the State of California and my thought was, "yeah right, the Feds will just come in and shut it all down." And then I read a little...

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Do you feel that the quality of writing has gone down?

DoriLentrich @DoriLentrich (1016) • United States 7 Dec 08

I read an editorial recently from an editor who very colorfully bashed English departments in colleges for their new theory on teaching. What the theory states is that language is neither correct or incorrect. Whatever a student...

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Do you feel oppressed?

applerain1984 @applerain1984 (205) • Philippines 14 Sep 08

Oppression is a very strong word which I believe should be reserved for situations like somebody's feet stepping on your face or being caged while only being fed bones and salty water or something very similar. Some people are...

Just saw the Golden Compass on DVD...let's discuss...again

tinkerick @tinkerick (1257) • United States 8 Jul 08

I had already discussed the facts with my daughters when the movie was at the theaters. Since there was a big hullabaloo about how it's based on the series by an atheist who openly admits it is about killing God. I thought it best...

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"A Bully Broke A Bone"

zenmachado @zenmachado (1617) • United States 12 Mar 08

"A Bully Broke A Bone" I was playing ball A boy who disliked me Threw me on the ground To my parents a phone call Because my right, writting tool was broken My back fell right atop of it Audible screaching then was...

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Do you support independence for people or regions that want it?

AlwaysAskingWhy @AlwaysAskingWhy (96) • United States 22 Feb 08

Reading about the brouhaha over Kosovar independence made me think about the notion of a nation's independence. When Cuba fought for independence against Spain, the US supported them. But when the Philippines fought for...

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I feel that the nature has equipped all human beings (most) to resist

ssh123 @ssh123 (31071) • India 26 Jul 07

Resist any sort of oppression, to resist infringement of freedom, resist discrimination or it is the human beings learn through experience or through education.

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