I poured out my heart and soul in this book, knowing I would make a difference in
the lives of other singles.
, she had the drive to improve her dating life and the dating
lives of other singles.
Not exact matches
The main evidence for
Living Goods» program is a
single RCT, whereas
other programs we recommend are generally supported by multiple sources
of evidence.
But it does not recognize the amazing diversity
of ways that Canadian families come together to raise their children - the grandparents who spend their retirements pushing strollers, the parents who juggle shifts so that someone is always home for the kids, the
single parents and blended families and
other complexities
of modern
life.
I'll be speaking at the second one, at 10:45 in the same room, along with the national leaders
of NUPGE (representing provincial workers) and CUPE (representing municipal workers) about the contribution
of public workers to greater equality by improving the
lives of marginalized Canadians — the unemployed, the homeless,
single parents, recent immigrants, senior citizens, and
others.
3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the author presented real -
life cases for either scenarios for food for thought instead
of advocating one or the
other (e.g. presenting a
single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works for the entrepreneur!
Some
of those elderly just marry not for the joy but for a helping hand in the house if they are all alone as a servant since religiously
single men are not allowed to have female maids work or
live in their houses unless they are married to each
other..
On the
other hand, there is not a
single contemporary source recording the
life of Christ.
I will not argue whether or not the bible is the word
of a god translated by man, my only question is, why would you follow a book that supports and idolizes a
single deity who seems to have intentions
of converting the world to his worship alone (for if there are no
other gods, why then would Yahweh require that you «hold no
other gods above him» — he just confirmed their existance) when said deity's followers have proven that their purpose in
life is to grind any opposition to their «holy law» into dust?
The theist, on the
other hand, it quite smugly certain that he has all teh answers to
life, the universe and everything explained neatly in a
single book and reacts with hostility and derision when anyone refutes the contents
of said book.
A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one
of them happy, yet never made a
single happy one; who made them prize their bitter
life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his
other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless
lives, yet cursed his
other children with biting miseries and maladies
of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to
other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead
of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
Amanda posted yesterday an excerpt from a book entitled A Discourse
of the Married and
Single Life: Wherein by Discovering the Misery
of One, is Plainly Declared the Felicity
of the
Other.
historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence
of jesus... let's start with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof
of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start with
other historians writing about the
life of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a
single proving evidence
of Jesus's
life in an historical context... there is no existence
of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...
At a certain church I use to go to, one
of the elders has a
life group called «Get - R - Done» where he «assist
single moms, widows, and
others needing help in our church and community.»
Our eyes will find each
other and remind each
other, and by the outrageous grace
of God, there is abundantly enough time to make our
lives whisper the answer to every
single person's question:
Certainly he and
others could not have anticipated the Roe v. Wade decision
of 1973, the
single most important event
of the past half - century in reconfiguring the socio - political alignments in American
life.
Let us speak
of a whole
life of sufferings or
of some person whom nature, from the very outset, as we humans are tempted to say, wronged, someone who from birth was
singled out by useless suffering: a burden to
others; almost a burden to himself; and yes, what is worse, to be almost a born objection to the goodness
of Providence.
God gives the gift
of the
single life to some, the gift
of the married
life to
others.
We offer groups for every
other category
of life, but when it comes to
singles — if you're past college, there's a good chance you're out
of luck when it comes to finding a group to connect with at your local church.
This view accepts that humans share ancestry with all
other forms
of life, and that our species arose as a population, not through a
single primal pair.
Jesus, who was nailed on the cross after feeding five thousand
other people from out
of his ass, walking on water, bringing back a boy they KNEW was dead because he was rotting and shouting down every
single saduccee and pharisee for praising their white - washed selves and holding salvation from the masses, who never took money for himself, who historically KNOWINGLY gave his
life for the rest
of humanity,... «did it for the good economic standing?»
That is, if you call time spent reading one
single book and / or praying instead
of living, learning to
live with and embrace those who are different than you, the people you alienated due to hateful rhetoric, and having stronger relationships with
others around you without the Jesus myth getting in the way, «nothing.»
Woman is concerned about how having a baby could change her
life 16 % Woman can't afford baby now 21 % Woman has problems with relationship or wants to avoid
single parenthood 12 % Woman is unready for responsibility 21 % Woman doesn't want
others to know she has had se x or is pregnant 1 % Woman is not mature enough, or is too young to have a child 11 % Woman has all the children she wanted, or has all grown - up children 8 % Husband or partner wants woman to have an abortion 1 % Fetus has possible health problem 3 % Woman has health problem 3 % Woman's parents want her to have abortion < 1 % Woman was victim
of ra pe or inc est 1 %
Given by the Emperor Meiji, it has been perhaps as influential as any one
other single utterance upon the
life of Japan, particularly in the field
of moral education.
Today as i was thinking about Jesus sending the demons into the pigs and i thought God is not punishing but judging and he made a decision.This idea came from your
other discussion which i believe is what he does he decides to make a judgement call he is sovereign and it shows his tender heart and mercy that not a
single person was afflicted.The pigs unlike men have no soul so have no eternal consequence upon them they
live and they die.either way they were going to get killed.We can be assured that Gods judgements are right and just the pork was going to the gentile nations who worshipped
other Gods and no doubt would have been offered to idols so there is a consequence when we disobey the Laws
of God even even when we do nt know or understand his laws.brentnz
This is especially so if one understands by the
Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man
of the narrow ridge, who
lives with
others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way
of his direct relationship to the Thou.
True, those
of us who are
single have just one person's schedule to keep track
of instead
of two, but there are so many
other important parts
of our days that have nothing to do with our love
lives.
In
other words, the choice which
Life requires
of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages
of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection
of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance
of Being, which leads us, by way
of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a
single road.
But this sometimes implies that your
single friend's schedule, and
life, must be empty (and void
of anything meaningful) when there isn't a significant
other in it.
Atheism offers nothing to me, it never has and never will, it doesn't make me feel good or comfort me, it's not there for me when I'm sick or ill, it won't intervene in my times
of need or protect me from hate, it doesn't care if I fail or succeed, it won't wipe the tears from my eyes, it does nothing when I have no where to run, it won't give me wise words or advice, it has no teaches for me to learn, it can't show me what's bad or nice, it's never inspired or excited anyone, it won't help me fulfill all my goals, it won't tell me to stop when I'm having fun, it's never saved one
single soul, it doesn't take credit for everything I achieve, it won't make me get down on bended knee, it doesn't demand that I have to believe, it won't torture me for eternity, it won't teach me to hate or despise
others, it won't tell me what's right or wrong, it can't tell nobody not to be lovers, it's told no one they don't belong, it won't make you think
life is worth
living, it has nothing to offer me, that's true, but the reason Atheism offers me nothing is because I've never asked it to, Atheism offers nothing because it doesn't need to, Religion promises everything because you want it to, You don't need a Religion or to have faith, You just want it because you need to feel safe, I want to feel reality and nothing more, Atheism offers me everything that Religion has stolen before.
In the last paragraph
of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness
of the
other life consists in that
single contemplation
of the Divine Majesty,
of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice
of the greatest contentment
of which we are capable
of sensing in this
life» (42).
It is important to remember when Jesus is teaching about adultery in Matthew chapter 19 that what he is saying is that if someone divorces for any reason
other than adultery that the offending party has only two choices reconcile with their spouse or remain
single and
live as a widow the rest
of their days.
I've known hundreds
of Jews in my
life and not only have they never tried to impose their religious beliefs or views on myself or
others, but I've never heard a
single one talk about how «great» being a Jew is.
Actually, the nature
of life on Earth makes more sense with a group
of malevolent gods who are in constant conflict with each
other and don't really care about humans than it does with a
single all - powerful loving God.
Single men may have a lot
of time, at least in comparison to
other stages in
life.
As «social» as the coordinate processes
of weaving one's own
life from strands taken from the
lives of others and giving one's own
life as a strand to be woven into their
lives, and as the universal essence
of actual events, the
single principle
of love is the master key to the understanding
of both facts and values.37 He denies that any human institutions, churches included, could be infallible; but he affirms that we can infallibly know «the appropriateness
of love.
Every
single one
of them thinks they've found a profound lifestyle, system, or behavior that can change
others lives for the better, and all
of them are guilty
of hubris, as they actually have no secret information at all.
Paul's phrase «in Christ,» which he used more than any
other single expression, can not be fully explicated until we all «know as we are known»; but Paul surely means that in the Christian
life we are not only separate individuals, but we are incorporated into the new reality which God has created in history through the
life of Jesus.
What if most
of the problems in our relationships with
other people — the way we «see» and are «seen» by them, the way we interpret their
lives, actions, and / or attitudes (and inversely the way
others interpret our own), the way we treat and respond to
others (as well as the ways they treat and respond to us)-- every
single thing that each and every one
of us do that damages our relationships with one another * stems * from an inherent misunderstanding
of the nature and the goodness
of the God in whose image we ourselves were created.
within virtually all modern nations - between people who are prepared to
live with
others who are different, on terms
of equal respect, and those who seek the... domination
of a
single religious and ethnic tradition.
For me,
life is too short to try and keep track
of the politics, religious, or
other opinions
of every
single business I choose to patronize.
If you are in a rubber
life raft and survival
of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a
single other person in the raft would object for they would understand that that guy must have lost use
of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.
If, on the
other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process
of random mutation and natural selection by which all
living beings have arisen by chance from
single - celled organisms over 100's
of millions
of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.
Vice-President K. R. Narayanan, in his recent speech at the Indian Institute
of Social Sciences, Delhi, spoke
of Indian society even now as a «coexistence society» rather than a
single society;» he defined coexistence society as «many groups, castes and religions
living together but interacting among each
other only at the margin».
The basic pattern
of God's self - revelation as
life and grace, on the one hand, and the response in human freedom through faith and deeds to the same revelation on the
other, is such a complex and multifaceted reality that it can never be imprisoned in any one
single mould.
I would suggest that such voracious demands on people's
lives, felt most mercilessly by the hardest pressed, such as employed
single parents, are inimical to the family and to many
other things
of value.
We learn
of the importance he attached to daily Mass, his fidelity to prayer, the rosary, promoting Eucharistic adoration, weekly confession
of sins, his attention to the needs
of others as though he or she were the only one he'd ever met, his self - sacrifice in imitation
of Maximillian Kolbe whom he had canonised; most importantly, we learn
of his very deep understanding
of how
life is transformed through chastity for married and
single alike.
Vice-president K.R.Narayanan in his recent speech at the Indian Institute
of Social Sciences, Delhi spoke
of Indian society even now as «a «coexistence society» rather than a
single society»; he defined coexistence society as «many groups, castes and religions
living together but interacting among each
other only at the margins».
I see it as; «I love you dear, but I honestly would rather spend my time with all these
other people every
single Sunday
of my
life.
I have been thinking tons about bonds lately, as 90 %
of my closest friends either got in our out
of relationships... It's a weird feeling to cheer one friend up about being
single for the first time in four years and then go back home and cheer my flatmae to go see the frist guy she's liked in pretty much the same period
of time, who unfortunately happens to
live on the
other side
of Europe.