Imagine if someone started a movement to completely do away with money — then imagine if that movement started gaining traction, and people across the globe stopped believing in financial systems. Slowly, person by person, community by community, village by village, city by city and on and on and on, the disposition of currency [...]
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Underestimating Evangelicals
Maybe overestimating is a more fitting description. Either way, those who claim to know and are making attempts to marginalize the “evangelicals” are slowly and methodically painting themselves into a corner from which there will be no escape.
You see, the vast majority of “evangelicals” are truly anything other. The conservative majority of Christian [...]
Diversions
Hurt
Especially when we are hurting, it is very hard to tell who is building us up, and who is tearing us down. We reach out to people for advice, but the only people willing to give advice are people who are also hurting — because misery loves company. The hardest thing about hurting [...]
Pope Benedict Taking Notes from One Higher Power?
I won’t say for sure because, in the long run, it doesn’t matter. I will say, though, that there has been some interesting traffic pouring through this site. What matters is that Joe Ratzinger is on board with what’s happening within this spirit of humanity, and the words he speaks are on the [...]
News
Vatican Suggests UN Reign
At least on human rights — a Catholic News Service article highlights the Vatican’s unpositioned position via the Universal Declaration of Human Rights drafted by the United Nations sixty years ago, which at least one Vatican official believes ought to be globally adhered to.
The article points to the official’s assessment of Italian prisons, where he [...]
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was an interesting character. Not only did he make some seriously “whacked-out” music, but he drummed up a following from his fellow eccentric tonal prodigies.
He had a serious background in traditional composition, and he applied it after some experiences he labeled as “spiritual.” Though many have attributed his experimental composition techniques [...]
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