Annotated Observations Of Life's Truths

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 22

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Let them be wrong. Prolixity is proportionate to age. It is facile to undo good and arduous to undo wrong. O...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 21

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Some want to be healthy, and some want to be happy. Wisdom lies not in what is said so much as what is not sai...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote At Age 20

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Hold a bird too tightly and it will choke.  Hold a bird too loosely and it will fly away. The circulation of infl...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote By Age 19

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The difference between heroism and foolhardiness is success. The main characteristic of perfection is consistency, and therefore pred...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Things I Learned And Wrote By Age 17

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 Dirty rubs off onto clean, but clean doesn't rub off onto dirty. The problem with the world is that people give more weight to ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Paramountcy Of The Soul

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The soul is the only thing that differentiates man from every other organism in the universe.  According to Genesis, it was made at the sam...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

The Power Of Words

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A fitly spoken word is capable of evoking the most vivid of realizations and the most beautiful of epiphanies.  I have previously quoted Ro...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Folly Of The Earthly Erudite

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     It is a formidable feat for an intelligent young person to go through the modern college system and come out with unshaken faith in th...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Love

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How can one classify love? Love is not merely an emotion - emotions are unstable; love is constant. Love is not merely a condition - con...
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Friday, March 2, 2012

Shame

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Shame is the gateway to grace.  Shame is the most effective, efficient, and sure means of positive change. A day of shame is worth a life...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Knowing vs. Understanding

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Everything there is to know about life can be learned two different ways: Watching Doing Another way to put it is: 1. Observation or ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

What Do Humans Want?

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     What it is that humankind truly desires out of life has been a subject of great inquiry by many philosophers through the centuries. Is...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

The Difference Between Men And Women

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Note: this article speaks in generalizations.  The essence of man can be found in Father Time: Just as time ticks away incessantly and ...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Perfect Attitude Of Giving

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           In an ecclesiastical setting, there is often a call to live up to a standard.  Standards, however, are not limited to things havi...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Nature Of A Trinity

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There are many who do not understand how a Godhead could exist in three forms which are one.  Is this concept any more difficult than God...
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