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My rescue cat adopted me when he kept following me around in the animal shelter. We make a great team. He greets me at the door when I return from an errand,loves to curl up in my lap when we're watching Netflix movies. He meows and jumps up and down on the bed when it's time to get up in the morning.
Tony La Russa on why cats are very special
Former baseball manager Tony La Russa is a cat lover, fostering a dozen or so at his home, all rescues. Why do very many people love cats? His answer: I think it’s because they are so unique in the way they show affection, and because you have to work for it. Once you get it, man, they j...
Wow! What a comment relevant to our impasse in Wash. DC.
Virginia Gildersleeve on political correctness
Talk about foresight! It’s hard to believe it’s been sixty years since Virginia Gildersleeve said: I well know from my own experience how essential it is for the survival of our democracy that scholars and teachers should have freedom of the mind to pursue truth “with clear eyes unafraid...
Speaking of people killing, I posted the following comment to the San Luis Obispo Tribune 4 months ago (They printed it with minor changes):
--Why?--
“At 9:40 A.M. on All Saints’ Day, November 1, 1755, the earth shrugged its shoulders (Lisbon earthquake) in Portugal and Northern Africa; in six minutes thirty churches and a thousand houses were demolished. 15,000 people were killed…Why had the Great Inscrutable chosen so Catholic a city, so holy a festival, and such an hour when nearly all pious citizens were attending Mass? (Will and Ariel Durant, The Age of Voltaire). On December 14, 2012, a gunman shot 20 school children. If a god exists, why does it let these events happen?
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Will Durant on where to find the story of your life
Your life is a stream, and its story is what happens on its banks, analogously to Will Durant’s idea about the story of civilization: Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing the things historians us...
For an an informative discussion about the existance of god, I recommend reading "god is not Great" by Christopher Hitchens. It was reviewed on PBS Newshour several months ago. It presents a rational view of the negativity of religion in all of its forms.
John H. Glenn Jr.’s philosophy of life
Our Sauntering habit last week uncovered a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, one of which was from The Patriot, Harrisburg, Pa., Saturday, March 3, 1962, reporting on John H. Glenn Jr.’s statement on his religious faith, told to the Senate Space Committee: I can’t say that while in orbi...
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