How is this for a reason to party! In the Saturday, September....whoops I cut the date off, edition of the Victoria Times Colonist, I came across this story:
The Headline on the story reads "Dead Man Walks into His Own Funeral"
After miraculously surviving his own funeral, Dan Squire did what was, in his mind, the most sensible thing: he cracked open the first bottle at his wake.
"He seen (sic) all the liquor and he said, is this for me? I think I should be the one to crack it." His sister Diana Branton recalled.
Mr. Squires, age 49 had shocked his sister out of her skin Thursday morning when he came shuffling up her street in east end Toronto, while the rest of the family were paying their respects to the man they thought was Mr. Squires laid out in a nearby funeral home. His sister had been too upset to attend.
"I sat there on the steps screaming," Mrs. Branton said. " He said, ?Why are you so upset?? I said, 'dane, everyone's at your funeral? "
Dr. Harold McNabb
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If you have ever been annoyed or rude with a telemarketer, there is a true story you should hear:
In May 2002, Leonardo Diaz, a Colombian hiker, decided to do some serious mountain climbing with friends. Their goal was to reach the summit of the Nevado del Ruiz, a volcano in the Andes.
On the second day of the climb, a major blizzard hit. Diaz lost sight of his friends and became separated from them. Although not initially worried, the novice climber soon began to run out of rations and suffer from the bitter cold. Although he had his cell phone in his backpack, his pre-paid minutes had already expired. With no way to signal for help, Diaz realized he was not going to make it.
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"Another meeting", I thought to myself.
As Allen walked across the parking lot, I found my key and was getting ready to unlock the door when I rather impulsively said to him, "Allen, I am having a moral dilemma." I think that may have caught him somewhat off guard but if it did, he didn't show it.
"Really", he said in British understatement.
"Yes", I replied. "It's like this. It's a dilemma between living a life of purpose and meaning on the one hand and pre-occupied self absorbed hedonism on the other. What's your vote?"
As my key was poised in the lock, I said, "Once we cross the threshold, you know we are committed. If you want to make a break for it, now's the time." I think he smiled wryly, but I may have been mistaken.
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We all know the story of David and Goliath, and even if we don't know the real story, we have same version of it that most folks do.
David vs. Goliath has become a by-word, symbolic of a one-sided contest pitting a weak protagonist against a vastly superior force.
Maybe so, and there's no point in me trying to rewrite the modern lexicon, but maybe this contest wasn't exactly what everyone seems to think it was. Let's look at it and see for ourselves.
Now don't worry,? I am not going to de-construct David. I just think there is more to this than we think we know.
The Gathering Storm
The chapter opens with a statement that the Philistines had gathered their army at Socoth which is almost directly west of Jerusalem half way to the
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One lady was enterprising. She thought, I can render a service to people in the city and save them money. She placed an ad in the newspaper that said, "When your pet dies, I will come and take care of the carcass for you for $25." This lady would go to the local Salvation Army and buy an old suitcase for two dollars. Then when someone would call . . .