"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things — if they are where you tap real meaning in life — then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we all know this stuff already — the trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Worship power — you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart — you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on."
- David Foster Wallace
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Giving thanks is saying "Good gift!" to God.
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A passenger train was creeping along painfully slowly when finally it creaked to a complete halt.
One passenger saw a conductor walking by outside and yelled, "What's going on?"
"Cow on the track!" replied the conductor.
Ten minutes later, the train resumed its slow pace, but within five minutes, it stopped again.
The same woman saw the same conductor walking by again and leaned out the window and yelled,
"What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?
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“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.”
- Rene Descartes
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"Friendship grows out of the vulnerability of allowing another person to see who you really are beneath the polite exterior."
- Tim Challies
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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