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NCAA Penalties for Penn State: How Much Is Enough?
$60 million is a heavy-duty fine. Four years suspension is bound to hurt. Losing 14 years of wins will be felt and stripping the winningest coach of his record would sure hurt him if he was alive to feel it. Losing scholarships is bound to hurt the school. Read the rest of this entry
If You Really Loved Me You’d Do It!
Last post left us with the dilemma of what to do with the guy on the end of the rope. On one hand we have the opportunity to prevent a person from destroying himself by his own action but the price of doing so means that we can no longer do anything else and are held as helpless captives. None of this results from a conscious choice we have made beyond our willingness to help anyone we can. Read the rest of this entry
Facts, Faith and the Religion Jesus Hates
I don’t want to believe what I am seeing and hearing. Tell me everything you can so I can find a reason why I don’t believe. Read the rest of this entry
How To Beat That Guilty Feeling.
It’s part of the fallen human nature to feel guilt and honestly, there’s plenty for us to feel guilty about. If we haven’t screwed up recently we can have confidence that we soon will! Read the rest of this entry
How to Escape Blame, Guilt and Feeling Bad
She was a hospital charge nurse with a problem. Her control of her staff wasn’t that great, but worse, she suffered from a critical attitude and an overwhelming Read the rest of this entry
Define Brother, Hatred, Keeper and “Is.”
Anger just below the boiling point can’t be contained indefinitely – it finds expression one way or another and in human behavior that expression is uniformly evil. Cain let his anger toward his brother fester Read the rest of this entry
Escaping the Death Sentence.
She’d had an uneasy feeling about this guy from the moment he set his leery eyes on her. He didn’t look straight at her but she felt sure he was watching her the whole time. He was up to something – who could guess what. She didn’t have time to mess with ‘sick’ guys so she tried to shut him out of her mind. Read the rest of this entry
Inadequacy, guilt and religious solutions
Religious people seem to enjoy setting a bunch of rules for other folks to follow. Apparently something is only acceptable if it involves inconvenience wrapped up in a cover of archaic rituals. It doesn’t take long until a simple concept like knowing God Read the rest of this entry
