On Every Level...

"You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them.  But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again." -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

See also Rom. 6:11.

On Multi-Culturalism

<<In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.

General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural:

"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.">>

- Mark Steyn, America Alone

Happy birthday, Earth

How old is the world?

Most people would say: "Nobody knows."

But James Ussher, the author of the book frequently described as the
greatest history book ever written, said the world was created Oct. 23,
4004 – making it 6,010 yesterday.

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So True

I think we all have areas where we are guilty of this:

"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." -Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You

The real 'religion of peace'

From a Letter to the Editor on WND.com
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"In reading the articles about the atrocities committed by one sick man against the helpless young Amish girls, I cannot help but be awed by the response of their families to this tragedy.

From providing food and comfort to the killer's family to the serene and dignified manner in which the affected families and friends grieved and buried their children, these people have shown the love of God as an example to the world.

They have to have Christ in their hearts or they wouldn't have the strength to forgive and live their lives as they do.

This is diametrically opposed Islam, supposedly being the "religion of peace" that seeks revenge for every real or imagined wrong. The Amish have shown the true religion of peace with their faith in Christ and their actions that live that faith. "

Bucking norm, some relish big families

«Laura Bennett isn't bound by convention. Professionally, at age 42, she's pursuing a mid-career switch into big-time fashion design. At home, she's a mother of five — with No. 6 due next month.

"It was nothing that we planned ahead of time," Bennett says. "It's more that we were enjoying all the kids.
"We have a happy home. Why not have as many children as we can?"

It's barely a blip on the nation's demographic radar — 11 percent of U.S. births in 2004 were to women who already had three children, up from 10 percent in 1995. But there seems to be a growing openness to having more than two children, in some case more than four.

The reasons are diverse — from religious to, as Bennett reasons, "Why not?"

The families involved cut across economic lines, though a sizable part of the increase is attributed to a baby boom in affluent suburbs, with more upper-middle-class couples deciding that a three- or four-child household can be both affordable and fun....»

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A lesson from the Amish

"The most remarkable part of this sad story is not what was visible but what was invisible. The invisible shows the extraordinary character of these fine people. During this whole process you never saw a finger of blame being pointed at anyone, including the gunman who took innocent life from the Amish community. The most you heard was an Amish spokesman's prepared comments read by a policeman. The comments were filled with love, understanding and forgiveness for what took place. Comments that talked about how this man made a bad choice and they forgive him for making that choice.

They didn't blame guns, politicians, media, society or any of the other normal targets that we ordinary people look to blame. They didn't blame God or look to make sense of what is a truly senseless act.

They made a choice to live their faith and trust in God. Knowing full well God loves them and has forgiven them, in turn they forgive others – even when it means the loss of something as precious as a child. They chose not to allow hate to fill their hearts. They know hate produces darkness and eclipses the light of God in man. They chose to walk in light and not in darkness. Walking in darkness can only produce more evil, and for the Amish that wasn't even an option."

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Scientists teleport two different objects

Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or
single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split
second.

But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at
Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both
light and matter.

"It is one step further because for the first time it involves
teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is
the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,"
Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/index.html?section=cnn_topstories