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Author Topic:   Faith and Well-Being
NoNukes
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Message 4 of 60 (740006)
10-30-2014 7:01 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Jon
10-30-2014 5:09 PM


At the same time, a logical part of me realizes that doing this would be rather hypocritical: to have strong faith in good times and weaker faith in worse times.
Not nearly as hypocritical as the reverse, I think. How supportive is your significant other in this development?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 13 of 60 (740027)
10-30-2014 11:03 PM
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10-30-2014 7:41 PM


I don't know why my significant other would have any role in this.
Your significant other would have a role in it if you have elected to share something important to you. The question wasn't intended to be all that complicated.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 54 of 60 (740600)
11-06-2014 10:32 AM
Reply to: Message 53 by Jon
11-06-2014 9:57 AM


Re: Knowable versus Unknowable
You really do step over homeless men, don't you?
It's easy to judge, but quite an endeavor to do much better...
Have you ever walked the streets of downtown Washington DC in the pre-dawn hours?
If you stopped for every homeless person you encountered on a short walk to those tall buildings on 19th Street from say 10th and L, you'd never get to your destination. You can avoid those homeless people by taking a different route, but that doesn't exactly result in housing a homeless person or feeding a hungry person.
I cannot remember ever literally stepping over a homeless man, but I have to admit to falling far short of the instructions in Matthew 25:31-46. Small wonder that dispensationalists simply blow off the whole thing as being strictly for Jews.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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