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Archive for January, 2007
Changing Feeds
Posted in blog business on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forcing Beliefs On Others, or Militant Vegetarianism
Posted in soapbox, tagged Unitarian, universalism, UU on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last night our church held its annual stewardship dinner. This is the time when they gather members who meet certain criteria. The stewardship committee feeds these people dinner, then puts on a dog-and-pony show to make sure these members keep donating.
The menu sounded disgusting to me. The main dish was listed as “vegan turkey”, with [...]
Act to Feel, Rather Than Feel To Act
Posted in musing, tagged happiness on January 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In an article from the Happiness Project called A psychological principle that works like magic: Act as I would feel, Gretchen Rubin talks about the importance of acting as you would wish to feel in order to change your feelings. A kind of “fake it ’til you make it.”
I believe this was a point also [...]
Wednesday Quotation, 1/10/2007
Posted in quotations on January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
–Robertson Davies
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Wednesday Quotation, 1/3/2007
Posted in quotations on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
–Herbert Spencer
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