Thingsgoinon
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There but for the grace of God go I. ✝️🧑🧑🧒🧒🇺🇸🔵😎🐊
“We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.”
February 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“We found that as soon as we were able to lay aside prejudice and express even a willingness to believe in a Power greater than ourselves, we commenced to get results, even though it was impossible for any of us to fully define or comprehend that Power, which is God.”
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Jesus Christ was crucified
St. Paul was beheaded
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hung
In the name of Law and Order
St. Paul was beheaded
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hung
In the name of Law and Order
January 28, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Jesus Christ was crucified
St. Paul was beheaded
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hung
In the name of Law and Order
St. Paul was beheaded
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hung
In the name of Law and Order
“I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.”
January 28, 2026 at 7:07 AM
“I try to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion that we can ever know.”
No, the Road Less Traveled by Didn't Make All the Difference | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prog...
No, the Road Less Traveled by Didn't Make All the Difference
We make difficult decisions, live into them as best we can, then tell tales, not accounts. We engage in meaning-making not just to cope but as part of a long process of acceptance.
www.psychologytoday.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
No, the Road Less Traveled by Didn't Make All the Difference | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prog...
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle is "contempt prior to investigation".
January 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance that principle is "contempt prior to investigation".
"Pray with disbelief; but pray with sincerity; and the belief will come."
January 11, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"Pray with disbelief; but pray with sincerity; and the belief will come."
“I pray for that peace which passes all understanding. I pray for that peace which the world can neither give nor take away.”
January 3, 2026 at 2:23 PM
“I pray for that peace which passes all understanding. I pray for that peace which the world can neither give nor take away.”
“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us these things are poison.”
January 3, 2026 at 2:21 PM
“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us these things are poison.”
Dear God, we thank you for food and remember the hungry.
We thank you for health and remember the sick. We thank you for friends and remember the friendless. We thank you for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That your gifts to us may be used for others.
We thank you for health and remember the sick. We thank you for friends and remember the friendless. We thank you for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That your gifts to us may be used for others.
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Dear God, we thank you for food and remember the hungry.
We thank you for health and remember the sick. We thank you for friends and remember the friendless. We thank you for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That your gifts to us may be used for others.
We thank you for health and remember the sick. We thank you for friends and remember the friendless. We thank you for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That your gifts to us may be used for others.
When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
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My dream would be to have this setup but then to have a bunch of nonexperts dictating what the experts can and can't discuss with the students who are there to learn from and engage with them, has anyone come up with a system like that?
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My dream would be to have this setup but then to have a bunch of nonexperts dictating what the experts can and can't discuss with the students who are there to learn from and engage with them, has anyone come up with a system like that?
Thought to Consider...
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
October 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thought to Consider...
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I’m not surprised by evil or paralyzed by despair.
Cornel West
Cornel West
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I’m not surprised by evil or paralyzed by despair.
Cornel West
Cornel West
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I want my tween daughters to have at least a sense of what was on television in what they regard as antiquity, the 20th century,” John McWhorter writes.
“I want my tween daughters to have at least a sense of what was on television in what they regard as antiquity, the 20th century,” John McWhorter writes.
Opinion | These Are the 10 Old Television Series Every Kid Needs to Watch
Here’s the list of ancient shows I inflict on my daughters. What’s yours?
nyti.ms
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“I want my tween daughters to have at least a sense of what was on television in what they regard as antiquity, the 20th century,” John McWhorter writes.
“I want my tween daughters to have at least a sense of what was on television in what they regard as antiquity, the 20th century,” John McWhorter writes.
“Do no harm, but take no shit.” Elizabeth Lesser
October 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“Do no harm, but take no shit.” Elizabeth Lesser
“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us these things are poison”
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
“If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for us these things are poison”
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
September 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one that I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me."
“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
August 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
“Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong. When this happens, we approach true tolerance and we see what real love for our fellows actually means."
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
“Finally, we begin to see that all people, including ourselves, are to some extent emotionally ill as well as frequently wrong. When this happens, we approach true tolerance and we see what real love for our fellows actually means."
