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POPSThe Night Sky In All Its Grandeur Our eyes have some detail-discerning properties that not even the best long-exposure photograph can match. This advantage is considerable in the case of the Milky Way, which has such great extent that it does not require a telescope. I can recall with great fondness one particular night nearly 35-years ago, spent under the dark skies of upstate New York's Adirondack Mountains where I spent a considerable amount of time savoring the Milky Way in all of its magnificence. So clear was the sky, that rather than appearing as a filmy band of light, the Milky Way appeared granulated in texture, and glowed so bright that it actually cast faint shadows! The article continues to describe the various categories of night skies according to how far out of a major city one lives.
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POPSCooking for others is love Conclusion: I smiled, sat and sipped my soup, while watching everyone else eat. When I looked up, Bill was sitting across from me on a floor pillow. He hadn’t touched his soup, even though he hadn’t eaten all day. He was just gazing around, smiling goofily. “Now I understand,” he whispered, “Why you barely eat anything when you cook for people. You don’t need to.” I grinned and rose, heading back to the kitchen after finishing my last swallow of my meager bowl of soup. When Bill followed me, I nodded. “My food is their delight, not the food I cook.” As he sipped his soup, I turned back to the stove. “Let’s get back to work,” I said. “Spring rolls can’t roll and fry themselves, you know.”
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POPSVatican’s Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels but Data In the Vatican Observatory’s annual report, at the point where a corporation might describe its business strategy, is a section delineating the difference between creatio ex nihilo (creation from nothing) and creatio continua: “the fact that at every instant, the continued existence of the universe itself is deliberately willed by God, who in this way is continually causing the universe to remain created.”
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POPSD-Day +65 Sixty Five years ago the world held its breath as over 130000 soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy France.
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POPS Why We Love America # America is the God-given dignity of every individual. You can’t love America, and at the same time believe that the “elite” – that is, government bureaucrats – should have the power to tell people how to live their lives in every tiny detail. # America is the infinite value of every human life. You can’t love America, and at the same time devalue the lives of the very young, the very old and the severely disabled. # America is individuals taking care of themselves and their families, as well as of those less fortunate by means of religious and secular charities. # America is the right of individuals to own property and enjoy the fruits of their labor. You can’t love America, and at the same time believe that the state should have the power to take things away from one citizen and give them to another whenever it pleases.
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POPSEnvy, pain and the brain As a rule, we envy those who are like us in most ways — in sex, age, class and curriculum vitae. Potters envy potters, Aristotle observed. i very much agree to the above saying. Envy is a problematic emotion, it may nourish from the tendency to avoid assuming responsibility; meaning instead of gazing to ones limit and working to cross it, some prefer to point to others as if they stand in their way. So envy makes you stay the same whilst craving in the sense of 'i want more' may change you...
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POPS Why Socialism Fails Let me begin with a Marxian fantasy, with goods moving “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Such a system could actually work if God ( yes, that God ) served as the arbiter of inequities. So long as the participants trusted God to meet their needs properly, and to satisfy justice in the long haul, people might be content with the rewards they received. God would see to it that everybody was working in the role where they were best suited, people would expect their rewards to be according to their input (because God is just, you see,) and what inequalities exist could be explained away as a temporary necessity for God to achieve His inscrutable purposes, to be leveled appropriately later. Socialism attempts to produce a system like this artificially, by substituting the State for God. However, if participants will not invest the same confidence in the State that they would invest in God, . . .
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POPSHow Beautiful is Your Navel? Of course, most PREGNANT women have "outies." -- I guess that this study is only for checking out potential mates -- and it sounds like a fun way to check. Think of the bar scene opening line ... "Excuse me ... may I gaze at your navel?"
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