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"Although most people imagine that if they had more money they could do more fun things and perhaps be happier...What they found was that those with higher incomes had more chores and less fun.
They devoted more time to working, commuting, childcare, and shopping and were under more stress and tension than those in lower income brackets."
It happened mainly because the good guys had started acting more like the bad guys than the bad guys. So the bad guys (at God's orders) have come and taken away the good guys from where they lived.
They round up the top religious guys, their helpers, the officer in charge of the army, the cabinet members, and the guy in charge of recruiting along with a bunch of his men.
And they execute them all.
The "poor" they allow to live, and some are even allowed to stay at home without being taken captive.
Why? Why do the "poor" get to live and the achievers and leaders are killed?
Is it because the main ambition of the poor is survival? Are they seen as so concerned with taking care of their daily life that they're no threat to anyone? Are the others seen as dangerous because they are thinkers living beyond their daily needs, who are organized and motivated to mobilize themselves and others for a purpose bigger than themselves?
I don't know.
But it made me ask myself: Am I so concerned with my own little world and meeting my own needs, that I would be no threat to people or systems determined to do thier own evil will?
I remember when I was a kid, laying on the floor on a map (like I was flying), with a towel around my neck draped over my back, making that wshhhh flying sound with my mouth. And why do you have to have your fists clenched when you fly?
CT reviews Superman Returns (includes tips for parents at the end):
when Lois, bitter after Superman's absence, tells him that the world doesn't need a "savior," he replies, "Every day I hear people crying for one."...But we shouldn't make too much of this sort of thing. The Superman movies have never shown anyone actually following Superman's inspiring lead
In addition, whereas the first film had an almost mystical sensibility that lent itself to religious allegory, the new film does not.
(More details on if the movie is for your family here)
Watched the sun rise over the intracoastal waterway between Figure Eight Island and Topsail Island...
Listened to the wind constantly sound like rain in the palm tree next to the deck of the house our friends let us use.
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Fought back tears of joy at the sight of bazillions of books at Cape Fear Book and Supply on Front Street in Wilmington. When we left, the friendly shopkeeper told us to come back later for the dancing girls...of course they're all my age. He was about 70...
Got wet at Wrightsville Beach...
In the car on the way back to Charlotte, I told her a song that reminded me of her was Chris Rice's When Did You Fall. I feel about her the way the guy in the song does--I can't believe you love me!
She told me a song that reminds her of me is David Wilcox's Break in the Cup. Back in the old days, I would try so hard to make her happy. No matter what I did there was always something more she needed. I would pour the love in and it would leak right out. Today she says, poor man, you were trying to be Jesus for me. The last lines of the song:
You cannot make me happy
Not when I'm empty inside of me
But you can pull yourself right in here with me
My misery'd love to have your company
We cannot trade empty for empty
We must go to the waterfall
For there's a break in the cup that holds love
Inside us all
She says for so long she was a Christian who had an unopened gift that could fill her cup.
Here's the gift.
