Yes Pope Frank, we can mock faiths

This is straight from David Webb.  No need for editing. I think Pope Frank is awesome and has ignited a sense of hope for the church, but, sadly, on this point he must reevaluate his position.  There might be an appropriate and an inappropriate channel or audience, but without other cause, mockery is no reason …
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Life lessons, … well, some things to think about.

Paul Howard’s 44 life lessons (shared by Pat Macmahon – thanks Pat!): 1 Life is like a toilet roll. The closer you get to the end, the faster it seems to disappear. 2 “I don’t know” is the most underrated sentence in the English language. 3 If you can’t dance by the age of 18, …
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Common Sense now printed locally, helping us drop the price.

While researching a way to bind hard copies of Common Sense, our local office supplier, Jones Business Systems, gave us a helpful tip by telling us about a family run printer in the middle of Kilkenny countryside.  Patrick Brennan of Digital Outputs was able to print the second run within our meagre budget allowing us …
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Ignorance, bigotry, Islam, Christianity – a wasteful formula of terror, pain and suffering that we don’t need.

CNN pushed an interview with Reza Aslan which helped show how ignorant the media treatment of culture is.   His commendably calm response to the interview’s thoughtlessness elucidated many of the issues that raise political tensions needlessly. Here’s an extract: Female Genital Mutilation is NOT a “Muslim” problem – its a central African problem. Eritrea has …
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Only the strongest can kill themselves for peace.

In a Japan, a man set himself on fire to protest a change in policy allowing Japan to fight overseas, which goes against the constitution which bars the country from using force in conflicts except for self-defence.  It follows another self-immolation in June, in an apparently similar protest. Suicide is not an easy option.  It …
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Data shows global growth now past tipping point. Global collapse occurring. Whole systems change imperative.

Economic research published by the University of Melbourne analysed the predictions made in the ground breaking 1972 book Limits to Growth, and notes that the actual trajectory followed in the four decades since has followed the worst case scenario. The 1970s computer model has proved remarkably accurate in predicting developments in the world economy, population …
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Being one, being part of it all, being happy.

DTRTTRW in yoga pants: FouseyTube

More than 15 million people have watched Yousef Saleh Erakat’s most popular video – the Yoga Pants Prank.  It’s funny and it works. Erakat highlights embarrassing aspects of modern culture, like men gawking at women (when they shouldn’t) and women flaunting their booty in public, which encourages men to be misogynistic and other women to flaunt …
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Happiness = …

This is the equation for happiness: What does all that jibberish mean?  Basically that expectations determine happiness.  That is why looking over the garden hedge at the grass on  the other side (the lawn that you can’t have because to belongs to someone else) is a sure way to be unhappy.  And why appreciating the …
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The list you don’t want to be on.

Capital punishment is a sign of failure. Failure is a part of learning and improvement, but if you continue to fail in the same endeavour, there is a problem indicating that the system needs to change.  So, capital punishment should have long been expunged from a system that is “civilised”, “advanced”, “modern”,  “space age”, “rich”, …
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